27th September - Law News

Edition 3562: 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:  Three US-based women talk about the seedy world of online sex trafficking, with its secret code words, manipulation, and victims sold to the highest bidder. 

Focus of the Day Story:  The judgment in Forstater v CDG Europe UKEAT/0105/20/JOJ has forced the courts yet again to grapple with the transgender debate. We have already seen the judiciary face up to the challenging issues of whether children with gender dysphoria can consent to receiving puberty blockers (see recent decision in Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWCA Civ 1363). In the present case, the issue was whether the Claimant’s belief that biological sex is real, important, immutable, and not to be conflated with gender identity was a “philosophical belief” within the meaning of section 10 of Equality Act 2010 (“EqA”). Full story - UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A ‘wider range’ of diversity is critical at board level - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/K3W7ZYruT
• Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says it is "not right" to say only women have a cervix amid a row involving one of his MPs https://t.co/oKcpORiW14
• The government is to suspend competition law to allow oil firms to target fuel deliveries at petrol stations following recent panic buying https://t.co/fVhbPU4x6l
• What makes a good ESG lawyer? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/roytw2Iy74
• Recommendation made to remove solicitor from roll over ‘blatant lies’ to client - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/9jqzxsPg6z 
• From part-time retail college job to supporting big retailers on business - Legal Cheek https://t.co/EtvBOGqF4k
• Is an employee backlash for post-pandemic policies coming? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/VDKe4rV8D
• Slaughter and May appoints first female leader - Legal Cheek https://t.co/QFj8fvuPl0
  
• Harmonious functioning of legislature, executive, judiciary essential to remove barriers to justice: CJI NV Ramana | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/A7SPxq5zcG
• Shamima Begum: What price have we paid for national security? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/I8UFtPvdP8
• Energy regulator Ofgem says gas crisis not its fault https://t.co/JKgVN8qaGh
• Court of Appeal rules that artificial intelligence cannot be named as inventor in patent application - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YAdWWxcawT
• The Weekly Round-up: Discriminatory policing, online privacy and puberty blockers - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/fTHzbc5iNX
• If you’re a conveyancer or solicitor working on property transactions then you have a chance to win £500 in a Global Reviews survey | NLJ https://t.co/bguiu5BrbR
• Netflix drama to follow hot-shot lawyer's journey on becoming her firm’s first ethnic minority female partner - Legal Cheek https://t.co/A4bmcb9olZ 
• Lawyers take on Kiltwalk in aid of Lawscot Foundation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XKKcaor3qq
• Law and the Culture War - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/bmMPk68yY3
• After the murder of George Floyd, some states looked to independent agencies to examine deaths in police custody. But dozens of cases handled by the Texas Rangers show the approach has flaws #US https://t.co/P86wiE6xp
• Child refugees were ‘dumped’ in unsafe hotel, claims Brighton council - Law firm says attempts to evaluate a 15-year-old Afghan held in a hotel had been prevented, breaching the child’s rights https://t.co/euLhSG5EMp
• Has the Court of Appeal just trapped inventors in 1421? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5JhHhKFPLw 
• Property Standardisation Group wins Outstanding Achievement Award - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jWQxBgX4u6 
• Cleary gives lawyers £45 to help them reconnect over lunch - Legal Cheek https://t.co/uryxxWMPx9 
• LawTech Talks: Getting more women into legal tech leadership - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/BFWbTwibmN
  
• Delhi court grants anticipatory bail to LJP MP Prince Raj | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/2P2Zh4aYBw
• New name, new home: one leading London chambers on its major shake-up - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Lb4sbg3jQI 
• Law Society of Scotland achieves AML levy exemption for majority of Scottish law firms - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HmfzdIVQF9
  
• Linklaters boosts NQ lawyer pay twice in three months - now £107.5k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vICypRBjZN
• Allegation of bias against judge should not be based on conjectures: Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/GlHUdWA8wY 
• Important Licensing Conference less than two weeks away - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kPoYDOu9BR

