8th November - Law News

Edition 3604: 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: Dozens join a climate march in Quezon City, Philippines as millions mark the #GlobalDayOfAction for climate crisis around the world

 

Focus of the Day Story:  Nottingham Law School lecturers have called for more creativity in changing attitudes to misogyny and street harassment. Full story - New Law Journal 

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Solicitor sanctioned for 'offensive' WhatsApp messages - Legal Cheek https://t.co/UKTyi0DF8V
• Major report: Time for targets, not talk, to improve race equality at Bar - Legal Futures https://t.co/CSFBTh7iYG 
• Ropes & Gray raises London NQ lawyer pay to £147k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/na8RCzfV5o
• Millions of Americans owe court fees or other ‘carceral debt’. This must end https://t.co/jqubvnqYHs
• Stephenson Harwood boosts NQ lawyer pay to £90k as it ups billable hour targets - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7S10SDZMA8
• ‘The Great Resignation’ is looming for lawyers - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/pHoCq2wDEN
  
• ‘Our notion of privacy will be useless’: what happens if technology learns to read our minds? https://t.co/4fyDtFYuRP
• Meet the Leeds Uni law grad shining a light on neurodiversity - Legal Cheek https://t.co/4FdqUgYwZE 
• #Australia government support during the pandemic has given businesses and their directors a “false sense of security”. Those days are now over, and action must be taken, said one partner - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Iv2QpGGwKT
• Telangana High Court confers senior designation on nine lawyers | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/AuhA437hTk
• An #Italian court has sentenced 70 members of the powerful mafia group, the 'Ndrangheta, in the first stage of the biggest mafia trial in decades. Over the next two years, 355 alleged mobsters and corrupt officials will face court https://t.co/2Ex6ucBDUk
• Simmons pledges £100k in free legal support to start-ups tackling climate change - Legal Cheek https://t.co/LZ1ALphgPq
• The Court of Protection and Criminal Law - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/Yc5LIG6Eib 
• Flexible training contract specialist signs SQE training deal with College of Legal Practice - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tSK99aKCs
• The National Trust is calling on the government to ban peat being used in compost, as part of efforts to try and limit climate change. It is one of more than a dozen international organisations asking for a switch to sustainable alternatives https://t.co/Fp1W5We8Xb 
• Regulating the Professionals: a Shakeup in Healthcare - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/kmTnApUW23
• The chairman of Parliament's Standards Committee has called on Parliament to approve his committee's report on Owen Paterson's conduct - even though Mr Paterson has resigned as an MP https://t.co/9BsQphYCnt
• Social Movements for Gender and Sexual Diversity: Case Studies from Jamaica, Nepal, and Japan | Diana J Fox https://t.co/SUMJeJWSlZ
• Meet the infrastructure lawyers helping ‘Build back better’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rGVcMyPvrX
• High Court dismisses appeal in ‘largest women’s health class action in #Australia’s history’ - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/0w8Agi4rJa
• Use of trademark as keyword: Delhi High Court directs Google to probe into web traffic diversion | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/R2VyEQ9htH 
• Walsall retail park visitors threatened by children with fake gun https://t.co/Ue8XbDZDt
• Ex-magic circle lawyer loses legal battle to force wealthy parents to pay him maintenance for life - Legal Cheek https://t.co/N91Zn9F0RG
• Astroworld: Criminal investigation into Texas festival crowd surge #US https://t.co/mBZKdcZCEX
• Jones Day London trainee pleads not guilty to rape and coercive/controlling behaviour - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FXbsxkVTLY
• #US court blocks Biden's vaccine mandate for companies https://t.co/jtM1FizKcw
  
• Cyber-insurance – Are you prepared? - Legal Futures https://t.co/2tdDue0Qk9 
• South #Australian Attorney-General Vickie Chapman will face an inquiry over an alleged conflict of interest in a decision to allow a port to be built on Kangaroo Island for the timber industry - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/6dLuYFI47b

