Edition 3788: 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: For the first time since 1963, the Queen missed reading out the government's legislative plans - leaving Prince Charles and William to fly the royal flag. For Boris Johnson's critics this wasn't the only omission. There was no dedicated bill to help families bear the burden of the highest price rises in 40 years: in its place a vague commitment to grow the economy. But the heir to the throne did have a list of 38 bills - including legislation to try and make good on the levelling up pledge.
Focus of the Day Article: The difficulty of people signing up to a collective action and the
availability of third-party funding were legitimate factors to take into
account in making it opt-out, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Full story - Legal Futures
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- NEW Law Society of Scotland accredited PEAT2 training provider – Kinch Robinson | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/i6NkL3DYuF
- Consequences ‘dire’ if Human Rights Act ditched, more than 50 groups warn https://t.co/WbRt7DvPje
- #SriLankan troops ordered to open fire on looters and vandals as protests continue - Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the island's worst economic crisis in history https://t.co/98xA3gzLhL
- Rights groups condemn plan to scrap Human Rights Act | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CQLRofmZI3
- Turkish flight aborted as passengers get plane crash pics - Several young #Israelis were identified as suspects and are being questioned. The plane departed five hours late after being cleared to leave https://t.co/qj33jidi5R
- SLAPPs risk tarnishing the reputation of our justice system | Law Gazette https://t.co/MF57P8oBd5
- Matheson opens new premises in Cork city centre | Irish Legal News https://t.co/27xudm526N
- Judges have overturned a decision to award £290,000 compensation to the son of a diver who died off Cape Wrath. Lex Warner, from Sutton Coldfield, was injured in a fall on the boat before he made the dive on the Highlands' north coast in 2012 https://t.co/LEveVOB8fz
- Mental health: 'Time for a culture change in the law' | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZhgljZIGT5
- Troubles victims’ families seek Supreme Court appeal over UK legacy plans | Irish Legal News https://t.co/h96iOPIdoe
- Footage of the moment Ava White was stabbed and her alleged killer fleeing the scene has been played to a jury. The 12-year-old died after she was stabbed in Liverpool city centre while out with friends on 25 November 2021 https://t.co/yV3ztDxef7
- Rebekah Vardy "had no choice" but to bring the libel claim against Coleen Rooney, the High Court has been told. Her lawyer Hugh Tomlinson said it was necessary to "establish her innocence and vindicate her reputation" https://t.co/J8KlIKfHUn
- Rights reform and Brexit freedoms expected in Queen’s speech | Law Gazette https://t.co/Sd0DrubTUM
- Tory MP Jamie Wallis has pleaded not guilty to four traffic offences. Mr Wallis, from Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, has denied failing to stop, failing to report a road traffic collision, careless driving and leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position https://t.co/BoEmy255xu
- The omission from the Queen's Speech of measures to improve workers' rights has been met with backlash. Flexible working rights, protections against pregnancy discrimination, and rights for staff to keep all tips had been hoped for in an Employment Bill https://t.co/vbBx1vTIr7
- NI Court of Appeal: Prisoner fails in bid to have his housing benefit continue while imprisoned | Irish Legal News https://t.co/OdDStpMAFr
- LiP loses costs challenge over 'no longer instructed' barrister | Law Gazette https://t.co/PrsgHkicj9
- Solicitor who injected blood into food not guilty due to insanity - Legal Futures https://t.co/s9cKffLn6h
- Swansea is the first Welsh council joins Land Registry's digital register | Law Gazette https://t.co/zsslSyC4r5
- Davidson Chalmers Stewart promotes Steven McAllister to partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mYVhFTKx7b
- Women have spoken about their experiences of sexual assaults and violence in and around city centre venues. Police in Southampton have said tackling violence against women and girls is now their top priority https://t.co/wSGfcWb2Wt
- Solicitor jailed for sexual assault struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/mWygysHWbC
- Prince Charles is to read the Queen's Speech on her behalf for the first time ever, after the 96-year-old monarch pulled out due to mobility problems. He will open Parliament with the Duke of Cambridge, after the Queen granted special permission https://t.co/WGwWTGw5zb
- Court of Appeal backs decision to make collective action opt-out - Legal Futures https://t.co/A84ZUQLIwz
- Alarm after EHRC says long Covid should not be treated as disability https://t.co/GRpbXixYe9
- Russia - City firms 'applying sniff test' to potential clients | Law Gazette https://t.co/NGaVNn425d
- Best of the blogs - 7 May 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/V6fnIbpKtT
- SRA budget to rise £5.3m this year as cost of living crisis bites - Legal Futures https://t.co/B0SFi8ZktJ
- Affordable Covid drugs kept out of reach by sluggish WTO https://t.co/ncH5RPOtFK
- Mother
in law: The writing process continues - Diary of a busy practitioner,
juggling work and family somewhere in England | Law Gazette https://t.co/hBBH9krbQR
- Jail for solicitor who plundered elderly client's bank account - Legal Futures https://t.co/FVa6bytRPQ
