Saturday

22nd May - Law News

Edition 3434: 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: India's CBI has given a clean chit in a bribery case to former railway minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, who is out on bail since April after spending more than three years in jail, sources have said. The Economic Offence Branch of CBI, as per sources, in January, 2018, had started a preliminary probe against him and real estate developer DLF Group over alleged corruption. 

 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Fines collection rates show rises - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nI23Wb4vTr 
  • Master of the Rolls’ intrepid wartime jaunt | Law Gazette https://t.co/vSXxeDFOwY 
  • Linklaters and former lawyer to face sexual harassment claims at tribunal next month https://t.co/cR7MXSkbql
  • Don’t close the SIF in this tough insurance market, SRA urged | Law Gazette https://t.co/atZQIAuGFa 
  • Solicitor Raymond Finnegan nominated for District Court bench - Irish Legal News https://t.co/YvKsQBYjf
  • 'Constitutional plumbing': Buckland defends Judicial Review Bill | Law Gazette https://t.co/Fi0I0A5Wp
  • Covid will boost our acquisitions, says listed firm Knights | Law Gazette https://t.co/LWKa0nvBWt
  • From #Colombia to US, Police Violence Pushes Protests Into Mass Movements https://t.co/BfMys5vsRe 
  • Tobacco firms in move to strike out Malawi exploitation case https://t.co/zLwtGMllzi
  • Contaminated blood inquiry: 'I want their voices to be heard' - Hancock https://t.co/hEJdsGtElJ 
  • Apple boss Tim Cook is taking the witness stand for the first time in his company's major legal battle with Epic Games over an alleged monopoly https://t.co/u9ykeG77Yt
  • Heathrow Airport will open a dedicated terminal for passengers arriving from countries with a high risk of Covid https://t.co/t2hB9XP5p2
  • SRA chair appointed for a further three-year term | Law Gazette https://t.co/dphrsEvgG1
  • ExPioneering legal services advice app shut down - Legal Futures https://t.co/rTOBypXchX
  • The E.U. Agrees to Lift Travel Restrictions for Vaccinated Visitors https://t.co/vbhFknPduv
  • Students who exploited a glitch in KFC’s mobile app to obtain thousands of euros worth of free meals have been jailed in China - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Eu9wIvGMQm
  • Three Nightingale courts to close next month | Law Gazette https://t.co/a8okFY4AOu
  • SRA backs down over cut to Compensation Fund payout limit - Legal Futures https://t.co/yegEzbjvSk
  • Northern Ireland High Court: Requirement to show medical ‘disorder’ for gender recognition certificate held incompatible with ECHR - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KpSjpyf4fM 
  • New report confirms alarm of Scottish solicitors over discharges to care homes - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/keBf6vk9f6 
  • Religious leaders who challenged legitimacy of church closures in Scotland entitled to expenses increase - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fpJTUn3F8
  • Receipt is conclusive evidence of payment - #Uganda Tax Tribunal https://t.co/Sqq5TFEk0S
  • Linklaters loses 45 secretaries and PAs | Law Gazette https://t.co/ygYoZmluCS
  • Bill providing court protection to borrowers in mortgage arrears clears Oireachtas - Irish Legal News https://t.co/7rVb1P5yZ6
  • People with serious health conditions are supposed to be allowed to quarantine at home instead - and concern is being voiced that requests are often denied https://t.co/m3k0PpFP
