17th December - Law News

Edition 3278: LawNewsIndex is a UK based topical 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 Legal Article: Listed firm DWF has published its ethnicity pay gap for the first time, admitting it is ‘not where it needs to be’ in terms of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) representation at senior levels. According to the firm’s annual pay gap report, BAME employees and partners earn 23% less on average than their white colleagues. The combined ethnicity bonus gap is 22% in mean terms. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: US President Donald Trump is pushing extensively for the appointment of special counsels to separately investigate his baseless allegations of voter fraud and allegations surrounding Hunter Biden, the son of the President-elect, according to people familiar with the matter.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• NI: JMK Solicitors boosts firm-wide minimum salary to £20k - Irish Legal News https://t.co/LGPiclZ7A
• Charlie Hebdo blasphemy: Fourteen guilty in 2015 Paris terror attacks trial #France https://t.co/fvWj4aEBbI
• The pandemic’s impact on legal education | Law Gazette https://t.co/GUnFajQRB
• The #US is due to unseal charges against a Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, US media say https://t.co/jAocrWHbrA
• Big firm reveals 23% pay gap between white and BAME staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/PgXFI1bG
• Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah: Air pollution a factor in girl's death, inquest finds https://t.co/LsTQLOLqR
• MI6 agents and informants may be committing crimes in the UK, a watchdog has revealed. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal disclosed the ruling despite government attempts to keep the matter secret https://t.co/AgIgXdsfP
• #Dutch prosecutors have found a hacker did successfully log in to Donald Trump's Twitter account by guessing his password - "MAGA2020!" But they will not be punishing Victor Gevers, who was acting "ethically" https://t.co/E0c6kQoZYt
• An extra 11,000 positive Covid tests are currently missing from official figures in Wales, meaning recent cases are significantly higher than has been reported https://t.co/WY1p82JIz3
  
• Keep neighbour disputes out of court, urges master | Law Gazette https://t.co/0DnEHC3W1C
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/lFY68guFQr
  
• Solicitor agrees to end 42-year career after multiple rule breaches | Law Gazette https://t.co/c6S6itJtAr 
• Commercial chambers to pay for criminal pupillages | Law Gazette https://t.co/CtEqQ7Cjye
• No business interruption decision from Supreme Court until next year | Law Gazette https://t.co/LMwIveIjMR
• ‘Rigorous and demanding’: SRA defends multiple-choice SQE | Law Gazette https://t.co/oOETTJ6OXF
• A team of 10 international scientists will travel to the Chinese city of Wuhan next month to investigate the origins of Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said https://t.co/JnGkazHguQ
  
• Bar instructs lawyers to fight Covid-19 operating hours plan | Law Gazette https://t.co/GlVUnga9eo
• New partner appointments at Balfour and Manson - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3uZGE1iF1f 
• Faculty of Advocates’ Christmas Collection a ‘tear-inducing success’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AXqhHDWOp
• Outer House dismisses landfill operator’s action to recover unpaid waste tax from contractor  - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mwPJwkGV0L
  
• Shepherd and Wedderbun raises more than £1,300 for Barnardo’s - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/A1YPAJM1Sy 
• The family of one of the four soldiers killed in the Hyde Park bombing in July 1982 has been awarded £715,000 in damages https://t.co/YwmAAvlKA5
• Non-essential shops in Wales will close from the end of trading on Christmas Eve, with the country going into a stay-at-home lockdown four days later https://t.co/2twOVWoCSD
• A family who fled for their lives from a fire that gutted their home are convinced the blaze was caused by a third-party battery power pack bought on eBay https://t.co/A4H9k1xNp
• Criminal solicitors Anna MacKay and Lucy McKenna have joined Scullion LAW - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OBeebCQ966
• MoJ wants research on improving legal market's competitiveness - Legal Futures https://t.co/YOSLT02YcS
  
