Edition 3833: 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: The Supreme Court rejected an appeal against exoneration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a 2002 Gujarat riots case. The appeal by Zakia Jafri, wife of Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the violence, was "devoid of merits", the court said.
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Damning verdict on Raab’s Bill of Rights | Law Gazette https://t.co/c7u0x7K9G7
- A criminal record should not be a life sentence https://t.co/HotI8E8ots
- Insolvency funder blames Covid measures for profit slump | Law Gazette https://t.co/TuWvTP6gS1
- More women than men have been appointed senior counsel this year in a legal first. Twenty-eight barristers and six solicitors have been made senior counsel – 20 of whom are female and 14 male | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SXbDuL3pUv
- Law firms making ‘wildly inflated’ costs claims, standards body finds | Law Gazette https://t.co/jFEhbuuHyO
- Costs lawyers urged to play bigger role in "out of control" market - Legal Futures https://t.co/mHQmRTLH5m
- Mishcon awarded interim £1.9m after ‘negligence’ win | Law Gazette https://t.co/jr3eDtRH0r
- #Saudis free youngest prisoner who faced execution - Murtaja Qureiris had once been facing the death penalty, although he was finally sentenced to a prison term https://t.co/0QeqmPQlSz
- #Japanese
man loses USB stick with entire city's personal details - the man, said
to be in his 40s, works for a company tasked with providing benefits to
tax-exempt households https://t.co/wHBaWnqIxm
- Millions of women in the #US will lose the legal right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned a 50-year-old ruling that legalised it nationwide https://t.co/Qamz6vs142
- #US Supreme court decision to overturn New York gun law met with outrage https://t.co/I7ULNWDMIA
- Former Dechert client drops defence over ex-partner’s conduct | Law Gazette https://t.co/n4FlFZRpVD
- Disabled swimmer loses legal challenge over London bathing pond ticket prices - Christina Efthimiou claimed price increase at Kenwood ladies’ bathing pond had unfair impact on people with disabilities https://t.co/oDe1NTu5WQ
- Law Society announces winners of Justice Media Awards 2022 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Eh1MkFWwJT
- Dramatic fall in successful high court challenges to government policy https://t.co/Y1IhxjUEYG
- GLD publicly fires back at 'derogatory' article | Law Gazette https://t.co/dJ7CPmCfvb
- SRA seeks whistleblowing role as part of SLAPPs action - Legal Futures https://t.co/VZJueVqzFW
- #US government lawyers threatened to quit en masse as then-President Donald Trump hounded them almost daily to help overturn his 2020 election defeat, a congressional inquiry has heard https://t.co/kbvDIO5IZG
- England: Lord Chief Justice says striking barristers should be reported to regulators | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tQWNZgDPDK
- SRA delves once again into race disparity in investigations | Law Gazette https://t.co/y9PdkKskbB
- Kennedys reports uptick in UK revenue | Irish Legal News https://t.co/W89fkGIHBA
- Motor industry giant Toyota is recalling 2,700 of its first mass-produced all-electric vehicles over concerns their wheels may fall off - the bolts on the bZ4X's wheels "can loosen to the point where the wheel can detach from the vehicle" https://t.co/OBSfLYGtOb
- The #US Senate has passed a gun control bill - the most significant firearms legislation in nearly 30 years. Fifteen Republicans joined Democrats in the upper chamber of Congress to approve the measure by 65 votes to 33 https://t.co/1OLJEFuPsE
- The bodies of UK journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira have been handed over to their families in Brazil, according to local media https://t.co/NGuHM17Z2i
- SRA fining power increase should not be conflated with sanctions regime | Law Gazette https://t.co/g3iQgxpdRf
- Lord Chief Justice and BSB warn striking barristers of disciplinary risks - Legal Futures https://t.co/lIsdUckB7G
- #US supreme court overturns New York handgun law in bitter blow to gun-control push https://t.co/nsvqSypf0F
- ‘False narrative’: campaigners say British bill of rights could undermine free speech https://t.co/7vTLkoOV1Q
- SRA reports £161m of suspect transactions by law firms to NCA - Legal Futures https://t.co/xy7fvuu2eb
- Ministers press on with ‘cynical’ plan to let agency staff replace striking workers https://t.co/EG6yoJg4Dg
- Lasting powers of attorney are taking nearly three months to register – double the Office of the Public Guardian’s target, the government has revealed | Law Gazette https://t.co/rKQ0xnNsfO
- One
of the UK's biggest cheddar cheese suppliers has been fined more than
£1.5m after admitting a host of pollution and odour charges. The Dairy
Crest Ltd plant at Davidstow, Cornwall, polluted the local area over a
five year period up to 2021 https://t.co/ZeZD6rv826
- Veteran barrister’s sexist language was misconduct, High Court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/CIcd3JXX1F
