9th October - Law News

Edition 3574: 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:  Two drugs cases in #India, but different ways of dealing with them. In Gujarat's Mundra, a massive drugs haul last month was estimated to be worth Rs 21,000 crore. However, in focus is the Aryan Khan case, in which a few grams of drugs were recovered from a cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• University defends ‘academic freedoms’ after calls to sack professor https://t.co/24luO67a3U
  
• QUB School of Law welcomes eight new academic staff | Irish Legal News https://t.co/i2obl0jIKC 
• Baroness Louise Casey of Blackstock will lead an independent review into the Metropolitan Police's culture and standards following Sarah Everard's murder, the force has announced https://t.co/TYjObtCQdg
  
• Lord Advocate to meet bereaved families over Crown delays - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kCWh1B6dTN
• BDO awarded £3.4m in Rangers case - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4Psaa8La9
• #Polish court rules EU laws incompatible with its constitution https://t.co/9Oc8ooDPE
• Gove looks at cutting insurance costs to tackle building safety crisis - Housing secretary may also push developers to pay for repairs in signs of renewed push to fix problem https://t.co/mgNDVCr2t
• A man admits killing two women in 1987, a court has heard. David Fuller, 67, of Heathfield, East Sussex, attacked Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, at their Tunbridge Wells bedsits https://t.co/wsYI6Ven3p
  
• Irish lawyers asked to help find accommodation for Afghanistan’s women judges and lawyers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/y0CTqfq8B
• Tory peers to defy Boris Johnson with push to make misogyny a hate crime: Lady Newlove confident of cross-party support for amendment, despite PM’s stance https://t.co/hXXi6aMOAv 
• Omni Energy switched unprofitable customers without express consent - Firm is struggling financially with record high gas prices and removed customers who used the most energy https://t.co/bJ2rD1t7Dx
• The indecent exposure epidemic: ‘How are they not taking this seriously after Sarah Everard?’ https://t.co/wsSzDgTTmd
• A “high number” of people in the south west of England have reported testing positive for Covid-19 in lateral flow tests and then negative in subsequent PCRs – sparking fears of faulty tests or a even a new variant of the killer disease https://t.co/v0VFdmtVkQ
• CILEX lawyers 'bullied and belittled by solicitors' | Law Gazette https://t.co/mzyKw1KJCE
• Students used by law firm for agency advocacy are 'workers' - Legal Futures https://t.co/xLC5TSSwyE 
• Mumbai court to hear Aryan Khan bail plea at 12.30 pm tomorrow in Cruise ship drug case | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/M7dmHAdA5s
  
• Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov have won the Nobel Peace Prize for their fights to defend freedom of expression in the #Philippines and #Russia. The Nobel committee called the pair "representatives of all journalists who stand up for this ideal" https://t.co/gZAM3PUNzG
• A police officer is to face a misconduct hearing after being accused of taking Jaffa Cakes from a charity tuck shop without paying. PC Chris Dwyer is alleged to have taken the items from the canteen at Halifax police station in January https://t.co/80RGG6JvSJ
• Former lawyer, Tory MP and ex-Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire dies, aged 53 https://t.co/sEDMPiYyn2
• Jail sentence for barrister guilty of child sex offences - Legal Futures https://t.co/3L0x4FnQR4 
• Police have arrested 35 Insulate Britain protesters who blocked a major road in central London and a junction on the M25 during rush hour https://t.co/8dos8nK9kw
• Backlog of crown court cases denies women justice https://t.co/kYXoixybHl
  
• Court lets late solicitors off hook - but don’t expect more ‘indulgence’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/tCyOYVThI
• #India Supreme Court to revert to physical hearings on Wednesdays and Thursdays from October 20 | Bar & Bench https://t.co/TNGJyxRR2R
  
• New ABS regulator grants first licence to lifetime planning business - Legal Futures https://t.co/ZRTWzWC7yT
  
• Supreme Court’s UNCRC ruling ‘dark day for democracy’, according to Greens - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XcaW79N1Zs
• Nearly 1,200 students sign up to first SQE sitting - Legal Futures https://t.co/fsRC09KCOT 
• Female firearms officer victimised, tribunal finds - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nbkQjI1tov 
• Officials in California have said the man identified by private investigators as the so-called Zodiac Killer is not currently a suspect in the case #US https://t.co/hUVeCm9x7M
• Lakhimpur Kheri: #India's junior home minister's son evades police questioning - Ashish Mishra was called in six days after he was accused in an attack that left eight people dead https://t.co/mlxbzdGl54
  
• Insolvency funder prepares for Covid caseload surge | Law Gazette https://t.co/isxL19cW2T
• Whisky firm fails in trademark case - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2HsSCIzrmR 
• Doctors are being warned about a dangerous pre-workout trend called dry scooping that some gym-goers are doing. It involves eating protein-rich powder supplements neat, rather than diluting them in water, as recommended by manufacturers https://t.co/Iun0zUveFT
• Flu jab vital this winter along with Covid vaccine https://t.co/R9Xh6I6ETB 
• Nevada judge recommends dismissal of Cristiano Ronaldo rape case #US https://t.co/7ZEj8LwiuS 
• Solicitor sanctioned over fake signature appeals tribunal decision | Law Gazette https://t.co/oCSJnadugW
• Scottish Human Rights Commission recommends 14 steps to government - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nrwzDynxDZ
  
