Edition 3998: 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: A law firm unfairly dismissed an assistant solicitor by failing to follow the correct procedure – even though it was justified in firing him, an employment tribunal has ruled. Full story -
Legal Futures
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Meta has threatened to remove news content from Facebook in the US. It objects to a new law that would give news organisations greater power to negotiate fees for content shared on Facebook. A similar law, passed in Australia, led to news on Facebook being briefly suspended last year. Meta claims their platform, in fact, provides increased traffic to struggling news outlets.
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- My legal life: Kate Fawell-Comley, Hill Dickinson - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/bKdMJSbjg9
- BSB mulls SLAPPs guidance as Zahawi's solicitors are referred to SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/Kvj0AQ9ut5
- Flood of sexual abuse lawsuits expected in New York as new law takes effect #US https://t.co/ERs9wNKdo1
- Climate clauses to support conveyancers with 'duty of care' | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ssdy5s7Ddu
- Raab's rights bill: there may be trouble ahead | Law Gazette https://t.co/54a4kxEDkG
- A man has been arrested on suspicion of common assault after an egg was reportedly thrown in the direction of the King. The alleged incident happened while King Charles was on a walkabout in Luton town https://t.co/qEDhNScj33
- Lawyer bosses at one listed legal business invest heavily in another - Legal Futures https://t.co/HtDY47EmEn
- Free speech is stifled by laws made for the rich https://t.co/pAIzUSDhws
- Listed firm owner warns of £4m hit after litigation funder losses | Law Gazette https://t.co/9cfE6xiNBe
- A woman who killed a motorcyclist will not attend a sentencing hearing in person after advice from her employer, the United States government. Anne Sacoolas, 45, admitted causing the death of Harry Dunn, 19, by careless driving via video-link https://t.co/mOufgNtWHb
- Tory peer Michelle Mone is taking a leave of absence from the Lords to clear her name of the allegations that she claims to have been unjustly levelled against her https://t.co/KpYT4ZLaCS
- UN refugee body criticises ‘errors’ in asylum report backed by Braverman https://t.co/eb6eulcZ4O
- A man who shot and wounded Lady Gaga's dog walker during a dog theft has been sentenced to 21 years in prison. James Howard Jackson pleaded no contest - similar to a guilty plea - to attempted murder #US https://t.co/B1xzMQvUO5
- 'New Britain': Labour plans to protect 'basic social rights' | Law Gazette https://t.co/bfJZVEZjJS
- Tweeting barrister sues BSB for belief discrimination - Legal Futures https://t.co/Kn7qfJfT6y
- Pupils at schools with cases of streptococcus A could get preventative antibiotics after nine children died from infections linked to the bacteria https://t.co/eVNTnFS1h9
- MPs to revisit assisted dying with an inquiry next year | Assisted dying https://t.co/9c6JnmfmOA
- The police chief of Tampa, Florida, has resigned after it emerged that she used her position to dodge a ticket for using her golf cart on the street. Mary O'Connor and her husband were stopped last month by a Pinellas County sheriff's deputy #US https://t.co/Buh3SdPFMU
- #Indonesia's parliament has approved a new criminal code that bans anyone in the country having sex outside marriage and restricts political freedoms. The new laws won't come into effect for another three years https://t.co/E09e2U6Nmj
- Solicitor's dismissal while he was off sick was unfair, tribunal rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/iwK5JHojpI
- ‘The Roding is sacred and has rights’: the hammer-wielding barrister fighting for London’s forgotten river https://t.co/nTmM7DOCnq
- Law firm's dismissal of solicitor was procedurally unfair, tribunal rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/NKvBdneaoB
- Lawyer in the news: Adnan Hussain, Tank Jowett Solicitors - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/4yAiNCIdY2
- Ex-MP Imran Ahmad Khan loses appeal against sexual assault conviction - Former Conservative MP was jailed for 18 months in May for sexually assaulting teenage boy in 2008 https://t.co/kfVom0GWSg
- Delays plague civil justice with trials taking months to come to court | Law Gazette https://t.co/kNExypPY9g
- Matt Hancock has accused Tory peer Michelle Mone of being aggressive and threatening when trying to secure a government Covid contract for a firm. She asked for help to secure contracts in an email in June 2021, when he was health secretary https://t.co/1KMmZmQ9Wh
- Best of the blogs - 3 December 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/l5ckSLfLIj
- Allotment of public property should be only by auction, not favouritism or political interference: Karnataka High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/qqq8tCsYfy
- Cat MacQueen appointed as ad hoc advocate depute | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jkc5KgPYwb
