Edition 3770: 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: India plans to impose heavy penalties and mandate recalls if electric vehicle (EV) companies are found to be negligent, as part of new "quality-centric" rules, the country's transport minister said, after a spate of fires involving e-scooters. In the meantime, companies may take advance action to recall all defective batches of vehicles immediately, Nitin Gadkari said on Twitter on Thursday, adding that the safety of every commuter is a priority for the government.
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Duncan Love elected president of Society of Advocates in Aberdeen | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Da9UrtWJoz
- Former chief of foreign aid contractor acquitted of bribery blasts police over investigation #Australia https://t.co/nFTNRPtzmO
- Activist Lawyer, featuring Emma McIlveen, launches | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0uYXllQsq7
- Guns overtook car crashes as the leading cause of death for #US children and teenagers in 2020, new research shows. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that over 4,300 young Americans died of firearm-related injuries in 2020 https://t.co/Bf5d5lwgPL
- Some supermarkets are limiting how much cooking oil customers are able to buy as supplies are hit by war in Ukraine. Tesco is allowing three items per customer. Waitrose and Morrisons have limited shoppers to two items each https://t.co/OrajIuQ8Y6
- New president and vice-president for Sheriff Appeal Court | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/s5cMs7dPma
- Former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson punched a fellow airline passenger after the person "threw a water bottle at him," Tyson's spokesperson has said https://t.co/ryY1d4vJYA
- Alan Barratt, 62, and Susan Dalton, 66, tricked people into transferring savings to schemes supposedly investing in property or "truffle trees", now jailed for their part in a series of scams in which 245 people lost millions of pounds in pension savings https://t.co/Umk6nJzJy2
- Latest Mayson report calls for extension of regulation | Law Gazette https://t.co/ue9Lbf3BdP
- Personal injury ABS bosses fined for undeclared ATE commissions - Legal Futures https://t.co/wZdzdRQ44I
- Scrapping limit on sitting days will boost court recovery | Law Gazette https://t.co/opI5KMkug5
- Parents to gain right to request flexible working | Irish Legal News https://t.co/izn4fGpksc
- "Attempts
to lecture the judiciary:" Supreme Court takes objection to Home
Secretary affidavit in Abu Salem plea | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/lS9HWZjKCi
- Gateley steps up diversification push with £20m acquisition - Legal Futures https://t.co/SUtashWzUh
- A German man has been declared an official suspect by Portuguese prosecutors investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Christian Brueckner has been made an "arguido", but Portuguese authorities have not formally revealed the suspect's name https://t.co/Nsf0ZRqAMp
- Protecting and restoring nature – legal tools | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/i60Oqr4X9T
- Negligence claim thrown out as court rejects MMR evidence | Law Gazette https://t.co/BgGLuoCgOH
- Law firm’s net-zero office generates electricity from lifts - Legal Futures https://t.co/nMLS66f9tb
- Time is running out to apply for a devilling scholarship | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3pxFb4itGL
- A satellite firm says it has identified a mass burial site containing about 200 graves near Mariupol, a city Russian forces have been trying to wrest control of for weeks #Ukraine https://t.co/cMLfkUchR8
- Boris Johnson’s attempt to use his India visit to hail the success of JCB, the digger firm owned by a Tory donor, was met with a backlash on Thursday over the use of its machinery in the mass demolition of homes https://t.co/pLdZysKLEv
- Priti
Patel racist asylum plan ‘not racist or illegal’, civil servants told -
Home Office official seeks to reassure staff over refugees to Rwanda
scheme as union considers action over ‘callous policy’ https://t.co/I2RMC4clJm
- Mayson: Legal regulation failing to prevent consumer harm - Legal Futures https://t.co/Fs5Cdq6gbh
- Unlimited sitting days to tackle backlog as action begins to bite | Law Gazette https://t.co/lSdJWTXXle
- Johnny
Depp’s libel claim against the publisher of The Sun – which called him a
‘wife beater’ over allegations of domestic violence made by his ex-wife
Amber Heard – was arguably the biggest English libel trial of the 21st
century | Law Gazette https://t.co/v7kbGkZtu3
- Belfast lawyer Gillian Shaw appointed senior legal counsel at Diaceutics | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VqbelUpQg2
- A mother, stepfather and a teenage boy have been found guilty of murdering a five-year-old boy and dumping his body in a river. Angharad Williamson, 31, John Cole, 40, and a 14-year-old, who cannot be named, killed Logan Mwangi in July 2021 https://t.co/myyCcTmrbq
- How senior Tories’ frantic efforts failed to block Boris Johnson inquiry https://t.co/eeDkvnFxJI
- Carter-Ruck gets sale order over former clients’ home | Law Gazette https://t.co/ennuGp63d4
- TLT expands Scottish employment expertise with appointment of Joanne Hennessy | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mJoD65eMAS
- Gateley snaps up surveyor firm with £30m loan facility | Law Gazette https://t.co/u84RpPoXqV
