28th July - Law News

Edition 3501: 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:
Technology and Innovation in Legal Services, a question and answer session by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

Focus of the Day Article:

Extended operating hours in the courts – bitterly opposed by the legal profession – have returned, at least for now, in the guise of ‘temporary operating arrangements’ (TOA). The Bar Council strongly criticised the move, saying there was little evidence that longer hours worked. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Landmark climate legislation signed into law - Irish Legal News https://t.co/bZuVD6LYKN
• NI: Shoosmiths appoints Belfast lawyer Grant Edwards as partner - Irish Legal News https://t.co/YVq724tygI
• ‘Forcing women out of clothing is just as violent as forcing them into it’ #Norway https://t.co/XJsoNi7I0E
• My legal life: Johnny Nichols, Keller Lenkner - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/B9LDcunwaf 
• Instagram has made new under-16s' accounts private by default so only approved followers can see posts and "like" or comment https://t.co/ByBgMrgRl
• EU pauses legal action against UK over NI Protocol 'breaches' https://t.co/oPZ8UpIhBy
• Capitol Hill police officer in tears during testimony Officer Aquilino Gonell gave an emotional statement during the first day of the #US Capitol riot inquiry https://t.co/BRYT8dk95g
• Portrait of Ms Justice Mella Carroll unveiled at DCU - Irish Legal News https://t.co/dJWlobkfTR 
• News focus: Judicial Review and Courts Bill - bigger reforms on the horizon? | Law Gazette https://t.co/yTQveupVa5
• NI: Commercial property lawyer graduates again - Irish Legal News https://t.co/9Adn3AMQ5a 
• Land Registry tackles rise in restrictions-related problems | Law Gazette https://t.co/KiBzwZbQUa
• Contaminated-blood inquiry: Former Health Minister Ken Clarke denies responsibility https://t.co/JUCAJwCpC
• Britney Spears Files to Remove Father Jamie Spears From Conservatorship #US https://t.co/6paIXto0PT
• Court of Appeal: 16-year sentence upheld for man convicted of violent sexual assaults against sex workers - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Uomj7Ww7fe
• MPs urge complete overhaul of both civil and criminal legal aid - Legal Futures https://t.co/hp4NvlIjoK
• New rules to protect sibling relationships for children in care - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JRxQlAIboe
• Men four times more likely than women to appear before SDT - Legal Futures https://t.co/Gt4Ylx6uZZ
• New York City and California to Require Vaccines or Tests for Workers #US https://t.co/77X8eGkZ5C
• Law firm worker's 'self-isolate' dismissal claim ruled out of time | Law Gazette https://t.co/zN532fbDq
• Longer court hours re-emerge despite concerns over impact - Legal Futures https://t.co/ORCyypkJba
• ‘I felt violated by the demand to undress’: three Muslim women on France’s hostility to the hijab - In #France, a new law could seriously restrict women’s rights to wear headscarves in public, and there are fears that it will entrench Islamophobia https://t.co/2s4MZQFsv6
• Officers in Manchester are five times more likely to stop and search black people than white, race equality report finds. But Manchester police chief is in denial about institutional racism of his officers https://t.co/BRqA6wsEGd
• Frontline services for women and girls affected by gender-based violence will receive £5 million to deal with additional pressures that have occurred during the pandemic - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Gl7wZAbZje
• Technology and innovation "step-change" in last year but barriers persist - Legal Futures https://t.co/lu988eAEGi 
• Rumpole rebooted – iconic series to return with female lead - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jlG3EQbdUh
• Staff and councillors in Lambeth presided over a "culture of cover-up" that led to more than 700 children in care homes suffering cruelty and sexual abuse, an inquiry has found https://t.co/FjWhT5idwz
• HMCTS scales back Nightingale courts as venues reopen | Law Gazette https://t.co/79w1HNPTUU
• England: Lord Devlin’s daughter claims father sexually abused her as a child - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/y0ceJjt1Vu
• Lawyer in the news: Vinita Templeton, Duncan Lewis - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/vOkbT1kuKV
• Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to cut crime by tackling drug misuse and using electronic tagging on more burglars after release https://t.co/4GzsV90f6k
• Defence solicitor who let client access confidential files fined £2,000 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MWMMgsjVF3
  
• ‘Complete removal of hope’: an inmate on life in a close supervision centre. Case study: Kevan Thakrar says the high suicide and self-harm rates in CSCs are no surprise https://t.co/SLdKE2TXHt
• 'Humanitarian' solicitor avoids strike-off – despite dishonesty | Law Gazette https://t.co/gbMABHNF9N
• Stakeholders updated on scheme to regularise undocumented migrants - Irish Legal News https://t.co/IYBjvnXETf
• Hope for Aberdeen property market as activity bounces back - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uEeykMDjg8
  
• Best of the blogs - 26 July 2021 | Law Gazette https://t.co/rRH5ZRLu5d
• MPs and campaigners alarmed at UK’s ‘discriminatory’ crime reduction plans. Government’s proposals include more frequent stop and search and making community service street cleaners ‘more visible’ https://t.co/e7S3jdGqDu
• Activists lose legal bid to stop £27bn roads plan for England - Climate campaigners appeal against judgment saying ministers are being ‘let off the hook’ https://t.co/410OCeY2p
• Billionaire investor and former Donald Trump adviser Thomas Barrack has pleaded not guilty to charges of acting as an agent of a foreign government #US https://t.co/zATBMyQiVB
• MPs call for national register of home-educated children https://t.co/GsTPQ8Idpa
• Mum hit by car at Denbighshire festival as daughter, 2, 'thrown to safety' https://t.co/TNfLei6oL3

27th July - Law News

Edition 3500: 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:
 
This free online panel event, hosted by the Bar Council and Inside Justice as part of Justice Week 2021, focuses on accessing justice for wrongful convictions. During the session our speakers will take the audience through the work required in a real-life investigation to identify a killer, and have the murder conviction of an innocent man quashed.

