Edition 3928: 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 newest addition to former President Donald Trump’s legal team, Chris Kise, has been sidelined from the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation less than a month after he was brought on to represent Trump in the matter,
Focus of the Day Article: Two Crown court judges wrongly blamed the government for failing to
resolve the criminal bar strike when refusing extend custody time
limits, lawyers for the Crown Prosecution Service told the High Court
today.
The CPS is challenging decisions in two separate criminal cases,
arguing that the non-attendance of counsel at trial due to the Criminal
Bar Association’s ongoing industrial action amounts to a ‘good and
sufficient cause’ to extend the custody time limit (CTL). Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Museums in England and Wales to gain powers to dispose of objects on moral grounds - a provision of the new Charities Act could have a significant impact on restitution cases for years to come https://t.co/5bZXwRvelA
- SRA bans IT worker convicted of stealing hardware from law firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/ekuDeCQDEP
- A new study has cast doubt on government claims that hydrogen could be used to heat homes and so cut greenhouse gas emissions. The report, published in the journal Joule, analysed more than 30 studies that looked at hydrogen and heating https://t.co/plMv5ZDBe
- UK climate activists held in jail for up to six months before trial - Campaigners say protesters arrested for blocking roads getting ‘lost in prison system’ while on remand https://t.co/cluzs76agJ
- Best of the blogs - 25 September 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/gMZPMwRdn
- BSB to test if review and comparison websites work for barristers - Legal Futures https://t.co/BdSt27MEPQ
- Disability should not be treated as a diversity afterthought | Law Gazette https://t.co/a1ugBBuZqB
- "Credible sanctions": Bill to remove SRA fining cap for economic crime - Legal Futures https://t.co/Bf134otbD6
- Labour MP Rupa Huq has been suspended from the parliamentary party pending an investigation after she called the chancellor "superficially" black https://t.co/2PiwX06u1J
- My legal life: Jane Wessel, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/4d85lvMt51
- Two
years ago, Isobel, a British woman in her early 20s, went to the police
and told them how a gang of men had sexually exploited her https://t.co/3Ylp0E9hqa
- Licensed conveyancers to face explicit duty to treat customers fairly - Legal Futures https://t.co/uK5OhhMIbl
- A
leaked dossier has suggested the process of awarding a £97m Scottish
ferries contract may have been rigged. The two ferries are still being
built for CalMac, but will be at least £150m over budget and five years
late https://t.co/bSxbkw3Puf
- Met Police will attend all London burglary reports - the proportion of reported burglaries attended by an officer from the force had fallen to 50% https://t.co/KyBBPWM4QH
- The assault on EU workplace rights begins | Law Gazette https://t.co/G0wzWvmxFW
- Police made four arrests after a group of about 100 men assaulted customers at a pub near Wembley Stadium before England's match with Germany on Monday https://t.co/5QoOwdiGjT
- #Australian soldier alleges torture survival course involved simulated child rape and left him with PTSD https://t.co/Fxv1B7DoZb
- Progeny looks to increase legal services offering after Scottish MDP move - Legal Futures https://t.co/I27MhbNhXT
- Lawyer in the news: Nicola Hall, Robert Lizar Solicitors - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/PSAOVirXd9
- Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked extensive US intelligence surveillance operations, has been granted Russian citizenship https://t.co/s7IzcFFjFN
- SDT grants law firm access to papers to help sue struck-off solicitor - Legal Futures https://t.co/Q5CqrlnkcK
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- Star and Arthur: A group of MPs remains "extremely concerned" about council failings in areas where two children were murdered https://t.co/CWDX9i9hcI
- Urgent call for review into sentencing pregnant women due to health risks https://t.co/bINLEuLpHH
- Home
Office U-turn over deportation of Albanian asylum seekers: Letter
undermines Priti Patel’s claim that Albanian’s arriving with ‘spurious’
claims could be removed quickly https://t.co/AwE62WxF1U
- Crown Court judges have been releasing potentially dangerous criminals unlawfully because of delays linked to the criminal barristers' strike, the High Court has heard https://t.co/EC3jb0xykU
- Judges wrong to state views about barristers’ strike, high court told - DPP is challenging decisions by judges not to keep defendants behind bars in cases affected by strike https://t.co/WQcKFuKx6V
- MPs investigating if Boris Johnson misled Parliament over Partygate have rejected claims the probe is "unfair". The Privileges Committee is looking into what the former PM told Parliament about Covid-rule breaking https://t.co/99rx4fzcXd
- Hundreds recalled over shoulder op concerns at Walsall hospital https://t.co/KNhRj9tEj8
- TikTok could face a £27m fine for failing to protect children's privacy when they're using the platform. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found the video-sharing platform may have processed the data of under-13s without appropriate consent https://t.co/715QGHcMxI
- Ukraine war: #Russia admits mobilisation errors, amid growing public opposition - Multiple reports say people with no military experience - or who are too old or disabled - are being called up https://t.co/lbr4OB58Gc
- Solicitors have welcomed a decision to replace the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF) with an indemnity scheme managed by the regulator | NLJ https://t.co/Ca5jnmCEBT
