Edition 3837: 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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- Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in a #US prison for helping
disgraced former financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls https://t.co/BQdNrxqrTT
- England: Corporation tax rise could reverse trend of lawyers forming limited companies | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2qtS0fF09z
- Queen’s secret influence on laws revealed in Scottish government memo https://t.co/66cmYotaGf
- Best of the blogs - 25 June 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/rZQB22TccW
- LK Shields appoints Aideen Burke as partner and head of IP, tech, media and privacy team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jHPECnhO3G
- Solicitors angry that vulnerable clients ‘wide open’ to unregulated market | Law Gazette https://t.co/UFTRo2PC0f
- NI High Court: Parental order refused for ‘vindictive’ father who called police on his son’s mother | Irish Legal News https://t.co/APJ0AJiKa
- Louisiana judge blocks abortion ban amid uproar after Roe v Wade ruling - State temporarily blocked from enforcing ban as other US states pass ‘trigger laws’ designed to severely curtail access to abortion #US https://t.co/4zYDmp9lh
- Met Police placed into advanced stage of monitoring - Recently the force has been hit by a series of scandals including the murder of Sarah Everard, the strip-search of Child Q and officers being caught exchanging offensive messages https://t.co/C02sPvR1ro
- SRA accused of selective accounting over indemnity fund plan | Law Gazette https://t.co/nDQEiCBSGk
- Scotland's first minister has proposed 19 October 2023 as the date for another referendum on independence. Nicola Sturgeon said the question would be the same as in the last referendum in 2014: "Should Scotland be an independent country?" https://t.co/Qty70vpuyy
- Insolvency cases on the rise after difficult year for litigation funder - Legal Futures https://t.co/oxode1Xr7o
- Brexit has claimed another casualty – the Brussels office of the Law Society is to close after 31 years at the heart of the city’s EU district | Law Gazette https://t.co/vpaiqGkL55
- #US Supreme court sides with high school coach who led on-field prayers - Ruling expands religious rights of government employees in latest of decisions taking a broad view of religious liberty https://t.co/gbirczUXl7
- Firm fined after wrongly saying it had proper AML risk assessment | Law Gazette https://t.co/FuMxzRjEtJ
- Roe vs Wade overturn will herald the renaissance of feminism at its bravest and best – For 30 years the women’s movement swerved violently to the left and wokeism. Last week it woke up https://t.co/XxC4DOSPST
- Greens urge disciplinary action against lawyer MPs over rule of law threats - Legal Futures https://t.co/ynU56wwJJV
- ‘The system is in crisis’: barristers make their case as strike begins https://t.co/bbC2Wzq2Hn
- At
least 46 people have been found dead in an abandoned truck on the
outskirts of San Antonio, Texas. A fire official said 16 people,
including four children, had also been taken to hospital #US https://t.co/SgSKSJKKxR
- Litigation funder Therium should be jointly and severally liable for indemnity costs after a specialist currency debt management firm unsuccessfully sued HSBC, the High Court has ruled | Law Gazette https://t.co/wUgK5l2MnH
- Republicans have hijacked the #US supreme court. It’s time to expand it https://t.co/DYwND6CqO4
- Law firm owner rebuked for caseworker supervision failure - Legal Futures https://t.co/DCnLnXRaJO
- More women than men made senior counsel in legal first | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SXbDuLl1j5
- The
Law Society has appointed a former managing partner and chief
executive of City firm Lewis Silkin as its new chief executive. Ian
Jeffery will take over from interim CEO Gerry Walsh in September | Law
Gazette https://t.co/i6MNzTmSeg
- ‘A nightmare’: British Muslims left stranded by Saudi hajj booking system - Hundreds who paid for travel through Motawif system say they missed flights after their bookings ‘failed’ https://t.co/beB3e2H8Lg
- Why are criminal barristers in England and Wales striking and what will be the impact? https://t.co/mUNOCAljsS
- Former human rights lawyer Phil Shiner today pleaded not guilty to three counts of fraud over claims made against soldiers who fought in Iraq | Law Gazette https://t.co/pAsYINVaLt
- Business recovery firm eyes acquisitions in bid to double size of ABS - Legal Futures https://t.co/dgXfPh7tVa
- Criminal
barristers begin strike in row over legal aid fees - The CBA says the
offer of a 15% uplift in fees is insufficient and is calling for a 25%
rise to make up for years of funding cuts https://t.co/BChAkKuGXb
- Zara Aleena: police arrest man on suspicion of murder in east London https://t.co/dv2ZKObFNO
- A £20m experiment offering a basic income to young people leaving care will launch in Wales on Friday. From 1 July, the Welsh government will offer around 500 18-year-olds £19,200 a year before tax - no strings attached https://t.co/b4Gpy2DxA
- A
woman who is suing a rape crisis charity says she felt unable to speak
at a support group after a transgender woman began attending the same
meeting https://t.co/RFPl3PbInh
- On the picket line: Raab condemns strike as barristers down tools | Law Gazette https://t.co/Qpvnn7vPAN
