10th September - Law News

Edition 3910: 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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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: After imposing 20 per cent export duty on non-basmati rice, the Indian government has banned the export of broken rice with an aim to increase domestic availability, according to a government notification.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Crypto market rife for new areas of litigation | Law Gazette https://t.co/cPJwFrQzHR
• MHC: Energy sector professionals believe government targets are unrealistic | Irish Legal News https://t.co/kRskAi51gQ
  
• King Charles speech: King Charles III pays tribute to his 'darling mama' in first address https://t.co/LvdgMgPe5U
• Arson and robbery suspects released after long wait for trials | Law Gazette https://t.co/dEoXC9J9mY
• Scottish homebuyer enquiries fall as house prices rise | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MKx3Wk4VzB
  
• Irwin Mitchell profits plunge as Covid dividend ends | Law Gazette https://t.co/IYWtYt6mA4 
• Plans submitted for new District Garda HQ in Newcastle West | Irish Legal News https://t.co/umBgj1iONt
  
• CEO designate appointed to Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/gPqsAHtwjl
  
• Law firm entitled to dismiss solicitor for not passing on complaints - Legal Futures https://t.co/gbyLfW2skm
• Carson McDowell grows training programme to 15 trainees | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Em3AzC2fDk
  
• Irwin Mitchell profit tumbles following bumper FY21 as revenue dips to £275.7m - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/VEY4BII6kD 
• Baker McKenzie hires Addleshaw Goddard’s Hong Kong dispute resolution head - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/dl8FxSFVCR
  
• Firm entitled to sack solicitor days after he resigned, rules tribunal | Law Gazette https://t.co/DevQVFQ1a6
• Fee-share practice is first law firm to join collaboration institute - Legal Futures https://t.co/JOHx5I6r3d
• he criminal bar’s indefinite strike over legal aid funding could be called off sooner than expected after criminal bar chiefs confirmed that the new lord chancellor has agreed to meet them | Law Gazette https://t.co/eHqNJrFROL
• #Iran condemns two women to death for ‘corruption’ over LGBTQ+ media links - Outcry over show trial, which follows Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani talking to BBC about abuse of gay people in Iran’s Kurdish region https://t.co/Qj4T1xgfJ1
• The Straw man is back - and this time it's personal | Law Gazette https://t.co/sl7kRtlPGD
• A fifth of female solicitors promoted after maternity leave - Legal Futures https://t.co/uzrVPAzhl8
• Ex-Pure employees paid redundancy money after tribunal order | Law Gazette https://t.co/Nqkw9fgu33
• Trump attorney general Barr a liar, bully and thug, says fired #US attorney in book - In memoir, Geoffrey Berman recounts clashes before a botched firing he insists was politically motivated https://t.co/V1B9LXvyQd
  
• Gunderson Dettmer hires seasoned fintech GC in San Francisco - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/pDAcqDtS5
• DWF acquires specialist costs management business | Law Gazette https://t.co/Mzlk6T1muh
• McGuireWoods adds IP litigation duo from Winston & Strawn to bolster US life sciences coverage - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/53AqoGo52
• Three police chiefs sacked for inappropriate behaviour at work party https://t.co/FhlZrnyvDL 
• Southern Water to use debt collectors against customers boycotting payment - Company will use bailiffs if those protesting against continuing raw sewage discharges continue to hold back payment of bills https://t.co/U85JSPDm8L 
• Police investigating the shooting of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool have arrested a 29-year-old man was held on suspicion of assisting an offender in the West Derby area earlier https://t.co/S3CAl6HNDH

25th July - Law News

Edition 3498: 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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 Today's Highlighted Video Story:
 
