6th December - Law News

Edition 3632: 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: As a caravan was stranded in Veracruz state, Mexico, migrants were seen trying to board trains in attempts to leave for other areas. The group was previously held due to official restrictions for several days and couldn’t cross the northern border

Focus of the Day Story: A charity which provides legal textbooks donated by the UK legal community to non-for-profit organisations around the globe, has celebrated its 15th anniversary.  Full story - New Law Journal 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Eversheds ups trainee intake by a quarter and offers 'high calibre' paralegals pathway to solicitor qualification - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GZgItcLL8b 
• Loss of Chance with Sarah Lambert QC and Dominic Ruck Keene - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/NFLSXFFsPK
• HSF joins City pay war with £105k base NQ salary - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ocZHgRAPE1
• Do not manually lift disabled person without consent, remove prosthetic limbs/calipers during security checks: Supreme Court to DGCA | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/7oO8eSKC9
• [Faceless appeal scheme] If Centre can make statement in Supreme Court, why not here: Bombay High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/whf9fTtZHv
• House of Commons Speaker Sir has promised to raise allegations of drug use in Parliament with the Metropolitan Police. He described a report in the Sunday Times that traces of cocaine had been found in several lavatory areas as "deeply concerning" https://t.co/ST0iV5KvTd
• Lawyers analyse child’s ‘new room contract’ with 9-year-old sister - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tWdVwgqcVV
  
• Omicron response shines spotlight on flawed travel restrictions, HRLC says - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/yW7Rhq4JKH
• Grace period in a time of Covid - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/ZWpz82hhBb
• Law students seminar bingo card goes viral - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qhjop2JC8F 
• Firm hit by pandemic bought after entering administration | Law Gazette https://t.co/u2IUoJtdki 
• Family of Salford Uni law student murdered in drive-by shooting collect her degree - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ndtbhXHmfl
  
• Cosmetic surgery review welcome but overdue: ALA - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/rdHOmg8MiY 
• 'Dramatic increase' in complaints about barristers social media posts - Legal Cheek https://t.co/jm3iHXlG0Y
• Hundreds of court staff support strike over Common Platform, union says | Law Gazette https://t.co/TthQMzhmji
• The return of pre-departure tests for travellers heading to the UK has been described by the travel industry as a "hammer blow" to the sector https://t.co/3EnTazdqR3
• #US news anchor Chris Cuomo has been fired by CNN for help he gave his brother, ex-New York governor Andrew Cuomo, while he was battling harassment allegations https://t.co/qTDqK7UjbR 
• Edinburgh Uni grad scoops full SQE1 scholarship with 'law firm of the future' essay - Legal Cheek https://t.co/juWSrLlw8I 
• Mandatory vaccination for care home workers not unlawful nor in breach of ECHR - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/8pqzC6tCWm
  
• Eco-law students launch boycott of US law firm Gibson Dunn for ‘shielding corporate polluters’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/OY9wgAzIT2
• The Boutique Lawyer Show: Intersectionality is critical to legal service delivery - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/9U5r28NXuF
• Trainee solicitor cleared after giving colleague suggestive Christmas card | Law Gazette https://t.co/L13vWcOXQp
• Ex-Dentons trainee wins misconduct appeal over ‘sexualised’ Christmas card - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JLotgrkhDP
• All donations to LawCare will be doubled if made between 30 November and 7 December | NLJ https://t.co/1QuBLFPKlx
• Courts should be last resort, only after exploring alternative dispute resolution: CJI NV Ramana | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/BZVbTQoSbG 
• A charity which provides legal textbooks donated by the UK legal community to non-for-profit organisations around the globe, has celebrated its 15th anniversary | NLJ https://t.co/87SuiLdBFP 
• Using privilege and legal skills to help others - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/VBq7Yp3JgV

5th December - Law News

Edition 3631: 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 leaders of 14 European far-right parties are at a conference in Poland. Among the nationalist and populist issues up for discussion is the building an alternative centre of power in the European Union. It's aimed at opposing the EU on issues such as migration, national sovereignty as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. They face a number of challenges caused by their differences. Despite that, what's clear is they all want more influence in European politics. But how much influence do they have now? How dangerous is a united far-right?

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Travellers heading to the UK will now have to take a Covid test before their departure in an effort to limit spread of the virus, the government has said. The tightened requirements would come into force from 04:00 GMT on Tuesday https://t.co/LeRRQ1v4eC
• Lawyers have been advised to keep electronic court bundles clearly labelled and brief, in general guidance issued by the judiciary | NLJ https://t.co/ax6HLSEq0
• Disgraced Police Scotland gives £1m to family of M9 crash victim Lamara Bell - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bUAYwNiLCH
• A Calderbank offer does not have the same effect as a Part 36 offer and should not be treated the same by a judge, the Court of Appeal has held | NLJ https://t.co/32fxrrm0jy 
• 'Dangerous offender' snatched woman's handbag as she sat outside coffee shop with friends - Marc Morgan has 114 previous offences on his record including robbery, numerous assaults, and 38 burglaries https://t.co/SiIuq5bKmr
  
