14th October - Law News

Edition 3579: 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:  Join The Bar Council of England and Wales 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. Book your place at www.barcouncil.org.uk/PupillageFair2021

 

Focus of the Day Story: The Solicitors Qualifying Exam could result in ‘precarious and exploitative’ jobs for junior lawyers, as small firms replace two-year training contracts with temporary positions, a trade union representing legal sector workers has warned. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• UK government embarking on ‘unprecedented programme of rights reversal’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nVkyMS2Lg
• Cabinet policy obliges ministers to delete instant messages - Legal challenge launched after use of self-destructing messages raises concerns over avoidance of scrutiny https://t.co/zkIYYuLHX2
• Appeal judges uphold Order for Lifelong Restriction on Aberdeen man convicted of assaulting ex-partners - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/u1OkzSafOp
• Migrant families to Scotland could be better supported by series of changes to UK government immigration rules, an independent expert group has said - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OzsU0BTOJ0
• Mergers, acquisitions and new firms abound in autumn rush - Legal Futures https://t.co/2nh71TSsja
• ‘Time to rethink our museums and return stolen goods’, says high-profile lawyer | Law Gazette https://t.co/g7lLo94Byx
• MP Claudia Webbe found guilty of harassment - Leicester East MP was accused of making unwanted phone calls and threatening her partner’s female friend https://t.co/cCCc90VDOh
  
• Big firms’ support for clients during pandemic hit billable hours but not profits - Legal Futures https://t.co/7y5df6N5Gp
• Tense scenes as lorry drivers use vehicles to try to break through demonstrators’ blockades - Drivers threaten Insulate Britain activists in Essex protests https://t.co/sZPMQP6yBi
• UK Border Force could be given immunity over refugee deaths - Priti Patel is seeking legal protections for officers who ‘push back’ migrant boats https://t.co/zPME7oh5UG
• Julia Launders appointed editor-in-chief of Hibernian Law Journal | Irish Legal News https://t.co/LCrMhkUHgG
• #Pakistan Supreme Court remands Saad Rizvi's detention case back to LHC for two-member special bench to decide https://t.co/NbYd4lJ65
• UK government embarking on ‘unprecedented programme of rights reversal’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/suzkc3VgW
• Unbundled family law service to expand as SRA eyes pilot - Legal Futures https://t.co/Y72vJw6jYi
  
• Built on the bodies of slaves: how Africa was erased from the history of the modern world https://t.co/zwVmOQp19y
• Female police officers say misogyny remains unchecked https://t.co/nUVv9TY7lI
  
• Football coach jailed for 25 years in #Dubai after four bottles of vape liquid containing cannabis oil were found in his car. Billy Hood from Notting Hill, west London, was arrested on 31 January & claims he was forced to sign confession in Arabic https://t.co/GB93purym
• NI High Court rules DUP ministers acting unlawfully by boycotting north-south meetings | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2reRk7XnFZ
• The NHS Covid Pass, used to show a person's vaccine status for travel and events, stopped working on Wednesday https://t.co/0JsSoxq7oX
• ‘Cheaper ticket to greater exploitation’: Trade union takes aim at SQE | Law Gazette https://t.co/A6fyT4jiZR
• Watch: From heading the crime division of a Glasgow law firm at the age of 26 to becoming the first female rector in Glasgow University’s 571-year history, Rita Rae, Lady Rae, has had a long and illustrious career as a lawyer - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AFSdQ7ayUT
• Religious treasures looted by Britain could be legally restored to Ethiopian Orthodox Church | Irish Legal News https://t.co/c1UPgkpcb
• Police have arrested 16 Insulate Britain protesters who have blocked another junction on the M25. Essex Police said officers were called to a slip road at junction 31 for Thurrock, near the Dartford Crossing, just after 08:25 BST https://t.co/6Zi1TidF1
• Listed tech startup acquires conveyancing firm as test bed | Law Gazette https://t.co/e2wWM12wh
• Trailblazing Matheson partner recognised as world-leading antitrust lawyer | Irish Legal News https://t.co/4dFQ2Vzo0
• National Trust warns of threat from ‘ideological campaign’ waged against it - It was prompted to speak out as members raised concerns about a range of “extreme” positions taken by individuals involved in a group called Restore Trust https://t.co/RiNc5GfJTQ
• Why are political parties allowed to erect flag masts in public spaces without permission? Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/8ql1Zi2jby
• A Scottish TikToker has won a victory against one of the UK's biggest food retailers after using her platform to campaign for a batch of "lumpy" oat milk to be removed https://t.co/wXb5mqKidL
• The rise of cyber-criminal threat for law firms since Covid-19 - Legal Futures https://t.co/rstPS7NM7A 
• So you want to be an… in-house lawyer? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Al7raLx3U1 
• Immigration solicitor fails to overturn second strike-off decision | Law Gazette https://t.co/mX0n6wn76K 
• The prevalence of antisemitic messages and memes on Instagram, where almost 70% of global users are aged between 13 and 34, and TikTok, where 69% of users are between 16 and 24 years old https://t.co/VDq2O2oNgV
• Mortgage cryptocurrency "will lower cost of solicitors' PII" - Legal Futures https://t.co/u2aCsS2MXV
  
