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14th February - Law News

Edition 4066: 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 Law News/Article: The Lord President, Lord Carloway made the appointment after Lord Armstrong intimated his intention to resign as chair. Lady Drummond has been appointed as vice-chair. Full story Scottish Legal News
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Whether the Jamaican statutory regime to combat money laundering is constitutional insofar as it applies to attorneys–at–law

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Suits' Rachel Zane ranked among TV’s most influential characters - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3vYNPhFAaL 
  • A&L Goodbody appoints nine partners and three of counsel in Dublin and Belfast | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lEdOsDismv 
  • The day Easter nearly died: the theft of 200,000 Cadbury's Creme Eggs from an industrial estate nearly threw Easter into doubt, according to the most diligent West Mercia police https://t.co/OKcNnFHVhI
  • Ireland urged by UN committee to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KbP66t6yIo
  • Delhi High Court restrains Parle from using 'FABIO' or 'FAB!O' mark to sell biscuit after OREO alleges trademark infringement | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/uFQ0Ta2zuI
  • Uefa bears "primary responsibility" for the chaotic scenes that "almost led to disaster" before last year's Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, says an independent report https://t.co/G61xXKjFgc
  • Calling all aspiring lawyers! Have your say in our short student perceptions survey - Legal Cheek https://t.co/oMrE2Y9Z9f 
  • An award-winning #German ballet director has been suspended after smearing dog faeces on a critic's face. Marco Goecke was apparently furious about a review of one of his shows by journalist Wiebke Hüster https://t.co/JqbNqv81nA
  • Ex-Law Society president joins Linklaters as diversity and inclusion advisor - Legal Cheek https://t.co/sYq1Ov68h8
  • TC in the Toon? A former Magic Circle lawyer makes the case for legal life in the North - Legal Cheek https://t.co/QRN14dXzzf
  • Amanda Stewart, the chief executive of the Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI), has been awarded an OBE for public service | Irish Legal News https://t.co/arXC9Ecboe
  • Former Met Police officer Wayne Couzens has admitted three counts of indecent exposure, two of which he committed weeks before he murdered Sarah Everard https://t.co/XDHK7nJBwq 
  • Twice as many women as men apply to study law - Legal Cheek https://t.co/SmZ1Cn4aiH 
  • Jamia violence case: Judge who discharged Sharjeel Imam, others recuses from another matter related to case | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/OA798qJmaq
  • One arrested amid Tate Britain protest over drag queen children’s event - Rightwing demonstrators outside gallery met by counterprotesters including trans-rights campaigners https://t.co/WsaWhG7sa7
  • Post-Brexit rules leave British woman with Alzheimer’s facing removal from Sweden: Bed-bound Kathleen Poole, 74, who lives in a dementia care home, has been unable to complete required paperwork https://t.co/ketTu0udOb
  • Pallas Partners and Slaughter and May on opposing sides in pioneering Shell climate change case - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/QYRPerilhM 
  • #US workplace safety regulators have fined a Pennsylvania factory after two workers fell into a vat of chocolate and had to be rescued. The Mars Wrigley factory was fined more than $14,500 (£12,000) by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration https://t.co/JtYJ1TMnoW
  • Caroline Flack's family have been given an apology by the Metropolitan Police for not keeping a record about why it charged her with assault. IOPC carried out a review after complaints from the late television presenter's mother https://t.co/HUsGtqr1lg
  • ‘They haven’t the foggiest who we are’: the watchdog fighting to protect Britain’s exploited workers https://t.co/UNBo5Qlua8 
  • A ‘catalogue of waste’ on government ‘credit cards’: Analysis of civil service spending includes Rishi Sunak’s Treasury department spending £3,000 on Tate photographs https://t.co/f9d9f617BF 
  • Dar UI-Isra Mosque in the Cathays area of Cardiff has so far raised £25,000 as well as five vans of clothes and shoes to be delivered to the affected areas for earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey https://t.co/QlL8lFoTHG
  • Criminal justice social work services ‘should not be included’ in National Care Service | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/eJ6r2A0yX8 
  • A boy and girl, both aged 15, have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 16-year-old girl at a park in Warrington. Brianna Ghey was found by members of the public at Linear Park in Culcheth https://t.co/oylo4Fcxbz 
  • Prime minister's wife Akshata Murty held shares in collapsed firm that had near £300k ‘Sunak’ taxpayer loan - Employees and Lloyds Bank among creditors, after liquidation of firm that benefited from pandemic aid devised by husband https://t.co/gotpafEsNS
  • Taylor Wessing targets school leavers with new solicitor apprenticeship - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Km3XjCbk9U 
  • Legal Notes by Arvind Datar: Seeds of Basic Structure first sown by Justice JR Mudholkar | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/gYOURbQ7Pb 
  • Vinson & Elkins bumps UK trainee pay to £60-£65k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7uRmtoRaeG 
  • Orrick secures former Hughes Hubbard arbitration group co-head in New York - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/uaJg4OJM1F 
  • Judge says he used ChatGPT in court ruling - Legal Cheek https://t.co/R5BLLDH22r
  • Supreme Court imposes ₹50k costs on Uttar Pradesh for challenging Allahabad High Court order granting gratuity to wife of deceased employee | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/MzdzoikMLq 
  • The perils of the DoJ's new corporate self-reporting guidance - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/piGrdXXTk5 
  • Pat Fox rejoins LK Shields as real estate partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/eTTTXboFRZ