6th June - Law News

Edition 3449: 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: Israeli police arrest Al Jazeera journalist in Sheikh Jarrah. Givara Budeiri was assaulted and detained while covering demonstrations in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Barristers to battle it out in Dublin Bay South by-election - Irish Legal News https://t.co/NOhEfz7Qx
• New book considers role of human rights in tackling poverty and inequality - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/63QTZDhpWi
  
• LSB chides chambers for ignoring pupil applicants | Law Gazette https://t.co/NxaHEEiQVy
• Bill for referendum on right to housing clears second stage in the Dáil - Irish Legal News https://t.co/gjmZTA6w14
• Clyde & Co to give all employees three per cent bonus - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Iy3bznjLH
• Pay conditions for Tesco shopfloor workers can be compared with those of warehouse and distribution staff, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled in a landmark decision on equal pay | NLJ https://t.co/biBnyIUypX
• Law firms, regulation and culture | Law Gazette https://t.co/S6kQeiKw8j
• Two boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after another teenage boy was stabbed to death. Dea-John Reid, 14, was killed in College Road in Kingstanding, Birmingham, on Monday evening https://t.co/rBbrl75gcb
• Corporations and individuals who violate #Nigeria's suspension of Twitter will be prosecuted, a government spokesperson has said https://t.co/ak5ughFv1d
• The G7 group of advanced economies has reached a "historic" deal to make multinational companies pay more tax https://t.co/4Db8lbLrXc
• hief Justice Frank Clarke will deliver the first in a series of online lectures in honour of the late Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman beginning next Tuesday - Irish Legal News https://t.co/TynoKF76ZO
  
• Cati Johnstone joins MacFarlane Young - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BGoXw4C74
• Rangers Football Club has lost the latest leg of its legal action over branded merchandise and replica kits | NLJ https://t.co/bVLqCY1aBC
• Fraudsters will ‘evolve’ after whiplash reforms says insurance lawyer | Law Gazette https://t.co/fPssEevDqt
• The Supreme Court is launching its first paid internship for aspiring lawyers from communities which are currently underrepresented at the Bar, in collaboration with the Bridging the Bar diversity initiative | NLJ https://t.co/hnAIOcRrcZ
• #Denmark: MPs pass law allowing for asylum seekers to be processed abroad - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RZ5vo76jzz
• Lawyers have called for early provision of legal advice and warned of increasing cases of homelessness as the pandemic stay on evictions is lifted | NLJ https://t.co/4u38jwZdmx
  
• Chambers defrauded by senior clerk forced to sell premises | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZvQrymz44T
• Commission on Taxation and Welfare to begin work today - Irish Legal News https://t.co/xCnSUeCtCC
• Justice of the Peace Courts reopen on Monday - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lgnQsGf33V
• High Court: Child returned to parents in England after aunt and uncle decided to keep him in Ireland - Irish Legal News https://t.co/rd14YyRYog
  
• More CPD hours a ‘blunt instrument’ for ensuring high standards | Law Gazette https://t.co/V07F6bs0Bz 
• European Union and British regulators are investigating whether Facebook’s “vast troves of data” give Facebook Marketplace an unfair advantage https://t.co/5n7TJBfiAj 
• SLN Interview: Aberdein Considine’s Sally-Anne Anderson - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/s0Sztdqf6t
• In a ruling that compared the AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife, a #US federal judge overturned California's longtime ban on assault weapons on Friday, ruling it violates the Second Amendment's right to bear arms https://t.co/bbfq0g82EV
• Since the murder of George Floyd, the racial justice movement BLM has received millions of dollars in donations. But some chapters have questioned how those funds are spent https://t.co/zVVc6ejCi9
  
• PI claims to soar as e-scooters legalised on London streets | Law Gazette https://t.co/thSPznzfrR 
• Subdued but Not Silenced, #HongKong Tries to Remember Tiananmen Massacre https://t.co/QdHdp3g5Zt
• CJEU finds in favour of female Tesco workers in equal pay fight - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/b44KQF7QgA
  
• Underfunding of youth court work is damaging the interests of defendants, victims and witnesses, barristers have warned | NLJ https://t.co/oUcwCQXY3P 
• #US Put Gag Order on Times Executives Amid Fight Over Email Logs - push began in the Trump administration and continued under President Biden, and the Justice Department obtained a gag order to keep it from public view https://t.co/PvtutjLoU
• The Justice Committee has called for fundamental reforms to Coroners Courts, including legal ‘equality of arms’ | NLJ https://t.co/d9KR4dsDyB
• FBI demanded the newspaper USA Today hand over records on who had read an article about the killing of two FBI agents. The newspaper's owner is resisting the request and asked a #US judge to quash the demand https://t.co/GX8fdYA2q8
• Microsoft blamed "accidental human error" for search engine not showing image results for the query "Tank Man". The phrase relates to the iconic image of a lone protester standing before tanks in #China's Tiananmen Square during demonstrations in 1989 https://t.co/iMWUoHDxqP 
• Look out this weekend and next week for legal teams belly dancing, salsa-ing, bachata-ing & reggaeton-ing, baking ten cakes, singing ten songs, swimming 100 lengths of a swimming pool, crossing ten bridges, walking, running, crafting and yoga | NLJ https://t.co/zzwq5dbXrI
  