The Dutch government has been accused of not doing enough to help relocate Afghan interpreters who worked for its forces. Thousands of Afghans who helped foreign forces are now at risk of attack by the Taliban, as the armed group makes gains on the ground.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• 'Thank you bonus' firm celebrates 30% profit rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/ChLKeVeBFN
• Post-Brexit UK Shared Prosperity Fund 'risks damaging constitution further' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/0acnoXKiv
• Scotland makes international pledge to help deliver Paris Agreement - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WlV6PxY4u
• A further 12 former sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses including three who served time in prison, have had their convictions relating to the Post Office (PO) Horizon scandal overturned by the Court of Appeal | NLJ https://t.co/9XV84JOuz2
• ‘The law is cold. It doesn’t reflect the life lost’: mothers of murder victims tell their stories. Grieving parents of two young women killed by their ex-boyfriends launch a new film to step up their campaign for justice https://t.co/WyObXvDPt
• Six-figure awards set serious libel benchmark | Law Gazette https://t.co/LfPRUPTrI
• Board established to oversee end of direct provision - Irish Legal News https://t.co/1rp1p3QVGe 
• Compensation fund payouts reach five-year high | Law Gazette https://t.co/MsRm5cztvI
• The Law Society issued a grim warning about the Nationality and Borders Bill, ahead of its second reading in Parliament this week | NLJ https://t.co/FX6p8P0Lm
• Fatuma Kadir, missing 11-year-old Bolton girl is found in London although it is not known why she travelled alone https://t.co/PGOmWwUOsW
• #Haiti: shots fired at Moïse’s funeral as protesters clash with police https://t.co/I4lqWgECVh
  
• NI: Judge concludes there is 'real prospect' Omagh bombing could have been prevented - Irish Legal News https://t.co/J3GPUkIYRl
• Chambers UK recognises Brodies’ expertise - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4yDpwXIVLP
• Employment tribunals are plagued by delays, lack of resources and too few judges, an Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) survey of its members has found | NLJ https://t.co/2y4XyKCVH9
• Judges owed a duty of care, government concedes | Law Gazette https://t.co/vSG6Kk52q
• Legal profession leaders are calling for urgent action on judicial diversity after official statistics revealed slow or no progress in some areas | NLJ https://t.co/pL83PavKJW
• Addleshaw Goddard advises on GENinCode IPO - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/I8sCIFlMQu 
• Law Commission recommendations to tackle online abuse such as death threats, racist comments and pile-on harassment have been laid in Parliament | NLJ https://t.co/Y0mLb51Nd
• 'Her inquest concluded she'd had no training and no safety measures had been put in place to mitigate the risks to her' - Girl's tragic balloon accident death in Cardiff marked 125 years on https://t.co/OH6jcToHTz
• The scale of violence against women demands a better response than Priti Patel’s https://t.co/0BQfLDKTE
• RT @ianbrealey: It’s a fair point https://t.co/OwxKqV479a
• #Eritrean footballers on the run face anxious wait in push for safe haven - Four players hiding in Uganda since 2019 are waiting for a resolution and wondering what might have been https://t.co/gom0p30kjY
• City pay and retention continue to climb | Law Gazette https://t.co/jLtcFVimm
• Like millions of #Americans, I can never leave my spouse. I’ll lose my healthcare - My access to doctors is tied to my husband – and his access is tied to his employer. Land of the free indeed https://t.co/dxgk2R5IEC
• #SierraLeone abolishes death penalty - MPs vote unanimously for abolition, making it the 23rd African state to end capital punishment https://t.co/dIpFTwyR
• ‘It’s getting out of hand’: genocide denial outlawed in #Bosnia - Move by international body set up to implement post-war peace deal follows attempts to downplay 1995 Srebrenica massacre https://t.co/I3e5a7FN4
• Ghana: anti-gay bill proposing 10-year prison sentences sparks outrage. Bill could mean 10 years in prison for LGBTQ+ people and those who support their rights https://t.co/chBEevrhbr
• Like many hotel owners around the country, Jess and Andrew Waggitt opened their doors to homeless people during the pandemic as part of the government's Everyone In scheme https://t.co/CTydgY8bFS
• Suspect Tries to Compare Capitol Riot to Last Year’s Violence in Portland, Oregon - right-wing news media and Republican politicians have often made the comparison. Now, in a narrow legal context, a judge will consider the argument. #US https://t.co/gtQ5IODAI
• Bust of Klan Leader Removed from Tennessee State Capitol - State officials removed the sculpture of confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader, Nathan Bedford Forrest, from the State Capitol in Nashville and sent it to the Tennessee State Museum #US https://t.co/jdCoZTJB7
• Supreme Court: Legal basis for surrender of people between Ireland and UK post-Brexit referred to CJEU - Irish Legal News https://t.co/nuEN4UfKM
• Scottish Legal Aid Board agrees to improve approach to equality - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4Xf45Hd6g
• Lawyers' tweets anger mother involved in contentious proceedings | Law Gazette https://t.co/jXAIbn0lm
• Ad men sacked to improve gender pay gap win sex discrimination claim - London tribunal rules men axed after director vowed to ‘obliterate’ J Walter Thompson’s reputation of ‘being full of white men’ https://t.co/bV5pGiJPj
• BrewDog loses IP battle over tiger gin - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4XOxhP8T8v
• Win for Angelina Jolie as court disqualifies judge in Brad Pitt divorce case - Court finds John Ouderkirk did not sufficiently disclose business relationships with Pitt’s attorneys #US https://t.co/QMZFMb15q
• What does the latest public health guidance mean for Scottish businesses? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/q7r513rXu7
• The first batch of dozens of Zimbabweans deported from the UK, have landed in the southern African country. Some of them had been in the UK for decades and were forced to leave their families behind to begin an uncertain future in their country of origin https://t.co/juozj56RbP
• Supreme Court warns of LLP lacuna in VW claim decision | Law Gazette https://t.co/cjSDr9N6lm 
• #China is imposing sanctions on several US individuals and organisations in response to recent US sanctions on Chinese officials in Hong Kong https://t.co/62PpljxwsI