 

Focus of the Day Article:

The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an appeal which considered whether treatment throughout a 55 day period in solitary confinement of a then 15-year-old appellant in Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution constituted a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.  Full story - UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• New report paves way for positive sustainability impact - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/zvPYXWIfN
• Tesco Bank to close all its current accounts https://t.co/ccJOEMLGmV
  
• A woman has been jailed for 34 months after being found at Heathrow Airport with five suitcases stuffed with nearly £2m in cash. Tara Hanlon, 30, of Pelham Court, Leeds, pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court in June to money laundering https://t.co/AZKMsHCzPU
• Woman on the run after being exposed for practicing law, winning Bar election without LLB | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/caQiAi94W
• Can data analytics unlock the potential for diversity in the law? - Legal Futures https://t.co/aVhlp6zkvz
• #Australia Private Practice Salary Guide & Market Report 2021-2022 - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/i4FKffmHNR
• Fears about using judicial data to predict judges' actions "exaggerated" - Legal Futures https://t.co/K5fZ4jdOD3
• The Weekly Round-Up: Migrant Rights, Virginity Testing and Racism - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/pT4uSelCa
• Fifty-two prisoners in close supervision units ‘that may amount to torture’ - FoI request reveals number of inmates in England and Wales kept in conditions criticised by UN expert https://t.co/kdfa5m5t0m
• Former England footballer Wayne Rooney has reported a range of photos taken of him to police, his lawyers have said. The photos appear to show the Derby County manager asleep in a chair with unknown women posing beside him https://t.co/nG3Weuv3hj
• Barcelona have reached an out-of-court agreement with their former player Neymar to end a legal dispute in "amicable fashion". Neymar claimed Barca refused to pay him £37.2m in owed loyalty bonuses after his £200m move to Paris St-Germain in 2017 https://t.co/kdrckFaQyw
• Two schoolboys who ambushed a 13-year-old and stabbed him to death after a dispute on social media have been found guilty of murder. Olly Stephens suffered fatal stab wounds to his chest and back in a field in Reading https://t.co/w8WlTTWNFX
• Scott Walker guilty of murder - Bernadette Walker, 17, told her mother Sarah in July 2020 Scott Walker, 51, had been abusing her "over a number of years", Cambridge Crown Court heard https://t.co/UKvgMTpb2q
• A High Court challenge against the government's proposed £27bn road scheme that includes the Stonehenge road tunnel has been dismissed. Mr Justice Holgate said its net zero carbon target had "plainly been taken into account" when it was approved https://t.co/gHFRDRnjrs
  
• Alexandra Tighe has worked on four royal commissions during her career, two of which saw her act as lead partner. Here, she discusses what such litigation work is like - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/hoSJ5MVQSB
• Discrimination the “sole cause” of paucity of Black QCs - Legal Futures https://t.co/HRcReKLmnI
• Appointments at DWF’s Scottish offices - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/STMoTslTm8 
• UK Lord Justice to serve as international patron for Asian Australian Lawyers Association - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/1roxcdpKxv
  
• CMS announces five senior of counsel promotions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uMluqWWj3w
• Reporters confronted in street and accused of ‘smearing China’ amid increasing sensitivity to any negative portrayals of #China https://t.co/8BecXPyZjG
• Covid: Quarantine for Britons vaccinated abroad to be dropped - Vaccines minister says government will recognise UK-authorised jabs given overseas from next month https://t.co/IF9g4q0poS
• Inner House extends interdict banning sale of trade mark infringing Lidl gin to UK-wide order - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ehPesmn0WS 
• New Lawpod UK episode: Vicarious trauma in the legal profession - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/WwArlHqdUJ
• Dishonest but "humanitarian" solicitor avoids strike-off - Legal Futures https://t.co/S0OZ4XHOx8
  
