22nd January - Law News

Edition 3314: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: Joe Biden has wasted no time in getting to work on reversing many of Donald Trump's key policies. Speaking to The World, historian and research scholar Nicole Hemmer says the Obama years taught the Democrats a lot about obstruction in Congress, as well as how to use executive power.

 Focus of the Day Article: 'Much-needed clarity' - lawyers reflect on the landmark UK Covid-19 insurance test case. While the claimant lawyers are celebrating, advisers on both sides have welcomed the Supreme Court's judgment. Full story - The Global Legal Post

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• SRA 'hopeful' SQE can proceed as planned despite pandemic | Law Gazette https://t.co/0Q14Ms5WWE
• Email attachments are not privileged just because message is - Legal Futures https://t.co/ctgo9Eysb
• New York rejects ABSs for now as Arizona opens doors to them - Legal Futures https://t.co/8cjWsc3xBS
  
• Another SRA prosecution fails but regulator avoids costs order - Legal Futures https://t.co/eU6iH9dTb
• Male barrister fined for smacking female colleague on backside - Legal Futures https://t.co/N4QrGRBHpA
• Court of Appeal considers family court's approach to domestic abuse | Law Gazette https://t.co/FzzgBbcQjc
• Tribunal slashes SRA costs over ‘inordinate’ number of lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/uwAfR8ryKR
• TV star wins Part 36 costs battle over newspaper's late acceptance | Law Gazette https://t.co/H99zAcomi
• Review AML procedures now, practitioners warned | Law Gazette https://t.co/EA3952L5XG
• Bar Council demands extra £55m for Covid courts | Law Gazette https://t.co/ThwydQWd3E
• Solicitors forced into the office tell charity they feared for their jobs | Law Gazette https://t.co/cYa0XKhqwv
• Lawyers and unions threaten 'legal and industrial response' over court safety | Law Gazette https://t.co/BI4rx3lmN
• Coronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, BBC News NI understands https://t.co/9F50ACmCBM
• Our Legal Heritage: The Mountain Bard in Court, 1821 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mX69AI8oc
• Revised code of conduct for property factors comes into force in August - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7XRGwNidG
• University tuition fees frozen at £9,250 for a year https://t.co/WN6I3RdMFn
• It is "too early" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said https://t.co/6EHPHz1Noj
• Joseph Biggs a leader of the Proud Boys, a #US extremist group that took part in the Capitol insurrection, was taken into custody and is facing charges, federal officials said https://t.co/CXRgMBC36S
• New CPD offering from Scottish Law Agents’ Society - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iABIInyhA6
• Illinois poised to become first #US state to end wealth-based pre-trial detention - State passed Pre-trial Fairness Act which the governor, JB Pritzker, has long expressed his support for https://t.co/TwfYS8CZWT
• Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic https://t.co/NVM3vn5Du
• September start for hospital inquiry public hearings - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LQ2U5drX3H
• Home-school: Can you get a free laptop or cheaper broadband? https://t.co/gbnH7XOcTC
• Marmite maker Unilever to insist suppliers pay 'living wage' https://t.co/a1KxjgZwnT
• England: ‘Unprecedented’ courts backlog could have long-term impact - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DXR2rXDiO5
• High Court trials in December 2020 up over previous years - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/tHAm2KX2nH
• Addleshaw Goddard optimistic about deal activity in year ahead - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zhvVmJ82h1
• More remote jury centres power up during latest lockdown - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3sFeWgrvh
• Is it time to ditch ‘Dear Sirs’ – have your say in our poll - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XuMLBKMop
• #China announces sanctions against 'lying and cheating' outgoing Trump officials - Chinese foreign ministry announced sanctions against Mike Pompeo and 27 others as Biden was taking presidential oath https://t.co/yh3mtrdY5
• NI: A&L Goodbody extends partnership with Ulster Rugby - Irish Legal News https://t.co/QxCJwDJJuI
• FLAC hits out at 'contradictory and confusing explanations' for PUP tax - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Fzbh3dw50v
• Ireland has one of highest rates of data breaches in EU - Irish Legal News https://t.co/0iE0PLYicV
• NI: Domestic abuse law to be brought into effect this year - Irish Legal News https://t.co/BE50m8WJpm
• #Australian government urged to try and recover student loans from the dead https://t.co/S5hDWSZnx
• A private hospital group in #SouthAfrica has defended itself amid an uproar that the man dubbed "Dr Death" practises from two of its clinics https://t.co/var0ZxITk
• Covid: 'No evidence' virus levels decreasing in England https://t.co/0dVyOchuvb
• NI: Legislation to create stalking offence introduced - Irish Legal News https://t.co/rNwfmHJwrw 
• House hunters are taking advantage of lockdown rules to travel hundreds of miles to view homes, estate agents say https://t.co/CreKHbs06o 
• ‘Palace Four’ drawn into Meghan’s dispute with Associated Newspapers - Ex-employees of royal couple could shed light on drafting of letter to Thomas Markle, high court hears https://t.co/gRRhFCijQM
• NI: 'Nightingale venue' hosts hearing for first time - Irish Legal News https://t.co/OIU5XoHdIo