• 'Hidden heroes': Buckland thanks court staff for Covid efforts | Law Gazette https://t.co/sp7ybdl7xK
  
• Elections watchdog admits errors in reporting Tory donations https://t.co/UkhofRWL26 
• Firms are boosted by online reviews, claims SRA | Law Gazette https://t.co/ew8p6Tplig 
• Steven Allan made partner at James & George Collie LLP - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5bZS2K8aEP
• Newborn care report sparks judicial response | Law Gazette https://t.co/Kvx35ycEva
• Scottish government’s £1m defence trainee fund opens - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4hI6TEGWfj 
• True impact of hate crime in Scotland not understood by police - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/J6snuSYMBk
• Asylum seekers win army barracks challenge | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZRBAzgr0QX
• Outer House judge resolves dispute between feuding Italian brothers appointed joint executors of mother’s estate - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JmozzwRfP6

5th June - Law News

Edition 3448: 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 India Supreme Court on Thursday cancelled a sedition case against journalist Vinod Dua and said a 1962 order protects every journalist from such charges. Mukul Rohatgi, former Attorney General and Senior Advocate, Supreme Court, said: "This law must be repealed; it is a relic of British imperialism. In the last more than 40 years of my practice I have not seen frequent invocation of the law except in the last 5 or 7 years; it shows very disturbing trends. Overzealous police authorities are invoking these sections only to please their political masters".

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Scottish Solicitors Bar Association to host ‘trauma awareness’ CPD event - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0DqYouWDrO
• #Nigeria to suspend Twitter 'indefinitely' https://t.co/so6BiA9DDq 
• ECJ rejects 'Hungarian case against MEPs’ vote to pursue sanctions https://t.co/FF3J4z9TKd
• High Court: Injunction granted restraining the infringement of trademarks relating to State-owned airline company - Irish Legal News https://t.co/QUeRLj5m8w 
• Orthodoxy on trial II: Dominance by induction - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CB0ZqoG9DS 
• Lawyers move closer to standard NDA | Law Gazette https://t.co/joDg97y2sY
• Facebook Inc has suspended former #US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts for only two years https://t.co/Qg6IDdjlzn
• Report due on trading entities splitting operations and transactional avoidance - Irish Legal News https://t.co/AwiKnIX43F
• Two shortlisted for In-house Rising Star Award 2021 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FR0iF4FrC0
• #India's Karnataka state says it plans to send a legal notice to Google after it showed the state's official language as the "ugliest language in India" https://t.co/ASC5nukXMO 
• Brittany Higgins, who was allegedly raped in the #Australian parliament, is in hospital amid 'pressure' https://t.co/Mjv2nZq2LS
• ‘Judicial’ Hillsborough inquiry questionnaires cast doubt on trial ruling n https://t.co/77dbJDP5Sm
  
• Following mediation, former umpires John Holder and Ismail Dawood have withdrawn their employment claim against the England and Wales Cricket Board https://t.co/et92jDgcax
  
• Covid in Scotland: Number of new cases highest since February - A total of 992 people tested positive for the virus on Thursday, the highest daily figure since 17 February https://t.co/PxeMvq0aRt
  
• Drug dealers caught with cocaine with a street value of £500,000 after undertaking a police patrol car as they sped along a motorway hard shoulder. The two dealers used the hard shoulder to avoid queuing on the M6 near junction seven in the West Midlands https://t.co/Qhb55huyZi
• Employment Taxes - an ETN & CIOT Webinar - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KnX3lyvf29 
• South Yorkshire and West Midlands police agree payouts for Hillsborough ‘cover-up’ - More than 600 people are to be compensated for false campaign that tried to blame victims for disaster https://t.co/6KI4GKWR0e
• Judge Permits Information From C.I.A. Torture in Terror Case #US https://t.co/UOjx1xO1gX
  
• Leading firm is latest to target business energy mis-selling claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/fraKi4vxQC
• #Spain: Sex workers have right to unionise - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Sl6d13kkl9 
• Shoosmiths spins debt practice into joint venture ABS - Legal Futures https://t.co/JTbfrzMdHz 
• UK approves Pfizer jab for 12 to 15-year-olds https://t.co/7TNPoSWgII
  
