16th September- Law News

Edition 3186: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice.

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Focus of the Day Law Article: The government of the Australian state of Victoria has launched a review into sexual harassment in the legal profession following a “deeply disturbing” survey that found that a majority women had faced it. Full story - Legal Futures

Today's Highlighted Video Story:  The world's worst humanitarian crisis is deepening in Yemen after its three major donors, the US, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, dramatically reduced aid to the country this year.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Pensioner to appear in court accused of killing woman and toddler over 40 years ago - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Fv2RglNPAe
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/gfcNJOPTQI
• Paul Motion: Vigilante live stream case leaves reputational questions unanswered - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3vuf5a9KKp
• New student-led law project comes to Tayside and Perthshire - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8D96S6wRWu
• Junior civil servants asked to work on Brexit policy that they fear might break the law, have been advised to inform their managers https://t.co/k3o0iZuxp
• ICE whistleblower: Nurse alleges 'hysterectomies on immigrant women in #US' https://t.co/1veqZmYZW
• Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford found out about a major coronavirus data breach 11 days after his Health Minister Vaughan Gething, according to accounts given in the Senedd by the pair https://t.co/mQvRdQZ9i
• Revealed: Boris Johnson under fire over ‘personal’ meeting with Russian oligarch during COVID-19 pandemic https://t.co/fuw4bkUd3
• Paul Mason joins Womble Bond Dickinson as partner - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZzKs1tEaxE
• The 59-year-old woman who has to live in a van due to the housing crisis https://t.co/7o27MIz4K
• 400,000 Immigrants Can Be Forced to Leave the #US Court Rules https://t.co/djR9U53lE
• Lawyers of Tomorrow – Sian Nolan - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DPjf2lh0Wa
• Women lose state pension age appeal against government https://t.co/F3UdkHvkmZ
• George Bizos obituary: Human rights lawyer in apartheid #SouthAfrica who represented Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial https://t.co/KmXT9js
• Daughter of Hotel #Rwanda dissident criticises Belgium's response to arrest https://t.co/ztYfizsr2
• Ministers want powers to break international law: how did your MP vote? https://t.co/VtssG5ANNX
• The events firm celebrating landmark Covid insurance ruling - Boss of Circa Group says high court ruling will save her business https://t.co/Ww9jEOYab1
• Aberdeen lawyers call for temporary courtrooms to tackle backlog of cases - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZSGwmj73v
• The family of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, have agreed a multimillion-dollar settlement with the city, US media report #US https://t.co/275LWlu00f
• New ‘opt out’ system for organ donation to be introduced next March - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LbaInGu1vi
• Ten new Queen’s Counsel appointed - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/S6Ky5vPSEC
• Child abduction appeal allowed for child retained in England over Christmas - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/P9KqWpJNkc
• Four people have been jailed in #Vietnam for their roles in the death of 39 migrants found in a lorry in Essex, according to state media reports https://t.co/6HSsVPF97c
• Small businesses have been thrown a lifeline after the High Court ruled some insurers should have paid out for losses caused by lockdown https://t.co/FbUmP6NtO
• Families stopping to talk in the street would be in breach of the rule of six restrictions, the home secretary has said https://t.co/mIB8sPJqEK
• Female Australian lawyers face "high levels" of sexual harassment - Legal Futures https://t.co/LT98o6cPq
