Edition 3825: 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: 48 Hours in A Kansas Abortion Clinic - Recent abortion bans in Texas and Oklahoma are forcing many patients in the region to travel to Kansas.
Focus of the Day Article: Corporate legal spend shifts more in-house, report finds. More than half of legal spend was in house compared to 49% last year according to survey of 400-plus legal departments. Full story - The Global Legal Post
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- Rwanda refugee policy is like the rendition of slaves in the 1800s https://t.co/H8kKnDj9oF
- Drunk trainee fined for fondling colleagues at Christmas party | Law Gazette https://t.co/7YgPIizgcO
- How pricing directors use matter management to ensure profitability - Legal Futures https://t.co/m1YNMz1idt
- Managers of a food waste company have been jailed after two staff members drowned in a tanker of pig feed. Nathan Walker, 19, died after falling into the tanker at Greenfeeds Limited in Normanton, Leicestershire, in December 2016 https://t.co/Jf3w0vhnpn
- 'Comprehensive strategy' needed to replace flawed courts reform | Law Gazette https://t.co/kzQry3M1Dh
- What is the ECHR and how did it intervene in UK’s Rwanda flight plans? https://t.co/7PxOo8k3WR
- Cycling's governing body, the UCI, has toughened its rules on transgender eligibility by doubling the period of time before a rider transitioning from male to female can compete. The UCI has changed the permitted level to 2.5 nmol/L for a 24-month period https://t.co/ul3nP3qBhb
- Millions
of iPhone users could be eligible for payouts, following the launch of a
legal claim accusing Apple of secretly slowing the performance of older
phones. Justin Gutmann alleges the company misled users over an upgrade
https://t.co/Pfsa4wgQ2T
- Geraldine Hanna takes up victims’ commissioner role in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tArmlnXMm1
- HMCTS spends £404m on agency staff in five years | Law Gazette https://t.co/a9j1XIuDEU
- Claim for £750m against Apple launched alleging battery ‘throttling’ https://t.co/Q8zpzKBJki
- White paper to tackle unfair evictions and bad landlords in England - Private rentals white paper also includes clampdown on unfit homes and plan to outlaw landlord bans on ‘DSS tenants’https://t.co/0AVBxv77iQ
- Rail appeal would make collective proceedings ‘unworkable’, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/yC0Jkd5eer
- Strasbourg's Rwanda ruling divides public law specialists | Law Gazette https://t.co/5iyFQzGkov
- It took a human rights court to halt No 10’s Rwanda flight – and act with basic humanity https://t.co/2dCj0uimYn
- SRA should be able to fine much more than £25,000, LSB tells Raab - Legal Futures https://t.co/NiAuO4EVPR
- Boris Johnson's former ethics adviser Lord Geidt says he quit after being placed in an “impossible and odious” position over a plan to risk breaking the ministerial code https://t.co/XrtW580Gy7
- Historic name disappears as RadcliffesLeBrasseur swallowed by merger | Law Gazette https://t.co/Q1Vluc2AYV
- Leading firm overlooks another employment claim made against it - Legal Futures https://t.co/fGoF3vHUJf
- #Australian man uses forklift to stop would-be thief stealing his car - Police say a woman had broken into the man's home in Logan, west of Brisbane, showering and changing clothes before attempting to steal the car https://t.co/vTaL3r90We
- Lawyers take Boris Johnson to task over provocative comments | Irish Legal News https://t.co/exkQ5LeXV5
- More
than 100 men who worked at the British embassy in Afghanistan remain in
the country, with some having been beaten and tortured. The men worked
for the global security company, GardaWorld, and many had been in post
for more than a decade https://t.co/uSYuh83nrl
- #Brazilian
police say a suspect has confessed to shooting missing British
journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Amarildo da
Costa de Oliveira, took investigators to a site where human remains
were dug up https://t.co/McZsN0xMuc
- Home secretary Patel seeks to curb modern slavery claims as Rwanda plan labelled ‘government by gimmick’ https://t.co/JdWZyIs7Xp
- Judiciary snubs trade union's request for council seat | Law Gazette https://t.co/6VHySiuApb
- High Court: No case justifies only using grade A fee-earners - Legal Futures https://t.co/V6CbjCWrZf
- Tories
accused of hypocrisy for secrecy about how many days MPs clock in |
House of Commons - Jacob Rees-Mogg among ministers trying to stop
release of data about use of Commons work passes https://t.co/rN1RAjFrMf
- Haze Fan: China says Bloomberg staffer released on bail earlier this year https://t.co/aHs6VplY27
- Raab intervenes to back higher SRA fines | Law Gazette https://t.co/h0TQc7GHcT
- Thinktank
that briefed against XR given $30k by ExxonMobil in 2017 - Report shows
Policy Exchange, which called for criminalisation of climate group,
previously received money from oil firm https://t.co/gNFwoiGI9Q
- KPMG hires Philip Lee partner John Given to head legal services business | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VaEY8PQUX
- Fine for male trainee who told female colleague: "I roofied your drink" - Legal Futures https://t.co/BV44a1ahNN
- Crown Courts are to be upgraded with better technology while staff will receive specialist training to help with rape trials, the government says. The pilot, in Newcastle, Leeds and London, will see independent advisers on hand in courts to support victims https://t.co/I2V0woq6b2
- Authorities in #Saudi Arabia have been seizing rainbow-coloured toys and children's clothing, which encourage homosexuality. An Al-Ekhbariya report showed commerce ministry officials removing a range of items from shops in the capital Riyadh https://t.co/XjIrTl9MaT