26th September - Law News

Edition 3561: 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:  There is a little corner of the energy market that gets very little coverage. But after a cold winter in Europe last year, the continent has failed to fill its storage tanks for the next six months. That failure has sent gas prices surging. This is not just a problem for Europe; the rest of the world could go without as rich countries corner the market, in a similar way to vaccines. Simone Tagliapietra, a senior fellow at think-tank Bruegel, explains what is behind the crisis.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• City firm secures £50m war chest to fund litigation | Law Gazette https://t.co/gtn9A720nw
• Some 10,500 lorry drivers and poultry workers are to receive temporary UK visas as the government seeks to limit disruption in the run-up to Christmas https://t.co/T0l0BzWrEf 
• Pacitti Jones acquires Penworth Properties in Kilsyth - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ecdjZWFD5u
• Criminal legal aid sector continues to shrink | Law Gazette https://t.co/zHXPCKfCsb
• NI Law Society calls on UK government to abandon proposed Troubles amnesty | Irish Legal News https://t.co/a3QWimPyID
• Covid-19 communications 'blurred line' between guidance and law | Law Gazette https://t.co/YA7su0KDL
• Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont arrested in Italy - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/N6guhySFZb
• Linklaters boosts NQ pay for third time this year | Law Gazette https://t.co/0c4FcgxSQe 
• Peter Dutton to seek aggravated damages in defamation claim against Shane Bazzi #Australia https://t.co/r7L2m8cWs
• Firm and its owner fined £27,500 over inadequate client due diligence | Law Gazette https://t.co/vikYr1FxAM
• Disability discrimination case settled against PSNI and Honeycomb Jobs Ltd for £12,500 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/9Fwdv7At94 
• Gag warfare: standups in legal row over ‘stolen’ comedy routine https://t.co/HYRKwGZS6P 
• Bar charity hands out £850k in pandemic packages | Law Gazette https://t.co/6rvBTRrpCN
• Law Society of Ireland appoints Mark Garrett as director general | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SESIlHrxCM
• Posh occupants of 432 Park Avenue are suing its developers for failing to address some1,500 alleged defects. The lawsuit claims that the building's problems have "endangered and inconvenienced" residents and guests https://t.co/n0bCUfeBKE
  
• Naomi Pryde named lawyer of the year - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JPqeZ53z37
• #Afghanistan: Inside the prison staffed by former inmates released by the Taliban https://t.co/x5i3Tpbdch
• #China frees Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig after Huawei boss released https://t.co/sH28rftIMI 
• Law Society demands 'tangible improvements' to probate service | Law Gazette https://t.co/vLOSRj1s9A
• Judge Denis McLoughlin, a District Court judge assigned to Cavan and Monaghan, has passed away suddenly at the age of 62 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/keYF2BvP1
• Can Women Be Safe in Britain when the Police Fail to Hold their Own to Account? https://t.co/HBDHVupMyV
  
• Raab's late entrance showed the folly of extending court hours | Law Gazette https://t.co/HRWbzNDLQE
  
• UK government’s Troubles plan ‘incompatible with international obligations’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0LqDVSQKVY 
• Human rights commission calls for transparency on vaccine certificates - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7eE0wSuEGY 
• 'Restless' Raab sworn in as lord chancellor | Law Gazette https://t.co/z8oRcOI4Mu
  
• Joshua Rozenberg has pointed out that Dominic Raab, who was recently appointed lord chancellor, arrived late to his swearing-in ceremony yesterday. He may have suffered a wardrobe malfunction - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7PFbRfCntn

25th September - Law News

Edition 3560: 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 Indian Schools Support Teenagers Facing Gender Identity Issues? According to Charit Jaggi, Founder and Director, We The Young, an online platform for the youth to share their stories, when a child faces any challenge, help must come from multiple stakeholders including parents, teachers, school and counsellor. He stressed that schools should have gender diverse people in the teaching and non-teaching staff.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Government taking EU criticism over number of judges ‘very seriously’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zumql80fnj 
• Slaughters appoints first managing partner in boardroom shakeup | Law Gazette https://t.co/5uVhp0wVf
• Tax clinic at Edinburgh Law School first in Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vOW4emViU
• Barristers clash over disclosure of document in waiting area | Law Gazette https://t.co/VudBYtRGS
• Campbell Riddell Breeze Paterson LLP becomes part of Holmes Mackillop Limited - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sQ2h83RRNH 
• The Taliban's notorious former head of religious police has said extreme punishments such as executions and amputations will resume in #Afghanistan https://t.co/HJ1IgnBfG
• Economic crime levy ‘penalises profession’, says Law Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/0Iuqeotwnb
• Major Tory donor’s oil firm admits employees paid bribes to get contracts: Petrofac made admission as part of deal to end four-year corruption investigation by Serious Fraud Office https://t.co/8WZ27P89hI
• Supply chain crisis: Tories poised to U-turn on foreign worker visas: Boris Johnson believed to have overruled ministers unwilling to compromise on post-Brexit immigration as forecourt queues mount https://t.co/J2oOaVgwQ1
• Three teenagers who killed a 13-year-old boy over a social media row have been sentenced to custody in young offenders institutions. A girl lured Olly Stephens to a field in Reading, Berkshire, where two boys lying in wait stabbed him https://t.co/KflOuxuOeg
• Ian Beattie, the chief operating officer of Lindsays, has been named as the new chair of UK Athletics - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kt1vWTlPDt
  
• Detectives investigating the murder of Sabina Nessa are hunting a man seen on CCTV near the scene of her death https://t.co/22lMwo3WxZ
  
• Thousands of passengers arriving at UK airports were hit by delays on Friday after a technical problem disrupted self-service passport gates - The problem came after weeks of passenger anger over queues because of Border Force staff issues https://t.co/TP6itbXOmC
• FOI reveals ‘not proven’ least used verdict in sexual offence trials since 2016 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/eJW3gexAkH
  