21st January - Law News

Edition 3313: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: Former US president Donald Trump still hasn't mouthed the words "I concede", nor do most of his followers intend to accept his defeat. Their movement has often been described as a personality cult, a description that many of them are comfortable with. They believe Donald Trump is the saviour of the American way of life and only he alone can take on the Democrats and the political and corporate establishment. But does this amount to a rolling insurrection in the months and years ahead?

 Focus of the Day Article: The chief executive of HM Courts & Tribunals Service has insisted that court buildings are safe from the moment of arrival, despite reports of ‘filthy’ bathrooms and busy public waiting areas. In a government blog post, Kevin Sadler said there is ‘no evidence that our sites are unsafe’ with public health advice indicating that ‘community transmission is the most likely source of the vast majority of cases where court and tribunal users have tested positive’. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Police have urged people not to "drive to see the floods" as evacuations of households in the wake of Storm Christoph begin in England and Wales https://t.co/lTCfhUkwwh
• Saga cruises says all customers must be vaccinated https://t.co/NUGuEljcg
• Scottish parliament rejects Westminster's 'spy cops' bill https://t.co/zAk75EGAA
• In the swim: Sir Nicholas Green - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/V33Yx5WTFD
• My legal life: Charlie Lightfoot, Jenner & Block - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/Pjp3JdIy
• Court Voids a ‘Tortured’ Trump Climate Rollback: The ruling strikes down weak rules for coal-burning power plants and gives the Biden administration a freer hand to impose tighter restrictions #US https://t.co/NkHbstlAG
• 'Greatest threat': Inspectors sound alarm over courts backlog | Law Gazette https://t.co/XTZLAjFCs
• Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing #Thai Monarchy https://t.co/u3K3dTp1d0
• While most arrests in the Capitol riot have been individuals, new charges accused three people tied to a right-wing militia of conspiring to commit violence #US https://t.co/LX1y9Kybf8
• Global bar body backs ‘genocide amendment’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/1a7xXED0CW
• Holyrood passes bill to protect shopworkers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4xNvs0y0M
• Proposal to use terrorism laws during pandemic revealed by Scottish government in bungled disclosure - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xZPydoJ4m
• UK Supreme Court rules business interruption insurance policies must pay out after Covid-19 losses - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/32b6BRSYQG
• Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th #US president, ending one of the most dramatic political transitions in American history. "Democracy has prevailed," he said after taking the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts https://t.co/CQ2ZsLri3b
• BAME clients less trusting of lawyers than white clients, watchdog finds | Law Gazette https://t.co/C6quc7zVch
• Solicitor without insurance struck off to end 46-year career | Law Gazette https://t.co/ePBgGANfIV
• New watchdog will be able to ban dangerous materials used at Grenfell Tower https://t.co/CsPMTGpxaS
• HMCTS chief: Courts ‘safe from the moment you arrive’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/z1VKukR6SE 
• Court kills off fraud claim by LiP against City giant | Law Gazette https://t.co/mZppzt2IGh
• Purpose-built court building reopens - as a film set | Law Gazette https://t.co/QUz3yp7QG
• City solicitor rebuts 'concocted story' about client funds transfers | Law Gazette https://t.co/rbIuF3mdzE
