14th December - Law News

Edition 3640: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: SRA Standards and Regulations - where we are now (Compliance Officer Conference 2021)

Focus of the Day Story: Join 1 Crown Office Row for an evening discussing Pupillage Application Tips and Life at the Bar. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• 2022: The year of WFH compensation claims? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/4OIu8b3vX
• NatWest Bank has been fined £265m after admitting it failed to prevent money-laundering of nearly £400m by one firm https://t.co/XJBDZkjHjh
• Supreme Court designates 18 AoRs/ advocates as Senior Advocates; 7 retired High Court judges also conferred gown | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/4gBa4KOVoT
• A number of vehicles including a police van have been caught on camera colliding with bollards on a residential street https://t.co/lcNaEP3c12
• Kim Kardashian is one step closer to her dream of becoming a lawyer after revealing she has passed a key law exam on her fourth attempt https://t.co/RNXg4pnpR
• Post Office scandal: Government to foot bill for postmasters' compensation https://t.co/0ImpwKs8WE
• #DoneWithDunn: Eco-law students launch boycott of US law firm Gibson Dunn for ‘shielding corporate polluters’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/OY9wgAi7us
• Punjab moves Supreme Court challenging increase in BSF jurisdiction | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Vy9hgaHh0a
• Law firms must reassess their cyber-security education experience - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/DwtrPpXI1
• US national Anne Sacoolas is to face magistrates in the UK charged with causing the death of motorcyclist Harry Dunn by dangerous driving https://t.co/3tqCAjZZ7L
• City law firms to fund aspiring social welfare lawyers through the SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/IeFWsMPCn
• The Justice Committee has issued a call for evidence on the criminal justice system’s approach to tackling fraud, which accounts for about half of all crimes | NLJ https://t.co/CgRhK71IGU
• Why young guns are ditching private practice for in-house legal roles - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/Qq98foVcw
• This pic of the MoJ's Xmas tree hasn't gone down well with criminal lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/xoFdjnNXP
• The Boutique Lawyer Show: Why directorships make you a better firm leader - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/jsk9omFaH
• No more lateral flow home test kits available online in England, say officials: Website tells people to ‘try again later’, as vaccine booking service reports ‘extremely high demand’ https://t.co/P0tLFKwfgM
• Girl, 11, dies in incident linked to pest control chemicals in east London - ‘Role model’ schoolgirl Fatiha Sabrin’s mother in hospital after also inhaling fumes at flats in Shadwell https://t.co/u9aMNzZJ0a
• HMCTS: Public prefers remote hearings but professionals see declining respect - Legal Futures https://t.co/8WKvZPY4OZ
• Accused not entitled to have himself subjected to Narco Analysis Test: Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/jVP4iaGey1
• Do the courts favour the party with the largest pile of chips? - Legal Futures https://t.co/km0dLGA3L8
• SPACs: What’s all the fuss about? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zF3KGgwldX
• Winners of the 2021 Women in Finance Awards unveiled - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/k2KsBxKm
• City firms "must weigh cost of losing female talent" in reward strategy - Legal Futures https://t.co/T4oSLEYgD
• A supposed mass exodus of employees from their current roles will happen in the coming months. #Australia’s legal profession will not be immune from this - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/pHoCq2wDEN
• Partner and law firm fined for breaching multiple undertakings - Legal Futures https://t.co/qSnnM9JBsO
• Conveyancing income on the rise at Simplify in pre-attack results - Legal Futures https://t.co/KPWyULZ2f4
• Networks of breeders are offering to mutilate puppies to follow a social media trend, an investigation has found. Cutting or "cropping" ears involves removing part of the ear flap for cosmetic reasons https://t.co/5OIum2FVMN
  
• Ince boosts junior lawyer pay by over a quarter to £90k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/BrZMgnfXAs 
• LawTech Talks: Tech makes you a better lawyer (while making your life easier) - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/KxCP67Ku6Z
• Clean energy, decarbonisation and the future - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/TReAGB9IN2
• SRA drafts in Exeter Uni to probe exam ‘attainment gap’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/UFvRbgzGOl 
• [ECL Coal Mining case] Delhi High Court stays Kolkata Police notices to ED officers | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/wKe2ZGCUNJ
• Maddocks partners with prenatal course provider - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/FrVtH8kCYg
• Top QC asks Twitter to make his profile pic more ‘Christmassy’ - hilarity ensues - Legal Cheek https://t.co/j9hERWdiyn
  
• "March to Justice: Global Military Law Landmarks" launched worldwide [Watch Video] | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/yuAPFShWGi
• As the world around us continues to evolve, digital currency is being hailed as a revolutionary concept, one that is truly symbolic of our digital age - digital assets - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/RKjLHIgAW3
• The government is to spend £510m, starting in the new financial year, to tackle record levels of benefit fraud https://t.co/MV92mdQHGN
• The UK government should rethink its plans to require voters to show photo ID at polling stations, MPs say. The Commons constitutional affairs committee said the move was likely to reduce turnout and make it more difficult to vote https://t.co/juQHFr3QmG

13th December - Law News

Edition 3639: 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: Water cannons were deployed at a right-wing demonstration and several arrests were made as crowds gathered in Jerusalem to mark the upcoming anniversary of the death of 16yo Ahuvia Sandak, who died in a car crash during a police pursuit, after allegedly throwing rocks at Palestinians

