Edition 3845: 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: A quarter of parliamentary staff say they’ve witnessed someone being sexually harassed. 70% said they felt that if they reported inappropriate behaviour their careers would be harmed - and today parliamentary authorities admitted to us that there are barriers to speaking up
Focus of the Day Article: A rethought costs system that puts digitisation, vulnerable court users and a properly functioning civil justice system at its heart is the goal of a Civil Justice Council (CJC) working party, which yesterday began consulting on four key areas for possible reform. Full story - Legal Futures
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Firm to pay wasted costs after ‘negligence’ in bringing case | Law Gazette https://t.co/Oxz2KLW7dP
- The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, and the Secretary of State for Health, Sajid Javid, have resigned from Boris Johnson's government https://t.co/ME4K8foUky
- Briton captured in Ukraine by Russians appeals against death sentence: iden Aslin, a marine in Ukrainian army, sentenced with UK citizen Shaun Pinner by proxy court in Donetsk https://t.co/SSWAnZbuoV
- NQ salary war cools, but HSF increases pay | Law Gazette https://t.co/vBeGZ3vHmE
- Parliament an unsafe workplace due to sexual misconduct by MPs, say unions - Political parties cannot be trusted to deal with misbehaviour by their own MPs, claim general secretaries https://t.co/Ytlctgbir6
- ‘Size matters’: Clyde and BLM create biggest defendant practice | | Law Gazette https://t.co/53AAJ8YOvI
- Twelve members of a religious group have been arrested over the death of an eight-year-old girl in #Australia. Elizabeth Struhs died on 7 January at a home south of Brisbane, after the type one diabetic was allegedly denied insulin for almost a week https://t.co/ZLIVlD4GBU
- Dominic Raab accused of failing to address concerns of criminal barristers https://t.co/aumxqKUv3U
- 'We're back': legal aid lawyers begin second week of strikes | Law Gazette https://t.co/4ayMOiuyq8
- Firm cleared of disability discrimination against senior support manager - Legal Futures https://t.co/kVryVzZKRw
- Wimbledon quarter-finalist Nick Kyrgios is set to appear in court in Australia next month in relation to an allegation of common assault - "in the context of a domestic relationship" https://t.co/QcVKn1mSra
- How the #US Supreme Court is reshaping America https://t.co/wNuo8cxNVM
- Strike data collection caused ‘immediate distress’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/oj6IdiZHVr
- Climate protesters glue themselves to National Gallery artwork - Campaigners from Just Stop Oil pressure group reimagine The Hay Wain by John Constable https://t.co/4Vw1ahxYVy
- #US police have arrested a suspect after six people were killed in a mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois. Robert E Crimo III, 22, was detained after a brief chase, police said https://t.co/4ZM9Mj3QZS
- Dechert’s
former head of white-collar crime Neil Gerrard was involved in ‘the
most grotesque perjury’ – representing ‘in all likelihood the most
serious fraud on the court in English legal history’, the High Court has
heard | Law Gazette https://t.co/l0pKZkGjeR
- Why the legal profession should lead the way for women and families who have had miscarriages | Law Gazette https://t.co/fnh9hFPiNA
- A litigant in person is not statute-barred from suing a law centre and barrister for professional negligence, a High Court master has ruled - Legal Futures https://t.co/5r0AzLji81
- For civil rights groups, Roe v Wade is reminder of supreme court’s limits #US https://t.co/Ot6D2z7pG1
- Being a relative does not give right to touch a girl's body without consent: Mumbai court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Vwkwe1gYLz
- Senior
Council of Europe official urges UK not to repeal Human Rights Act -
Council’s commissioner for human rights says replacing act with British
bill of rights would send ‘wrong signal’ https://t.co/DPLKNH2KdP
- Firm ordered to pay wasted costs over lack of authority to act - Legal Futures https://t.co/lLPzYxkWt2
- Colston Four - AG accused of subverting jury system | News | Law Gazette https://t.co/Drj9BaZpjS
- Hotels,
restaurants cannot add service charge automatically or by default in
food bill: Central Consumer Protection Authority | Bar & Bench
#India https://t.co/b8e5uKxVtH
- Manchester MP to write to minister over ‘guilty by association’ verdicts https://t.co/FsD9TIHAK
- Microsoft 365’s dirty little secret: It is not responsible for backing up the data you share and manage across its various services - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ohc4AFmtoZ
- Bookseller of Kabul becomes asylum seeker in London: Shah Muhammad Rais survived decades of misrule in Afghanistan but finally fled to escape the Taliban https://t.co/8fl50XxqxG
- Some
cinemas have banned young people wearing suits from screenings of
Minions: The Rise of Gru over rowdy behaviour fuelled by a TikTok trend.
Teenagers have been accused of making noise and throwing things during
screenings https://t.co/wC7SfZeTpd
- Courts should be sensitive when poor and deprived knock at its doors: Delhi High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Y6arblKTlw