• "Some of the old guard are not necessarily at work because of a love of practising law, but because it funds a lifestyle to which they are accustomed and brings them respect and satisfaction" - Legal Futures https://t.co/ZbwCsoCJBw
• Law Society to LeO: Ask government, not lawyers, for more cash - Legal Futures https://t.co/8XZmnvugD
• Solicitor who misled tribunals on Ugandan law is struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/b8T0fMeAp
• Law firm awarded £25k damages for defamatory Trustpilot review - Legal Futures https://t.co/pvWuf3hfZ
• Disgruntled client ordered to pay £25,000 damages for libelous review | Law Gazette https://t.co/MlRPmjZYBR
• David Perry QC quits prosecution of #HongKong activists - British barrister was called ‘mercenary’ by UK foreign secretary for taking on case against pro-democracy figures https://t.co/WCHLwROkfG
• Covid-19: Concerns for prison population raised - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/TGszL3kJ03 
• Nine Met Police officers have been fined for breaching lockdown rules to meet at a cafe while on duty https://t.co/p6jUbuenrE
• BBC faces 'financial risk' over licence fee income, watchdog says - time to bring in selective advertising revenue? https://t.co/aar6VAETcG
• In the final hours of his presidency, Donald Trump has pardoned 73 people, including his former adviser Steve Bannon, who is facing fraud charges #US https://t.co/8B5pxWlxQ
• Paper argues for greater court access for devolved nations to settle disputes with Westminster - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0pKZX55Jg
• Former police officers campaign for decriminalisation of drugs - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NO0R3XYpT
• New award to honour memory of Aberdeen law student Emily Drouet - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/E32EowegH
• UK government accused of discriminating against maternity leave-takers - Charity brings judicial review and says payment calculations breach Human Rights Act https://t.co/1sE6IIYp1H
• Martyn Evans named new chair of Scottish Police Authority - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/O8HTp6bQUO
• Interview: BBC Scotland legal director Rosalind McInnes on her life in the law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/brVtcCGkE
• Reports of female-perpetrated child sexual abuse rise sharply - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Lr0wkP0ZU
• NI: John Keers appointed to Judicial Digitisation Steering Group - Irish Legal News https://t.co/AkztcJ4Qvj
• #Canada homeless man found dead in freezing temperatures just feet away from a shelter which had closed early due to a Covid outbreak. Raphaël André, 51, was pronounced dead early on Sunday https://t.co/G1ebBfTx4A
• NI: Four new appointments for BLM in Belfast - Irish Legal News https://t.co/bdXfqjcRsF
• CCLRP says action is needed to address heavy impact of pandemic on vulnerable children - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Zz33noygO
• MPs demand answers over lack of Covid support for self-employed https://t.co/VkvZpG0Uve
• Van Morrison to start legal action over Northern Ireland Covid ban on live music https://t.co/QPw4YrWHZI
• #China has committed genocide in its repression of the Uighurs and other mainly Muslim peoples, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday https://t.co/y8LkOjV8Yw
• New owners of Tiger King zoo ordered to surrender cubs #US https://t.co/HczRU9WmJQ
• High court grants leave to appeal to UK gender identity service - NHS trust wins right of appeal over referrals for puberty-blocking drugs for under-16s who want gender reassignment https://t.co/jmWfDORxD
• Enviornmental justice centre established as green litigation poised to grow - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ZAceOvaSCn

20th January - Law News

Edition 3312: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: Officials who have survived the past four years with the Trump administration and other officials who did not make it to the finish line.