• Publishing lawyers’ complaints data won’t help consumers, says Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/AjsPkLBtR1
• The Attorney General is to be asked to review the "lenient" jail sentences given to a couple who killed six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Emma Tustin was jailed for 29 years for murder and child cruelty and Thomas Hughes, was given 21 years https://t.co/rhhknI4jGK
• Swansea based Cinema & Co, closed down over covid pass row, advertise Muppet Christmas Carol screening 'starring Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford as Scrooge' https://t.co/knvO7ioTBZ 
• The Law Commission is to launch a major review of the Arbitration Act 1996, the principal legislation governing arbitrations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland | NLJ https://t.co/1snFzSjNTm
• ‘HMRC gave me £775,000 by mistake – and it’s turned into a nightmare’ - Staff processing a £23 parcels duty rebate paid the life-changing sum into a woman’s bank account https://t.co/Mue9JAuTe1 
• Lawyers could be referred to regulators for inappropriate urgent applications | Law Gazette https://t.co/QSUYOQha8o
  
• Anti-Semitism: 2021 likely to be 'the worst year on record' https://t.co/h3DiScMsld
  
• A man with no mental capacity to understand consent does not have capacity to enter into sexual acts, the Supreme Court has held | NLJ https://t.co/XmMc1VUc9H 
• The Metropolitan Police has said it does not routinely probe "retrospective breaches" of Covid laws amid calls for an investigation of a No 10 Christmas party held during 2020's restrictions https://t.co/FqPCmcyBEj 
• Womble Bond Dickinson finally fights off negligence claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/8x4vt8pN4O 
• RNLI takes down its website after suspected hacking attempt: Charity’s site reduced to a landing page after ‘suspicious activity’ and staff sent threatening emails from far-right activists https://t.co/bkfrC6ZXaP
• RNLI vows to continue Channel rescues ‘without judgement’ amid new hate campaign by Britain First - Far-right group claims to have sent thousands of emails to rescue charity claiming to be from ‘concerned citizens’ https://t.co/yHOGycAuDT 
• The parents of a teenager suspected of a deadly school shooting have been arrested in a Detroit basement hours after going on the run, police say. James and Jennifer Crumbley were found unarmed hiding in a warehouse after a tip-off #US https://t.co/k9lU0W58sd
• The High Court has sent a warning to lawyers with illegible signatures, in a case where a bill of costs was held not to have been validly served | NLJ https://t.co/HlpMbBqvZg 
• Increase in BSB staff not ‘reasonable or proportionate’ - Bar Council | Law Gazette https://t.co/JKZT3dVKhs
  
• The Law Commission has confirmed that smart legal contracts can be accommodated by existing law, and there is no need for statutory law reform | NLJ https://t.co/sGPt2cvfe6 
• Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Key moments from the first week https://t.co/6Yzli23lMK 
• Firm lets staff take 'you day' if they've already done their hours | Law Gazette https://t.co/y7bIxoc5Yp 
• E-Scooters set to be banned from London Tube after Parsons Green fire https://t.co/2SxkU2XQFO 
• Two army veteran MPs are trying to force the government to waive visa fees for foreign citizens who served in the military and want to remain in the UK. Visas for foreigners who served in UK armed forces currently cost £2,389 https://t.co/pV4WXfBsPQ 
• I had £18,000 stolen after my drink was spiked' - Ben Gregory, 26, believes his drink was spiked during a night out in Clapham in south London https://t.co/62OK5dz4Va 
• GPs in England can defer some of the services they provide to patients to allow them to deliver Covid booster jabs instead, NHS chiefs have said https://t.co/24G60m7YvT 
• Man detained in secure Glasgow hospitals who claimed he should have been released earlier loses damages claim against health board - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XtKXsgpI8w
  
• Mother in law: Paternity leave and the gender pay gap | Law Gazette https://t.co/gM39FPOcMr 
• Legal tech is having a strong impact on the probate process, with various innovations making this an exciting time | NLJ https://t.co/4ZWrJHUAS7

4th December - Law News

Edition 3630: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: In the wake of two cases of Omicron detected in India, Tamil Nadu's Madurai today announced that unvaccinated people would not be allowed to enter malls, shopping complexes and other public places from next week

Saturday Conversations on Law

• There are eight attacks on emergency workers every day on average, according to new figures. The 1,400 in the first half of this year saw workers headbutted, kicked, punched and coughed at, while 21 involved weapons being brandished https://t.co/mU7SUe80wL
• Northern Ireland arbitration law to be reviewed | Irish Legal News https://t.co/PYWN2GQvOE 
• #Italian man tries to dodge Covid jab using fake arm - But a nurse was not fooled and the man has now been reported to the police https://t.co/1Y2GDTHmh1 
• Swansea cinema that defied orders to shut after not enforcing Covid pass rules may have to pay back some of the £53,000 it received in Covid grants https://t.co/DcODSY5oNS
• Prosecutors have charged the parents of a suspect in a deadly Michigan school shooting with involuntary manslaughter. Authorities have issued a fugitive warrant for James and Jennifer Crumbley #US https://t.co/h8m6vxRMAE
  
• Court orders contempt of court hearing following SLCC petition to secure file - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yeuuUlpETM 
• Outrage at Taliban takeover of Afghanistan bar association | Law Gazette https://t.co/xOcxGolp7m
  
• Man tortured and killed in #Pakistan over alleged blasphemy - Government accused of having emboldened extremists after lynching of Sri Lankan in Sialkot https://t.co/YIB8fBsFjm 
• Meghan calls for tabloid industry overhaul as Mail on Sunday loses appeal https://t.co/lBnQh5H5CS
  