• Convicted conveyancer struck off for facilitiating mortgage fraud - Legal Futures https://t.co/bsQCWWhbPp
• PI solicitor "compromised independence" in dealings with CMC - Legal Futures https://t.co/nGn6Ha9xxx
• Charlie Elphicke: Ex-MP jailed for sex assaults on women https://t.co/7HnqJBHiqF
• Shareholders back in the money despite firm’s profits falling | Law Gazette https://t.co/Xknnq3vzlq
• Custody limits: judge risked appearance of bias, court told | Law Gazette https://t.co/eReRJoOXQd
• High Court welcomes three new solicitor-judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/USWQLQYD40
• BSB admits underestimating number caught up in exam fiasco | Law Gazette https://t.co/f4l0QrBjO6
• Lords request that silent Buckland makes Brexit bill statement | Law Gazette https://t.co/WHlbiy1I4l
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/gs3vbncOnD
• Covid-hit law firms shed staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/iuyWSRpjd0
• Wales should use micro-quarantines to avoid a second national lockdown in the winter, Plaid Cymru has said. The Welsh Government will later outline how it will tackle coronavirus in the NHS during the winter months https://t.co/wbzB2s8rQB
• A dentist who was secretly stalked by a former patient has spoken of his shock that he was not told immediately his stalker had been released from custody https://t.co/lZyVTHshL
• My legal life: Tom Keya, Director of Berkeley Rowe, London - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/KpaGbMnZLs
• Victoria police officer appears to stomp on man's head during arrest #Australia https://t.co/UxLZM8vuOo
• Unemployment: Planned redundancies twice the rate of last recession https://t.co/uAHyOqNFsd
• Unison: Care workers who made £4 an hour awarded in £100,000 court case https://t.co/TFLEvCuL6
• Lawyer in the news: Partner, UK and European patent attorney, EIP - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/GvSO8huFF
• Morton Fraser donates £10,000 to Children 1st - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/pznxbAEIsB
• Trade deal will boost Japan access moves, says Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/TgXp1LbSc
• Conor Gearty: The rule of law is out in Brexit U-turn - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KepL1ib9x0
• News focus: 'Tide turning' for holiday illness claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/UVJOKudaa
• Crofting Commission wins appeal court ruling preventing tenant crofters erecting wind turbines - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qEdlMQEo3A
• Criminal claim possible for COVID-19 deaths at Home Farm Care Home - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1mpW28t7M
• Geoffrey Cox threatens to rebel over ‘unconscionable’ Brexit U-turn - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JxLhQbIpMq
• Lawyers of Tomorrow – Faisal Shafaq - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GA22ilTmSE
• Crown Office legal team makes concession in Rangers case - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/PA1XrqQRR
• The government has issued highly detailed dos and don'ts for the UK Jewish community as it celebrates its most important festivals of the year https://t.co/HAJoew5A1
• Hunting in England exempt from 'rule of six' Covid-19 restrictions https://t.co/3zTXizJClY
• Renters fleeing inner London in 'race for space', data suggests https://t.co/o8qkSTU6AQ 
• Pilot initiative at Hamilton Sheriff Court to reduce COVID-19 backlog - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9XiyWUTDHf
• Official post-Brexit report warns of queues of 7,000 lorries in Kent https://t.co/09Cm4QjfP2
• Maximum jail term for attacking emergency workers to be doubled: Increase to two years is among series of sentencing reforms announced by Ministry of Justice https://t.co/UCbka9VIMO
• There is no choice over the rule of law | Law Gazette https://t.co/DdqckP1hiG
• Scottish Public Information Forum to focus on access to information during COVID-19 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Xzl8Xiyveu

