Edition 3908: 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 Solomon Islands parliament is beginning to debate a conetentious bill to defer elections. It comes as the prime minister of the Pacific nation intensifies his attack on Australia over its offer to help fund the poll.
Focus of the Day Article: Solicitors interested in applying for posts as a deputy district judge
will have a chance this week to gain inside knowledge of the selection
process. An online pre-application seminar organised by the Judicial Office on Thursday
aims to help applicants be better prepared and to receive up-to-date
guidance and advice on the Judicial Appointments Commission's latest
selection round. Attendees will also hear from serving deputy district
judges and a representative for the JAC. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a discrimination claim brought by an Irish man who was disqualified from receiving a State pension while he served a prison sentence in the State | Irish Legal News https://t.co/XGIDrfy3JQ
- Northern Ireland’s Lady Chief Justice calls for funding boost at opening of new legal term | Irish Legal News https://t.co/AxuxF9o45d
- No firearm was found at the scene after a man was shot dead by police in south London, it has emerged. Chris Kaba, 24, died after a police pursuit of a car ended in Streatham Hill on Monday night https://t.co/HgacD89uB9
- Morton Fraser takes on 11 new trainees | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/31UTKD8WnE
- Criminal bar demands to meet new justice secretary this week | Law Gazette https://t.co/qkos4ozyiS
- Govan Law Centre shares misgivings over Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Bill | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mHTwfA9BX
- Osofsky calls for reform of disclosure rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/5htFsd0UeP
- Solicitors cannot use lien to block disclosure of file in negligence claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/g4fFpL7hWE
- Friends Legal acquires East Lothian firm Garden Stirling Burnet | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/rsEE9Qcyzo
- West reluctant to put Putin on trial, say Ukrainian officials https://t.co/iufBVYj6xg
- Crown courts back to ‘business as normal’, senior judge says | Law Gazette https://t.co/3JDwfKSZ6l
- Firm had no duty to advise prospective client before CFA was signed - Legal Futures https://t.co/Q13CibcXfi
- Injury specialist crosses Pennines in latest expansion | Law Gazette https://t.co/2p7rgj32nG
- Solicitors offered insight into DDJ applications | Law Gazette https://t.co/T1yCxcu80E
- Ryan Giggs faces retrial after previous jury discharged https://t.co/vFh3OPeIWe
- Firm avoids tribunal after admitting to acting in conflict | Law Gazette https://t.co/GSP4p1gZBy
- Law firm fined for failing to recognise conflict that arose in probate case - Legal Futures https://t.co/HJS6mHrRhO
- In Herzliya in #Israel, people have begun a petition to try to save a modern-day hermit from being thrown out of his unusual dwelling, built in a cave on the coast https://t.co/ATQjpw47V8
- Plenty
of people had already expressed their reservations about Liz Truss as
prime minister. But one constituency has a particular reason to shudder:
the insurance lobby | Law Gazette https://t.co/aZBsae6gzt
- Liz Truss’s justice secretary urged to meet striking criminal barristers https://t.co/3Bqj7Iz6XM
- Replacing SIF with compensation fund would be "unlawful" - Legal Futures https://t.co/wMup5OOD3Q
- Criminal
barristers’ strike: share your views - We would like to hear your
thoughts on criminal barristers in England and Wales going on strike for
the first time since 2014 https://t.co/nJpaR3rL0X
- Haarlem in The #Netherlands is set to ban most meat ads from public spaces because of the food's climate impact. In what is thought to be the first such move by a city, it will enforce the ban from 2024 https://t.co/lF3iTmoViN
- The
British Pregnancy Advisory Service has called the new health
secretary's record on abortion rights "deeply concerning". Therese
Coffey has been appointed as health secretary by new Prime Minister Liz
Truss https://t.co/xBKpTnvj8T
- Shona
Gilroy, John Hamilton QC, Michael Hanlon, Paul Haran, David Harvie,
Krista Johnston, Derek Livingston, Charles Lugton, John MacRitchie,
David Taylor and James Varney have been appointed to the office of
sheriff | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cIwIhTg4nW
- A woman with a severe allergy died after eating a Pret a Manger wrap that had been labelled vegan but included dairy protein, her inquest heard. Mum-of-five Celia Marsh collapsed while on a shopping trip with her husband and three of her daughters https://t.co/pij6sDsua3