  • #India Tribunal Bans Individuals, Companies From Using 'Khadi' Brand Name https://t.co/ZRPdmDnJkO
  • Glasgow is to remain under level three Covid restrictions for at least a further week amid concern over rising number of cases https://t.co/vhBNnL1eBm
  • Hackers causing widespread disruption to the #Irish health system have gifted it with the tool to help it recover. The Conti ransomware group was reportedly asking the health service for $20m (£14m) to restore services after the "catastrophic hack" https://t.co/6P4fpjgK1
  • Lawscot Foundation bursary helps student realise legal dream - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FYH9wqdATz
  • Award-winning Wolf Hall author Dame Hilary Mantel says the UK needs a written constitution "to stop rogue prime ministers illegally interfering with the workings of Parliament" https://t.co/OgJN1ftE9O
  • Architecture student wins SLC national award - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xKJsitEevU
  • Covid isolation rule for care homes is ‘false imprisonment risk’ https://t.co/2XT9sNF0gD
  • Family lawyers suffering from job insecurity and stress, survey finds - Legal Futures https://t.co/SP4rdkiqV9 
  • More personal injury cases to be heard remotely with new technology - Irish Legal News https://t.co/8mwzg3TImv
  • UK to offer Australia tariff-free trade deal despite farmers' fears https://t.co/WuKdsDevml
  • Lady Gaga has revealed she suffered a breakdown as a result of sexual assault that led to pregnancy. The star was 19 when she was raped by a male music producer, who had threatened to burn her music if she did not take her clothes off https://t.co/1H1fuvxLpb
  • Rioters who threw bricks at houses and torched cars in Swansea will be met with "robust action", police have said. A major clean-up is under way after cars were burnt out and windows smashed during the violence in the Mayhill area on Thursday https://t.co/HgEsy1JwTu
  • UK women forced to wear face masks during labour, charity finds https://t.co/O8WLqHVeqB 
  • The Gaza Conflict Is Stoking an ‘Identity Crisis’ for Some Young American Jews refusing blind philosophical loyalty to the Israeli state actions https://t.co/SgzqSduPEj
  • Family lawyers expect to work from home post-Covid - survey | Law Gazette https://t.co/mnU5ViVAFu 
  • Cars torched and sent freewheeling down hill in major disturbance in Mayhill, Swansea. A relative of a man whose death prompted the rioting in Swansea has condemned those who took part https://t.co/tXD4VDXkgz
  • Fines collection rates show rises - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nI23Wb4vTr 
  • Shirley Li‑Ting: Spotlight on landlord remedies in CVAs - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XJjXdnFxRi
  • NI: High Court: Requirement to show medical 'disorder' for gender recognition certificate held incompatible with ECHR - Irish Legal News https://t.co/D9APenoCVg 
  • Firm ordered to pay £800,000 after property blunder | Law Gazette https://t.co/JugP1MUnLZ 
  • Prince Harry says heavy drinking masked pain of mum Diana's death https://t.co/VzFTx8SMhi 
  • BBC's deceit over Diana interview worsened my parents' relationship - Prince William https://t.co/heGtXYxPWj
  • Judges are seeking an investigation into the “discriminatory, unfair and unlawful” judicial appointment system amid claims of bullying and racism - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ng4kCjTEwM 
  • Ex-partner of Brighton ‘babes in the wood’ killer jailed for perjury - Jennifer Johnson lied at 1987 trial of Russell Bishop, who killed two children in Sussex park https://t.co/2Fvj5ZaF0p