• A man accused of murdering his mother's partner, who was one of the UK's richest men, has pleaded not guilty. Sir Richard Sutton was stabbed to death at his home in Higher Langham, Gillingham, Dorset, on 7 April https://t.co/ZNLhUJzgnh 
• Tokyo 2020: S Korea TV sorry for using Pizza for Italy, Dracula for Romania and Chernobyl for Ukraine to depict opening games https://t.co/2rTNSD125d
• Are we not humans? Have we lost all touch of humanity? Former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta on incarceration of Stan Swamy, UAPA | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/pP3HPITqC2
• Former Premier League footballer Joey Barton has denied attacking his wife, leaving her with a head injury. The Bristol Rovers manager appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates Court earlier via videolink https://t.co/xv1yfTw7NZ
• FTX and Binance, Cryptocurrency Leaders, Move to Curb High Risk Trades https://t.co/WQbuCcTfQk
• In Louisiana, Public Health Workers Combat Vaccine Misinformation #US https://t.co/aMaD2TeF03 
• How the Satanic lawyer created the billionaire legal sector - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cl3TozTKnL 
• Sydney criminal lawyer behind fraudulent betting syndicate loses appeal - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/dPaFOfjqkX
• Outrage as Italy faces multimillion pound damages to UK oil firm - Secretive tribunals allow fossil fuel companies to sue governments for passing laws to protect environment https://t.co/o020x6p7Hz 
• Court of Appeal allows claim over law firm break-up to proceed in full - Legal Futures https://t.co/xD60ET7h6g
• Supreme Court dismisses solitary confinement appeal - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/wLcUcCrrC
• Indoor hospitality in the Republic of #Ireland will return. Customers, including those from Northern Ireland, must have official proof they have been fully vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19 within the last 180 days https://t.co/RkHHH61VpH
• A new £48m National Adoption Strategy seeks to improve adoption services and help place more children with families as it launches in England https://t.co/SBrFWMatD2
• Two London hospitals have asked patients to stay away after their emergency departments were hit by flooding on Sunday. East London's Whipps Cross and Newham hospitals urged patients to use other A&Es for urgent care, and ambulances are being redirected https://t.co/3k9EVi99LN
  
• The ‘public interest’ defence to defamation - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/TOWBXPnqLP
• Kerala High Court dismisses 'poorly researched' petition by Hindu body challenging minority quota; imposes cost of Rs. 25,000 | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/6uwK8r3zv
• Woman moves court after man she met on matrimonial app fails to pay back | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Gb4FIPFa8M
• [Disposal of COVID-19 victim bodies v. Parsee last rites] What the Gujarat High Court held | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/ZHzZPMRv4Y 
• The Boutique Lawyer Show: Book writing is the new business card - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/tU0WV7h4y6 
• Linklaters retains 45 of 48 autumn qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/e3rMIEUmWt 
• Speakers' Corner: Woman attacked with knife https://t.co/aWiW4uMr0c 
• Prashant Kishor: How to win elections and influence people in sectarian #India https://t.co/iaVjl9a1c9

26th July - Law News

Edition 3499: 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:
 
Though the apartheid regime was dismantled 27 years ago, the question of 'racial justice' still looms large in South Africa. The recent unrest has left the country on the brink, and the crisis has touched every community.

Focus of the Day Article:

The government has introduced its Judicial review and Courts Bill to parliament, to widespread dismay among lawyers. The Bill follows Lord Faulks’s Independent Review of Administrative Law last year into the balance between citizens’ rights to challenge government decisions and the need for effective government.  Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Osborne Clarke raises London junior lawyer pay to £80k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PHKlKEZWYP
• NQ lawyer pay hits £90k at Travers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FBvqj6wh0w 
• NI: Latest edition of conveyancing journal Folio published - Irish Legal News https://t.co/XHUGXSRTos
  
• Pay training contract and qualifying work experience trainees the same, Law Society tells firms - Legal Cheek https://t.co/X0Dcn4hawm
• FSA chief says making proof of vaccination mandatory at football matches could cause 'chaos' https://t.co/qx6CIWweD6
• A speech at a protest rally that likened NHS nurses and doctors to Nazis executed after World War Two has been condemned by nursing leaders. The Metropolitan Police said officers were assessing a video of the speech by former nurse Kate Shemirani https://t.co/7ePF0MMFmQ
• BCLP keeps 19 out of 22 autumn qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mv3xGLhAvA
• Applications now open for Legal Cheek Virtual Pupillage Fair - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Cqky71CTlr
  
• Disproportionate targeting of Jamaicans for deportation from UK, data suggests - FoI figures from Home Office indicate that nationals of particular countries who commit crimes appear more likely to be removed https://t.co/79YSUGVG0
• Clifford Chance partner profits up 9% to £1.85 million - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RLkaNcEn66 
• The government has introduced its Judicial review and Courts Bill to parliament, to widespread dismay among lawyers | NLJ https://t.co/q24PsiPefX
  
• More than 250 convicted of child sexual abuse in UK and Ireland while in Scout movement - Analysis raises questions about the organisation’s safeguarding procedures https://t.co/zjaxUy94ih 
• UK government sets aside up to £233m to cover Post Office payouts - Hundreds of people running post offices were forced to pay out for shortfalls caused by faulty Horizon computer system https://t.co/J81FUYP4Ss
• Foreign Office is ‘complicit in British man’s #Somalia torture’ - ‘David Taylor’ claims hooding, sensory deprivation and waterboarding was to persuade him to cooperate with the CIA https://t.co/6UI9cgum7i
• #Australian politicians have condemned protests against coronavirus restrictions amid a rise in cases https://t.co/mH89inkO5p 
• Hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters who gathered outside First Minister Mark Drakeford's home "crossed the line", his predecessor has said https://t.co/JVcJwahoKW
• City firms continue to reveal 2021 financial results - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qBJuquWD8
• ECtHR: Man detained under terror suspicions had human rights violated by Turkish authorities - Irish Legal News https://t.co/kOlHfqw2Un 
• Former Preston North End youth player who smuggled drugs to prison inmates says guards need more help https://t.co/OmxvbpfpTd 
• Women in the armed forces who are victims of bullying, harassment, discrimination and serious sexual assault are being "denied justice" by a "woefully inadequate" military complaints process, MPs have said https://t.co/yQvI6eRjv0
• Magic circle vs US MoneyLaw: An associate's perspective - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ERUeaqcSFp
  