• Act now against Omicron to stop new Covid wave, UK ministers warned: Government privately being urged by advisers to tell people to work from home until more is known of variant https://t.co/iFLEDpPVTh 
• Cleaver Fulton Rankin promotes Jeanette Donohoe to head of dispute resolution | Irish Legal News https://t.co/OWFEFNNwki
• Law Society’s annual awards to end after 15 years | Law Gazette https://t.co/VPSLVTGNWd 
• Douglas Mill: No whitewash in the White House - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vGKXaiOVFd 
• Mail lawyers criticised for lack of ‘clear focus’ in Meghan appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/3Zz1zTvofX
  
• A man has been jailed for 21 years and his partner for a minimum of 29 years over the torture and killing of his six-year-old son, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Emma Tustin, 32, murdered the boy with a fatal head injury at her home in Solihull last year https://t.co/GcDwvXhpQE
  
• ECJ adviser backs rule-of-law measure in blow to #Poland and #Hungary https://t.co/VwXc5UgTsx 
• Charities watchdog set to be led by poetry and finance specialist - Nadine Dorries promotes Forward Arts Foundation trustee Martin Thomas for politically sensitive role https://t.co/O9pOVBGosm 
• Will the SQE affect diversity in the legal profession? - Legal Futures https://t.co/02yLOr4Sk6 
• Police dogs to gain extra protections in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/U8irVjvJui 
• "Ticketless, drunken and drugged-up thugs" could have caused death as they stormed Wembley before the Euro 2020 final, says a review into the disorder. The report by Baroness Louise Casey said there was a "collective failure" in planning for the match https://t.co/ZirpfhUJ4x 
• Top 50 law firms heading for “two-track” future - Legal Futures https://t.co/wqaiuA2SZy 
• Carnwath disappointed ‘legal enforcement’ was not discussed at Cop 26 | Law Gazette https://t.co/knjMrWgJbb
• Law students pledge to boycott top firm for "shielding polluters" - Legal Futures https://t.co/kjMBTWkLB4 
• Northern Ireland landlords could be required to give six months’ notice to quit | Irish Legal News https://t.co/nqcVKCBoEK 
• Unregulated firm uses AI to offer clients debt repayment guarantee - Legal Futures https://t.co/pe4xiVfuDf
• A male trainee solicitor at global law Dentons has successfully appealed a rebuke from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over a sexually suggestive Christmas card he left on the desk of a female colleague - Legal Futures https://t.co/3iXypTB7ED 
• Younger lawyers unhappy about working hours | Law Gazette https://t.co/uDSI4kJS05 
• The risk of catching and becoming very sick from Covid remains higher for people belonging to certain ethnic groups: Black and South Asian people are among those hit hardest, along with people in cities with high levels of deprivation https://t.co/g5QQdTedI8 
• Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire and government minister Michael Gove have criticised Formula 1 team Mercedes for signing a deal with a firm linked to the tower https://t.co/5jj5DLQvy8 
• Inner House rules “success fee” charged by solicitor in debt recovery action not a judicial expense - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/PgNoGCnFJs 
• CJEU advised to dismiss Hungary and Poland's rule of law case | Law Gazette https://t.co/SUY0hu6Twx 
• ByrneWallace announces appointment of seven new partners | Irish Legal News https://t.co/C3jM1iYjF5 
• Michael Fawcett honours claims: Charles' ex-aide worked with 'fixers', investigation finds https://t.co/XMhqHEs4p7 
• A broken system: education, health, and care plans | Law Gazette https://t.co/UUyoHrcgY6 
• Meghan’s all-out war may have taken Mail on Sunday by surprise https://t.co/SYWY3RKQsS 
• Small claims taking 51 weeks to go to trial as litigants wait for justice | Law Gazette https://t.co/mcrG94k9XH

3rd December - Law News

Edition 3629: 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: Former Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota speaks about John the death threat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) received by voicemail and reacts to Rep. Nancy Mace's (R-SC) heated Twitter spat with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

Focus of the Day Story: Whatever happened to those down under law firm recruitment roadshows? A generation of lawyers from Australia and New Zealand cut their teeth in London, now they are more likely to go to New York.  Full story - The Global Legal Post 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Tory peer Michelle Mone accused of sending racist and abusive message - Mone is alleged to have called man of Indian heritage ‘a waste of a man’s white skin’ in WhatsApp exchange https://t.co/8aiM2KJ5hw
  
• Professor Derek Auchie joins Squaring Circles - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/28hTT9YOMK
• Caoimhe McConnell joins Richard Grogan & Associates | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WfqKTal1Ub
• Harassment arrest breached journalist's human rights, ECtHR rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/90UAj9RuLI
• “Diligent and caring solicitor” was not dishonest over medical reports - Legal Futures https://t.co/O6YniWFto
• Images have been released of three men police want to speak to about allegations of anti-Semitic abuse directed at Jewish passengers on a bus https://t.co/mDdcvj4Fyx
• #Germany's national and regional leaders have agreed to bar unvaccinated people from much of public life in a bid to fend off a fourth wave of Covid-19 https://t.co/boXVlTyPIz
  
• Solicitor struck off after almost £600k of client money vanished | Law Gazette https://t.co/stE4l9pq0X 
• Remand inmates in England and Wales ‘facing second Christmas behind bars’ - Figures obtained by charity show rising number of people held longer than six months awaiting trial or sentence https://t.co/6B99emCJbu 
• McEntee hosts virtual National Missing Persons Day event | Irish Legal News https://t.co/irAIfIl2fj 
• Ministers should face misconduct charges over Covid crisis, say UK campaigners https://t.co/FE41AtkpEk
  