Focus of the Day Story: Lawyers have urged the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to give them more information and more time to consider an evaluation of immigration legal aid fees. Full story - New Law Journal 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Baker McKenzie picks BARBRI to put future trainees through the SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/dP5rKj07jD
• What it’s like working in the medical law field - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/gT4i7WqyGS
  
• Re-think training and support of junior barristers, says incoming bar chief - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PHmrOBPyZD
• Celebrating Nani Palkhivala on his 19th death anniversary | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/wqShBeH5QJ
• Met police searching for missing Petra Srncova find body in park: Officers called to Brunswick Park in Camberwell, south London, on Sunday morning https://t.co/8C3NeESjs1
• LGBT+ and disabled victims would be given the same protection as those targeted because of their race and religion, under a shake-up of hate crime legislation recommended by the Law Commission | NLJ https://t.co/bCeQb9tf28
• Minimum pupillage awards to rise next month - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ANc660pkVG
• Lessons from #Australia’s top human rights legal professionals - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/C5u6uuZZrz
• 7 things students should know about ‘qualifying work experience’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lYpWkqLBHZ
• Unorthodox Covid Views and Medical Regulation - Richard Smith - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/LUbPhcxR0b
  
• Former City law firm partner fined £15,000 for drink driving offences - Legal Cheek https://t.co/YakKTPvbt3
• Concerns about time estimates and urgency were raised at the latest Commercial Court user group meeting | NLJ https://t.co/hNp2Qmgtt
• Driving slow but recklessly amounts to 'rash and negligent driving': Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/hUTCcjyflc
• Boris Johnson took part in a Christmas quiz sitting between two colleagues in No 10 last year - while indoor household mixing was banned in London. The Sunday Mirror has published a picture of Mr Johnson at the event, which it said was on 15 December https://t.co/A457UKm7W5 
• #India's ultra-right-wing PM Narendra Modi's Twitter account was hacked with a message saying his country had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and would distribute it to all citizens https://t.co/iIUlOyoh3D
• How the age of coronavirus has changed the risk management landscape and how technology can and will help professionals navigate that landscape - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/1FQGwSLvPn 
• Why lawyers must lead the way on diversity - Legal Cheek https://t.co/0xIpkECgTz
  
• Tens of thousands of people have staged a protest in Austria against measures to curb the spread of Covid-19, including mandatory vaccinations #Austria https://t.co/ZVCThTWcjs
• Join 1 Crown Office Row for an evening discussing Pupillage Application Tips and Life at the Bar - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/mCtRLROnWg
• Lawyers have urged the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to give them more information and more time to consider an evaluation of immigration legal aid fees | NLJ https://t.co/A4b3L9bRwl
• 5 tips on how to excel during a virtual vacation scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/gmTrygJi3N 
• Religious Discrimination Bill will create space for discrimination: UNSW - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/qEYnoYeE7H
• The law killed e-scooters in the 1930s. Will it kill again? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/0QuTe94zNQ 
• No consumer case against medical officers rendering free services for hospital: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/wbo8AXYYQd
• 'Aggressive reputation management' harming the rule of law | Law Gazette https://t.co/4Q02PvPnHy
  
• BCLP bumps target hours following pay hike - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tPHoj6e4AY
• ACCC accuses Booktopia of making false claims to customers over refund rights #Australia https://t.co/1p4uVZ8KzY

12th December - Law News

Edition 3638: 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: Local elections are under way in the occupied West Bank with about 400,000 Palestinians eligible to vote. They are the first polls in two years. But Fatah and Hamas leaders remain at odds over when to hold the next general election. The last one was 15 years ago.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Society pays tribute to Afghanistan rights defenders | Law Gazette https://t.co/PEWHqkFlkv 
• SFO director’s position ‘untenable’ after damning ruling, lawyers say | Law Gazette https://t.co/1CWqMq6CPF
• Police step up search for missing hospital worker Petra Srncova: Harriet Harman launches appeal for information on 32-year-old Czech national who was last seen on 28 November https://t.co/PYu0kZWOKo 
• Two subpostmasters prosecuted by DWP lose conviction appeals | Law Gazette https://t.co/wpX6UdDWCW
• Female #Australian sailor tells royal commission navy failed to protect her after alleged sexual assault by shipmate: Young woman says she was stalked, abused, punished and denied help by her chain of command until she became suicidal https://t.co/ylcBMGjlnu
• A ‘substantial increase’ in complaints about barristers were made to the Bar Standards Board (BSB) last year | NLJ https://t.co/2MEyMBLx1
• Lloyd Edwards, a Liberal Democrat member of Ceredigion council, said immigrants were putting "more and more pressure" on services in the county https://t.co/AsvnXQTw6B
• A man has died after an incident involving armed police in west London. Officers stopped a vehicle at the junction of Kensington Road and Palace Gate in Kensington around 15:20 GMT, before shots were fired, Met Police said https://t.co/ZxWd4UT4tu 
• Takeaway forced to refund customer who complained their ice cream was cold in Just Eat 'scam' https://t.co/d2EMIfQy7t 
• #Belgian court declares mandatory use of vaccination passport illegal, imposes fine of EUR 5,000 per day https://t.co/WyuZC2VeZK
• Former Conservative councillor David Turtle has been convicted of killing his wife Stephanie by deliberately running her over with his car outside their #French home in 2017 https://t.co/5Ius5MiDYx
  
