Edition 3838: 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 Bar Council's Ethical Dilemmas at the Criminal Bar online seminar explored common ethics that arise in criminal proceedings, including returning instructions, absconding clients and mental incapacity. Led by experienced criminal barristers
Focus of the Day Article: The Law Commission of England and Wales has been asked by the government
to review the 'disordered and unclear' law on contempt of court and
consider ways to improve its effectiveness, consistency, and coherence.
Among the possibilities is codification. . Full story - Legal Futures
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Ex-education secretary Gavin Williamson takes £50k second job with education firm - former minister will spend 80 hours a year chairing advisory board of RTC Education https://t.co/CxGfpmHAJD
- The Tory bill of rights is a gift to the world’s tyrants https://t.co/Z7KqPh1YuG
- Irwin Mitchell did not have consent for £28,000 deduction, court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/uhRhVy5u
- Opinion: Repeat customers – CMA uncovers yet more competition law breaches in the construction sector | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4jqaSRbP86
- Queen’s approval of laws must be more transparent, Scottish ministers told https://t.co/O6ZBuWU8pX
- Contempt law under spotlight at government request | Law Gazette https://t.co/kboBWy7DA
- Sheriff Adrian Cottam appointed deputy director of Judicial Institute | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NXVWPMx51j
- Setting the record straight on barristers' pay | Law Gazette https://t.co/8O6hjBop7M
- 'Something has gone very badly wrong': judge turns down 19 appeals | Law Gazette https://t.co/UyTWPyndnX
- The parents of a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life support dispute have won an appeal for his case to be heard again. Archie Battersbee was found unconscious at his home https://t.co/kzPxAqrz4K
- Mum
was left in tears after supermarket staff told her to stop
breastfeeding her daughter in her car. Beth Coles, 25, took her baby
Rosie for a feed when she became agitated in Sainsbury's in
Kidderminster
https://t.co/7DqKoZOjaP
- No longer just contracts – BT expands managed services partnership - Legal Futures https://t.co/M9H8Hf4kqZ
- Fred Banning: Pro bono and the rewarding opportunities it offers | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ppmt2joPbP
- The US supreme court is letting prayer back in public schools. This is unsettling https://t.co/ztX2sKpn0y
- Scotland could become independent if the SNP won a majority of votes in a UK election, Nicola Sturgeon has said. The first minister wants a referendum in 2023, and is pushing for the Supreme Court to rule on a bill to set this up https://t.co/rmWqxbnvmw
- Airbnb has permanently banned parties and events at homes on its platform, after a temporary measure during the pandemic proved popular with host: the rule has become "much more than a public health measure" since it was introduced in August 2020 https://t.co/utzoQHTyFS
- Courts and tribunals may grant remote access to in-person and hybrid hearings after temporary measures introduced at the height of the pandemic were today replaced by a permanent regime with ‘expanded powers’. | Law Gazette https://t.co/FMHbwJPHIi
- Firm fined for inadequate anti-money laundering controls - Legal Futures https://t.co/xnme2cOHFG
- Scottish government memo details secret changes sought by the Queen | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hJJZiFg4S
- Labour MP in bid to include right to abortion in British bill of rights https://t.co/ZOzLeForcB
- Male MPs attempt menopause in hot flush vest – then can’t wait to take it off. Politicians try out device fitted with heated pads that mimics one of the menopause’s most unpleasant symptoms https://t.co/HvugY7yC8P
- Court staff asked to report strikers' data for Raab | Law Gazette https://t.co/EoHcJcT5jr
- Jeffrey to take reins at Law Society as it closes Brussels office - Legal Futures https://t.co/05KSCs5iIv
- Landmark launches Scotland’s first customer onboarding solution – LandmarkAgent | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OKQwQvXmiZ
- Simon Case refuses to come clean about his dirty work for Boris Johnson https://t.co/moS8lf1L0G
- ALG’s Eileen Roberts nominated to High Court | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VPphaQCfVd
- ‘If you love or are a woman, don’t go to Malta,’ say couple in abortion drama https://t.co/AWBYjgx5xi
- Solicitor admits ‘burn it’ evidence call but denies contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/4tpQjvqDdO
- ‘He bought me like a chicken’: the struggle to end slavery in #Niger - Al-Husseina Amadou was just one of thousands of girls in west Africa who are still bought cheaply as a wahaya, or ‘fifth wife’ https://t.co/3Ms2b6sWa0
- William Fry partner Lyn Brennan to lead New York office | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zNQWpbee99