• University bosses eye "revolutionary" impact of SQE - Legal Futures https://t.co/7KUz2RQIzU 
• Small law firms should pay economic crime levy, SRA says - Legal Futures https://t.co/r4m31DlgrA
• "Too feminist" - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo's mocking response after being told she had broken the law by naming too many women to senior posts #France https://t.co/EaeUWOUjY
• PC Andrew Harper: Appeals against killers' sentences rejected https://t.co/aTsBuRHrCR
• The UK Supreme Court lifts ban on Heathrow third runway https://t.co/wOAlEAz3x
• New qualification for Thorntons’ Kirsty Stewart - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/rLoPOZzsDq 
• Ireland’s data protection watchdog has imposed a €450,000 fine on Twitter following a landmark inquiry regarding a data breach - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9YvFIVeV6B
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/IEf6Fi7xtW
• Climate change high on agenda for legal profession - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/b7ksdzy7Kr 
• Fireworks regulations to be introduced next year - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/miuXTlwjd8 
• NI: Watchdog insists rights 'do not take back seat during emergencies' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/FpxG0aMzRK
• Jeanne Kelly joins British Irish Chamber of Commerce - Irish Legal News https://t.co/oXAfosZEoc 
• Credit unions to be allowed to hold virtual AGMs - Irish Legal News https://t.co/hFAh3gOr4c 
• Attempts to reform gaming laws in Ireland - Irish Legal News https://t.co/HIr6Iv4xj7
• NI: District judge to receive guidance on 'inappropriate' comments during trial - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Wm6XKboENZ 
• NI: Judicial review to argue child should receive funding for criminal compensation claim appeal - Irish Legal News https://t.co/7AY4Wjb8nN
• Clifford Chance reverses pandemic pay cuts for NQs | Law Gazette https://t.co/oXgs6nQEz
• After Windrush, Britain is still deporting people to countries they barely know - Sending Osime Brown to Jamaica, a place he left at the age of four, is a callous act of cruelty https://t.co/PDK9eQ5uXR
• The panel set up to review the Human Rights Act appears unlikely to push for its dismemberment. Instead, the review’s restricted scope may pave the way to consensus | Law Gazette https://t.co/bg5asybWWd 
• #France replaces lockdown with evening curfew https://t.co/aYo2Ctq2FI 
• LGBT-owned Virginia kilt company is "disgusted" that their yellow kilts were worn by the far-right Proud Boys #US https://t.co/HviL6IuJTp 
• Proposals for controversial planning reforms in England have been revised, after new housing targets prompted a backlash amongst many Conservative MPs https://t.co/SQzN0w5GSO
• Lawrie IP celebrates tenth anniversary with turnover growth - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Gzl0u9By1G

16th December - Law News

Edition 3277: LawNewsIndex is a UK based topical 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 Legal Article: Just 18% of claimant personal injury solicitors say their firm has settled on a strategy to deal with next April’s whiplash reforms, a survey has found. Of the 1,241 responses to a Twitter poll by First4Lawyers, 37% said their firms have not decided on their strategy, while 28% admitted that they have not even thought about it yet. One in six (17%) said they were “getting there”. Full story - Legal Futures

 

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action. In the mid-1990s, they began gathering outside of accused perpetrators’ homes and workplaces to publicly shame them and raise awareness about the government’s systematic and brutal targeting of its people — and how it had gone unpunished. The human rights group HIJOS (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Forgetfulness and Silence) led and labeled this direct-action style of protest “escrache,” or exposure.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Dresden Green Vault: Fourth suspect arrested over #German diamond heist https://t.co/AFSD0eWXKb
  
• Advice around celebrating Christmas safely across the UK is expected to be significantly strengthened in the coming days https://t.co/42KjqmYi6A
• Time to answer the difficult questions on race | Law Gazette https://t.co/HeAX9VKxqd
• Mark Thorley censured by SSDT - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xismV4ACn
• Hate Crime Bill tamed but concerns remain - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZfOL4kaNZY
• Glasgow fiscal successfully challenges decision to abandon sexual assault trial - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1l4ETEYIcD
  
• Lawyer in the news: Aston Luff, Hodge Jones & Allen - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/a12Vk02mH
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/gvonaHHEQX
• My legal life: Charlotte Bradley, Kingsley Napley - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/93cs1bgwyp 
• Tribunal backed in disbarring barrister who misled court in personal capacity | Law Gazette https://t.co/sbn5Jw9eh
• Court security seized 83,000 weapons in last three years | Law Gazette https://t.co/FK6JThp4dn 
• Criminal legal aid: MoJ proposes pre-charge engagement fee | Law Gazette https://t.co/TOQiazyYIU
• Nine Nightingale courtrooms to open in new year | Law Gazette https://t.co/cdH0GMbDtC
  
• The Lawyers Fighting for Trans Rights in the UK https://t.co/CqpF3FL9ca
• Test to Release, a new system meant to cut quarantine times for travellers arriving in England, has been beset with problems on its first day https://t.co/VlUfK8BViz
• Coronavirus: European nations tighten restrictions ahead of Christmas https://t.co/1ucEF6Qxo9 
• Big tech firms face yearly checks on how they are tackling illegal and harmful content under new rules unveiled by the European Commission https://t.co/Ql08v4dy8G
  
• Covid in Scotland: Tougher virus restrictions for three council areas https://t.co/EvjGHFOKvz 
• Huge disparity in BAME solicitors taken to tribunal, SRA figures show | Law Gazette https://t.co/IxBr9uhKqP 
• Pinsents trainee Poppy Mulligan wins justice award - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5um1Wo1fQn
• Moderna's vaccine is safe and 94% effective, regulators say, clearing the way for #US emergency authorisation https://t.co/NwM4FLbPT
• Barclays has been fined £26m for the way it treated customers who fell into debt or experienced financial problems https://t.co/uG2R6w1XEi
  
