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9th October - Law News

Edition 3939: 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:  Israeli soldiers have killed three Palestinian teenagers in the Occupied West Bank in just 24 hours. A funeral has been held for Mahdi Ladadweh, the third 17-year-old Palestinian boy killed on Friday by Israeli forces, during a raid in the Jenin refugee camp. Similar funerals are held nearly every day in the occupied West Bank

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Top City law firms back pro-bono initiative for non-legal staff - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RhpJK5VdXA
  • Challenge to government’s lateral flow test contracts rejected by high court https://t.co/k0XqI5cdnw
  • Callan Tansey promotes Orlagh Sharkey to partner and head of family law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2JDpX3yz41 
  • Conor Burns was sacked as a Conservative minister and suspended as a Tory MP after eyewitnesses saw him touching a young man's thigh at a hotel bar, the BBC has been told https://t.co/3ug0R8ZCOd 
  • A proposed rise in legal aid fees is a step in the right direction, but further action is urgently needed to resolve the long-term crisis in the sector, the Law Society of Scotland has said | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/oh6kGrXqsS
  • Five teenagers have been sentenced to three years' detention in Hong Kong for advocating overthrow of the Beijing government. It is the first time the national security law has been used in court against under-18s in Hong Kong #China https://t.co/lSLPojWMnI
  • City solicitor avoids jail after criminal contempt finding - Legal Futures https://t.co/A9HHtonKSz 
  • Increasing numbers of employees are struggling with mental health issues, as employee assistance providers (EAPs) face being overwhelmed by demand | NLJ https://t.co/a6ihQRvtxZ 
  • Rebecca Dyer, 2021/22 student director of the Strathclyde Law Clinic, talks about her time in the clinic and offers encouragement to current and future members | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FJvy4eS8Yn 
  • Serial killer Peter Tobin has died in hospital, at the age of 76. He was convicted of raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, and hiding her body under the floor of a Glasgow church in 2006 https://t.co/K8OKW2m6bU
  • Our objections to assisted dying are based on evidence, not religion | The Guardian https://t.co/UvBQMtSFBn
  • Belfast lawyer Michael Graham elected to STEP global council | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jZCnEpOVCC 
  • Market for corporate and commercial work to "cool substantially" - Legal Futures https://t.co/McSS4mYA70 
  • When Ahmad Ali Shariati was awarded the Chevening scholarship to study law at the University of Aberdeen, it was an opportunity he wanted to grasp to make a positive difference in his home country of Afghanistan | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qNYWkQhD7u
  • First witness in Kevin Spacey’s New York trial testifies actor grabbed him #US https://t.co/ZVQJKmLLNq 
  • Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge by a person of both British and Irish citizenship asserting a right to be recognised as an Irish citizen only | Irish Legal News https://t.co/mALjFE7gbE
  • The past two years of growth in the legal market could be a bubble, which is about to pop, according to the latest LexisNexis Gross Legal Product (GLP) Index | NLJ https://t.co/qEo8pVfnhG
  • Profession backs SIF but SRA "can save £500k" with new scheme - Legal Futures https://t.co/MemAltpzYz
  • New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency to address a "crisis situation" over an influx of migrants. More than 17,000 have been sent by Republican-controlled states to the city since April #US https://t.co/Zbm7pAO1Gs
  • A leading specialist in legal history, human rights, religious freedom, marriage and family law, and law and religion will deliver the opening 2022 Gifford Lecture at the University of Aberdeen | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZicDS3hJAz
  • White Feminism Has Appropriated the Hijab Protest, Without Understanding It https://t.co/PqKvEpaC1V
  • City solicitor Raymond McKeeve has been given a £25,000 fine and ordered to pay £610,000 costs but escaped prison after allegedly telling a client to ‘burn’ evidence | NLJ https://t.co/u34kw36wgU 
  • OIC: Under-settlement fears as system problems grow backlog - Legal Futures https://t.co/3frvDSVnu8
  • Pete Duff, professor in criminal justice at Aberdeen University, passed away on 29 September | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/rEM3rt6THo
  • TLT welcomes new associates and solicitors in Belfast | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EansnpxGLs
  • MHC: White collar crime ‘not sufficiently enforced’ in Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YX7ROfGWuQ