• International law firms putting emphasis on wellness to retain talent - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2UH3q6lieq 
• Dubai ruler had ex-wife and solicitors’ phones hacked, court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/pc4uy4EFEO
  
• Multi-disciplinary speaking panel at this month’s Personal Injury Conference - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/eMDKFyFUbl
• City unites to train grads in legal tech operations | Law Gazette https://t.co/OKSAUZSQNZ 
• Standing junior counsel to Advocate General for Scotland appointed - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UZfpmgnDVj 
• Claimant loses in Court of Appeal despite defendant offering no evidence | Law Gazette https://t.co/2eygjSlYUz 
• UK travel red list cut to just seven countries https://t.co/vzACrO9FLn 
• Karachi court issues bailable arrest warrants for 12 officials in Mehran Town factory fire case #Pakistan https://t.co/gUL8HWRpMx 
• Aberdein Considine advises on funding deal - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BZ4Aun3BF9

8th October - Law News

Edition 3573: 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:  It's in everything from crisps and toothpaste to chocolate and shampoo, palm oil is a commodity everyone's fighting for - and Papua New Guinea has found itself on the front line. The country's rainforests - crucial to the battle against harmful carbon emissions - are being razed down at an alarming rate to make way for palm oil plantations. And now - global brands are being linked to shocking human rights abuses in a two year investigation by Global Witness, which they've shared with this programme. Undercover recordings reveal palm oil executives apparently admitting to brutal crimes.

Focus of the Day Story: Short jail terms fail to prevent reoffending, says former England and Wales magistrate. Short custodial sentences handed out 'by default’ fail to achieve objectives, says John Bache. Full story - Guardian Law

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Provisions of Scottish bills outside Holyrood’s legislative competence - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8rR9rz4pSh
• A man who pretended to be a police officer and attempted to arrest a woman has been jailed. Gary Shepherd was wearing a lanyard with the word "police" emblazoned on it when he spoke to the woman in a car park in Barrow on Tuesday evening https://t.co/bv4kelHCzs
• GPs caution against telehealth websites promising consultation for vaping scripts ‘in minutes’ https://t.co/fIYJAoVha
• 'I say to Cruella de Vil QC' - Johnson renews assault on lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/nWO4t2G98
• Northern Ireland’s family lawyers stand to lose out from introduction of standard fees | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QI9axaHaE
• The Bar of Ireland has congratulated 23 barristers – 18 men and five women – who have been called to the Inner Bar | Irish Legal News https://t.co/puw6XkAw0C
• A domestic abuse charity has called for an amendment to a new policing bill to recognise the seriousness of violence against women and girls https://t.co/4jdCygaVFe 
• Outrage after gay woman diagnosed at #Spanish hospital with ‘homosexuality’ - LGBT group complains to Murcia government after teenager was given report that included line: ‘Current illness: homosexual’ https://t.co/PGo1h3uhj2
  
• Second paralegal from firm banned for false call logs | Law Gazette https://t.co/QCVZ3M13sn 
• Peter Dutton tells defamation trial ‘rape apologist’ tweet by activist was ‘deeply offensive’ #Australia https://t.co/cDbdVPSD7K
• The legal requirement for social distancing in bars and restaurants is to be removed. Nightclubs are also to be allowed to reopen, meaning legal restrictions on dancing in venues will be scrapped in N Ireland https://t.co/roNDgmqLUS
• PRIME Commitment, an alliance of law firms across the UK and Ireland created to improve socioeconomic diversity within the legal profession, is marking its 10th anniversary with an online conference | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VIkKNDyGfs
• SRA wants to see evidence gathered from Pandora papers leak | Law Gazette https://t.co/I48nOa4zH5
• #usdtry states enacted more abortion restrictions this year than in 1973 – or any other year https://t.co/P8WRF1fykF
• New rules aimed at ensuring racehorses do not enter food chain https://t.co/2nWpWPqVc1
• Environmental group Greenpeace has lost its case against the UK government over a North Sea oil field permit. Permission to drill the Vorlich site off Aberdeen was given to BP in 2018 https://t.co/ZodcoAc0pL 
• NatWest bank has pleaded guilty to failing to prevent alleged money laundering of nearly £400m by one customer https://t.co/GnhlHipQJf
  
• PI firms ‘saved from ruin’ by vital Supreme Court costs ruling | Law Gazette https://t.co/lik49aFYya 
• Irwin Mitchell has been fined £9,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for failing to give proper advice to clients in 2013 before switching the funding of their cases from legal aid to a conditional fee agreement (CFA) - Legal Futures https://t.co/InyPnI2Wz3 
• Supreme Court’s judgment may prevent consultative referendum in ‘shock’ to SNP - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aCMNogT359
• A second paralegal working at National Accident Law has been banned from the profession for charging clients for more calls than she actually made - Legal Futures https://t.co/nNbZFM66sw 
• Make English law the default for new tech sectors, urges LCJ group | Law Gazette https://t.co/bxyzNJgcPK 
• Law firms a “hostile environment” for CILEX lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/B9uheYnPGz 
• Woman held at Sarah Everard vigil condemns ‘terrifying’ Tinder contact by police - Patsy Stevenson says ‘likes’ were intimidation by officers who knew she was fearful of police https://t.co/jKrXd4kqNQ
  