• Trafficking victims should be granted leave to remain in UK, high court rules - Landmark judgment will apply to thousands who may otherwise have been sent back to home countries https://t.co/6t7Mjkpkva
• Court throws out wasted costs order bid against Baker McKenzie | Law Gazette https://t.co/SonBUZeKoB
  
• Ten newly qualified solicitors secure permanent positions with Thorntons - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LaltXylftl
• Negligent firm escapes liability as client "wouldn't have listened" anyway - Legal Futures https://t.co/ZrlfH2YZAy 
• Scullion LAW’s support for Marie Curie reaches £250,000 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6YjLuHJnSp 
• Ex-Slater and Gordon solicitor misled clients over struck-out claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/K2Ybb7qVAD 
• High Court rejects appeal from sham marriages solicitor - Legal Futures https://t.co/WKkPwxt2uS 
• Court dismisses 28 separate divorce petitions with identical wording | Law Gazette https://t.co/UvUrpBCXO0
• Tech firm buys conveyancers to test products in “live environment” - Legal Futures https://t.co/ADd5vJQBb6 
• Harper Macleod advises on £121 million windfarm sale - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gZuyMsaUMP

13th October - Law News

Edition 3578: 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 BBC's Moscow correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, was recently expelled from Russia, a country she first began visiting in her teens as a student. She has reported on the country since the start of Vladimir Putin's presidency, but has now been barred for life and declared a 'security threat'. The move comes during an unprecedented assault on rights and freedoms in Russia, where critics of the Kremlin are increasingly being labelled as hostile 'agents' of the West.

 

 

Focus of the Day Story: The global coronavirus pandemic, and the rise in people working from home, has unfortunately provoked a growth in cyber-crime. The UK government estimates that the cost of cyber-crime is £27bn per annum. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• SIF saga latest: Solicitors 'should pay extra £10 a year' for retirement protection | Law Gazette https://t.co/pYTD17uFGP
• Scots rights watchdog welcomes UN resolution on environmental rights - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ceZSx1U2ZA
• LCJ reveals new platform for remote hearings | Law Gazette https://t.co/xnIgnUaW2A
• Tesco recalls own-brand chest and cold remedy https://t.co/JrcgZXMV
• Disability charities call for new braille labelling legislation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mpVTCaSFXB
• Brexit Minister Lord Frost has proposed plans for an entirely new protocol to replace the existing Northern Ireland Protocol. In a speech to diplomats in Portugal on Tuesday, he described his new legal text as "a better way forward" https://t.co/LxmZXeEZk0
• Lawyer in the news: Alistair Robertson, DAC Beachcroft - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/mO7TfV4bd7
• Radio presenter Emma Wilson has said Sarah Everard's murderer Wayne Couzens flashed her in 2008 and that Met Police officers laughed when she reported it https://t.co/AylIjo3tlE
  