• Sheila Webster confirmed as Law Society of Scotland 2023/24 president elect - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZGAVNymdVz
• Courts to ‘continue as they have during pandemic’ - LCJ | Law Gazette https://t.co/C5KPm6kPFP 
• Irish companies to be allowed to hold online AGMs until May 2022 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YFOieGE7BB
• Survivors and children are being ‘let down and retraumatised’ by their experiences in the family courts, the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs has said | NLJ https://t.co/k1ACaejnAs 
• 'End billable hours and measure output to achieve gender parity' – magic circle chief | Law Gazette https://t.co/6urZVUnHyR
• Britain can’t complain about global corruption – it’s helping to fund it https://t.co/cJpUalxGHO 
• New Covid restrictions could be introduced in Scotland next week, the deputy first minister has warned. John Swinney says the Scottish government is "wrestling with the challenge" of the surge of the Omicron variant https://t.co/5wKkkNAcg8
  
• Care home residents in England will be allowed only three visitors and an essential care giver under new guidance to slow the spread of Omicron https://t.co/QWtfHTdaxC 
• Oxbridge 'doesn't explain' judicial appointment struggle | Law Gazette https://t.co/my8c04kc1C 
• #US Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set out plan for Trump to stage coup - Presentation turned over by Mark Meadows made several recommendations for Trump to pursue to retain presidency https://t.co/ILQG3AD2Z
• Police homophobia: the issue Stephen Port jurors couldn’t consider: Friends and family of victims say police fell for Port’s narrative they were ‘gay druggies’ whose deaths were by misadventure https://t.co/PddgOekWl9
• Prosecutors in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial have rested their case following two weeks of testimony. Annie Farmer, the last of four alleged victims to testify, recounted on Friday the "dark memory" of abuse by Ms Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/Px9d7BiN3s 
• #Brazil court has sentenced four people to lengthy prison terms over the deaths of 242 club-goers in a fire during a party in 2013. A band performing at the Kiss nightclub, in the southern city of Santa Maria, lit flares which set light to the ceiling https://t.co/tIgiPTOHQo
  
• MacRoberts announces double appointment to construction and commercial teams - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/a2v4bfcCdG
• Former Yorkshire and England cricket captain Ray Illingworth has spoken of his support for assisted dying after watching his wife die from breast cancer https://t.co/hjsBrGuUq7
  
• Law firms should not shy away from talking about fertility | Law Gazette https://t.co/8p5JegXX4j 
• Sheriff refuses to order extradition of Polish man living in Lanarkshire to serve six-month prison sentence - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/A452tLHOEs
  
• Upbeat DWF reports £11m pre-tax profit in half-year turnaround | Law Gazette https://t.co/TbFOm52iii 
• Oireachtas backs new planning process for large-scale residential developments | Irish Legal News https://t.co/IsZAtTxpkt 
• The Sun says it didn’t hack phones – so why does its publisher keep paying out? https://t.co/wqFM8j5aaj
  
• Nearly a quarter of solicitors now work in-house | Law Gazette https://t.co/HwInwOod3U
  
• McCann FitzGerald promotes Deirdre Barnicle to consultant | Irish Legal News https://t.co/HP67Rm2sw9 
• Attorney general begins review of SFO after judges overturn bribery conviction: Anti-corruption agency severely criticised by judges over failings that led to a businessman being unfairly jailed https://t.co/3vP36KmFei 
• Sienna Miller says ‘legal recourse not available’ after settlement | Law Gazette https://t.co/lORIoGCatY 
• Jury clears Extinction Rebellion activists who targeted commuters: Group of six argued obstruction in London’s financial district was lawful protest against government inaction https://t.co/ehpOyE6P8Z

11th December - Law News

Edition 3637: 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: Members of several right-wing organisations tried to force their way into a church in Haryana's Rohtak on Thursday and were finally stopped by the police. The crowd alleged that the church was carrying out religious conversion. The BJP-ruled Indian state is planning an anti-conversion law on the lines of the one in Uttar Pradesh

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Professor Imelda Maher appointed Fellow at New York University | Irish Legal News https://t.co/cjj9kqaiwy
• 'Reforms won't take shortcuts with parliamentary scrutiny' - Raab | Law Gazette https://t.co/48zTUReHYA
• Ministers are failing to protect women in the military from bullying and assault https://t.co/TGmvVFJRX1 
• Represented claimants continue to dominate ‘user-friendly’ RTA portal | Law Gazette https://t.co/71lSXO9Jvf
  
• An independent report into a cyber-attack on #Ireland's health service in May has found the consequences could have been even worse than they were https://t.co/FYmsS5xNem
• Julian Assange can be extradited to the #US, court rules https://t.co/bIE28yTDV6
  
• Government denies people smuggling law will lead to prosecutions of NGOs | Irish Legal News https://t.co/nA390hHU1A
• Oxford firm 'will not be cowed' by suspected arson attack | Law Gazette https://t.co/hBgxR19GDC
  