7th November - Law News

Edition 3603: 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: Gangs in Haiti are increasingly targeting schools and students. The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, says the gangs are also forcing teachers to pay so-called “protection money” or risk being abducted.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Experts too often ‘descend into the arena’, says master of the rolls | Law Gazette https://t.co/StMvzAuEwj 
• Fieldfisher lawyer elected secretary of Irish Environmental Law Association | Irish Legal News https://t.co/TwHj0mnPfN
• Wellbeing is a two-way street, judge tells 'wildly optimistic' lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/CMW8Q27NfK
• Carr: Improving diversity of SDT panels a priority - Legal Futures https://t.co/LbBORyscyw
• Wellbeing is a two-way street, judge tells 'wildly optimistic' lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/CMW8Q1Qcoc 
• Gardaí (Irish police) have arrested a man on suspicion of making threats to kill an MP in the UK. The 41-year-old, who is believed to be from England, was detained in Douglas, a suburb of Cork city https://t.co/Gbm9NlmhXR 
• Walkers Ireland names Jonathan Sheehan as next managing partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/BTnS35PL1X
• Caroline Colliston becomes DWF’s executive partner for Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XA79q2M2SL
• Firm owner who used client account as a ‘piggy bank’ is struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZJ9Z51yKaQ
• Rights of way bill to be published ‘imminently’ ahead of November registration deadline | Irish Legal News https://t.co/NhgsylfUJx
• Family lawyers have expressed concerns over ‘revolutionary’ proposals by the president of the Family Division for greater transparency | NLJ https://t.co/Y4t9ANwImA
• Toning down the theatrics: Barristers "less aggressive" in remote hearings - Legal Futures https://t.co/POmfy7nv1
• GLD wants to increase diversity target at senior levels | Law Gazette https://t.co/PLqTUvCOyu 
• Conveyancers introduce 'polluter pays' for cost of Legal Ombudsman - Legal Futures https://t.co/JCho7jsdUV
• Leasehold practitioners have reported low interest in commonhold since the government proposed reforms in January | NLJ https://t.co/jlmD53Wl
• A fourth paddleboarder has died and a woman has been arrested following an incident in a Welsh river. Andrea Powell, 41, died in hospital after being rescued from the River Cleddau in Haverfordwest https://t.co/WuMQdh3qOf 
• Liberty and Stopwatch take legal action against Priti Patel over stop and search - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RHqtqZF8mA
• Supreme Court sending ‘mood music’ on social and economic rights JRs | Law Gazette https://t.co/zsh0qd0v7
• Nottingham Law School lecturers have called for more creativity in changing attitudes to misogyny and street harassment | NLJ https://t.co/GDgCAxAouG
• At least eigh died and scores of people have been hurt after a crowd surge on the opening night of a music festival in Houston, Texas. Panic broke out after the crowd began to press towards the front of the stage at Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival #US https://t.co/OrJiaGOgNR 
• English judge allows Scots law of damages in mesothelioma claim - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/eF6NWEQJcX 
• Legislation to replace strategic housing development process approved for publication | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Ov40nUXwdJ 
• Lawyers will be ‘more in demand than ever’ with online courts, says Vos | Law Gazette https://t.co/pAh17l6Eke 
• Last chance to complete LSRA survey on barriers and diversity in the legal professions | Irish Legal News https://t.co/wxgsOYvcZR 
• Ethnic minority barristers face ‘systemic obstacles’ to rewarding careers | Law Gazette https://t.co/evCwUZCmfG
• Adult child of married parents refused permission to appeal against refusal of financial support in English courts - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NB76kynE0c

6th November - Law News

Edition 3602: 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:
Recently, big brands in India have been at the receiving end of a lot of backlash for their advertisements. Top brands were forced to withdraw their ads following threats. Experts say ads must stay away from religion and politics.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Warrenpoint and Limavady solicitors appointed as notaries public | Irish Legal News https://t.co/G9mgI8VDHh
• Lord Hope recalls being ‘deeply disturbed’ in criminal appeal - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/x6y6GARud1 
• ECtHR: Romanian politician fails in appeal against conviction over judges’ failure to sign judgment | Irish Legal News https://t.co/qriV3aMHPj 
• The British Transport Police (BTP) has apologised to the British African community for "systemic racism" and a corrupt officer in the 1970s. A number of young black people were jailed for crimes they did not commit https://t.co/np1zYUvfHf 
• Maldon District Council meeting disrupted and police called https://t.co/pX8kSJdXcB
  
• ‘You use it, you pay for it’: Conveyancers change how they fund ombudsman | Law Gazette https://t.co/A6VJuQwM1E 
• ‘Authoritarian nightmare of juryless trials’ moves a step closer with Lord Advocate’s endorsement - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9JS0yADFGi 
• The British army has serious questions to answer about the alleged killing of Agnes Wanjiru https://t.co/FgqogUxzpD
• Inner House refuses appeal by Scottish Football Association in Rangers sponsorship dispute - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cy1VZRXdao 
• The drive for net zero | Law Gazette https://t.co/DGVmpNmnoD 
• Northern Ireland’s mental health and domestic violence courts delayed by pandemic | Irish Legal News https://t.co/gz3quCSL6Y 
• How lawyers can work together to help those in need | Law Gazette https://t.co/AEwqNuLMRb 
• Lawyers call for more work on domestic violence in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/DmM5oQ3LMy 
• Sleaze row: Paterson vote ‘completely undermines trust’, says ex-government legal chief | Law Gazette https://t.co/3xnBGiYedD 
• Carolanne Cunningham joins Griffin as general counsel | Irish Legal News https://t.co/gzL1kGOn3j
• Israeli bookstores pull Sally Rooney's books in boycott row - The acclaimed writer said it was in support of calls to boycott #Israel over its policies towards the Palestinians https://t.co/VhQbqO1QZc 
• ‘Overworked’ Slater and Gordon solicitor used client payout on other cases | Law Gazette https://t.co/J63rBnB3eZ
  
• More than half of licensed taxi drivers have not returned to the trade since the pandemic - the shortage has prompted concerns over the safety of women, students and night time workers struggling to get home https://t.co/Qt7UhYlo2S
  