• Ghislaine Maxwell: Jeffrey Epstein associate seeks $28.5m bail deal #US https://t.co/UlU7eWnWmG
• Employers urged to be mindful of pregnant employees’ rights - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RYiupZaA5s
• TFC sponsors SLLP’s Lockdown Licensing Interview series - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WeF8sm24CN
• SLCC: New tool to help firms reduce common causes of complaint - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XDWDBs6Vpb 
• England footballer Jack Grealish has been banned from driving for nine months and fined more than £80,000 for two motoring offences https://t.co/l2hp3z0S1d
  
• ECtHR: No breach of human rights for symphysiotomy victims in Ireland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fZMmnRsIlQ
• Many PI law firms yet to decide on post-whiplash reform strategy - Legal Futures https://t.co/ckpRVjetXH 
• Solicitor agrees to leave profession over multiple AML failures - Legal Futures https://t.co/00eVbXG7M
• Consumers willing to work with wills and probate solicitors online - Legal Futures https://t.co/NZyy8Mu4eE 
• Commercial sets back scheme to fund criminal law pupillages - Legal Futures https://t.co/G94uMIrLpB
• #China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang https://t.co/wrsXZkAjjp 
• #Japan 'Twitter killer' Takahiro Shiraishi sentenced to death https://t.co/1KOXEkfnEM
  
• A gay man who went through months of electric shock "therapy" in a university psychology department 50 years ago has demanded an apology https://t.co/X4XnMpXb6o 
• Another High Court judge succumbs to Covid-19; Justice Vandana Kasrekar of Madhya Pradesh High Court passes away #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/rdeuBCUd6s
  
• Thirty per cent of Scotland’s land to be ‘protected for nature’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/tIVBshu9CI 
• Kidnap, torture, murder: the plight of #Pakistan’s thousands of disappeared https://t.co/T7KSHE90Xl 
• Madras High Court asks how lawyer came to know of the case when his client avoided service of notice #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/ArSWWkRYz9 
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/chTPawirvc
  
• How the British government is trying to crush our right to protest - limitations put on our freedoms during the pandemic could be just the start if new legislation goes ahead https://t.co/cmcmH6imoy 
• A&O and Clifford Chance dish out bonuses to US lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/9VEGD1iPCx
• CAM, IndusLaw, Ashurst bite on Burger King 810 crore IPO #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/fjfHUXi2PY
• Simmons & Simmons sets 30% ethnic minority target for trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/z2h9Y87OBp 
• Over 300 charges laid following investigation into law firm - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/8I6q5RllXj 
• Best of Law Pod UK 2020 - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/TjusjFGeRq
• The 10,000-hour rule never goes out of fashion: Advocate Pallav Mongia #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/761oVO01y0
  
• #Australian actor Craig McLachlan has been found not guilty of allegations that he assaulted four women during a Melbourne stage show https://t.co/8pxxx2LJOn
  
• Barrister reprimanded for refusing breath test - Legal Cheek https://t.co/iCw24ZPQhz
  
• Winners for 2020 Women in Law Awards revealed - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/qyxbOGOOE2 
• "Unconscious bias training" is being scrapped for civil servants in England, with ministers saying it does not work. The training, intended to tackle patterns of discrimination and prejudice, is used in many workplaces https://t.co/yTovoNwVzv 
• William Barr, #US attorney general to leave post by Christmas https://t.co/rHO9AXqVOU
• UK watchdog Ofcom is set to gain the power to block access to online services that fail to do enough to protect children and users: regulator would also be able to fine Facebook and other tech giants billions of pound https://t.co/8kRN4cbvjI 
• Home-working: 3 out of 4 solicitors experiencing feelings of isolation and lack of motivation - Legal Cheek https://t.co/A65bgwOgrZ

15th December - Law News

Edition 3276: LawNewsIndex is a UK based topical 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 Legal Article: New legislation which would increase the penalties for dog-owners whose pets chase, attack or kill farmed animals will require significant amendment and clear guidance as to how it will work in practice if it is to meet its aim of reducing incidents of so-called “livestock worrying”, according to MSPs. Full story - Scottish Legal News

 