• NI: Black Lives Matter protesters will not be prosecuted - Irish Legal News https://t.co/qsB3g1jUkn
• International innovation to inform ongoing competence reform - Legal Futures https://t.co/B6sO0yT8i
• Test cases to be found to solve hybrid claims damages puzzle | Law Gazette https://t.co/gA9MpZnkYf
• Lawyer calls on employers to introduce menopause policies - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xZEzibe9RF 
• Arizona's Reported 'Zyklon B' Plan for Executions Provokes Anger - the same gas had been used by Nazis to choke dissidents and the Jewish people in gas chambers #US https://t.co/b0uH7d7Tls 
• A #US Law Student Mocked the Federalist Society. It Jeopardized His Graduation - The Stanford student sent a satirical flier that drew a complaint from the conservative group. The university then placed a hold on his diploma https://t.co/LDK2UK7Oey
• #US Government Report Finds No Evidence U.F.O.s Were Alien Spacecraft https://t.co/FRRn4hxv8n
• Care order applications are usually made when social workers decide a mother is unable to look after her child on her own. Former head of the Family Court, Sir James Munby, said the report's findings revealed a "deeply troubling postcode lottery" https://t.co/VXKtVNeWL
• Pro-democracy activist Chow Hang Tung has been arrested by #HongKong police on the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. She is vice chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance which organises annual vigils https://t.co/baqDCcwCYp 
• Family of #Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich says he was coercedinto making a confession on TV of organising anti-government protests. Mr Protasevich, 26, was arrested in Minsk last month after his flight to Lithuania was diverted https://t.co/DX07er2F1q
• #Portugal has questioned the UK's decision to remove it from the travel green list from next Tuesday https://t.co/RnVbgHumox
• Crossing Borders conference proceedings, Lesvos, 7-10 July 2016 | Filio Kiprizoglou and Dimitris Koros https://t.co/oF6JwAKSfT
• Latest quarterly crime figures show Sheriff and jury trials back to pre-Covid level - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OlxKhlm8VU
• Tribunal judges annoyed by technology faults in remote hearings | Law Gazette https://t.co/bUV5lUL9Xb 
• Scandal-hit barrister avoids further suspension | Law Gazette https://t.co/4TmLw59tGm
  
• Legal challenge to Scottish government’s beaver killing policy begins - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VIwxf8oe0q
  
• Frankie Morris: Police searching for missing teen find body https://t.co/XRSK58XvP9
  
• Buckingham Palace’s lack of ethnic minorities has long been obvious – even to devotees https://t.co/VOTVs4pim2
  
• Indian citizen serving prison sentence in Scotland fails in challenge of parole decision - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/idCoe2HEeH
  
• Why #Israeli progressives have started to talk about ‘apartheid’ https://t.co/sBPXLfTsrg
  
• Maggi Hambling: Artist behind Mary Wollstonecraft nude state surprised by backlash https://t.co/IxQafdFrL4

4th June - Law News

Edition 3447: 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: On the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, artist Bayeté Ross Smith uses archival photos to create immersive 360 scenes of these events. He finds that the underlying political and economic injustices were not only never addressed, but repeated time and again over the past century. This story was suppressed from history books and the white perpetrators were never held accountable. And it wasn't just Tulsa. Dozens of other racial terrorism events from 1917 to 1921 have also gone untold, even within the victims' families. 

 Focus of the Day Article:

An initiative to create a standard non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for use when beginning negotiations over corporate transactions has completed its first phase, with the publication of a ‘baseline document’. More than 850 individuals and businesses have committed to using the document and the oneNDA initiative will move on to agree House Rules, due to be finalised by the first week of July. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A 15-year-old boy was blasted in the face by a double-barrelled shotgun from a distance of less than 1.5m (4.9ft) as he walked to school, a court heard. He was wounded in Kesgrave, Suffolk, on 7 September https://t.co/hSc9MY1FxO
• NI: Barrister-led GDPR consultancy to invest £760,000 in Belfast - Irish Legal News https://t.co/hiDKuNEFr
• Portugal will be removed from the UK's green travel list from Tuesday, amid rising coronavirus cases and concern over a "Nepal mutation of the so-called Indian variant" https://t.co/I3u6khWtDh
• Up to 30 people will be able to meet outdoors and extended households can expand to include a third from Monday, the Welsh government has said https://t.co/pFw5Jaybr
• High Court: Discovery ordered in personal injuries case despite defendant claiming privilege against self-incrimination - Irish Legal News https://t.co/F7uTjjtXoD
• Trio of directors appointed at Anderson Strathern - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/c0a9FfwRFP 
• 'Important benefits': Law Society welcomes trans-Pacific trade pact | Law Gazette https://t.co/POgFdsv4g3
• Ronan Daly Jermyn launches scholarships to promote ethnic diversity in the law - Irish Legal News https://t.co/EmJSOjTo
• #Frenchwoman gives up legal fight for return of Nazi-looted Pissarro - Léone-Noëlle Meyer, 81, drops legal action against University of Oklahoma after being threatened with fines https://t.co/4tWa414OI9
• New act of sederunt to supports QOCS regime - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xcdnL8JG9
• As Nashville Bomber Plotted, Police Investigation Into Warning Sat Dormant #US https://t.co/a6KSaPQg3
• Claimants awarded £2,000 damages - and ordered to pay £500,000 interim costs | Law Gazette https://t.co/cxZkLG5em
• Barrister Ali Zafar elected Chairperson of Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice #Pakistan https://t.co/wWW1o40C
• Laws underpinning Special Criminal Court to be renewed ahead of review - Irish Legal News https://t.co/H0fcuSf0
• Gilson Gray makes senior promotions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MPfB7
• Fitness instructor awarded £5,000+ after taking her employer to a tribunal over equal pay. Maxine Pridsam represented herself during the week-long employment tribunal, after she found out male instructors were being paid more than female ones https://t.co/kLj7hNzcls
  