Friday

21st May - Law News

Edition 3433: 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: Thousands of Australian students across the country will take part in rallies today calling on the federal government to take greater action on climate change. 

  Focus of the Day Article:
'We are in something of an arms race' - IP chiefs on the global fight against fakes. Brand protection heads at Diageo, Manchester United and PopSockets reflect on their work ahead of the Anti-Counterfeiting World Law Summit. Full story - The Global Legal Post
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Bill introducing preliminary trial hearings clears Oireachtas - Irish Legal News https://t.co/1AEOpWnFy
  • Covid isolation rule for care homes is ‘false imprisonment risk’ https://t.co/2XT9sNnpp5
  • Loughborough in line for new ‘super-court’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/tFS33HEyXo
  • High Court: Renewal of summons not justified by bringing application before Statute of Limitations expires - Irish Legal News https://t.co/CEAYVpoSw0
  • Tobacco firms in move to strike out Malawi exploitation case https://t.co/zLwtGM3KHK
  • Ex-partner of Brighton ‘babes in the wood’ killer jailed for perjury https://t.co/2Fvj5YT3BP
  • Violent crime convictions up - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jNwzFStSuS
  • Firm reports 100% take-up for employees offered stake in business | Law Gazette https://t.co/CnWwM4oGG1
  • Statutory inquiry announced for sub-postmaster scandal | Law Gazette https://t.co/zZYQC7hkwE 
  • #Uganda Law Society, other Organizations Petition Court over saving Bugoma Forest from being turned into sugarcane plantation https://t.co/MQTrpscdQc 
  • Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of #France, is going on trial for illegally funding his 2012 re-election campaign https://t.co/yi0jyVQZg8
  • UK government to rely on ‘force majeure’ argument in NI Protocol dispute - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bIcY0I7UFG
  • Failures in England's test-and-trace system are partly responsible for a surge in the Indian variant in one of the worst affected parts of the country - eight local authorities in England did not have access to the full data on positive tests in their area https://t.co/K0T8rzB1JC
  • The BBC covered up the "deceitful" tactics journalist Martin Bashir used to secure his famous interview with Princess Diana, an inquiry has found. A report about how the interview was secured has been published https://t.co/u3UmB4nzIi 
  • Anger over proposed ‘good faith’ rule for immigration lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/5Un5mLGw94 
  • US House votes to create 9/11-style commission to investigate Capitol attack https://t.co/vadixZn0oT
  • Sloppy law firms “using Covid as excuse” for regulatory shortcomings - Legal Futures https://t.co/SQwSQoBV8N
  • Pre-sentence reports piloted for offenders with complex needs | Law Gazette https://t.co/evXNFJOa4Z 
  • More than 2,500 women who were victims of the PIP breast implant scandal should receive compensation, a #French appeal court has decided. The women involved, including 540 Britons, say they are elated and exhausted after 10 years of fighting for justice https://t.co/06l89nmMy8 
  • Former MP Mike Hill breached Parliament's sexual misconduct policy, an independent panel has found. The Independent Expert Panel (IEP) said that he would likely have faced a suspension had he not already resigned https://t.co/klFvavTe5c
  • Northumbria University is "urgently" investigating after an online uproar over a tweet posted from a university lecturer's Twitter account. The tweet features an image of Jeremy Corbyn, altered to show him reading from a notorious anti-Semitic forgery https://t.co/JswfNTV2oF
  • Has the Hay Festival, Britain's best-known literary festival ignoring its Welsh roots with so little focus on Wales in this year? https://t.co/CpABMUSwLF
  • Surrey firm ordered to pay £800k for property negligence - Legal Futures https://t.co/OArBmhO5aD 
  • WBD announces new charity partners in Edinburgh - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SizambAgS7 
  • UK railways to be simplified but still substantially privatised https://t.co/BR3ud3uccW
  • An Oxford University college will not "begin the legal process" to remove a statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes from its building https://t.co/VmTMx6bOJ
  • Police in #Guatemala say at least seven prisoners have been killed during a fight between rival gangs in a jail in Quetzaltenango. Most of them were beheaded as members of the Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs attacked each other https://t.co/msTv4A4CdO
  • Human rights commission to intervene in criminal appeal over fair trial rights in Special Criminal Court - Irish Legal News https://t.co/O1l6RCr4si 
  • Firm avoids negligence penalty following out-of-time ruling | Law Gazette https://t.co/5qGhhsz4bs
  • Law Society to probe bullying, harassment and sexual harassment in solicitors' profession - Irish Legal News https://t.co/IalQoIiHGJ 
  • Online safety legislation to include boost for broadcasters and public service media - Irish Legal News https://t.co/mCUpKfnTbH 
  • Completion of Sheriff solemn cases up eight per cent on pre-Covid average - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SibGvEFlyy
  • Deals roundup - Irish Legal News https://t.co/VIzKB07N2e 
  • Planning rules to be revised to tackle bulk purchase of houses - Irish Legal News https://t.co/MTESDPV1Xv
  • New lease of life for Glasgow practice - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BCVU5RMO1t 
  • Teachers' grades could be biased towards students with more "agreeable" personalities - rather than actual ability, say psychologists https://t.co/6T8iKsGaks 
  • Breast implant scandal compensation ruling due https://t.co/06l89nmMy8
  • DLA Piper appoints Stuart Murdoch as partner in Edinburgh - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5UboiNAeqw