• Failings by the Met Police contributed to the deaths of serial killer Stephen Port's final three victims, an inquest jury has ruled https://t.co/A91KOA3SBa
• McCash & Hunter promotes Susan Scott to partner - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/W60ZwPd8Rn
• U.K. court: Julian Assange can be extradited to the U.S.  https://t.co/5Xfk4Ba7Yy 
• A former Conservative minister has been found to have raped and physically abused his wife. A family court judge concluded Andrew Griffiths, 51, pressurised Kate Griffiths, MP for Burton-upon-Trent, into engaging in sexual activity https://t.co/P3jq11yqnH 
• The #US Supreme Court has ruled that abortion providers can sue to challenge a controversial Texas abortion law. The law, known as SB8, gives people the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past six weeks, before most women know they are pregnant https://t.co/bzCrB9RwUo 
• Competition watchdog probes search industry giant | Law Gazette https://t.co/QZI6l1hdOM 
• Helen Murray appointed as editor of The Bar Review | Irish Legal News https://t.co/p3iLVXrQd1 
• 'Complex and outdated': new tribunal system proposed for Wales | Law Gazette https://t.co/sGlMEVzRpQ 
• Gig economy workers to get employee rights under EU proposals - Draft legislation would improve status of millions of workers, with likely knock-on effect on UK despite Brexit https://t.co/L9QFD7oc57 
• Pandemic earnings show “resilience and adaptability” of legal sector - Legal Futures https://t.co/q6eJ5DSAMm
  
• Robot lawyers ‘may stimulate demand for legal services’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/AhFyYeb0lJ 
• Lady Rae to chair board of Catholic Church safeguarding watchdog - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cK93ESX8we 
• Property search merger could lead to higher costs, warns watchdog - Legal Futures https://t.co/YPC2m1BRei
  
• First criminal justice scorecards published | Law Gazette https://t.co/LOMlb72vPF 
• US embassy nominates Islamabad Police's Amna Baig for 'International Women of Courage' award - #Pakistan https://t.co/eNk1SjMsIy
  
• Glasgow woman accused of assaulting her four children fails to petition nobile officium of Court of Session - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/oUjl1Xz1yG
  
• Gender pay gap in law remains wide, Law Society report finds - Legal Futures https://t.co/Bp5El7JStJ
  
• Fixed costs extension set to happen in less than a year - Legal Futures https://t.co/klW7MuZyxD 
• Beauticians breaking the law on underage lip fillers https://t.co/Sen3G5hCWF
  
• If daughter expects father to support her education, she also has to play role as a daughter: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/CYx7OXgar
• Face coverings are now compulsory in most indoor venues in England, under measures to tackle the Omicron variant https://t.co/aHq5LkpN0w
• Women in prison falling through gaps in feminist funding, report finds https://t.co/eUHZ9tunCr 
• Rape ‘scorecards’ reveal CPS will miss prosecution targets https://t.co/XEQSBcbyxT
• In-person hearings likely to continue in ‘Plan B’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/hJLDVq73x9
• Victorian man assisted sick father’s suicide ‘out of love and respect for his wishes’, judge says #Australia https://t.co/jKQ21zgFXN
• Cannot punish man for rape when promise to marry was not fulfilled due to family opposition: Calcutta High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/GB6zX3szPh 
• Legal aid must be restored for family law cases | Law Gazette https://t.co/unqjyM5u8T 
• Beauchamps welcomes six newly-qualified solicitors | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tsDbHhBoQD 
• Husband can also file case against wife under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act: Jammu and Kashmir court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/47QgTka2Fo
  
• People in Scotland have been urged to cancel Christmas parties due to the rising number of cases of the Omicron Covid variant https://t.co/M10L3qwsyq 
• #US actor Jussie Smollett lied to police about being the victim of a racist, homophobic assault, a Chicago jury has found. At trial this week, Smollett, 39, stood by denials that he staged the attack against himself https://t.co/2VfqkK0AgS

10th December - Law News

Edition 3636: 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: More than 2.2 million Australian children will have access to the Pfizer COVID vaccine from next year.  Bookings will open in the next couple of weeks after health authorities gave the final tick of approval for the jab in five to 11-year-olds.

Focus of the Day Story: ICC appoints co-chairs of new disability inclusion and international arbitration task force. King & Spalding associate Simon Maynard and Toronto-based independent arbitrator Todd Weiler are set to take the reins on the 'first-of-its-kind' initiative. Full story - The Global Legal Post 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Review of abortion legislation begins with public consultation | Irish Legal News https://t.co/09GGCSyfqr 
• Why do English legal texts matter in developing countries? | Law Gazette https://t.co/gCKGjtcXmh 
• Women in #Myanmar have been tortured, sexually harassed & threatened with rape in custody: Five detained for protesting against a military coup in the country earlier this year say they were abused and tortured in the detention system after their arrests https://t.co/ebLaCIfgFF 
• Ian Forrester QC returns to Ampersand Advocates - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NKJYoPVFO7
• AML crackdown needed on lawyers who enable kleptocrats - Legal Futures https://t.co/benqubsJR6 
• ‘Status quo isn’t enough’: LSB targets new checks on solicitor competence | Law Gazette https://t.co/YEMUgOAlW6 
• Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, #German court rules: Man who slipped and broke his back while working from home was commuting, it is decided https://t.co/HgPWoKRyNi 
• Bosses at West Suffolk hospital criticised over ‘intimidating’ hunt for whistleblower https://t.co/CmUdVK0lAa
• Amid growing international concern about #China's human rights record, an unofficial tribunal in London has ruled China has committed genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang https://t.co/zsJutACUFi 
• BLM: Irish government should learn from UK on flood insurance | Irish Legal News https://t.co/34jrMxrjAg
  