24th July - Law News

Edition 3497: 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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 Today's Highlighted Video Story:
 
"How Can India Say No To Investigation When Other Countries Have Started?": P Chidambaram On Pegasus, "There should be an investigation. France, Israel and Hungary have ordered an investigation. How can our country say they won't investigate this? Our minister is saying there was no unauthorised surveillance. Does that mean there was authorised surveillance?" says Congress leader P Chidambaram.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• US sanctions #Cuba over crackdown on anti-govt protesters https://t.co/ricpi2VdIL
• #Israeli security forces ‘complicit’ in the surge in settler attacks – report https://t.co/QWNZIXS1
• Partner profits up 50% at RPC | Law Gazette https://t.co/v60bIRBzkp 
• Las Vegas murder case cracked with smallest ever amount of DNA #US https://t.co/WdxBqzDtr
• High Court: Trip-and-fall claim dismissed because plaintiff failed to look where he was walking - Irish Legal News https://t.co/BuFZP1xnCR
• Defence lawyer agrees strike-off over prison visit expenses | Law Gazette https://t.co/mTb7MxzY0F
• Brandon Malone calls to the English bar - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DoTPz0pdMw 
• Scottish commercial property investment shows signs of recovery - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/a64vmwyeNx
  
• To assist with jury trials in the High Court, eight sheriffs have been appointed by the Scottish ministers to act as temporary judges from 1 August 2021 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/amIpdijLFD
• Three students have been refused exemption from travel quarantine rules because their vaccination certificates do not show they have had two jabs https://t.co/k3aLYTEQgk
• Wales manager Ryan Giggs has pleaded not guilty to using controlling behaviour and assaulting his ex-girlfriend https://t.co/0WGvXiymIV
• Ten years after neo-Nazi massacre in #Norway survivors say ideology lives on https://t.co/6KB10CtRsE
  