Thursday

20th May - Law News

Edition 3432: 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: Want the latest information on the SQE? Targeted at aspiring solicitors, get the facts ahead of its September introduction. Learn about: What the SQE and new way of qualifying involves. Potential options for training and qualifying under the SQE. What to expect on the day of an SQE1 assessment. Reasonable adjustments for candidates. Registration and booking process. Assessment timings and when and where you can sit it. 

 
  Focus of the Day Article:
Continued discontent with the disclosure pilot scheme in the Business and Property Courts has been outlined by a new poll of lawyers suggesting most are still unhappy with it. A survey of 250 senior legal professionals at UK law firms found 97% expressed frustration with aspects of the pilot scheme and 70% deemed it unfit for purpose at present. Full story - Law Society Gazette
 
Saturday Conversations on Law

Wednesday

19th May - Law News

Edition 3431: 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: Border forces in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have been overwhelmed by a record-breaking influx of migrants from Morocco, jumping or wading around barriers to make it across what is technically a European border in north Africa. Spain deployed its military to beaches surrounding the city, as more than 6,000 thousand new arrivals, many of them teenagers, emerged from the sea to a wall of soldiers. Late today, Morocco recalled its Ambassador to Madrid for “consultations”, as diplomatic tensions grow. 

  Focus of the Day Article:
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a crackdown on ‘phoenixing’ involving claims management companies (CMCs) specialising in financial services. ‘Phoenixing’ in this context is when individuals from wound-up financial services firms reappeared at CMCs and charged consumers for seeking compensation from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) for their former firms’ poor conduct. Full story - Legal Futures
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Roddy Dunlop QC: Why the default position should be in-person court hearings - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/X3rORtnVSd
  • The Guardian view on violence against women: focus on the perpetrators https://t.co/bjEkykCdln 
  • Met Police officer who was filmed hugging a demonstrator at a march and shouting "free Palestine" is being investigated https://t.co/udOwIv7XuA
  • Supreme Court refuses HMRC appeal seeking over £475,000 in unpaid tax from divorce lawyer - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Mo2Xrzf897 
  • Litigant stopped after ‘absurdly far-fetched’ claims against 10 judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/XU0FaX5aNH
  • Senior promotions at Aberdein Considine - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sSH3SqC3CK 
  • Prominent D.C. lawyer named chair of Washington Ireland Program - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Hi7GhqJcdR
  • Nony Ardill obituary - died aged 68 from a brain tumour, was a leading human rights lawyer and campaigner for social justice https://t.co/zRGpMniQmy
  • ‘Litigation extravaganza’: MoR denounces six-year jurisdiction saga | Law Gazette https://t.co/RQ5z1nkpg9
  • How consumer protection laws are failing to safeguard us https://t.co/8wvUxDnIs6 
  • Dillin Armstrong case referred to High Court over possible miscarriage of justice - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YZ8tq8by1H
  • Scotland's legal aid solicitors boycott courts over Covid-19 support | Law Gazette https://t.co/HjyemmojUW
  • LeO complaints delay now 14 months | Law Gazette https://t.co/CILjSGDjH0 
  • Rape victims in England and Wales to give video evidence to boost convictions https://t.co/PGEEgjFV7l
  • Holiday firms refuse refunds for amber destinations https://t.co/I0QJC6f1Mr
  • UK farmers have sounded the alarm over reports the government plans a trade deal with Australia that would make its food and farming imports cheaper https://t.co/XKYW3LASHk
