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21st May - Law News

Edition 3798: 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: Indian Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu today surrendered in a court in Punjab's Patiala, a day after the Supreme Court sentenced him to one year in jail in a road-rage incident in which a man was killed 34 years ago. He had earlier requested a few more weeks to surrender on health grounds.

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Judicial reviews seen as major obstacle to meeting Ireland’s housing needs | Irish Legal News https://t.co/1nFABq7CMW
  • Equalising goal: Law Society proposes SLAPP curbs | Law Gazette https://t.co/Q2IgLx3wRK
  • Lawtons choose PracticeEvolve to manage clients more effectively | Irish Legal News https://t.co/j0PUoQ3RUu 
  • It’s fun to pay… Sidley Austin announces partnership with YMCA | Law Gazette https://t.co/9cl96vZtPq
  • Law firms under pressure to show values in clients they take on - Legal Futures https://t.co/xumeXebiHr 
  • A university has been told to pay more than £50,000 in damages for discriminating against student Natasha Abrahart, who killed herself in 2018. She was found dead on the day she was due to take part in a group presentation at the University of Bristol https://t.co/CkSVLdxYfX
  • A woman who was terrorised and abused by an MI5 agent is taking legal action against the security service. Beth, not her real name, has lodged a formal complaint with the watchdog for the intelligence agencies, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) https://t.co/s2RSERBXoz 
  • Barrister wins appeal over disbarment for sexual assault | Law Gazette https://t.co/fVH2ReJwFC 
  • Five new senators of the College of Justice have been installed at individual ceremonies in Parliament House, Edinburgh | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8XaL6Zex5t 
  • Ex-Labour MP must pay £434k damages to woman he repeatedly assaulted https://t.co/Z5b2gCisKi 
  • What did we learn from ‘Wagatha Christie’? No one wins in Britain’s slow and broken courts https://t.co/57acOReVkf 
  • Lord Chief warns over lack of Crown Court judges and lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/ZJRwUKoHXc 
  • Russians lead commercial litigant table - for now | Law Gazette https://t.co/eDJOBY9Kau 
  • Knights bolsters presence in South-East with £11.5m acquisition - Legal Futures https://t.co/PTBwNsneEV
  • Mason Hayes & Curran appoints 15 new partners | Irish Legal News https://t.co/g1fYmQiJdN 
  • National memorial for witchcraft accused to be considered | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gDVEvRRyrI
  • Knights expands south with £11.5m deal to buy rival | Law Gazette https://t.co/oYUX4Uj0Mz 
  • Chancellor Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty have made the Sunday Times Rich List of the UK's wealthiest 250 people for the first time. Their joint £730m fortune ranks them at 222 of the paper's annual list https://t.co/vFKKc1l1fF
  • Friend of Craig McLachlan tells court he feared harassment reports would destroy the actor #Australia https://t.co/V9W5w49lVM
  • Wrong to ignore referee in football injury claim, High Court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/MLYAdcyRb3
  • 'Deal with this problem': lord chief wades into legal aid dispute | Law Gazette https://t.co/0ARiV9QI1J 
  • Property search merger “lessens competition”, CMA says - Legal Futures https://t.co/FRvmIDMctV
  • The government's independent adviser on tackling violence against women and girls has suggested her calls for street harassment to be made a crime are being blocked https://t.co/t2VJWsl1q
  • Lord chief calculates the cost of legal aid cuts | Law Gazette https://t.co/8Fd0gi7Gpy
  • A man fascinated with serial killers has been jailed for a minimum of 31 years for murdering an 18-year-old woman he abducted from a bus stop. Bobbi-Anne McLeod's body was found in woodland near Plymouth in November https://t.co/zGsbmCXGVG 
  • Jailed solicitor struck off for role in property sales scam | Law Gazette https://t.co/gyiO6ifzrQ 
  • Canadian distillery drops Scottish sounding products after SWA dispute | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RMljcOlEhs
  • Cleaver Fulton Rankin shortlisted for responsible business award | Irish Legal News https://t.co/v99Rs9rUNP 
  • 'Textbook SLAPP': Oligarch’s libel lawyers reported to SRA | Law Gazette https://t.co/nGDrz2XDUB