Edition 3722: 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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Today's Highlighted Video Story: Early voting is under way in South Korea's presidential election. One of the last actions of the outgoing liberal president, Moon Jae-in, was to grant a pardon to his conservative predecessor.
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- NI: Barrister Iryna Kennedy raises funds as she returns to Ukraine | Irish Legal News https://t.co/X82SJates8
- A&O's multi-strand strategy to improve diversity of barristers it uses - Legal Futures https://t.co/HE0lyJ2Oto
- ENRC lashes out at 'xenophobia' as libel claim collapses | Law Gazette https://t.co/LMQ9QMLuuj
- Firm fired Jewish employee after taking time off for religious holiday - Legal Futures https://t.co/QtUdpEekuV
- Hundreds of criminals potentially let out wrongly after Scottish government IT blunder | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AN2vRyTWjO
- Solicitors should decide for themselves what gaps in training they need to fill, rather than have regulators tell them | Law Gazette https://t.co/lZx9e0lpvv
- The Post Office and Lord Neuberger – Going upstairs - Legal Futures https://t.co/LiNpG5vCWL
- English and Irish law will ‘grow further apart’, senior judge says | Law Gazette https://t.co/lcq081y6JK
- "Terminate your retainer" if client accepts pre-med whiplash offer - Legal Futures https://t.co/qdKZJO1Xg8
- The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) set out the two options for its members this week. ‘Returns’ are where another barrister takes over the case if there’s a diary clash. The ballot ends at one minute to midnight on 11 March | NLJ https://t.co/egRAunx9wH
- Cork lawyer Catherine Kirwan triumphs with her second novel | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VyboZ9aVjM
- Family firm producing two cost estimates due to hearing uncertainty | Law Gazette https://t.co/C6u5UVAX9U
- The House of Commons voted to reject the Lords amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill this week, in a hotly debated late night vote | NLJ https://t.co/W50BlD4ROR
- Solicitor suspended for false 'great result' posts on Facebook | Law Gazette https://t.co/jermJeYJTp
- A Scottish law firm, which has no offices south of the border, has failed in a jurisdiction challenge to halt a negligence claim over advice a solicitor gave over a Cornish wind farm project - Legal Futures https://t.co/V2UG4jNBj8
- Litigation concerning cryptoassets and smart contracts is ‘increasing significantly’, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos has revealed | NLJ https://t.co/avrjezaNuv
- CC and Eversheds latest to announce Russian client reviews | Law Gazette https://t.co/4d1TVp0LWk
- A
judge has frozen UK bank accounts operated by a British businessman
Graham Bonham-Carte amid allegations they are linked to one of Russia's
most controversial oligarchs https://t.co/KCrIdR7DuN
- Ed Sheeran is a ‘magpie’ who ‘borrows’ ideas, copyright trial hears: The artist was in court for a dispute with two musicians who claim Shape Of You plagiarises parts of their song https://t.co/POH6E41tmg
- Minor survivor's family/guardian must be notified when POCSO accused files plea for bail: Karnataka High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/7sJXhN0e77
- Move to add free speech protections to UK anti-corruption bill: MPs say additions to economic crime bill would help prevent oligarchs and others using ‘intimidation lawsuits’ https://t.co/5pu6PRqLYd
- Calls for ad-hoc tribunal to try Putin | Law Gazette https://t.co/gjRFm7DMt9
- Paul Bonner Hughes joins 3VB | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OSw9fQMwji
- US hunter fined after trophy photo proves he shot sheep in #Canada. Donald Lee claimed he killed a Fannin bighorn sheep in Alaska but an online sleuth and Yukon conservation officers proved he didn’t https://t.co/YDS2j1XnwS
- A police officer has been jailed for 10 years for raping a woman who went on to give birth to his child. Sgt Ben Lister, of West Yorkshire Police, attacked the woman at a mutual friend's house in Bradford in 2016 after a night out https://t.co/rlN60HbqMs
- Jack Ritchie: coroner condemns ‘woefully inadequate’ care for gambling addict https://t.co/31K8lKiC76