 Focus of the Day Article: A “troubling inequality” between BAME and White British consumers in the way they access legal services has changed little in the five years since it raised the issue, the Legal Services Consumer Panel (LSCP) has found. The panel also revealed big differences between ethnic minorities in the way they approach legal advice. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The Guardian view on #Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny: such bravery needs backing https://t.co/lzcEEERZ
• Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules. It comes after he denied reports of plans to dilute some workers' rights https://t.co/jXpOwiib0
• Britain has plenty of cash to bail out big business, yet nothing for the poorest https://t.co/ngUm5dvTf
• Rebels aim to insert genocide amendment in UK-China trade bill - UK court would determine whether China is committing genocide against #Uighurs if measure passed https://t.co/F3tHCt5GK
• Court closures and delays lead to Scotland recording only one high-value fraud case - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zZPozFfg7N
• “How much does your building weigh, Norman?” - Legal Futures https://t.co/OWhP15Cib
• British Virgin Islands' governor launches inquiry into alleged corruption - Gus Jaspert’s extraordinary step comes amid claims of a climate of fear in the UK overseas territory https://t.co/t6NBwW54dV
• Malicious prosecution: Whitehouse and Clark reportedly paid £21m – plus £3m in legal expenses - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XKQEK2DfY
• Government narrowly sees off Tory revolt over anti-genocide trade deal law https://t.co/9OndnyUeA
• A Starbucks branch in Dublin has been ordered to pay compensation to a customer of Thai heritage after an employee drew "slanty" eyes on her cup #Ireland https://t.co/AQvIm4wzH
• Trainee specialist launches scholarships for Black graduates - Legal Futures https://t.co/PQocfb4e
• #Saudi Arabia's blockade of Qatar is over – but my father is still in jail for opposing it https://t.co/GktLqmfc
• G4S migrant workers 'forced to pay millions' in illegal fees for jobs https://t.co/Jp4vJ7OfV
• Sheriff Appeal Court remits contact order application by abusive ex-partner for reconsideration - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5wXCDOgO
• #Australia's proposed media code could break the world wide web, says the man who invented it - Tim Berners-Lee says the plan to make Google and Facebook pay for news content undermines the web’s ‘fundamental principle’ https://t.co/F7IyxRpFb
• Business secretary confirms post-Brexit review of UK workers' rights https://t.co/mGgZtPIBoS 
• Veteran solicitor practised without insurance - Legal Futures https://t.co/I4Dzulw80
• Coroner's Covid findings stoke calls for inquiry into pandemic policy https://t.co/itYoIzFXeO
• “Troubling inequality” persists for BAME consumers of legal services - Legal Futures https://t.co/F0vxK4etUb
• Knights aims to plug geographical gaps throughout UK - Legal Futures https://t.co/5ghBbrX12V 
• Levelling the playing field of US-UK extradition | Law Gazette https://t.co/kV14xUCjgX
• Scotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home https://t.co/p6kBLxVifO
  
• A group of politicians drank alcohol on Welsh Parliament premises days after a ban on serving it in pubs took effect. Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were seen drinking together in early December https://t.co/oZNOQJTojD
• A rail company has begun an internal investigation after staff allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown https://t.co/7SiI4E4eHP
• How to keep junior lawyers happy | Law Gazette https://t.co/c9BI9k9P0F
• #US Capitol riots: Trump supporter Riley June Williams arrested after Pelosi 'data theft' https://t.co/a4Sq8bOLl
• A 500-year-old painting has been discovered in a flat in Italy and returned to a museum - where staff were unaware it had even been stolen - The copy of Salvator Mundi, is believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci #Italy https://t.co/MEYUalqdQY
• HMCTS digital evidence rethink | Law Gazette https://t.co/v8gfevEVMe
• Question mark hangs over Saudi Arabia’s decline in executions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/IdKg7u7GF0
• Law firm workers say they are being forced into the office | Law Gazette https://t.co/zV74sx8NJo 
• A refusal to accept cash is "creeping into the wider UK economy", an expert has said, after a survey suggested coronavirus had hastened a shift towards a cashless society https://t.co/YEezxdv0p
• News focus: Guideline hourly rates - ending the big freeze? | Law Gazette https://t.co/pm5imAHOVX
• Experts unconvinced by Lord Sumption's lockdown ethics - Critics of retired supreme court justice say QALYs measure not intended for public health debate https://t.co/9lGdoC4zkv
  