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Hundreds of thousands of people from ethnic minorities, including the Uighur community, are being forced by the Chinese authorities to pick cotton, in the far western region of Xinjiang, according to information seen by the BBC. The evidence suggests that China's cotton crop - a fifth of the world’s supply - could be far more dependent on forced labour than previously thought. Over the past few years more than a million Uighurs are believed to have been detained in so-called ‘re-education' camps. China denies claims of torture and carrying out forced sterilisations and abortions. In response to the latest evidence the Chinese government has told the BBC that claims of forced labour are “entirely fabricated”.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The government has told Greenwich council it must keep schools open or face legal action https://t.co/I4CLXE8S5D
• Meet Anupriya Dhonchak and Misbah Reshi, Rhodes Scholars for 2021 #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/EUFfzeELW
• A woman who called 999 while being attacked by her boyfriend used a silent code to tell police she needed help but was unable to speak, a court heard https://t.co/4uJFhzsRyR
• aise led by Sequoia and Faering Capital #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/kuHz1ct2hA
• 'How I helped steer a global law firm through the pandemic' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/S0nPHe9Fl
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/2m28QBgues
• First recommendations made for the Chancellor in Capital Gains Tax review - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Tx3P9aR3Hw
• Clarity needed on enforcement measures to make ‘livestock worrying law’ effective - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RVg0Ro7XW
• Edinburgh hospitality businesses fail in challenge to continuation of Level 3 Covid-19 restrictions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Tgd3ore2Pb
• JSA, Khaitan act on MindTickle $100 million fund raise led by Softbank Vision Fund #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/1ski4UVcax 
• Charging by the hour, losing by the minute - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/SOli1oTlcX
• A man who crossed the Irish Sea from Scotland to the Isle of Man "on a Jet Ski" to visit his girlfriend has been jailed for breaching Covid-19 laws https://t.co/mX0xtiAMGX 
• Members of the #US electoral college have begun casting their votes in a process that will see Joe Biden formally designated president-elect https://t.co/rKnMZuOqmV
• London will move into England’s highest tier of Covid restrictions from 00:01 GMT on Wednesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said https://t.co/6GHosRzrLK
• A new variant of coronavirus has been found which is growing faster in some parts of England, MPs have been told https://t.co/H2gA6czyGR
• CAM, Trilegal act on Blackstone $1 Billion acquisition of Piramal Glass #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/5FQQ88sLe
• Clifford Chance restores NQ lawyer pay following COVID cut - Legal Cheek https://t.co/BpCckjWW6P
• The Round-Up: Some hope remains for Harry Dunn's family - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/xN5YDmcI2Q
• Madras High Court sets aside District Judge order against lawyer who used unparliamentary words during virtual hearing #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/cNR6qzAyB1
• Clifford Chance ditches ‘Dear Sirs’ and ‘Chairman’ in inclusivity push - Legal Cheek https://t.co/jfu6IjwNsW
• People in Scotland told to 'cut down contacts' before Christmas https://t.co/dLoudl3tNb
• Covid: Swansea Bay suspends some non-urgent care amid rising cases https://t.co/gi5O0V649u 
• How will the legal profession be structured in the future? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/74FPIzvon
• Farmer suicides a serious issue: Karnataka High Court seeks information from State on aid extended to families of deceased farmers #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/W9f9sszVzk
  
• #Google services knocked offline in rare outage https://t.co/MblUqrXlQh
• AI pioneer closes in face of Thomson Reuters claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/JkO86vaEHh
  
• Solicitor who lied to new employer struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/KOZZZZysj
• Male and BAME solicitors still disproportionate focus of SRA action - Legal Futures https://t.co/MvE3bZIxdB
• Tribunal "right" to disbar barrister over misconduct in case involving own children - Legal Futures https://t.co/XupMr7gFWZ
• Border justice: migration and accountability for human rights violations https://t.co/zIqSvjjz54 
• Baker McKenzie tells lawyers to keep Wednesdays meeting-free to 'combat Zoom fatigue' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aTblKqV1m
• Obituary: John le Carré https://t.co/k6b06jeoE
• A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murdering a 12-year-old boy found dead in Fishtoft, Lincolnshire https://t.co/2Ai1N4PKX
• Blood donation: Rule change means more gay and bisexual men can give blood https://t.co/PyV3UMapll
  
• All Windrush victims to get at least £10,000 https://t.co/ddNyzrzGHK
• Barrister acquitted of murdering wife loses argument to have judge disqualified - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/RgNegqbOuA
• The Lawyer's Digest: Supreme Court Judgments passed in October 2020 #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/jjRZT7uZt6
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/ob8CbyExBg
• What will the SQE mean for me? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lAe59pKjky 
• Challenge upheld to Covid-19 changes to care regime for children - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/xda92ICaci 
• More law firms pay back furlough funds - Legal Cheek https://t.co/E6ZfUcCuj
• Duty of State to act against misuse of social media: Orissa High Court #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/cTHRdbs4i6 
• South #Australia's top 5 most attractive firms - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/2AaruEy7DN
• Don’t just give SQE trainees ‘repetitive admin tasks’, regulator warns law firms - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aa3hL0uRXT 
• Bar Associations cannot be described as private entities: Karnataka High Court #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/c4BBXbbl0g
  