• Supreme Court allows DWP’s appeal over universal credit | Law Gazette https://t.co/lKaDs9kfi8 
• Leading Conservative MP outlines worries about state of county court - Legal Futures https://t.co/V1LzcQcZb0
• Tribunal rejects solicitor judges' claims for backpay - Legal Futures https://t.co/wMbrY3JlrC
• Chef sentenced after one killed and 31 left ill by undercooked shepherd’s pie - John Croucher admits contravening food regulations after incident in which woman died in Northamptonshire https://t.co/nrODi1kEr9 
• Bundesliga matches can only have an attendance of up to 50% and a maximum of 15,000 after #Germany reintroduced Covid-19 restrictions on Thursday https://t.co/usNttHqs8f
  
• “Misconception” that review websites are bad for small firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/lckL6WCMne
  
• The family of M9 crash victim Lamara Bell is to receive more than £1m in compensation from Police Scotland. The force previously admitted failures in its call-handling system "materially contributed" to the death of Ms Bell following the crash in 2015 https://t.co/yELC2H5OBy 
• Meghan has won the latest stage in her legal fight against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday over a letter she sent to her father: The Court of Appeal rejected Associated Newspapers' attempt to have a trial in the privacy and copyright case https://t.co/Tp44oTul1h
• Religious discrimination bill: moderate Liberals strike deal to protect gay students #Australia https://t.co/MxoW8CNvrQ
  
• Raab invites ‘drastic and bold’ ideas to keep family matters out of court | Law Gazette https://t.co/cLvWvAkbd6
  
• Ireland's Justice Minister Helen McEntee has secured Government approval to recommend to President Higgins that he exercise his right to pardon John Twiss, who was convicted of the murder of John Donovan and executed in January 1895 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/02zrKRfV29
• What are the Coalition’s proposed anti-troll social media laws and who do they benefit? https://t.co/bOCfkoXZmx
  
• IT crash firm says only a 'small proportion' of clients have moved | Law Gazette https://t.co/eudc9GjRIo 
• Controversial mitochondrial donation legislation passed after conscience vote - Maeve’s law will legalise partial DNA donations, allowing women to give birth without passing on a genetic disease https://t.co/tZejjdisfV
• Scottish government welcomes prison proposals: A new process to investigate prison deaths has been welcomed “in principle” by Justice Secretary Keith Brown - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9d69WDO3lp
• Essex mega-prisons pose threat to rare wildlife, warn environmentalists - Government accused of reneging on environmental pledges with plan to build on old airfield near Braintree https://t.co/UNxgNcWRXm 
• Landmark privacy ruling not ‘novel, radical or surprising’, Supreme Court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/2YZnv4Lx2s 
• How an innocent Black man served time for the rape of author Alice Sebold - Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in jail as victim of miscarriage of justice but has accepted author’s apology https://t.co/H6culyqOJW 
• Complaints about barristers’ conduct soar | Law Gazette https://t.co/kbdB4bbIV7 
• High Court refuses application to introduce evidence of subsequent child contact litigation by man accused of rape - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BaWYeZAog7 
• High Court to hear Khan case seven days after arrest warrant issued | Law Gazette https://t.co/lsHVC7dAzG 
• Landmark privacy ruling not ‘novel, radical or surprising’, Supreme Court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/2YZnv4tWaU 
• Abortion rights advocates vow to fight on after supreme court hearing: Leaders say they will look to statehouses and lower courts if justices allow undermining of Roe v Wade #US https://t.co/993wAwLOT3
• Khan released from bench warrant after 'surrendering herself to the court' | Law Gazette https://t.co/2EgsIBS6J6 
• The #US Supreme Court appears poised to accept a Mississippi law that would bar abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest https://t.co/YO13NcXAwA 
• Conveyancers face 'unjustified' negligence claims over stamp duty | Law Gazette https://t.co/hT86o0M6j6

2nd December - Law News

Edition 3628: 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 will be able to punish human rights abusers and corrupt officials who do not face justice in their home countries. 

Focus of the Day Story: The 25-year-old Arbitration Act may need reform in the face of competition from overseas jurisdictions, the Law Commission said today, announcing a review of the principal legislation governing arbitrations in England and Wales and Northern Ireland. The review 'aims to ensure that the UK remains at the forefront' of the international dispute resolution market in the face of competition from centres such as Dubai and Singapore.  Full story - The Law Society Gazette 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• McKees awarded bronze medal for business sustainability | Irish Legal News https://t.co/iFqf2WVbNe
• 'Experienced' LiP refused adjournment for pro bono counsel's unavailability | Law Gazette https://t.co/wypcfP2SGt
• Eugene F Collins appoints Lisa Griffin as senior associate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SqWht4CPt9 
• One third of big firms 'actively considering IPO' | Law Gazette https://t.co/YJf1yLxxw3
• Sir David Edward: Climate change – legal accountability is key - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/f0YCuyphXv
  
• Nationality and Borders Bill will punish the people it purports to protect | Law Gazette https://t.co/TZQVY4PWjx
  
• Stormont backs bill to provide ‘safe leave’ for victims and survivors of domestic abuse | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Bpo7nZ4qby 
• Premier League footballer Gabriel fought off a baseball bat-wielding man attempting to steal his car. The Arsenal defender was followed into his home in Barnet, north London, by three men on 20 August https://t.co/DoGQl1eQSO
  
