Edition 3803: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Vladimir Putin, especially these days, is widely reviled. To some he’s a war criminal, to others he’s a dictator, and to many he’s simply a very bad man. But it wasn’t always this way. We trawled through video footage from 20 years of international summits, speeches and news conferences and discovered a man who once basked in high regard: the one who went fishing and dancing with George W. Bush, who fell into warm embraces with Tony Blair and whose jokes had NATO’s leaders rolling on the floor with laughter. As the Opinion Video above starkly reveals, Western leaders once considered Vladimir Putin not just an ally, but also, apparently, a friend.
Focus of the Day Article: A Legal Aid Agency helpline set up to provide back-up advocacy during the criminal bar’s ‘no returns’ action registered 19 ‘contacts’, the Ministry of Justice has revealed. Last month the agency refused to confirm how many providers with higher court advocates volunteered to be added to the agency’s helpline - which was widely seen as a bid to undermine the criminal bar’s action – telling the Gazette a freedom of information request would need to be submitted. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
 |
| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- The podcaster accused of libel in the controversy over the identity
of bitcoin's inventor has denied destroying evidence in order to play
down the influence of his Twitter feed | Law Gazette https://t.co/wq3WMzVyQD
- Cat MacLean quits banking industry compensation scheme over alleged defects | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7FGIURezBL
- Costs in contempt proceedings | Law Gazette https://t.co/6Rlsml8COo
- Law Society warns of ‘negative impact’ of removing legal professions from judicial appointments process | Irish Legal News https://t.co/xMf4u2hq2r
- ‘Dr Bitcoin’ denies fabricating evidence of libel harm | Law Gazette https://t.co/D3IoX5kUhV
- The senior official investigating lockdown parties in Downing Street said she was only able to collect "limited" evidence about an event in the prime minister's flat https://t.co/ut8XrW3hUk
- Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has raised pay for newly-qualified UK-based solicitors by 16 per cent to £125,000 | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NQSRDdX9js
- No returns: Disruption minimal as backup helpline attracts 19 volunteers | Law Gazette https://t.co/AN3E9VrNT8
- #Afghan female judge awarded prestigious human rights prize - Fawzia Amini advocates for rights of Afghan women and girls from London hotel room she’s been stuck in for nine months https://t.co/TjuFbJz6kx
- Lawyers from around the globe to commemorate groundbreaking ‘Paisley snail’ case | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/azs6a3R4Tp
- Messages
and emails within Sue Gray's inquiry into lockdown gatherings in
Downing Street have revealed senior officials both actively organising
events and expressing relief at escaping scrutiny for them
https://t.co/xBQ4GETn5L
- Anexo looks to ‘growth opportunities’ after positive results | Law Gazette https://t.co/gIurb33F9n
- BHSM welcomes solicitor Eoghan Murphy to corporate team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KWmmw3tZhY
- City firms lead establishment of Black British civil rights group | Law Gazette https://t.co/Cr6QrkjTmN
- Why a digital-first mindset is crucial for successful hybrid working - Legal Futures https://t.co/NL5URYEWHP
- ‘Global crisis’ of violence: 161 healthcare workers were killed last year, study finds https://t.co/UfVafXaAgl
- Former City partner rebuked for putting arm round trainee in strip club | Law Gazette https://t.co/ld6NicYJG6
- GC fined over conflicts of interest in instructing outside firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/QwTxl9bUVq
- ‘I f**cked up’: Solicitor suspended for accounting failures | Law Gazette https://t.co/lCnV5ExiKZ
- Cyber-attack contributes to listed law firm's profit warning - Legal Futures https://t.co/gKB7FWP4GW
- Footballers agree to spot-fix matches for undercover reporter - former Llanelli player Emile N'Goy, his brother Hermes N'Goy and three European players discussing the illegal activity with undercover journalists https://t.co/yP5whJmAZ5
- Nineteen young children and two adults have died in a shooting at a primary school in south Texas. The gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School - which teaches children aged seven to 10 - in the city of Uvalde #US https://t.co/Ap49EraMFU
- Downing Street must withdraw its threat to replace the Human Rights Act https://t.co/acDiD4Z9nS
- Welsh Human Rights Bill heralds 'inevitable' devolution of justice | Law Gazette https://t.co/SxLY1HTDML
- Over 200 take part in Northern Ireland’s Legal Walk/Run | Irish Legal News https://t.co/G37M6FrahG
- Paper-only small claims pilot “likely to do injustice” to litigants - Legal Futures https://t.co/qt0aR2ngh4
- Good Law Project sets up independent firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/QlEPyBYOqc
- SRA to press ahead with plan to increase fining power to £25,000 - Legal Futures https://t.co/AY7JNt2SP7