• The mobile phone of Baroness Shackleton, one of the country’s highest-profile solicitors, was hacked on the authority of the ruler of Dubai and she was alerted to it by Cherie Blair QC - Legal Futures https://t.co/XgTcu3sEoG
• Seventy-six years after the end of World War Two, a former concentration camp guard has gone on trial for assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at Sachsenhausen near Berlin. Josef S is accused of complicity in the shooting Soviet prisoners of war https://t.co/wt4GdTpz8T 
• Retrospective justice: The dead have no lawyers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Q9SRGPy6Bk 
• Educators can help students be aware of routes into the legal profession | Law Gazette https://t.co/qL5xO77wCP
• ‘Tottymeter’ and ‘girly swots’: how Johnson shows women respect - As PM confirms his commitment to women’s rights, his previous dubious comments tell different story https://t.co/S95CLKDQNC 
• Enduring Response in Embracing Urgency in Community Care: A Critical Perspective On Social Empowerment of Bangladesh | Nazneen Akhter https://t.co/2RF2mb7A8y
  
• District Judge Robert Pitman granted a request by the Biden administration to prevent any enforcement of the Texas abortion law while its legality is being challenged #US https://t.co/uB0xoTdPDH
• Council tax in England could rise by as much as £220 per year within three years, researchers have said https://t.co/Maazf739oo
• Energy bills could rise by hundreds of pounds - analysts from Cornwall Insight said that the energy price cap will soar by £400 in the spring https://t.co/dDbkz5EOaa
• Ireland’s draft next state report under UNCRC published for consultation | Irish Legal News https://t.co/UU4afPqoTB 
• Scottish government urged to establish low-cost environmental court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SJWfzD9Kmw
• Pinsent Masons mourns head of Hong Kong office Vincent Connor | Law Gazette https://t.co/9C7wus1xdt
  
• #India Supreme Court takes suo motu cognisance of Lakhimpur Kheri violence: A Bench of Chief Justice of India NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli will hear the matter on Thursday | Bar & Bench https://t.co/g9SaCgXMjq 
• Ronan Daly Jermyn appoints JP Gilmartin to lead Galway office | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VWiK4GistU 
• Irwin Mitchell fined £9,000 for switching clients to CFAs | Law Gazette https://t.co/FmEBAFoCm1
• Siobhan Kelly joins Miller Samuel Hill Brown Solicitors - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FlELwaVUzC
  
• Smart contract pioneers picked for Lawtech Sandbox | Law Gazette https://t.co/dFHaewpI3v 
• Queen’s lawyers acted for politician now accused by US prosecutors https://t.co/79vIh27u9M 
• Lugano exclusion 'not a disaster' - justice minister | Law Gazette https://t.co/4vEpPpLEhk

7th October - Law News

Edition 3572: 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:  Lawyer Bernard Collaery's appeal against key information being kept secret in his trial is upheld as the Court of Appeal finds there is "a very real risk of damage to public confidence" in the justice system if the evidence isn't publicly disclosed. Mr Collaery is fighting five charges of revealing national security information to ABC journalists, and of conspiring with his co-accused Witness K — his former client and ex-spy — to reveal secret information to the East Timor government. The secret information relates specifically to allegations that Australia bugged East Timor's government building in 2004 to gain advantage in crucial oil and gas negotiations.

Focus of the Day Story: The Law Society has called on the government to devise a loan system for students taking the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), warning that candidates from less privileged backgrounds could face a ‘significant barrier’ to the legal profession. In its spending review submission to the Treasury, the Law Society warned that SQE preparatory courses, plus the cost of the exams themselves, are likely to cost students over £20,000. This figure does not include any costs candidates incur for travel and accommodation. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Interpol faces criticism for allowing Syria to rejoin its network https://t.co/8XwTZ8dwUH
• Bradford Pretty, a father of three from Folkestone used racist terms to refer to Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka in a Facebook clip after England lost the Euro 2020 final https://t.co/sxPREverFd
• A member of police staff has been issued with a gross misconduct notice over their handling of Plymouth gunman Jake Davison's application for a shotgun certificate https://t.co/DVUTtcplGZ 
• The High Court has found that the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, interfered with British justice by ordering the hacking of the phone of his ex-wife, Princess Haya of Jordan https://t.co/MF1Re2Yyf6 
• Pro bono centre would work alongside the system, not replace it | Law Gazette https://t.co/Xh3XJ9QKKA 
• The Guardian view on Insulate Britain: the art of protest https://t.co/LMUuZRw0Sq 
• Supreme Court backs claimants in QOCS set-off ruling - Legal Futures https://t.co/GEWG6EGgs7
  
• Will the army now be called out for legal sector shortages? | Law Gazette https://t.co/agoJnAWD94
• Pandemic has accelerated change in the law "by two to four years" - Legal Futures https://t.co/7LsbyqyvFl
  