• Post-Brexit UK Shared Prosperity Fund risks damaging constitution further - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OP8x2gk8CM
• Limited number of critical workers to be allowed to avoid self-isolation https://t.co/2zHtZkhxzG 
• #Australian activewear firm fined £2.6m for claiming its clothing "eliminated" and stopped the spread of Covid. Lorna Jane had advertised that its clothing used "a groundbreaking technology" called LJ Shield to prevent the "transferal of all pathogens" https://t.co/xtVQnHek0X
• Firms "overlooking compliance implications" of homeworking - Legal Futures https://t.co/2bdq2eYpJF 
• The Ministry of Defence is investigating the death of a soldier at an Army barracks. Emergency services were called to Larkhill garrison in Salisbury at 12:20 BST on Thursday following the death of a woman in her 30s https://t.co/3GsmNb2Mhp
• Grad wrongly thrown from bar course and refused waiver wins appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/DcBE31Ora7
• High Court criticises Bar Standards Board for "unjust" decisions - Legal Futures https://t.co/g9vMRQdaEu
  
• Failure to pay fiscal fines going unpunished - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LLsau3l5Wl
  
• Omagh bombing could have been prevented, says high court judge - ‘Real prospect’ 1998 attack by dissident republicans could have been thwarted, says Mr Justice Horner https://t.co/eYap1uffbY
• Youth violence likely to explode over summer, UK experts fear - Long-term issues overlain with stress and isolation of Covid have set scene for ‘eruption’, charities say https://t.co/WcSBmjCfsP
• John Barilaro’s lawyers brush off ‘pork barrelling’ statement in Friendlyjordies defamation case - The NSW deputy premier’s legal team has launched an attack on the YouTuber’s defence, labelling it ‘rubbish’ #Australia https://t.co/HFXqos6NAO
• SRA: Number of workplace bullying investigations on the rise - Legal Futures https://t.co/5TmXJPPpBQ
• ECtHR: Man detained under terror suspicions had human rights violated by Turkish authorities - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2VvPXFhGWK
• Supreme Court upholds six-year non-compete clause signed by law firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/jvZNN01XGr
• Thousands aged over 65 failed to apply for EU settled status – report https://t.co/sJ79W7A8S
• SFO receives welcome boost from watchdog | Law Gazette https://t.co/ymri44ZBqz
• Lidl prevented from selling Hampstead gin - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vxemxKGtVu
  
• ‘Incel’ Is Charged With Plotting to Shoot Women, #US Says - Tres Genco, 21, of Hillsboro, Ohio, was charged with an attempted hate crime and illegally possessing a machine gun, federal prosecutors said https://t.co/Mz0muBIYVp
• #Chinese Health Officials Shocked by W.H.O. Covid-19 Origin Study https://t.co/unEbC9dIri
• Trading sex for cosmetic surgery in #Mexico's narco capital https://t.co/jBwIjMofkA
  
• The government has said it will not search the private email account of former Health Secretary Matt Hancock for discussions on official business. Downing Street has admitted Mr Hancock, who quit last month, used his personal address for this reason https://t.co/lQQEfeQCce
  
• Six people have been taken to hospital after being struck in a serious crash as a car hit a pub in south Wales. A pedestrian has suffered life-changing injuries after the collision outside The Windsor Hotel in Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf https://t.co/RcTif7TgVC
• Tech firm hit by giant ransomware hack gets key to unlock victims’ data - Kaseya’s universal key can free the files of hundreds of organizations, ending the worst of the attack’s fallout https://t.co/bVtYmUCofa
• District judge recruitment crisis 'could take years to fix' | Law Gazette https://t.co/zVIg5Bnr3e
  
• Central Bank proposes ban on 'price walking' by insurers - Irish Legal News https://t.co/8HZhfdLje
• #Italy is introducing a mandatory Covid vaccination certificate from 6 August, the latest country in Europe to announce such a scheme https://t.co/BB4Q6Ppynq