• MoJ set for talks over possible alternative to Legal Ombudsman | Law Gazette https://t.co/EDflFtfEXA
• Army officer who claimed seaside home benefited from servitude loses Inner House appeal - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/EOHvQG8rS
• Tribunal president vows to bring together ‘disunited judiciary’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/jkyROTwHzU
• A six-year-old Israeli boy, Eitan Biran, who was the sole survivor of an Italian cable car crash will stay in Israel until a court has ruled on a bitter custody dispute https://t.co/VeslfdbwQ4
  
• #Myanmar junta abducting children of people targeted for arrest, says UN expert https://t.co/dSQHu6jYk
• Listed law firm bosses continue to cash in - Legal Futures https://t.co/Bk45xA4dxD
• New push for assisted dying in Scotland begins - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RdmrUFDRkT 
• Clerks "must play bigger role in fair work allocation" - Legal Futures https://t.co/dc5eWhOH3b 
• Supreme Court dismisses asylum challenge arising from 'unfair' rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/TK4jsxBCN
• SRA launches investigations into 10% of firms checked for AML compliance - Legal Futures https://t.co/wF0FiztxCQ
• Romelu Lukaku says footballers can do more to tackle racism than just taking the knee and wants social media companies to meet with players to help combat the issue of online abuse https://t.co/Qx5Y8yG7j
• Migrants freezing to death on Belarus-Poland border https://t.co/vthI8tlWgx
• N.Y.C. Food Delivery Workers Would See Better Pay Under New Bills #US https://t.co/jAeXhQpDEp
• UK restaurants to be banned from keeping staff tips: Businesses will no longer be able to take share of service charges paid by card under new legislation https://t.co/SEe2mRFeHe
• Tribunal rejects ‘wokeism’ defence from solicitor who made insensitive comments | Law Gazette https://t.co/blg20QlS7Q
• Possession of class A drugs such as heroin, cocaine and MDMA may incur a police warning rather than prosecution under a new “diversion from prosecution” policy for drugs announced by Scotland’s Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC | Irish Legal News https://t.co/3XJT8LOgFF
• Edinburgh care company fined after lone worker abducted and raped by client - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/85wiquQyU5
• Lady Hale to speak on Northern Ireland in the UK Supreme Court | Irish Legal News https://t.co/TYuxMqLCv
• Fear of more baby deaths as ministers stand firm on jailing pregnant women https://t.co/CS7L5h7D9Y
• Independent group to report progress on end of direct provision | Irish Legal News https://t.co/xWeesdi4Ve 
• The Roots of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa—A Pan African Response | Madalitso Phiri https://t.co/ewfhSarxgS 
• UK government’s Troubles plan ‘incompatible with international obligations’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lZqgPAm6ej

24th September - Law News

Edition 3559: 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:  In the last two years, crime in New South Wales has either fallen, or stayed stable across every major category, except one: sexual assault. The number of women coming forward to police to say they've been sexually assaulted has grown significantly and continues to rise with reports up 21% in just the past year. But it's not necessarily that there have been more assaults, but rather an increase in awareness, thanks largely to the advocacy of three young women. 

Focus of the Day Story:  Probate practitioners have called for legislative change to help families access the 'digital assets' of relatives who have died. A study by STEP – a professional body for inheritance planning advisers – and Queen Mary University of London found that there is a lack of clarity around property rights relating to digital assets. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Who can save Maxim Znak? | Law Gazette https://t.co/z0m8iOQZOd 
• New sentencing guideline comes into force in Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mikIV94vn
• Solicitor leaves private practice to start ‘more ethical’ business | Law Gazette https://t.co/ciMlU7ONIH
• Plans for specialist sexual offences court risk injustice - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CnYFMdTCPM
  
• Deadline to register rights of way to be removed to avoid ‘unnecessary court cases’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/x0JQLqwStq 
• Sheriff summary cases at 98 per cent of pre-Covid levels - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5W9UG9BDjG
• Parents forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s are being asked to come forward to give evidence to a new investigation https://t.co/VZAwjX9w7
• From cost saving to revenue making – post-pandemic commercial success - Legal Futures https://t.co/jj9bJ5eO2T
• National insurance hike to hit NHS and care staff with £900m tax bill https://t.co/ip5SQdpF68 
• YouTube growing in popularity as law firm marketing tool | Law Gazette https://t.co/MOFcxHAmF2
• "Patronising" solicitor struck off for comments made to young women - Legal Futures https://t.co/wtwo9Kv4q9
• Apple has banned Fortnite from its App Store until a legal battle with the game's maker Epic has concluded, according to Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games https://t.co/LvThzSwlXe 
• EU fears citizens will be barred from flights to UK due to rules confusion: Airlines may turn away EU nationals with settled status due to complex residency rules, says Brussels https://t.co/86m7tV7icH
  
• ByrneWallace appoints Martin Cooney as head of infrastructure, construction and energy | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bxs3bo8tli
  