• Funding secured for family law complex at Hammond Lane | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2mqKceaOUx
  
• Non-practising barrister fined for calling herself “barrister-at-law” - Legal Futures https://t.co/TWCh9HkWOK
• NQs offered £150k - if they hit billing target | Law Gazette https://t.co/vmGcn0dDBM 
• Immigration and housing lawtech firms among eight selected for sandbox - Legal Futures https://t.co/KgHW2bnVb
• Dr Mariana Velasco-Rivera joins Maynooth as assistant professor | Irish Legal News https://t.co/diV68prtqR
• DLA Piper appoints Allan Leal as partner in Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fTGuTfo26
• How to ensure your ATE cover is adequate security for costs - Legal Futures https://t.co/vyROB7HLew
• Sibling solicitors banned after pocketing £2.9m from scheme advice | Law Gazette https://t.co/dJtQuYimb2
  
• A Labour peer is to demand a fuller inquiry into the Metropolitan Police and the circumstances surrounding the murder of Sarah Everard https://t.co/JiMO9G6iY
• One man has died and another seriously injured in a series of stabbings. Two men and a woman were attacked in Walton Cardiff near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, on Tuesday evening https://t.co/4JQyyw6fr
• EU ‘failing to stop meat industry exploiting agency workers’ https://t.co/XqM6c3DeVf
  
• Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has been accused of failing to understand the meaning of the word misogyny in an interview about violence against women https://t.co/aedscdgUJh
  
• Judges at the Supreme Court have ruled that provisions in two bills passed by MSPs were beyond Holyrood's powers: the bills - which enshrine treaties on children's rights and local government in Scots law - prior to May's Holyrood election https://t.co/QASejGEM
• Society pushes government for SQE loan scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/Oxv9idg3I
• Next chief executive Lord Wolfson has said labour shortages could be solved by companies hiring overseas workers and paying a "visa tax". Staff were not available in the places needed and seasonal workers were difficult to recruit https://t.co/lUHcxehK6Y
• EU citizens face losing benefits if they fail to update DWP profile - People unaware they need to input code on universal credit website could drop off system, charities warn https://t.co/09sJcOH6kz
• Obituary: pioneering British-Nigerian lawyer and activist Tunji Fahm https://t.co/AqfW0ONw5l 
• Offering essay-writing services to students for a fee will become a criminal offence under plans to tackle cheating by "essay mills". The move aims to protect students aiming to cheat from the deceptive marketing techniques https://t.co/X5Tl2DokTf
  
• Law bodies tell Sunak: Justice cannot afford any more cuts | Law Gazette https://t.co/75AGHqcmwF 
• Supreme Court: Man awarded €5,000 after State breached his constitutional right to an expeditious trial | Irish Legal News https://t.co/01XZS44Wsz
• Ofcom lays out new rules for TikTok and Twitch - The VSPs, including TikTok, Snapchat, Vimeo and Twitch, must ensure content related to terrorism, child sexual abuse and racism does not appear https://t.co/X0uNS2YAKB 
• Former legal aid minister considered City levy | Law Gazette https://t.co/WJOvH6FZzq 
• Ernest Johnson received a lethal injection on Tuesday after the #US Supreme Court refused to consider a stay of execution by campaigners' pleas for clemency who said he had an intellectual disability https://t.co/T2YmA1r7Y3
• ‘They wanted to kill me’: the lawyer taking on police brutality in #Kenya https://t.co/sYsWl8UH9L 
• #US man sues psychic who 'promised to remove ex-girlfriend curse' https://t.co/YgTLn2dQYQ 
• Controversial Welsh covid pass plans agreed in knife-edge Senedd vote and calls for a second vote after an opposing member could not log into the voting system https://t.co/56qpyNa73W 
• Sexist 'boys' club' culture in Police Scotland armed police team - Former firearms officer Rhona Malone raised the tribunal against the force alleging sex discrimination and victimisation https://t.co/kgE9jt5lRB 
• HRA reform in this parliament, Raab promises party faithful | Law Gazette https://t.co/s5VFXD4Rvh 
• Panel backs public inquiry into NI’s mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries | Irish Legal News https://t.co/6aC9vIUYNv
• Man sentenced after fall that led to severe injury - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OAs50E7sUz 
• Claimant sector braced for Adelekun costs verdict from Supreme Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/gT3OjRq3x6 
• Alleged victims of sexual abuse launch group proceedings against Celtic FC - 25 men claim they were victims of abuse at Celtic Boys Club https://t.co/G94QHUqA0c 
• Levelling up: justice has a key role, government told | Law Gazette https://t.co/7Yo2oqn5yh 
• Upcoming changes to driving laws - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JMOYhukW00

6th October - Law News

Edition 3571: 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:  When bus driver and single father of two Anthony Brathwaite was told he and his two children were no longer eligible for council housing in Lewisham, and was offered a property he could not afford outside the borough, he decided to fight back. Having left a council property in his name after his marriage broke down, Anthony was housed in temporary accommodation for two years, until the council reassessed his case, and ruled he had made himself intentionally homeless, and as a result was not eligible for council housing. After offering him a property outside the borough that cost more than half his take home pay as a London bus driver, Anthony decided to fight the eviction with the help of Unite, campaign groups and local people

