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Friday

23rd July - Law News

Edition 3496: 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:
 
An Israeli firm accused of supplying Pegasus spyware to governments has been linked to a list of tens of thousands of smartphone numbers, including those of activists, journalists, business executives and politicians around the world, according to reports.


Focus of the Day Article:
Bitter leadership dispute at India’s L&L Partners sparks 21-partner breakaway fir. Top New Delhi corporate lawyer Mohit Saraf unveils ‘modern’ and ‘inclusive’ Saraf & Partners  Full story - The Global Legal Post
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Pilot praises RAF Lakenheath plane spotter for saving his life https://t.co/znZ2SWCbY
  • Sheriff solemn cases exceed pre-Covid average - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cUg1I1N3sP
  • Partners of fraudster allowed defence against client claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/hiXoUolhsf
  • Many popular websites fell offline on Thursday in a widespread global outage of service. Visitors attempting to reach some sites received DNS errors, meaning their requests could not reach the websites https://t.co/IoXDbLsSlr 
  • UK food workers to be exempt from Covid isolation https://t.co/qqYwVF5HEg 
  • Lawyer-turned-politician Des O'Malley passes away at 82 - Irish Legal News https://t.co/z0lV2vHNSU
  • Judicial conduct guidelines to close 'gap in judicial accountability' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/3hpVkT8G6
  • An analysis of the Nationality and Borders Bill | Law Gazette https://t.co/kHzuaQOX9r
  • Some Tory MPs to boycott conference if vaccine passports required for entry https://t.co/uE54yThD7
  • We have no confidence in Priti Patel, says Police Federation - Police officers in England and Wales furious at pay freeze after months on frontline of Covid crisis https://t.co/FAnEZyIDcn
  • The British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch should be extradited to the US to face criminal fraud charges, a London judge has ruled - home secretary to have the final say https://t.co/3DT8V43XIS 
  • Supreme Court: Condition of sentence restraining employment of accused person for seven years was disproportionate - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Sm3BMB8Px
  • Lords: ‘Legal but harmful’ online content regulation poses threat to free speech - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/629OWSnlnl
  • Solicitors could be forced down digital route on LPAs | Law Gazette https://t.co/7ogbbOp9bn
  • More than 220 groups criticise UK review of Human Rights Act - Charities, trade unions and belief groups among coalition, which is also attacking judicial review bill https://t.co/8BgkGjga9i 
  • Judicial review bill to let judges modify quashing orders - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XapumIrypM 
  • Anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson has lost a High Court libel case brought by a Syrian schoolboy. Jamal Hijazi was filmed being attacked in the playground at Almondbury School in Huddersfield in October 2018 https://t.co/sjMCpZVUsV
  • Law Society Scotland warns justice secretary to pay heed to presumption of innocence - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qhI1p8meA
  • Croydon tram crash: Passengers accidentally killed, jury finds https://t.co/VyQRsa3KhW
  • Teodoro Obiang Mangue, vice-president of #EquatorialGuinea who is said to have spent £199,000 ($275,000) on a glove worn by Michael Jackson is among five people to receive new UK "anti-corruption" sanctions. https://t.co/k61ObabAW