15th September- Law News

Edition 3185: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice.

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Focus of the Day Law Article: Pressure is growing in the Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Keen of Elie QC, to refuse to give his consent to the proposed UK Internal Market Bill. The bill allows ministers to “disapply” rules agreed over the goods that cross between Britain and Northern Ireland. Section 45(1) of the bill states that certain provisions “have effect notwithstanding any relevant international or domestic law with which they may be incompatible or inconsistent”.. Full story - Scottish Legal News

Today's Highlighted Video Story:  New laws banning people from meeting in groups of more than 6 have come into force in England, Scotland and Wales. In England, where fines of up to £3,200 apply, the Home Office minister Kit Malthouse urged people to report their neighbours to police if they're seen breaking the new laws. But guidance has yet to be issued to police forces on how to enforce the rules which differ across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• More than 80,000 people have signed a petition calling for Oliver Campbell's murder conviction to be overturned https://t.co/SGeDl3bf3P
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/AaJdckGgLA
  
• Norwich solicitor who admitted taking almost £2m from clients and charities after being duped by lottery scammers is to be sentenced later this year https://t.co/aFYzqsrPc5
• Submit plan to curb concretisation effect of Badshapur drain, GMDA told #India https://t.co/yiGbZvszYj
• Tenancy Tribunal: Tenants win compensation after living with ill-functioning toilet for three months #NewZealand https://t.co/JZ0dOepLrg
• Consumer Claims Tribunal decision: Seldom-used dishwasher dispute: - a synthesis of a recent case referred to the Consumer Claims Tribunal #Malta https://t.co/vrM9k0VJXz
• BT broadband bills could reach £100,000 for rural users: Despite legislation to guarantee nationwide connectivity, black spots could face long waits and huge installation costs https://t.co/6eOjX4RksN
• Police urge people in England to respect Covid ‘rule of six’ https://t.co/6LzOZmFNCP
• For the Tories, breaking the law is just a sign of strength - Our leaders enjoy indulgent impunity while those they deem to be outcasts face ‘zero tolerance’ and merciless persecution https://t.co/wkyuCe3en3
• My working week: 'I cry after hearing one domestic abuse survivor's story. She is lucky to be alive': My job is to make women who suffer domestic violence safer. I wonder if they know how I wish I could do more https://t.co/tgHwpvcJ2C
• Feminists Paper Paris With Stark Posters Decrying Domestic Abuse #France https://t.co/kPRNnSvfh
• The government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said he was rebuked for arguing strongly in favour of imposing Covid lockdown restrictions earlier this year, it has emerged https://t.co/8eLM5b4gb
• In a lawsuit filed in New Jersey, a former member of the well-known Shanghai Quartet said he had been dumped after a remark he made on social media was misinterpreted as an ethnic slur #US https://t.co/1sV4Uv66WE
• BSB: Exams problems "worse than thought" as it rejects alternative plan - Legal Futures https://t.co/foS5hNCLWk
• Pressure grows on Lord Keen to refuse consent to Internal Market Bill or resign - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/15GGmMl9x
• Editorial: Lord Keen is in an impossible position for a man of integrity - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hT3CmmFos
• Bernadette Walker's parents charged with murder https://t.co/FhS4pOJ7sD
• Firm fined for secretly charging clients to repay loan - Legal Futures https://t.co/1k0YTq1Bk
• High Court rejects challenge to foreign in-house lawyers' privilege - Legal Futures https://t.co/5Q0Toche3Q
• The National Green Tribunal #India has rapped Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) over its "incompetence" to decide the environmental impact of sand mining in a coastal village in Kollam district https://t.co/HZk0TNRHz
• Former Liberal MP Raj Grewal charged with fraud, breach of trust #Canada https://t.co/Fnr53aIXMw
• Fifth UK ex-PM speaks out against post-Brexit bill tabled by present Conservative government https://t.co/9Ny9RCHx0
• Manchester Arena Inquiry: Relatives to give 'pen portraits' https://t.co/HijkEPQ3v
• The Corporate Counsel Show: Managing perfectionism in an imperfect legal world - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/SIVQHwCfH
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/rXfHoAIMD9
• Newsreader ordered to pay $10,000 to trans woman for vilifying her as a 'male bully' on Facebook https://t.co/ebqJo2pzKx
• JD Wetherspoon has said that despite 66 of its workers having tested positive for the coronavirus, visiting the company pubs is safe https://t.co/otL4FgvSsT
• TikTok rejects Microsoft bid at eleventh hour https://t.co/DdvBWELztU
• UK-based computer chip designer ARM Holdings is being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia. The deal values ARM at $40bn (£31.2bn), four years after it was bought by Japanese conglomerate Softbank for $32bn https://t.co/gQqIespzn
• Restrictions banning social gatherings of more than six people are now in effect, as Covid-19 cases keep rising https://t.co/9hZKhj9L61
• AFT to examine role of major general in case of irregularities in construction works #India https://t.co/8ERVpRWU8S
• How a Biden presidency could impact #Australian lawyers - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/msDpeAItK
• Increased efficiency a welcome by-product of virtual courtrooms #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/cHOMdIoYxW
  