• Regulators issue new standards to improve practice in coroner's courts - Legal Futures https://t.co/zAI28G1LpG
• Andrew Monk, a City chief executive, is not a fan of government proposals for new staff to have the right to ask to work from home. "People abuse it," and are less productive, at least in financial services, he opined https://t.co/T2vp1z53bD
• EU rules to force USB-C chargers for all phones including Apple iPhones https://t.co/sqzWuX8TXk
• Delaying UK novichok poisonings inquiry ‘could put more lives at risk’ | Novichok poisonings https://t.co/BBzK7dGCbd
• Recruiter launches automated data tool for law firm mergers - Legal Futures https://t.co/xHNoYz6eUd
• Law firms set to be captured by new £100m economic crime levy | Law Gazette https://t.co/0CzzM42zsG
• Lusophone Africa: Past, Present and Future | Nuno Ferreira https://t.co/odzJKcm1yl
• Government misled public over existence of VIP lane for testing contracts - Good Law Project https://t.co/6ZBwAJC6lM
• Ex-Labour MP Keith Vaz should be ashamed of his behaviour towards a House of Commons staff member, a report on his conduct has said. His "sustained & unpleasant bullying" had an "enduring psychological impact", according to an independent panel of experts https://t.co/H05CNJV63H 
• Compensation funds could be “wiped out”, panel warns - Legal Futures https://t.co/gDNGKrokhh 
• Faculty defends juries against ‘baying’ special interest groups - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/50hwS6cQd6
• England’s Covid travel rules spark outrage around the world: Refusal to recognise vaccines given across Latin America, Africa and south Asia has been denounced as ‘discriminatory’ https://t.co/JJIEBv1wIG
• GLD struggling to demonstrate legal service value | Law Gazette https://t.co/X7Du7rxDzG
  
• Ashurst commits to new diversity action plan - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LfcltgOQ1H
• ‘They’re going to meet their Waterloo’: woman wins remarkable legal battle against developer in #Australia - Retirement village developer had claimed squatter’s rights over New South Wales woman’s family land https://t.co/dJWKBg8VzM
• A woman with Down's syndrome has lost her High Court challenge against the government over a law that allows abortion up to birth for a foetus with the condition. Heidi Crowter brought the case saying the legislation did not respect her life https://t.co/xbQKiwaDj
• 'Shattered' legal aid practitioners not claiming new fee | Law Gazette https://t.co/vTKk7yRe4T 
• Travel agent loses Supreme Court appeal alleging lawful economic duress by monopoly supplier - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nRte0eW7n
• How can missing five million be persuaded to have the jab? Multiple studies show coronavirus vaccines are highly effective at preventing serious illness and side-effects are rare https://t.co/8TnNjr9b53
• Nearly 1.5 million customers have been affected by energy firms collapsing under soaring gas prices. Avro Energy and Green ceased trading on Wednesday and their 830,000 combined customers face being switched https://t.co/lrhSoeeyeO
  
• Failed pupillage applicant sues chambers claiming discrimination | Law Gazette https://t.co/hV0sTXphJG
  
• QC calls on UK to support female judges at risk in Afghanistan https://t.co/LEoIO3HAsN
  
• Comprehensive programme planned for early October’s Family Law Conference - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qCX0RmTazy
• Supreme Court: Appeal dismissed for inmate who sought damages after hunger strike in prison | Irish Legal News https://t.co/8X26fdpXQ4
• Power of attorney doesn’t help in tackling predatory marriage https://t.co/vgVOBNOYBP
• McArthur presses Scottish government on disgraceful fatal accident inquiry system - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/olTwXTBNXg 
• Being out in the law | Law Gazette https://t.co/nXvs7rtQX5 
• #Croatian police solve mystery of woman with no memory found on rock. Daniela Adamcova, say police, is a Slovakian who once lived in LA and designed jewellery for Hollywood stars https://t.co/ZbfvoSibKN

23rd September - Law News

Edition 3558: 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:  MPs have launched a blistering attack on the social media giant Google for failing to tackle online fraud. A member of the Treasury Select Committee accused Google of profiting from advertising fraud. Google says it's doing everything it can to stem the problems. But today the banking industry warned fraud was a threat to national security.  

Focus of the Day Story:  Probate practitioners have called for legislative change to help families access the 'digital assets' of relatives who have died. A study by STEP – a professional body for inheritance planning advisers – and Queen Mary University of London found that there is a lack of clarity around property rights relating to digital assets. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Fragomen launches immigration programme for Scottish students - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YNN6dAwqo
• Analysis: Age discrimination payout against nursing home a warning for employers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bUhwysaqDB 
• ‘Check your clients’ - Insurer’s plea to PI lawyers after fraudster jailed | Law Gazette https://t.co/o7Mv34oRC8 
• Ministers urged to stop ‘hiding from scrutiny’ by blocking FoI requests. Six departments spent total of at least £500k in four years trying to block requests, openDemocracy finds https://t.co/kYifhPwzNK
• Scottish Land Commission invites Orkney residents to online public meeting - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bd2mT5xntz S
• The family of a primary school teacher who was killed in a south-east London park say they have been left "devastated" by her death. The body of Sabina Nessa was found by a member of the public in Cator Park, Kidbrooke, on Saturday https://t.co/AoRgueJdFo
• Mishcon joins forces with top-200 firm to create innovation business | News | Law Gazette https://t.co/r4DvQz0uAT
• Reform law on 'digital assets', probate lawyers urge | Law Gazette https://t.co/z04NwzhBN2
  
