Edition 4001: 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: A video shows new details about Brittney Griner's life in a Russian penal colony. TJ Quinn, investigative reporter and senior writer for ESPN who reported on these details, joins CNN's Erin Burnett to discuss.
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Watchdog criticises UK ministers’ ‘antagonism’ towards human rights https://t.co/ngddmLz5Je
- Magic circle firm to welcome solicitor apprentices | Law Gazette https://t.co/VYsfhwmGkt
- Settlement day before trial 'moderately unreasonable', court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/RPwtzUHJp3
- Socioeconomic rights deserve legal protection https://t.co/mZmEmEqgBg
- Sunak’s next U-turn may be to ditch Raab’s bill of rights https://t.co/6gqb9cmW8y
- Truth matters in court reporting | Law Gazette https://t.co/wnlo4UPmoc
- Struck-off solicitor banned from actions against SRA | Law Gazette https://t.co/Vr2bS78HhW
- Raab announces £5m to cut immigration and asylum backlog | Law Gazette https://t.co/RdqDDx3ANL
- MPs approve management specialist as JAC chair - Legal Futures https://t.co/5YMzXefdl8
- The deadline by which hosts of short-term lets in Scotland need to get a licence has been delayed by six months. The scheme, which could see fines of up to £2,500 imposed on people who rent out property without permission https://t.co/wr1MlE5Dmp
- Mass marketing campaign to kick off £17bn Mastercard claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/Kl0VBg5JBO
- Cleaver Fulton Rankin welcomes five new trainee solicitors | Irish Legal News https://t.co/XsmqlkisPq
- A Backstreet Boys Christmas special has been pulled by US TV network ABC following news that a woman is suing singer Nick Carter, alleging he raped her during a 2001 tour when she was 17 https://t.co/pZjA620zag
- Santander has been fined £107.7m over "serious and persistent gaps" in its anti-money laundering controls which opened the door to "financial crime", the bank "failed to properly oversee and manage" systems aimed at verifying information https://t.co/85V2Ia91VM
- Sexual
harassment on the street will be made a crime with jail sentences of up
to two years, the government has said. Wolf-whistling, catcalling and
staring persistently will be criminalised in England under plans backed
by Home Secretary
https://t.co/PiZdj5EAfU
- A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with two counts of rape. PC Rupert Edwards, attached to the South West Basic Command Unit, was arrested on suspicion of rape on 5 September https://t.co/CPIzW3srvX
- SRA seeks restraint order on struck-off solicitor | Law Gazette https://t.co/FHeVP3NuKb
- Northern Ireland’s abortion buffer zones bill cleared by UK Supreme Court | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zJ6VPGxcq0
- Solicitor’s visual modelling start-up receives £3m funding boost - Legal Futures https://t.co/mYVGcaQhBl
- Carson McDowell appoints three partners and 14 senior associates | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VTOVNCB4eY
- Law leads on social mobility - but ‘too focused’ on top universities | Law Gazette https://t.co/yA69v2AMuH
- Browne Jacobson recruits digital disruption expert Mike Rebeiro | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dpliNO1PCy
- Tory MP plans legislation to strip Harry and Meghan of royal titles https://t.co/aUjmxWDbhP
- Jewish
students want change after NUS antisemitism claims - the rows have
centred on what constitutes criticism of Israel's persecution of
Palestinians, and what can be described as anti-Semitism https://t.co/t1P4iajwTn
- A
new law is set to be passed by the Scottish Parliament which will
simplify the legal process for anyone in Scotland who wants to change
their gender. But the signs are that the UK government could refuse to
recognise it https://t.co/9B6Z4KXMuX
- Hundreds of thousands of people were affected by passport-processing delays and many experienced travel disruptions this year, a watchdog has found https://t.co/pBYLQw2HN4
- Emma Meagher Neville elected president of Southern Law Association | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KgIWT6H5IS
- ABS aims to combine best of traditional and consultancy law firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/iLu7M9ysJX
- Islamophobia from the likes of Boris Johnson must be punished – and this is how to do it https://t.co/KrmqIIVtOk
- Will Carmody to take reins of Mason Hayes & Curran | Irish Legal News https://t.co/P2WQcJeAM4
- Murderer publicly executed by his victim's father, Taliban say #Afghanistan https://t.co/haG8thrVh8
- Local authorities told to draw up Traveller accommodation equality action plans | Irish Legal News https://t.co/pfXTW2xS36
- #Iran
has announced the first execution of a protester convicted over the
recent anti-government unrest. Mohsen Shekari was hanged on Thursday
morning after being found guilty by a Revolutionary Court of "enmity
against God", state media reported https://t.co/gCQo2Iyy7a
- How the Brittney Griner prisoner swap with #Russia was done https://t.co/8HdJQ9D1Vp
- Legal sector revenues still growing, City reports | Law Gazette https://t.co/z73zszfIeP
- Trump lawyers find two more classified documents at Florida storage unit #US https://t.co/Qe1POTxqZn
- Prospective judicial appointments chief quizzed on diversity | Law Gazette https://t.co/WFRewmHXo3
- A US citizen responsible for the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn has been sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for a year https://t.co/bbAsSBvQK3
- Lawyers billing more hours, but write-offs increasing too - Legal Futures https://t.co/wPfJQKLofq
- ‘Historic’ Irish language law in Northern Ireland receives royal assent | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ZwhVEkG8EL
- NHS workers could be banned from striking, No 10 suggests https://t.co/sXSN3lxV8D
- The draconian law that saw climate activist Violet Coco jailed #Australia https://t.co/SzxIcRB7cJ
- Court of Appeal rejects father’s plea for male expert | Law Gazette https://t.co/ODxWFev1nt
- MPs quiz government’s choice for JAC on dual roles and diversity - Legal Futures https://t.co/3LMZXbRvfi
- GSK shares surge as #US judge dismisses Zantac cancer claims https://t.co/wtnACmkH7K
- Crypto duty ruling ‘could affect millions’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/u4OKYu99Gp
- MPs must listen to the public on assisted dying | Assisted dying https://t.co/3aIwRzDwIK
- 'Depoliticise' the courts by constraining interveners - thinktank | Law Gazette https://t.co/7CYbWbvy7r
- Leading Midlands law firm is latest to adopt B Corp status - Legal Futures https://t.co/RhnbzrwXOP