• Facebook claims it does not conduct business in Australia in Cambridge Analytica appeal https://t.co/1ECjzsghh
• Herbert Smith paralegal banned for overtime scam | Law Gazette https://t.co/cvf7Hodt8f
• 'My boss made me come to work and I caught Covid' https://t.co/bFHkRTL6oo 
• Government facing rebellion over the Trade Bill, and plans to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide. Rebel Tory MPs want to allow Parliament to debate ending trade deals https://t.co/ERBhzGAg8E 
• Doctors plead for legal protection from Covid judgement calls | Law Gazette https://t.co/dWPuk5jPoe
  
• Solicitors refuse to back ombudsman’s 19% budget rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/gN0tI6V6kv 
• Solicitor tests positive for Covid-19 after seeing client at court | Law Gazette https://t.co/VFoOESrB5z
• Prominent City solicitor accused of ‘dishonest’ transfers | Law Gazette https://t.co/AwMRbRmD3S
• Fife hotelier jailed for two years after £380,000 VAT fraud - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hbknA097ct 
• TLT appointed to UK government’s trade law panel - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vHQNftzneb
  
• Covid self-employment income support scheme unfair say mothers - Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday https://t.co/lZIO4nZClT
  
• M1 deaths: Coroner calls for smart motorway review https://t.co/Tza3iR5VWQ
  
• Covid and the courts: 'Grave concerns' for justice, warn watchdogs https://t.co/syGDu3IQdD 
• Ministry of Defence under fire over 18 per cent rise in data breaches - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8Pvl5JpEuK
• Case backlog threatens UK criminal justice system, say inspectors - Justice chief inspectors say delays have ‘severe implications’ for victims, witnesses and accused https://t.co/MVDJZ6L43g 
• Kenny Scott joins MacRoberts in Edinburgh - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BLpcCSoD1l
• Most optimistic hopes exceeded: Rapid Dundee growth for legal firm Gilson Gray https://t.co/zVRuYlO5E
• Court Confirms Jurisdiction To Extend Time In Defamation Proceedings Retrospectively #Ireland https://t.co/gpuVmAZzr
• Solicitors’ leaders warn two-week ‘pause’ of court work needed to stem infection https://t.co/TocKQa3gAJ
• Sámi reindeer herders file lawsuit against #Norway windfarm https://t.co/aIXQPI57WC 
• Supreme Court orders insurers to pay out for coronavirus-related business interruption losses - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/rThbuyccrt
  
• Madras High Court Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee will be sitting in the Madurai Bench for two days next week, Monday and Tuesday #India https://t.co/vh2ICFFjic 
• Herbert Smith paralegal banned for fake overtime approval - Legal Futures https://t.co/lm9X2GHNF1 
• SME firm eyes ABS licence to share fees with non-lawyer collaborators - Legal Futures https://t.co/UPWQ0D2xGH

19th January - Law News

Edition 3311: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: Shortly after Dr Martin Luther King Jr led the march on Washington, FBI agents were ordered to start following the famed civil rights leader. The extent of the surveillance shocked documentary maker Sam Pollard so much he decided to start digging. He managed to uncover FBI documents, sourced secret White House phone calls and found long forgotten footage of King at the peak of his career. With interviews from King's contemporaries Clarence Jones and Andrew Young, and former FBI agents, MLK/FBI paints a picture which, as Pollard tells the BBC's Alex Stanger, mirrors today's reality.

