Sunday

20th December - Law News

Edition 3281: 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: A former governor of the Mexican state of Jalisco has been shot dead early on Friday in the bathroom of a restaurant in the beach town of Puerto Vallarta. It's the latest in a series of violent acts in a country already plagued by drug-related gang activity.




Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Flynn O’Driscoll appoints Caoimhe Heery as employment partner - Irish Legal News https://t.co/dDIwzoRq1v 
  • Court of Appeal: Equitable damages award overturned after plaintiff relied on forged documents - Irish Legal News https://t.co/mHBwo6IPp
  • The Guardian view on Julian Assange: do not extradite him https://t.co/DRPh1HRKf1
  • MoJ drops wealth rule that denied legal aid to victims of domestic abuse: ‘Imaginary capital’ rules for home ownership falsely inflated wealth and deprived people of help https://t.co/AA3Z7GVFqf 
  • Courts service sets back paper probate deadline | Law Gazette https://t.co/kNYXrHN0fI 
  • Law Society: Criminal solicitors are doing more work for less money | Law Gazette https://t.co/91lmWy4u8e
  • Ministers’ proposals to align online and paper civil court fees are ‘unfair’, ‘unjustifiable’, will ‘damage UK businesses’ and restrict access to justice, the Civil Court Users Association (CCUA) has warned | NLJ https://t.co/hXH1GEjdGQ
  • Concern over 'unrealistic' conveyancing expectations ahead of stamp duty deadline | Law Gazette https://t.co/KPy4t6Cv9Z
  • The whole of Wales will be placed under lockdown from midnight with festive plans cancelled for all but Christmas Day https://t.co/bqYfFzaZA
  • The Legal Services Board (LSB) has launched a consultation on its proposed ten-year strategy for the legal services sector | NLJ https://t.co/AxwgRgiyhX
  • From midnight, a new tier four will be introduced in areas including London, Kent, Essex and Bedfordshire. For the rest of the country, the three household mixing limit has been cut from five days to just Christmas Day https://t.co/EdRuhNQmC
  • Prisoner self-harm rising amid tighter restrictions https://t.co/xn8ajzhCzE
  • Welsh ministers are in emergency talks to discuss "serious concerns" over the spread of a new strain of Covid-19 https://t.co/SvanA5qfAn
  • Students step up to fill legal aid gap | Law Gazette https://t.co/jDMnjfY7u
  • Master of the rolls defies homophobia in valedictory speech | Law Gazette https://t.co/hUYIL1UNZg
  • A fourth tier of coronavirus restrictions is expected to be introduced in London and south-east England https://t.co/HtyhWeW7m
  • Costs lawyers have weathered the COVID-19 crisis well, with more than a third reporting they are busier than ever | NLJ https://t.co/mAr9492Rs
  • Brexit: Society welcomes French move on LLPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/jbz0LVfh1g 
  • COVID operating hours are ‘potentially discriminatory’ and ‘unlikely to have a significant impact’ on the backlog of cases in the criminal courts, the Law Society has warned | NLJ https://t.co/baCnMxJbHg
  • Norton Rose Fulbright to allow 50% home working | Law Gazette https://t.co/kQfZFQmhL
  • CIArb lays out three-year action plan: Organisation highlights global thought leadership & diversity among its strategic aims | NLJ https://t.co/J5pmtxOHOI
  • New Home Office report admits grooming gangs are not a ‘Muslim problem' - study finds no credible evidence for a far-right stereotype that has spread widely in the media https://t.co/dVRwfOZ0SG
  • Record number of court applications to prevent domestic violence | Law Gazette https://t.co/d7gHiBFZky
  • #France charges Epstein ex-associate over sex crime claims: Prominent French modelling agent Brunel charged with rape of minors over the age of 15 and sexual harassment https://t.co/A4uo0SZuE
  • #Myanmar gang-rape victim wins legal battle with military: Three rapists were jailed for 20 years with hard labour in a case that pitted a 36-year-old mother of four against the powerful military https://t.co/9c7rYhKx9w
  • Appropriately socially distanced celebrations broke out in home offices around England and Wales as the results of the 2020 silk round were announced | NLJ https://t.co/Ps0kCEzL8c
  • The New York Times has returned an award and had another withdrawn after it found discrepancies in its podcast on the Islamic State group. After a two-month investigation, the newspaper said the podcast, Caliphate, failed to meet its editorial standards https://t.co/3fbkS39Cxr 
  • Police warn solicitors about phishing scam | Law Gazette https://t.co/OsjteRhupG
  • 737 Max: Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in test after crashes https://t.co/PaNrgMXEb9 
  • #Italy latest European country to order Christmas lockdown https://t.co/v5sH6YOIum 
  • MPs call on government to thwart PlayStation 5 resale trolls - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WUlDEFjfUV
  • England: Positive steps taken in legal services sector since CMA review - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1n2sBPjVVp
  • Standing junior counsel to the Scottish government appointed - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/U0SvUMOTw9 
  • Fiona Drysdale gains Scottish Civil Justice Council appointment - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mh5kXDwdbo 
  • Call for views on Angiolini police complaints report - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yCR1YJV8I2
  • Aberdein Considine boosts financial services team with appointment of Greig Brown - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RLdHkM2cAW 
  • UK: MI6 ‘unilaterally assumed power’ to break law on UK soil - Irish Legal News https://t.co/9P7WqNZdN0
  • GardaĆ­ to issue cautions to adults caught with cannabis - Irish Legal News https://t.co/LcUPMNTURj
  • Matheson chairman and partner Tim Scanlon has passed away at the age of 55 following a brief illness - Irish Legal News https://t.co/brrhQ4e2x7
  • Millwall & Colchester United face no FA action after fans boo players taking knee https://t.co/wmKlLg9OtW
  • Employers back requirement for large firms to disclose ethnicity pay gaps https://t.co/Kt8osOMhOr 
  • Fake 'immunity booster' found on sale in London shops https://t.co/BEtzqUO4m3
  • An Asian police officer is suing the Met Police for sexual harassment and discrimination after receiving "hundreds" of racist and sexist messages from a senior colleague https://t.co/OYM2wBIbzf

