Edition 3746: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Focus of the Day Article: A law firm unfairly dismissed an assistant solicitor who was recovering from cancer, an employment tribunal has ruled. However,
Employment Judge Bedeau found that Luton firm Rodman Pearce would have
validly terminated the employment of Elona Onibere two months later had
it followed the correct procedures. Full story - Legal Futures
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Knights replaces shares with cash for acquisition after price crash - Legal Futures https://t.co/WUGSMVDIb5
- Solicitor absent for cancer treatment was unfairly dismissed | Law Gazette https://t.co/iiAaBIsBa
- Rules on free lateral flow and PCR Covid tests published https://t.co/ztZX4gpvNI
- #Polish woman is first activist to face trial for violating strict abortion law https://t.co/KFTEvYmaK
- Best of the blogs - 26 March 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/rdOeusLXhU
- Sir Howard Morrison QC appointed to advise Ukraine on war crimes investigations | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8v276KnVOf
- Tweeting barrister wins appeal over £500 fine | Law Gazette https://t.co/zIH9W6GZ2V
- Law firm unfairly dismissed assistant solicitor absent due to cancer - Legal Futures https://t.co/MVIG5xzl
- UK seizes first superyacht in British waters https://t.co/2Xg2SXP2eg
- UK appoints war crimes judge to investigate Ukraine atrocities | Law Gazette https://t.co/wu4hPM60TD
- EU agrees on landmark new rules for Big Tech companies | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/B57NW7B8yB
- Comparison sites could ‘shut out’ small firms and BME solicitors – Law Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/sCdnC2JYxB
- Clinical negligence, a changing market – part 2 - Legal Futures https://t.co/2uXx3zIc6h
- Burford launches new ‘lower risk, lower return’ fund | Law Gazette https://t.co/xxGolurLLD
- I gave birth in a British prison – no woman should suffer what I went through https://t.co/I1mNQvZYRn
- Only twenty fines will be issued as part of the police inquiry into Downing Street parties that breached Covid rules. The police will not be saying who is fined or confirming which events the fixed penalty notices relate to https://t.co/TC8w3P1tdE
- Development funding secured for Wales law centre | Law Gazette https://t.co/YB3A8FdH3
- Mothers and babies join protest against UK imprisonment of pregnant women https://t.co/hPV6mpMLqE
- Tech giants will be the new disruptors, ABS pioneer predicts | Law Gazette https://t.co/IHwmG97cV0
- Standard cyber-security form to aid solicitors instructing barristers - Legal Futures https://t.co/ceCPEt2C8W
- ‘Phone hacking’ litigation continues – for now | Law Gazette https://t.co/qh0kbzmyI8
- Financial service providers pay out €7m in cases brought to ombudsman | Irish Legal News https://t.co/aXYE77TvCb
- Knights completes deal with cash after shares tumble | Law Gazette https://t.co/zXIPqaW1jI
- A Bar Standards Board (BSB) panel applied too low a threshold in sanctioning a barrister for a tweet about Muslims that it said would cause offence, a tribunal has ruled - Legal Futures https://t.co/VcJTWv4sH
- Can P&O be forced to reverse its mass sacking of workers? https://t.co/oUK1VqzNjo
- Wales' four police forces should be scrapped and replaced with a single nationwide service, according to Dyfed-Powys Police's new chief constable https://t.co/jkNaevWNJL
- Judge lambasts parties’ animosity in latest ‘Dr Bitcoin’ ruling | Law Gazette https://t.co/KAlNiywGuF
- Calcutta Run sets ambitious €350,000 fundraising target | Irish Legal News https://t.co/PdiE4Qi17
- Human rights commissioner calls for national strategy on care #Ireland https://t.co/XI6BCLnUWG
- Passengers in cars could be fined £1,000 for using mobile under new rules: If a passenger is supervising a learner driver, they could be fined £1,000 as well as given six points on their licence https://t.co/mNr7qENuV1
