1st April - Law News

Edition 4113: 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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Saturday Conversations on Law

• Andrew Tate and brother to be released into house arrest - The ruling by the Court of Appeal in Bucharest replaces the latest period of custody, which was to end on 29 April https://t.co/F6hJBwYUI6
  
• Bhatia cleared of discrimination against pregnant employee | Law Gazette https://t.co/ouLET5vCW
• South Yorkshire PC jailed for taking photo of teenager's breasts - Paul Hinchcliffe, 46, sexually assaulted the 18-year-old in a pub in Wath upon Dearne in October 2020 https://t.co/DM4gRaPKeO
• A critical incident has been declared at Dover as coach passengers face delays of several hours at the start of the Easter getaway due to bad weather and long processing times in France https://t.co/HRIoX0pvuG
• New workers’ rights, including domestic violence leave, have been introduced under the Work Life Balance Bill passed by the Oireachtas | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Z4KTOR8Div
  
• Corporate criminal liability reform still on agenda, government insists | Law Gazette https://t.co/yWK8ZpFz4L
• “Tension” between legal and non-legal firms holds back ‘justicetech’ - Legal Futures https://t.co/lTPpneMmeL 
• ChatGPT banned in #Italy over privacy concerns https://t.co/aRsHimFbHN 
• Linklaters meets new woman partner target | Law Gazette https://t.co/vjFOpQJ9Fd 
• Mulholland Law welcomes Clodagh Roe | Irish Legal News https://t.co/92rv1onWO7 
• GLD pay gap report reveals bonus divergence | Law Gazette https://t.co/AWuUpPmcs4 
• UCC’s Professor Dagmar Schiek awarded prestigious grant to develop new theory of European law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ywBzeGLAtU
  
• Law Commission widens planned discrimination ban in arbitration - Legal Futures https://t.co/Yj2o3vru0l
• Liverpool gun murders: 'Sadly, it's probably going to happen again' https://t.co/FnvLf2T3jm 
• Extend tax break to legal firms - Law Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/Tjeoyfd6P0 
• Blackadders appoints Neil Robb as head of commercial property | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UPUjDNgsTM 
• A #SouthAfrican parole board is to consider whether former Paralympics star and convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius can be released from jail. He has so far served half of his 13-year sentence for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013 https://t.co/1cDqoQlvhB 
• What happened between former porn actress Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump? https://t.co/Atw72dIuBR 
• Russian and Belarusian players will be able to compete at Wimbledon this summer after the All England Club lifted the ban it imposed last year https://t.co/8DG1to9JQl 
• Three people arrested after a father and son were shot dead in two villages remain in police custody. Cambridgeshire Police found the body of a 32-year-old man after gunshots were heard in Meridian Close, Bluntisham, just after 21:00 BST on Wednesday https://t.co/VX5k10BmyM 
• Constance Marten and Mark Gordon will stand trial in January 2024 over the alleged manslaughter of a baby girl. The infant's remains were found in a plastic bag under nappies in a shed in Brighton https://t.co/nAaaAztflR
• Former England captain Michael Vaughan cleared 'on balance of probabilities' of using racist language towards Azeem Rafiq https://t.co/hy95MHfTvL
  
• Judge blasts family solicitor's 'expensive and pointless' action | Law Gazette https://t.co/f9krWQCtm
• LawscotTech boosted with new expertise to lead on legal technology innovation | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/y8NwfCpXFk
• Donald Trump will be the first former #US president to face criminal charges. He will be the first former president to be fingerprinted, taken for a mugshot and compelled to stand as an accused defendant before a judge https://t.co/7uLg2ZwKeF
• Immigration lawyer secretly recorded by BBC struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/GEr1zRHo4P
• Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow has thanked jurors who found her not liable for a 2016 ski crash at a resort in the US state of Utah. Retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76, had said Ms Paltrow crashed into him, inflicting life-changing injuries #US https://t.co/3VoVvQsrR9 
• Can we regulate what we cannot define? | Law Gazette https://t.co/67AUblu9RF 
• Police Scotland faked data to meet response time targets | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iLiHZIWOzt
  
• Private investigators have provided new and "compelling" evidence of illegal work for the Mail newspapers, the Duke of Sussex's barrister told a court. The privacy case centres on allegations of widespread illegality in the 1990s and 2000s https://t.co/8iDtfJmVJQ
  
• Boarding schools group launches ABS to help with overseas students - Legal Futures https://t.co/FooHKIT8gZ
  
• Ex-Hogan Lovells employee banned for dodging train fares | Law Gazette https://t.co/wJEeSvjzfd 
• Probe into meat 'falsely labelled' as British at supermarkets https://t.co/FpRdXbC18S 
• Staff at a quarter of fire and rescue services in England have reported alleged racist, homophobic and misogynistic behaviour in their ranks in the past five years, inspectors say https://t.co/jF3oAR4f9t 
• More than 20 far-right #Austrian MPs walked out of parliament during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The politicians from the Freedom Party (FPO) argued Mr Zelensky's speech violated Austria's neutrality https://t.co/ysIG4mbxGr