• New analysis cannot explain why BAME lawyers and solicitors struggle to reach bench - Legal Futures https://t.co/rPgXQwsdOr 
  
• Dublin City University to establish Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence | Irish Legal News https://t.co/p7WW9W69qJ
• British citizenship of six million people could be jeopardised by Home Office plans https://t.co/cTeNHYCCiC
• At least three people who held or went to unlawful gatherings on the same day as a Downing Street party have been fined by courts this month https://t.co/t0bGgcp83F 
• Judge Alison Nathan has put Ghislaine Maxwell's federal sex trafficking trial on hold for the day after a lawyer in the case fell ill and needed medical attention. The attorney was needed for direct examination of an upcoming witness #US https://t.co/tfRASREKST
  
• Solicitor convicted of assaulting elderly mother suspended indefinitely - Legal Futures https://t.co/wFemqAmiLi 
• Four convicts wrongly released due to sentence 'misunderstanding' | Law Gazette https://t.co/b8V0oihSsK 
• Litigants in person continue to shun Official Injury Claim portal - Legal Futures https://t.co/QpqbDxlvkI 
• Helping refugees starving in #Poland’s icy border forests is illegal – but it’s not the real crime https://t.co/m5bMlkVmt6
• A major financial settlement paid to Sienna Miller over phone hacking is "tantamount" to an admission of illegal activity by the Sun, a court has heard https://t.co/NPjs5mWoNp 
• A #French woman has been fined €1,200 ($1,357; £1,028) for causing a huge crash at the Tour de France by waving a cardboard sign in the riders' path https://t.co/tmU8NSH4dE 
• Three judges elevated to Inner House - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yUZ5L6xZTt 
• Newspaper should not have to identify commenters, ECtHR rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/4HjMuYlbMm 
• UKHSA considers legal action against privately run Immensa lab - Watchdog refuses FoI request from Good Law Project to give details of audit https://t.co/OfbFg9uwdb
  
• Ince profits up in ‘solid set of results’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/oCr3n0kMnt 
• The Conservative Party has been fined £17,800 for "failing to accurately report a donation" that paid for the refurbishment of the PM's flat. The Electoral Commission also said the party failed to "keep a proper accounting record" around the donation https://t.co/k26Mh85uzd
  
• An official investigation into government staff parties is to focus on three events that took place last year. Downing Street parties on 27 November and 18 December, and at the education department on 10 December will be examined for Covid rule breaches https://t.co/fPRUSDn0NJ 
• New personal injury discount rate to be set in Northern Ireland early next year | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VCThjN53Oq 
• Firm's boss kept quiet for months about employee's theft of £670k | Law Gazette https://t.co/bFyMgCKB81 
• #NewZealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking. Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime https://t.co/E8hK3InDW6
  
• A picture of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell relaxing at what appears to be British monarch's Balmoral residence has been shown to a US court https://t.co/Ris9fvN1NG 
• Hamilton sheriff convicts man who failed to secure cars on transporter of dangerous driving - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6D3Disb6vP 
• Society welcomes proposed reforms to tackle hate crime disparities | Law Gazette https://t.co/9Uvki5oBuM 
• Boris Johnson’s ‘war on judges’ is a fiction – the truth is, it is an attack on all of us https://t.co/0pONAPaSyp
• Judicial selection review to be published 'early 2022' | Law Gazette https://t.co/I11D4az9ik
  
• The ex-boyfriend of an accuser in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex crimes trial has given testimony that she performed sex acts on paedophile Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/6cVPW3aq3w
• UK ‘embarrassed’ into funding #Mozambique gas project, court hears https://t.co/vfjlHXoKI5 
• Sienna Miller settles phone hacking claim with News Group Newspapers https://t.co/YghbLl0snN 
• Pre-recorded evidence could be ‘counterproductive’, new bar chair warns | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ji7weCRPoI 
• Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes testified she "never" lied to investors as her defence team rested its case in her criminal fraud trial #US https://t.co/0G0En0QrAC 
• UK’s anti-money laundering measures need complete reset, says report https://t.co/dSvJfJ46xk 
• People in England are being asked to work from home again if possible and face masks will be compulsory in most public places, as part of new rules to limit the spread of Omicron https://t.co/P9bvdhYwts 
• Family WhatsApp conversation protected under proposed hate crime reforms | Law Gazette https://t.co/arzvlbvIVN 
• Litigation funder Novitas makes shock exit from the legal market | Law Gazette https://t.co/6cRJqfBDK0 
• NHS Covid Pass crashes after Plan B announcement - Users reported being unable to download their domestic or travel passes from the NHS app and website following Boris Johnson's announcement https://t.co/itbfbXuCW2

9th December - Law News

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: Chair of the Bar for 2022, Mark Fenhalls QC, delivers his inaugural speech at Gray’s Inn on 7 December 2021, setting out his hopes and aims for the Bar during his year as Chair