  • Four men have been bailed after they were arrested in connection with a video which appeared to show anti-Semitic abuse being shouted from a car in north London https://t.co/eVlx6WJFgH 
  • Terra Firma Chambers’ 2021 Webinar Series - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZEY17pU4NX 
  • England and Wales prisoners taking fewer rehabilitation courses - Number of courses started and completed falls 62% in 10 years despite rising prison population https://t.co/Bu6DuV5elO
  • Magic circle accelerates technology drive | Law Gazette https://t.co/wlfeh6XBu2 
  • Teenage nursery worker on trial in Exeter for sexual assault of children - Jayden McCarthy, 18, denies charges of rape and sexual assault, despite CCTV footage from the nursery in Devon https://t.co/ipdoQ0UsHS
  • High Court upholds judgment on law firms’ unpaid fees - Legal Futures https://t.co/v8T3hkp3vQ 
  • Lawyer in the news: William Ford, Osbornes Law - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/7xSi2FHd51 
  • A&L Goodbody promotes 18 new associates - Irish Legal News https://t.co/q2uYUtL01R
  • FCA launches crackdown on claims management ‘phoenixing’ - Legal Futures https://t.co/IB2OwCxPU6
  • Canada: Retired black judge handcuffed after being mistaken for criminal suspect - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/A99cXCBeP7
  • Members of the public invited to complete family justice consultation - Irish Legal News https://t.co/h3q59tImPU 
  • SIF closure – what happens next? | Law Gazette https://t.co/Brs7Dj8ZXR 
  • Court rejects appeal from solicitor struck off for gross overcharging - Legal Futures https://t.co/6cveaS7fAd 
  • Councils to gain power to use CCTV footage to identify fly-tippers - Irish Legal News https://t.co/sRPa1BCPBZ
  • NI: Prosecutors 'right not to charge' politicians at Bobby Storey funeral - Irish Legal News https://t.co/KJdNEOXlxP
  • My legal life: Charlene Gisele, former practising solicitor wellness consultant - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/5tcajdz7tx
  • Coronavirus: Ministers to step up vaccine take-up calls amid variant fears https://t.co/blRXRKRunz
  • Shane Smyth elected president of Association of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys - Irish Legal News https://t.co/7dc6v0uNmu 
  • Joe Biden has brought back a #US presidential tradition by releasing his tax return, the White House said. The filing shows he and his wife earned $607,336 (£430,000) last year and paid $157,414 in federal income tax https://t.co/XUEu6RoKnQ 
  • Long Covid pay decision for key workers could take a year https://t.co/Wm8u5NWzzz
  • Climate change: Ban all gas boilers from 2025 to reach net-zero https://t.co/ITsHaljdX1
  • Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic waste - study https://t.co/MYwTuimkvh 
  • US: Half of lawyers experiencing depression and anxiety - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bthnUGb4Nr
  • Arthur Cox launches race and ethnicity network - Irish Legal News https://t.co/p6qxnR9eS0 
  • High Court: Facebook loses challenge to DPC’s draft decision on EU-US data transfers - Irish Legal News https://t.co/JSl6dKReWG
  • Blue-tick visionary Vos’ civil justice push | Law Gazette https://t.co/vWO8F4qBOK
  • GCU Law launches campaign website for complainer anonymity in sexual offence cases - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xQoGcot52J 
  • Best of the blogs - 15 May 2021 | Law Gazette https://t.co/XM65bpmbZx
  • ‘MPs must take back control of lawmaking,’ says human rights barrister - Adam Wagner, an expert on Covid rules, believes ministers have assumed far too much say over our lives https://t.co/mVq4mpqLqb 
  • ‘We’re not closing!’: Firm's fury after SRA appears to read the last rites | Law Gazette https://t.co/0Csf83JY3X 
  • Roddy Dunlop QC: Why the default position should be in-person court hearings - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/X3rORtFwJL 
  • News focus: Queen’s speech - what solicitors need to know https://t.co/94HGfq5Qag