• Greenwashing: CMA puts businesses on notice - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/G7DhSvUTBn 
• Gregor Sim joins Mackinnons LLP - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/M5FLAMfxBJ
  
• Treasury 'could save £4bn next year' supporting free legal advice | Law Gazette https://t.co/o9BLATYXH8
• Armstrong Solicitors hires chief operating officer while eyeing growth | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Y3AWANFwRv
• Barrister waived privilege in document by showing it to opposing counsel - Legal Futures https://t.co/MPmTf9c1YI
• Northern Ireland to pilot programme looking at role of masculinity in offending | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bnpkpetQyG
• NI victims’ commissioner to be established on non-statutory basis | Irish Legal News https://t.co/HsUkqhaD4l
• Solicitor claims discrimination against SRA over epic 15-year dispute | Law Gazette https://t.co/zofO2y02uq 
• SRA board to shrink to just nine members - Legal Futures https://t.co/8HqglTho4
• Dmitry Dedov, Russia’s judge at the European Court of Human Rights, gave a partly dissenting opinion in today’s long-awaited judgment in the case brought by the widow of Alexander Litvinenko against the Russian state - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SemIBMuIm9
• Tribunal declines to strike out pupillage discrimination claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/H5UkmAPHSH 
• Killamarsh deaths: Man charged with murders of three children and woman https://t.co/hmMMLQDvST
• A court injunction has been granted to National Highways against protesters targeting the M25, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said https://t.co/YxGEoPgnN
• Environmental activists face prison for further efforts to block M25 https://t.co/nH3BrL8QjY
• Ashurst and DLA Piper among Ireland’s latest LLPs - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/f4nS9SGY2N
• To protect the #US supreme court’s legitimacy, a conservative justice should step down https://t.co/HxdIEYucja
• Lady Hale appears on Desert Island Discs - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZfysMpa1bM
• Three law firm leaders cash in minority stake to share £7m windfall | Law Gazette https://t.co/ApSz5RqT90
• The parents of Harry Dunn have reached a "resolution" in a civil claim for damages with the woman alleged to have killed him, the family's spokesman has said https://t.co/2CSDvS0BuQ

22nd September - Law News

Edition 3557: 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 third Russian man has been charged with alleged involvement in the Novichok nerve agent poisonings in Salisbury, England in 2018, which left one woman dead and three people critically ill.  Security sources say Denis Sergeev led the team on the ground, when the nerve agent was used against the former Russian spy Sergei Scripal.  

 

Focus of the Day Story:  The old ‘tap on the shoulder’ system of appointing judges would have yielded better diversity for ethnic minority lawyers than the current system, Labour MP David Lammy has claimed. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Covid-19 – when is it automatically unfair to dismiss for health and safety reasons? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CwYVyodwi
• Vos: Lawyers like remote hearings because they earn more | Law Gazette https://t.co/n6Caa69yRK 
• EU rules on ‘transparent and predictable’ working conditions to be transposed into Irish law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QHBvRtPwg
• Court rules claimant was exaggerating but not fundamentally dishonest | Law Gazette https://t.co/V66Lw2EeJO
• Judge ‘uneasy’ about gardaí speeding to and from court hearings | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Wc05qjrA
• Firms offered lower PII premiums for security tech | Law Gazette https://t.co/eEeKkU2JxR
  
• Tribunal fines solicitor convicted of dangerous driving - Legal Futures https://t.co/N5qlBGqXOp 
• Owners could be forced to sell as council approves empty housing policy - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fOW1FPQJCe 
• Multi-disciplinary ABS aims to buy professional services firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/SBorf958f
• Lawyers have paid tribute to a ‘dear and brilliant’ human rights barrister, Jonathan Cooper OBEL, who died suddenly whilst walking in Scotland at the weekend | Law Gazette https://t.co/TuaUNze4of
• Lammy: 'Tap on the shoulder' better for judicial diversity than JAC - Legal Futures https://t.co/97ddwF4tny
• Instagram dodges photographers' copyright lawsuit over embedding feature #US https://t.co/TlEbPeYxTM
• Older people need better safeguards against predatory marriage https://t.co/UG9d6ztNaV
  
• Mishcon de Reya ups innovation focus with Taylor Vinters deal - Legal Futures https://t.co/alScyL6tAL
• Images that show border agents on horseback driving migrants back to a river like cattle have sparked an investigation in the #US https://t.co/azXJPSRwqW
  
