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23rd July - Law News

Edition 3861: 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: Four railway employees have been arrested in connection with the gangrape of a 30-year-old woman on a platform at New Delhi railway station, police said. Police said all the four accused are employees of the Railways' Electrical Department. The gangrape, police said, took place inside a train lighting hut on the platform late on Thursday night. While two of the accused allegedly raped the woman, the others stood guard outside

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • #US supreme court rules against Biden in key immigration case https://t.co/iNl7qlL8hn
  • A #Brazilian court has charged three men with the murder last month of British journalist Dom Phillips and a local indigenous expert, Bruno Pereira https://t.co/YWtsg8tZjE
  • A #US jury has found Donald Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress over his refusal to co-operate with the congressional committee probing the events leading up to the Capitol riot https://t.co/qBDOdudYSm
  • Profits and PEP up at Eversheds | Law Gazette https://t.co/3QVIabjRCC
  • Ex-Minneapolis officer given two and a half years over George Floyd killing - Thomas Lane convicted of violating Floyd’s civil rights as Derek Chauvin, convicted of murder, pinned Floyd’s neck with his knee #US https://t.co/T8fnPLlpm8
  • Partner profits surge at 200-year-old Ashurst | Law Gazette https://t.co/C7lOjK8Ufx
  • More rape cases reaching court in England and Wales after years of decline - Police referred 14% more cases to CPS in 2021-22 than in previous year, and more suspects were charged https://t.co/rovyBppMoP
  • Solicitors warned on corporate undertakings risks | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZJy01SHV90
  • Solicitor who considered herself “beyond regulation” is struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/8sTIQQVgeE
  • Serious Fraud Office chief found to have made errors over major corruption trial https://t.co/rBb027Jwcx
  • LAA reveals recruitment and retention struggles | Law Gazette https://t.co/7pGweE7Gg7
  • A #Kenyan court has found three policemen and a civilian guilty of the murder of a human rights lawyer and two other people in June 2016. The bodies of Willie Kimani, his client and a taxi driver were found after they had been dumped in a river https://t.co/Cu1SRDzWAw
  • Regulator threatens legal action over CILEX talks with SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/WTwoo65Ihi
  • RDJ expands employment team with senior associate Sinead Morgan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/e6bh3DpIyt
  • NHS claims bill still rising despite new resolution approach | Law Gazette https://t.co/Qm9B20IqWb
  • Ex-policeman Thomas Lane jailed for two-and-a-half years for violating the civil rights of George Floyd, whose 2020 Minneapolis death led to protests. He was one of the officers who tried to arrest Mr Floyd, was sentenced following a conviction in February https://t.co/p30oktVc9b
  • Legal Ombudsman on track to halve backlog by March 2023 - Legal Futures https://t.co/rooPjccuG
  • A #PuertoRico judge has lifted a restraining order taken out against Ricky Martin by a family member who had claimed the singer harassed him https://t.co/UZphig5AXl
  • Law student Danielle DerGarabedian takes reins of UCD College Tribune | Irish Legal News https://t.co/717Je4BFMP
  • Serious farce: SFO slammed over Unaoil case as third conviction quashed | Law Gazette https://t.co/oWr8Mf6bsp
  • Public uncomfortable with tech firms’ use of court data - Legal Futures https://t.co/2liMagRQDp
  • UK: MPs call for principle of EU law’s supremacy to be scrapped | Irish Legal News https://t.co/LQXOPqDlEZ
  • SQE fiasco: candidates 'waiting more than five hours' before exam cancelled | Law Gazette https://t.co/y6TC1t8PcD
  • Ten weeks to go – looking ahead to PII renewal - Legal Futures https://t.co/uSXoaFl7wv
  • Guildford pub bomb inquest: Device could have been planted by a 'courting couple' https://t.co/Rhfg55VQ1X
  • International firm's 'oversight delayed trial by two years' | Law Gazette https://t.co/9JxtAPqK7e
  • Starmer's Labour must come clean on sexual harassment claims a lawyer representing two female former Labour employees who made complaints https://t.co/vIEPZdGzGj
  • Crypto exchange becomes first VASP registered with Central Bank | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dfWVld5Dhy
  • Military raids #SriLanka protest camps, leaders arrested - Protesters say some ‘brutally assaulted’ after soldiers descend on Colombo sites in early hours of Friday morning https://t.co/M9vMP1cnPZ 
  • Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has become the first person to formally ask for a public Parole Board hearing after rules were changed https://t.co/lKOxQFsGrJ 
  • British drugs policy is punitive and contradictory. And now it’ll go backwards https://t.co/FqzpayfZtI