• Travis Scott's offer to pay the funeral costs of Astroworld victims has been rejected by half of the bereaved families of concertgoers killed during a crush at the rapper's festival in Texas #US https://t.co/o5YxHx6EMW
• Landmark privacy case begins at Supreme Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/UhmWKYBIY4
  
• Barristers' conduct outside of work under increasing scrutiny - Legal Futures https://t.co/1x3QeVGs6C
  
• Deadline for registration of rights of way scrapped | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RNAzGKFIXD 
• Raab eyes “drastic action” to keep family disputes out of court - Legal Futures https://t.co/365KDYMUjE
• Ireland’s courts service has missed its 2020 energy efficiency targets and will have to catch up to meet an even more ambitious 2030 target | Irish Legal News https://t.co/rLnqpySvSW
• MedCo goes it alone as it bids to reduce registration costs - Legal Futures https://t.co/nNVu3k9Qb5 
• Costs bill not valid because solicitor’s signature was illegible | Law Gazette https://t.co/LiUrMeyeb1 
• Jailed for 51 weeks for protesting? Britain is becoming a police state by stealth - The government’s back-door amendments to the policing bill are tyrannical. We should be on the streets in our millions https://t.co/h1tWE2wZaF 
• EU must consider mandatory Covid jabs, says Von der Leyen - European Commission president says EU states need to discuss idea in response to spread of Omicron variant https://t.co/qGpKLq6ekq
• Why US abortion laws could be changed by Supreme Court ruling https://t.co/l95Dh6vEea
  
• MPs call for inquiry into conveyancers who "mis-sold" leasehold advice - Legal Futures https://t.co/GeZM3lhRRS
• Claims of historical abuse involving priests and religious figures are being re-investigated by police following new information from an abuse survivor. Kevin O'Connell claimed he was sexually abused by Father Thaddeus Kotik, a monk living on Caldey Island https://t.co/IePZGtzhtR
• Radical reform of response to prison deaths needed - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qlQceEeBsR
• Another energy supplier has collapsed amid an ongoing surge in gas prices, UK regulator Ofgem has said. Zog Energy, which has about 11,700 domestic energy customers, ceased trading on Wednesday https://t.co/YU0CYm2JtR
  
• Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg is being investigated over a possible breach of the rules on MPs declaring outside earnings - The Commissioner is not releasing details of the allegations https://t.co/pdMs1ck8k
• The European Commission retracts internal communication guidelines that had proposed substituting the “Christmas period” with “holiday period” after an outcry by conservatives and the #Vatican https://t.co/0eYsr2izFl 
• Conveyancers 'failed' in their leasehold duty, MPs told | Law Gazette https://t.co/25hWPCCiNy 
• Up to one in 11 staff in some jails investigated for misconduct https://t.co/W0pSYAm2xo
• Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein pilot testifies he flew Prince Andrew - Larry Visoski, the first witness in Ms Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial, recalled flying Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Kevin Spacey #US https://t.co/QfnPFfPnia 
• Sheriff Appeal Court grants order requiring schizophrenic man with kidney disease to allow dialysis - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4AeYTUET1M
• Working days “could be replaced by aggregated maximum time” - Legal Futures https://t.co/Dzdw8MZeAK
• Lockdowns created a cycling boom in England, with record numbers of people out on their bikes to get exercise and fresh air. However, official data from the Department of Transport also shows that many more cyclists died on rural roads in 2020 https://t.co/o12Nt2OJwY
• ‘How dictatorship works’: #Hungarian academic quits in censorship row https://t.co/Nl32L8ATA3 
• American author Alice Sebold has apologised for her part in the wrongful conviction of a black man who was cleared last week of raping her in 1981 #US https://t.co/PYhExxUCln
  
• Eastern promise as growing firm swallows up local rival | Law Gazette https://t.co/zvRPpuTYdL 
• Consultation opens on ‘Charlotte’s law’ to encourage murderers to help locate victims’ remains | Irish Legal News https://t.co/wIkcgchj5Q
  
• Government lawyers reject claim NI protocol has ‘shattered’ union - Legal challenge brought by unionist politicians contests that Brexit deal conflicts with 1800 Acts of Union https://t.co/qteJ1vKzaK
• Judges and lawyers call for curbs on misuse of SLAPPs - Legal Futures https://t.co/O0jhDY4R2r 
• Contempt case against Russian oligarch revived by CoA | Law Gazette https://t.co/Pu0AcGT6L7 
• Ex-IS member guilty of genocide for chaining up Yazidi girl to die in the sun https://t.co/VU2AMDXDqk
• Should the SRA introduce tougher sanctions for AML breaches? - Legal Futures https://t.co/GKR7hnsPii 
• Arbitration Act comes under the Law Commission’s microscope | Law Gazette https://t.co/0S5sWF3qyi
• Solicitor used prisoner’s inheritance to pay off overdraft - Legal Futures https://t.co/HIP92J6a8L

1st December - Law News

Edition 3627: 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: Barbados has become the world's newest republic, officially removing Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. In an overnight ceremony in the capital, Bridgetown, Dame Sandra Mason was sworn in as president.