• Professor Martin Hogg appointed head of NUI Galway School of Law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/hozLkLtbxb 
• A third #Russian faces charges over his alleged involvement in the 2018 Salisbury poisonings, which left three people critically ill and one dead. Security sources believe Denis Sergeev was the on-the-ground commander in the Novichok attack https://t.co/G7JefwEuJ
• #Russia was responsible for the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found. Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who became a British citizen, was fatally poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 in London in 2006 https://t.co/R1BD8YD4GL 
• UK staff to gain right to request flexible working from day one https://t.co/AOMKhysMgs
• My legal life: Imogen Hamblin, Thrive Law - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/FlNRFpwo8A 
• Strathclyde to lead new study into quality of sentencing data - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/E88AXbpnLX 
• Climate crisis leaving ‘millions at risk of trafficking and slavery’ https://t.co/A2RCgzORKr
  
• Trainee solicitor banned by SRA after tampering with email dates | Law Gazette https://t.co/b9fQKgXIu0
• India’s most senior judge has said that the use of English in courts should be abandoned and that the wearing of colonial court dress should be discarded - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zN6mLML7OK
• Hong Kong, gender identity and Lord Reed | Law Gazette https://t.co/VC2CL6xjHv 
• #Russia Shooting: Gunman, purported to be a Law student, Kills at Least Six at University https://t.co/7sU1eIgW2R
  
• Deported by U.S., #Haitians Are in Shock: ‘I Don’t Know This Country’ https://t.co/zKillOf3D5 
• Windrush victims launch legal action over compensation delays - Henry Vaughan and Fitzroy Maynard sue Home Office, saying delays have caused them years of stress https://t.co/yKahKZcNy9
• HMP Styal: My baby died due to errors in prison, says former inmate https://t.co/Xci26nnNxB 
• Professor Martin Hogg appointed head of NUI Galway School of Law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RJyLXgHDOQ 
• Welsh government launches smacking ban ad campaign before law change | The Guardian https://t.co/0uCkSTHwLU
• News focus: Data protection reform - a bonfire, or building back better? | Law Gazette https://t.co/fx2JEpbeTu
• Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has launched an investigation into a data breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces https://t.co/Lbs3pckHL
• Macfadyen Lecture 2021: Judicial independence and the rule of law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BuAHEw05r
• Access to justice and digitalisation in universal credit | Law Gazette https://t.co/QC7F4dXO0n 
• #Poland vows to keep coalmine open despite €500,000-a-day ECJ fine | The Guardian https://t.co/4Nzmitr8UN
  
• Law Society sets €300,000 target for 23rd annual Calcutta Run | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dAeJjryibF 
• Best of the blogs - 18 September 2021 | Law Gazette https://t.co/tbIFu1joRo Sep 21, 2021
• Tughans grows with double director appointment and new NQs | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0ChKFCE3Lo

21st September - Law News

Edition 3556: 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 SRA have worked with the Bar Standards Board and CILEx Regulation to develop competences, resources and videos for lawyers who practise in inquests. Dealing effectively with vulnerability is an important part of the competences. In this video, Emma Norton, Director of the Centre for Military Justice, shares her tips for communicating and engaging effectively with vulnerable people in an inquest.

 

Focus of the Day Story:  Cambridge University Foundation NHS v AH and others (by her Litigation Friend and the Official Solicitor. These are the words that Hayden J, Vice President of the Court of Protection, used to describe AH, the applicant in this case. The Official Solicitor identified it as “the most troubling and tragic of cases of this kind” with which she has been involved. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Registrations are open for the October Legal Cheek UK Virtual Law Fair - Legal Cheek https://t.co/OzyRwKv5aH
  
• The Boutique Lawyer Show: Tax law is ‘a way of giving back’ - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/JLtG3VPOZd
• [Vidhispeaks] Certainty of Tax Legislation in India | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/hQtyzaUC05
• Macquarie Asset Management advised on Lawson Grains sale - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/khBz4NbVlW
  
• The US is easing its coronavirus travel restrictions, re-opening to passengers from the UK, EU and other nations https://t.co/fYTanvOIfE
• Unspoken rules: "This weekend on twitter, Rhys Taylor sparked a discussion about the rules that barristers are supposed to adhere to, and how they have changed." / Pink Tape https://t.co/0ouBaFBoe9
• Pinsent Masons appoints Scots experts to climate change team - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xXrODPst8L
• Is Kathleen Folbigg innocent? New evidence suggests she is - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/SxVtPedLFF
• Hearings in Scottish Hospitals Inquiry commence - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3tQlvoSySt 
• Take steps to bring down dog population at IIT campus: Madras High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/r6iSfPah7o 
• Why are gas prices going up and what if my energy supplier goes bust? https://t.co/iatzovGblh 
• Cumbernauld man loses High Court appeal against shop knife assault conviction - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LR9E3UcGoP
• The first ‘super courtroom’―part of HM Courts & Tribunals Service’s strategy to tackle the backlog of cases―has opened | NLJ https://t.co/mqiX7IhXYJ
• Folic acid is to be added to UK flour to help prevent spinal birth defects in babies, the government will announce. Women are advised to take the B vitamin - which can guard against spina bifida in unborn babies - before and during pregnancy https://t.co/L0w5Vmjvxc
• Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in a film as a life-saving hero during the Rwandan genocide has been convicted of terrorism by a court in #Rwanda https://t.co/d6273Ebc0w
• Ambitious football agent Aidy Ward broke rules by targeting minors https://t.co/vkQpOOhh1c 
• My life as a digital rights and assets lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/LjxvoROeXg 
• Green contract project targets in-house lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/VJnr8lmvMY 
• Is enforcement of the Certificate of Genuine Effort what’s needed? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/qUA5WtmR5J 
• Claimant who exaggerated impact of injury not fundamentally dishonest - Legal Futures https://t.co/xOtXyA1A0r
  