• Irish lawyer elected as Lord Mayor of the City of London | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JdjyoUQrdA
• Law firms blocking solicitors from bench - circuit chief | Law Gazette https://t.co/eNflwUfLhA 
• Law centre warns carbon tax hike could exacerbate fuel poverty | Irish Legal News https://t.co/yaj0gJrAHY
• Elephant in the maternity room | Law Gazette https://t.co/e0Svw9lzJI
• Lawyers are often the last line of defence between a publisher and a lawsuit, the Guardian’s director of editorial legal services writes https://t.co/v9Rjk1nCRK
• Shepherd and Wedderburn welcomes 28 new associates and senior associates - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/dZoAnLQTnL
• Social Movements for Gender and Sexual Diversity: Case Studies from Jamaica, Nepal, and Japan | Diana J Fox https://t.co/SUMJeJWSlZ
• Inner House refuses Greenpeace appeal against consent for new oil field production wells - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/E7fwF57a2
• My legal life: Tomas Vail, Vail Dispute Resolution - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/CIzz4y98Wo
• California has become the first #US state to require large retailers to display toys and childcare items in gender-neutral ways. The new law, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday, does not ban boys and girls sections in shops https://t.co/81iZQe5kFm
• The steps to take to apply for a spouse or partner visa from the United States - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/tzYvOnk4tT
• Police claim busting gang involved in sale of stolen cars on OLX in Karachi #Pakistan https://t.co/0kSpbE69vh
• City firms unite to create ‘formidable’ litigation team | Law Gazette https://t.co/nKzVIO7IHI
• Wife stabbed husband and put knife in again as he called 999, murder jury told - Penelope Jackson heard to say ‘I thought I’d get his heart but he hasn’t got one’ on recorded emergency call https://t.co/C8bth4PZs
• Prison healthcare in Northern Ireland requires ‘significant uplift’ in funding | Irish Legal News https://t.co/AnXsb6k7u6
• UK journalist wins £80k damages after being hired ‘to smear’ UAE and Egypt critics https://t.co/VrWFHTLGLk
• Nationality and Borders Bill shows questionable priorities | Law Gazette https://t.co/PmZV1mRMab
• Missing Apostrophe in Facebook Post May Cost a Man in Defamation Case - An #Australian man claimed a real estate agent did not pay its “employees” retirement funds. The lack of a punctuation mark may cost him thousands https://t.co/CNWEc6Lxbm
• Together with its territories overseas, Britain is instrumental in a global game of deceit - The Pandora Papers Expose Britain’s Role in Money Laundering https://t.co/JEiskWN1D
• In emails detailed by The New York Times, Raiders Coach Jon Gruden casually used misogynistic and homophobic language to disparage people #US https://t.co/6LRXMvi8YB
  
• Ryanair bans Covid refund passengers from boarding new flights - Holidaymakers say they were given just hours to pay back cash claimed through credit cards https://t.co/SIygu9nJhC
• An #Afghan interpreter who helped rescue then-senator Joe Biden from the harsh Afghanistan countryside has managed to leave the region with his family https://t.co/71YKqLv5U
• Footballers demand compensation over 'data misuse' - Led by former Cardiff City, Leyton Orient and Yeovil Town manager Russell Slade, 850 players want compensation for the trading of their performance data over the past six years https://t.co/ZTfzRbybt1
  
• #India Supreme Court reduces sentence of rape convict as offence committed before 2018 Criminal Law amendment | Bar & Bench https://t.co/lfV3zuoxPK
• London barrister from Northern Ireland shortlisted as young pro bono barrister of the year | Irish Legal News https://t.co/BdWZK5pmb5
• Society ponders SDT support for lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/yDrDEZX4f
• Scottish expansion for fee-sharing law firm Spencer West - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/N3TktC54XB
• Government faces potential JR over efforts to help Afghan judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/vcltX0bgwZ
• Labour backs public inquiry into 2015 prisoner death - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lQYYCFcpZg
• New clash over magistrates' jailing powers | Law Gazette https://t.co/aE0QN0v0kn
  
• Nearly 250 complaints of sexual misconduct against serving police officers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WOZ2oA46WG 
• Firm found negligent fights off High Court claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/CqhFFDBG2q

12th October - Law News

Edition 3577: 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:  SRA's free webinar on reporting anti-money laundering concerns to us, and making Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to the National Crime Agency (NCA). This webinar will give you further insight and guidance around common issues with SARs, as well as how to make sure your reports are as effective as possible. You can get answer to queries by submitting questions in advance or live on the day.