• Winners revealed for 2020 Women in Finance Awards #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/IphLLOMbN3
• Limited physical hearings: Supreme Court releases e-user guide for counsel and clerks, details for special hearing entry pass https://t.co/NLjYy07b9z
• NEET Applicant will be allowed to write exam in Urdu: State informs Bombay HC [Read Order] https://t.co/pvRbj2oLjR
• Both sides "toasted" over toast at Dhaba: SC while granting bail person accused in shootout during honeymoon trip [Read Order] #India https://t.co/3cMzYnebVD
• Gujarat High Court issues Standard Operating Procedure for the resumption of physical functioning [Read SOP] https://t.co/vP2kyWDoJx
• Delhi HC asks DU to create online mechanism for issuance of marksheets/transcripts https://t.co/mvxrD5WYFM
• Brussels considers EU equality law change to tackle racism: Draft EU action plan proposes to investigate whether race equality directive has gaps https://t.co/qUbg0S42R
• UK government plans to remove key human rights protections: Opt-out from parts of European convention would speed up deportation of asylum seekers https://t.co/GOAsPDAb4W
• Black Police Chiefs, Feeling Squeezed, Face Criticism on All Sides #US https://t.co/1kIWMItsQy
  
• Motorists who cause death by speeding could face life sentence: Law change will ensure dangerous drivers face full force of law, says minister https://t.co/rWF1ngDNEh

14th September- Law News

Edition 3184: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice.

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Focus of the Day Law Article: The government’s Internal Market Bill puts the UK at risk of trade sanctions from EU member states, and could breach devolution laws, lawyers have warned. The Bill gives ministers powers to ‘disapply’ rules relating to the movement of goods in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Full story - New Law Journal

Today's Highlighted Video Story:  Some 5,000 Palermo (Italy) citizens have been evacuated, after a Second World War bomb containing an estimated 120kg of powerful explosives was discovered near the city’s port.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• TAX Appeal Tribunal Rules That Rent is Not Subject to VAT #Nigeria https://t.co/giHZi6WI8W
• Top 10 spots for Glasgow, Solent, Leeds and Aberdeen in latest law school rankings - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JlO11ddD0
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/8LKcGyWkPa
• 8 City law firms among most family-friendly employers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Lk2pKb9gO
• ‘The Truth Hurts’: The fault lines in the #Australian criminal justice system - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/S8Cm7GczfR
• ‘Extremely drunk’ senior partner fined £10k after kissing and touching paralegal in wine bar - Legal Cheek https://t.co/6HY4iDMnzT
  
• Madras High Court on Friday issued notice to music composer A R Rahman on a petition filed by the Income Tax department alleging that he used a foundation in which he is the managing trustee as a conduit to evade tax #India https://t.co/gTJbAi5X7b
• Are we kicking the insolvency and restructuring can down the road? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Fl61ZbempP
• No gown, no cap, no ceremony: What the coronavirus pandemic means for lawyers in waiting #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/xcABKqBaY7
• Food firms have written to the government asking for support as a stand-off with landlords looms over rent holidays https://t.co/P1SA0vw69
• More than 70 people have been arrested in Melbourne, #Australia, for flouting the state's stay-at-home orders to attend an anti-lockdown protest https://t.co/3idpbEwjb0
• DWF reveals profit uptick despite ‘significant COVID-19 impact' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8jnU1caEne
  
