Saturday

17th December - Law News

Edition 4008: 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: Unrest is growing in Jordan because of high fuel prices. A police officer was killed at a protest in the southern region of Ma'an, adding to tension about the rising cost of living. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • An NDA from Harvey Weinstein cost me my career – at last, banning them feels within reach | Zelda Perkins https://t.co/3hL45GkZ1T
  • #Poland's top police chief has been hurt after a gift given by Ukrainian officials exploded at his headquarters. JarosÅ‚aw Szymczyk suffered minor injuries on Wednesday after opening the present at his Warsaw offices https://t.co/BOIF1tZppk
  • 'I wasn’t even invited to the Christmas party': the consultant’s lonely life | Law Gazette https://t.co/BH7zt0Oxow 
  • Views sought on debt respite scheme for Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/cuyopNPRSO 
  • Barrister who falsified CV to get pupillage and tenancy disbarred years later - Legal Futures https://t.co/PLgupfcJyI
  • £750-an-hour fee challenge halted as proceedings ‘go awry’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/iRVi9xiyh7 
  • Prosecution crisis 'will deepen' without fee increase, CBA chief warns | Law Gazette https://t.co/RzDUOc7Srs 
  • Northern Ireland woman settles workplace sexual harassment case for £90k | Irish Legal News https://t.co/yfvlWMbYdR 
  • Octogenarian Lady Susan Hussey, has given a personal apology to Ngozi Fulani, after asking her where she was "really from" at a Palace reception. The former lady in waiting and godmother to Prince William met black British charity boss Ms Fulani https://t.co/qsWdFscpNx
  • Three people are critically injured after a crush at a gig in Brixton, south London. How did it happen? https://t.co/qqvTlv9Tfw
  • Law Society attacks Legal Ombudsman over 8% staff pay rise - Legal Futures https://t.co/tM3XOmwVnb
  • Why women feel safer at the #Qatar World Cup 2022 https://t.co/bt7wXgftrE 
  • Representative bodies unhappy with LeO’s 10% budget rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/umqSrTVcO2
  • DAC Beachcroft builds in Scotland with appointment of Zoe McDonnell | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/z7oSZ90koS 
  • Three-fold rise in number of weapons confiscated at courts | Law Gazette https://t.co/oHGiMdkn8Z
  • A man who strangled his girlfriend and cut her throat 14 times before dumping her body in undergrowth has been jailed for life for murder. Ross McCullam attacked Megan Newborough, 23, at his home in Coalville https://t.co/2cAHFimQYU
  • Major firms sign up to part-time working initiative for trainees - Legal Futures https://t.co/Hjos1aWaxS 
  • EU prosecutor seeks to strip immunity from Eva Kaili, fellow Greek MEP amid bribery scandal https://t.co/O2pIDm2yqP
  • The EU has threatened Twitter owner Elon Musk with "sanctions" after several journalists covering the firm had their accounts abruptly suspended - Reporters for the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post were among those locked out https://t.co/kkfjjY6rB6
  • Barristers set to pay the price for BSB performance problems - Legal Futures https://t.co/ZsEkifptXc
  • Law Society backs call for urgent reform of legal aid system | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aQ2ABF1xO2
  • High court rejects costs setoff in QOCS claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/ArRdCw4OWS 
  • Five senior hires among round of appointments to DWF’s Belfast office | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Qc69FK1C1n
  • Everyone earning more than £43,662 in Scotland will have to pay more income tax next year. Deputy First Minister John Swinney said the higher rate of tax will increase from 41p to 42p in the pound in April, and the top rate from 46p to 47p https://t.co/6k08crBq5y 
  • Third of staff allege bullying in Raab’s private office team https://t.co/d3QanTXrJT
  • Pauline Hughes: Flexible working to be a right from day one | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Sw6BaztgvQ
  • Kingsley Napley wins claim for unpaid fees from property developer | Law Gazette https://t.co/OY0tF4r34w
  • KC finds Scottish government’s conversion therapy proposals draconian | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DhdCaQy6cv
  • Virtual exchange between UK Supreme Court and High Court of Australia | Irish Legal News https://t.co/qG5pPv36LG
  • Young brothers & cousins were three of the four boys who died when they plunged into an icy lake in the West Midlands. Finlay Butler, 8, and his younger brother Samuel, 6, died, as did their cousin Thomas Stewart, 11, and another boy, Jack Johnson, 10 https://t.co/gO2bgAPPKA