• The Law Institute of Victoria calls for better access to legal advice in detention centres - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/N8Af0xJbKI 
• 'Stockwell Six': two men could have convictions overturned https://t.co/FVuBHQlXtz 
• Windrush payments to be fast-tracked and made more generous: Home secretary will announce radical reforms to compensation scheme after criticism https://t.co/2jmvXWjEaf

14th December - Law News

Edition 3275: LawNewsIndex is a UK based topical 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 Legal Article: Ministers have proposed reforms to non-compete clauses and other restrictive employment contracts. Business Secretary Alok Sharma launched two consultations last week on ‘measures to reform post-termination non-compete clauses’ and ‘measures to extend the ban on exclusivity clauses’ in employment contracts. Full story - New Law Journal

 

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: At least one person was injured in a shooting amid clashes between right- and left-wing groups at Washington’s Capitol campus in Olympia. A suspected far-right Proud Boys member has been detained, as police declared the scuffle a riot.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Human Rights Act review: Fair or farce? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cFecLiuEl8 
• British espionage writer John le Carré has died aged 89, following a short illness, his literary agent has said https://t.co/yYCll41J9X
• ‘Legal profession must accept responsibility’: Witness exposes justice system for mistreatment of sexual assault victims - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/IoG07P42Tu
• Deportation and family rights - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/V16nVvdBuV
  
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/W6Wlv4bKWP
  
• Part 3: Does the government’s COVID-19 response comply with the rule of law? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/WgO1bAUR0L
  
• Urgent need for reforms in law and policy for Mental Health in #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/tTOQCV3P7x
  
• Family law and liquidators: How the interplay between family law and insolvent trading claims is starting to emerge - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/40iE6JQl28 
• Prioritise terminally ill during COVID vaccine roll-out, urges Pinsent Masons comms chief - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7d8dfD3TLd
  
• Coronavirus cases in one part of Wales (Newport) are increasing at an "alarming rate", a health board has said https://t.co/wTfLdQyDwM 
• Family planning in India is voluntary, coercion will be counter productive: Central government tells Supreme Court #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/3c2C7mftE0
  
• Underpaid, stressed and bullied: Experiences of BAME solicitors laid bare in new report - Legal Cheek https://t.co/4h09gUm0OG
  
• Might the Human Rights Act impose a duty to pass subordinate legislation? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/s6FuxNRbSY 
• NI: Judicial reviews brought over 'unlawful' length of NHS waiting lists - Irish Legal News https://t.co/AqCI2hhepb 
• Ego and the law: Changing this one thing would make us healthier, happier and enable us to better serve our dual roles to the court and to our clients - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/68jSNT5Pb7
  
• #Germany plans hard lockdown over Christmas as deaths and infections from coronavirus reaches record levels - Christmas shopping responsible for a "considerable" rise in social contacts https://t.co/n3B3flDLEv
• NI: Christmas home leave for prisoners 'paused' due to Covid - Irish Legal News https://t.co/mjBIsqDqlW 
• The late #US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg remembered by Lisa Beattie Frelinghuysen, her former clerk https://t.co/gYNvxyjtpE 
• Your guide to making the most of a virtual vacation scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/c2EoHbjokx 
• Paolo Rossi, #Italian World Cup hero's home burgled during funeral https://t.co/vrLoK7Zu6w 
• Police have dropped their investigation into a Conservative MP and former minister who was accused of rape. The MP, who has not been named, was arrested on 1 August and later released on bail https://t.co/DJcxeCZJbi 
• FLAC welcomes clarification of Covid PUP rules - Irish Legal News https://t.co/RUKUQXxolq 
• Monday 14 December to Wednesday 16 December: The Legal Cheek Winter Virtual Vacation Scheme https://t.co/l4KdHGB8x3 
• Covid vaccines: Will drug companies make bumper profits? https://t.co/OjeifXjaoS
• Wales' NHS is in danger of becoming the "national coronavirus service" due to a rising number of Covid patients, the first minister has said https://t.co/wTfLdQyDwM
• Energy bills: Automatic switching plan for fairer tariffs https://t.co/XK50ya1VaF
• UK: Supreme Court paves way for £14bn claim against Mastercard - Irish Legal News https://t.co/8XoP35FoaS 
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/dmKmG4T7UE
  
• Most in-house Irish lawyers have experienced 'burn-out' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/gIXpNb7wRB
• Sherwin O'Riordan announces double partner appointment - Irish Legal News https://t.co/zR2OiecyXf
• NI: Personal injury lawyers announce legal action over discount rate - Irish Legal News https://t.co/8lUsxXo8c0
• Best of the blogs - 12 December 2020 | Law Gazette https://t.co/50cCiVkqtu
• Court of Appeal: Centra shop owner liable for personal injuries caused in fight outside premises - Irish Legal News https://t.co/vvB8ghky9h
• Family backlog 'may not return to pre-Covid levels until 2023' | Law Gazette https://t.co/zKSMxDnTO7
• SRA to sanction firms that exploit SQE graduates | Law Gazette https://t.co/lKHhUXc7vq
• Hard statistics: Allen & Overy ethnicity data revealed unequal work allocation | Law Gazette https://t.co/0vy9jGhsRQ
• Owner agrees ban after making £47k transfers to office account | Law Gazette https://t.co/rih6IT6wfi
• Questions still linger over RTA Portal months before April lift-off | Law Gazette https://t.co/hcIOcF1AQp
• Braverman welcomes CoA clarification on sexual assault | Law Gazette https://t.co/8KfrazKGpk