• CJI SA Bobde releases book written by Justice (retd.) R Banumathi in a virtual book launch event, Justice NV Ramana receives first copy #India https://t.co/UEXtH77uZw 
• Life as a restructuring lawyer during a global crisis - Legal Cheek https://t.co/UODQKpkbn
• Amazed that FIRs are being registered under Section 66A of IT Act, despite it being declared ultra vires: Allahabad High Court #India https://t.co/MPRPuY8nJU
• Top government lawyer quits in Brexit row - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Me0apmGgTU
• "Judges have become the subject of juicy gossip": CJI SA Bobde and Justice NV Ramana comment on criticism of judges #Inda https://t.co/lt5dTqFh
• Graduate to employee: The law student’s guide to securing a legal career #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/0gqGli2g
• ULaw and BPP prepare to reopen following COVID shutdown - Legal Cheek https://t.co/S7ib6i8qq2
• Courts cannot act as a mute spectator in crimes against women, should act like Lord Krishna and protect Dharma: Karnataka High Court #India https://t.co/XTAOuTP7s
• Federal Circuit Court judge’s ‘cruel, humiliating’ conduct results in retrial #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/38uKHLg1D9
• Private members club frequented by top judges and QCs faces legal action over men-only policy - Legal Cheek https://t.co/gH2O5IUAK
• "Pros and Cons of Media Trial": Senior Advocates weigh in during Ram Jethmalani Memorial Lecture #India https://t.co/t4AsmXN2xQ
• COVID-19: Regulator predicts drop in pupillage numbers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FhnvNtPQSv
• Whistle-Blower’s Complaint Ignites a Smoldering Homeland Security Agency #US https://t.co/ACMsWoZM3Z
• Advocate Prashant Bhushan moves Supreme Court seeking right to appeal against conviction for criminal contempt of Court #India https://t.co/0hna7IPnTJ
  
• Controversial law firm fights NSW Law Society on complaint over COVID-19 actions #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/vKLnjmnQNc
  
• Future City lawyer Bethany Barrett examines the escalating row between developers and tech giants, including Fortnite owners Epic Games’ legal battle against Apple - Legal Cheek https://t.co/nszOqGt3p
• Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has defended plans to potentially override the EU Withdrawal Agreement as an emergency Brexit "insurance policy" https://t.co/KcHFnoqe4
• Weightmans retains 84% of trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/TKzs3bdBc0
• Clayton Utz launches unique partnership with Australian String Quartet - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Jdbt1sRXI6
• Come into the office just 60% of the time, Herbert Smith Freehills tells lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Y3ifMCAfF
• Big screen justice: Cinemas to host Scottish jury trials - Legal Cheek https://t.co/xXBLLtK7eB 
• Asylum seekers & refugees immersed in creative writing to share experiences: writer Eric Ngalle Charles (@yomadene), who runs the classes, said they can be used to help people to express the challenge of seeking asylum and deal with past experiences https://t.co/7zovKhGMh
• What is the impact on society of the business of law? Justice is what distinguishes the business of law from other businesses. A real and enduring commitment to it is the mark of a good lawyer - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/NaZUqPPCcD
• Yorkshire Firm fined £30k after charging clients to fund its loan repayments | Law Gazette https://t.co/VAvRYpcHmg
• SRA reportedly probing Mishcon de Reya - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vMAuyFIyO
• Taxi driver rips up 8 tickets after winning tribunal case in parking row - Councillors to examine how one Cleethorpes resident refused to settle repeated fines for parking on Oxford Court and won 8 times https://t.co/LZ97PDSSC
• National firm fails to provide ‘accurate’ cost estimate in dispute #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/JLJbYalI3z
  
• Bar exams latest: BSB pushes ahead with ‘pen and paper’ October resits - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GRXa3Azznw 
• Clifford Chance lawyers on how COVID-19 is changing law and business - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3LUmq8cSCt
  