• More openness in family courts will put children’s privacy at risk https://t.co/4ijqemikkZ 
• The late Hollywood actress Natalie Wood was sexually assaulted as a teenager by the actor Kirk Douglas, a new book has claimed. Ms Wood's sister, Lana, makes the allegations in her memoir "Little Sister", due for release on 9 November https://t.co/O4UewdTJkI 
• Defenders of judicial review plead their case to MPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/DHSqbKP0oX 
• Two death row inmates in Japan are taking legal action against same-day executions. Prisoners on death row are only notified hours before they are to be executed. Capital punishment is conducted by hanging https://t.co/M3qdscwZD8
• Lawyer Roger Hutton has resigned his post as Yorkshire chairman over the club's response to racism experienced by former player Azeem Rafiq. He had been under mounting pressure to step down and "apologised unreservedly" to 30-year-old Rafiq https://t.co/F4kpJXdh2A
  
• A person has died after an attempt to cross the English Channel, French authorities have confirmed. The person was found dead on a beach near Calais on Thursday morning, following the discovery of a boat which was full of water https://t.co/i6Lgqu7pig 
• Barristers from ethnic minority backgrounds ‘face systemic obstacles’ - Report by Bar Council’s race working group says ethnic minority barristers are paid less and are at greater risk of bullying https://t.co/F0n1plpLrF 
• Overseas use 'puts future of English law at risk' | Law Gazette https://t.co/pQcdXWCxdc 
• Reporting Year 2021: Characteristics of children in need https://t.co/Yu18N8DCGr
  
• 'Too little focus on the value [of] the rule of law' - lord chief justice | Law Gazette https://t.co/sFUOR8O9Rn 
• CSA collection and write-off strategy nears completion | Family Law Week https://t.co/F6OQLqFMcA 
• Firm announces it will pay NQs almost £150,000 a year | Law Gazette https://t.co/1LDg7kubkG 
• Guarding Special Guardianship: the need for legal aid reform Family Law Week https://t.co/2c8tZl2bn2
• Charity’s private prosecution ‘perverting the course of public justice’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/v6Cix96qsy 
• A hospital worker has admitted murdering two women in 1987, and sexually abusing at least 100 female corpses, including children. David Fuller, 67, of Heathfield, East Sussex, attacked Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in Tunbridge Wells https://t.co/QQz6ICSslE
  
• Met Police counter-terror officer secretly filmed dozens of women while posing as airline pilot https://t.co/w1vaLGc6EA

5th November - Law News

Edition 3601: 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: Tax havens cost governments at least $245bn a year in lost revenue – and many of these havens are British. In fact, the country is leading the world in hiding legitimate money and laundering dirty cash. So how did we get here, and how has Britain managed to preside over a third of the world's lost taxes?

Focus of the Day Story:  Six major law firms partner with US pro bono legaltech Paladin for UK launch. UK Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance among partners helping Paladin bring pro bono legal offering to UK audience. Full story - The Global Legal Post

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Doctor who presided over cluster of infant deaths at Bacchus Marsh hospital banned from practising https://t.co/xzfl3IVgxp 
• Climate change: Facebook fails to flag denial, study finds - The Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue said less than 10% of misleading posts were marked as misinformation https://t.co/YbvqBPbSjf
• JR bill ‘not terribly dangerous’, says Labour ex-home secretary | Law Gazette https://t.co/rrK3Clkpvy
• Police Scotland’s response to rape complainers ‘outdated and inconsistent’ - Rape Crisis Scotland report says officers’ ‘prejudicial attitudes’ leave survivors isolated and anxious https://t.co/IWZoShdj2G
• Yorkshire have been suspended from hosting England matches as the England and Wales Cricket Board delivered a devastating rebuke over the club's response to racism experienced by former player Azeem Rafiq https://t.co/RqSUl2Qtfy
  
• COVID-19 Not A Valid Ground For Seeking Extension Of Parole: Karnataka High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/DlFosWaKQ
• Zahir Jaffer, the primary suspect in the Noor Mukadam murder case, was forcefully removed from a sessions court in Islamabad by police on Wednesday after he disrupted proceedings and hurled obscenities at the judge #Pakistan https://t.co/wVY0mvr0tk 
• Developer of unprofitable Aberdeen flats loses appeal against breach of contract action by project manager - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nJx6EiTSHd
  
• MP who made threatening phone calls to a woman because she was jealous of her relationship with her partner has been given a suspended sentence. Claudia Webbe was convicted of one charge of harassment last month https://t.co/XlwJok0s8G
• Fifteenth time lucky: advice clinic's legal aid struggle revealed | Law Gazette https://t.co/Qht48GS1OP
• Highest ever number of rapes recorded in England and Wales - Total of 61,158 offences recorded in year ending June 2021, amid national debate over women’s safety https://t.co/q5RFdmSt97 
• Cleo Smith update: West #Australian police charge Terence Kelly, 36, over alleged abduction https://t.co/XfvmeXPzl9
  