Focus of the Day Story: Candidates from Black backgrounds are much less likely than other candidates to secure a pupillage, a report from the Bar Council has found. Those who received free school meals also fared disproportionately badly, as, to a lesser extent, did women. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• News focus: Red alert on legal advice deserts | Law Gazette https://t.co/d91KNmmfIg 
• Calls for legal reform to protect crofting land from ‘out of control’ market - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1SyV4J50dh
• Former British embassy driver badly beaten in Kabul: Man, one of 150 staff who applied to be evacuated to UK, suffers fractured skull and hand in attack https://t.co/6oTieXUoeQ 
• Ben Elliot, the Conservative party’s embattled co-chair, jointly owned a secret offshore film financing company that indirectly benefited from more than £120,000 of UK tax credits https://t.co/tF3M5ZtQ1D
  
• Windrush activists ‘disgusted’ after being turned away at Tory conference: Anthony Brown and Julia Davidson ‘humiliated’ after being shut out despite paying £225 for full access https://t.co/mmmGrvmimf
• Who’s included? Views of the report on transgender participation in sport https://t.co/Usog1i4YAh
• Authorities' failure to share details about a man before he murdered a girl in his partner's care "contributed" to her death. The Probation Service admitted error following a serious case review over toddler Lilly Hanrahan, killed in Birmingham in 2017 https://t.co/fxTMHrzPZn
  
• A former Facebook employee has told #US lawmakers that the company's sites and apps "harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy". Frances Haugen, a former product manager turned whistleblower, heavily criticised the company at a hearing https://t.co/YiNHKdnLiN
• 'Rotten culture': London law society blasts SDT treatment of young solicitors | Law Gazette https://t.co/M5O41E7oMy 
• New independent body created to help Scotland achieve climate change ambitions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/e2uFV4j8U6
• Pro-life challenge to abortion laws begins in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Ad2mRalX8c
• Black candidates least likely to find a pupillage, research finds - Legal Futures https://t.co/Rqpo5MAvMz
• Listed company enters lawtech market with £54m acquisition | Law Gazette https://t.co/t3KN8mz3rp
  
• Listed business spends £54m on compliance firm and unveils employment "powerhouse" - Legal Futures https://t.co/FQrF2CVEXA 
• The Guardian view on predatory marriage: new safeguards are needed https://t.co/IXRcDW4CUH 
• Sister and brother struck off for work on dubious investment schemes - Legal Futures https://t.co/k211zUcJeZ
  
• Withers fends off £12m claim in negligence action | Law Gazette https://t.co/3Lx56CQKjq
• An inquiry will be launched into "systematic failures" that allowed Wayne Couzens to continue to be a police officer, Priti Patel confirmed https://t.co/4nLLsH6dJ5
• My legal life: Laura Thomas, Wigan Council - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/XFI69wEfAP 
• Lawyers “spend too much time socialising with other lawyers” - Legal Futures https://t.co/3A1JwUT3hk 
• Only 127 fuel drivers from overseas have applied for temporary visas aimed at tackling shortages, the prime minister has said. The government is offering immediate visas for 300 foreign tanker drivers to work in the UK from now until the end of March https://t.co/x4G783aUDz
• Laura McCallum appointed general counsel of Aberdeen FC - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uguOssYuPR
• Boris Johnson admits justice system and police serve rape victims badly https://t.co/MR3UYHv5BX 
• Insurers already flouting ban on pre-med offers, says claimant chief | Law Gazette https://t.co/l1OVoQRmZY 
• Inflation-adjusted figures show extent of legal aid cuts - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ffLi5lcNog
• Some 216,000 children have been victims of abuse by members of the Catholic clergy in #France since 1950, the head of a panel investigating abuses by church members says https://t.co/lq8T0wYZbt
• The secret owners of more than 1,500 UK properties bought using offshore firms have been uncovered https://t.co/FUorJ75TkW
  
• Five new judges will not sit on High Court bench until November | Irish Legal News https://t.co/X53ch019iF
• Boris Johnson does not support calls to make misogyny a hate crime, saying there is "abundant statute" to tackle violence against women https://t.co/JNP13nwrUn
• Leninism and the U.S. Revolutionary Struggle Against Racism | Joel Wendland-Liu https://t.co/Xoq0RrGeeC
• Jail terms of 20+ years ‘quadruple’ in England and Wales over past decade https://t.co/Opw9AHGMIn
  
• Lawyer in the news: Christian Weaver, Garden Court North Chambers - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/nNxGNsB6x3 
• Clementine Cowton, director of external affairs at Octopus Energy Group, says she was assaulted at Tory conference https://t.co/spF77DjKRt 
• Ian Balfour retires from Balfour and Manson at 89 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MsIObqv7Sc
  
• A&L Goodbody appoints Chris Bollard as commercial and tech partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/33yjqYZFY6
• Spider Woman by Lady Hale review – a tangled web she weaves https://t.co/12YwGz5d7r
  
