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3rd October - Law News

Edition 3933: 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:  Danish authorities say they can now begin inspecting the damaged Nord Stream pipelines after they stopped spewing gas. It is still unclear what caused the pipelines to start leaking close to the Danish island of Bornholm. It has long played a strategic role between the West and Russia

Focus of the Day Article: Nearly 3,000 prisoners subject to an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence, an indeterminate sentence introduced in 2005 and abolished in 2012, should be resentenced immediately, the House of Commons’ Justice Committee has urged in a withering report. Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • UK law firms recognised for ‘family-friendly working’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/wsVGo0yGi
  • Nearly 3,000 prisoners subject to an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence, an indeterminate sentence introduced in 2005 and abolished in 2012, should be resentenced immediately | NLJ https://t.co/5AnwyBQNDU
  • How a junior brother judge did not allow five judgments to be delivered: Supreme Court Justice Indira Banerjee reveals | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/YMeE06AX8
  • RT @NoraNoralla: Me trying to explain international human rights law to civil society activists: https://t.co/kqxOwWuqfj
  • Two men have been charged over the alleged assault of a man who heckled Prince Andrew as he walked behind the Queen's coffin https://t.co/ARR2Ltmb2
  • News focus: Labour's justice agenda does not include legal aid? | Law Gazette https://t.co/SlgnG1IqIe
  • India's new Attorney General, Senior Advocate R Venkataramani: Spotlight this week | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/qnDGd19pnY
  • Government legal panels are overwhelmingly lacking when it comes to ethnic diversity, according to a new report from the Bar Council | NLJ https://t.co/bCCcdSsBLj
  • Ombudsman admits to losing a quarter of staff every year | Law Gazette https://t.co/odYgGGBJGV
  • Meghalaya High Court deprecates nepotism, "uncle culture" in appointments to government jobs; imposes ₹3 lakh costs on State | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/IKP76bfGmJ
  • The Weekly Round-up: Arbitration discrimination, sanctions against Iran, and HS2 injunction - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/shqbymQLoJ 
  • Iranian American held in Tehran for seven years granted temporary release - Siamak Namazi, convicted along with father on espionage charges, freed from Evin prison on one-week renewable furlough https://t.co/oXBgIKNqd7
  • Thousands of survivors of historic child abuse are falling through the cracks and unable to access vital mental health support, a child abuse lawyer has warned https://t.co/UxFRWTjyaC 
  • Solicitors will take ‘appropriate action’ without pay deal, group warns | Law Gazette https://t.co/GaE2kz8LDW
  • The number of solicitors on the roll has reached an all-time high, and one in four practising certificate (PC) holders work in-house | NLJ https://t.co/FHCNS4fwJR
  • King Charles abandons plans to attend Cop27 ‘following Liz Truss’s advice’ https://t.co/SrHRCCAc2S
  • At least 174 people have died in a stampede at an #Indonesian football match that has become one of the world's worst stadium disasters. About 180 were also hurt in the crush after home team Arema FC lost to bitter rivals at the overcrowded stadium https://t.co/e45ffdqJsx
  • Life as a junior lawyer at one of Ireland’s leading law firms - Legal Cheek https://t.co/6TbrgMV6gg
  • Lawyers have expressed caution about a Home Office economic crime bill with enhanced powers to search and seize suspected criminal cryptoassets, increase economic transparency and tackle money laundering https://t.co/thNjxTgVxN
  • The Law Commission has set out proposals to amend the Arbitration Act 1996 by streamlining cases and increasing protection for arbitrators | NLJ https://t.co/2QJJsM36PK
  • London firm goes into administration in its 150th year | Law Gazette https://t.co/GfpIuVWvM2 
  • Ministers warn of scammers posing as energy bill support scheme https://t.co/bzTwny3Uuu
  • Dishonest solicitor ‘too embarrassed’ to tell bosses of her mistake | https://t.co/aUXBQisvb
  • Akin Gump caps salary exchange rate following drop in pound - Legal Cheek https://t.co/NVBwRHygsi