Saturday

29th October - Law News

Edition 3959: 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:  "Debate Not About Hijab But Women's Rights": Advocate On Iran Protests

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has completed his $44bn (£38.1bn) takeover of Twitter, according to US media and an investor in the firm. A number of top executives, including the boss, Parag Agrawal, have reportedly been fired https://t.co/iUpsL9fWFm 
  • Belsner may have killed off costs challenges for good, says lawyer | Law Gazette https://t.co/NSYVsHT7Zu
  • An SNP minister has resigned over Scottish government plans to make it easier for transgender people to change their legally-recognised gender. Ash Regan quit as community safety minister, saying her conscience would not allow her to support the plans https://t.co/K779kHJvy4 
  • Belsner has no winners: the court sees the whole thing as grubby | Law Gazette https://t.co/S6vNCEm1CA
  • Plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda are "brutal" and "impractical", an ex-Tory home secretary has warned. Amber Rudd told GB News it was "extraordinary" the current home secretary had said it was her "dream" to see a plane take off for Rwanda https://t.co/SEnHjrefC8 
  • Schools in Great Britain warned not to ban minority pupils’ hair styles https://t.co/PsU6axZ0vF
  • Scottish insolvencies on the rise, with more to come | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DklJ22vlEB
  • Tax avoidance as illegal as evasion, MPs claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/EShTKpLOpV 
  • Eddie Izzard rules out appearing on all-women Labour MP shortlists - Comedian hoping to be next MP for Sheffield Central would not stand on such a list being ‘gender fluid’ https://t.co/KKamsjDfhY 
  • Figures reveal 35 per cent gender pay gap at English bar | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3dl0VEHhX
  • Troubles ‘legacy’ bill risks breaching human rights law, UK warned https://t.co/5WzYaHBe8z 
  • One person has died and at least four others have been injured - some seriously - in a stabbing in a supermarket near Milan, northern #Italy, reports say https://t.co/kBDwJ5bvnV
  • CoA backs prison for pipeline protester’s contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/F8FY0GcPey
  • TikTok influencer "set a trap" that led to a man who was blackmailing her mother with a sex tape being rammed off the road and killed, a court has heard. Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin and Saqib Hussain died in the crash on the A46 near Leicester https://t.co/uG1b0taN3B
  • Further calls of resignation as reports have emerged suggesting that, as attorney general, Suella Braverman was investigated over the leak of a story involving MI5 https://t.co/J1LskTnuuI
  • Solicitor who certified LPAs “as a favour” is fined £6,000 - Legal Futures https://t.co/icDrmvPzA
  • Fiona Gallagher elected president of Sligo Solicitors Bar Association | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RVRe56mpks
  • Two lawyers appointed to Charities Regulator | Irish Legal News https://t.co/HmL2ezQCJL
  • Tesco revives yellow circle court battle with Lidl | Law Gazette https://t.co/o9VIPrGVQZ 
  • Pay returns to top of list for attracting new recruits - Legal Futures https://t.co/Y8xPRa1anJ