• A fearless, down-to-earth Judge: Tribute paid to Late Justice MM Shantanagoudar | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/NLYrOq8xNh 
• Solicitor sanctioned for ignoring anti-money laundering duties - Legal Futures https://t.co/Mqjp5Nske2
  
• Suspension for barrister who groped female chambers clerk and trainee solicitor during night out - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JAuNVxa5gS 
• Childhood injuries, parental conduct and the law - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/hiRlr3DRuC
• Claimant who exaggerated impact of injury not fundamentally dishonest - Legal Futures https://t.co/xOtXyAjaRZ
• A murder investigation has been launched after four people were found dead at a house in Derbyshire. Officers were called to a property in Chandos Crescent, Killamarsh on Sunday https://t.co/O3ve9bLuPj
  
• Susskind: Remote hearings have "opened door slightly" to courts revolution - Legal Futures https://t.co/2OepfC1X94 
• MP Rosie Duffield says public women always thinking about security https://t.co/Bs44gBzysh 
• A body matching the description of missing woman Gabby Petito has been found by crews searching a national park in the US state of Wyoming #US https://t.co/oy3D7hIgqF
• The government is considering offering emergency state-backed loans to energy companies as firms battle to stay afloat amid surging gas prices https://t.co/InAS3fkbRr
• From picnics to kebabs: lawyers car eating habits revealed in new research - Legal Cheek https://t.co/F9jTEDQSRD 
• From trainee to private equity partner at a magic circle law firm - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5HriCsBO85
• Debevoise follows MoFo with London office vaccine mandate - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tqY2NuVS5N
• Hogan Lovells posts 92% trainee retention rate - Legal Cheek https://t.co/XGsfyxq6Ui 
• ‘There is clearly a problem with women getting into and staying in senior positions’ - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/kWL0OTWgww
• Our legal system is colonial, not suited for Indian population: CJI NV Ramana | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/UsgCsbvu0v 
• Former City lawyer jailed over £600k frauds - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zSugB8RNIx 
• Lawyers issue open letter to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/RgksIQC71h

20th September - Law News

Edition 3555: 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:  Nominations for candidates to be elected to the 2022 Bar Council of England and Wales are now open. Successful candidates will join from 1 January 2022 for a three-year term (except where otherwise indicated). Why join the Bar Council? Find out from Tim Devlin why it is worth joining and getting your voice heard.

Focus of the Day Story:  The Communications and Digital Committee has launched an inquiry into digital regulation. Currently, more than 12 regulators have a remit governing the digital world, and the committee has previously recommended a central regulator be established, with a horizon-scanning role to assess gaps and make recommendations. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Former News Corp lawyer joins Thomson Geer - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/TDlyhz9g2B
• High Court under Article 226 cannot substitute findings of Income Tax Settlement Commission: Calcutta High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/KpGX4R9LWW
• Addleshaw Goddard latest to launch legal technologist grad scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/j9dSXavwt6
• Where is ESG headed? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/u8fjXOfnzS
• Osborne Clarke retains 22 of 23 NQ solicitors - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GoDrinGk3H
• Cyber-hacked barristers win High Court judgment against 'persons unknown' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Q7jzjvRmrP
• ‘Can I bring my girlfriend on my international secondment?' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GKOjzye0Ld
• The Weekly Round-Up: Incels, prison labour and the deprivation of children's liberty - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/WpoQCWNIvI
• Why I transitioned from nursing to law in my late 20s - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/tfZHpaoCmj 
• A country practice: Meet the lawyer who gave up his city job to build a firm in the bush - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/uV0cysim7
• Life as a lawyer in a new era of digital accountability - Legal Cheek https://t.co/6hSbar0WQn
• Teen tennis star Emma Raducanu shelves law degree plans after epic US Open win: she fancied becoming a barrister, reports claim - Legal Cheek https://t.co/uINKHUJGUr
• SQE provider BARBRI launches diversity project with law firms, universities and charity - Legal Cheek https://t.co/MtFn5cCuT
• Texas Doctor Says He Performed an Abortion in Defiance of New State Law #US https://t.co/oABGC1uTmO 
• "The most complex Covid patient in the world": Cambridge University Foundation NHS v AH and others (by her Litigation Friend and the Official Solicitor - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/nq4OXc84e1
• Police outnumber protesters at far-right Capitol rally in #US https://t.co/YYccenywol
• The Communications and Digital Committee has launched an inquiry into digital regulation | NLJ https://t.co/MOAnNaH7H
• Slaughters joins magic circle rivals in upping trainee pay - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cbzyfkKf8r 
• Thank God we now have a CJI who asks govt some tough questions | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/kxnrLXa6MY
• Top chambers join forces to launch new diversity mentoring scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/9PHFZIbL6y
• The Corporate Counsel Show: Rise of the start-up GC - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/NZa3dJnbf3 
• Blending contemporary branding with traditional practice approaches - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/XZykj4qRpQ
• A planning and public law mentoring scheme has been launched for people from underrepresented groups interested in becoming barristers | NLJ https://t.co/SEi8a2o3nO
• Chief justices, law society throw support behind NSW and Vic profession - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/tL80R8eikh