• Inner Temple awards £18,500 scholarship to struck-off doctor - Legal Cheek https://t.co/nvp2D9Zuq3 
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/QEkhxUGEMZ 
• Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election. Trump meanwhile promises to ‘put down’ leftwing protests and says US Marshals killing Portland suspect was ‘retribution’ #US https://t.co/mKPtUVCcR8
• 300 years on, will thousands of women burned as witches finally get justice? Lawyer seeks pardon for 2,500 Scots who were tortured and killed in ‘satanic panic’ begun by James VI https://t.co/v10hcb8AN
• Teenagers convicted of terrorism in England and Wales could receive whole-life terms under sentencing reforms described by the government as the most radical in almost 20 years https://t.co/Ib0LNgTxG3
• Migrants allowed off Danish tanker Maersk into #Italy after 40 days at sea https://t.co/YHUMf8SRdG
  
• Nottingham house party host fined £10K https://t.co/815gd86edg

13th September- Law News

Edition 3183: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice.

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Today's Highlighted Video Story: The attacker behind New Zealand's worst mass shooting has been sentenced to life in prison, without the chance of parole. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch last year. In March this year, Tarrant surprised prosecutors by entering a guilty plea, and his sentencing may help provide some closure and healing.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Disclosure pilot creating ‘adversarial environment’, litigators fear | Law Gazette https://t.co/tkp8v6CuUa
• Fifth of firms clamp down on client entertainment post #MeToo | Law Gazette https://t.co/s9xTVYc1hV
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/aJFwAPqiva 
• Legal aid heroism stretches to buying baby formula for a client | Law Gazette https://t.co/HVb63BqQt
• Solicitor avoids ban after blaming mistakes on ‘nightmare’ software | Law Gazette https://t.co/mODwZsW3a
• Diverse perspectives are key to responding to change | Law Gazette https://t.co/qizwPZHBSG
• #Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari executed despite global outcry: Afkari had been convicted of killing security guard during anti-government protests in 2018 https://t.co/4WMhBC58p
• UK move to classify Extinction Rebellion 'organised crime group' comes under fire https://t.co/5U6vRQNyF
• So what lies behind ultra-loyalist Attorney General Suella Braverman’s rise to the top? https://t.co/GWyMt3fD0
• 'Undergraduate tosh': government outlines legal position on Brexit bill | Law Gazette https://t.co/5M52Wnsl9J
• Moria migrants tear gassed by #Greek police in protest over new camp https://t.co/MRuZzvDATG
• Cocaine worth £1m seized in investigation into suspected NI crime group https://t.co/O6VTHdYYp
• Government law officers reject calls to quit over Brexit legislation | Law Gazette https://t.co/S2dQGk1nk
• BAME is not my name | Law Gazette https://t.co/xUrhj25fS
• Thinktank backs smarter community sentences to cut reoffending | Law Gazette https://t.co/WpBq40zdge
• Motorways to trial 60mph limits to cut pollution https://t.co/HqJ8mNJBWG
• Newquay attack: Man charged with assault of police officer https://t.co/YtQOyRQYBL
• People in the UK must not treat this weekend as a "party" before the new "rule of six" coronavirus restrictions come into force on Monday, a police union has warned https://t.co/3u2kDwjzPQ
  
• Lords request that silent Buckland makes Brexit bill statement | Law Gazette https://t.co/WHlbiy1I4l
• Paralegal barred after misleading court into restoring claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/DWjzKP2BE
• New figures show criminal court backlog has surged past 500,000 | Law Gazette https://t.co/yBA7wEqqkf
• A Florida man who fled from a large alligator in his storage shed was left embarrassed after police discovered it was a swimming pool inflatable - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/rOWRqSQH5y
  