Saturday

19th December - Law News

Edition 3280: 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: Affordable healthcare is a fundamental right, the Indian Supreme Court said on Friday, in a significant observation that also held the state responsible for ensuring the right and noted that the fight against COVID-19 was a "world war". "Right to health is a fundamental right guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. Right to Health includes affordable treatment. Therefore, it is the duty upon the State to make provisions for affordable treatment," the court said.



Saturday Conversations on Law

Friday

18th December - Law News

Edition 3279: 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: Gender pay gap narrows for women law firm partners as pay rises outpace men, study finds. But male partners still significantly out-earning their female counterparts, according to Major Lindsey & Africa survey. Full story - The Global Legal Post
 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: An Australian Northern Territory police officer due to stand trial for the shooting death of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker will have his case heard in Darwin. A Supreme Court Judge has ruled that the five-week trial for Constable Zachary Rolfe be moved from Alice Springs.


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • NI: Stormont 'failing children and young people', law centre warns - Irish Legal News https://t.co/8Yo50DUe72
  • MI6 ‘unilaterally assumed power’ to break law on UK soil - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4oN7n6eqj0
  • US plans to bring charges against Lockerbie suspect ‘convenient’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AXQDK8DKGa
  • German artist whose vehicle was unlawfully auctioned by Welsh police awarded £36,500 in damages - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/89ykql1Fyg
  • Government announces ratification of Lanzarote Convention - Irish Legal News https://t.co/YqwJiX0jhz 
  • Special rapporteur highlights need to reform Child Care Act 1991 - Irish Legal News https://t.co/4PAqIV1Jq6
  • #Nigerian boys 'freed after Boko Haram abduction' https://t.co/wO5uGkmRjG 
  • Court refers climate lawyer to attorney general over Heathrow runway breach - Tim Crosland faces investigation after breaking embargo on airport expansion judgment https://t.co/Z6wyn122X1 
  • Child sexual abuse in schools often an open secret, says inquiry https://t.co/FbcnuroEqp
  • UK restrictions to last until February at least, say experts - With 35,300 more cases recorded on Thursday, scientists say next two to three months will be harsh https://t.co/7CK9UvvGOa
  • Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore obituary - Senior judge who served as lord chief justice of Northern Ireland and a justice of the supreme court of the United Kingdom https://t.co/p4NrtEKD9
  • #Nigeria's Katsina school abduction: Boko Haram shows video 'of seized boys' https://t.co/X0bfZ1muOt 
  • NI facing six-week lockdown from 26 December https://t.co/OgX29wS3K
  • Judge who backed George Pell appeal appointed special investigator into alleged #Australian war crimes https://t.co/m0LbTbhFop
  • Society ‘extremely concerned’ by BAME prosecution ratio | Law Gazette https://t.co/OjfmmqOkFT
  • Chancellor Rishi Sunak has extended the furlough scheme for one month until the end of April next year https://t.co/nVwc2FFHv6
  • Tory MP Tobias Ellwood broke Covid rules, says home secretary https://t.co/CnN6r1wcPh
  • Claims giant takeover talks extended again as trading improves | Law Gazette https://t.co/Dajau8qytf
  • Law Commission seeks to reform 'fragmented' tribunals system in Wales | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZHz0Cp2eom 
  • Police find eight-year-old girl who went missing in Bristol https://t.co/3FzZEifppH
  • Legal claim on concussion launched by former players against rugby authorities https://t.co/FesNwJaVAQ