13th December - Law News

Edition 3274: LawNewsIndex is a UK based topical 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: Since June, 18,000 Yazidis have returned home to Sinjar, a significant increase in the rate of return compared to previous months. More than 300,000 Yezidis fled Sinjar when ISIL (ISIS) took over vast swaths of northern Iraq, committing a genocide against the minority and taking thousands of women into slavery. Although those returning hope to rebuild their region, many feel they have been excluded from important decisions about the area's governance.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Mastercard judgment ‘lowers bar’ for collective action | Law Gazette https://t.co/EeLaA2WpZZ 
• Supreme Court green light for £14bn Mastercard group action | Law Gazette https://t.co/XBt4oX7mIu D
• Forensic accounting firm Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA) is to provide pro bono services to the charity Kick It Out, English football’s equality and inclusion organisation | NLJ https://t.co/4MQtt9MBkN 
• Black Lives Matter: Driver charged after crashing into New York protest #US https://t.co/BB7RTGKGb
• Ministers have proposed reforms to non-compete clauses and other restrictive employment contracts | NLJ https://t.co/JFDz9vwjt7
  
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/8AOAfMzSaU
• Five lawtech start-ups have been selected for a three-month pilot at the Lawtech Sandbox | NLJ https://t.co/d7BZBxtkLT
• U-turn on international law breach threat - ‘Eleventh hour change of heart’ on Internal Market Bill welcomed | NLJ https://t.co/raI0LRVf8b 
• Newborn baby found dead in Weston-super-Mare garden https://t.co/ubvm6J5Zk3
  
• Employment, tax and commercial law practices have continued to grow during the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit at a slower rate than in Q1, according to the second LexisNexis Gross Legal Product (GLP) Index, which tracks legal activity levels | NLJ https://t.co/tvquJh0PTV
• #China: Lawyer detained for exposing scale of coronavirus given feeding tube - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lfQpyNNb0V 
• Judicial Institute paper on restarting solemn trials updated - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mPUbo3fD7r 
• DLA Piper bolsters UK government affairs practice with appointment of Lord Tyrie - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/edlJxDF7d1
• Burness Paull has been awarded a band one ranking in the first ever fintech guide for Scotland issued by the Chambers and Partners legal directory - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CTrV7NN7wz 
• A "test and dine" pilot has been proposed in Birmingham in a bid to help the struggling hospitality sector https://t.co/kJynCJxobr 
• Two Scottish men involved in creating false invoices as part of a £45,000 tax fraud have been given prison sentences - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QJwwQ3PU84
• Loosening Covid restrictions across the UK over Christmas is a "mistake," a public health expert has said https://t.co/wrHHNaBupn
  
• Alfred Bourgeois, a man who killed his toddler daughter nearly 20 years ago has become the second #US federal inmate to be executed in as many days https://t.co/K6zBsmvPyc 
• Graeme Di Rollo: How to enforce your copyright online – a guide - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZlQLU4Whm0
• UK government 'has underestimated takeup for #HongKong resettlement scheme' - Survey finds more than 600,000 may want to move to Britain, many within two years of January start date https://t.co/YtHab2ABeM
• Minister threatens headteacher over pre-Christmas online lessons - Letter shows government prepared to use Coronavirus Act to force English secondaries to stay open https://t.co/0x2FkQQEVV 
• Anwar al-Bunni devoted his life to human rights in #Syria. Now in exile in Germany, he is part of a landmark first prosecution for war crimes against Bashar al-Assad’s regime https://t.co/1dMUwsqAoX
  
• #Iran on Saturday executed Ruhollah Zam, a former opposition figure who had lived in exile in France and was implicated in anti-government protests, state television said https://t.co/cFqrXfNmEr
  
• Shoosmiths has cut 43 roles, including one in Scotland, after finding more efficient ways of working across the business during lockdown - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WBXitk8tda
• Banks 'too often blaming customers' for fraud https://t.co/BUkZMOvXMv 
• A fake game show host tricked two men into being filmed carrying out naked challenges for the chance to win cash, police have said https://t.co/Lfqd6BfTzd
  
