Saturday

16th April - Law News

Edition 3763: 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: Three Indian men, accused for attempted murder and in jail since March, have been named in a police case in the communal clashes in Madhya Pradesh's Barwani district earlier this month, raising questions about the police investigations in the rioting case. One of the men had recently witnessed the wrath of the district administration, who allegedly demolished his house citing illegal construction.


Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Divorce applications up in first week of 'no fault' era | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZDjzHCuath 
  • Russia: Artist detained amid clampdown on anti-war feminists | Irish Legal News https://t.co/W2QJS9FBCv 
  • Junior lawyers hope Matthews case shows ‘shift of approach’ by SRA | Law Gazette https://t.co/XAYKnMcR2r
  • Twitter's board has armed itself against a possible hostile takeover - a day after billionaire Elon Musk made a $43bn (£33bn) offer to buy the platform. It has adopted a "limited-duration shareholder rights plan," also known as a "poison pill" https://t.co/Wo5w25mNHO
  • European Commission boosts IP protection for craft and industrial products | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AQ2K1INOFL 
  • An Algerian man who won €250,000 (£206,000; $270,000) on a €5 scratchcard in #Belgium is struggling to claim his winnings because of his undocumented status https://t.co/Nyvu2JsOzg
  • Salah Abdeslam, accused Paris attacker, who did not allow his bombs to explode, claiming he changed his mind, has apologisef to victims #France https://t.co/5PhoCM8ApT
  • London firms in late-stage merger talks | Law Gazette https://t.co/WGO8yhElcV
  • Assault on the Four Courts among centenaries to be commemorated this year | Irish Legal News https://t.co/NlpvroCV36
  • LAA sitting on £1.4m in unclaimed fees for unused material | Law Gazette https://t.co/v5zRfw7RjK 
  • Law firm makes seven-figure investment in proptech business - Legal Futures https://t.co/emyInwwz5R
  • A round-up of human rights stories from around the world | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5sQ8EzMV3e
  • Mary Monson obituary: When a 13-year-old girl was detained in the arrivals hall at Manchester Airport in 2002 carrying heroin worth almost £1m, it was the pioneering criminal solicitor Mary Monson who was called in https://t.co/5Dg40XfjV7
  • No-fault clin neg compensation ‘would harm patients’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/mCf5HtmVuy 
  • Firms "should recruit next generation of lawyers in school" - Legal Futures https://t.co/29EGfwAmiZ
  • More than 150 Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli police at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, Palestinian medics say. #Israeli police officers forcefully entered the holy site https://t.co/u5iW1FLdKM 
  • Boris Johnson takes pre-emptive shot at lawyers over Rwanda scheme - plan to send unauthorised migrants overseas is likely to be very difficult to defend in courts https://t.co/XKTZTEfCUT 
  • LAA turns to solicitors to undermine bar protest | Law Gazette https://t.co/m1rXgWRdm0 
  • A senior director at one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges has said, "there's a "special place in hell" for fraudsters. Curtis Ting spent eight years at the FBI before joining Kraken https://t.co/oghlexM5mu
  • The first asylum seekers, none of them from Ukraine though, could be flown to Rwanda from the UK within weeks. It follows the announcement of a pilot that will see people sent to the east African country to claim asylum there https://t.co/UiFKtoIVFq
  • Litigation funder can be joined to financial remedy proceedings - Legal Futures https://t.co/076C12d3Jy
  • Four courts, a siege and a country divided | Law Gazette https://t.co/7wKDxvhqjH
  • Northern Ireland charities invited to apply for funding from Allen & Overy Foundation | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bIo4UmDTCn 
  • Which other countries send asylum seekers overseas? https://t.co/OCvLMAuh9p
  • Which Indian law firms are the best to work for? Take this Vahura survey | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/SU3Zh0gxmX 
  • Treat family separations "as transactions, not litigation" - Legal Futures https://t.co/snoeOKNVqq