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21st August - Law News

Edition 3889: 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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Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Afghan female judge fleeing Taliban appeals after Home Office refuses UK entry https://t.co/ASIOwhLMQq
  • London-based Bishop & Sewell has become the latest law firm to launched an ESG (environmental, social and governance) advisory group to assist the firm and its clients | NLJ https://t.co/oYTiBTW7sS
  • ‘Wagatha Christie’ costs could take years to determine | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/myQwaVfUsA
  • Mother in law: How the pandemic changed us | Law Gazette https://t.co/itmtL721ub
  • Gillespie Macandrew reports £15m turnover after double-digit growth | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ac0QGlu0NZ
  • Tweeting barrister's £3m claim against former chambers thrown out - Legal Futures https://t.co/nPKtBinz4
  • Talented people from lower socio-economic backgrounds continue to face major obstacles to career progression at senior levels in the UK financial and professional services, research shows | NLJ https://t.co/utGFwIGa3n
  • Legal Aid Agency rota demonstrates duty solicitor decline | Law Gazette https://t.co/zZO0B1j4lS 
  • Professor Laurent Pech appointed Dean at UCD Sutherland School of Law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/HOLs0QLoUQ
  • Actor Stephen Tompkinson is due to appear in court charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm. The CPS said the 56-year-old, well-known as the eponymous detective in ITV crime series DCI Banks, appeared before magistrates in Newcastle https://t.co/xxv3ixM8DC
  • Restorative justice charity has public funding suspended | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jyaGpstz7n
  • LawtechUK to turn focus on access to justice and SME law firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/cU6mbXMtxw 
  • Clerk grateful after colleagues spotted his stroke at work | Law Gazette https://t.co/wZnaiSOfeJ 
  • P.A. Duffy & Co appoints Sean Kelly as finance and marketing manager | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lArAhOH7y0
  • The in-house legal team at telecoms giant Vodafone UK has pioneered a ‘Greener Litigation’ initiative aimed at encouraging corporate counsel to reduce the environmental impact of litigation | NLJ https://t.co/B1VlQ2t5a
  • A man has been charged after a six-year-old girl was abducted and sexually assaulted in Greater Manchester. Officers said the girl was reunited with her family shortly after the assault in Tameside on Thursday https://t.co/iIzepMLokm
  • P&O Ferries will not face criminal action over the way it fired nearly 800 employees earlier this year, the Insolvency Service has said https://t.co/igBXkkfL84 
  • SRA contradicts Blacker's claim that it paid him libel damages - Legal Futures https://t.co/NDyq0BPlEM 
  • Two pilots fell asleep at 37,000ft (11,000m), missing an airport runway before waking to safely land the plane, an aviation publication says. Air traffic tried to contact them after they overshot the point of descent into #Ethiopia's Addis Ababa airport https://t.co/V6B5wBBJM
  • The Home Office is launching a ‘scale-up’ visa route next week to help businesses recruit highly skilled employees | NLJ https://t.co/ep9P6qJ6a
  • Football fans and festival goers are among those facing fresh travel disruption on Saturday, as more than 45,000 rail workers take part in a further strike over pay and conditions https://t.co/QU942TPyEL
  • South coast’s island of free legal help closes its doors | Law Gazette https://t.co/b845rR56mT 
  • British judge rules dissident can sue #Saudi Arabia for Pegasus hacking - Ghanem Almasarir’s victory opens way for other hacking victims in UK to bring cases against foreign governments https://t.co/P2cZGpJoQX 
  • Solicitor fined for “inadvertent” use of client account as banking facility - Legal Futures https://t.co/hHjmrc7O91
  • England: ‘Anti-woke’ barrister loses employment tribunal claim | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/u6gAaGKOHh 
  • Liz Truss personally supported cuts to NHS and doctors’ pay https://t.co/uwNXQEchYp 
  • Tribunal throws out £3m claim from tweeting barrister Holbrook | Law Gazette https://t.co/DR5DgYnN3A 
  • NI Coroner’s Court: ‘Frightened’ army soldier shot and killed devoted mother in her own garden | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WSwiP7VqZB