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15th February - Law News

Edition 4068: 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: More than six out of 10 lawyers (62%) have experienced burn-out as a result of their work in the last year, a survey has found. Most lawyers (57%) put “an unmanageable caseload” at the top of their list of stressors at work, followed by a lack of work/life balance (42%). Full story Legal Futures
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: A diplomatic spat is deepening between China and the US as they accuse one another of sending up spy balloons into each other's airspace. Just 12 days ago the world was gripped by the appearance of a large suspected Chinese spy balloon floating over the USA. Since then three more flying objects have been taken down by fighter jets over Alaska, Canada and MIchigan.. The origin of these ones - officially at least - remains a mystery.

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Matheson launches 2023 Tim Scanlon Corporate Law Bursary | Irish Legal News https://t.co/J6vOwfhSBN
  • Rees-Mogg’s crazed tilt at red tape is quixotic nonsense. We need regulation to survive https://t.co/44vDImdm26
  • Defendant accusing party of 'warehousing' claim loses strike-out bid | Law Gazette https://t.co/Pd5oWsDuMQ
  • Candlelit vigils have been held for 16-year-old Brianna Ghey, who was stabbed to death in a park. The schoolgirl was found lying wounded on a path in Linear Park in Culcheth, Cheshire, on Saturday https://t.co/mSW5an6QFv
  • Barristers cannot avoid disciplinary action by renouncing status - Legal Futures https://t.co/yAQpj3MvqY
  • Insulate Britain activists found guilty over London roadblock https://t.co/EGYUDRN8pN 
  • One of the most devastating and costly forms of cybercrime that is affecting thousands of people across the UK is being tackled through a research project at Abertay University | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HxPG0cUh80
  • Officials in Turkey have targeted more than 130 people allegedly involved in poor and illegal construction methods following the pair of earthquakes that caused the collapse of thousands of buildings last week | Irish Legal News https://t.co/OkZ1nAbtbF
  • Partners want to break away and set up their own firm - survey | Law Gazette https://t.co/8pook0ywNk
  • Partner hid conveyancing proceeds in secret bank account - Legal Futures https://t.co/pWFOmwBFU
  • Solicitor struck off over false whiplash claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/DIwnC3Hcbj
  • BBC offices in #India have been searched as part of an investigation by income tax authorities. The searches in New Delhi and Mumbai come weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary in the UK critical of Indian PM Narendra Modi https://t.co/aiwir9DTB3
  • Two police officers face misconduct cases over the handling of reports of indecent exposure by Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens. A Metropolitan Police constable has a case to answer for gross misconduct, the IOPC said https://t.co/nBWBVkakz
  • #Gibraltar’s chief minister threatens top rights lawyers with defamation - Lawyers call for apology and withdrawal of threats made during inquiry into alleged government corruption https://t.co/ptaTLgt2pJ
  • Pioneering US judge to deliver Law Society’s human rights lecture | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JskDK3iVEq
  • The sensors from the first suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down over the US have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, the US military says, "significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified" #US https://t.co/uOpJgrZF0l 
  • A decade after a property dealer was jailed for one of the UK’s biggest mortgage frauds, the Serious Fraud Office has brought further confiscation orders against him - over money recovered by his son from a donation to a school | Law Gazette https://t.co/22CMgKcEI
  • My legal life: Seema Gill, Howell Jones - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/u48L4FyQyB
  • Self-employed consultant was employee of firm under Equality Act - Legal Futures https://t.co/oa6E09ND8
  • A council has removed parish councillors' contact details after several received "vile" telephone calls over missing Nicola Bulley. The 45-year-old went missing on 27 January https://t.co/M0YdiUkywK
  • At least three people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at Michigan State University, police say. As well as the three victims, police said the suspect had died apparently from a "self-inflicted gunshot wound" #US https://t.co/XkTZJcs4oq
  • Global law firm Ropes & Gray expands into Dublin | Irish Legal News https://t.co/fQGcjjJA4S 
  • US: Cousin of boy murdered by racists in 1955 sues to force arrest of woman | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/q1Xkzh2oou
  • There is no stopping the relentless rise of data. The amount now created and held by corporate clients is growing at a rate of 40% annually – fuelled in part by the post-pandemic shift towards remote communications | Law Gazette https://t.co/8FaD4EmEbn
  • North-east "best location" for small conveyancing firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/DLAvE31yNa 
  • Guy Hands firm challenges MoD over controversial £8bn property estate - Annington Property launches judicial review arguing ministry does not have right to take back houses after ‘disastrous’ sell-off https://t.co/7p3AmheYHZ
  • 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/JqbNqv7ty2 
  • Lawyer in the news: Natasha Rees, Forsters - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZE0tyF9K5O 
  • Tory vice-chair Lee Anderson faces libel claim over bribery allegations - Man who runs a food bank charity alleges MP for Ashfield defamed him in a Facebook post https://t.co/U8k4JXeSuM 
  • NI Court of Appeal: Reduction for ‘excessive’ £71,860 award to 15-year-old sexually harassed by her employer | Irish Legal News https://t.co/V19YwYETIE