• EY Ireland launches legal practice led by Alan Murphy | Irish Legal News https://t.co/U6Ojt7dJCP 
• Dominic Raab and the ‘democratic deficit’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/t3YrClhHCE
• Lone police officers to offer verification check to public - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/inBS9TUmIF
• A nurse has pleaded not guilty to murdering eight babies and attempting to murder another 10. Lucy Letby, 31, is accused of murdering five boys and three girls at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016 https://t.co/W0Wh420Avh

5th October - Law News

Edition 3570: 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 Solicitors Regulation Authority has worked with the Bar Standards Board and CILEx Regulation to develop competences, resources and videos for lawyers who practise in inquests. Derek Winter DL, the Deputy Chief Coroner of England and Wales, has had input into these materials. In this video, he explains:
• what coroners expect from the lawyers who practise in inquests
• what the lawyers who practise in inquests should do to help them run smoothly

Focus of the Day Story: The Court of Appeal has ruled that an artificial intelligence machine cannot qualify as an “inventor” for the purposes of Sections 7 and 13 of the Patents Act because it is not a person. Further, in determining whether a person had the right to apply for a patent under Section 7(2)(b), there was no rule of law that new intangible property produced by existing tangible property was the property of the owner of the tangible property, and certainly no rule that property in an invention created by a machine was owned by the owner of the machine. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• ‘Record’ investment to support NSW legal assistance sector - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/8q4KYRQrhm
  
• BPP unveils SQE course details - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aUqfDCbftz
• If judges are denied elevation or transferred, how can they function without fear: Former SC judge Justice Kurian Joseph | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/L1cW6lIySn
• Five arrested after Iain Duncan Smith ‘hit on head with traffic cone’ - Alleged attack came as the noted hardline Tory walked to speak at party conference fringe event https://t.co/tGSumB6mr
• Drivers clash with Insulate Britain activists blocking three London roads - Protesters stop traffic at Hanger Lane, the Blackwall tunnel and Wandsworth Bridge https://t.co/M7ThLdji9q
• The responsibility is on police to restore trust in their ability to protect women - The responsibility is on police to restore trust in their ability to protect women https://t.co/t01tTM2amv
• Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram suffer outage https://t.co/sP6lIMcsh2
• The Conservative Party is facing fresh questions about donations made by the wife of a former Russian minister. Lubov Chernukhin is one of the biggest donors to the Tories, giving nearly £1.9m since 2012 https://t.co/4yRgmm0M5X
• Setting ambitious diversity and inclusion targets will both attract new clients and retain talented staff, said Ashurst’s global managing partner - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/zyuUNKmKkg
• Big law firms love LinkedIn and YouTube, research finds - Legal Cheek https://t.co/D8vP9e4Njz 
• [Prevention of Corruption Act] Actions contrary to norms but without dishonest intention not criminal misconduct: Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/2TZURaJQh
• BT collective action ruling "could open the floodgates" - Legal Futures https://t.co/sASi2tyPHk 
• Create database of lawyers offering free legal aid, like during MeToo movement: Justice DY Chandrachud | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/vK4bGgK5jA 
• Scotland mulls single regulator for all lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/cvKMNwxTlJ
  
• NQ solicitor salaries move to £85k at Squire Patton Boggs - Legal Cheek https://t.co/S8qpW5hCx8 
• LegalZoom is first business to have ABSs in England and the US - Legal Futures https://t.co/z8YuEqPhw
• A businessman whose companies have backed 34 Tory MPs made millions from an allegedly corrupt Russian pipeline deal, leaked files show. Former oil executive Victor Fedotov owns a firm currently seeking UK government approval https://t.co/AZyY5NbpXV
• State cannot insist on Speed Governors manufactured by govt empanelled companies: Madras High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/vedIkfnGBP
  
• Gender pay gap at Bar has widened over past 20 years - Legal Futures https://t.co/qLiYjuKHHA 
• Does legal disruptive innovation mean the end of lawyers? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/5sxiMG5GZa
• A former Facebook whistleblower responsible for a series of bombshell leaks has revealed her identity. Frances Haugen, 37, who worked as a product manager on the civic integrity team at Facebook https://t.co/CPq3Vjtnfz
• Metropolitan Police officer accused of raping woman he met on Tinder - PC David Carrick, 46, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, appeared before St Albans Magistrates' Court on Monday morning https://t.co/WSaxYUEP1L
• Over two-thirds of lawyers have suffered mental ill-health - Legal Cheek https://t.co/CI8T2H0TxD
• Legal profession continues to be feudal; recruitment to lawyers' chambers should be institutionalised: Justice DY Chandrachud | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/YB6VCFC5a7
• The Corporate Counsel Show: Prosecuting animal cruelty cases - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/OSA07IDJ4H
  
• Mishcon launches in Hong Kong ahead of stock market flotation - Legal Cheek https://t.co/idiGp5bPN6 
• Pandora Papers: Tory donor Mohamed Amersi involved in telecoms corruption scandal https://t.co/aaNR4GqHpd
• What it was like working for the Child Abuse Royal Commission - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/D9SZzxUXp2 
• Supreme Court issues notice to Madhya Pradesh, MCI in challenge to 100% reservation for State domicile students in PG Medical seats | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/3ypDPIK5Rz
• The go-to student guide for life as a lawyer at the leading corporate law firms in the UK is now live with its 2022 edition - Legal Cheek https://t.co/SZM6Y85Ye9 
• The changes you need to make to have impact as a leader - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/u8F5h4JtsN
  
• Road legal! Bradford Uni law student bags car following mock trial success - Legal Cheek https://t.co/hmtfamOJGz

4th October - Law News

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story:  Join the Bar Council online on 16 October for the Pupillage Fair 2021 to find out everything you need to know about a career at the Bar. Sign up free of charge to get for advice from barristers, discuss your prospects with pupillage providers, and find out how to build your CV and access sources of funding and support.

