16th February - Law News

Edition 4069: 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: A fresh call for legal aid practitioners to bid for revamped housing contracts shows just how unviable the work has become - potentially leaving families struggling with rising rents, mortgage payments and debt without proper access to justice, the Law Society has warned. Full story The Law Society Gazette

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: The decision to change rules around temporary protection visas leads to an increase in military assets for Australia's northern border.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Our Legal Heritage: When Scots had to earn their salt | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OsC2jr8Op
• SLAPPs: Solicitors ignorant of reporting duties, SRA review finds | Law Gazette https://t.co/136NHpnEJ7
• Ireland’s Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP), popularly dubbed the “golden visa” scheme, is to close to new applications | Irish Legal News https://t.co/771XEwld0j
• Welcome to the Ministry of High Standards and Professionalism | Law Gazette https://t.co/4Du9Wi8yT
• Land Registry calls on law firms to reduce “avoidable errors” - Legal Futures https://t.co/wLM4ysTsB
• Eversheds Sutherland appoints Ian McFarland as Belfast employment partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bqkdu6ZiCi
• Solicitor who had shotgun in car fined | Law Gazette https://t.co/9WnD6yhvLE
  
• Burnley fake psychiatrist committed wicked deception, judge says https://t.co/Pz7f8XAVCG
• #Italy ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi acquitted in 'bunga-bunga' party case https://t.co/mCaxGVCh27 
• Jeremy Corbyn will not be a Labour candidate at the next general election, party leader Starmer has said. Mr Corbyn was suspended from being a Labour MP and sits as an independent because of a fabricated accusation of antisemitism https://t.co/PsfjptWwIV 
• News focus: Australian billionaire raises the stakes on cryptoassets | Law Gazette https://t.co/dywynqH1DE
• Solicitor ghosted client and SRA after receiving divorce settlement - Legal Futures https://t.co/beKxGJWNl1
  
• A judge has given a once-prominent former solicitor ‘one final opportunity’ to purge contempt and avoid another prison term over a long-running dispute with the regulator | Law Gazette https://t.co/0OaSzo4LDH 
• Ireland’s proposed new police ombudsman will not have institutional independence under the government’s current legislative plans, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has warned | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Bl4NWaVIvQ 
• Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she is resigning after more than eight years as head of the Scottish government https://t.co/YOsh9Ail0H
• LSB should focus on 'more pressing' areas than conveyancing | Law Gazette https://t.co/xG3SDzGRRs
  
• Citizens’ assembly to consider drugs law reform | Irish Legal News https://t.co/sPDL9beeUp
  
• Slips and SLAPPs - SRA review finds good level of compliance - Legal Futures https://t.co/EGkF4PKYUk
• Getting the Equality Act Right | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qoNA2b7SXU
• Ukraine war: #Russian student Olesya Krivtsova under arrest for an Instagram story https://t.co/zpTYg6KFIc
• Centrist Starmer tells Labour's left to back him or leave the party founded with close ties to human dignity and socialism https://t.co/PsfjptWwI
• LAA fails to attract sufficient bids for housing legal aid contracts | Law Gazette https://t.co/64Mog4gjnS 
• Mason Hayes & Curran appoints Neil Campbell as head of financial services | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QYUyGrmIjD
• Barristers cannot frustrate disciplinary proceedings by renouncing status | Law Gazette https://t.co/hCqHrQta7f
  
• Islamic fintech company buys law firm specialising in Shari'ah wills - Legal Futures https://t.co/059tUbRazx
• #Sudan court sentences three men to hand amputation for stealing https://t.co/eE5EZfdZcD
• Heart transplant for boy stymied by Northern Ireland assembly deadlock - DUP criticised as Dáithí Mac Gabhann and others needing operation hit by Stormont impasse choking organ donation law https://t.co/bkbfojAZ2K
• Martyna Brulinska appointed senior associate counsel at McKesson Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/xSdBx0GGbl
• British embassy spy snared by Berlin sting, court hears - Briton David Ballantyne Smith, 58, was working as a security guard when he passed secret information to Russian authorities https://t.co/mLxXXpDrE1 
• Legal victory in UK Japanese knotweed case could lead to more claims - Court of appeal ruled homeowner could recover loss of value even if knotweed has been treated https://t.co/LNL3L48Wwv 
• A man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs, causing a police panic about Easter, has been convicted in court. Joby Pool was surrounded by a mountain of the foil-wrapped chocolate when police caught up with him at the weekend https://t.co/i119JCK4dN