• An incident on a swing ride at a funfair in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, was caused by teenagers misusing equipment, organisers say. Planet Fun will reopen on Sunday after the incident on Saturday evening which left several people injured https://t.co/Z9mHAMrLTD
• Former footballer Joey Barton is due in court charged with attacking and injuring a woman. The 38-year-old, who manages League Two side Bristol Rovers, will appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Monday 26 July https://t.co/tOcKYsfIoU
• Legal professionals qualifying as solicitors via the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) route should be paid at least the same as trainees, the Law Society has said | NLJ https://t.co/3EXuNsqNMv 
• In #Hungary, an Embattled LGBTQIA+ Community Takes to the Streets https://t.co/TkOfE5oXWF
  
• #Spain Pledged Citizenship to Sephardic Jews. Now They Feel Betrayed - In 2015, Spain said it would give citizenship to the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled during the Spanish Inquisition. Then rejections started pouring in this summer https://t.co/JpgP3WSWGA
• Protesters Clash With Riot Police Over #French Health Passes https://t.co/DepTbYNRG9
• The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online - Researchers and regulators say Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician, creates and profits from misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines https://t.co/FvnBXdkCBb
• City law firm donates £2 million profit slice to Covid charities - Legal Cheek https://t.co/0RilqvVjy
• ‘Our silence permits perpetrators to continue’: one woman’s fight to expose a father’s abuse https://t.co/F8cIpfG0IC
• Almost half of state boards falling short of gender diversity target - Irish Legal News https://t.co/UpWntOjEFg
  
• US law firm Gibson Dunn tells London lawyers ‘work remotely whenever appropriate’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/yoeEmxLGbT
• US R&B star R. Kelly has been accused of fresh abuse allegations, including the claim he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old boy https://t.co/evhVkaULAh
• Legal tech: what aspiring lawyers really need to know - Legal Cheek https://t.co/pbwejymwkT
• Solicitor apprenticeships jump 40% in one year - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aKqbzKay6c
  
• NI: Professor Phil Scraton joins team of Include Youth patrons - Irish Legal News https://t.co/fuyayrgVJm
• Mayer Brown retains 8 out of 10 NQ solicitors - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rZLFXOZDc1
  
• Top judge slams BSB over 'injustice' to student wrongly kicked off bar training course - Legal Cheek https://t.co/wguHJF4qS8 
• The lawtech sector has doubled in size since 2017, includes about 200 companies, has attracted £647m in investment and is outpacing fintech, climate tech and healthtech | NLJ https://t.co/s5XYF9EoR2 
• Slaughters joins magic circle rivals in raising NQ lawyer pay to £100k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ONHC9X9J0T 
• NI: Bill introducing new legal framework for adoption due this year - Irish Legal News https://t.co/9ygs0w7ZvJ

25th July - Law News

Edition 3498: 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 Dutch government has been accused of not doing enough to help relocate Afghan interpreters who worked for its forces. Thousands of Afghans who helped foreign forces are now at risk of attack by the Taliban, as the armed group makes gains on the ground.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• 'Thank you bonus' firm celebrates 30% profit rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/ChLKeVeBFN
• Post-Brexit UK Shared Prosperity Fund 'risks damaging constitution further' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/0acnoXKiv
• Scotland makes international pledge to help deliver Paris Agreement - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WlV6PxY4u
• A further 12 former sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses including three who served time in prison, have had their convictions relating to the Post Office (PO) Horizon scandal overturned by the Court of Appeal | NLJ https://t.co/9XV84JOuz2
• ‘The law is cold. It doesn’t reflect the life lost’: mothers of murder victims tell their stories. Grieving parents of two young women killed by their ex-boyfriends launch a new film to step up their campaign for justice https://t.co/WyObXvDPt
• Six-figure awards set serious libel benchmark | Law Gazette https://t.co/LfPRUPTrI
• Board established to oversee end of direct provision - Irish Legal News https://t.co/1rp1p3QVGe 
• Compensation fund payouts reach five-year high | Law Gazette https://t.co/MsRm5cztvI
• The Law Society issued a grim warning about the Nationality and Borders Bill, ahead of its second reading in Parliament this week | NLJ https://t.co/FX6p8P0Lm
• Fatuma Kadir, missing 11-year-old Bolton girl is found in London although it is not known why she travelled alone https://t.co/PGOmWwUOsW
• #Haiti: shots fired at Moïse’s funeral as protesters clash with police https://t.co/I4lqWgECVh
  