Focus of the Day Story: Solicitors have called for any increase in probate fees to be accompanied by ‘real and tangible improvements in the service’. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• How I became a green energy lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/LYeWneGtD
• In plain sight, Boris Johnson is rigging the system to stay in power - Weakening the courts, limiting protest, hobbling the elections regulator. If another country did this, what would we call it? https://t.co/YRjgq3NmJ
• LawTech Talks: Getting more women into legal tech leadership - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/BFWbTw0zY
• Competition for pupillage fiercer than ever, Bar Council report finds - Legal Cheek https://t.co/6VLzDwsCk6
• Severed finger's owner traced by police in Southampton https://t.co/DsZHBgqY6H
• Church sex abuse: Thousands of paedophiles in #French Church, inquiry says https://t.co/pG0t2D5MM
• The secret wealth of world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents. Some 35 current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials are featured in the files from offshore companies https://t.co/YYxvPuj3O
• The Weekly Round-Up: public executions, same-sex adoption and refugee rights - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/4UZA2zFSnK
  
• Legal aid: Are City lawyers best placed to plug the gap? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/i5QU96SYJb 
• PM Boris Johnson points to criminal justice delays that mean sexual violence and other cases can take years to be heard https://t.co/uMTy7IWAjI
• Goodwin boosts London trainee pay by 14% to £57,000 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rZ7OoWzcAn 
• Can AI qualify as an "inventor" for the purposes of patent law? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/7cxcEbYbnQ
• Donald Trump asks Florida judge to force Twitter to reinstate account - The request follows the former president suing Twitter, Facebook and Google in July accusing them of censoring conservative voices #US https://t.co/duKQAFV5VI
• Norton Rose Fulbright to help fund underprivileged aspiring lawyers through university - Legal Cheek https://t.co/s97kQVviU4 
• The Lawyer Behind the Memo on How Trump Could Stay in Office #US https://t.co/iaI0e0Zygj 
• Botox and lip-fillers no longer available to under-18s in England - Law passes meaning it will be illegal to administer products for cosmetic purposes to those under 18 https://t.co/2LvKR0e2R1 
• MPs and civil servants called to account for misleading use of statistics - Official watchdog has responded to a rise in complaints from politicians and the public about misuse of figures https://t.co/0kfYqRLKaq
• A hedge fund lawyer Matthew Adam Feargrieve who punched a fashion designer during a performance of Wagner at the Royal Opera House has been rebuked by the Solicitors Regulation Authority - Legal Cheek https://t.co/T2j2jFVtXk
  
• In Bell and A v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and others [2021] EWCA Civ 1363 the Court of Appeal advised judges to avoid formulating policy in an area of social and moral complexity - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/Q3QenXQxsJ 
• The Speaker of the House of Commons has asked for an urgent meeting with the Met Police after it was confirmed that Wayne Couzens was on duty five times at parliament last year https://t.co/L4mXTl6uvw 
• Two men arrested after a video was posted on social media purportedly showed a female nightclubber's drink being spiked. Police have said two 18-year-olds from Gloucestershire have been arrested on suspicion of administering a noxious substance https://t.co/gfNFZGcWTm
• Tensions rise at #Kosovo border as number plate row escalates https://t.co/g7DJPvTSlL
• Jonathan Cooper obituary: Human rights barrister at the forefront of the fight to decriminalise homosexuality around the world https://t.co/5XzpRB2WUB
• Apprentice star Lottie Lion starts law degree at Bristol Uni - Legal Cheek https://t.co/c2xXiM7sff 
• Transgender person allowed to appear for Kolkata Police recruitment exam: Calcutta High Court told | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/70hIR56YW6 
• What’s been happening in venture capital? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/rOeN9m51Lw
• Tax through time: How to get the rich to pay their way - Legal Cheek https://t.co/eJfRCOUvXP 
• Lone police officers in Scotland to offer checks on their own identity https://t.co/ujXmE4YSRu 
• A high-profile rape allegation at #Chinese tech giant Alibaba has sparked a social media storm in recent weeks about the "toxic" work culture of pressuring employees to drink at work gatherings https://t.co/ikTVDk4qG8
• Tens of thousands of people have been holding rallies across all 50 #US states in support of abortion rights. They have been galvanised in opposition to a new Texas law that severely limits access to abortions in the state https://t.co/aRyMkWBVKL
• A Canadian national who narrated propaganda videos for the Islamic State group has been charged in the US. #Saudi-born Mohammed Khalifa was seized by a Kurdish-led militia in Syria in 2019 and later handed over to the FBI https://t.co/DtdqCFZwP1
• At the Tory party conference this week, Priti Patel will announce plans for longer sentences and new powers for police to seize protesters' equipment https://t.co/VFbNNK8lU
• Despite the horrifying levels of violence against women, there is no strategy to end it. Just promises to ‘learn lessons’ https://t.co/GkOOSV7c8w Oct 03, 2021
• Queen ‘to spend millions funding Prince Andrew’s defence against sex abuse claims’ https://t.co/gjyyu4kzwa 
• 'Pls fix, thx': Is this the latest junior lawyer social media trend? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/6Qr1bFiCOi

