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1st June - Law News

Edition 3809: 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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Focus of the Day Article: The High Court has transferred another case from London to Leeds at the same time as senior judges emphasised that the location of the lawyers is not a trump card in determining venue. Full story - Legal Futures
 
Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Universities have called for an urgent resolution to a row about UK access to a major EU research programme. Universities UK, which represents 140 institutions, fears ministers could be about to abandon the Horizon scheme https://t.co/TOxWnzwjTr
  • Met police blocked from fresh challenge to Sarah Everard vigil ruling - Reclaim These Streets organisers said court decision was ‘vindication’https://t.co/miz29oM595 
  • Lawyer in the news: ​David Robinson, Kennedys - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/D0NBFrPC7D 
  • James Hamilton appointed as chair of new white collar crime body | Irish Legal News https://t.co/qb9cIoHHAj 
  • Judge Susan Walker to become president of Employment Tribunals (Scotland) | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/IKX4X0L9AP
  • Windrush pro bono scheme relaunched to reach more victims | Law Gazette https://t.co/EMzjAayDgK
  • Laila Kennedy elected president of the Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QJfvNczn7Z 
  • Lawtech initiative 'created a sense of urgency' | Law Gazette https://t.co/B7GFIfcz5G 
  • Helen Kidd joins Lindsays as a partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vmvQnoS4lc
  • Lavelle Partners promotes property lawyer Greg Flanagan to partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/eHWGxgvGhb
  • "It felt as though I was the one being investigated," a woman who took a rape complaint to the police has said. Sarah Jenkin said police asked for consent to access all her medical and social records, and her mobile phone https://t.co/eBOfm6tZfM 
  • Legal aid action could escalate in three weeks' time | Law Gazette https://t.co/OjEZFpuI3s 
  • Gender Recognition Reform Bill ‘risks becoming bad law’ | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1sHFvh6YwY 
  • Research: Family law market grows as number of firms falls - Legal Futures https://t.co/fBs3Ag8ZG2 
  • Murray Etherington becomes president of the Law Society of Scotland | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mWwzXWwh9F
  • Emails should be courteous, not explosive | Law Gazette https://t.co/EuUyrvy0R1
  • Tribunal strikes off solicitor jailed for property fraud - Legal Futures https://t.co/RChDiuQUIi 
  • King’s Inns triumphs in ICC Moot Court Competition | Irish Legal News https://t.co/x0A2LeRU6C 
  • How can we defend clients when we cannot defend ourselves? | Law Gazette https://t.co/eUJkRs7mUF 
  • #Canada should introduce a total ban on the buying and selling of all handguns, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said. His government is proposing a new law that would freeze private ownership of all short-barrelled firearms https://t.co/6GUdrJxEuk 
  • Stella Creasy's bourgeois feminism - Criminalising catcalling won't stop men hitting their wives https://t.co/YbrjJEMpfk 
  • Court refuses judicial review of SRA and LAA over control order - Legal Futures https://t.co/K4FWeDKIgR
  • Scots back proposals to make misogyny a hate crime | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bQL9NKeHW7 
  • Father and son found guilty of murder in Suffolk vigilante attack: David and Edward King stabbed Neil Charles to death after he was allegedly seen trying to steal from the older man’s car https://t.co/cYuGwwVjgf 
  • BLM appointed to Hastings Direct legal panel | Irish Legal News https://t.co/gYwM5sNald
  • Leading PI specialist moves into commercial litigation - Legal Futures https://t.co/G3ReZCfGvK 
  • Britain: Employment tribunals citing menopause rise 44 per cent year on year | Irish Legal News https://t.co/mHWHQzJ8qS 
  • Best of the blogs - 28 May 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/mG4RmsWGsA 
  • Boris Johnson accused of abusing ministerial code so rule-breakers can avoid sack https://t.co/TVj02qFwrk 
  • Van Morrison takes legal action against Northern Ireland health department and minister over Covid article https://t.co/2ZueHfASwY 
  • Uefa has commissioned an independent report into the scenes outside the ground that delayed Saturday's Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid https://t.co/oJ9EZ8YZj4