Edition 3789: 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: US officials say a murder suspect and a prison official who helped him escape from lockup were prepared for a shootout when they were captured by police. The manhunt came to a dramatic end when officers gave chase and collided with the couple's getaway car. The inmate, Casey White, is now back in custody - while his accomplice died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Focus of the Day Article: The head of the Criminal Bar Association has hailed the ‘extraordinary’ commitment of barristers participating in a nationwide protest over legal aid funding – with trials being listed deep into 2023. Since 11 April, hundreds of barristers have adopted ‘no returns’ – declining to cover for colleagues on cases that have been ‘returned’ – over the government’s refusal to increase criminal legal aid advocacy fees by 25%. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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- Three-day menstrual leave in Spain offered to women in European first https://t.co/Gv8PVrga7N
- The Rwandan lawyer trap has snapped shut | Law Gazette https://t.co/H3aSrwGXCd
- ‘My world fell apart’: life in prison with serious mental illness https://t.co/gIZ6Pyd5Y4
- Hundreds of mentally ill prisoners denied urgent treatment in England https://t.co/Gt7g9bDTub
- Nathaniel Leckie, Tyler Tucker, and Jordell Keegan held gun to dad's head before taking dog's eye out in terrifying burglary - now jailed for a total of 26 years https://t.co/yowlYKGDV2
- Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, one of the Catholic Church's most senior members has been arrested in Hong Kong for breaking #China's national security law, police have confirmed https://t.co/swl6quNTTG
- England: Guidelines propose tougher sentences for animal abusers | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yCo5grzuss
- William Fry appoints new partners and consultants | Irish Legal News https://t.co/NSNHBo1TBi
- Criminal bar chief hails 'extraordinary' commitment to legal aid action | Law Gazette https://t.co/9iyh4ncAGn
- Police say they believe a missing 15-year-old girl has been abducted. Madison Thomas, known as Maddie, has not been seen since she left her home in Southmead, Bristol, on 26 April, telling her family she was going to the shops https://t.co/LF2TSRRUkv
- Face masks will no longer have to be worn on flights and in airports in EU countries from next Monday, according to new official guidance https://t.co/ZSLcXmAdzg
- Craig McLachlan defamation trial: 11 women expected to allege misconduct by actor, court hears #Australia https://t.co/lf0MB3xMhC
- Neil Mackenzie QC: Libraries, like democracies, will outlast the violence of Putin | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SU3whFoEUW
- Government puts back fixed costs extension by six months - Legal Futures https://t.co/JoBTfXGi4p
- Ropes & Gray launches social mobility scholarship scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/Wckryfd1sX
- Priti Patel, hear this loud and clear: Julian Assange must not be handed over to the US https://t.co/rOXnawbX5u
- BT collective proceedings to remain ‘opt-out’ claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/aWO4GvPJjY
- An advertising campaign for Tesco Mobile which used the names of foods as substitutes for expletives has been banned. The newspaper ads, Twitter posts and outdoor posters used words like "shiitake" and "pistachio" instead of swear words https://t.co/LfxXxoY3Iw
- An attack on a boy in Bristol who was struck with an oar is now being treated as a racially motivated assault. Police officers were called to Conham River Park on 26 March after a woman pushed Antwon, 12, during a dispute and hit him with the paddle https://t.co/YCgHpuQp3Z
- Appeal court deprecates “act of deliberate concealment” by party - Legal Futures https://t.co/P5lMWnMyaB
- Wigan cocaine boss rumbled after posting beer snap online - Leon Atkinson led a gang involved in drug deals worth £9m in just three months, Greater Manchester Police said https://t.co/5EaMX1aBg0
- #SriLanka witnessed a second night of arson attacks on Tuesday, with properties damaged in the town of Negombo, near the capital, Colombo. A mob torched a luxury holiday resort owned by the son of the former Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaks https://t.co/ZRuNQcmXoq
- A New Jersey court has granted parole to the oldest former member of the Black Panthers after nearly five decades in prison. Sundiata Acoli, 85, was sentenced to life in prison in 1974 for the murder of a police officer the previous year https://t.co/JqyVIK5m1s
- ‘Criminalising our right to protest’: green groups’ anger over public order bill https://t.co/b7DJawlV1G
- Tax Bar Association to be launched this week | Irish Legal News https://t.co/cDKGATTON7
- Fixed costs extension earmarked for April 2023 | Law Gazette https://t.co/yzwcadfWl9
- People will be given the right to vote on proposed property extensions in their area as part of new planning reforms, the government says. The plan sees previous proposals which made it harder to block development dropped after a backlash from Tory MPs https://t.co/TX9ZcDetyz
- Al Jazeera journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh has been shot dead while reporting on a raid by Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. He was shot "deliberately" and "in cold blood" by #Israeli troops. Another reporter was shot & wounded https://t.co/tszoUHPnGl
- Shepherd and Wedderburn advises on distribution facility deal | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JAsAGicJt0
- Judge tells regulators to use summary processes against vexatious litigants - Legal Futures https://t.co/ljP9R2BCaU
- Queen’s speech shows Boris Johnson is out of ideas, says Labour - Agenda includes bills to overhaul planning and human rights law but few new cost of living measures https://t.co/2JVHecet3j
- 'Reach out': lawyers highlight pressures of dispute resolution work | Law Gazette https://t.co/GCiHJhQJbY
- Solicitor struck off for sexually assaulting friend’s wife - Legal Futures https://t.co/Vj3GV22cXz
- Police spy who stole identity of dead baby was not prosecuted, inquiry hears - CPS decided not to pursue case against undercover officer despite evidence he had broken the law https://t.co/SImIo71xxx
- Ports and unions criticise Shapps’ plan for law on seafarers’ minimum wage - Legislation announced in Queen’s Speech in response to P&O Ferries’ sacking of 800 crew https://t.co/ZOYvz5JqKl
- Queen’s Speech: Bill of Rights and Brexit freedoms | Law Gazette https://t.co/DUa68YKV1g
- A
nurse "fixated by sex" who filmed up the gowns of unconscious hospital
patients has been jailed for 12 years. Paul Grayson videoed four women
as they recovered from surgery at Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital
https://t.co/41yJR0XjNW
- Overturning Roe v Wade will destroy our civil rights – so don’t ask us to be ‘civil’ #US https://t.co/sTeNQIPwVp
