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26th August - Law News

Edition 3894: 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 US federal judge ordered the Justice Department to release a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit by noon on Friday

Focus of the Day Article: Global law firms boosted UK productivity during pandemic, study finds. Double-digit increase in hours worked achieved by workforce that grew only marginally. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Bar strike: More solicitors could be granted advocacy rights | Law Gazette https://t.co/pBobugprqW 
  • Funds lawyer Siobhan Moloney appointed chair of GemCap Investment Funds | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JNi2MLiciF 
  • Call to arms for firms to enforce veterans’ rights | Law Gazette https://t.co/jzDPZEV2p9 
  • Chaos as bail and adjournment applications flood Crown court | Law Gazette https://t.co/MZPlm7iPM7 
  • Oil firm Rockhopper wins £210m payout after being banned from drilling https://t.co/ugmxtzdLxH 
  • Panel warns on impact of “seismic” change to complaint time-limits - Legal Futures https://t.co/9zA3vxIWSx 
  • Hundreds of drug driving prosecutions abandoned due to forensic delays | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/TIjftgmWLv 
  • William Fry congratulates winners at Irish Junior Lawn Tennis Championship | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ij0Cyf6XsZ 
  • The International Bar Association has condemned the arrest and pre-trial detention of Russian lawyer Dmitry Talantov, president of the Bar Association of the Republic of Udmurtia | Law Gazette https://t.co/vJF0ALgt70 
  • Court throws out £1.3m claim against City firm over service failure - Legal Futures https://t.co/R6OI0mvcud
  • Ex-Pinsent Masons employee banned over ‘offensive’ messages | Law Gazette https://t.co/dSXNeDA4YY
  • Emily Maitlis says ‘active Tory party agent’ shaping BBC news output. Former Newsnight presenter says former No 10 communications chief Sir Robbie Gibb on board acting as ‘arbiter of impartiality’ https://t.co/Kj0aKVFtSu
  • Cleaver Fulton Rankin welcomes four trainee solicitors | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Ji664IMCJf 
  • Former law centre chief Gary Lee joins wards of court office | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2ynHCZEfil 
  • Californian legislators bid to crush any ambitions to allow ABSs - Legal Futures https://t.co/uyY7b5Apy4
  • SRA to issue guidance on ‘without prejudice’ pre-action letters | Law Gazette https://t.co/svFGvwRO7z 
  • Usain Bolt files trade mark application for victory pose | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RyADPrkaf9 
  • SRA set to curb litigators' use of 'private and confidential' letters - Legal Futures https://t.co/nuPhvXylXe
  • British Sikh activist ‘tortured in India after tip-off from UK intelligence’. Lawyers for Jagtar Singh Johal say he was given electric shocks after unlawful arrest in Punjab in 2017 https://t.co/YlfMb03DDU
  • Google change reduces airline emissions calculations https://t.co/ujPISmJDXg 
  • A man targeted by a gunman in the shooting that killed nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel is due to face further questioning about her murder. Olivia was shot as her mother struggled with two men, one with a gun, at her home in Liverpool on Monday night https://t.co/LFey3oYqDc
  • A record label has cut ties with an AI rapper after criticism it contained racial stereotypes, including repeated use of the N-word https://t.co/9JP2dhY6cq
  • Anti-social behaviour injunctions are a great unknown | Law Gazette https://t.co/YkRcuGzx6Z 
  • Footballer Benjamin Mendy tried to "debate" a woman into having sex after getting her alone at a gathering at his mansion, a court has heard. In a police interview played to Chester Crown Court, the woman alleged she was raped by the 28-year-old July 2021 https://t.co/NMgH0DoxoB