Tuesday

18th May - Law News

Edition 3430: 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: A decade after being granted asylum in Sweden, 19-year-old Tousin Chiza is representing his adopted country at the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam next week. Tousin - or Tusse, as he's known in Sweden - was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He fled to a refugee camp in Uganda aged five with his aunt, siblings and cousins, and lived there for three years until moving to Sweden aged eight. "It's a huge honour for me," he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. "It's like the biggest thank you I can give.".
 


  Focus of the Day Article:
A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ordered that the young child of a Canadian citizen be returned to Quebec to live with her after an application was made for his return under the Hague Convention on Child Abduction. The mother, ML, petitioned the court for an order after the father, JH, an Englishman living in Aberdeen, refused to return their child to her by an agreed return date. The child had been living with his father temporarily under the terms of a signed agreement since September 2020. Full story - Scottish Legal News
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Justice minister rejects claim she put pressure on supreme state attorney #czech https://t.co/itWt7icFjY 
  • US Supreme Court to hear major abortion case which could overturn historic Roe v Wade ruling https://t.co/gWJj4VxXPV 
  • Tensions Among Democrats Grow Over Israel as the Left Defends Palestinians #US https://t.co/hkUOXZbuLj 
  • Excavation work is to begin at a cafe where police have been searching for a teenager whose disappearance was linked to serial killer Fred West https://t.co/l9qFoUYfta
  • Married transgender prisoners win legal case after authorities stop them seeing one another https://t.co/SAg6wr4O7p
  • Charity considers legal action against Home Office over Glasgow immigration raid https://t.co/hNErFBVFkC
  • Ella Goodwin's father said the 13-year-old was told a cap or hoodie was not part of the uniform policy at Heritage High School in Derbyshire, she has a rare illness that had caused her hair to fall out https://t.co/gErQYbPHws 
  • Enforcing awards in Investor-State disputes: The battle that decides the war? | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/nJP8wfs859
  • Robert More: Big trouble in our little justice system - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lhukzzEdRt 
  • Are Gold Coast boutiques blazing a new trail? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/P9tfTb4Jih
  • #GownsDown: Defence lawyers’ boycott goes ahead after talks with Yousaf fail - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Eiw6AkPaVn 
  • Babes in the Wood: Killer's ex-girlfriend guilty of perjury https://t.co/E2G4MCBmTo
  • The mother of a man shot dead by Greater Manchester Police has vowed to fight to release the secret evidence shrouding part of his case. Anthony Grainger, 36, was killed during a covert operation in March 2012 https://t.co/ZDU792pisl
  • Outer House judge orders that child of Canadian and Englishman resident in Scotland be returned to Canada - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jMYIwcWaG5 
  • App launches with huge range of legal help to consumers and SMEs - Legal Futures https://t.co/DXJO2pRFnh 
  • Pembrokeshire school bus crash: Car driver dies and 13 children hurt https://t.co/EjLK5HyZpf 
  • A new emergency alert text system will be trialled this summer before being rolled out across the UK https://t.co/wFRWaOKy1R 
  • Dozens of officers and staff are being investigated for looking up details of the Sarah Everard case on the police computer system, the Met has said https://t.co/cUPFbAnWQa 
  • UK imposes sanctions on Libyan al-Kaniyat militia for international law violations https://t.co/eWc6XGxr9X
  • Oxford firm embraces employee ownership in response to Covid - Legal Futures https://t.co/gQ6u4vOs3M 
  • Students can spend upwards of £1,000 appealing SQE results - Legal Cheek https://t.co/pjPtkWJJEB 
  • CLC to introduce 'polluter pays' to cover cost of Legal Ombudsman - Legal Futures https://t.co/i6Qd4qVct1 
