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3rd June - Law News

Edition 3811: 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: Afghanistan's opium trade is facing fresh scrutiny, amid renewed Taliban efforts to stop the drug's cultivation. Money is not the only thing drying up for farmers, with an ongoing drought pushing the sector towards collapse.

Focus of the Day Article: Law firm mergers: the cultural iceberg below the surface. If people buy off people, then it’s the individuals mergers bring together that will ultimately make them a success or failure. Full story - The Global Legal Post
 
Saturday Conversations on Law

  • McKenna & Co welcomes new trainee Méabh Flynn | Irish Legal News https://t.co/wf2dfqi3uu
  • GLD 'committed to levelling up' as it seeks 50 London lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/hr5Dp8wyMN
  • Lord Reed to become patron of Aberdeen Law Project | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WRQcE7dHx
  • Time is running out to help save the criminal justice system | Law Gazette https://t.co/N5LErzY6AI
  • A new organisation to represent the interests of Scottish conveyancers has been proposed | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HCiVL7RGtF
  • First electronically signed property deal goes through | Law Gazette https://t.co/Vph8GqufGB 
  • Depp-Heard trial: Why Johnny Depp lost in the UK but won in the US https://t.co/jVdF6bYNSo 
  • Mother of woman who died after implant procedure labels body modifier ‘a monster’ in court #Australia https://t.co/TW9x09Nb1n 
  • Travel companies asked for special immigration visas for overseas workers at a meeting with Grant Shapps on Wednesday, which has been refused, more disruptions expected as a result https://t.co/d2OAaJyqBo 
  • Australian sitcom actor Robert Hughes will be freed from jail and deported to the UK after serving a sentence for child sexual abuse - In 2014 he was convicted of a string of child sexual offences - which he denied - against girls in the 1980s and 1990s https://t.co/bmgQ1HZdzf
  • The Driving and Vehicles Standards Agency (DVSA) says it is cracking down on companies reselling driving tests to learners for profit. An investigation found that some learner drivers had paid more than £200 - more than double the standard fee https://t.co/GmIjGpHnYO
  • Solicitor who did not understand her firm's accounts suspended - Legal Futures https://t.co/RHr3HBL5Bl 
  • Hogan Lovells finalises Moscow office spin-off | Law Gazette https://t.co/yZ6lu0trr7
  • New Law Society president Murray Etherington vows to protect legal aid | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0QJIaEpIxw
  • Turkey will be known as #Türkiye at the UN from now on, after it agreed to a formal request from Ankara. Several international bodies will be asked to make the name change as part of a rebranding campaign launched by the Turkish president late last year https://t.co/auSKfKldgy 
  • Training courses seek to develop in-house skills | Law Gazette https://t.co/4y43tBQD5c
  • MedCo looks to shift balance between tier 1 and 2 MROs - Legal Futures https://t.co/oap9OElicl
  • #French police officers investigated over use of teargas against Liverpool fans https://t.co/cfKN3xWF4W
  • The Law Society of Northern Ireland has issued a warning about a scammer calling himself “Andy Williams” or “Andrew Williams”. | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dw0hD6LTA
  • Fixed-fee family law information service aims to “fill knowledge gap” - Legal Futures https://t.co/nPSwzX03BZ
  • The former head of #Colombia's once-powerful Cali drugs cartel has died in prison in the United States. At one point, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela controlled the vast majority of the world's cocaine trade and was an arch-nemesis of Pablo Escobar https://t.co/VBKQbg3Rk6 
  • "Missguided is my little treat," said Beth Harvey who orders about once a month. But when her latest fashion parcel didn't arrive she joined a queue of customers left chasing their orders and refunds https://t.co/rSa7R1jYyG
  • Former City partner and ex-AG in jubilee birthday honours | Law Gazette https://t.co/gQlCynhw1e 
  • What will Johnny Depp’s legal victory mean for his and Amber Heard’s careers? https://t.co/5XPHjQYyM2
  • Five years after the Grenfell fire in which 72 people died, the government has banned the specific type of cladding which allowed the blaze to spread so rapidly https://t.co/ParcnRU3g9
  • Lawyers "underestimate public appetite" for using technology - Legal Futures https://t.co/fUSqPaPbOE
  • My advice to the new Cressida Dick: police violent men, not the women they abuse https://t.co/6xnH2nMacG 
  • Teenage gunman accused of shooting 10 people dead in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, last month has been charged with domestic terrorism. Prosecutors allege 18-year-old Payton Gendron, who earlier pleaded not guilty, was motivated by racial hatred #US https://t.co/ruMUvRuovj
  • Ethics watchdog says PM has failed to allay fears he is above the rules: Jonathan Evans rows in behind Lord Geidt with critical statement on Boris Johnson’s changes to code https://t.co/qUxsXfger3
  • No future in criminal defence, juniors tell Law Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZD47000rbh 
  • Sarah Everard vigil: Met to prosecute six over alleged Covid rule breaches https://t.co/MzbsmnVsqo 
  • Walsall mayor suspended from Tory party over racist WhatsApp post: Rose Martin has claimed someone hacked her account and posted offending image https://t.co/jbjWUwdbXY