Focus of the Day Story: Women, ethnic and other minorities and young people in the legal profession are most likely to suffer from depression, showing a link between wellbeing and issues of equality, diversity and inclusion, according to a high-level report.  Full story - Legal Futures 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Sir Declan Morgan to deliver lecture on Northern Ireland’s chief justices | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zre2VC72zu
• Some supermarkets will not enforce mask wearing - most unwilling to police mask wearing https://t.co/I5Skgmcsn4
• My legal life: Liam Symonds, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/iXlgWqBZd5
• Draconian border security doesn’t work and costs lives. Why is Britain pushing it? Our politicians say they want to stop smuggling. What they mean is they want to stop migration https://t.co/kOVBvDFcR1
• The law is the boss, Sir Stephen | Law Gazette https://t.co/bixBspX0H8 
• Brigid Napier elected president of Law Society of Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MuLNKmWk7l
• Greece is to make Covid vaccinations mandatory for people aged 60 and over. Fines of €100 (£85) will be imposed at monthly intervals from mid-January on those who refuse, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said https://t.co/vyOrjo1xW9
  
• Commercial property expert steps down after 48 years | Law Gazette https://t.co/Qgn2MwtzmE 
• Scottish Legal Complaints Commission reports strong performance - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0eCJAdHk9v
  
• #Dutch Covid case: Carolina Pimenta tested positive for Covid-19 after landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on a flight from South Africa on Friday. She was arrested by military police on Sunday night on a plane about to take off for Spain https://t.co/2GzOf7RGy6
  
• News focus: Efforts to curb ‘SLAPPs’ gaining momentum | Law Gazette https://t.co/YvwDFecJqv 
• The co-founder of a neo-Nazi group has been found guilty of being a member of a banned terrorist organisation. Ben Raymond, 32, from Swindon, was part of National Action, a group which wanted to wage a "white Jihad" and race war in Britain https://t.co/F91iqa4P5
• Whistleblower tells inquiry of ‘shocking’ abuse at immigration detention centre - Former officer who filmed undercover footage at Brook House, says managers were complicit https://t.co/vad2MYLg4J
• Official judgment portal set to go live | Law Gazette https://t.co/dQozJnVLWt
• Facebook's parent company, Meta, has been ordered to sell Giphy by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority. The company, then known simply as Facebook, bought the Gif-sharing search engine last year for a reported $315m (£236m) https://t.co/7GYLUW9xW2
• Kirsty Yuill: Upcoming changes to the Highway Code - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fYFulKZ8PD
• Child abusers in England and Wales could face life in jail under tougher sentencing plans unveiled by ministers. It follows a campaign for Tony's Law by the adoptive family of seven-year-old Tony Hudgell, who had both legs amputated following abuse https://t.co/KDiilqf9wz
• Mystery surrounds solicitor's case five days after arrest warrant | Law Gazette https://t.co/JEIN1JTlAs
  
• MASI wins Bar of Ireland’s annual human rights award | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lDrIGvECpW
• Blueprint for family court monitoring mechanism unveiled - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/WwBD8FxrP4
• Call for sentencing guidelines for child sex offenders | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ksmCfnbQFQ 
• MI6 chief Richard Moore has warned of China's "debt traps and data traps" in his first live broadcast interview. Mr Moore - known as "C" - also denied the fall of Afghan capital Kabul was an intelligence failure https://t.co/VwprfkLk83
• US organisation seeking unexplained wealth order for Donald Trump’s Scottish properties has petition refused by Outer House - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/u270qOb3Ty
• Ex-barrister who harassed former lover has life sentence quashed | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZLPpi1vG0N
• Covid dents world trade hopes | Law Gazette https://t.co/30D5foL4H0 
• Susan Neill-Fraser loses latest appeal against murder conviction - Two out of three judges concluded evidence presented was ‘not fresh, not compelling’ #Australia https://t.co/BVcmxhIiyS 
• Regulators and younger investors shift City priorities | Law Gazette https://t.co/B6LiDl8A4V 
• #Argentina court to investigate Myanmar war crimes against Rohingya Muslims https://t.co/Efoefrr5JE 
• Lawyer in the news: Shirin Marker, Bindmans, London - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/b7nM3o5bSl
• Labour picks non-lawyer as shadow justice secretary | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y4VHCMGAdL 
• Mask rules 'ignored' at Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre, claims medic - The consultant, who does not wish to be named, said he left a show at the Wales Millennium Centre, after about 80% of audience took off their masks with many coughing https://t.co/PGA6M0rkUx 
• An undercover reporter has told a public inquiry into the mistreatment of detainees at the Brook House immigration removal centre where staff mocked and humiliated a naked man https://t.co/4Zciiig9H4

30th November - Law News

Edition 3626: 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: Anti-money laundering for compliance professionals (Compliance Officers Conference 2021), an online edition.