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/2ULccVhgJg
• Michael Cox joins BTO as senior associate - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/X8khI7ToVD
• Plans to build a replacement for Barlinnie Prison on derelict land at Provanmill have gained planning permission in principle - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UfjDdjTvRp
• Immigration solicitors made bankrupt by SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/oXc8W8SLnA
• Demand for fraud partners “to rise dramatically” after pandemic - Legal Futures https://t.co/3h2rZRhFSg
• Solicitor used jailed client's money to prop up firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/LwklphrS1R
• Community Justice Fund grants hit £6m in four months - Legal Futures https://t.co/I7FH4ovXlB
• Burges Salmon advises international startup on venture debt financing - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uVjkSMYbc
• Winners of Scottish Universities Law Institute scholarships announced - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wOTdmFgtB
• Law student seeks solicitors to sit on board of diversity project - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YUDOO16f7
• Coronavirus: England 'on knife-edge' as cases rise and lockdowns grow https://t.co/y70EncD8eu
• Lawyers of Tomorrow – Christy Guthrie - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/F9gNmUxMlL
• BLM dance routine on Britain's Got Talent triggers 15,500 complaints by racists - Performance by Diversity was inspired by the killing of George Floyd in the US https://t.co/kSBcE6brpb
• Drug deaths in Scotland are an epidemic – yet Westminster is blocking reform | Dani Garavelli https://t.co/Xi4oeKMTfW
  
• Scale of failure in prison system staggering, say MPs https://t.co/ygXnPBl6Hh

12th September- Law News

 Edition 3182: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice.

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Today's Highlighted Video Story:  Former Comptroller Auditor General Shashi Kant Sharma and former Air Vice Marshal Jasbir Singh Panesar are set to be prosecuted by India's CBI, pending government sanction, in the AgustaWestland scam case, agency sources said Friday. The CBI has approached the Defence Ministry for permission to begin proceedings in court against Mr Sharma and Mr Panesar, as well as three others named by the central agency, the sources added.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The University of Cambridge has emerged victorious in a new intervarsity Roman law moot - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/J71097ifox
• Federal Court Rejects Trump’s Order to Exclude Undocumented From #US Census https://t.co/fESH1QB3Vw
• Prisoners have been given permission to open Scotland’s first fine-dining vegan restaurant for the public on the grounds of a maximum-security prison, HMP Perth - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/pbdHBAWgJ4
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/gh065qGCme
• Working from home 2.0: Is this the end of working from home? - Legal Futures https://t.co/E5c4pQidw
• Covid-secure marshals will be introduced in towns and city centres in England to help ensure social distancing rules are followed https://t.co/NCJJNG5rCq
• Why Paul Rusesabagina was arrested in #Rwanda - In Britain, the ‘Hotel Rwanda dissident’ would almost certainly be charged under our anti-terrorism laws, says the MP Andrew Mitchell https://t.co/GbrNKQzcO
• #Belgian king's daughter fights for right to call herself a princess: Delphine Boël, whose mother had affair with ex-king Albert II, also wants to take her father’s surname https://t.co/vA0XPOjiVm
• Scale of failure in prison system staggering, say MPs: Minister have not met pledge to improve condition of prison estate, committee says https://t.co/7Jt6FaKtI5
• Brexit override plan would breach Vienna convention, QC says - Legal experts and peers say UK government proposal would also breach ministerial code https://t.co/LjMo0fTYzj
• A verdict of not proven has been reached in a trial against a teenager accused of killing a 13-year-old girl by supplying her with ecstasy https://t.co/Vuz9KWiVlI
• Households in Birmingham have been banned from mixing in new lockdown measures announced following a spike in coronavirus cases https://t.co/D0AZV5Yh6i
• Tougher restrictions on home visits have been extended to Lanarkshire https://t.co/8vMjJOSKq
• #Italian police arrest four men over alleged rape of two British girls https://t.co/oTxlTELJNf
• Man bailed after video shows boy driving lorry https://t.co/nDSpa7ld3v
• Newquay police officer suffers severe burns in attack https://t.co/TCPhngI5FF
• Fake driving licences offered online for £600 https://t.co/gBkBGzBgud
• Indoor meetings of more than six people from an extended household will be illegal in Wales from Monday https://t.co/63EvjKRO3j
• Leeds DWP office failed to enforce social distancing https://t.co/xhNASg2AR
• Lindsays welcomes eight new trainees - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WxyUXml6B
• Scottish government seeks views on options to 'challenge men’s demand for prostitution' - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BDzWPxEeA
• Iranian asylum seeker fails to challenge Home Office certification of unfounded claim - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3GkgEqG0U
• Coronavirus cases on the rise in the UK, it is time to panic, not keep calm and carry on! https://t.co/YYKq1gcyQJ
• The boss of Rio Tinto, Jean-Sebastien Jacques, will step down following criticism of the mining giant's destruction of sacred Aboriginal sites in #Australia https://t.co/sDGXk4m98v
• A Court Just Slammed the Guantánamo Gate Shut A Court Just Slammed the Guantánamo Gate Shut, Does the public care about the 40 remaining inmates with no obvious end to their imprisonment? #US https://t.co/2n1QHCBSXh
• Women solicitors urged to apply to become senior counsel - Irish Legal News https://t.co/tuXqvBjyVT
• People living in high-rise flats which failed fire safety tests say they feel trapped, with a sense of "never-ending dread" over the repairs https://t.co/w16oCEuJGz
• England and Wales' contact-tracing app gets launch date https://t.co/dY2N7gU30G
• Victims, feminists take over #Mexico human rights office https://t.co/N1rXbi1YQY
• Human Rights Watch Submits Comments to the Adelanto City Council over abuses at detention centre #US https://t.co/MUX3zdlpEy
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/ydMYl8e2NQ
• Face masks in shops to be mandatory in Wales from Monday https://t.co/63EvjKRO3j
• Trials on the silver screen: Juries to sit in ODEON cinemas this month - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kHA8D0DGxT
• Lawsuit challenging Texas voting rules dismissed by federal judge #US https://t.co/m8l5TvoVqQ
  