 

 

Focus of the Day Story: In this claim for judicial review, the issue was whether it was lawful for the claimant independent fostering agency (Cornerstone) only to accept heterosexual evangelical Christians as potential carers under the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010) and the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention). Ofsted wrote a draft report in which they considered this policy to be unlawful when reviewed in the context of the EA 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) and in a report issued in draft on 12 June 2019 Ofsted assessed the effectiveness of Cornerstone’s leaders and managers as ‘Inadequate’. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Aspiring barrister who sought refuge alone in the UK at 17 launches campaign to help other young asylum seekers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/x3pLv3Kmxx
• An Israeli court’s approval of a ‘quiet’ Jewish prayer at the Al Aqsa mosque has been condemned and has raised concerns of another illegal takeover by the occupying state
• ‘Minor cases’ of violence against women can escalate https://t.co/X9QC00EuiX
• Hit billing targets and earn £150k, Orrick tells London NQs - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2y7zc0KuF5
• What you need to know about the #Poland-European Union rift https://t.co/U3MMr4OMdz 
• #US police probed after man screaming 'I'm paraplegic' dragged from car - Bodycam footage shows officers stopping Clifford Owensby in Dayton, Ohio, last month https://t.co/qOIHRD3abM 
• For African nations, capital punishment is a grim colonial legacy that lingers on https://t.co/6RkQSCbH5O
• Latham trainee looks to challenge LexisNexis and Westlaw with free case law hub - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qs3AlrKzDb
• How PayPal’s ‘digital discrimination’ is stifling the #Palestinian economy https://t.co/tCTUun6q8
• The Boutique Lawyer Show: Life as an international parental child abduction lawyer - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/ENiPSwV28
• California bans non-consensual condom removal during sexual intercourse #US https://t.co/npP3dixQz
• Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has been refused bail for a third time ahead of a trial facing multiple charges of rape and sexual assault https://t.co/x4xuoyMYD
• Eversheds launches legal tech grad scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/XKljgzFSXE
• Trainee solicitor pay reaches £62.5k in the City - Legal Cheek https://t.co/pY56g3JwFy
• Conviction or acquittal cannot be set aside merely because there was possibility of joint/ separate trial: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/3Oj9Gahxo0
• Tory MP says using term ‘white privilege’ should be reported as extremism https://t.co/fTF5JBCc05
• London law firm launches novel association with Italian MDP - Legal Futures https://t.co/8QnBbjk40x
• Old wounds are exposed as #Spain finally brings up the bodies of Franco’s victims https://t.co/XvEXvf1C6r
• Judge's fury at suggestion his clerk leaked draft ruling - Legal Futures https://t.co/1vmzvPYi0K 
• Centre notifies new Chief Justices for 8 High Courts, transfer of 5 others | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/TRlyINy742 
• Court finds Withers negligent again but causation lacks once more - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ok4LfHLCBi
• Law Society calls on government to fund SQE loans as over 1,000 students enrol for first exam - Legal Cheek https://t.co/XrxmDjw1N
• The legal profession is letting down its graduates - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/XSoYVSgtpN
• Don’t extend magistrates’ powers – there’s a better way to reform the court system https://t.co/lML5fqH2v7
• At least 750 allegations of sexual misconduct were made against serving police officers across Britain over five years, new figures show. Data was obtained from 31 police forces in England, Wales and Scotland under the Freedom of Information Act https://t.co/ltQgac6fsG 
• The Corporate Counsel Show: An extraordinary life and legal career - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/lnNfVIggt
• The Metropolitan Police will not take any further action against the Duke of York following a review prompted by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre https://t.co/SNkRjzMyqX
• A Year After ‘Defund,’ Police Departments Get Their Money Back - The abrupt reversals have come in response to rising levels of crime, the exodus of officers and political pressures #US https://t.co/IUnq7yWvzm
• Mass protests in #Poland amid EU law controversy https://t.co/X7FkQlEFeG
• Osborne Clarke to mentor disadvantaged school kids in social mobility push - Legal Cheek https://t.co/fHqUa4hF
• A critical juncture for debt recovery - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/AXt0YqzCcA
• Fossil fuel companies paying top law firms millions to ‘dodge responsibility’ https://t.co/E8cvkZuFDD 
• 'Cruella de Vil QC' hits back at Boris Johnson after PM takes pop in conference speech - Legal Cheek https://t.co/IEWvUQLxI
• Harvey Weinstein PA says abusers still have the legal power to silence victims https://t.co/oZ0SqceOa9
• 'The pressure to be mentally strong can be dangerous' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/OPpOJlVj1q
• Now live: The 2022 Chambers Most List - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tZsvwZ4uhL

