Edition 3887: 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 growing calls for an inquiry into former Australia prime minister Scott Morrison's secret portfolios
Focus of the Day Article: UK Supreme Court draws fire over diversity record after two men fill vacancies. Campaigners express disappointment as appointments reduce tally of women judges to just one. Full story - The Global Legal Post
Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Liz Truss called for patients to be charged for GP visits, 2009 paper reveals https://t.co/rrdXY40OnC
- Housing referendum would be based on ‘gross untruth’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RttyBgjAiT
- The NHS Covid Pass is working again, NHS Digital has said, after an earlier fault left some travellers struggling to board flights https://t.co/K1DV6DxNIA
- Solicitor banned for telling trainee to change date on form | Law Gazette https://t.co/TQS9WLMtfe
- Partner rebuked for telling clients they could share court Zoom link | Law Gazette https://t.co/i47zmEczoU
- City warns of 'digital protectionism' | Law Gazette https://t.co/wYi0Avn7Jq
- Foreign Office official raised ‘stark’ criticisms of Rwanda plan, court hears https://t.co/X47MPjPtpp
- Protestor 'convicted behind closed doors' plans to sue Metropolitan Police | Law Gazette https://t.co/0dQg7uCEfG
- Frozen personal injury fixed costs need “immediate review” - Legal Futures https://t.co/clxI5n4Mfp
- No conspiracy behind incorrectly telling alleged Melbourne BLM protest organisers their charges were dropped, court hears #Australia https://t.co/h6biEOQrhK
- Government
defends medical student number cap - Medicine is one of a handful of
courses where numbers are limited by the government, because the cost is
heavily subsidised https://t.co/LYkesCOUGu
- Bodies of Saudi asylum seeker sisters found dead in Sydney repatriated to country they fled - Asra and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli had sought protection in #Australia before their ‘suspicious’ deaths https://t.co/xh6xgqhJEx
- Ex-justice minister criticises lawyers over modern slavery claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/3er9mHnvyk
- Independent MP Margaret Ferrier pleads guilty to exposing public to Covid https://t.co/mnVeqtlg9r
- City partner rebuked for trial livestreaming breach - Legal Futures https://t.co/a7LAhhx5BY
- 'End foolish and misguided strike', law firm chief tells criminal bar | Law Gazette https://t.co/PchOiBTDUZ
- R. Kelly has a "dark" and "hidden" side that the public rarely saw during his career, prosecutors said at the opening of his second federal trial https://t.co/LLXYaTFalD
- Solicitor caught on CCTV giving cash to clients at police station - Legal Futures https://t.co/gFB55s7NvT
- US: Rudy Giuliani now under criminal investigation over election claims | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RznVhFAfS8
- Three children's homes have closed and two more rated "inadequate" following an investigation into a firm making huge profits - Calcot Services for Children does not accept the BBC's allegations and says profits were not excessive https://t.co/0BdK6sH3gW
- Watchdog launches probe into Blacker's legal advice charity - Legal Futures https://t.co/YeP2YxYKMd
- 2018 Masters champion Reed Patrick Reed has filed a $750m defamation lawsuit against American television network The Golf Channel and its commentator Brandel Chamblee alleging "calculated, malicious, false and reckless attacks" causing major damage https://t.co/3ldcc9bXdT
- Ryan Giggs has denied headbutting his girlfriend, claimed she kicked him in the head, and cried in court as he described a night in a police cell as "the worst experience of my life" https://t.co/lfCkzf88pA
- Samantha Arnold joins Fragomen’s Irish immigration practice | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2SyOvIHCUZ
- Detectives investigating the murder of a grandfather stabbed while riding a mobility scooter have released images of a man seen running from the scene armed with a knife https://t.co/Pl0rbhnh36
- UK: Infected blood victims to receive £100k interim compensation payment | Irish Legal News https://t.co/70xZFeCXPM
- Hostages freed by the Islamic State terror cell, known as The Beatles, gave vital evidence to identify their captors, say police. The hostages told British police the men had boasted of being arrested at a London demonstration years earlier https://t.co/cXk2sIz2hl