• Court of Appeal warns against hasty email court orders | Law Gazette https://t.co/Oij5rDKLy5 
• Father swears in daughter as barrister - Retired lawyer Winston Forrest swears in his daughter Jennifer as a barrister and solicitor in the High Court at Invercargill #NewZEaland https://t.co/TyXP5uAhd
• When the Gunman’s Motive Remains a Mystery: Does It Matter? #US https://t.co/u8FZMBkOA
• OUTLaw Network announces virtual events for Pride Month 2021 - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ghh4BHpbtrkers have won a legal argument in their fight for equal pay. The European Court of Justice has ruled that an EU law could be relied on in making equal pay claims against their employer https://t.co/CZA5Xoap2
• The Home Office's decision to house cross-channel migrants in a "squalid" barracks in Folkestone was unlawful, the High Court rules. 6 asylum seekers brought the case, claiming Napier Barracks was "unsafe" and dormitory use caused a Covid-19 outbreak https://t.co/Oep6ckjjcU
• UK rights watchdog endorses compulsory Covid jabs for care home staff - EHRC says ministers right to make protecting life a priority despite ‘departure’ from health policy https://t.co/wapuszuPxt
• Eight ways to transform your law firm with workflows - Legal Futures https://t.co/ACEHRZSDog 
• Demand for restructuring support sees Burness Paull recruit Allana Sweeney - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0SHvu26p
• Officers accused of sexual abuse must face investigation, says police chief /officers-accused-of-sexual-abuse-must-face-investigation-says-police-chie
• Lawyers agree 'baseline document' for standardised NDA - Legal Futures https://t.co/8Z2N8d4wG
• New RTA portal rings scam alarm bells | Law Gazette https://t.co/XqU0jU6UI
• The editor of one of #Uganda's biggest newspapers, Tabu Butagira has been summoned for questioning by police after reporting findings from a BBC investigation into last year's police killings in Kampala https://t.co/s0AWBlkkBd
• Tribunal rejects sanctioned solicitor’s plea to end career ‘with dignity’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/x1Tvj2EO
• Tribunal refuses to restore sanctioned solicitor's "pride" - Legal Futures https://t.co/Jvboy8GXlC 
• Ronan Daly Jermyn head appointed non-executive director of Johnson & Perrott - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ONEaR3PLMB
• NHS blunder sees wrong woman given invasive procedure - The error was one of 472 serious healthcare incidents reported in England between 2019 and 2020 https://t.co/igOVAZwkAe
  
• Food vouchers extended after JR challenge | Law Gazette https://t.co/lPOWHI3YX
• LPC applicants refuse en masse to disclose ethnicity - Legal Futures https://t.co/5exxyZEJTg
  
• Self-harm in over-65s ‘needs post-pandemic focus’ https://t.co/ULwcQAv6B
• Oregon Places 15 Counties Under Its Strictest Lockdown Restrictions #US https://t.co/3fOSSkss1r
• Links between Terrorism and Migration: An Exploration | Anežka Nekovářová https://t.co/BjKhPZcDBE 
• Law Society of Scotland named one of UK’s Top 100 Most Inclusive Workplaces - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wXrlvmwD4
• Plans to restrict judicial review weaken the rule of law, MPs warn |https://t.co/Kg5cqjtAgH
  
• Should our law firms still represent the Belarus government? | Law Gazette https://t.co/uQzUBuCAJa
• #Flemish commercial lawyer Morgan Moller was surprised to find an asparagus recipe buried amongst medical product pricing laws https://t.co/82QLh1tJA
• Recommended trainee pay frozen for second year in a row - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vif9spc6dY
• NI: Parental bereavement leave and pay bill introduced in Stormont - Irish Legal News https://t.co/jZIulxAL7u
• Litigation funder amasses £585 million warchest | Law Gazette https://t.co/MNNISsQI
• President Uhuru Kenyatta used the Madaraka Day celebrations to blast the Judiciary over what he termed as irresponsible rulings that negate the people’s will#Kenya https://t.co/AUmT87y9Q9
  