• The government has announced a "truce" on enforcement action for tenants facing eviction in England and Wales this Christmas - evictions will not be enforced in areas subject to local lockdowns as the pandemic continues https://t.co/Pi2nkPs39
• #US District Judge Claudia Wilken orders body cameras on guards at state prison, citing evidence of officers abusing inmates https://t.co/BQrgNWFlF
• Morton Fraser and Dickson Minto commit to new contextualised recruitment system for trainees - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/a3DLE0DmHd
  
• A judge has claimed he was put under "improper and undue influence" to keep a defendant in custody.: On Tuesday Judge Keith Raynor refused to extend the time a teenager charged with drugs offences could be held in custody before his trial https://t.co/vACwgL8nlN
• Five days after the expiration of the tenure of Acting Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Maurice Eneji, her replacement is yet to be appointed #Nigeria https://t.co/RXHLQQZipM
• Lawyers of Tomorrow – Neil Brannigan - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HU67SoHZgQ
• Harry Dunn death: Anne Sacoolas lawyers say she 'drove on wrong side of road' https://t.co/Kh2zprDfP
• Bring Justice closer to the People! President Museveni urges Judiciary as Chief Justice, Deputy Are Sworn-in #Uganda https://t.co/VSqhSWYxEM
• Carolyne Hair and Sarah Letson promoted at DLA Piper Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VnmfqwUmMe
• Myanmar under fire for convicting poet, rights abuses: Human rights groups troubled by Myanmar authorities' intolerance for freedom of expression https://t.co/qD3KhD8qw0
• Regulatory Sandboxes: Initiatives for Innovation and Inclusion in the #Philippines | JURIST https://t.co/leICmo7d0
• Alex Salmond inquiry: chief law officer offers assurances over legal papers - Lord advocate tells MSPs he would be ‘disappointed’ if Scottish government did not release key documents https://t.co/EOcdES8YQj
• The CMA is reviewing the legal services sector in England and Wales to assess whether transparency of price, quality and service have improved https://t.co/fI1Okfd9Qh