• Zodiac Killer: Code-breakers solve San Francisco killer's cipher https://t.co/8ZwQb0v7kY 
• Call for end to compulsory religious worship in Scottish schools - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/dfIyWooHDS
• The Lord Justice General has appointed two new members to the Scottish Sentencing Council to fill the current vacancies - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WqG73BM7iB
• #Nigeria-Boko Haram: Prosecutor urges ICC inquiry into war crimes https://t.co/SSVkuvdnzF 
• Monkeys could be banned as pets, says government https://t.co/CNUAtsrAvC
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/extByagvsX
• FKA twigs sues Shia LaBeouf for physical, mental and emotional abuse - British musician’s allegations date from when she was in a relationship with the US actor https://t.co/wPMnJgFGpF 
• Édouard Louis ‘in very bad way’ after man accused of his rape has charge dropped #France https://t.co/hkvHxg6He
• America's longest-serving marijuana prisoner freed after 31 years - Richard DeLisi, now 71, was sentenced to 90-year prison term in 1989 for marijuana trafficking, as part of era’s ‘war on drugs’ #US https://t.co/zgMPOm11j1
• Death of father at hands of mob casts a dark light on rise in #Malawi rape cases - Police have warned against increased vigilantism after spate of sexual abuse cases https://t.co/Vf9iIDTCoY 
• Rule of law fears remain in #Poland despite EU compromise - Compromise on budget payments pushes back a clause that would make some EU funds conditional on rule of law https://t.co/AF2WB4noXp
• UK court increases minimum jail terms of two serial rapists to 40 years - Court of appeal adds 10 years to terms of Joseph McCann and Reynhard Sinaga https://t.co/HYWMV5EMkX
• ICC asks for more evidence on Uighur genocide - Court expected to rule there is still insufficient evidence against #China, but file to be kept open https://t.co/pyt6bmVl4O
• New poll shows wide support in Ireland for human rights - Irish Legal News https://t.co/2dwhmBEZLP
  
• The Buy Now, Pay Later company Klarna plans to report missed and failed payments to credit reference agencies. Klarna gives customers different ways to pay for items online such as within 30 days or over three instalments https://t.co/RjYn45wpoV
• The #US Supreme Court has rejected an unprecedented attempt to throw out election results in four battleground states that was backed by President Donald Trump https://t.co/YHZed2bznA 
• Ireland to join EU law enforcement system - Irish Legal News https://t.co/oxYLOkbBXe 
• #Austria's constitutional court has struck down a law prohibiting primary school children from wearing specific religious head coverings https://t.co/YY5OAXy4rw 
• A lone Republican senator has blocked a congressional vote to create two new Smithsonian museums dedicated to American women and Latinos #US https://t.co/eDt9FAhXl8

12th December - Law News

Edition 3273: LawNewsIndex is a UK based topical 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:  In India, as the farmer-government negotiation hit a deadlock, the agitation intensified against the corporates. The farmers threatened to block theDelhi-Jaipur Highway on Saturday, December 12. The BJP commissioned a media blitz to tackle the stalemate with farmers protesting the new agricultural laws. The central government on Friday began pushing a narrative that the "ultra-left" has hijacked the demonstrations. Through unofficial channels of communication referred to as "government sources", functionaries in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration drew a parallel between the farmers' agitation and the Bhima-Koregaon violence near Pune in 2018. Farmers' groups have rubbished the claims as "propaganda".

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Noeleen Healy named Catherine McGuinness Fellow 2020/21 - Irish Legal News https://t.co/J1WDZYHiC
• Tavistock puberty blocker study - All but one child treated for gender dysphoria with puberty-blocking drugs at the NHS clinic also received cross-sex hormones, a study has shown https://t.co/u6hje5P0Lg 
• Summons backlog down more than a fifth to 95,000 applications - Irish Legal News https://t.co/qoHEW77Gkt
  
• Symphysiotomy case ruled inadmissible by ECtHR - Irish Legal News https://t.co/X1v6KfYQyp
  
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/A0dOrntkew
• DWF upbeat despite £11m half-year accounting deficit | Law Gazette https://t.co/W3USLv5cNb
• Child abuse inquiry finishes final public hearing https://t.co/5VPjPhNbZK
• Law charities report surge in struggling practitioners | Law Gazette https://t.co/bYv6zGzPlO
• A defamation case brought by #France's football team manager Didier Deschamps against his former teammate Eric Cantona has been declared void https://t.co/2GB2Fmivac
  