• Arthur Cox promotes seven to of counsel - Irish Legal News https://t.co/PKl4TO8qim 
• Lesley Larg becomes first female managing partner of Thorntons - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RNlGAps1AY
• CEO of Make-A-Wish chapter admits embezzling from charity for sick children - Jennifer Woodley pleads guilty to taking nearly $41,000 using foundation credit card and unapproved bonuses and salary increases #US https://t.co/wXVVXmPnNZ 
• #Egyptian president issues decrees reforming judicial work system https://t.co/twSEwzzt2
• Working from home: Call to ban out-of-hours emails from bosses https://t.co/ckjEwP0qV5
• Kids Company disqualification proceedings cost at least £8m in legal fees https://t.co/StczXZ3ATP
• England: LGBT+ charities launch appeal against regulator decision on 'anti-trans' group - Irish Legal News https://t.co/1kys92Rd
• Civil Rights Groups Reject anti-Trans Policies, Call for Full Inclusion of Transgender Students #US https://t.co/KS97Wb7smE
• #Ethiopia’s human rights chief as war rages in Tigray: ‘we get accused by all ethnic groups’ https://t.co/jQoB8Ol8NU
  
• Chasing debtors - the solicitors letter of demand #Australia https://t.co/1gSeJzIoel 
• Miss Emma Thompson v Vale of Glamorgan Council: UKEAT/0065/20/RN https://t.co/3SKTwXn4mZ
• UN tribunal for #Lebanon may close after July due to financial crisis https://t.co/LayUznXjn1

3rd June - Law News

Edition 3446: 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: Aboriginal artwork will soon be used throughout the Canberra Hospital and other public health facilities in the ACT, in an effort to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples feel more comfortable while receiving treatment. The artwork, designed by Yuin artist Natalie Bateman, includes flowers that hold a special meaning for Indigenous peoples.

 Focus of the Day Article:

Legal services regulators are good at collecting diversity data - but do not know what to do with it, a new study has found. The Bridge Group, commissioned by the Legal Services Board to review efforts to promote diversity and inclusion, found evidence of only ‘modest activity’ among frontline regulators and a ‘weak’ evidence base for what was effective. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Buckingham Palace banned ethnic minorities from office roles, papers reveal https://t.co/WLGsK1IcwQ
• A 14-year-old boy who was chased and stabbed to death in Birmingham was racially abused before the attack, police believe. Dea-John Reid and his friends were subjected to racist language before being pursued in Kingstanding on Monday evening https://t.co/HmvrKEtkuA
• Partner promotions at Digby Brown - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hCJd6B1ku
• The government is facing a surprise rebellion next week that could force it to reverse its cuts to the foreign aid budget. Rebel Conservative MPs say they have enough support to defeat the government and see aid spending increase in 2022 https://t.co/B7k4YHhU9
• Expert witness appears remotely at High Court trial - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uTT8G27p0G
• DWF scales back Scottish office space | Law Gazette https://t.co/r46nFl7Hi
• #India dispatches: navigating India's 'VIP culture' in the courts amidst the COVID-19 second wave | JURIST https://t.co/gUhgmT2BY
• Bar demands 'urgent re-funding' of youth justice | Law Gazette https://t.co/V66UIrX7f
• A Special Tribunal rules that the R10-million tender awarded by the Eastern Cape Health Department to Fabkom Pty Ltd for the delivery of 100 scooter ambulances has been declared unlawful and invalid #SouthAfrica https://t.co/nLNwyhk1JC
• Recipient of payments under self-directed care provisions fails to challenge alteration to support provisions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/imYtsQLcgN
• Housing assistance payment to be excluded from civil legal aid calculations - Irish Legal News https://t.co/uPsRpHsk73
• Listed pioneer to issue 10m new shares | Law Gazette https://t.co/FqYjjBTzz7
• Study into Queensland's Mental Health Review Tribunal raises concerns about oversight of patients #Australia https://t.co/AukSvd53r
• Pension scandal: 'I've lost 14 years of payments' - But a law change in 2008 means she will only be able to recoup one year's worth of the money owed https://t.co/dHv13Ce2
• A police officer charged with murder claims his "fear was through the roof" when he Tasered an ex-footballer. PC Benjamin Monk, 43, is on trial at Birmingham Crown Court charged with the murder of Dalian Atkinson in 2016 https://t.co/f1vVWKWQu
• Has the shift to remote working increased cybersecurity threats? - Legal Futures https://t.co/wdN3RDBTtF
• Shell’s historic loss in The Hague is a turning point in the fight against big oil https://t.co/jPdIIrQkM
• Charity outlines worries about LiPs navigating new claims portal - Legal Futures https://t.co/2C3PFyW3Rq
  
• A career in IP - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/0Kx5cUKkDg
• Pandemic has “undermined cohesiveness” of firms, lawyers say - Legal Futures https://t.co/L88lKltIgx
• #SriLanka, Facing ‘Worst’ Marine Disaster, Investigates Cargo Ship Fire https://t.co/FHVJgLAaBB 
• Saxon Mullins on the fight for affirmative consent laws #Australia https://t.co/NEDu5TxMZ
• Disputing Racism’s Reach, Republicans Rattle American Schools #US https://t.co/HZOwK6HzFP 
• Whiplash: What they said, what they mean and where we go from here - Legal Futures https://t.co/oCqobGdTcY
• String of promotions at Stronachs - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KgjbK8remV
• Court of Appeal: Petitioners in unsuccessful examinership application ordered to pay half of opposing creditor's costs - Irish Legal News https://t.co/jPTmnX4apI
  
