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17th February - Law News

Edition 4070: 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: Making mental health a global priority in the legal profession. Full story Barrister Magazine
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Michigan State University assistant professor Marco Díaz-Muñoz tells CNN's Miguel Marquez about seeing the gunman who killed three students and critically wounded five others

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • National conveyancer set to grant share options to staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/hOkgsKjZ3E
  • Widow left out of husband’s will after 66-year marriage wins half of £1m estate - High court judge rules ‘reasonable provision’ was not made for 83-year-old, ‘left with next to nothing’ https://t.co/yokiQyQZJ0
  • To transparency and beyond! - Legal Futures https://t.co/Xoi2rxTdVs
  • Bar tells LSB to rethink 'wrong-headed' business plan | Law Gazette https://t.co/rhIr40DW0Q
  • Buffalo shooting: Relative lunges at gunman before sentencing #US https://t.co/l6bFWQXp21 
  • Running indemnity fund won’t require a levy - or more staff, SRA chief says | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y75x5B026o
  • SRA finalises rules for successor to Solicitors Indemnity Fund - Legal Futures https://t.co/TtlbnyGDj3 
  • US fintech chases Islamic wills market with law firm acquisition | Law Gazette https://t.co/XrIlPUzyJ0
  • Solicitor struck off for practising without firm’s knowledge | Law Gazette https://t.co/1RERqK48A
  • Allahabad High Court quashes case against Salman Khurshid for quoting Shahenshah movie dialogue in response to CM Yogi Adityanath | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/UqnhTi92Ri
  • Solicitor used friend’s identity to obtain prescription drugs - Legal Futures https://t.co/DnPX2HUeW
  • SRA confirms new fining powers | Law Gazette https://t.co/MBfPrh1ubG 
  • Bombay High Court orders probe agencies not to disclose identity of rape victims even in chargesheet | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/FV9n3E0ErM
  • A boy and girl, both aged 15, have appeared in court charged with murdering 16-year-old Brianna Ghey. The transgender schoolgirl was found with fatal stab wounds on a path in Linear Park in Culcheth, Cheshire https://t.co/NXcLZJJyQN 
  • SRA to keep many disciplinary decisions online for longer - Legal Futures https://t.co/SBuSP9Yh7b 
  • Digital securities “can be accommodated” within existing English law - Legal Futures https://t.co/Fx3n6D9i5r
  • British Gas owner Centrica has posted huge profits after energy prices soared last year. Centrica's full-year profits hit £3.3bn for 2022, more than triple the £948m it made the year before https://t.co/pEsYlYB56X
  • #Chagos islanders must get full reparations for forced exile, says NGO - Human Rights Watch also demands trial for ‘appalling colonial crime’ of expulsion – and continuing ill treatment – of Chagossiansn https://t.co/yHhABHnqt
  • 'Get on board Hague 19 ASAP,' Law Society tells government | Law Gazette https://t.co/I7SVTU87Em 
  • ‘All we have had is losses’: Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80m ransom demand - ‘Under no circumstances will we pay that absurd amount,’ delivery firm says, telling hackers it is not the booming company they think https://t.co/8KlgHvpRBy
  • Tehran summons lawyer Sotoudeh's husband to prison | Law Gazette https://t.co/mvDcfd87N8 
  • Magic circle firm rolls out 'gamechanger' ChatGPT-type platform | Law Gazette https://t.co/iCzm5h2Nh1
  • Judge rejects Trump DNA offer in E Jean Carroll rape defamation case - Lewis Kaplan says Trump has missed his chance to provide DNA sample to rebut allegations first made by Carroll in 2019 book #US https://t.co/mArK1vEZgL 
  • A 15-year-old boy has been detained for at least 14 years for stabbing a man to death outside an Asda store. Ian Kirwan, 53, was attacked at the supermarket in Redditch on 8 March after telling a group of boys https://t.co/JKBDp0KrUr