11th October - Law News

Edition 3576: 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:  Scuffles between police and Yellow Vest demonstrators broke out during the latest round of weekly protests against the implementation of a national COVID pass

Focus of the Day Story: A second opt-out Collective Proceedings Order (CPO) has been made, this time in the £469m Justin Le Patourel v BT claim in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Sharukhan Khan's son Aryan Khan denied bail by Mumbai court in cruise ship drug case | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Mc12yHkbC5 
• The British Virgin Islands (BVI) High Court has the power to grant a freezing injunction to assist enforcement of a prospective foreign judgment, the Privy Council has held in an eagerly awaited decision | NLJ https://t.co/OlUnNL6Lxb 
• First Minister Sturgeon received no written briefings from her chief advisers on coronavirus during the first months of the global pandemic, the Scottish Government has admitted https://t.co/8FlZpKqkDw
• Dozens of Afghan girls with promising football careers, who fled the Taliban, have been told they can come to the UK to be resettled, along with their families https://t.co/zhw4S4CZc
• A #US navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with trying to sell nuclear secrets to what they thought was a foreign state. Jonathan Toebbe and his wife Diana were arrested in West Virginia on Saturday, the Justice Department announced https://t.co/DLMJOoL8b
• Individual with poor mental health may not be mentally ill: Bombay High Court allows abortion | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/U0wQsO1YoK
• Lessons from rural and regional advocacy work - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/MsbaEtMpF
• Forty small boats with 1,115 migrants on board have crossed the Channel in two days, the Home Office has said. On Saturday, Border Force picked up 491 migrants on 17 boats, while the French authorities prevented 114 people from making the crossing https://t.co/RmHaaznk6v
• CILEX lawyers face discrimination and unfair treatment by fellow professionals and employers, a major survey has revealed | NLJ https://t.co/Mh4r3jN5th
• From mispronouncing the firm's name to being told to 'smile more': Law students share interview 'horror stories' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7l3d3Kv6UI
  
• Former Eversheds trainee accused of raping law student at house party - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zJ4tb2Yef3
• A second opt-out Collective Proceedings Order (CPO) has been made, this time in the £469m Justin Le Patourel v BT claim in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) | NLJ https://t.co/QCf89j8zI
• Police filing POCSO cases at behest of family opposing relationship an unfortunate practice: Delhi High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/BDWTU5R2q
• The Weekly Round-Up: Women and the Police - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/1G1q0oZXnY
  
• From the 2008 financial crisis to Covid: My career as a capital markets lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/wIJs6LQV5z
• Isolate if you have Covid symptoms but negative PCR, says local health official - Advice follows discovery of anomalies in which people had positive lateral flow tests but negative lab results https://t.co/7sLsaAU872
• The #US Department of Justice Is Investigating Americans For War Crimes Allegedly Committed While Fighting With Far-Right Extremists In Ukraine https://t.co/esmZhvh2QX
• Black History Month: Pioneers in British black history https://t.co/mLh0Bg0QWZ Oct 10, 2021
• What data says about lawyers’ wellbeing in lockdown - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/nnnKLqtDg7
  
• My work as a lawyer in the renewable energy sector - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Aw1Cia5EQi 
• Court of Appeal rules on the legality of Christian requirement by fostering agency - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/m0Ifu0tYeB
• Domestic violence victim says UK justice system is 'like the abuse' https://t.co/9eGxXIBFC
• #Guatemala police free 126 migrants from abandoned container https://t.co/B9PFGxpEQY
• Innovation on the rise in restructuring and insolvency market - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/ykYgyLgj7c
  
• ‘Is it acceptable to take all my annual leave as a trainee?’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/AOgbH8ZynC
• [Aryan Khan drug case] What does the Magistrate bail rejection order say? | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/pg5IsMqkzC
• Wills are being left undiscovered and individuals wrongly deemed to have died intestate due to cuts in will searches by Bona Vacantia, a leading probate researcher has warned | NLJ https://t.co/cu8kYwm2WI 
• ‘I completed my training contract remotely while pregnant’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PagM0QMP3H
  
• The career highlights, successes and ambitions behind The New Liberals leader’s switch from law to politics - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/f8ki9TSOot
  
