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15th January - Law News

Edition 4037: 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: The Philippine Supreme Court has ruled that an 18-year-old agreement with China and Vietnam to search for oil in the South China Sea is unconstitutional. Analysts say the decision could jeopardise plans by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to revive talks with Beijing on joint oil exploration. 

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Staff at employee-owned firm receive £3,600 profit shares in first year - Legal Futures https://t.co/x52NpggwmG 
  • Sheriff Lindsay Wood to retire amid Rangers controversy | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VyecU4ORA0
  • #Peru attorney general launches investigations into protest deaths https://t.co/FMJia9ZK4s
  • TLT boosts commercial offering with senior hires in Edinburgh | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/K2NF8Hk6n
  • Blixt to pay £22m for first two acquisitions as it builds national practice - Legal Futures https://t.co/DUJxESGO4
  • Four new partners appointed at Beauchamps | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dClkCnre5G
  • Solicitor’s legal spending platform raises $7m for further expansion - Legal Futures https://t.co/vcBPRu538
  • Mulholland Law appoints legal executive to criminal defence team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/s01eNEsdla
  • Scotland’s first Green Freeports chosen | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1ktGkeFIR8
  • Aberdeen firm Laurie and Company open Aboyne branch | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iRpXjWlrH
  • US to send delegation for law enforcement talks to #Cuba https://t.co/yAL17p6Sl
  • Everton's board of directors will not attend Saturday's game against Southampton because of a "real and credible threat to their safety". The directors were advised not to attend Goodison Park following https://t.co/3GFTla2y5
  • #British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari, who was sentenced to death in Iran, has been executed. Mr Akbari's family had been asked to go to his prison for a "final visit" on Wednesday and his wife said he had been moved to solitary confinement https://t.co/991XzJW71O
  • US-born princess vows to stay in Rome villa despite eviction order - Saga continues over property housing Caravaggio’s only ceiling fresco as fifth auction fails to attract bids https://t.co/loIVIy3w5O
  • PSNI urged to end strip searching of children | Irish Legal News https://t.co/7JzbPfLUIm
  • Greek court rejects charges against aid workers - Lesbos court says cases brought against two dozen people have procedural flaws #Greece https://t.co/7QkFjlSGgL
  • Matthew Holmes BL: A question of questions — some recent case law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/riEYiQXsc
  • Lecturers urged to review assessments in UK amid concerns over new AI tool https://t.co/MhmQ9EK0j
  • Right to wild camp in England lost in Dartmoor court case https://t.co/jQcbCUs5W
  • #US Supreme Court to consider religious discrimination case - The case involves a postal carrier who says he cannot work on Sunday due to his religious beliefs https://t.co/Tgn2cb9s56
  • You can’t stop the likes of Bridgen and Tate saying dangerous things – but you can take away their soapboxes https://t.co/AgHi2oSJ0
  • ‘Depraved’ builder who murdered two women is sentenced to at least 49 years in prison https://t.co/Q0z7R0wPN
  • Judge calls Trump’s attempt to dismiss E Jean Carroll rape lawsuit ‘absurd’ #US https://t.co/WhVFWUVkI3
  • ‘Utterly disgraceful’: new federal court rules limiting access to documents criticised by media union #Australia https://t.co/ms4nYx0Yez
  • Six-year-old Virginia boy’s backpack was searched before he shot his teacher #US https://t.co/8NcggXyxbj