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30th April - Law News

Edition 3777: 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: Seven people were arrested by the Ayodhya police on Thursday, all accused of disturbing the peace and equanimity of the city by throwing objectionable posters and objects at several mosques in Ayodhya, India.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Remote firm reports 56% profit jump and bonus dividend | Law Gazette https://t.co/8jCORcU1L5
  • Coercive treatment for anorexia can be withdrawn in best interests of ward even if they may die | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QTWVnQSxRX
  • Patrick Schofield wins Matheson’s Tim Scanlon Corporate Law Bursary | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zKIMkaDWcZ
  • SRA obtains fresh order for Khan to deliver up files | Law Gazette https://t.co/JBmA3UxDEb
  • DWF promotes Julie Galbraith to Belfast leadership role | Irish Legal News https://t.co/CCqkqFKB4d 
  • An IS group militant from the UK has been jailed for life by a US court for his involvement with a notorious hostage-taking terror cell. Alexanda Kotey, 38, pleaded guilty last September https://t.co/Gd3GF8m4q3
  • The Conservative MP accused of watching pornography in the House of Commons chamber has been named as Neil Parish. He has been suspended from the parliamentary party and is under investigation by Parliament's standards commissioner https://t.co/4mrlXfBGRS 
  • Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has been jailed for two and a half years for hiding £2.5m worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts. The 54-year-old six-time Grand Slam champion was found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act https://t.co/an63pZDqiw 
  • JR reforms become law as parliament winds down | Law Gazette https://t.co/piNmzQxfyc 
  • UK government accused of undermining free and fair elections | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xDdHb4ysYu 
  • HSF and Clifford Chance break partnership records | Law Gazette https://t.co/CyT2L0XFXt 
  • Minister: Reforms “not exactly” what criminal legal aid review said - Legal Futures https://t.co/tpJyUaAqBe
  • "No upper limit" - Ambitious Keystone returns cash to shareholders - Legal Futures https://t.co/IDUj9dd97K 
  • Laurence Fox seeks first libel jury trial for a decade | Law Gazette https://t.co/OvtxtVf5Tb 
  • PII: Legal Services Board targets “balance” between public and profession - Legal Futures https://t.co/0Zxc50RRaO
  • Attending jihadi meetings, being member of organization which is not banned is not 'terrorist act' under UAPA: Karnataka High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/s4X1gqb010
  • Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood will remain on bail until mid-June over allegations he raped and assaulted a young woman. The 20-year-old was arrested in January after images and videos were posted online by a woman https://t.co/vcyDPF82xx 
  • The UK has proposed new rules making fake reviews of goods illegal. But experts say that's not the only way companies are skewing buyer perception https://t.co/878Va58JIf
  • Black children are more likely to face tougher punishments at school because they are viewed as "less innocent" and more adult-like https://t.co/hcfsCkT9YD
  • US family caused a bomb scare at #Israel's main international airport after presenting an unexploded artillery shell at a security check. They had picked up the ordnance on a visit to the Israeli occupied Golan Heights https://t.co/RFSp6jBV6O
  • Slater and Gordon declines to explain 'secret' ATE payments | Law Gazette https://t.co/6uDAZeKoKF
  • Eversheds distances itself from Russian spin-off | Law Gazette https://t.co/P4tUNm495
  • Outrageous libel laws protected Jimmy Savile. At last, change is on the cards https://t.co/VfCOC0ntK
  • A Ukrainian father's terrifying journey to a Russian prison and back https://t.co/3x0H5OccC4
  • The leader of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been arrested for alleged drug smuggling and money laundering in the #US. Premier Andrew Fahie was detained in Miami by US agents posing as cocaine traffickers from a Mexican drug cartel https://t.co/bPdNPSdiDz 
  • EHRC: Action plan announced to tackle sexual harassment culture in hospitality | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5B5OGe49p
  • A serving Met Police officer has been charged with rape. PC Ireland Murdock allegedly attacked his victim in Lambeth while he was off duty on 25 September last year https://t.co/VRIwqHESVY
  • Advocate Niall McCluskey dies at 53: Mr McCluskey obtained his LLB and diploma from the University of Aberdeen and called to the bar in 1995, having been in private practice as a solicitor and a procurator fiscal depute | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/naewwKVji
  • Number of children in custody in England and Wales set to double by 2024 https://t.co/Tz5DVkDPF5
  • ‘No more blame culture’: MPs call to scrap clin neg system | Law Gazette https://t.co/lXzhQXCuU
  • Finally, this reckless government faces a reckoning for Covid deaths in care homes https://t.co/v3stZdrOm5
  • MPs call for no-fault compensation in clinical negligence - Legal Futures https://t.co/NvOL2DBmvd
  • UK ports consider legal action after Rees-Mogg delays Brexit controls https://t.co/RH7Ta9R1OJ 
  • Jimmy Savile escaped justice because of libel laws, claims reporter https://t.co/CNoNUduUl1
  • Partners at law firms in England and Wales saw their pay increase by nearly 40 per cent in the first full year of the pandemic, according to new figures | Irish Legal News https://t.co/e2oWbGSk3d
  • #Canadian health officials have removed a ban on blood donations from gay men, one that has long been condemned as homophobic. The old rule prevented donations from men who have had sex with other men within three months of giving blood https://t.co/tZNHKoFCYt