• Humiliated Tory MP Owen Paterson has finally resigned after a row over his conduct led to a government u-turn https://t.co/FELvF7IDZG
• Cooler heads prevail following Edinburgh Sheriff Court incident - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GnADBBiHfR
• Solicitor struck off for misleading client about settlement - Legal Futures https://t.co/tVtMlkIbom 
• JD Sports has hit out at the UK's competition watchdog after being forced to sell rival chain Footasylum. After an investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ruled that the takeover could lead to a "worse deal" for customers https://t.co/ZYRf3X6MXv
• Insulate Britain protesters have blocked two roads around Parliament Square in Westminster. The group said more than 60 activists had gathered at Bridge Street by Westminster Bridge and the peers' entrance to the Houses of Parliament https://t.co/obS86m1fa8
  
• Owen Paterson row: Government U-turn over MPs' conduct plan - MPs - who must sign off any sanction - will now vote again on Mr Paterson' recommended 30-day suspension https://t.co/fNWaILcGfc
• ‘Grossly unhelpful’ expert ordered to pay £50k wasted costs | Law Gazette https://t.co/BQ7tPrbxwF
• UK’s first-ever Pakistani Muslim QC Sibghat Kadri passes away https://t.co/o4HOYSqOC
• Civil justice system “in desperate need of modernisation” - Legal Futures https://t.co/Sr9QxhmRnP 
• State pension payments still delayed for thousands - applications have yet to be processed for 4,900 people from whom the DWP has asked for extra details. https://t.co/bww3hieYzm 
• Amanda Knox on how she thinks her case would be viewed today - After being found guilty along with her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and serving four years in prison, Knox and Sollecito were exonerated by the Italian Supreme Court on appeal in 2015 https://t.co/74bhUfiCA1
• The first pill designed to treat symptomatic Covid has been approved by the UK medicines regulator. The tablet - molnupiravir - will be given twice a day to vulnerable patients recently diagnosed with the disease https://t.co/BGPeGEW8h9
• Regulators will have veto over foreign qualifications, government promises | Law Gazette https://t.co/6105KtAGid
  
• High Court refuses new medical evidence for ex-solicitor's strike-off appeal - Legal Futures https://t.co/RNYnP8dWVg
• Gillian McCluskey to head up litigation at Alston Law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JlDDDEH8xw 
• Big firms join forces to improve BAME under-representation - Legal Futures https://t.co/N5yHG6fWFM
• LAA ordered to apologise to law centre for 'unreasonable delays' | Law Gazette https://t.co/GtfGtVp5P8
  
• A European manhunt is under way for a man accused of one of the biggest burglaries in English legal history, a BBC investigation has found. Alfredo Lindley is said to have led a series of burglaries on the luxury homes of three celebrities https://t.co/NHX73upzR
• Special committee to make recommendations on assisted human reproduction and international surrogacy | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Y7uHqZXGSl
• Land registration charge to soar from January | Law Gazette https://t.co/VPNv56dh3H 
• Pointed questions suggest #US supreme court ready to ease restrictions on guns https://t.co/UMxyMIJJ85
• Solicitor struck off for blue badge parking deception | Law Gazette https://t.co/rasLD9EFlA 
• Fishing row: What happens if UK takes legal action against France over post-Brexit dispute? https://t.co/ARKpqhMHVm 
• CPS fails in Supreme Court bid to recover confiscated £1.5m | Law Gazette https://t.co/k7uHJUjDHN 
• UK's online safety bill: Internet trolls could face two years in prison for psychological harm https://t.co/GFQH4yzzV0 https://t.co/IyRaayXM39
• Violence, illegal force, abuse: who will remove G4S from children’s prisons? https://t.co/qM1xc5Z7jv
• Arrests in Belfast after police attacked in Brexit protocol unrest https://t.co/5YBtXsmGG9
• Five activists have been arrested as hundreds of climate change protesters marched through Glasgow. Scuffles broke out during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration outside the SSE energy company as two activists tried to force their way into the building https://t.co/5KKn07V9hE 
• The British trawler that was detained by France during the post-Brexit fishing row has been released by the French authorities https://t.co/YUMx30A4In
  
• Hundreds hunt for new jobs as another claims firm goes under | Law Gazette https://t.co/JdyFzvqKGS

4th November - Law News

Edition 3600: 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 18-day ordeal may be over for four-year-old Cleo Smith and her family, but Western Australian police say the investigation into her disappearance still has a long way to go. Cleo has spent her first night back home with her family after her stunning rescue from a locked home in Carnarvon in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Focus of the Day Story:  A  court in London is being asked to rule on Trinidad and Tobago’s mandatory death penalty for murder, with lawyers for a man sentenced to death arguing that the law is arbitrary and unconstitutional. Every person convicted of murder in Trinidad and Tobago ‘shall suffer death’ under section 4 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1925, although no one has been executed in the Caribbean nation since 1999. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Belfast-based MKB Law promotes trio to associate director | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jaSXcTNDrx
  
• Ministers’ conduct needs to be properly policed, review says: Report by independent committee says PM should not have sole power to sanction investigations https://t.co/pvex65bFu8
• 30 minutes free: LAA tackles immigration detainee discrepancy | Law Gazette https://t.co/cBqqWc8hyA
  
