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15th May - Law News

Edition 3792: 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: At least 27 people were killed and 12 were injured in a fire at a four-storey commercial building in Delhi, India's Mundka on Friday evening. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today visited the fire incident site. Mr Kejriwal said that the Delhi government has ordered a magisterial enquiry into the incident and the culprits will not be spared. He announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for the families of those who were killed. The injured will be given Rs 50,000 each, he said.

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Slater & Gordon has been ordered to provide details of alleged ‘secret commissions’ paid by an insurer, in a test case that could open the ‘floodgates’ | NLJ https://t.co/dOZsqEBekq 
  • Northern Ireland’s abortion buffer zones bill referred to UK Supreme Court | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Vp9RSOEgsc
  • Legal services boom continues despite sanctions | Law Gazette https://t.co/Oy4d3uxImD
  • Protestors against a female immigration detention centre say it "retraumatises" already vulnerable women. Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre in County Durham houses women waiting to be deported from the UK https://t.co/Q49NqIlJFr 
  • The Court of Appeal has unanimously rejected BT’s argument that a collective proceedings order (CPO) should be ‘opt-in’, in a mass action claiming it abused its dominant market position by charging excessive landline prices | NLJ https://t.co/IieuTd2rp3 
  • A 24-hour curfew has been declared in Sokoto, #Nigeria, after protesters took to the streets demanding the release of two suspects in the murder of a Christian student last week https://t.co/YPFTxv4au8 
  • Means test timetable 'could be brought forward' due to inflation | Law Gazette https://t.co/uFlVMLozhz
  • Wakefield Labour executive resigns accusing Keir Starmer of byelection stitch-up: Members quit en masse over ‘arrogant’ handling of candidate selection process https://t.co/Zsx0HyNCVb
  • A film series on the next generation of women leaders in the law, Next 100 Voices, has been launched by Next 100 Years, the successor project to First 100 Years | NLJ https://t.co/nQbGeDGCpS 
  • Legal academics appointed to Royal Irish Academy committee | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MzvBW49Pat 
  • Bar watchdog ‘must do better’ on investigations, DG admits | Law Gazette https://t.co/6JiGLHWMDI 
  • Plan to reduce time limit for complaints to LeO “goes too far” - Legal Futures https://t.co/fSa3mzR5Es 
  • A former firearms officer awarded £1m from Police Scotland says no amount of compensation will "ever make up for the pain and sacrifices" she made. Rhona Malone was victimised while working for the force, an employment tribunal ruled last year https://t.co/zi0DFvqZxy 
  • Comments about man’s bald head ruled to be sexual harassment | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WMv08CFgYi
  • High Court: Judge criticises terms in adoption legislation which ‘needlessly hurt the feelings’ of parents and children | Irish Legal News https://t.co/5KTf2vz5eT
  • Land Registry admits limits of property reference numbers | Law Gazette https://t.co/tJ0S19rxCa 
  • MPs and peers urge bigger fines for lawyers who break AML rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/jLparPGh5y
  • Mason Hayes & Curran hires Eimear Lyons as corporate partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/IBvbEvq9Fo
  • "Eating and petrol. That's what I use the money for," says Zach. The 30-year-old from Chester is explaining how he spent the money he got after pawning his laptop https://t.co/rwv3KpItIl 
  • Fifty non-white migrants have been told they will be the first to be sent to Rwanda in east Africa as part of the Tory government's controversial resettlement policy https://t.co/iF1XXW3GPK
  • The Tory government is cutting ties with the National Union of Students because the latter's support of Palestinian rights, which is seen as anti-Israel bias by some Jewish students https://t.co/Mc45sgqgyA
  • The government is to delay a ban on multi-buy deals for junk food and pre-watershed TV advertising as families struggle with the cost of living https://t.co/VKWg9T7zOn 
  • MoJ denies new pilot scheme removes right to a trial | Law Gazette https://t.co/enjfJnUYnw 
  • Ukraine has started its first war crimes trial since the beginning of #Russia's invasion, with a 21-year-old soldier appearing in the dock accused of killing an unarmed civilian https://t.co/XggLbevsK1 
  • Why lawyers should be thinking about sustainable development - Legal Futures https://t.co/fyuwkDq1Sz 
  • Clyde & Co promotes six to legal director in Scotland | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9BKX9ORgpR 
  • Two women have been arrested over the death of an eight-month-old baby following a "medical episode" at a nursery. Police were called to an incident at a nursery in Stockport, Greater Manchester, on Monday https://t.co/mZYp4LjpOf
  • Calling a man ‘bald’ is sexual harassment, employment tribunal rules https://t.co/f8tQmwX4Gx 
  • A former bank employee has been jailed for taking almost £900,000 out of accounts, police have revealed. Hamzah Issak, 30, altered account details while working at a Leicester branch of HSBC between 2016 and 2018 https://t.co/8f223ptXAh