• Labour demands answers from Buckland over legal aid review | Law Gazette https://t.co/B4LDdopXnP
• 'Offensive' Empire honours titles must go, says Labour's Kate Green https://t.co/dmf3g7VmXc 
• Index charts practice areas 'devastated' by pandemic | Law Gazette https://t.co/PjDS3NVl4
• Clifford Chance bans gendered language in legal templates | Law Gazette https://t.co/1bYIYRG2X3
• The Times pays up over barrister's libel claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/hlFjJyt5qc
• Government accused of ignoring crisis in employment tribunal | Law Gazette https://t.co/CtZy2LPPPy 
• Serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga is believed to have targeted more than 200 victims, 60 of whom remain unidentified, police have said https://t.co/Oror96Bsx
• Super-regulator wants more money to 'galvanise' legal services | Law Gazette https://t.co/dR5lS3B2kz
• Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai charged under security law following #China's staunch repression policy https://t.co/7yBq1YI9MK
• A man dubbed Osama Bin Laden's spokesman in Europe has returned to the UK after being released from a US jail. Adel Abdul Bary was released and deported after a senior New York judge concluded the prisoner had a high risk of contracting Covid-19 https://t.co/xCXmiVJ85W 
• Self-isolation for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus will be shortened from 14 to 10 days across the UK from Monday https://t.co/lqapSFBS7n
• Forensic Medical Services bill passes: People can request a forensic medical examination without having to report a crime under a law passed at Holyrood - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ukQjavLtbR 
• Auditor General: Scottish policing remains financially unsustainable - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/trsC2jmcOa 
• High Court holds motorist could not pervert the course of justice by giving ‘deer’ defence - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Bp3NbBcgEI
• Second national newspaper settles libel claim brought by barrister - Legal Futures https://t.co/0wT1ShEJ7Q
• Savills: North East sees 74 per cent rise in home sales after lockdown - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/95Zi6grtYx
  
• Mishcon's brand management spin-off leads latest deals news - Legal Futures https://t.co/mDFiuiPVTu 
• Thousands protest in London against #India's new farm laws - the legislation would eliminate individual statewide pricing protection presently protecting millions of smallholders https://t.co/0guZpCZiHK 
• DWF reports double-digit percentage increase in revenue and profit - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Nxh4SKa8QW
• Solicitor who sold firm’s letterhead for £10 a case is struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/0GsgATcCaY
• Covid tests for pupils in hotspots not mandatory, says head https://t.co/KVQTmyd495 
• Death row inmate Brandon Bernard has been executed in Indiana after last-minute clemency pleas were rejected by the US Supreme Court https://t.co/V3AejtuNlR
• Serial rapists receive longer minimum jail terms after appeal https://t.co/nDvltaBMyT 
• Changes to land and property tax could ‘support Scotland’s recovery’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/IGgG0xsbZr
  
• Covid-19: Free legal advice to meet surge in legal issues - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7qhdkMoucD 
• Lord Advocate to apologise for malicious prosecution - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aVEtu7UvGi 
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/AkLbgiL1Sl
• Alabama sued by DoJ over 'systematic' violence in state prisons #US https://t.co/JA4yPrMHLP 
• Councils vow to defy UK rule on deporting migrant rough sleepers - Home Office plan to expel homeless non-UK nationals punishes most vulnerable, say critics https://t.co/foWux9LWjR
• International law is founded on the languages of old Western diplomacy, with many Latin concepts being key to its foundations https://t.co/4ldrfSsmKV
  
• NI: Belfast legal academics join Law Centres oral history project - Irish Legal News https://t.co/3PNceLlNN9
  
• John G Gordon appointed to chair growing social enterprise - Irish Legal News https://t.co/aJF8gHBimg 
• Parents to gain additional three weeks of paid leave - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ZtPBZJmFzY 
• Patricia Ball O’Keeffe reappointed to board of Pobal - Irish Legal News https://t.co/URaAm8wxdt 
• UK government backs down on threat to breach international law - Irish Legal News https://t.co/8y54a1oqBy 
• Has the ultra-rightwing Modi finally met his match in #India's farmers? The government’s hopes of turning India into the world’s workshop for global corporations are being strongly resisted https://t.co/2gg7p3foCx 
• Covid-19: Lockdown restrictions lift across NI https://t.co/a9EfXfQN0Q
• Charity that helped Grenfell victims 'institutionally racist', review says https://t.co/4vbc2i87Yo 
• Covid in Scotland: Shops to reopen as toughest restrictions eased https://t.co/S4lDTYtTTv
• The truth for Patrick Finucane | Law Gazette https://t.co/b2E6vCzfWl 
• French football star Antoine Griezmann says he is ending his sponsorship deal with Huawei after claims that the #Chinese telecoms firm was involved in the surveillance of Muslim Uighurs https://t.co/IcgmGTtfZc 
• Belfast bus driver praised for care home visit detour https://t.co/tkKxPIMwHZ
• UK to deny asylum to refugees passing through 'safe' third country - Immigration rule will also prevent migrants from making a claim in UK territorial waters https://t.co/6A9oOcUvzJ
• Black staff at Lloyds are paid 20% less than their peers, bank reveals https://t.co/wVAXout8OL 
• Rugby dementia claim lawyer: This is about safety, not compensation | Law Gazette https://t.co/gB4v8m28SF