• Virtual court proposals will entrench disruption not seen ‘since Jacobite occupation’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NwzxtS6rIZ 
• Scottish legal aid row escalates after solicitor 'removed from court building' | Law Gazette https://t.co/jnTLwm03Hv
  
• A US judge in the Prince Andrew sexual assault civil case has said he is aiming to hold the trial in late 2022 https://t.co/1aKnjaTKZr 
• Conservative Owen Paterson has avoided punishment for now as the government ordered its MPs to back a review of standards investigations. Mr Paterson was found to have misused his position as an MP to benefit two companies he worked for https://t.co/vWZ4ytqK1n
  
• Solicitors to give evidence to Oireachtas on birth information and tracing bill | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WT8T49pIVl
  
• Scottish legal aid row escalates after solicitor 'removed from court building' | Law Gazette https://t.co/jnTLwmhEz3
• Law firm escapes $1bn claim despite admitted negligence - Legal Futures https://t.co/g2Ky8RBvsZ 
• Lawyers recognised at Irish Law Awards 2021 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jWGnkZ1uoI
  
• Midlands firm embraces employee ownership | Law Gazette https://t.co/ChPeLwIe0M 
• Pro bono services "cannot keep up" with post-Covid demand - Legal Futures https://t.co/mneTSSCrR1 
• SCTS asked to retract ‘untrue’ letter over removal of solicitor from Edinburgh Sheriff Court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/tyoB3vfj2Q 
• A portrait of Welsh slave owner Sir Thomas Picton labelling him a hero has been removed by National Museum Wales. But as governor of Trinidad he abused the slaves he owned, and was known as a tyrant even at the time https://t.co/QB9Rph6uKy 
• The family of a mother who died after a series of errors with her benefits has agreed a "substantial settlement". Philippa Day, 27, was found collapsed at her Nottingham home with a letter rejecting an assessment in August 2019 https://t.co/TGSdP1ZKPq 
• How the right legal software can positively impact your PII process - Legal Futures https://t.co/7wYtDRrcCe 
• Solicitor rebuked for offensive WhatsApp messages | Law Gazette https://t.co/LWKD94LCiN 
• Solicitor struck off for disabled badge dishonesty - Legal Futures https://t.co/1ZNREbriUD 
• McGrath McGrane welcomes Taise Azevedo as immigration solicitor | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RRL5j2Anxt 
• Law firm eyes up acquisitions after embracing employee ownership - Legal Futures https://t.co/86cUvqLeP2
  
• US justice department suing to block Penguin purchase of Simon & Schuster - $2.2bn deal under threat after attorney general files antitrust suit claiming Penguin Random House would ‘exert outsized influence’ https://t.co/eHb9Ubn2Hn 
• Solicitor who held on to files showed ‘flagrant disregard’ for rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/ns7fQb9bWD 
• Three women have been treated in hospital following suspected injection spikings in Sheffield night clubs, police said https://t.co/SpMAYq6usG 
• Allies of a Tory MP who broke standards rules are trying to prevent him from being suspended from Parliament. Owen Paterson was found to have used his position as an MP to benefit two firms that paid him as a consultant https://t.co/yVP55sg5zJ 
• Most big UK firms and financial institutions will be forced to show how they intend to hit climate change targets, under proposed Treasury rules. By 2023, they will have to set out detailed public plans for how they will move to a low-carbon future https://t.co/YnuKkNDIAg 
• Delhi Commission for Women takes cognizance of rape threats against Virat Kohli's daughter Vamika | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/CkzwQdqzzh
  
• Pro Bono matters | Law Gazette https://t.co/LAFIMFp0qv 
• Round-up of deals involving Irish law firms | Irish Legal News https://t.co/5r7tAFUHjy 
• Helen McEntee has been reinstated as Ireland’s justice minister following the end of her maternity leave | Irish Legal News https://t.co/mOUak8p36o
  
• The EU legal framework and the administrative arrangements for the protection of asylum seekers victims of torture during the refugee influx in Greece (2015-2017). | Angelos Pappas https://t.co/JqXDfWv5g6 
• A money-laundering trial in #Germany is shining a light on the purchase of a luxury London penthouse by cryptocurrency scammer Dr Ruja Ignatova https://t.co/RiSnLZLEYU 
• UN Cop26 climate summit which is now underway in Glasgow will doubtless see its fair share of protests. There are lawyers attending, and legal events around the conference | Law Gazette https://t.co/kGTa1rjY3I 
• A British backpacker who worked as a waitress in Sydney has won a long-running legal dispute against Australia’s “backpacker tax” in its highest court https://t.co/csuTsIkwNS
• Facebook has announced it will no longer use facial recognition software to identify faces in photographs and videos https://t.co/b2xjpK214P 
• Solicitor loses latest bid for financial support from parents | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ttdb2jpEZj 
• The government has been defeated in the House of Lords over its one-year suspension of the "triple lock" formula to increase the state pension https://t.co/y1fKiCMkLh 
• Procurement opens for new judgments database | Law Gazette https://t.co/W8OKVMu8Kn 
• Judge warns LiP over ‘hopeless mess’ pleadings | Law Gazette https://t.co/3JsRdjBMne
  