  • Jail for conman who cloned CMC and sold fake PI claims to law firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/6HTo13sRnh 
  • Long working hours killing 745,000 people a year, study finds https://t.co/TQEslHwdWU 
  • Brexit: UK proposes new Irish Sea food checks from October https://t.co/jUuZOgiC1e 
  • Green paper calls for misogyny to be made hate crime and bans on street harassment and sex-for-rent https://t.co/92QnQ0HAho
  • Experts and campaigners warn plight of domestic abuse victims and their children ignored in Scottish courts https://t.co/R6vqcUhwIE
  • Council tenant sleeping in his car for four months because 'bedroom is 3 inches deep in water' https://t.co/wBzZ4NQRSs 
  • Family Reaches $10 Million Settlement in Killing of Andre Hill #US https://t.co/LSw6tiQpEX 
  • Plaintiff firm Slater and Gordon is investigating the possibility of commencing a class action on behalf of women who have been sold ineffective add-on therapies while undergoing IVF treatment - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/rpVdTSUlrs 
  • Police apologize after wrongly arresting B.C.’s first Black Supreme Court Justice – Campbell River Mirror #Canada https://t.co/zdKEenBKKB 
  • Dates announced for The Legal Cheek Virtual Pupillage Fairs 2021 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lh6NlMjo0u
  • Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf blames Home Office after immigration protest https://t.co/zMPiccFNy2 
  • A Police Shooting in Hawaii Has South Africans Demanding Justice. A Black man from South Africa was shot and killed in an encounter with the police #US https://t.co/Jt3tNtDaSm 
  • Hidden cost of umbrella companies in UK ‘may top £4.5bn a year’ https://t.co/vYvpUpy2Gb 
  • [Karnataka Lockdown] Don't terrorise citizens when they step out to get food: Retd Justice Michael Saldanha writes to AG Prabhuling Navadgi | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Ff0ys7bONK
  • Stopping 'scourge' of BC gang violence top police priority: BC solicitor general #Canada https://t.co/3h8LNKm3pR
  • At 18, He Had Consensual Sex With 2 Teens. Montana Wants Him to Stay a Registered Offender #US https://t.co/SISuzgWngs
  • What do animals feel? Humans must follow the evidence to find out https://t.co/qbnXpWKod3 
  • Covid-19: Lockdowns ease in England, Wales and most of Scotland https://t.co/dN48iHZZgd 
  • Maddocks, the #Australian law firm has bolstered its partnership with the appointment of a new employment specialist - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/5CwkwQfWgM
  • Staff at Newport-based legal practice Convey Law have raised £10,000 in memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore to celebrate what would have been his 101st birthday https://t.co/AjJBeDcoiO

Monday

17th May - Law News

Edition 3429: 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: The United Nations Security Council convenes in the virtual format on Sunday, May 16, to discuss the Israel-Palestine crisis. The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians escalated to the highest level since the war of 2014 about a week ago, with both sides firing rockets over the opponent’s territory. At least 139 Palestinians and 8 Israelis have been killed and hundreds of people wounded.
 


  Focus of the Day Article:
Campaigners have warned that a loophole allowing children aged 16 or 17 to get married with their parents’ consent is enabling forced child marriages to take place across England. Current laws against forced marriage to do not specifically protect children, and there are no laws in the UK to prevent religious or customary child marriages. The organisation Girls Not Brides UK, who sent a letter to the Prime Minister warning of the impact of this loophole last week, have suggested that child marriages disproportionately affect girls, and often lead to fewer educational and employment opportunities and a higher risk of domestic violence. The government’s Forced Marriage Unit, which collects data on cases of forced marriage, shows that more than a quarter of cases involve children. The Conservative MP Pauline Latham is currently promoting a bill in Parliament aimed at criminalising child marriage completely. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog
 
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