• NI: Judge concludes there is 'real prospect' Omagh bombing could have been prevented - Irish Legal News https://t.co/J3GPUkIYRl
• Chambers UK recognises Brodies’ expertise - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4yDpwXIVLP
• Employment tribunals are plagued by delays, lack of resources and too few judges, an Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) survey of its members has found | NLJ https://t.co/2y4XyKCVH9
• Judges owed a duty of care, government concedes | Law Gazette https://t.co/vSG6Kk52q
• Legal profession leaders are calling for urgent action on judicial diversity after official statistics revealed slow or no progress in some areas | NLJ https://t.co/pL83PavKJW
• Addleshaw Goddard advises on GENinCode IPO - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/I8sCIFlMQu 
• Law Commission recommendations to tackle online abuse such as death threats, racist comments and pile-on harassment have been laid in Parliament | NLJ https://t.co/Y0mLb51Nd
• 'Her inquest concluded she'd had no training and no safety measures had been put in place to mitigate the risks to her' - Girl's tragic balloon accident death in Cardiff marked 125 years on https://t.co/OH6jcToHTz
• The scale of violence against women demands a better response than Priti Patel’s https://t.co/0BQfLDKTE
• RT @ianbrealey: It’s a fair point https://t.co/OwxKqV479a
• #Eritrean footballers on the run face anxious wait in push for safe haven - Four players hiding in Uganda since 2019 are waiting for a resolution and wondering what might have been https://t.co/gom0p30kjY
• City pay and retention continue to climb | Law Gazette https://t.co/jLtcFVimm
• Like millions of #Americans, I can never leave my spouse. I’ll lose my healthcare - My access to doctors is tied to my husband – and his access is tied to his employer. Land of the free indeed https://t.co/dxgk2R5IEC
• #SierraLeone abolishes death penalty - MPs vote unanimously for abolition, making it the 23rd African state to end capital punishment https://t.co/dIpFTwyR
• ‘It’s getting out of hand’: genocide denial outlawed in #Bosnia - Move by international body set up to implement post-war peace deal follows attempts to downplay 1995 Srebrenica massacre https://t.co/I3e5a7FN4
• Ghana: anti-gay bill proposing 10-year prison sentences sparks outrage. Bill could mean 10 years in prison for LGBTQ+ people and those who support their rights https://t.co/chBEevrhbr
• Like many hotel owners around the country, Jess and Andrew Waggitt opened their doors to homeless people during the pandemic as part of the government's Everyone In scheme https://t.co/CTydgY8bFS
• Suspect Tries to Compare Capitol Riot to Last Year’s Violence in Portland, Oregon - right-wing news media and Republican politicians have often made the comparison. Now, in a narrow legal context, a judge will consider the argument. #US https://t.co/gtQ5IODAI
• Bust of Klan Leader Removed from Tennessee State Capitol - State officials removed the sculpture of confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader, Nathan Bedford Forrest, from the State Capitol in Nashville and sent it to the Tennessee State Museum #US https://t.co/jdCoZTJB7
• Supreme Court: Legal basis for surrender of people between Ireland and UK post-Brexit referred to CJEU - Irish Legal News https://t.co/nuEN4UfKM
• Scottish Legal Aid Board agrees to improve approach to equality - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4Xf45Hd6g
• Lawyers' tweets anger mother involved in contentious proceedings | Law Gazette https://t.co/jXAIbn0lm
• Ad men sacked to improve gender pay gap win sex discrimination claim - London tribunal rules men axed after director vowed to ‘obliterate’ J Walter Thompson’s reputation of ‘being full of white men’ https://t.co/bV5pGiJPj
• BrewDog loses IP battle over tiger gin - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4XOxhP8T8v
• Win for Angelina Jolie as court disqualifies judge in Brad Pitt divorce case - Court finds John Ouderkirk did not sufficiently disclose business relationships with Pitt’s attorneys #US https://t.co/QMZFMb15q
• What does the latest public health guidance mean for Scottish businesses? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/q7r513rXu7
• The first batch of dozens of Zimbabweans deported from the UK, have landed in the southern African country. Some of them had been in the UK for decades and were forced to leave their families behind to begin an uncertain future in their country of origin https://t.co/juozj56RbP
• Supreme Court warns of LLP lacuna in VW claim decision | Law Gazette https://t.co/cjSDr9N6lm 
• #China is imposing sanctions on several US individuals and organisations in response to recent US sanctions on Chinese officials in Hong Kong https://t.co/62PpljxwsI

24th July - Law News

Edition 3497: 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:
 
"How Can India Say No To Investigation When Other Countries Have Started?": P Chidambaram On Pegasus, "There should be an investigation. France, Israel and Hungary have ordered an investigation. How can our country say they won't investigate this? Our minister is saying there was no unauthorised surveillance. Does that mean there was authorised surveillance?" says Congress leader P Chidambaram.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• US sanctions #Cuba over crackdown on anti-govt protesters https://t.co/ricpi2VdIL
• #Israeli security forces ‘complicit’ in the surge in settler attacks – report https://t.co/QWNZIXS1
• Partner profits up 50% at RPC | Law Gazette https://t.co/v60bIRBzkp 
• Las Vegas murder case cracked with smallest ever amount of DNA #US https://t.co/WdxBqzDtr
• High Court: Trip-and-fall claim dismissed because plaintiff failed to look where he was walking - Irish Legal News https://t.co/BuFZP1xnCR
• Defence lawyer agrees strike-off over prison visit expenses | Law Gazette https://t.co/mTb7MxzY0F
• Brandon Malone calls to the English bar - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DoTPz0pdMw 
• Scottish commercial property investment shows signs of recovery - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/a64vmwyeNx
  
• To assist with jury trials in the High Court, eight sheriffs have been appointed by the Scottish ministers to act as temporary judges from 1 August 2021 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/amIpdijLFD
• Three students have been refused exemption from travel quarantine rules because their vaccination certificates do not show they have had two jabs https://t.co/k3aLYTEQgk
• Wales manager Ryan Giggs has pleaded not guilty to using controlling behaviour and assaulting his ex-girlfriend https://t.co/0WGvXiymIV
• Ten years after neo-Nazi massacre in #Norway survivors say ideology lives on https://t.co/6KB10CtRsE
  