• English law underpins hundreds of trillions of pounds of world trade, and its global popularity gives UK businesses an advantage because of lower transaction costs, a report by LegalUK has found | NLJ https://t.co/nR712a5Or8

10th October - Law News

Edition 3575: 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 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to two journalists, the Philippines’ Maria Ressa and Russian journalist, Dmitry Muratov, for their fight to defend freedom of expression. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the pair as joint winners of the 2021 prize.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Scottish government announces £30m fund for victims - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yYg42nbrc
• Wales legal chief attacks Westminster for ‘political trick’ on devolution | Law Gazette https://t.co/HiANyqeMl3
• Vast majority of Irish solicitors want hybrid working post-pandemic | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ryA8FMTJo
• Law Society celebrates solicitor ‘champions’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/VxUcNOuDKM
• The unprecedented challenge made by #Poland's prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, to one of the European Union's core legal principles has seriously escalated his government's dispute with Brussels https://t.co/sAmDeDmExN
  
• More than 500 cases of Covid-19 have been linked to the TRNSMT music festival, new data shows. About 50,000 people descended on Glasgow Green for the three-day event last month https://t.co/VjkVVaIeQ6
• Winding up petitions – new law gives small firms breathing space - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/pVca3x8hDR
• 15-year-old & her mum say they were intimidated by anti-vax protestors outside a Covid vaccination centre. Grace Baker-Earle, who uses a wheelchair after contracting Covid, was confronted after receiving the jab at Cardiff's Bayside mass vaccination centre https://t.co/oGxNbTWfpU
• HMCTS splashes £40m on solar panels and green technology | Law Gazette https://t.co/5MqkoIyYIk
• Carer’s Allowance Supplement Bill passed - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6DXqCgZIP
• Commissioner sounds alarm on data protection reforms | Law Gazette https://t.co/IpqWa6v4Vs 
• A round-up of human rights stories from around the world | Irish Legal News https://t.co/qwxztDQTK2
• Plans for a phone service aimed at protecting lone women walking home: It would allow users to opt into a GPS tracking system and an alert would be triggered if they did not reach their destination on time https://t.co/m3KighTeQX
• Former president of Ukraine wins London jurisdiction challenge | Law Gazette https://t.co/MDv1OO1JWD
• Facebook says it will begin clamping down on the illegal sale of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest on its site https://t.co/pS3k5vzxO
• Despondent defendants say Supreme Court costs ruling is ‘alarming’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/iQcQI9o7wz
• Met appoints Whitehall troubleshooter Louise Casey to wipe out misogyny https://t.co/WPg4Vvum1V
• SYLA: Race and ethnicity – access to the profession - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ClOZG4qmKB
• A #US appeals court has temporarily reinstated Texas's near total ban on abortions. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to a request from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that an injunction imposed against the law be lifted https://t.co/lMEz3slFYS
• Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine https://t.co/NbKOPKXx9F
• Police in Berlin say they are investigating after staff at the US embassy reported experiencing symptoms of the so-called Havana syndrome #Germany https://t.co/rnW6ZXjfo
• Six out of 10 people 'not comfortable' approaching solicitors | Law Gazette https://t.co/G0wHatLR9Y
  
• #US President Biden has rejected an attempt by Donald Trump to withhold documents from the congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot https://t.co/Wff7MbVAGa
• Brussels vows swift response to #Poland’s ruling against EU law https://t.co/ydJxZeElTi
• MBM Commercial launches World Tech Legal - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/on1Midbsq7 
• #US Federal court rules insurers don’t have to pay out more than $1bn in Covid claims from businesses https://t.co/WYsJFySIgc
  
• Barrister jailed for child sexual offences | Law Gazette https://t.co/4VWgLTiXmm 
• Leman Solicitors and Tughans join World Tech Legal | Irish Legal News https://t.co/77ifvDacN8 
• Serial killer Stephen Port was identified by police as a "significant witness" with a rape allegation against him hours after his first victim was found dead, an inquest has heard https://t.co/qlQLeNMDeI
• People in the #Indian state of Rajasthan are using snakes as murder weapons - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QuPHvxpqhl 
• District judge criticised for dismissing abuse allegations | Law Gazette https://t.co/rLYda9BhVk 
• Poland set for fresh battle with EU after judges rule country’s constitution trumps EU law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QJmfQnQEbE

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