 

19th September - Law News

Edition 3554: 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:  General Frank McKenzie, the head of the US Central Command, acknowledged that a US drone strike in Kabul late in August killed 10 civilians. McKenzie said on Friday that it was “unlikely” that those killed were associated with the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K), as originally claimed by the US military.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Boxer Amir Khan removed from US flight - Mr Khan, 34, said he had been taken off the American Airlines plane along with a colleague by police when someone complained his friend's mask "was not high enough" https://t.co/XdQv7725O
• English Court of Appeal rules polygamous second wife of deceased Pakistani man not entitled to bereavement benefits - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5JU8PZb9J
• New ministerial team named at MoJ |Law Gazette https://t.co/iGtDympCh0
• Time bar decision tough on claimants - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/j2AoHI0Y4V
• Solicitor fined for sending offensive tweets to MPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/Agp7HEI3k
• Ireland fined over €15m due to failure to comply with EU law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gSoBGyIeqD 
• Judgment reserved in solicitor-judge disability discrimination case | Law Gazette https://t.co/oJF7yyZSG
• Suella Braverman QC has returned to the position of Attorney General following her maternity leave | NLJ https://t.co/SvGifAN3WG
• The surge in ‘buy now pay later’ – and why we should be worried https://t.co/x8M2s8pRT
• Cyclist run over by partially sighted motorist still battling with insurers - Joanna Davies was dragged along the road for 20 metres but has been offered less than half the £11,000 she has claimed https://t.co/KGMdsPdqtR
  
• CMS Future of Renewables event - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nGVmDZydVT
  
• Hotel owners have defended introducing a £200 membership fee after being overrun by people taking sunset snaps for social media from its clifftop bar. The Druidstone Hotel, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, has been criticised as "elitist" https://t.co/hBSU3ggMba
• SRA wins more government lawtech cash | Law Gazette https://t.co/PwPH8iP2eY
• Wednesday’s Employment Law Conference to tackle back to work issues - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WKUNHoqXEi
• Asylum seeker given £100,000 hospital bill after suffering stroke - Simba Mujakachi says government’s ‘hostile environment’ policies deterred him from taking medication https://t.co/jO7gnH8Bda
• The family of a #US man whose fiancée disappeared during a road trip say he is now missing too. Brian Laundrie, 23, is a person of interest in the case but police say he is not wanted for any crime https://t.co/D7qADWvsVH
• Covid passes for nightclubs and large events in Wales have split opinion, with a few saying they are reassured by the rules while many are concerned https://t.co/DsVdCjbiXL
• A small gin-maker threatened with legal action by global energy drinks firm Red Bull over the use of the word 'bull' in its name says it will fight the case https://t.co/dI2BF4ATpd 
• Prince Philip's will to be sealed for 90 years, family court rules after secret hearing | Law Gazette https://t.co/0icqRfSJST
  
• Teletext Holidays could face legal action over package holiday refunds - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/igcu7w5Vyg 
• Landmark LGBT+ survey reveals workplace challenges | Law Gazette https://t.co/A3R42bQNN9 
• MSPs to examine Scotland’s overseas relationship - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2Eyhp2NT8q
• For weeks, lawyers acting for a woman who alleges she was sexually abused by Prince Andrew have been trying to alert him to their plans https://t.co/Ni55HnZxei
• Government plans bonfire of retained EU law | Law Gazette https://t.co/cqfvqHS3GV
• The #US has admitted that a drone strike in Kabul days before its military pullout killed 10 innocent people https://t.co/ukRaVgygj
• #US real estate heir Robert Durst, subject of HBO crime documentary The Jinx, has been convicted of killing his best friend Susan Berman. Durst was found guilty of killing Ms Berman in 2000 to stop her talking to police about his wife's disappearance https://t.co/EdTKx0uuTz
  
• Australia: Queensland legalises euthanasia - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zAn5fApwnH
• Court rejects Slater and Gordon bid to end costs recovery cases | Law Gazette https://t.co/wYmIqT8lsm
  
• Raab’s task is simple: just fix a justice system in crisis | Law Gazette https://t.co/gHei9xHz1l