 Focus of the Day Article: The Scottish government’s revised legal aid package has been welcomed by the Law Society of Scotland. Amanda Millar, president of the Law Society said: “This revised package is one we support as a positive step forward. £20 million of new money is a significant investment in a vital part of our civil society. Full story - Scottish Legal News

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• #US Vice President elect Kamala Harris to be sworn in by Justice Sotomayor at inauguration https://t.co/HImo3ilRwW
• Law Society welcomes Scottish government’s revised legal aid package - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2cFb1Nlt3k
• National Audit Office challenges basis of court reforms - Legal Futures https://t.co/FC80fWL8Qr
• The youngest person convicted of a terrorism offence in the UK - who plotted to murder police in Australia on Anzac Day aged 14 - can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled https://t.co/aDYNzI2omw
• Sheku Bayoh death: Two police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements https://t.co/np0mvuH87r
• Hull FC appoint local solicitor to board of directors - Gordon Sewell is a local solicitor and lifelong supporter of the club https://t.co/SzITrqlEkh 
• High Court rejects final posthumous appeal against Lockerbie bomber’s conviction - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FTbdkrq7SU
• Obituary: Robin MacCormick, Scottish solicitor, and writer to the Signet https://t.co/q31x5Sfd44 
• High Court highlights "implausibility" of multi-hand fraud at City law firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/YmuMFzN5OY
  
• Four men have been found guilty of murdering a boy stabbed more than 40 times in a "well-planned execution". Keelan Wilson, 15, was fatally injured on Langley Road in Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, on 29 May, 2018 https://t.co/hgwGKh3cmq
  
• For Palestinian filmmakers in #Israel, it’s loyalty or silence Israel’s persecution of actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri reflects its desire to censor stories of the occupation while gloating about being a ‘democracy.’ https://t.co/1q9CA0ViUW
• The Capitol building in Washington DC is on lockdown owing to a security threat, two days before Joe Biden is inaugurated as #US president https://t.co/Ucq3N2gOg9 
• Barrister involved in a murder trial has sparked a coronavirus alert in court after calling in sick - The lawyer said they had symptoms of the disease, so the case at Hove Crown Court had to be delayed https://t.co/fQN0ICLrwj
• Scots lawyer gets Covid-19 - the Glasgow Bar Association have raised their concerns with Chief Constable Iain Livingstone and continue to advise their members not to participate in interviews at stations if they do not feel safe https://t.co/aVU2TSCDFi
• The #Pakistani lawyer for the family of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl is facing an uphill legal battle https://t.co/j6PjB4fYK
• A human rights lawyer who handled the case of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists detained in #China had his licence revoked Friday - Lu Siwei -- together with another rights lawyer Ren Quanniu -- was appointed by families of two of the "Hong Kong 12" https://t.co/OeFbIp21tr 
• A man too afraid to fly due to the pandemic lived undetected in a secure area of Chicago's international airport for three months, #US prosecutors say. Aditya Singh, 36, was arrested on Saturday after airline staff asked him to produce his identification https://t.co/bnMr723M1y
• The United States and several European governments have demanded the release of opposition politician Alexei Navalny from #Russian detention https://t.co/DzD8hyZyFn
• Change to remote working would raise a range of legal issues, expert says #Ireland https://t.co/C26tIQF0Z
• Jonathan Peter Brooks: Fellow plastic surgeon charged over attacking Graeme Perks, 65 https://t.co/VfmqwALMK7
  
• Scots church leaders threaten legal action if places of worship cannot reopen https://t.co/aIg0mHGPef
  
• Legal action launched against plan to house asylum seekers at Yarl's Wood - Home Office criticised for plans to accommodate 200 people seeking asylum at ‘prison-style’ camp https://t.co/OVQKZsBmwZ
  