• Black solicitors occupying senior roles is "key to success" - Legal Futures https://t.co/GFqwEXb2n2
• Court order forger jailed for six years | Law Gazette https://t.co/6JtcSdLMww 
• Imran Khan promised us press freedom in #Pakistan. Now journalists are under attack https://t.co/owyd1rH4JZ
• Tory-run Darlington’s £20,000 rebranding has Labour in a blue funk - redesign would see the town hall signage, crest and even bins change to match Conservative colours https://t.co/EnR1lFxk4a
• Mr Justice Donal O'Donnell to be next Chief Justice - Irish Legal News https://t.co/9Qm3RUBH0b 
• Tribunal rejects solicitor's plea to end indefinite suspension - Legal Futures https://t.co/w3c2kQKUPY
• Blog: ‘You can’t say that about me’ – an overview of the new defamation law in Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kye84pOt7Q
• Charity outlines worries about LiPs navigating new claims portal - Legal Futures https://t.co/2C3PFzdEIY
• A #Singaporean man has pleaded guilty to sending death threats to Premier League footballer Neal Maupay. Derek Ng De Ren, 19, sent the messages after Maupay's team Brighton & Hove Albion beat Arsenal last June https://t.co/JIricnT8fS
• Reports against barristers have doubled, says regulator | Law Gazette https://t.co/qDPIcorI6w
• Call for an investigation into two donations allegedly made to the Conservative Party from companies which had ceased to exist https://t.co/XUpHBec37
• Peter Tatchell’s life on film: ‘So far I’ve been violently assaulted 300 times’ https://t.co/33ZHE0qilS
• A teenager has been stabbed after a fight broke out in London's Hyde Park. A video posted on social media shows the 17-year-old being chased by a group of males armed with what appears to be large knives https://t.co/gwE3qwixAQ 
• 'No more easy paydays': Whiplash reforms officially come into force | Law Gazette https://t.co/20TRrpsMqk
• The world's largest meat processing company has been targeted by a sophisticated cyber-attack. Computer networks at JBS were hacked, temporarily shutting down some operations in Australia, Canada and the US, with thousands of workers affected https://t.co/nDWh6q8e7
• Diversity and inclusion on the agenda for Scotland’s in-house lawyers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yVWhGkQ9TZ
  
• ‘Right balance’: City staff to attend office two or three days a week | Law Gazette https://t.co/6loumMsmPg
• The Trusts (Scotland) Bill: The blueprint for a state-of-the-art system in Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/tmV33tQk1n 
• Diversity progress stalled by regulators’ weak use of data | Law Gazette https://t.co/alLKMrhAwz 
• The new whiplash portal: Is it ready and will it work? | Law Gazette https://t.co/73OoLGtPbu
  
• Academics call for 'right to disconnect' to be enshrined in legislation - Irish Legal News https://t.co/HSHuAY0pLi
• Orthodoxy on trial: the pathogenesis of a diagnosis - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LFWuLCmwMe
  
• Lisa Connaughton joins Pinsent Masons as head of company secretarial operations - Irish Legal News https://t.co/sWYs6nBZQK
  
• Calling time on old-fashioned presenteeism | Law Gazette https://t.co/ShDjDnFlkz
  
• New treatment standards for drug users - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hkOeI6DLpe 
• Key questions remain over new claims portal | Law Gazette https://t.co/Rnc4aJxTzV
• Best of the blogs - 29 May 2021 | Law Gazette https://t.co/UVtiS8sKV2
• Disaster patriarchy: how the pandemic has unleashed a war on women https://t.co/U7JQL8IqvK

2nd June - Law News

Edition 3445: 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 White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter spoke to CNN's Ana Cabrera about former President Trump's one-time national security adviser Michael Flynn appearing to endorse a Myanmar-style coup in the United States

 Focus of the Day Article:

Age discrimination complaints to employment tribunals in Great Britain have increased in volume by nearly three-quarters in the last year, according to new analysis. Ministry of Justice figures show there were 3,668 age discrimination complaints lodged in Great Britain in 2020, up by 74 per cent from from 2,112 in 2019. Full story - Scottish Legal News

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Geradin Partners hires former Competition and Markets Authority director to lead new UK office - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/TjdM8w76Ih
• #China's decision to allow couples to have up to three children continued to dominate discussion online as people debated if it had come too late https://t.co/xvCfEOUyZN
• Scotland is at the beginning of a third wave of Covid, according to the country's national clinical director. Prof Jason Leitch said more cases were inevitable as society gradually opens up after lockdown https://t.co/NBo7fhY8AR
• Glasgow lockdown restrictions are 'unfair and unlawful', claims former MSP and legal academic https://t.co/znT6iKmW1M
• Study reveals worrying biases of forensics experts - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vsGkbKvu7U
  