• Investigators say "low adhesion" between the track and train wheels was the most likely cause of the crash between two trains in Salisbury https://t.co/zbsJsdnsx9 
• High Court doubles length of custodial sentence for man convicted of attempted rape - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fQ5qyPmxti 
• BHSM appoints Cillian Simpson as litigation solicitor | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Gj9jxfN4TX 
• New call for lawyers to be probed in Post Office inquiry | Law Gazette https://t.co/u3ksBJacM5 
• The killing of Sophie Moss: why did a vulnerable mother’s attacker get such a short sentence? https://t.co/KoULk2iIes 
• London judges hear Trinidad death penalty appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/HY5Do6JWXC

3rd November - Law News

Edition 3599: 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 Metropolitan Police officers have admitted taking photos of the bodies of two murdered sisters and sharing them on WhatsApp. An Old Bailey judge told retired PC Deniz Jaffer and PC Jamie Lewis that they faced lengthy prison terms, after pleading guilty to misconduct in public office. The mother of the two women told this programme that what the officers did took her to “a very dark place”, while the police conduct watchdog described their  actions as sickening, declaring that the Met's culture had to change now.

Focus of the Day Story:  Law firms around the world are finding they can play a major and direct role in addressing climate change by just doing what they do – namely, letting their lawyers be lawyers. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Irish Journal of European Law launches 2022 call for papers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/E8gUh8zTRf
• ‘Nihilistic litigation’: Divorce judge laments costs of mammoth case | Law Gazette https://t.co/TLbYMTIZW
• Police removal of Edinburgh lawyer from court sparks solidarity in Glasgow - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kZlsGJ25Xo
• My legal life: Maxine Twynam, Boyle Tricks Leonard Solicitors - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/wEF3OoEukC
• Sinn Féin now accepts non-jury trials in ‘exceptional circumstances’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/UfzPCkxJNw
• Former Fifa officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been charged with fraud and other offences in Switzerland. Swiss prosecutors say Mr Blatter unlawfully arranged a transfer of two million Swiss francs ($2.19m; £1.6m) to Mr Platini in 2011 https://t.co/TNCULvUF5A
• Leading from the front on family court transparency | Law Gazette https://t.co/ShMaElw9vl
• Claims of authorities turning a blind eye to drug deaths at HMP Shotts - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/TQCjQ2PGJ7 
• The Guardian view on the family courts: secrecy isn’t working | Editorial https://t.co/qUTcYhtUD1 
• Budget boost to drive Land Registry’s digital push | Law Gazette https://t.co/KjPkThRjiR
• Orkney fish farming company fails to overturn refusal of permission for proposed salmon farm sites - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YAFklJ6jC0
• Morrisons has backed down after customers complained about its labelling of a chicken meat product as containing "non-EU salt and pepper" https://t.co/WIQKpPRlp0
• Four partners set to make £1.3m apiece after selling firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/pl1OFj1b1A 
• Solicitor who “concealed nothing” from elderly client cleared of dishonesty - Legal Futures https://t.co/xzWniKojHM
  
• Britain’s prisons are becoming ever more like the failed US system https://t.co/y9dYUu2mRe 
• Alleged extremist to face trial for law firm terror attack - Legal Futures https://t.co/3hMAnbmsmz 
• The next generation of lawyers can help the most vulnerable in society | Law Gazette https://t.co/4vyOgCcEuF
  
• Acquisition no15 for Knights as it unveils bank backing for more - Legal Futures https://t.co/dTpmwM3Tcw 
• The Bar of Ireland has announced a number of initiatives to mark the centenary of Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell becoming Ireland’s first woman barristers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/XvEmyrFD3N
  
• Solicitor and legal regulator heads latest class action - Legal Futures https://t.co/8KXP2fzygR 
• Leading PI firm sitting on cash pile on hunt for acquisitions | Law Gazette https://t.co/JhBQWpjYQt 
• Turkish Civil Society and the (EU-Oriented) Europeanization of Turkey until the Mid-2000s | Uğur Tekiner https://t.co/bSDW7HGF3S 
• A teenager who shot a boy in the face has been sentenced to 24 years in custody for attempted murder. Jacob Talbot-Lummis, 16, wounded his victim, who was aged 15 at the time, as he was leaving home for school in Kesgrave, Suffolk, on 7 September 2020 https://t.co/ine61Off7j 
• An #Israeli minister has said she could not attend the COP26 summit on Monday because it was not wheelchair accessible. Karine Elharrar tweeted that it was "sad" the UN "does not provide accessibility to its events" https://t.co/LqQkpVDWsS 
• This ‘reform’ of judicial review will put the government above the law https://t.co/nkw6EOGkpt 
• Claim against HSBC over 15-year-old trading time barred | Law Gazette https://t.co/weASW8Jd7F 
• What does it take to be a member of the SDT? | Law Gazette https://t.co/99gqe3pSkT 
• Budget boost to drive Land Registry’s digital push | Law Gazette https://t.co/KjPkTi8Uap
  