• #Malaysia takes WTO legal action against EU over palm biofuel curbs https://t.co/HaTNAdS51X 
• Data Flows Continue from the EU to the UK https://t.co/7V6nwKc91Q
• British Airways breach could cost billions in landmark class-action push https://t.co/5my8STEumf
• Initial Reactions to UK Supreme Court’s Ruling on Business Interruption Claims https://t.co/iEJzNU1T
• The man who once shot at Prince Charles with a starting pistol grew up to become a barrister - despite being found guilty of the strange crime. David Kang fired two blanks at the Prince of Wales during an event in Sydney, #Australia in 1994 https://t.co/rWPms5r0UX
• Scotland Yard told to re-examine handling of investigation into struck-off barrister - Police watchdog rules there were mistakes in way Metropolitan Police handled complaint by former client of Alexander Mercouris https://t.co/DW9seZGiZk
• Shed parties and illegal races: UK police crack down on Covid rulebreakers https://t.co/fq8wDSde9y
  
• Dominic Raab calls QC acting for Hong Kong government 'mercenary' https://t.co/FN5XKJHLVM
  
• Andrew Williamson obituary - Andrew Williamson, who has died aged 78, took part as a lawyer in several key anti-apartheid trials in South Africa https://t.co/zVrRVHAy4d
• All UK travel corridors which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday https://t.co/Fuy62d1zqo
• #US Divorce lawyer 'stripped naked masturbated at work while sipping beer' https://t.co/wZC0ZLXvOo
• The future of interim relief in discrimination claims - Legal Cheek https://t.co/BkiBwAMZYp

18th January - Law News

Edition 3310: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been detained by police at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after returning from Germany, where he had been recovering following a poisoning attempt last summer. Navalny and his wife Yulia left the plane together on Sunday evening with the rest of the passengers and drove to the terminal in a bus. He was arrested at the immigration desk. Russia’s prison authority has confirmed the detention.

 