Focus of the Day Story: Mandatory vaccination for care home workers not unlawful nor in breach of ECHR. Peters & Anor, R (On the application of) the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care & Anor [2021] EWHC 3182 (Admin), 2 November 2021. This was a renewed application by the claimants for permission to proceed with a judicial review challenge to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021, which requires a registered person who runs a regulated activity in a care home to ensure that any person entering the premises has been vaccinated, unless for clinical reasons that person is exempt.  Full story - UK Human Rights Blog 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• RPC offers £100k in free legal advice to ESG start-ups - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Kxxal45cRe 
• History will not judge us by our highways, but how well we preserve the Constitutional idea of India: Justice Gautam Patel | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/gnV9li00eY 
• Australian firm which claims to have a database of more than 10 billion facial images is facing a potential £17m fine over its handling of personal data in the UK https://t.co/Ex4mrI028a 
• Former Thomson Reuters vice president takes top role at BARBRI - Legal Cheek https://t.co/YuHgHoOeYM 
• Drivers warned they can be fined £5,000 for wearing boots, winter coats, Christmas jumpers and sparkles https://t.co/4GZmUhlphm 
• Since Independence we have travelled to Mars, but legal system remains the same: Justice AM Khanwilkar | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/1J9bbWZmkO 
• Was transfer of 34 Judges in September necessary? Retd Justice Madan Lokur asks | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/xnnINsKFps 
• Covid booster jabs are to be offered to all over-18s to help stop a potential wave driven by the new variant Omicron https://t.co/DvUANkcLKH 
• Authorities in China recaptured a #NorthKorean man, identified by his Chinese name Zhu Xianjian, after a 40 day manhunt https://t.co/YGWqKZGnXr 
• The role energy lawyers play in the push towards a greener planet - Legal Cheek https://t.co/i5wFFYWFNb 
• Was transfer of 34 Judges in September necessary? Retd Justice Madan Lokur asks | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/xnnINt2gO2 
• Allahabad High Court grants bail to Sharjeel Imam in sedition case filed in Aligarh | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/h4ATaB6e4y 
• Barristers anger at Justice Sec’s selfie with roller-skating Xmas pud - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cfEKIW3uIx 
• MPs should be banned from providing paid parliamentary advice or consultancy services, a report from the MPs' standards committee has proposed. It comes after the case of former MP Owen Paterson triggered concern about MPs lobbying or holding second jobs https://t.co/RVRNcHe2WH
  
• UK’s ‘double talk’ on Channel crisis must stop, says French interior minister: Gérald Darmanin says UK ministers must stop saying one thing in private while insulting his country in public https://t.co/W8cLZCTsQZ
  
• Since Independence we have travelled to Mars, but legal system remains the same: Justice AM Khanwilkar | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/1J9bbWHLtg 
• Online legal services pioneer LandLord Law celebrates landmark anniversary - Legal Futures https://t.co/sY2BZdajoh 
• English universities risk breaking law over offer withdrawals, say ministers: Regulators push universities to remove oversubscription loopholes after surge in higher A-level grades https://t.co/kWY7x3FcvY
• Fried Frank ups trainee pay to £55-£60k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/de8a0YNZiL 
• Ex-barrister wins appeal over first-ever life sentence for perverting justice - Legal Futures https://t.co/wu9bzZDCR7 
• Victims of sexual violence let down by UK asylum system, report says: Study calls on Home Office to integrate gender and trauma sensitivity into asylum system https://t.co/7eaGSbfUhN 
• Protégé: What it takes for new lawyers to make it into criminal law - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/rYC8Ivz7wC
• Lawyers turn to romcoms in fight for rule of law in #Poland - Instead of drafting legal papers, award-winning group make short films intended to explain assault on judiciary https://t.co/zcAGvFNDbR 
• Law firm and lawyer fined over schemes that avoided £3m in SDLT - Legal Futures https://t.co/AgGEuQPPlo 
• How will #Barbados move on as the Queen is removed as head of state? https://t.co/Ta48uppIol 
• Stratage Law Partners' Amit Manubarwala joins Vertices Partners as senior member and Partner | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/6EBaD54NO8
  
• IBA report links wellbeing to equality and diversity - Legal Futures https://t.co/mRCosUXgPk 
• #Dutch police say they have detained a couple who escaped from a Covid-quarantine hotel. The arrests were made on a plane in Amsterdam's Schiphol airport just before it departed to Spain on Sunday https://t.co/bBzSo5Gk91 
• Six cases of the new Covid Omicron variant have been identified in Scotland. Some of the people identified have no travel history and have caught the virus variant in the community https://t.co/jqwd7fVxoS
  
• Channel disaster: The last time Rizgar Hussein spoke to his daughter Hadia it was late on Tuesday night in Iraq. She called him from northern France to say she was about to board a boat with her mother, sister and brother https://t.co/3d6CEnNzXT
• British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to go on trial in New York City on sex trafficking and other charges. She is expected to challenge claims she groomed underage girls for convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein for sexual abuse https://t.co/oec1ZmUlUk 
• Whose Book is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity | Dr M E E Swijghuisen Reigersberg https://t.co/FdjHwxFHWm
• Freshfields launches fintech-focused virtual work experience programme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/K7eVH2Yc4y
  
• A ‘new era’ for litigators? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/beCXJqiiMZ
  
• Gujarat High Court issues notice in plea challenging 50 years minimum age for NCLT technical members | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/rRYCzI8DHw
• What the City of London has to offer trainee solicitors - Legal Cheek https://t.co/CBt0hHtbdD 
• BCLP expands solicitor apprenticeship offering to Southampton - Legal Cheek https://t.co/f8aE4q28zE
• Michael Cohen: prosecutors could ‘indict Trump tomorrow’ if they wanted - New York investigation of Trump Organization is one of a number of sources of legal jeopardy for the former president #US https://t.co/pl4bo4nsdK
  
• Deepcut deaths: army ‘treating victims’ families with contempt’: Pte Sean Benton’s sister says MoD failed to honour pledge to tackle bullying at barracks https://t.co/wopjP1qtRx 
• Sentences must be decided by the judges https://t.co/0y3Tzah6ow 
• Boy, 14, charged with murder of Ava White in Liverpool - The 12-year-old suffered ‘catastrophic injuries’ after attending city’s Christmas lights switch-on on Thursday https://t.co/uYetYxOvYP

29th November - Law News

Edition 3625: 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 broke out as opposition supporters rallied in the streets of Lima, Peru to demand President José Pedro Castillo be impeached. Peru’s former-schoolteacher leader, known as El Profe, has been in his post for only 100 days, but is facing a motion claiming he has demonstrated ‘moral incapacity.’