Focus of the Day Story: A cross-party parliamentary group has urged the government not to pursue a ‘nuclear option’ in its judicial review reforms that could result in serious human rights abuses. In a report published today, the Joint Committee on Human Rights says the government should introduce procedural reforms for so-called Cart JRs, rather than discontinue this particular legal avenue. Full story - The Law Society Gazette 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A small Brexit dividend for lawyer-client confidentiality? | Law Gazette https://t.co/tzj0aHq0Cp
• FAI into M9 crash deaths to take place more than six years after accident - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QC8ZRDO8x1
• Online litigant penalised for abuse of process | Law Gazette https://t.co/RZqZsFni1r
• Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O), formerly known as Facebook, said on Wednesday it would ban all Myanmar-military controlled businesses from having a presence on its platforms in an expansion of its earlier curbs on the country's security forces https://t.co/oo9FUqGrZ
• Campaign to make misogyny a hate crime rebuffed by Law Commission https://t.co/7Cmok07DwV
• Dyson says it will appeal after £150m damages claim rejected by EU court: Case follows earlier legal victory over energy efficiency stickers on vacuum cleaners that firm said misled buyers https://t.co/evQF2wpxx
• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK will diplomatically boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics, due to be held in February 2022. In a parliamentary statement, Mr Johnson said he typically did not support "sporting boycotts" https://t.co/Ji52yxWZ1p 
• British cyclist Mark Cavendish was assaulted by four armed men during a burglary at his home on 27 November. Cavendish, 36, said he, his wife Peta and their children were threatened "at knifepoint" by the men and he was "violently attacked" https://t.co/4rPZuktWId
• The government is adding terrifying amendments to the policing bill, putting the UK on a path to dictatorship https://t.co/lAaqFwUK7m
• Government mulls reforms to essential patent regime | Law Gazette https://t.co/KSSva2gg8B
• Incoming Bar chair: "I was wrong to be colour blind in approach to race" - Legal Futures https://t.co/VSyBjvXnwq
• A nurse has been charged with a series of sexual offences against staff and patients at a Sheffield hospital. Paul Grayson, an operating theatre nurse at the Royal Hallamshire, faces 20 charges including sexual assault and voyeurism https://t.co/mn1XAoBaef
• Sydney GP denies doing deal with dying patient to secure lion’s share of $30m estate, court hears #Australia https://t.co/J8JuGsPx1j
  
• Kent firm eyes major expansion as it offers efficient staff a 'You day' - Legal Futures https://t.co/ahcGFY1xyH
  
• Super-regulator acknowledges that PII costs are driving firms under | Law Gazette https://t.co/cc41XNFwHH
• Regulators of legal services must develop plans for “remedial action to address competence issues” among lawyers, according to a draft policy statement published today by the Legal Services Board - Legal Futures https://t.co/zheCoxQAXl
• Allegra Stratton has resigned as a government adviser following an angry backlash over a video of No 10 staff joking about holding a Christmas party https://t.co/hgno89PR8b 
• Fred Konynenburg obituary: Fred Konynenburg, who has taken his own life aged 52, was a highly respected lawyer with the international commercial law firm Hill Dickinson https://t.co/1xoOCHhHbj 
• The High Court has struck out a barrister’s petition to wind up a company he said he loaned £30,000 so it could pay the solicitors he introduced to them - Legal Futures https://t.co/XkLmIRnU1o
  
• Tate viewing platform nuisance case reaches Supreme Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/rMNjp1fq7F
• Society names interim chief executive | Law Gazette https://t.co/iMc4IUj6n
• Rehana Popal is the first female of Afghan descent to become a barrister in England and Wales: The former child refugee helping Afghan asylum seekers https://t.co/eAW6tKSqv6
• Mercedes' sponsorship deal with Kingspan, a firm that made insulation material involved in the Grenfell Tower disaster, has ended a week after it was announced https://t.co/GROHsZYwXg
• Lord committee recommends amendments to Judicial Review and Courts Bill - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SUC7rPH9Hs 
• Former Spanish king claims immunity from English courts | Law Gazette https://t.co/yw97fSyoos 
• UK’s anti-money laundering measures need complete reset, says report https://t.co/dSvJfJlHVU 
• Lord chancellor faces JR over immigration detainees’ legal advice | Law Gazette https://t.co/kPhDIoPTBQ
• Bernard Collaery trial: Coalition tells high court release of judgment would risk national security #Australia https://t.co/YyVdcqJlHF
• Dundee schoolteacher fails to prove mental health deterioration from being hit by wooden partition - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GAeAcGXxni 
• 'Nuclear option': human rights committee highlights JR danger | Law Gazette https://t.co/2bACg8EpLv
  
• Compulsory retirement of partners: problems and opportunities - Legal Futures https://t.co/FvPri5uY5S
  
• News focus: Pre-charge anonymity - a presumption of privacy | Law Gazette https://t.co/a7XVeNtej3
• Sibghat Kadri obituary: Lawyer who pursued principles of racial equality both for those he represented as a barrister and within the legal establishment https://t.co/uz74ZrgHAz 
• Claimant liable for abuse of process after misusing online claim system - Legal Futures https://t.co/y8UAw4O0f6 
• Solicitor used estate money to clear overdraft while client was in prison | Law Gazette https://t.co/wsOoHbrajK
  