 Focus of the Day Article:  Lawyers have hailed a Supreme Court judgment on COVID-19 insurance cover, which could save thousands of jobs. The test case, Financial Conduct Authority & Ors v Arch Insurance [2021] UKSC 1, concerned the extent of coverage for business interruption under standard policies. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Law Society to probe historical slave trade links - Legal Cheek https://t.co/itiQzMFUKV
• A vlogger’s guide to a winter virtual vacation scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qRTNjMPgtH 
• Lord Sumption tells stage 4 cancer patient her life is 'less valuable' - Peer makes remark to woman with bowel cancer during TV debate on Covid lockdowns https://t.co/pMGuBqpOf8
• Alexei Navalny detained at airport on return to Russia - Opposition figure picked up after landing in home country following recovery from poisoning https://t.co/bwYyhikK8A
• Revealed: Law firms' average work from home start and finish times 2020-21 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FGILaiO7n
• Two women judges working for the #Afghan Supreme Court have been shot dead. They were killed by unidentified gunmen on their way to work on Sunday https://t.co/TMa4wN5dwz
• People who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules https://t.co/2fdIOnuQim
• City law firms increase lawyer leave in light of lockdown 3.0 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/v7TdBLzm1c 
• Wetherspoon to remove lockdown sceptic posters - including one featuring Lord Sumption - Legal Cheek https://t.co/NTZlBXfF2
• The challenges and opportunities for Black lawyers in the COVID-19 era - Legal Cheek https://t.co/e8lQ72dY7
• Article X: The right to environmental protection? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/v1qJ0wTLZU
• Law Society president faces misconduct tribunal after High Court rules he has case to answer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JSHR4aS8pw
• All adults in UK to be offered Covid vaccine by September, says Raab https://t.co/RwXF7CxhS6 
• Legendary #US music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder https://t.co/x0IqYdRy45
• From dreaded commutes to ironing shirts: Lawyers reveal what they don’t miss about office life - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qOJ4bTZOuz
• ‘Legally Brunette’ TikToker documents life as a UCL law student - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JOEDtXWXLC
• How should non-law students prepare for the SQE? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7KVRAUQ7Jw
• Linklaters reports latest gender and ethnicity pay gaps - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lv3AJbesJi
• #Uganda's main opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine says his life is being threatened following Thursday's election which saw Yoweri Museveni win a sixth elected term https://t.co/IB2V7uzeVw
• The Tory government is planning new laws to protect statues in England from being removed "on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said https://t.co/nLnXqIUhek
• Disciplinary case against magic circle partner who worked on Harvey Weinstein NDA halted over health concerns - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Vi1JcMPai
• Revealed: Tory MPs and commentators who joined banned far-right view dominated app Parler - Nadine Dorries, James Cleverly and Michael Gove joined the platform favoured by Trump supporters https://t.co/9VeZNS717G
• Shock Brexit charges are hurting us, say small British businesses - Levies to cover the increase in red tape, VAT and customs declarations are hitting trade to the European Union https://t.co/DMhlQUr0L
• Arrivals in UK could be asked to stay in quarantine hotels, Raab says https://t.co/EG7oJnQMwI 
• Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a #US government https://t.co/yRwGuq7kc
• Trust is ordered to pay £7500 to man who was not “best fit” for role with young women | The BMJ https://t.co/4ffiWjtUD
• The Motor Accidents’ Claims Tribunal, Chennai, has cut the compensation awarded to a person injured in a road accident by 40%, after it was found that he did not hold a valid driving licence #India https://t.co/wGIP8DnIfk
• Women selling clothes online are being sent explicit messages, with requests for sex and "worn" garments. Both businesses and private individuals have experienced the problem when advertising on mainstream platforms https://t.co/3RD3FByQlT
• Top London QC under fire for agreeing to prosecute Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners - Legal Cheek https://t.co/d1oe99bndQ
• Allen & Overy kicks off spring retention season with 92% result - Legal Cheek https://t.co/gOnuDDa17N
• Law student told to stump up £300 a month for ‘paralegal mentorship’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/u0TgIHXj4n
• Watch now: Travers Smith lawyers on the shift to sustainable capitalism - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3CtEtuTMCc 
• Virtual event NEXT WEEK: How to build an international career at a global law firm in London — with Latham & Watkins, Skadden, Slaughter and May and BARBRI - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ofTHceRcM
• New book explores influence of factors beyond the law on judicial decisions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/s6LgXVChQ
• DWF announces restructure - with legal one of three new divisions | Law Gazette https://t.co/Xf537z0ml7
• Civil legal aid 'running on empty', says Bar Council | Law Gazette https://t.co/BDosxLpt5g
• Police support for virtual remand hearings continues for Covid detainees | Law Gazette https://t.co/M2y3T8RqFk
• Supreme Court backs small business on Covid loss insurance | Law Gazette https://t.co/OJp0T2FVDN
• Society proposes two-week ‘pause’ as court health fears grow | Law Gazette https://t.co/q98MvX7lNA
• 'Balanced threshold': landlords expected to welcome eviction ban changes | Law Gazette https://t.co/J6jp5fBcT
• Officers in Washington DC arrested a Virginia man who tried to pass through a Capitol police checkpoint carrying fake inaugural credentials, a loaded handgun and more than 500 rounds of ammunition #US https://t.co/k979EHDEcW
• Major NRA donor to challenge gun group's bankruptcy over alleged fraud - Complaint could stop top NRA executives from discharging a substantial portion of the organisation’s debts #US https://t.co/PfLEOTRIjg 
• 'I’m facing a prison sentence': #US Capitol rioters plead with Trump for pardons https://t.co/Y4gnWLKRIe
• Calling all billionaires: here’s how to keep your superyacht Covid-free https://t.co/eRiPLrN3fN 
• Firms accused of putting workers’ lives at risk by bending lockdown trading rules https://t.co/9L5XkoEQzu
• 'Law unto themselves': the #Australian battle to curb Facebook and Twitter's power https://t.co/MF36t9iz5Q
• The #French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus https://t.co/RKfVTOMt18
• Norton Rose Fulbright cuts 132 jobs | Law Gazette https://t.co/274XCEQzX0