25th December - Law News

Edition 3651: 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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Season's Greetings to all our readers!

 Today's Highlighted Video Story: In the wake of the rising Omicron cases, what should be India's policy on vaccinations and booster doses? Dr Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director of the Apollo Hospitals Group and Kiran Shaw, Chairperson of Biocon India Limited weigh in.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Professor Anthony Bradley QC, one of the greatest constitutional lawyers and thinkers of his generation, has passed away - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lo2FSOMSur
• Tesla, bowing to pressure, stops allowing drivers to play video games while driving https://t.co/XKYYyRfy1X
• Building contractor that settled action out of court unable to exercise right of relief against clerk of works - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GyJr40eWnU
  
• Los Angeles police have killed two people, including a 14-year-old girl trying on new outfits, after opening fire inside a clothing store. A stray bullet hit the teen as she was in a changing room with her mother #US https://t.co/gIKnaoQ8w8
• #Egypt: Human rights lawyer jailed for four years for ‘spreading false news’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9sLIqx0o3G
• Legal Aid Agency reissues accounts after spotting £26.3m error | Law Gazette https://t.co/onOXEUsCBh
• Fear of catching Covid "not a protected belief", tribunal rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/AFRs1W6Bjw
  
• Women more than twice as successful as men in applying for silk - Legal Futures https://t.co/4XQpBDZ32s
• A fourth woman has accused Sex and the City actor Chris Noth of sexual abuse and threatening to ruin her career if she spoke out about the alleged attack #US https://t.co/zJp1XTqD2d
  
• Cumbria footballer Danny Hodgson who suffered major brain injuries in Perth, #Australia after being punched will be allowed out of hospital for Christmas, his family have said https://t.co/ShCjgOIVL
• EU residency applications – when Covid met Brexit - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/u7OdFM1te
• Tougher criminal sentences contributing to the courts backlog - new bar chair | Law Gazette https://t.co/eGGHvJs8CI
  
• At least 37 people have been killed and about 100 others injured after a packed ferry caught fire in southern #Bangladesh, local officials say. Vessels have a poor safety record in the riverine country with frequent overcrowding and poor maintenance https://t.co/OhO0DMbkRB
• The myth of an overcrowded Britain suits our island psyche – and this government https://t.co/I3CTwL78bY 
• Communities to get a greater share of increases in land value under new bill | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EStitOZSGk
• Attempted murder victim’s address ‘inappropriately given’ to perpetrator | Law Gazette https://t.co/7QHRJHqz4e
• Dayjanta Samuels has been "wild and excited", says his mother Christine Borton, "counting down the days to Christmas". The family is overwhelmed by the public reaction to the story of their financial struggles, with dozens and dozens of people contacting https://t.co/dXELfG8U0e 
• Ciairín de Buis appointed CEO of Parole Board | Irish Legal News https://t.co/TJflXhSZuH
• William Fry welcomes 21 newly-qualified solicitors | Irish Legal News https://t.co/7w7Yt98WXW 
• CPS ‘misunderstood’ law on illegal entry into UK, Court of Appeal rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/7WDv1a8jBS 
• Anti-vaxxers serving ‘legal papers’ to Alan Shearer go to wrong address: Protest at property near Newcastle follows video of former England football captain urging people to get Covid booster https://t.co/D8Sf5rgzC6 
• Millar McCall Wylie to renew sponsorship of Ulster Rugby Junior Cup | Irish Legal News https://t.co/x7ZiVXycpP
  
• Employment law helpline sees spike in calls from Northern Ireland’s hospitality sector | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0e2X9J1zk2 
• Faculty opposes establishment of new regulator for legal profession - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HaBSLKhu7d
  
• Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter has been found guilty of manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a black motorist, Daunte Wright. She mistakenly drew her gun instead of a Taser and killed the 20-year old during a traffic stop #US https://t.co/9FCzR2CodO

24th December - Law News

Edition 3650: 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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Season's Greetings to all our readers!