• Solicitor avoids strike-off despite lying to SRA and insurer - Legal Futures https://t.co/Y6TlQCDilq
• Two clients sentenced to prison over fees contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/BAA1YspDJr 
• City law firms fund training of social welfare solicitors - Legal Futures https://t.co/7juYTJB1ZY 
• Tribunal slashes costs awards to SRA | Law Gazette https://t.co/WQt0C4IcxJ 
• Oversight regulator to put cost of PII under the microscope - Legal Futures https://t.co/82aN2xKeHY

8th December - Law News

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: Anti-money laundering – a look to the future (Compliance Officer Conference 2021)

Focus of the Day Story: The disruption caused by Covid last year was not a good enough excuse for a law firm missing a deadline to file amended particulars of claim by four months, the High Court has ruled. Full story - Legal Futures 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Owners of flats near Tate Modern take privacy case to supreme court - Ruling in Neo Bankside residents v viewing platform could potentially have wider implications for neighbour disputes https://t.co/yuj70PbtFV
• City watchdog appoints new general counsel | Law Gazette https://t.co/dYhkh2Dc7C
• Fortress Europe: the millions spent on military-grade tech to deter refugees https://t.co/R65wPFerM
• No 10 staff joked about party amid lockdown restrictions - The PM's then press secretary Allegra Stratton is asked by colleagues about reports of a party, as they rehearse a news conference in December last year https://t.co/uLsZ7C2SjG
• A Saudi man suspected of involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been arrested in #France, police say https://t.co/vyvpIOdLXd
• My legal life: Colin Secomb, Lewis Denley - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/RfL02uFExE 
• Arthur Cox recognised for work with those facing US death penalty | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tmXk9373ud
• Fee concerns over remodelled emergency housing scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/Hajqb9y5jC 
• Star Hobson: lawyer concedes murder accused was ‘terrible mother’ to toddler. Frankie Smith, 20, has admitted child cruelty but accuses her partner, Savannah Brockhill, of killing 16-month-old girl https://t.co/XvThK3DhzH 
• Runner faces UK deportation despite state of emergency in Ethiopia: Officials refused Seyfu Jamaal’s asylum claim after he had waited more than three and a half years https://t.co/hSl30rb9fl 
• Black #US couple sue appraiser valuing home $500k less versus white friend https://t.co/1LpqGHyOXd
• Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide - Victims in US and UK legal action accuse social media firm of failing to prevent incitement of violence https://t.co/G0oSWY0qZN 
• Andrew Neil threatens to sue Jennifer Arcuri after tweet about Epstein: Businesswoman had made claims about journalist’s inclusion in a contact book owned by Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/AHgRO9uLZB 
• Government primed for new assault on judges - report | Law Gazette https://t.co/25EoAvhE8I
• The government has admitted a series of failings in the years leading up to the Grenfell Tower disaster and apologised to victims of the fire https://t.co/94get8PRh6
  
• Judicial review: New bill poses risk of government eschewing legislative process - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sNyYwvmLqK
• Jails in England and Wales will be set targets for the first time to keep out drugs under prison reform proposals. The plans in the government White Paper - proposals for future laws - include assessing every new inmate for drug addiction upon arrival https://t.co/QJqXcaJ5fw
• Negligence claim against tax silk ‘classic piece of reverse engineering’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/gE4bvUh0zw
• Police and other agencies made failures after twin sisters, who went on to take their own lives, reported sexual abuse, reviews have found - Sam and Chris Gould, from Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, died by suicide four months apart, aged 16 and 17 https://t.co/a4Jyc23uG4
• Traces of cocaine found in Parliament ahead of government announcement on drug crackdown - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OT09GLtHNs
  
• Cleared lawyer asks for SRA to cover her £534,000 defence costs | Law Gazette https://t.co/UDUqb9G7
• Man who spent first two weeks in mother and baby home to sue over redress scheme | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YvLXpDSmv
• City firms to fund social welfare lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/5YBwflT
  
• Sheriff Appeal Court refuses appeal by Glasgow woman convicted of sending offensive emails to SNP MP - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KwGECrMNn
• A British woman has testified in court that socialite Ghislaine Maxwell asked her to find "cute, young, pretty" girls for paedophile tycoon Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/IvCzRSnZwc
• Households in Wales could have their council tax bands changed as part of a proposed Welsh government shake up. Ministers are considering the first revaluation of residential properties since 2003 https://t.co/GtVndauY5Y
• Lawyer in the news: Filiz Kiani, Cohen Davis Solicitors - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/BXL1FvFAf6
• Cleared lawyer must pay £534,000 defence costs, SDT rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/arAmALXh2
• Clients committed to jail for contempt over unpaid solicitors' bills - Legal Futures https://t.co/O1tQtLE4w
• Society welcomes first global services agreement in 24 years | Law Gazette https://t.co/YbpsuBr9DZ
• Solicitor struck off after cutting out partners from running of firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/63mhoVA0u7 
• Ministerial code can be justiciable, High Court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/PeKfznuWsY
• Covid not good enough reason for solicitors missing court deadline - Legal Futures https://t.co/e22GyaVush
• Raab shows his hand on rights revision | Opinion | Law Gazette https://t.co/bCxoidPo8c 
• Law firm eyes group action against Simplify over cyber-attack - Legal Futures https://t.co/5TVjO3WEp8
• #US boss of mortgage firm Better(dot)com fires 900 employees over Zoom - Vishal Garg has been much criticised over social media following the pre-Christmas mass sacking https://t.co/bKriNSyZnc
• Foreign Office's handling of the Afghan evacuation was "dysfunctional" and "chaotic", a whistleblower has said. The process of choosing who could get a flight out was "arbitrary" and thousands of emails with pleas for help went unread https://t.co/DgOnSYa0WS

7th December - Law News

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: Six Palestinian men went on the run after tunnelling out of one of Israel’s maximum security prisons in September. It led to renewed fears of a flare-up in the region and saw Israel scramble a massive search, while many Palestinians celebrated the bid for freedom. But this is about more than just a dramatic jailbreak.