  • Subpostmasters wrongly convicted of offences in a Post Office IT scandal will get interim compensation of up to £100,000, the government has said. As of this week, a total of 59 former sub-postmasters have had their convictions quashed https://t.co/BGhm6ZFOc
  • NI: Stormont unanimously rejects proposal for Troubles 'statute of limitations' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/hOS4neqSBA
  • Ashurst partner profits surpass £1m | Law Gazette https://t.co/WAJFjmdT2r
  • Offering more law degrees “could save struggling universities” - Legal Futures https://t.co/UqnSGe0Qm
  • Fiona McLeod: Update – revised property factors code of conduct - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UkyIBBDEQY
  • Coping with Identity Threat as Minority in Nigeria | Igazeuma Okoroba https://t.co/zvEwfGvgTj 
  • Keith Brown promises reforms to raise conviction rate in sex cases - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/M0G6XdHdS
  • Solicitor struck off for “reckless” prison legal aid claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/jUOKQe3UN
  • Solicitor elected 'first black senior partner' at UK top 100 law firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/QKsfJRFxgn
  • Law firm uses exit shares to tempt consultants - Legal Futures https://t.co/e1JV4QPqUP 
  • Lord Matthews appointed to Inner House - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6VilcOwzQ
  • Chinese billionaire Cheung Chung-kiu granted planning permission to construct eight-storey, private palace overlooking Hyde Park - Westminster council unable to block grand plans for Knightsbridge property despite ban on “Monopoly board-style” homes https://t.co/SKG0wNl30H 
  • Regulators target inconsistencies in approach to bullying and harassment - Legal Futures https://t.co/hmpLmyj4p
  • The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo 2020 organisers have performed a U-turn over their stance to stop their social media teams from posting pictures of athletes taking the knee at these Olympic Games https://t.co/iGWQXYJ
  • Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to rape and sexual assault in LA trial - The convicted rapist is serving a 23-year prison term in New York and now faces the possibility of another sentence in California #US https://t.co/2zjaCwtS4R
  • Drug Distributors and J.&J. Reach $26 Billion Deal to End Opioids Lawsuits #US https://t.co/BgRwB9ggEG
  • 'Ringing alarm bells': concern mounts over Judicial Review Bill | Law Gazette https://t.co/FieDgl3Ugu 
  • Olympics opening ceremony director sacked for Holocaust joke - Footage of Kentaro Kobayashi from the 1990s recently emerged in which he seems to be making jokes about the Holocaust #Japan https://t.co/ymumSRio
  • Combatting Chemical Weapon Disinformation | Adaku Jane Echendu https://t.co/fEmGwiibjQ
  • Scotland’s malicious prosecution scandal – the silence is deafening - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/H0K1oRwby4
  • DWF reports profit turnaround after office closures | Law Gazette https://t.co/DoMaFlrcA7
  • ECtHR: Post-mortem examination of baby violated parents’ humans rights - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4t8tzwZDcT
  • #Argentina has unveiled a new national identity system for people who identify as non-binary. Under national law, Argentinians have the right to identify themselves as gender neutral https://t.co/xasVJLXxTo
  • JR bill boosts online courts agenda | Law Gazette https://t.co/QQJIucb6gF Jul 22, 2021
  • DWF profits up over a fifth to £172m as firm returns to pre-Covid activity - Irish Legal News https://t.co/2opyfYzvCT
  • Donna Brennan joins BTO as legal director - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cvXLgpC7AU 
  • Bill seeks to 'draw a line' on ouster clauses with new JR framework | Law Gazette https://t.co/XahJHtfioj

