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15th December - Law News

Edition 4006: 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: The government has backed a private members bill that will allow lasting powers of attorney to be made completely online. The Lasting Power of Attorney Bill, which brings forward government proposals to modernise the process, completed its second reading last Friday.. Full story - The Law Society Gazette 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: UKSC 2020/0202 This appeal concerns the meaning of a condition that was attached to the grant of planning permission for a development site in the outskirts of Swindon. The proposed development included two roads, a "North-South access road" which ran southward from a new junction with the A420 and continued to the southern boundary of the site, and an "East-West spine road" which ran to the eastern boundary of the site from a roundabout on the North-South access road. Swindon Borough Council’s planning committee granted outline planning permission for the site subject to a number of conditions

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Karen Phillips joins Blackadders’ private client team | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uj8TD7iwal 
  • Sunak announces immigration reforms to end 'spurious' appeals | Law Gazette https://t.co/OUrCvsoYi3
  • Dickson Minto acquired by US law firm Milbank | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SLcNhrDuZi 
  • Big disparity in Bar course pass rates across providers - Legal Futures https://t.co/J2adWHC6GI 
  • Job cuts and no parties - but Ukraine's legal services sector survives | Law Gazette https://t.co/9OwvjljOu0
  • Woman accused of lying about rape ‘forced to get engaged to abuser’ - Eleanor Williams tells jury she was given drugs and alcohol at ‘parties’ where she was paid for sex https://t.co/KuLC9JvVec
  • MoJ backs lasting power of attorney bill | Law Gazette https://t.co/jKQ7Wp79r7
  • Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel has had his conviction for assaulting two teenage girls in #Australia overturned. The 27-year-old rider pleaded guilty in September to two counts of common assault after a confrontation with the girls, aged 13 and 14 https://t.co/2rUSlEDvmI 
  • Stephen Bear's 'revenge porn' conviction could set the benchmark for further prosecutions say campaigners. The former reality TV star was found guilty of sharing private sexual pictures and videos with intent to cause distress on Tuesday https://t.co/q6sg0OhV5L
  • Police broke into an art gallery to aid an unconscious person inside before discovering it was an art installation. Two officers saw a woman slumped over a table and forced entry to locked-up Laz Emporium in Soho, central London https://t.co/nNjhZ169ju
  • Five further complaints about Dominic Raab's behaviour as a minister are being investigated, No 10 has said. The prime minister's official spokesman said the claims related to Mr Raab's previous tenure as justice secretary https://t.co/GKZzh0FVU1 
  • China has removed six officials from Britain - including one of its most senior UK diplomats - two months after violence at its Manchester consulate. The UK had requested the officials waive diplomatic immunity to allow detectives to question them https://t.co/7QA2l9UozN 
  • Human rights focus for ex A&O partner's startup firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/mi0OXuN8iU 
  • Inns under fire for sluggish approach to disability access - Legal Futures https://t.co/9VFH0hFDJ
  • KPMG launches standalone law firm in Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/9cBYmXshy1 
  • Out-of-court disposals 'expanding uncontrollably', magistrates warn | Law Gazette https://t.co/Tdi62A2TD9
  • Biden signs landmark law protecting same-sex and interracial marriages - The legislation, hailed as a ‘blow against hate’, prohibits state and federal governments from denying the validity of such unions https://t.co/gR2zXgtYqm 
  • Metamorph crisis: Winding-up orders, staff unpaid and directors quitting | Law Gazette https://t.co/6rXQebAyAG
  • Oregon Democratic Governor Kate Brown will commute the sentences of all the state's 17 death row prisoners to life in prison without chance of parole, she said she was using her executive power because she believed capital punishment was wrong #US https://t.co/ntPn6DNJg3