 

Focus of the Day Story: A shortage of lawyers and judges, and the poor condition of cold, leaky court buildings, are holding back efforts to reduce the backlog, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett has warned  Full story - New Law Journal 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• LawTech Talks: Technology for barristers - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/wu7e0luAJO
  
• Relocating hen harrier chicks to spare grouse for the gun - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/iGK61UNxBg
• Private firms working for UK government ‘should be subject to FOI rules’: Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham says existing transparency law is no longer fit for purpose https://t.co/QPA18eq8ug 
• #SouthAfrica's president has condemned travel bans enacted against his country and its neighbours over the new coronavirus variant Omicron. Cyril Ramaphosa said he was "deeply disappointed" by the action https://t.co/Pwnt4lR9Mt 
• Legal profession excels in latest social mobility rankings - Legal Cheek https://t.co/W1rYddJD6i 
• The Boutique Lawyer Show: Intersectionality is critical to legal service delivery - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/9U5r28NXuF
• Allahabad High Court Grants Bail To Sharjeel Imam In Sedition Case Filed Over His Speech At AMU #India https://t.co/tdLvvaCO
• "Autonomy does not evaporate with loss of capacity": Court of Protection - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/f9zfn79PMb
• Macfarlanes boosts NQ lawyer pay to £100k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tzEGFOraF
• Conservative MP Caroline Nokes has criticised Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries after she dismissed Ms Nokes' claim she was groped by the prime minister's father, Stanley Johnson https://t.co/uXAx4AtfZV
• The Corporate Counsel Show: ACC chair Mike Madden on elevating the GC role - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/bZCbLkFpO
• Detention of a minor for his own protection – round two - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/NfHckiB7cJ
• UCL beats Harvard in top 10 world rankings for law - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JSQJHyfMB
• On Monday, MPs will see proposals from the Commons Standards Committee to change their code of conduct - including on the jobs they are allowed to do on top of their work in Parliament https://t.co/npeWwv0d
• ‘The Golden Age of the Office’ - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/NvEynbcs
• Capacity to engage in sexual relations: the relevance of the partner's consent - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/P6TElCAIE
• British Airways has suspended flights to Hong Kong amid reports more of its crew members have been forced to quarantine in a government centre. BA confirmed it has temporarily stopped flights "while we review operational requirements for this route" https://t.co/m3zE4lwfM
• ‘Will a 52 in contract prevent me securing a City training contract?’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/NDLy4j7oUL
• Two British film-makers have shone a light on a campaigning lawyer and her clients in an expose of misogyny and dangerous politics in #Turkey https://t.co/xhjjL1xvPQ
• Workers’ comp claims expected to cost government $638m - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/kOp4cpZtaa
• #Australian government’s ‘anti-troll’ legislation would allow social media users to sue bullies, but experts say its focus on defamation will not help curb the rates of online bullying or cyberhate https://t.co/B0jhEhK8vV
• A 16-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed in west London has been named. Rishmeet Singh was attacked in Raleigh Road, Southall, just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday. Emergency services attended however he died at the scene https://t.co/4R10X4SBGC 
• Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said face masks will be compulsory in shops and on public transport in England from Tuesday in response to the new Omicron variant https://t.co/qXh6BtGky4
• Mandatory vaccination for care home workers not unlawful nor in breach of ECHR - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/8pqzC6c1xM
• #Israel is to ban foreigners from entering the country for 14 days and use surveillance to halt the spread of the new Covid strain https://t.co/b0xHJMUod
• Tighter restrictions have come into force in the #Netherlands, amid record Covid cases and concerns over the new Omicron variant https://t.co/cwCwq3nQwM
• Migrant crisis: confrontational UK home secretary Priti Patel with a history of anti-refugee posture not included in Calais meeting https://t.co/X2JwjyHmbD
• 25 Bedford Row barristers to star in new Channel 4 documentary - Legal Cheek https://t.co/EgIab7Xipt 
• ‘Alarming provisions’ in Religious Discrimination Bill: HLRC - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/HGTOcRMpwS
  
• Heard, convicted and sentenced in a day: Special POCSO Judge convicts man for rape of 8-year-old | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/H6J1IdL0Og
  
• Five types of lawyer you’ve met this year - Legal Cheek https://t.co/XFGjQNj1rX
• Judges must maintain absolute discretion in courtrooms: President Ram Nath Kovind | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/8nqrtIMtC2
  
• A not so magical Xmas: Linklaters and Slaughter and May cancel festive parties for second year - Legal Cheek https://t.co/xB7LX5zBm8
  
• [COVID-19] Supreme Court issues notice in plea for National Plan for rehabilitation of families affected by pandemic | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/spVB8R0ji9
  
• What are the rules and guidance for face masks and coverings? https://t.co/WO1wDmJ0am