• Post-Brexit UK Shared Prosperity Fund risks damaging constitution further - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OP8x2gk8CM
• Limited number of critical workers to be allowed to avoid self-isolation https://t.co/2zHtZkhxzG 
• #Australian activewear firm fined £2.6m for claiming its clothing "eliminated" and stopped the spread of Covid. Lorna Jane had advertised that its clothing used "a groundbreaking technology" called LJ Shield to prevent the "transferal of all pathogens" https://t.co/xtVQnHek0X
• Firms "overlooking compliance implications" of homeworking - Legal Futures https://t.co/2bdq2eYpJF 
• The Ministry of Defence is investigating the death of a soldier at an Army barracks. Emergency services were called to Larkhill garrison in Salisbury at 12:20 BST on Thursday following the death of a woman in her 30s https://t.co/3GsmNb2Mhp
• Grad wrongly thrown from bar course and refused waiver wins appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/DcBE31Ora7
• High Court criticises Bar Standards Board for "unjust" decisions - Legal Futures https://t.co/g9vMRQdaEu
  
• Failure to pay fiscal fines going unpunished - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LLsau3l5Wl
  
• Omagh bombing could have been prevented, says high court judge - ‘Real prospect’ 1998 attack by dissident republicans could have been thwarted, says Mr Justice Horner https://t.co/eYap1uffbY
• Youth violence likely to explode over summer, UK experts fear - Long-term issues overlain with stress and isolation of Covid have set scene for ‘eruption’, charities say https://t.co/WcSBmjCfsP
• John Barilaro’s lawyers brush off ‘pork barrelling’ statement in Friendlyjordies defamation case - The NSW deputy premier’s legal team has launched an attack on the YouTuber’s defence, labelling it ‘rubbish’ #Australia https://t.co/HFXqos6NAO
• SRA: Number of workplace bullying investigations on the rise - Legal Futures https://t.co/5TmXJPPpBQ
• ECtHR: Man detained under terror suspicions had human rights violated by Turkish authorities - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2VvPXFhGWK
• Supreme Court upholds six-year non-compete clause signed by law firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/jvZNN01XGr
• Thousands aged over 65 failed to apply for EU settled status – report https://t.co/sJ79W7A8S
• SFO receives welcome boost from watchdog | Law Gazette https://t.co/ymri44ZBqz
• Lidl prevented from selling Hampstead gin - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vxemxKGtVu
  
• ‘Incel’ Is Charged With Plotting to Shoot Women, #US Says - Tres Genco, 21, of Hillsboro, Ohio, was charged with an attempted hate crime and illegally possessing a machine gun, federal prosecutors said https://t.co/Mz0muBIYVp
• #Chinese Health Officials Shocked by W.H.O. Covid-19 Origin Study https://t.co/unEbC9dIri
• Trading sex for cosmetic surgery in #Mexico's narco capital https://t.co/jBwIjMofkA
  
• The government has said it will not search the private email account of former Health Secretary Matt Hancock for discussions on official business. Downing Street has admitted Mr Hancock, who quit last month, used his personal address for this reason https://t.co/lQQEfeQCce
  
• Six people have been taken to hospital after being struck in a serious crash as a car hit a pub in south Wales. A pedestrian has suffered life-changing injuries after the collision outside The Windsor Hotel in Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf https://t.co/RcTif7TgVC
• Tech firm hit by giant ransomware hack gets key to unlock victims’ data - Kaseya’s universal key can free the files of hundreds of organizations, ending the worst of the attack’s fallout https://t.co/bVtYmUCofa
• District judge recruitment crisis 'could take years to fix' | Law Gazette https://t.co/zVIg5Bnr3e
  
• Central Bank proposes ban on 'price walking' by insurers - Irish Legal News https://t.co/8HZhfdLje
• #Italy is introducing a mandatory Covid vaccination certificate from 6 August, the latest country in Europe to announce such a scheme https://t.co/BB4Q6Ppynq

23rd July - Law News

Edition 3496: 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:
 
An Israeli firm accused of supplying Pegasus spyware to governments has been linked to a list of tens of thousands of smartphone numbers, including those of activists, journalists, business executives and politicians around the world, according to reports.

Focus of the Day Article:

Bitter leadership dispute at India’s L&L Partners sparks 21-partner breakaway fir. Top New Delhi corporate lawyer Mohit Saraf unveils ‘modern’ and ‘inclusive’ Saraf & Partners  Full story - The Global Legal Post

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Pilot praises RAF Lakenheath plane spotter for saving his life https://t.co/znZ2SWCbY
• Sheriff solemn cases exceed pre-Covid average - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cUg1I1N3sP
• Partners of fraudster allowed defence against client claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/hiXoUolhsf
• Many popular websites fell offline on Thursday in a widespread global outage of service. Visitors attempting to reach some sites received DNS errors, meaning their requests could not reach the websites https://t.co/IoXDbLsSlr 
• UK food workers to be exempt from Covid isolation https://t.co/qqYwVF5HEg 
• Lawyer-turned-politician Des O'Malley passes away at 82 - Irish Legal News https://t.co/z0lV2vHNSU
• Judicial conduct guidelines to close 'gap in judicial accountability' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/3hpVkT8G6
• An analysis of the Nationality and Borders Bill | Law Gazette https://t.co/kHzuaQOX9r
• Some Tory MPs to boycott conference if vaccine passports required for entry https://t.co/uE54yThD7
• We have no confidence in Priti Patel, says Police Federation - Police officers in England and Wales furious at pay freeze after months on frontline of Covid crisis https://t.co/FAnEZyIDcn
• The British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch should be extradited to the US to face criminal fraud charges, a London judge has ruled - home secretary to have the final say https://t.co/3DT8V43XIS 
• Supreme Court: Condition of sentence restraining employment of accused person for seven years was disproportionate - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Sm3BMB8Px
• Lords: ‘Legal but harmful’ online content regulation poses threat to free speech - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/629OWSnlnl
• Solicitors could be forced down digital route on LPAs | Law Gazette https://t.co/7ogbbOp9bn
  