3rd October - Law News

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story:  An exposé detailing the CIA’s war on WikiLeaks - a Trump administration plan to silence Julian Assange and the organisation - has been published. But like so much of the Assange story, it's got nothing like the media coverage it deserves.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Quarter of pupillage hopefuls £50k in debt | Law Gazette https://t.co/xlJdMJSTeP
• Consultation launched on regulation of legal services - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/z1U6iTgQt8
• 'How I escaped a hidden world of gangs and exploitation' - At first glance, Aliyah looks like any other 24-year-old https://t.co/t3IeJHwtsL
• Man attacks four people with a hammer in central London - A 38-year-old has been arrested, with none of the victims believed to be in a life-threatening condition https://t.co/aY1YS1yU32
• Judge lambasts government lawyers who ignored court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/XQqwtJd6tz
• Environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion have blocked entrances to a private airport in Hampshire. Campaign group members are outside three entrances to Farnborough Airport protesting against carbon dioxide levels produced by private flights https://t.co/zSJbloFDP
• #US radio host and prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has lost another legal case after falsely calling Sandy Hook, a mass school shooting, a "hoax" https://t.co/BT5cb1nT2P
• Government denies conflict of interest over AG’s role in INM case | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EzL9wGwuIB
• Family courts deal with soaring volume of work | Law Gazette https://t.co/XZlh0k2nHc
• Last-minute cancellations of court hearings to agree financial settlements or child contact arrangements are leaving ex-couples facing ‘ruinous costs’, family lawyers have warned | NLJ https://t.co/fZbycDIIbz
• Solicitors to advise police suspects in person under revised Covid-19 protocol | Law Gazette https://t.co/yfT75mVJZT
• A new approach to interviews for vulnerable child victims and witnesses is to be rolled out across Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Qygqq5MVvV
• Unfair dismissal has been the number one case at employment tribunals since the pandemic began, according to data compiled by law firm Wright Hassall | NLJ https://t.co/IRr9aJM5e3
• Chambers merge in south east expansion drive | Law Gazette https://t.co/5r8rjdxSln
• Care home workers who are not prepared to get the Covid vaccine should get another job, Sajid Javid has said. The health secretary said he was not prepared to "pause" the requirement for care staff in England to be fully vaccinated by 11 November https://t.co/kBinObnHXi
  
• Legal aid deserts have sprung up around the country as practitioners move to more economically viable fields, retire or leave the profession | NLJ https://t.co/YefOgjTk6n
• The Law Society has joined with Cardiff University to issue guidance for law firms on reasonable adjustments to help them recruit and retain disabled employees | NLJ https://t.co/Q7PdXjqtSC 
• Solicitor fined for trying to levy extra charge on property sale | Law Gazette https://t.co/rrkM2Trr2
• Supreme Court rejects Vietnamese asylum seeker’s appeal based on unfair tribunal procedure law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6xp58MXX9A
• Young referees have been withdrawn from some children's rugby league games this weekend because of growing levels of verbal abuse from adults https://t.co/wXTOZe2gA
• Welcome to the One Million Pound Club - Conservatives: Who funds them, and what's in it for them? https://t.co/XS1bbHz7Zn
• Fuel supplies: Mortar tanker tailed by drivers looking for petrol - "The man at the front... actually said 'You could have stopped and told us you weren't a petrol tanker," he said https://t.co/t71DAwdpa
• Police must take harassment and flashing more seriously, Priti Patel said, as forces face questions over how violence against women is dealt with in the wake of Sarah Everard's murder https://t.co/HThERcpfAm
• Legal professionals are at high risk of burnout (particularly if aged 26-35), mental ill-health, discrimination and harassment, research by charity LawCare has found | NLJ https://t.co/wTz0nZP4Qy
• ‘You can only work a seven-day week for so long’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/WHlqF8IQR3
• BHSM appoints Eimear Grealy as corporate partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2jM1dffHne 
• Chief Justice: No ‘silver bullet’ to solve barriers to access to justice | Irish Legal News https://t.co/gHBaio3RQG
• Cleaver Fulton Rankin welcomes three NQs | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Gu59AJGaks
• Solicitors have called for any increase in probate fees to be accompanied by ‘real and tangible improvements in the service’ | NLJ https://t.co/v9x51JCDvw
• Anonymous reporting ‘could help tackle’ workplace sexual harassment | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tBOAUtFr5N