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11th December - Law News

Edition 4002: 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:  Norris Pritam, veteran sports journalist, in response to the question of whether or not these appointments will help clean up the system, said that although they are great sportspersons, the athletes appointed to the Indian Olympic Association posts this time around may not have the administrative skills required for the jobs.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • The self-proclaimed kingdom that doesn't recognise #Germany https://t.co/xHj7IlgKOR
  • A disproportionate amount of medical expert witnesses are men, General Medical Council (GMC) data has shown | NLJ https://t.co/Wsuf6DUVv1
  • Metamorph group law firm owes £2.3m, liquidators reveal - Legal Futures https://t.co/ASdAwMED6E
  • Mastercard has lost its latest appeal against the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) decision to certify an ‘opt-out’ class action| NLJ https://t.co/pg5XUqHSRH
  • #Bangladesh accused of violent crackdown on free speech - Bangladeshi journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, known as Kajol, says he was held in an underground cell for 53 days, where he alleges he was tortured https://t.co/hQeUuFQ8pN
  • Bar asks government to review LSB in 'over-reach' row | Law Gazette https://t.co/7dtMaZFA9E 
  • The former king of Spain has won his sovereign immunity appeal in respect of allegations of pre-abdication misconduct | NLJ https://t.co/lMU9RUC681
  • £600k awareness campaign for Mastercard class action goes live - Legal Futures https://t.co/ZeqlKsMG41
  • Nine out of ten chambers responding have adopted at least one recommendation from the Bar Council’s ‘Race at the Bar’ report last year, according to an interim progress survey | NLJ https://t.co/gsR0M2UpK
  • Mother in Law: 100 wellbeing tips | Law Gazette https://t.co/d3eYByfgI3
  • Mixing up the words ‘begin’ and ‘commence’ is ‘imprecise’ and cannot be condoned, yet such ‘loose language’ is not enough to create separate time limits for work on the proposed Swansea Bay tidal energy lagoon, the Court of Appeal has held | NLJ https://t.co/Sg9trmiMzR
  • Security for costs and ATE insurance - threats and co-operation - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ug6RX8MR4
  • Criminal law solicitors could follow the Bar’s example and down tools following justice secretary Dominic Raab’s final response to the Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid | NLJ https://t.co/IQrHwxFPDe
  • Disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried says he hopes to start a new business to make enough money to pay back victims of the FTX collapse. The 30-year-old faces several federal investigations into his former company's handling of funds https://t.co/oea9PN6FjL 
  • Ngozi Fulani's charity Sistah Space stops work over safety https://t.co/TddTzEv2Pk
  • “Deconstructed SQE” could be end-point test for three professions - Legal Futures https://t.co/CmZI8y1C9T
  • Post Office scandal inquiry told about City law firm's bias danger - Legal Futures https://t.co/AAyPI9MIdl 
  • Six police constables have lost their jobs for being part of a WhatsApp group sharing "grossly offensive" messages. More than 6,000 messages were viewed by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), including racist and homophobic comments https://t.co/DQBJC4KEGH 
  • Gallery: Law Society marks women solicitors centenary | Law Gazette https://t.co/7m3N5aPykL