Saturday

13th August - Law News

Edition 3881: 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: Writer Sir Salman Rushdie is on ventilator and could lose an eye after he underwent surgery following a knife attack at a literary event in New York, US. The attacker has been identified as Hadi Matar, 24, from New Jersey.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • New documents from the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard trial have been unsealed – and things have only got uglier https://t.co/LnfY7bwIdo
  • Authorities identify suspect who attacked author Salman Rushdie at western New York event - The suspect was identified as Hadi Matar, 24 #US https://t.co/6PswIFXqc8
  • Rights culture 'causing confusion and distress', says attorney general | Law Gazette https://t.co/WbStQDB5Fx 
  • Trump search warrant: FBI took top secret documents from, one list of documents is marked "TS/SCI" - or top secret / sensitive compartmented information - a level reserved for information that could cause "exceptionally grave" damage to US security https://t.co/vzAsWmBGiM 
  • Academy for aspiring barristers from under-represented groups goes live - Legal Futures https://t.co/jxn3MI9lwM
  • Reforms of judicial discipline 'don't go far enough' | Law Gazette https://t.co/mOv9Yn2AJE
  • US law firm profits hit by soaring wage costs as deals dip | Law Gazette https://t.co/vuvxcdNzEU 
  • Salman Rushdie stabbing: Man arrested after author attacked on stage https://t.co/o1GFdF1tWU 
  • Bournemouth daughter turns detective to find dad's stolen car - Becky Harrington, from Bournemouth, got frustrated after police failed to make progress finding the £12,000 Jaguar which was stolen in July https://t.co/OrytextwFJ
  • Louisiana child kicked out of class because parents are same-sex couple - Parents said they told she ‘wouldn’t be able to go to school there any more because of our lifestyle choices’ #US https://t.co/WC9Pm5c06v 
  • Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses, has been attacked on stage in New York state. The Booker Prize winner, 75, was speaking at an event at the Chautauqua Institution at the time https://t.co/7M32ulEU3u
  • SFO lays out global web Schools used to hide Axiom cash - Legal Futures https://t.co/MNNum32Gvw 
  • Double appointment at DWF’s Belfast office | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EctdED1Vqt
  • Countering ‘rape as routine’: world expert explains the key to getting coercive control laws right https://t.co/7WO9iiIncT 
  • ‘Get-rich-quick’ scheme: ‘egregious’ Axiom fraud left investors with nothing | Law Gazette https://t.co/0Tec08n00L
  • CPS entitled to cut pay of solicitor who moved north - Legal Futures https://t.co/fMwZfiG3vh 
  • ‘It’s a human rights issue’: young adults take #Portugal climate crisis to court https://t.co/fbYOrdeqJJ
  • Firm raids rival for first ever ‘director of transformation’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/GPI1grjpAF 
  • Economic turbulence and the impact on law firm risk and protection - Legal Futures https://t.co/xTNWcLI5sN 
  • Double appointment at DWF’s Belfast office | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EctdECKk1T 
  • Armed man shot dead after trying to 'breach' Ohio FBI office - On Truth Social, the website owned by Trump, an account in the name of one Ricky Shiffer posted earlier, calling for Americans to "be ready to combat", adding: "I am proposing war." #US https://t.co/EVvbxxPzIQ 
  • Clyde & Co reports £650m revenues in last year before BLM merger | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3Q7vqkjKKb
  • SDT rejects non-lawyer partner’s appeal against ban - Legal Futures https://t.co/jlAf38aWrJ 
  • My blind son was jailed for being at the scene of a murder. Halt this tide of joint enterprise convictions https://t.co/dnK8Z6ikK
  • A police officer made up a story he had a girlfriend then claimed she had died of cancer in order to get time off. PC Harry Sarkar would have been sacked had he not resigned and his actions were a "significant abuse of trust", West Midlands Police said https://t.co/j8LAjH7Jly 
  • ‘Utterly dishonest’ Axiom fund solicitor jailed for fraud | Law Gazette https://t.co/NHjiYeDpOo 
  • The #US Justice Department is asking a Florida court to unseal the warrant that let FBI agents search former President Donald Trump's home. If granted, the request would make the documents available to the public https://t.co/6c0dcRQLar
  • Pinsent Masons hires Deirdre Lynch to lead employment teams | Irish Legal News https://t.co/CmUCd5IMWn