• Rafi Mottahedeh: 'Part of the joy for me is explaining byzantine tax laws in a way that makes sense to our business teams' - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/QWZrlzF5GX
  
• Age discrimination claims up 74 per cent in past year - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XbEICyip6h 
• TotalEnergies hindered by legal framework on more #Myanmar action https://t.co/q855vCJg8s 
• Amigo, which lends money to those with a poor credit history, has said it faces insolvency without a new plan to cap payouts for mis-sold loans https://t.co/eqDrRc9Iu
• Clifford Chance pulls out of Seoul after strategic review - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/8FIz50ZgN
• Sarah Everard died from compression of the neck. PC Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with Ms Everard's murder and kidnap https://t.co/YnbMM4oIJ
• Sheriff Appeal Court allows appeal of residence order after three sheriffs fail to obtain 11-year-old’s views - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1WrXNNouI1
• Slater & Gordon launches "revolutionary" digital legal services offering - Legal Futures https://t.co/fOP13o1y8
• Drivers will not be charged for entering Birmingham's new Clean Air Zone for the first two weeks, the city council has announced https://t.co/m1fshVv3V6
• Sicilian Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca, whose grisly crimes include having a child's body dissolved in acid, has been released from prison #Italy https://t.co/2vjpSgiUCb
• Whitehead Presbyterian Minister to leave over same-sex couples rule https://t.co/2N6RJa9Xph 
• Intellectual Property Office Launches Call For Views In Relation To The Implementation Of The Beijing Treaty On Audiovisual Performances https://t.co/V9P6TRt0X1
  
• Scotland's lockdown easing paused for millions as rules are relaxed in Glasgow https://t.co/Sccepf4m8D 
• Terrorists are apparently hiding where they can’t be moderated: The rise of the DWeb – the decentralised web – will make it harder to stop terrorists online https://t.co/i7TWMkVrAC 
• ‘For My People’: A Transgender Woman Pursues an Olympic Dream #US https://t.co/MuMtP60BdZ
• "An end to greedy opportunism" - whiplash reforms finally go live - Legal Futures https://t.co/YdftoQqZ19
• As Harvard Case Looms at Supreme Court, Study Tests Value of Diversity #US https://t.co/Ah4zXMdddS
  
• UK faces legal challenge to detail policy on lethal drone strikes https://t.co/8xXG1bHDnk 
• Digital forensics experts prone to bias, study shows https://t.co/uo2yBzRP6m
  
• UK PM Boris Johnson baptised Catholic and cannot defect from Church, says canon law https://t.co/yIep7oSJIT 
• Retired FBI Agent Is Accused of Swindling Woman Out of $800,000 #US https://t.co/sR8Wodq88L 
• Ban for law firm consultant jailed after secret mobile calls to prisoner - Legal Futures https://t.co/Pxq7X0X4BI 
• Norton Rose Fulbright launches solicitor apprenticeship scheme in London - Legal Cheek https://t.co/dQOJKb4LUM
• Two deaths in English prisons make me wonder how civilised we are in 2021 https://t.co/mUciMF0XLD 
• A dedicated terminal for passengers arriving in the UK from countries with a high risk of Covid has opened at Heathrow Airport. Travellers arriving on direct flights from red list nations will now transit through Terminal Three https://t.co/dtnz6AIz9b
• Ashurst hires former HFW Perth managing partner to bolster Australian disputes team - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/S3YE7e642o
• How a Police Chief in Wyoming’s Ranchlands Lost Her War on Drugs #US https://t.co/e7gKJc0SSS
• After Dramatic Walkout, a New Fight Looms Over Voting Rights in Texas #US https://t.co/Z4xSmS1aRT
• Barrister who practised while suspended over drugs avoids disbarment - Legal Futures https://t.co/GevQGJIJeT
• Upfront property information one way to improve conveyancing process https://t.co/LEtGODwM3S
• Kim Kardashian reveals she did not pass first year law exam - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Js5ioi2akY
• Insults caught on secret tape recordings: ‘The DUP should all be hospitalised’, says council solicitor https://t.co/J6Zdc58Ly
• Caravan owners face eviction from their homes after following lockdown restrictions https://t.co/88gsrADMEe 
• UK vaccine passport plans to be scrapped https://t.co/p74FTgqRFS 
• Police are hunting up to seven people after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death in north Birmingham. West Midlands Police said they understand the teenager was attacked in College Road, Kingstanding https://t.co/3mEfzORwNN 
• Supreme Court launches paid internship for underrepresented aspiring barristers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2QRurtpuqo
  
• Britons face one-month deadline to retain rights in four EU countries https://t.co/8ee2qDZziB
• The majority of Prevent investigations due to concerns about far-right activity, figures reveal - at least 16 members of UK military referred to anti-extremism scheme https://t.co/ZGfSTi1qZQ

1st June - Law News

Edition 3444: 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 former head of the CIA has told the BBC that there's an urgent need for tighter controls of biological laboratories around the world, to prevent another pandemic, similar to Covid-19..General David Petraeus, says world leaders need to address the issue, at next month's G7 summit in Cornwall.

