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16th December - Law News

Edition 4007: 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 Department for Communities has launched a call for evidence to explore the establishment of a debt respite scheme in Northern Ireland. The primary aim of the pre-consultation is to build on evidence already gathered and source further insight from the debt advice sector, creditors and individuals on the scale of problem debt locally. Full story - Irish Legal News 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Hillsong founder Brian Houston tells a Sydney court that he reported allegations of historical sexual abuse by his father to church executives.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • City firm sounds alarm over 'foreign influencer' register | Law Gazette https://t.co/3nkUHqELCY 
  • UN to investigate use of ‘parental alienation’ tactic in custody cases https://t.co/EvxNex4nCt 
  • A woman and two children have died after they were found with serious injuries in a property, police said. Officers were called to flats in Petherton Court, Kettering, at 11:15 GMT where a boy and a girl, believed to be aged six and four, were found https://t.co/HQO01UAAfq
  • SRA intervenes to shut down Metamorph firms | Law Gazette https://t.co/rT9W7e5txJ
  • Dentons appoints Niamh Keogh as tax partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/XwAj4MUg3G
  • Defence barrister who misled court to get paid is suspended - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ipo95inu79
  • Defunct firm to pay wasted costs over fictitious claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/TJopSSMpGC 
  • Thorntons expands Glasgow presence with key appointments | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SQyCw2Ouhl
  • Publishing sentencing remarks for all cases 'logistically impossible' | Law Gazette https://t.co/sGKA3SVC3L
  • Fee-share corporate firm becomes community interest company - Legal Futures https://t.co/1HX3fqEZtr
  • Sovereign immunity for former Spanish king upheld on appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/uZcDjslXA9
  • Signs of legal aid recovery as applications, grants and payments rise – but reform needed | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/70HoPPOLzO
  • Mentions, a deceased defendant, sentencings and an £8 jacket potato | Law Gazette https://t.co/mexcYGuRvL
  • Money owed to Pure Legal's unsecured creditors climbs to £38m - Legal Futures https://t.co/OfYSGdgKhr
  • Professor Caroline Fennell nominated for appointment to electoral watchdog | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MA8R24sBzX
  • A litigant in person who tried to reopen a 19-year-old grievance against legal advisers has been told by the High Court that there is no evidence of any wrongdoing | Law Gazette https://t.co/RUU4erTK7P
  • Dartmoor camping ban could hit birdwatchers and climbers, court told - National park argues attempt by landowner to stop people sleeping overnight could restrict other ‘sedentary pursuits’ https://t.co/ZVCoWvpxk3
  • SRA steps in to shut down four Metamorph Group businesses - Legal Futures https://t.co/lPdvDJA2U4
  • Reports of the demise of the government’s flagship human rights reform are ‘tittle tattle’, the lord chancellor told parliamentarians. ’The Bill of Rights Bill is ready to go RR | Law Gazette https://t.co/MqzV6Vq85L
  • Ed Sheeran ticket touts ordered to repay £6m https://t.co/wxd7EFKVsy 
  • Harry and Meghan Netflix trailer claims Palace planted stories - Buckingham Palace conducted "a real kind of war against Meghan", the duchess's lawyer has claimed https://t.co/z0g2GjJfDD 
  • Fusion works - but will lawyers let it? | Law Gazette https://t.co/Juotig6iZl 
  • Sunak rejects Tory calls to ignore human rights court rulings over Rwanda deportations https://t.co/DhgsIrai44 
  • Virtual exchange between Supreme Court and High Court of Australia | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lJB7DBmv0j