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17th August - Law News

Edition 3885: 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: Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton offers his take on Trump insiders defending the former president by asserting that he has the power to declassify top secret information.

Focus of the Day Article: The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) was right not to order the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to seek information from the BBC on behalf of a solicitor facing prosecution, the High Court has ruled. Full story - Legal Futures

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • US: Centenarian survivors of race massacre make progress in search for justice | Irish Legal News https://t.co/GwfLWa3eT0
  • Possession figures suggest 'significant wave of homelessness' looms | Law Gazette https://t.co/Dgt10v1H4
  • ‘The woman’s to-do list is relentless’: how to achieve an equal split of household chores https://t.co/tMV68bDjAg 
  • UK ministers who backed sending asylum seekers to #Rwanda were warned by their own adviser that its government tortures and kills political opponents https://t.co/LSamh5e1eW 
  • High Court rejects challenge to SDT case management decisions - Legal Futures https://t.co/KEE7XXjMGh 
  • Three new appointments at Levy & McRae | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2M3Ruyciuq 
  • 'Closed-door' court process criticised after Everard vigil prosecutions dropped | Law Gazette https://t.co/F5gPOB9CVd 
  • Lawyer fails in sex discrimination claim against children’s charity - Legal Futures https://t.co/LThLhOwzn2
  • Damning Gerrard ruling sent to SRA | Law Gazette https://t.co/fURlK4JPT
  • Mason Hayes & Curran appoints Ron Boucher as London office head | Irish Legal News https://t.co/NJFx99Hl3k
  • Mishcon spent almost £12m on shelved IPO | Law Gazette https://t.co/pqBs4LWeqk
  • Bogus solicitor handed suspended jail sentence after second offence - Legal Futures https://t.co/2qf52oao2
  • Amnesty to conduct internal review in wake of Ukraine report controversy | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/pO5q7gWmsd 
  • #NewZealand police are investigating after a family found human remains in suitcases they purchased from an auction at a storage facility https://t.co/fKeOhj1FQk
  • Police are trawling through CCTV for possible sightings of missing Owami Davies following a recent appeal. The last confirmed sighting of the student nurse was at 12:30 BST on 7 July, three days after she left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July https://t.co/MfhJKijLs0
  • Tommy O’Donoghue BL joins board of Men’s Aid Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SSa2kFJuQR
  • Profits slide at HFW as 'normality' returns | News | Law Gazette https://t.co/CTlWYUJjY9
  • #Afghan contractors: 'I wish I'd never worked for the UK government' https://t.co/69l9wAH1kg 
  • Scottish court: Injured woman cannot recover English solicitors' costs - Legal Futures https://t.co/DppdOUei33
  • Trump demands return of seized documents – by order of social media #US https://t.co/m3Zz8XBn0O
  • Lord Advocate visits emotional support service Safe Harbour | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/k9oaPFVrui
  • Labour leader Keir Starmer QC has declined to express unqualified support for striking barristers, while insisting he backs their right to take action over pay | Law Gazette https://t.co/9tq7oa5QEo 
  • Hatstone appoints Donna Wearen to real estate team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/x9hAps44I7 
  • Law firm consolidation: Do or die? - Legal Futures https://t.co/dYezuK583
  • Staff at roughly 220 Starbucks stores across the US have voted to unionise, making unexpectedly successful inroads at the popular chain of coffee shops. But the movement is facing a precarious moment, as the economy slows #US https://t.co/UCizpq6utU
  • #Australia’s indefinite detention of people with mental impairment breaches human rights, advocates say https://t.co/n6wDZA8iP
  • Rule of law in Hungary under threat due to political overreach | Irish Legal News https://t.co/6S3aQPBXe7 
  • US: Centenarian survivors of race massacre make progress in search for justice | Irish Legal News https://t.co/GwfLWakQhA
  • Best of the blogs - 13 August 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/0XoId8YUeo
  • Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMose1 
  • An emergency warning system, allowing alerts about severe weather and other life-threatening events to be sent to mobile phones, will go live in October in England, Scotland and Wales https://t.co/FAkLxwwGMx 
  • From 22 August, people receiving certain benefits can ask broadband firms to check their eligibility for social tariffs. This means customers will not have to take full responsibility for proving they qualify for low-cost options https://t.co/xjYFak3i5k