Edition 3972: 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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Focus of the Day Article: Moving to a single regulator for legal services is a ‘live conversation’
in Whitehall and at Westminster, the chair of the Solicitors Regulation
Authority said today. However, the SRA believes securing legislative
time remains a significant hurdle to overcome when the government is
facing bigger and competing priorities. Full story -
The Law Society Gazette
Today's Highlighted Video Story: In a crucial year for the climate, award-winning Guardian environment editor Fiona Harvey reflects on 30 years of Cops and meets the politicians, activists and scientists asking who is responsible for saving the planet.
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Does our duty to the client trump the public interest? | Law Gazette https://t.co/W193bwRVOl
- Boost for space law as University of Aberdeen lands specialist academic | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ut0SmoOoPa
- PI firms on the edge cannot wait for mixed claim perfection | Law Gazette https://t.co/n8ERxLQPDh
- A police officer has been killed and another has been stabbed in a knife attack in Brussels. The two officers were taken to hospital after they were attacked close to Brussels North railway station on Thursday evening https://t.co/j7xYLvQIH2
- Law firms under "active investigation" for flouting sanctions regime - Legal Futures https://t.co/XyCdsLEd0g
- MoJ conducting 'light touch review' of Common Platform | Law Gazette https://t.co/bLMKKgB8CR
- Morton Fraser recognised as top employer | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LkE7aj1Xis
- Judges to be trained on appropriate behaviour, LCJ reveals | Law Gazette https://t.co/St78JmUJRG
- SRA on lookout for solicitors "borrowing" from client money to pay bills - Legal Futures https://t.co/tu5dfZVvao
- Trade union for legal aid lawyers: counsel instructed | Law Gazette https://t.co/XZINer2vEe
- Amanda Jones: Gender recognition bill will complicate rather than clarify the law | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4vj9squuoi
- A
female former Royal Navy sailor, who says she was raped on a ship, has
spoken of her anger at claims that servicewomen are still being abused.
The Royal Navy has launched an inquiry following sexual harassment
allegations in the Submarine Service https://t.co/jRj45ShHIQ
- Commission urges reform of 'ineffective' confiscation regime | Law Gazette https://t.co/kpwInzqx5i
- Susan Martin elected president of Dublin Solicitors Bar Association | Irish Legal News https://t.co/wGC9JdFqJL
- Burnett: “I can’t magic up lawyers to help reduce Crown Court backlog” - Legal Futures https://t.co/E7AvX3gHxM
- Claimant who dropped case at trial should be hit for costs, CoA hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/7y2VGTf5Ga
- Several people who climbed gantries on the M25 have been arrested, as the motorway is disrupted for a fourth day. Essex Police said it detained a woman at about 07:10 GMT on the clockwise carriageway about 1.5 miles (2.4km) before junction 28 for the A12 https://t.co/dwEIDwYKnc
- Brexit-backing Next boss says UK needs more overseas workers - Lord Wolfson, who was a prominent advocate of Brexit, said the UK's current immigration policy was crippling economic growth https://t.co/0hyVOgxOYW
- Lavelle Partners opens new office in Galway | Irish Legal News https://t.co/q4At6U1eMa
- Half of expert witnesses would reject “highly contentious” cases - Legal Futures https://t.co/LMvehgCuW
- Driver who held up ambulance on purpose sentenced: Albert Butler, 38, of Reading, was banned from driving for three years and made to pay £600 in costs over the incident in Maidenhead on 2 February https://t.co/NHx84Qh1Ah
- SRA poised to issue SLAPPs warning | Law Gazette https://t.co/YzVDCKjO0d
- Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka accused of raping a woman while in #Australia for the T20 World Cup choked her so forcefully she was left "fearing for her life", court documents allege https://t.co/Wa8fYrshtR
- York university Student arrested after eggs thrown at King Charles - the 23-year-old was heard to shout "this country was built on the blood of slaves" as he was restrained https://t.co/dMbIYXAHhX
- Crime contract holders to form their own representative body | Law Gazette https://t.co/xBcHxAulIU
- Scottish plans to include transgender women in equality law tested in court: Judicial review begins over definition of ‘woman’ in 2018 law to improve gender balance on public boards https://t.co/B3JMl4G8g1
- Phishers forge SRA chief Bradley’s email | Law Gazette https://t.co/RhcvOHQ2O1
- Spanish police officer sentenced after posting fake rape video on Twitter - Guardia Civil first to be convicted after alleging video showed a Moroccan migrant raping a woman https://t.co/VrfGkIikKh