Focus of the Day Story: In R (Babbage) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 2995 (Admin), the Claimant applied for judicial review, claiming that his immigration detention from 27 February 2020 to 29 April 2021 had been unlawful and/or that there was a public law error relating to the delay in the provision of s.4 accommodation.  Full story - UK Human Rights Blog 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• How Tiffany blue and Louboutin shoes are revealing trademark law’s true colours - Legal Cheek https://t.co/TidySiuty
• [Faceless Assessment Scheme] After Madras, Kerala High Court notice to Centre in challenge to Sec144B Income Tax Act | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/0zrh7zCMRf
• The Corporate Counsel Show: Good governance in the new normal - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/19PAxPJqe
• Uber has said it may soon have to start charging its UK customers VAT at 20%, after a High Court judgement, pushing up the cost of rides https://t.co/mlh7kZPwTq
• Dismay at UK’s offshore detention plans for asylum seekers: Detainees and workers from Australia’s offshore detention camps say Britain is ignoring the failings and financial costs of that system https://t.co/x4efbn2Me
• Clydes and BLM in 'early stage' merger talks - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FpjK01oabx
• Work on a national investigation into the death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes is to begin immediately, the education secretary has said https://t.co/5LDmlEe8r5
• Parliament Watch: Extension of ED Director tenure, e-voting, ODR and more [Day 5 roundup] | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/q8HTaON3N
• Middle-class drug users could lose UK passports under Boris Johnson’s plans: Campaigners say government going backwards by targeting ‘lifestyle’ users of class A drugs with tough criminal sanctions https://t.co/mlGaOLNhHK
• Overcoming pain points with drafting - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/MBi1Lf2kbU
• Met Police constables PCs Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis who took photos of two murdered sisters and shared the images on WhatsApp groups have each been jailed for 33 months https://t.co/oaQw1bdwKQ 
• My journey from STEM grad to lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/KGmpEiuavG 
• Service Rules on prevention of sexual harassment at workplace should not be given hyper-technical interpretation: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/DmMKV1XfEm
• Clean energy, decarbonisation and the future - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/TReAGBrkbC
• A brutal mob killing of a Sri Lankan man accused of blasphemy in #Pakistan has sparked protests in both countries. Priyantha Diyawadanage, 48, a factory manager in the city of Sialkot, was beaten to death https://t.co/Lf5zGF62B3
• The senior civil servants union loses High Court challenge to Boris Johnson's decision to back Priti Patel over claims she bullied staff. Last year, the PM kept his home secretary in post despite a report accusing her of breaking the ministerial code https://t.co/kQiKpTsEV
• Football manager Joey Barton has been found not guilty of attacking a rival after a match. He had denied pushing over the then Barnsley manager Daniel Stendel in the tunnel at the Oakwell stadium after a match in April 2019 https://t.co/cmOliQvunF 
• Oxford v Cambridge moot debacle shows that even top law students make mistakes - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lftKyjjBrK
• Arbitration, exorbitant fees and the fear of Contempt | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/vYBM9IlaXk
• RACE consortium acquires Supercars Championship - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/gzzF0irDFf 
• Navy rape complainant backs civilian court trials for serious offences https://t.co/Oux8aH709p 
• Labour reshuffle: Former law textbook publisher appointed shadow justice secretary - Legal Cheek https://t.co/weQN5szN49
• Aung San Suu Kyi, the ousted leader has been sentenced by a #Myanmar court to four years jail https://t.co/QtTz6JU1ft
  
• Sai Krishna Bharathan, Vivek Bajaj to leave AZB Partners for Trilegal after two decades; two more to follow | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/txGwVx1g5D
• Federal election poll launched for legal profession - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/2xjOYKmp15 
• BCLP and Mishcon raise London NQ lawyer pay - Legal Cheek https://t.co/LdoHrzVGkw
  
• The Corporate Counsel Show: ACC chair Mike Madden on elevating the GC role - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/bZCbLkFpOX 
• Ex-barrister jailed for life for false rape, kidnap and stabbing claims against ex-lawyer lover has sentence overturned on appeal - Legal Cheek https://t.co/1ySMJBk0IH
• The killing of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes will be the subject of a national review to protect other children from such evil crimes, the government says https://t.co/klAkLEJyeA
  
• ED case against Anil Deshmukh a witch hunt to topple State government: Hrishikesh Deshmukh to Mumbai court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/wxzvzsMvx4 
• Legally Blonde 3 will follow Elle Woods juggling motherhood with legal career - Legal Cheek https://t.co/jbpGqOOJSC
  
• Several people have been injured after a military truck rammed into a crowd of protesters in #Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon https://t.co/1fULOZCNRd