Edition 3854: 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 Gujarat police (India) has opposed activist Teesta Setalvad's bail application while claiming that she was a part of a "larger conspiracy" by Congress veteran Ahmed Patel against then Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Ms Setalvad is one of the two persons arrested by Ahmedabad crime branch recently on the charge of conspiring to falsely implicate people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- All to play for if Supreme Court takes indyref2 case: Nicola Sturgeon has made her grand gambit, presenting a draft bill to the Scottish Parliament to hold a referendum on Scottish independence on October 19, 2023 | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yrM7VCrfx0
- British aid worker held by Russian-backed Ukraine separatists reported dead: Paul Urey, who was captured and accused of being a mercenary, has died, Donetsk official says https://t.co/2KxFZW3ChL
- ‘Instruments of injustice’: Victoria’s highest court denounces state’s mandatory sentencing #Australia https://t.co/PI2sYgQfHe
- A number of schools are closing next week and others are ditching uniforms, as temperatures in parts of the UK are predicted to hit 40C (104F). A national emergency has been declared after a red extreme heat warning was issued for Monday and Tuesday https://t.co/gmd7ffz1tm
- Woman
who had to adopt own child made legal parent - Sarah Osborne, who was
in a same sex relationship, was refused permission to be named as a
parent on the birth certificate after a Cambridge registrar said "there
could only be one mother" https://t.co/GvHbBR4QxY
- Everyone aged 50 and over will be offered a Covid booster vaccine this autumn to top up their immunity and cut their risk of becoming severely ill. Younger people at high risk from Covid, as well as health and social care staff, will also get the booster https://t.co/WjTCRBPxwg
- New funds for charities that support LiPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/o3wSWd3ZRs
- Simmons & Simmons’ PEP tops £1m | Law Gazette https://t.co/93UF5qugdo
- High Court strikes out “fanciful” allegations against law firm and QC - Legal Futures https://t.co/LddG4rRnZ0
- Allen & Overy posts 9% profit rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/3dILNtyvtn
- Almost 5,000 driving test booking accounts have been blocked after operators were found bulk booking slots and reselling them for profit https://t.co/YBeszggeaV
- A mother who murdered her two-year-old son the day she was due at an access hearing has been jailed for life. Daniel Hodgson Green was found suffocated next to his mother at home in Guisborough, Teesside, in February https://t.co/ZTCPpleVLt
- Judicial diversity - solicitor numbers continue to dwindle | Law Gazette https://t.co/bxGSUpxg8d
- Six men have been jailed for their parts in a raid at ex-footballer Ashley Cole's home and a £3.5m tiara heist. Cole and his partner Sharon Canu were bound by cable ties when they were robbed at their home in January 2020 https://t.co/OeJPPbOycI
- One in 18 has Covid in the UK - the rate of admissions stood at just 17.9 per 100,000 people in the week ending July 10, and is slowly falling, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) https://t.co/RtSfHSiUr8
- Life-support
treatment for 12-year-old Archie Battersbee can end, a judge has ruled:
Doctors at the Royal London Hospital said he was "brain stem dead" and
it was in his best interests to stop treatment https://t.co/N6pAvLxBt1
- Ex-Olympic hopeful solicitor: "Legal winners will be innovators" - Legal Futures https://t.co/cj2kXO7RDo
- Slater and Gordon returns to London with new office opening | Law Gazette https://t.co/PFndWZGrcP
- On social mobility, aim for the ceiling | Law Gazette https://t.co/h58vrMIVn0
- BSB to probe if solicitors give clients choice when instructing barristers - Legal Futures https://t.co/vuV1CQcwpO
- Uber faces 550-passenger lawsuit over alleged rape and assault in #US - irm accused of failing to protect women from kidnap, false imprisonment and sexual battery https://t.co/vFkg38CSyg
- Hundreds of thousands of unmarried women who were forced to give up their babies for adoption should receive a government apology, a report has said https://t.co/tQXcVCL14y
- The general secretary of the UK's biggest private sector union has warned of a 'summer of discontent' over pay. There could be hundreds of disputes involving tens of thousands of people if workers are made to "pay the price for inflation" https://t.co/USvrWyVpDk
- Lawyers
and other potential ‘enablers’ may be targeted with sanctions if they
help designated individuals hide their assets from law enforcement,
according to a ‘red alert’ issued this week | Law Gazette https://t.co/HH9wSVyuUs
- Queen’s sweeping immunity from more than 160 laws - Monarch enjoys extraordinary exemptions under law – which extend to her private estates and even a royal fishing business https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/14/queen-immunity-british-laws-private-property
- Solicitor judge misappropriated £288,000 from law firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/TiqCIDl2O6
- Christian Porter loses appeal against Jo Dyer in spinoff case to ABC defamation action #Australia https://t.co/hnfFtA8xUj
- Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMose1
- Clients given ‘no choice’ of barrister by solicitors | Law Gazette https://t.co/V6djYqPlt8
- Law firm mergers: What are the ingredients for success? - Legal Futures https://t.co/gGf94Ouv7X