Thursday

22nd July - Law News

Edition 3495: 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:
 Indian PM Narendra Modi has been accused of “treason” and spying on his main political rival, Rahul Gandhi, following reports of surveillance of Indian politicians, journalists, activists and government critics using Israeli-made spyware


Focus of the Day Article:
The High Court has refused an application from a London firm to be substituted for their deceased client in a £1.5m litigation claim. Mr Justice Marcus Smith ruled in Farrar & Anor v Miller that an assignment signed by Peter Farrar to his solicitors Candey Limited had transferred nothing to the firm and had no effect.  Full story - The Law Society Gazette
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Top-50 financial results table: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/bEQsXQjLnV
  • California couple whose gender-reveal party sparked a wildfire charged with 30 crimes - The pyrotechnic device sparked the destructive El Dorado fire, which destroyed five homes and killed one firefighter #US https://t.co/XD7ZRPb28P
  • Medical evidence must be up to date and focus on correct issues - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LlB5yZF6H4
  • The discredited legal tactic that’s putting abused UK children in danger - Our family courts are allowing perpetrators to use the bogus idea of ‘parental alienation’ to gain access to their victims https://t.co/ugTrjx3gH
  • Solicitor banned over forged signatures on loan application | Law Gazette https://t.co/Vm5VaMezt9
  • Grants awarded to 13 crofters - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BkwsvZ9SnK
  • Home Secretary Priti Patel has defended a new £54.2m deal with France to stem the rising number of migrants crossing the English Channel, denying that it was "sending good money after bad" after a £28.2m deal last November failed to limit crossings https://t.co/vn546CLq4
  • #Spanish police have arrested a 22-year-old UK citizen, Joseph O'Connor in connection with the hacking of 130 high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of Elon Musk, Barack Obama and Kanye West https://t.co/WEb3Drhl7
  • Words – how a right becomes a cost | Law Gazette https://t.co/qGtcgXZBQ
  • LSRA handled over 1,400 complaints in its first year as complaints body - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ePnTGIvJdQ
  • Court blocks firm being substituted into claim of dead client | Law Gazette https://t.co/VYs3vs3bWb
  • A neo-Nazi who created two banned terrorist groups has been jailed for seven years. Andrew Dymock, 24, from Bath, was convicted of 12 terror offences and three hate crimes last month https://t.co/ko0E6YniXp
  • New sentencing guidelines approved by High Court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lymTnpwNL3
  • James Crawford when, as director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, he invited me, a non-lawyer, to become a member and pursue an interest in the political aspects of international law in the creation of the international court of justice https://t.co/d2RRoPY294
  • What does climate change mean for your practice? | Law Gazette https://t.co/EySJZjA5tA
  • Emily Hunt fought to make sure no woman is filmed naked without consent https://t.co/bbsZZAEl45
  • Eversheds Sutherland partners with Children's Rights Alliance - Irish Legal News https://t.co/BsFx5mDUDr
  • What is #SouthAfrica’s ‘inevitable showdown’ really about? - This crisis presents the chance for the government to accelerate the undoing of the country’s corruption and apartheid inheritance — otherwise risk its survival https://t.co/EXK3HleTj
  • Colonialism, dehumanisation and neoliberal state-building in #Palestine https://t.co/QBaKrbCtX
  • Negligence action against lawyers over amputation not time-barred - Legal Futures https://t.co/0U55q6iZg3
  • Dr Michael Heath: Families feared they cremated the wrong person - Two bereaved families feared they had "cremated the wrong person" due to errors in the post-mortem reports of a serially discredited pathologist https://t.co/Fue8Bkuvaa
  • Government seeks regulator for electronic IDs | Law Gazette https://t.co/EVZJkxZdWp
  • Digital LPAs to be registered in two weeks under reform plan - Legal Futures https://t.co/aY57t6SXe
  • High Court: Planning permission for safe injection site near primary school quashed - Irish Legal News https://t.co/0byfc905e
  • Family Counselling, De-radicalization and Counter-Terrorism: The Danish and German programs in context. | Daniel Koehler https://t.co/C5mXsXLht2
  • The growth game – better to buy than build? - Legal Futures https://t.co/el2mWIefbF
  • Law Society sounds warning against judicial review bill - Some fear legislation, to be published on Wednesday, will prevent challenges by most marginalised https://t.co/x14G4Xgzt2
  • Home working helps profits bounce back at Gateley | Law Gazette https://t.co/euK7CUFOwW
  • Unsolicited sending of obscene images should be made illegal through the creation of a new offence of cyberflashing, a UK government-commissioned review recommended https://t.co/ONyj9TocfJ
  • More wrongfully convicted subpostmasters vindicated - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ko3qY9tp8
  • Journalists could face 14 years in prison for embarrassing the Government under proposed law change https://t.co/FIhAbnazg
  • Thomas Barrack, Trump Fund-Raiser, Is Indicted on Lobbying Charge - the chairman of Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, was accused of failing to register as a lobbyist for the United Arab Emirates, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators #US https://t.co/F7Ot4mVbLX
  • Buckland hopes to deter crime with 'highly visible' unpaid work | Law Gazette https://t.co/psyFisyt5J 
  • Home advantage for Scotland’s Telders mooters - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sAduWyAvXT 
  • Vue cinema chain fined £750,000 over seat crush death https://t.co/tRMbChlsFF
  • Parenting charity calls for ‘new vision’ for child contact centres - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/G4Bzdw6kVR
  • Bullish Clifford Chance hails ‘strongest performance to date’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/x7TIbN8ln5
  • A top police officer will be put in charge of tackling violence against women and girls in England and Wales, the home secretary will announce. The creation of the role was recommended in a report after 33-year-old Sarah Everard was murdered in March https://t.co/Cb7k0B2SJa
  • Covid cases pass 100 at HMP Perth - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/smSOEPhRWQ