  • Victims’ commissioner for England and Wales calls for ‘victims’ law’ to give them enforceable rights https://t.co/Q3O4IZ8Tpc
  • £30m fund for flats with dangerous cladding https://t.co/g4adwhXwfl
  • Small firms should not escape financial crime levy, SRA tells government | Law Gazette https://t.co/mMZ4x3sXDi 
  • 'Error of law' helpline for those affected by immigration appeals ruling | Law Gazette https://t.co/MAbcVgj7N6 
  • The body of football legend Diego Maradona "must be conserved" pending a paternity case, an #Argentine court has ruled, halting cremation plans https://t.co/GSglF9KQL
  • The man portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about the Rwandan genocide, Hotel Rwanda, says he is suing a #Greek charter flight company for aiding his alleged kidnap https://t.co/Ml6LHI9kA
  • Toughest Covid rules extended in south of England - They include Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire and parts of Surrey, East Sussex, Cambridgeshire and Hampshire https://t.co/lvxol56CTm 
  • Supreme Court refers 'disobedient' barrister to AG over embargo breach | Law Gazette https://t.co/f0DquDhU1X 
  • Revenge & Retributive justice - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YBz1dKQvU6 
  • Female advocates "will lose work" if court hours are extended - Legal Futures https://t.co/hpkJ0pzXkm
  • Marketing company fined £250k for personal injury nuisance calls - Legal Futures https://t.co/zxI8Yzt0uZ 
  • Pro bono opportunities now “mainstream” at law schools - Legal Futures https://t.co/FRGvAcDzEd
  • CMA urges review of legal services regulation - Legal Futures https://t.co/adgHPqSQUz
  • Dangerous cladding: 'Fire patrols at our flats cost us £500,000' https://t.co/9g8l5QZ88b 
  • Serco, one of the UK companies which runs the coronavirus test-and-trace scheme, said it will award bonuses of £100 per worker to its staff https://t.co/xF9qoy2cU7
  • New court cases 69 per cent of average monthly pre-Covid level - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wCFHJBNM7y
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/qDLKEKsecF
  • New members appointed to EHRC Scotland Committee - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DJpL4muOuS 
  • UK backs down on prosecution of social media executives over harmful content - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/faEjZJXlkC 
  • Drug deaths reach highest level on record - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xOqBv7oYyu
  • Blog: Scottish courts reconsider the correct legal test for rectification of contract - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6pStlWahzz
  • New film raises fears over Hate Crime Bill - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GcEzKZA89k
  • NI: Newry solicitors to embark on Christmas half-marathon for Women's Aid NI - Irish Legal News https://t.co/qikqiP9WAG
  • NI: Inquiry into neurology recall converted to statutory public inquiry - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ru2boFGKoA
  • NI: Bangor courthouse comes under community ownership - Irish Legal News https://t.co/aXDI7NXCtd 
  • As chief rabbi, I can no longer remain silent about the plight of the Uighurs | Ephraim Mirvis https://t.co/F6tfWzVci5
  • Forty years after Peter Sutcliffe’s crimes, the police are making the same mistakes - Two new documentaries highlight a failure to listen to women that continues today https://t.co/L54qZEsfsB 
  • UK backs down on prosecution of social media executives over harmful content - Irish Legal News https://t.co/KIGXkTuqV6

Thursday

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

Wednesday

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

Tuesday

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

Monday

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 CarrĆ© 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