• More than 220 groups criticise UK review of Human Rights Act - Charities, trade unions and belief groups among coalition, which is also attacking judicial review bill https://t.co/8BgkGjga9i 
• Judicial review bill to let judges modify quashing orders - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XapumIrypM 
• Anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson has lost a High Court libel case brought by a Syrian schoolboy. Jamal Hijazi was filmed being attacked in the playground at Almondbury School in Huddersfield in October 2018 https://t.co/sjMCpZVUsV
• Law Society Scotland warns justice secretary to pay heed to presumption of innocence - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qhI1p8meA
• Croydon tram crash: Passengers accidentally killed, jury finds https://t.co/VyQRsa3KhW
• Teodoro Obiang Mangue, vice-president of #EquatorialGuinea who is said to have spent £199,000 ($275,000) on a glove worn by Michael Jackson is among five people to receive new UK "anti-corruption" sanctions. https://t.co/k61ObabAW
• Subpostmasters wrongly convicted of offences in a Post Office IT scandal will get interim compensation of up to £100,000, the government has said. As of this week, a total of 59 former sub-postmasters have had their convictions quashed https://t.co/BGhm6ZFOc
• NI: Stormont unanimously rejects proposal for Troubles 'statute of limitations' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/hOS4neqSBA
• Ashurst partner profits surpass £1m | Law Gazette https://t.co/WAJFjmdT2r
• Offering more law degrees “could save struggling universities” - Legal Futures https://t.co/UqnSGe0Qm
• Fiona McLeod: Update – revised property factors code of conduct - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UkyIBBDEQY
• Coping with Identity Threat as Minority in Nigeria | Igazeuma Okoroba https://t.co/zvEwfGvgTj 
• Keith Brown promises reforms to raise conviction rate in sex cases - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/M0G6XdHdS
• Solicitor struck off for “reckless” prison legal aid claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/jUOKQe3UN
• Solicitor elected 'first black senior partner' at UK top 100 law firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/QKsfJRFxgn
• Law firm uses exit shares to tempt consultants - Legal Futures https://t.co/e1JV4QPqUP 
• Lord Matthews appointed to Inner House - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6VilcOwzQ
• Chinese billionaire Cheung Chung-kiu granted planning permission to construct eight-storey, private palace overlooking Hyde Park - Westminster council unable to block grand plans for Knightsbridge property despite ban on “Monopoly board-style” homes https://t.co/SKG0wNl30H 
• Regulators target inconsistencies in approach to bullying and harassment - Legal Futures https://t.co/hmpLmyj4p
• The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo 2020 organisers have performed a U-turn over their stance to stop their social media teams from posting pictures of athletes taking the knee at these Olympic Games https://t.co/iGWQXYJ
• Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to rape and sexual assault in LA trial - The convicted rapist is serving a 23-year prison term in New York and now faces the possibility of another sentence in California #US https://t.co/2zjaCwtS4R
  
• Drug Distributors and J.&J. Reach $26 Billion Deal to End Opioids Lawsuits #US https://t.co/BgRwB9ggEG
• 'Ringing alarm bells': concern mounts over Judicial Review Bill | Law Gazette https://t.co/FieDgl3Ugu 
• Olympics opening ceremony director sacked for Holocaust joke - Footage of Kentaro Kobayashi from the 1990s recently emerged in which he seems to be making jokes about the Holocaust #Japan https://t.co/ymumSRio
• Combatting Chemical Weapon Disinformation | Adaku Jane Echendu https://t.co/fEmGwiibjQ
  
• Scotland’s malicious prosecution scandal – the silence is deafening - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/H0K1oRwby4
• DWF reports profit turnaround after office closures | Law Gazette https://t.co/DoMaFlrcA7
• ECtHR: Post-mortem examination of baby violated parents’ humans rights - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4t8tzwZDcT
• #Argentina has unveiled a new national identity system for people who identify as non-binary. Under national law, Argentinians have the right to identify themselves as gender neutral https://t.co/xasVJLXxTo
• JR bill boosts online courts agenda | Law Gazette https://t.co/QQJIucb6gF Jul 22, 2021
• DWF profits up over a fifth to £172m as firm returns to pre-Covid activity - Irish Legal News https://t.co/2opyfYzvCT
  
• Donna Brennan joins BTO as legal director - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cvXLgpC7AU 
• Bill seeks to 'draw a line' on ouster clauses with new JR framework | Law Gazette https://t.co/XahJHtfioj

22nd July - Law News

Edition 3495: 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:
 Indian PM Narendra Modi has been accused of “treason” and spying on his main political rival, Rahul Gandhi, following reports of surveillance of Indian politicians, journalists, activists and government critics using Israeli-made spyware

Focus of the Day Article:

The High Court has refused an application from a London firm to be substituted for their deceased client in a £1.5m litigation claim. Mr Justice Marcus Smith ruled in Farrar & Anor v Miller that an assignment signed by Peter Farrar to his solicitors Candey Limited had transferred nothing to the firm and had no effect.  Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Top-50 financial results table: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/bEQsXQjLnV
  
• California couple whose gender-reveal party sparked a wildfire charged with 30 crimes - The pyrotechnic device sparked the destructive El Dorado fire, which destroyed five homes and killed one firefighter #US https://t.co/XD7ZRPb28P
• Medical evidence must be up to date and focus on correct issues - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LlB5yZF6H4
  
• The discredited legal tactic that’s putting abused UK children in danger - Our family courts are allowing perpetrators to use the bogus idea of ‘parental alienation’ to gain access to their victims https://t.co/ugTrjx3gH
• Solicitor banned over forged signatures on loan application | Law Gazette https://t.co/Vm5VaMezt9
• Grants awarded to 13 crofters - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BkwsvZ9SnK
• Home Secretary Priti Patel has defended a new £54.2m deal with France to stem the rising number of migrants crossing the English Channel, denying that it was "sending good money after bad" after a £28.2m deal last November failed to limit crossings https://t.co/vn546CLq4
• #Spanish police have arrested a 22-year-old UK citizen, Joseph O'Connor in connection with the hacking of 130 high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of Elon Musk, Barack Obama and Kanye West https://t.co/WEb3Drhl7
• Words – how a right becomes a cost | Law Gazette https://t.co/qGtcgXZBQ
• LSRA handled over 1,400 complaints in its first year as complaints body - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ePnTGIvJdQ
• Court blocks firm being substituted into claim of dead client | Law Gazette https://t.co/VYs3vs3bWb
• A neo-Nazi who created two banned terrorist groups has been jailed for seven years. Andrew Dymock, 24, from Bath, was convicted of 12 terror offences and three hate crimes last month https://t.co/ko0E6YniXp
• New sentencing guidelines approved by High Court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lymTnpwNL3
  
• James Crawford when, as director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, he invited me, a non-lawyer, to become a member and pursue an interest in the political aspects of international law in the creation of the international court of justice https://t.co/d2RRoPY294
  
• What does climate change mean for your practice? | Law Gazette https://t.co/EySJZjA5tA
• Emily Hunt fought to make sure no woman is filmed naked without consent https://t.co/bbsZZAEl45
  
• Eversheds Sutherland partners with Children's Rights Alliance - Irish Legal News https://t.co/BsFx5mDUDr
• What is #SouthAfrica’s ‘inevitable showdown’ really about? - This crisis presents the chance for the government to accelerate the undoing of the country’s corruption and apartheid inheritance — otherwise risk its survival https://t.co/EXK3HleTj
• Colonialism, dehumanisation and neoliberal state-building in #Palestine https://t.co/QBaKrbCtX
• Negligence action against lawyers over amputation not time-barred - Legal Futures https://t.co/0U55q6iZg3
• Dr Michael Heath: Families feared they cremated the wrong person - Two bereaved families feared they had "cremated the wrong person" due to errors in the post-mortem reports of a serially discredited pathologist https://t.co/Fue8Bkuvaa
• Government seeks regulator for electronic IDs | Law Gazette https://t.co/EVZJkxZdWp
• Digital LPAs to be registered in two weeks under reform plan - Legal Futures https://t.co/aY57t6SXe
• High Court: Planning permission for safe injection site near primary school quashed - Irish Legal News https://t.co/0byfc905e
• Family Counselling, De-radicalization and Counter-Terrorism: The Danish and German programs in context. | Daniel Koehler https://t.co/C5mXsXLht2
• The growth game – better to buy than build? - Legal Futures https://t.co/el2mWIefbF
  
• Law Society sounds warning against judicial review bill - Some fear legislation, to be published on Wednesday, will prevent challenges by most marginalised https://t.co/x14G4Xgzt2
  
• Home working helps profits bounce back at Gateley | Law Gazette https://t.co/euK7CUFOwW
• Unsolicited sending of obscene images should be made illegal through the creation of a new offence of cyberflashing, a UK government-commissioned review recommended https://t.co/ONyj9TocfJ
  
• More wrongfully convicted subpostmasters vindicated - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ko3qY9tp8
• Journalists could face 14 years in prison for embarrassing the Government under proposed law change https://t.co/FIhAbnazg
• Thomas Barrack, Trump Fund-Raiser, Is Indicted on Lobbying Charge - the chairman of Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, was accused of failing to register as a lobbyist for the United Arab Emirates, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators #US https://t.co/F7Ot4mVbLX
• Buckland hopes to deter crime with 'highly visible' unpaid work | Law Gazette https://t.co/psyFisyt5J 
• Home advantage for Scotland’s Telders mooters - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sAduWyAvXT 
• Vue cinema chain fined £750,000 over seat crush death https://t.co/tRMbChlsFF
• Parenting charity calls for ‘new vision’ for child contact centres - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/G4Bzdw6kVR
  
• Bullish Clifford Chance hails ‘strongest performance to date’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/x7TIbN8ln5
• A top police officer will be put in charge of tackling violence against women and girls in England and Wales, the home secretary will announce. The creation of the role was recommended in a report after 33-year-old Sarah Everard was murdered in March https://t.co/Cb7k0B2SJa
  
• Covid cases pass 100 at HMP Perth - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/smSOEPhRWQ