• Courts ‘are close to collapse over police disclosure failures’ https://t.co/5VSZQqXAMM 
• Ex-Dechert partner settles 'spying' claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/kz3UuFhPrt 
• A scheme organised by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC has seen more than 100 female Afghan judges and their families rescued | Irish Legal News https://t.co/uEa7a1H4KV 
• Lawyer in the news: Terry Donovan, Kingsley Napley - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/KPBnyWc5ZG
• Prince Andrew’s criticisms of Virginia Giuffre may backfire, lawyers say. UK experts say accusing Giuffre of seeking a ‘payday’ at prince’s expense is risky https://t.co/ifptRmpyto

2nd November - Law News

Edition 3598: 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:  Australia's border has reopened for the first time in 20 months, sparking emotional reunions at Sydney Airport. Only vaccinated Australian citizens are allowed into the country for now. The rules have also changed to allow vaccinated Australian citizens to travel internationally without having to apply for an exemption to leave the country.

Focus of the Day Story:  TIn 2015, the Court of Appeal found that the fast-track procedure rules for appeals against the refusal of some types of asylum claim (the FTR) was “structurally unfair, unjust and ultra vires” (R (Detention Action) v First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) [2015] EWCA Civ 840; [2015] 1 WLR 5341, known as DA6). The Court of Appeal quashed the FTR because this structural unfairness “created a risk that the applicants would have inadequate time to obtain advice, marshall their evidence and properly present their cases”, which “created an unacceptable risk of unfairness in a significant number of cases”. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Legal notice sent to Hyderabad Police Commissioner over searches in mobiles, WhatsApp chats for "drugs" | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/51NKGc5asE 
• Disbarment for barrister who asked fellow lawyer to lie about sex assault - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ndMRFDesYk 
• Wellness has ‘been a priority for our firm for a long time’ - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/StJ2e2aFKZ
• Don’t scrap the bar aptitude test, urges Bar Council. Up the pass mark instead - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Ouq0hyBAoV
• Uttarakhand High Court sets aside CAT principal Bench order allowing Centre's plea to transfer case from Nainital to Delhi | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/iZvfwKgLD
• Bar Association labels Victoria’s new pandemic legislation ‘appalling’ - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/HIwXrQy6Nd
  
• Why aspiring lawyers should welcome the SQE’s arrival - Legal Cheek https://t.co/WOwSWbqon
• Delhi High Court asks Twitter to remove objectionable images of Hindu goddess Kali | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/xFtcsyti3l 
• London firm allows young lawyers to refuse to act for polluters - Legal Futures https://t.co/P4XX4lNLWN 
• Pro bono is an obligation, not a duty, for government law firms - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/eQIgKe8qnv
• AI-powered bots could resolve simple disputes, says MR - Legal Futures https://t.co/fGADJJ31FB
• Revealed: The extreme working hours of big-paying US law firms in London - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RSFXY6hD0Z
• Court allows part of negligence claim against firm to go to trial - Legal Futures https://t.co/gz0ZTBZMjY
• "Facts and circumstances" formula cannot be used to escape duty to record reasons for granting bail: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/2kXZh4tgly 
• Lawyers can alter the future of climate change - Legal Futures https://t.co/uqX4ZTphwN
  
• Legal notice sent to Hyderabad Police Commissioner over searches in mobiles, WhatsApp chats for "drugs" | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/51NKGbNzB6 
• “Deplorable” solicitor struck off for manifest incompetence - Legal Futures https://t.co/QUa4tdXgNm 
• The mother-of-four who went from being a personal trainer to a lawyer - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/aEzJW3uE2W 
• Luton man left shocked as his house is ‘stolen’ - Having been alerted by neighbours, the Reverend Mike Hall drove to Luton and found building work under way and a new owner who said he had bought the house https://t.co/L7L7XiMnit
• Barclays boss Jes Staley has quit in a shock exit after a probe into his links with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The City watchdog & Bank of England have been investigating if Mr Staley's relationship to the dead financier was closer than first thought https://t.co/zv0POpimer
• SQE prep provider launches £50k social mobility scholarship fund - Legal Cheek https://t.co/s5Tiyw9tvu
• Protégé: The journey from writing to law and how this lawyer found a way to do both - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/JHI1K7jWxP
• The UK is prepared to take legal action against France over the ongoing row about post-Brexit fishing rights, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said. Last month, the UK and Jersey denied permits to dozens of French boats to operate in their waters https://t.co/lRKQUch3E
• Macfarlanes launches ‘app scheme’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/dAlIPF2381
• [Aryan Khan drug case] Seven co-accused get bail from Mumbai NDPS Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/5a0EJxV0e2
• [Vidhispeaks] Exploring community data rights over non-personal data | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/tAORw8zQIZ
• From airports in Croatia to railways in South Africa: the varied career of a global infrastructure lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/dzvBc8xBkg 
• National Trust members vote to ban trail hunts on its land https://t.co/MtbuxYgBXx
  
