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12th April - Law News

Edition 3759: 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: This free SRA webinar tells you the options available to candidates whose performance in SQE assessments is negatively impacted by particular circumstances – commonly known as mitigating or extenuating circumstances.

Focus of the Day Article:  In Episode 162 Clare Ciborowska and Richard Ager, both family law experts from the Brighton Annexe of 1 Crown Row, talk about the difficult subject of reproductive coercion where such allegations arise in child contact cases. Fact finding hearings, Scott schedules, safeguarding enquiries and risk assessments are proceedings about children’s interests: how is the court to assess and weigh allegations of reproductive coercion and control, where the victims of such abuse are reluctant to repeat the trauma by reliving the details. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog
 
Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Legal Lightbulbs: Is law firm market differentiation a unicorn? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/bTvx35XPa9 
  • Lady Danbury dropped out of law school - Legal Cheek https://t.co/OlAejrAcsU
  • What makes a good dealmaker? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/1hgmmPiARq
  • NQ pay latest: Addleshaw moves to £95k, while RPC boosts to £85k in commercial team and £80k in insurance - Legal Cheek https://t.co/bADZuIc7gS
  • Ashley Cole among victims of high-value robberies, court hears https://t.co/apvOJAIY49 
  • An MP has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy. Imran Ahmad Khan, who was elected as Conservative MP for Wakefield in 2019, had denied groping the teenager at a party in Staffordshire in January 2008 https://t.co/bUtSt0Bs3Z 
  • Meet the law professor standing for Labor in North Sydney - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/yEfLSp7Kxf 
  • Hidden wealth of one of Putin’s 'inner circle' revealed #Russia https://t.co/zO5bJ1gFQo 
  • Give pupillage seekers better feedback, urge rookie barristers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/pJcWJVKNgs
  • A jury at the Old Bailey took just 18 minutes to convict Ali Harbi Ali of murdering Southend MP David Amess and preparing acts of terrorism https://t.co/nyhHLFDyY8
  • Former Cabinet minister Lord Pickles has apologised for getting the number of people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire wrong while giving evidence to the inquiry into the disaster https://t.co/UtJgkJZTQZ
  • The Boutique Lawyer Show: How should small firms interpret the 2022 budget? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/8GQVbwAz0l 
  • Gender pay gap narrows slightly at A&O - Legal Cheek https://t.co/YbvFWSYsYk
  • Catalysing class actions using litigation funding - Legal Futures https://t.co/SEumCqvbXL 
  • SQE assessment fees to increase by £135 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/yq13xYGjSo
  • Having achieved many of her goals in running a successful practice for over two decades, Kathy Constan realised she needed a new challenge. Observing the advent of legal technology and how it could reshape the legal profession - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/W3u1ipt0R3
  • The sister of murdered primary teacher Sabina Nessa said if their family was a "normal British white family" they would have been treated better. Koci Selamaj was jailed for life for attacking Ms Nessa in a park in south-east London in September 2021 https://t.co/0xfJlHraZ3
  • 'I left law to launch a theatre company and start a family - but now I've returned a more well-rounded lawyer' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qkCRe3AGZo
  • Prosecution of #Russian war crimes is ultimate test for Ukraine’s state https://t.co/sKLoSmp4vF 
  • Why government work is so meaningful - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/4buMll56iP 
  • WFW partner named as British man killed by landslide alongside youngest son - Legal Cheek https://t.co/j35iedqn3O
  • £10m Ince deal in doubt amid slew of listed law firm announcements - Legal Futures https://t.co/BKqEnpZvqz
  • Chancellor Rishi Sunak has asked the PM's independent advisers to review his declaration of interests, saying he is confident it will show he followed the inadequate present set of rules https://t.co/2DjKjFeu9y 
  • Nearly 2,500 barristers who are essential to the criminal justice system in England and Wales are starting industrial action over concerns about legal aid funding https://t.co/8TKZkEMOCA 
  • The Power of Archaeology in the Construction and Formation of National Identity: Early Americanist Archaeology (Pre-1850) | Michael P Fedoroff https://t.co/fdTLO1tgxm 
  • Dentons and ULaw launch separate SQE pathways for paralegals - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aedeZ7GHX1 
  • The Bombay High Court’s recent observations on PILs indicate a worrying trend | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/4LRkJi4oD6 
  • ED moves Supreme Court against bail granted to Kerala CPI(M) leader's son Bineesh Kodiyeri | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/S239IBVTzI 
  • Clifford Chance reports 'class pay gap' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8tm3sQcQIx 
  • Not necessary for FIR to be registered immediately for investigation to be valid: Karnataka High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/chtyV5xtXJ