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28th April - Law News

Edition 3775: 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: The eastern city of Mariupol has endured weeks of Russian bombardment. But overnight, after talks with the UN Secretary General, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed "in principle" to let aid organisations help evacuate civilians out of the city's Azovstal steel plant. Pete Walsh is Ukraine Country Director for Save The Children and tells The World the humanitarian community needs “unfettered, unobstructed” access to reach those in acute need.

Focus of the Day Article: Public law specialists behind a High Court case that provided important legal aid clarification for low-income homeowners with ‘trapped capital’ are worried that many people are still being denied fair and effective access to justice. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Mary Lou McDonald to sue RTÉ for alleged defamation | Irish Legal News https://t.co/omsuyvgYR3
  • Tesla shares have fallen after investor concerns that boss Elon Musk may have to sell shares in the electric car maker to help pay for the takeover of Twitter https://t.co/cV8UBBVr3h 
  • Defence counsel backs ‘naming and shaming’ oligarch solicitors | Law Gazette https://t.co/2RgSINhhHn
  • Mason Hayes & Curran hires Hazel McDwyer as IP partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JN3IBn9cFG 
  • A&O announces bumper promotion round | Law Gazette https://t.co/wEomRJOmzy
  • The Duke of York has been stripped of his Freedom of the City of York honour following a vote by councillors. The motion to remove the accolade given to Prince Andrew in 1987 was carried unanimously at a full council meeting https://t.co/VEjlgDyaD2
  • Belfast firm Elliott Duffy Garrett welcomes three solicitors | Irish Legal News https://t.co/yFl2Qu7G9m
  • Legal aid barriers remain for people with 'trapped capital' - research | Law Gazette https://t.co/DlZ0nciSf
  • Is Biden subverting the #US constitution? | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RptiIETLzb
  • Belfast to host Commonwealth Mediation Conference next month | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Rmji8ukkl
  • SRA granted access to more Post Office documents | Law Gazette https://t.co/F3VJ69QpuR
  • Government policies on discharging untested patients from hospital to care homes in England at the start of the Covid pandemic have been ruled unlawful by the High Court https://t.co/voN0AvPz8n 
  • Shelter says 227,000 'no fault' evictions in three years is appalling https://t.co/VLxC8CFKAi
  • The Conservative Party is investigating claims a Tory MP watched porn on his mobile phone while sitting next to a female minister in the Commons chamber https://t.co/JuE10V2Edn 
  • Reality TV star and former glamour model Katie Price has appeared before magistrates in Crawley charged with breaching a restraining order https://t.co/ul9i7xZnx
  • Cost of living crisis driving non-tariff OIC claims as "wristlash" emerges - Legal Futures https://t.co/XnoR7F0tv2
  • Indonesian children jailed in #Australia as adult people smugglers win court battle to clear their names https://t.co/T0RQW74BTs
  • Ward Hadaway blackmailed after cyber attack | Law Gazette https://t.co/YILWjB9LbF 
  • "Ground down" veteran barrister fined for direct access offences - Legal Futures https://t.co/UtEBNL67u2
  • Relief as government drops 'remedy presumption' from JR bill | Law Gazette https://t.co/d0NXg52xbS
  • Food giant Kellogg's is taking the government to court over new rules that would prevent some cereals being prominently displayed in stores because of their high sugar content https://t.co/35QEf0gSr0 
  • Father accused of causing mother’s dowry death can't be granted custody of child: Punjab & Haryana High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/kNy74szqgR
  • Tracy-Ann Oberman pays ‘substantial damages’ for antisemitism claims #US https://t.co/A543VR6R30
  • Thompsons Solicitors to make case at UKSC for better consumer protection laws | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/q56plUpbOv
  • The Mail on Sunday's editor has refused to meet the Speaker of the House of Commons over the paper's ardently misogynistic article about Angela Rayner https://t.co/DPsbrDrFHe
  • The prison service has failed to recognise the dangers of convicted terrorists pose inside jail. The independent reviewer of terrorist legislation, Jonathan Hall QC, said prisons must not provide opportunities for militants to plan new attacks https://t.co/FxlKNY3IpU
  • Multi-party data access project is “legal sector world first” - Legal Futures https://t.co/HeA7wUcyq
  • 'We have to fight': legal aid providers could decline work | Law Gazette https://t.co/3LXCVr7woX 
  • Legal regulators "need to do more" in dealing with SLAPPs - Legal Futures https://t.co/0XanKpjSk
  • A man arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a missing woman has been further arrested on suspicion of her murder. Katie Kenyon, 33, was last seen on Friday getting into a Ford Transit van in Burnley, Lancashire https://t.co/S8jelg6UTv
  • Janjaweed militia blamed for attacks that left at least 200 dead in Darfur https://t.co/HHIFosLChi 
  • Julie Ahern appointed head of legal at Children’s Rights Alliance | Irish Legal News https://t.co/G3NRacYz9e
  • Twitter takeover: EU and UK warn Elon Musk must comply or face sanctions https://t.co/XdAO2bkyUy 
  • Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan, guilty of sexual assault advised Home Office on child sexual exploitation https://t.co/9qOTOm7zNv 
  • New law raises minimum marriage age to 18 in England and Wales https://t.co/hMIukFpxbN