• City Consortium outlines SQE plan for future trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/9dM9PbHlDU 
• A major incident has been declared after two trains collided in Salisbury, leaving several people injured. The collision happened near London Road and involved a South Western Railway and a Great Western service https://t.co/XRttFg8CGW

1st November - Law News

Edition 3597: 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:  Thousands of protesters take to the streets of Rome against the G20 summit, accusing world leaders of inaction on climate change

Focus of the Day Story:  The Law Society and City of London Law Society have pledged to hold the government to account over its economic crime levy, due to begin next year. In a joint statement, the societies said they would ensure the levy ‘is used only to fund initiatives aimed at tackling money laundering’ and ‘does not increase dramatically in future years’. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• 49 tips candidates need to know before starting as a trainee solicitor - Legal Cheek https://t.co/TuLH6vaSTn 
• The Boutique Lawyer Show: A fear-busting blueprint for success - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/aCnhxfMEvU
• UK law firm becomes first to sell legal advice as NFT - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3WCN5ND1bg
  
• Don’t put climate activists on trial, CPS urged https://t.co/8CAz1VbWAO
• Building and leading a national team - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/5chHjAuHH5 
• Revealed: Law firms' average start work and finish times 2021-22 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/hZmXhK14Q2
• A man has been left in a critical condition after a knife and arson attack on an underground train line in the #Japanese capital, Tokyo https://t.co/rR3k9kyf5q 
• Law firm profitability and the pricing myth - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/79GFf3MUaz 
• The Court of Protection and Criminal Law - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/Yc5LIGofGL 
• A man who dialled 999 to complain he was refused entry to a Primark store to buy some jogging bottoms has been criticised by police. West Yorkshire Police call handlers posted about the incident in a tweet, using the hashtag #not999 https://t.co/swlQUBJt0j
• The leaders of the world's richest economies have agreed to pursue efforts to limit global warming with "meaningful and effective actions". But the draft agreement from the G20 summit in Rome made few concrete commitments, disappointing activists https://t.co/cslKsMx0o9
  
• 'Diversity is not optional - it's what we must be' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zFhtlChpWB
• Using privilege and legal skills to help others - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/VBq7Yp3JgV 
• Supreme Court considers asylum claim decided under quashed fast track rules - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/2q8lwEh0DS
• My journey from vac schemer to junior lawyer at a global law firm - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ASA1B29pf0
• Do fathers have fewer rights in family law? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/A7iLWynHCi 
• Tory MP calling for delay to UK climate action has banked £150k from oil firm https://t.co/pFqPFt62qa
• Duke's daughter has speeding fine halved to just £50 over 'financial hardship' - Lady Eliza Manners, 24, admitted driving her Audi 47mph in a 40mph zone on the M4 on March 28 https://t.co/cgUyOuiALP 
• Record number of domestic abuse victims made homeless: Charities call for more social housing to address ‘heartbreaking and shameful’ new statistics https://t.co/GBMyKYsPqe 
• Revealed: the towns at risk from far-right extremism - Harlow joins seaside resorts on charity’s list of 52 vulnerable areas in England and Wales https://t.co/nhFRxZpQrs
  
• High Court: Differential standards on abortion time-limits do not breach the human rights of disabled persons - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/KtcIcby6R7 
• The haunted jurisprudence of ‘ghost law’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/6oqyXkMMxM
• Wilfried Zaha called on authorities to take racism seriously after he was sent racist abuse following Crystal Palace's win over Manchester City. The 28-year-old posted a series of racist messages he had received on Instagram on Saturday night https://t.co/yFMonTJu0j 
• Nightclubs in Northern Ireland will reopen on Sunday as some remaining coronavirus restrictions imposed last March are lifted. Venues in Scotland and Wales require a vaccine passport to bar the unvaccinated https://t.co/1TWJnYQff8
  
• #Israeli woman jailed three times for refusing to join the army- Last week, a young Jewish ultra-orthodox Israeli man asked for leave to remain in the UK for fear of retribution towards conscientious objectors https://t.co/rhcAHpVqz7
  
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• Victorian solicitor removed from roll following 'theft, fraud and forgery' - Lawyers Weekly #Ausrealia https://t.co/vPAdKsM5JX
  
• Sabyasachi Mangalsutra Ad with "semi-naked models" outrageous to Hindus: Lawyer sends legal notice | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/pSY6G11cS8
• Navigating the shifting sands of competition law at a global firm - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zlfdQnn0Me 
• Delhi High Court issues notice in plea by headmistress claiming she was suspended for not donating towards Ram Mandir | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/BK0abgwuAm 
• Gunmen kill at least three at #Afghan wedding to stop music being played https://t.co/uhLDJnGnb6
  
• Clyde & Co introduces coloured wristbands so lawyers can indicate how Covid cautious they are - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Vw1l2GNo89
  
• Aryan Khan fortunate to get best legal team; thousands who cannot afford lawyers languishing in jails: Satish Maneshinde | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/13RIOn2gkP 
• Youtube removes occultist who influenced murderer of two sisters https://t.co/5EKZpwgUGb
  
• 'I feel free' - LGBT #Afghan refugees arrive in UK https://t.co/fP0tyw7Vzi