Tuesday

30th August - Law News

Edition 3898: 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: Pakistan is at "ground zero" of the world's extreme weather emergency, according to the country's climate minister. Floods have swept away entire villages and fields of crops, while millions are left without shelter. With dozens more deaths overnight, it's estimated more than a thousand people have died since the monster monsoons began in June.

Focus of the Day Article: 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. Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • From crime to the courts: the biggest issues the UK’s new PM will face https://t.co/xUHym4OyoQ
  • Quinn Emanuel secures RPC's competition head in London - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/cTgPcDBniD
  • Starting a new practice group in a BigLaw firm - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/6mjkT5lwr
  • CMS boosts trainee pay for second time this year and ups law school maintenance grants - Legal Cheek https://t.co/iTHmWHSwew 
  • Supreme Court refuses to entertain plea against Truecaller app; says not court's job to ban apps | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/lJLlfq023D 
  • How law fared during COVID-19 compared to other sectors - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/NpNxejWkTi 
  • Meet the Fuggers and their lawyers who masterminded the deal structure of the century - Legal Cheek https://t.co/R2lnWxpxzJ
  • Protégé: What life after law looks like - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/ukHar5wm69 
  • UK criminal justice Which laws are most commonly flouted? https://t.co/tZudgAOD7N 
  • Deceptive (dating) by design? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zH938hOV1F
  • Wilson Sonsini hires Daiichi Sankyo associate GC to boost New York life sciences bench - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/iu9pQe2x9K 
  • Promoting junior prosecutors will help clear courts backlog, says Labour. Emily Thornberry says plan will ‘get the wheels of justice turning’ as almost 350,000 cases await trial https://t.co/HMrmOOOVi0
  • The ‘pervasiveness’ of ESG across legal practice - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/DdadyZNbLm
  • Clifford Chance launches mentorship programme for aspiring lawyers in Singapore - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ASWjaiqR7X
  • Palestinians facing mass eviction in the West Bank The Palestinians facing mass eviction in the West Bank: Fears are mounting among more than a thousand Palestinians that #Israel’s army will soon force them to leave their homes in the occupied West Bank https://t.co/9v0JHi2Lzo 
  • Gibraltar can officially call itself a city, 180 years after it was first granted the status by Queen Victoria. The British overseas territory had bid to become a city earlier this year as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee https://t.co/W3AKvBsb99
  • Shine Lawyers’ holding company reports 22% net profit increase - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/pi7L1cUiSX 
  • Hundreds of people are stranded across the river in the Manoor valley of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after a flash flood hit the region on Friday, destroying at least 10 bridges and dozens of buildings https://t.co/8OUrUORiJJ 
  • Have I Got News For You slammed for ‘insulting’ strike gag - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mDS1bNKMHr
  • Criminal barristers vote in favour of full-blown strike as row over legal aid fees escalates - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rN77vcTPZs