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10th July - Law News

Edition 3849: 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: YouTuber Gaurav Taneja was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Noida today after his followers gathered in large numbers at a metro station to celebrate his birthday, reports ANI. Taneja, who runs the YouTube channel 'Flying Beast', had planned to celebrate his birthday at the Sector 51 Metro Station in Noida.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Hayes Solicitors promotes eight including partner Fiona Shipsey | Irish Legal News https://t.co/fGaS3a3iS8 
  • The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA’s) fining powers have been increased from £2,000 to £25,000 (a rise of 1,150%), as of last week | NLJ https://t.co/EgKXMyZe8U
  • High Court: IPAT decision refusing protection for man claiming to be forced to become a fetish priest upheld | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WxWp0yAEV
  • The Supreme Court has been assigned the task of deciding whether the Scottish Parliament has authority to legislate for a consultative referendum on independence without the approval of Westminster | NLJ https://t.co/OeAAxFwLCW
  • High Court: Ex-City solicitor failed to return $25m fund to Saudi princess - Legal Futures https://t.co/unpJWFxCxe
  • ‘I need justice’: mother of boy stabbed to death calls for change in UK law - The 15 year old who killed Dea-John Reid was convicted of manslaughter and could serve just over two years in prison https://t.co/6FkJA77woW
  • The government ‘has failed to make the case for repealing and replacing the Human Rights Act with a Bill of Rights in the form proposed’, the chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), Joanna Cherry QC MP has warned | NLJ https://t.co/JWVya7KEte
  • Merger firms allowed to keep their names | Law Gazette https://t.co/wUjWXvZFQe
  • Resolution embraces 'one lawyer, one couple' approach to divorce - Legal Futures https://t.co/TbpgT4C87C
  • New education minister Andrea Jenkyns raised her middle finger to a crowd outside Downing Street https://t.co/l4ydxNOQTE 
  • Criminal courts have ground to a halt for the second week running as criminal barristers continued their strike | NLJ https://t.co/iCU46JjhMY
  • £5bn claim over Brazil dam collapse revived by Court of Appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/VNqahfn0Jb
  • Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster to get day in UK courts #Brazil https://t.co/qDsepTNi5H 
  • Stop advising clients to pay cyber-ransoms, lawyers told - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ny7asLkR9U 
  • Mother in law: The letter 'H' | Law Gazette https://t.co/WrqeDFnIek
  • A special constable serving with the Metropolitan Police has been charged with rape. Paul Hoile, 40, is due to appear at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court later, facing four charges including one of anal rape and two counts of oral rape https://t.co/pItZz7XqTG
  • Biden signs executive order to protect US abortion access and urges Americans to ‘vote, vote, vote’ – as it happened #US https://t.co/sBu7FwUmfe
  • Ness Gallagher promotes family lawyer Louise Gillies to director | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6qyJtXe8nV
  • Government cools on manifesto pledge for criminal justice Royal Commission - Legal Futures https://t.co/HVAD37Wf
  • The Attorney General, Suella Braverman has thrown her hat in the ring for job of Prime Minister, while the Solicitor General, Alex Chalk and Justice ministers, barrister Victoria Atkins | NLJ https://t.co/sNz9JRUYxy
  • Elon Musk withdraws $44bn bid to buy Twitter after weeks of high drama https://t.co/qU9p0vwXyX
  • Committee backs ‘swift passage’ for PIAB reform bill | Irish Legal News https://t.co/xxp6SO8a9N
  • Aberdein Considine makes raft of trainee appointments | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xGiKIgRVWI
  • Justice for Bernard Collaery must be the beginning of decisive action on whistleblowers #Australia https://t.co/pRpSYrlWoz