 

 Focus of the Day Article:

The Weekly Round-up: Criminal justice scandals and ‘prison-like’ hotels for victims of modern slavery Full story - UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Aspiring solicitor slams firm's 'absolutely ridiculous' 30 second online job test - Legal Cheek https://t.co/0tFdHYnjTG 
• Lawyer's assistant robbed of car for not defending jailed gangster Rajiv Raja #India https://t.co/Ncr7Lnvy2p 
• Lawyers for alleged Capitol rioters to blame election misinformation, conspiracy theories #US https://t.co/JohSnLr1jZ
• Take a Covid-19 test before coming into the office, Skadden tells unvaccinated London lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/TsRaqHpoAc
  
• How mentors and mentoring for young lawyers have changed post-COVID | Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/DI56PqqGMw
• "Saw news report of dead body being thrown into river; don't know if sedition case has been filed against news channel yet:" #India Supreme Court | Bar & Bench https://t.co/2GvdMKtbZe 
• 26 Met Police Officers and Staff Arrested for Sexual Offences in Recent Years https://t.co/tFUsaLYX2t 
• Slaughter and May to allow trainees to work remotely one day a week - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Th9uE9Yh5z 
• How are eviction rules for renters and landlords changing? https://t.co/JzLoDK6PqT
  
• "Cookie banner terror": Noyb, headed by well-known Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems, is targeting companies which it says deliberately make it hard to opt-out of tracking cookies https://t.co/988F8SXQmf 
• Leveraging a law degree for more than just a legal career | Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/7LB3GS2oBM
  
• Law students step up to fill legal gap for stateless people in #Australia | Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/NhmOBC122E 
• Nahla al-Othman lived in a tent camp for displaced #Syrians where her father often chained her to stop her from wandering. She was malnourished and choked to death while eating too quickly https://t.co/PJGZ5Kt5QL 
• Biden Aims to Rebuild and Expand Legal Immigration to the #US https://t.co/aX1LpEJPnQ 
• The legal industry is lagging behind in the age of digitalisation, according to a teaching fellow with three decades of leadership development experience | Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/qcmilXq5iF 
• Pinsent Masons repays government furlough money - Legal Cheek https://t.co/eUOvdtNU8f
• [Free Press] "Section 124A on sedition needs interpretation:" Supreme Court protects Andhra news channels TV5 and ABN from coercive action | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/aELuupO57t 
• St. Anthony: How a lawyer built a business helping seniors take their dream trips https://t.co/eS1W343QRm
• There are signs the UK is in the early stages of a third wave of coronavirus infections, Prof Ravi Gupta, from the University of Cambridge, said although new cases were "relatively low" the Indian variant had fuelled "exponential growth" https://t.co/tXHT4yy8oc
• An armed ex-soldier on the run in south-western #France has been shot by police after a 24-hour manhunt. The man, named by police as 29-year-old Terry Dupin, had fled to a forest after shooting at officers on Saturday, sparking a massive search https://t.co/jrWlGqQ1aF 
• #Denmark's secret service helped the US spy on European politicians including German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2014, Danish media report https://t.co/bkSdL4MD8c 
• From Kafka’s The Trial to insightful accounts from barristers on their time in the courts, here are some outstanding titles to explain the legal system https://t.co/VYmZhD993q
  
• The need for an international right to obscurity - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Ax0dfpEWqO 
• Six Post Office bosses 'could face charges' over handling of IT scandal, lawyer says https://t.co/Y9526sUC93
• Calling girls "sweetie" or boys "mate" in primary school perpetuates gender stereotypes, campaigners say. In a letter to the education secretary in England, various groups are calling on the government to address the language and ideas used in schools https://t.co/eZeZMEMS5b 
• War hero who captured 60 German soldiers honoured on 100th birthday - Eric Goldrein, who later became a successful solicitor and leading member of Liverpool's legal community, was recognised by the Hale Village community https://t.co/WekXdW4Ell
• Hong Kong is offering top bankers exemptions from strict virus quarantine measures, said the Securities and Futures Commission. Senior executives who are fully vaccinated can apply to be exempted from a mandatory 21-day quarantine https://t.co/GmtdGVPIDS 
• Norton Rose Fulbright launches new apprenticeship scheme in Newcastle for school leavers - The law firm wants six school leavers to join its office in the North East https://t.co/UdzmUycHnx 
• Hundreds more Afghans and their families to be allowed to settle in UK https://t.co/8nx8WJKLeR
• #India Supreme Court hears suo motu case concerning COVID-19 | Bar & Bench https://t.co/Y0UJyj64Mm
• The tricks for breaking into in-house years before graduation | Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/VVwPc0riRv
• UK women forced to wear face masks during labour, charity finds https://t.co/O8WLqHDD21 
• #China has announced that it will allow couples to have up to three children, after census data showed a steep decline in birth rates https://t.co/Tm2NulYPqX