 Today's Highlighted Video Story: Who are the SA MPs allegedly making false claims for a taxpayer-funded allowance? Mount Gambier MP Troy Bell says he'll defend his reputation after being charged with 52 deception offences

Focus of the Day Story: The year in headlines – the top stories of 2021 and the trends they reflect. A year in review characterised by record deal markets, a war for talent, geopolitical tension and all things ESG | The Global Legal Post

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Senior Advocates cannot take away lion's share of court's time: Delhi High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Y0gnaGWVCf
• Firm fails to wind up charity over allegedly unpaid fees | Law Gazette https://t.co/2YLEfYHvD3 
• Capitol riot: Proud Boy pleads guilty and agrees to cooperate with authorities #US https://t.co/Va1ERcPjz
• Brussels launches legal action over Polish rulings against EU law https://t.co/jtrTJjaPUu
• Authorisation marks significant step towards alternative legal businesses in Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NlYxpafKCj
  
• Landmark jurisdiction ruling on data protection and libel claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/I4JP5equxY
• Review of ethics legislation consultation extended | Irish Legal News https://t.co/r7cKazAKNb 
• Abramovich settles ‘Putin’s People’ libel action | Law Gazette https://t.co/4RGOiHjB5
• Fraud and sex offences up in latest crime stats | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0ehqAvvDCT 
• Five solicitors among 101 QC appointments | Law Gazette https://t.co/glvs2VS8KZ
• Removing British citizenship under the nationality and borders bill https://t.co/RUC7sSDxWD 
• Top-10 firm’s top earner receives £1.8m as profits soar | Law Gazette https://t.co/IgFsQ640sQ 
• SLCC takes on new oversight role of Law Society as approved regulator - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aQ2dMUcOU1
• Professor Suzanne Kingston appointed as CJEU judge | Irish Legal News https://t.co/nxx38iHrlO 
• A women's health ambassador will be appointed to help reduce "gender health inequality" in England. Many women said they felt they were not listened to by health professionals, and were not supported well when dealing with health conditions https://t.co/fOxfY4vRIl 
• Judges' pay to be reviewed following Covid pause | Law Gazette https://t.co/XNBl7KseTx
  
• #US congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon has had her car and possessions snatched from her at gunpoint in a daylight carjacking in the city of Philadelphia. Her government phone and ID were among belongings that the two robbers took https://t.co/B1wbI0KJjt 
• Nightclubs in Scotland are to close for three weeks from 27 December, Deputy First Minister John Swinney has said https://t.co/PDCwUERI6c
  
• Consumer panel “uncertain” over future of Legal Ombudsman - Legal Futures https://t.co/izdZx0s2MN 
• Outer House judge dismisses Maltese transport authority from bus crash reparation action - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8St3AjiduN 
• Ruler of Dubai to pay up to £554m in record London divorce settlement | Law Gazette https://t.co/VyKRUoD7cd 
• Actor Laurence Fox and three public figures who are suing each other for libel over an ‘unattractive Twitter spat’ should try and end their dispute over ‘such a pointless exchange’, a judge has urged | Law Gazette https://t.co/HFqp6qTAu4
• Newly-appointed director 'rips up' application form to support students | Law Gazette https://t.co/tfV6jvFoWS
• New crime contracts a critical 'pressure point' for defenders | Law Gazette https://t.co/hEjQxUknLN 
• What is the UK legal sector’s role in preserving our planet? | Law Gazette https://t.co/KRgiqwvk7t 
• Scotland set for non-lawyers to jointly own firms from 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/BPqjFkhIyB
• Faultless SRA given top marks after review by oversight regulator | Law Gazette https://t.co/2MWCajxd7O
  
• #French outcry over academic in Grenoble Islamophobia row - Klaus Kinzler has been locked in dispute for months over accusations of Islamophobia at Sciences Po Grenoble https://t.co/3SGZROBBcb 
• Rogel Aguilera-Mederos: Colorado lorry driver's sentence sparks uproar. His truck with braking issues killed four bystanders #US https://t.co/X3y0mJVQFg
  
• An investigation has been launched in the #US into more than half a million Tesla cars that are equipped with touchscreens. It follows a complaint filed by a user who discovered he could play games while driving https://t.co/k8zzMfY1zQ 
• Top-10 firm’s top earner receives £1.8m as profits soar | Law Gazette https://t.co/IgFsQ5Mp4g 
• Taylor Wimpey pledges to remove 'unwarranted' leasehold terms | Law Gazette https://t.co/PUuapiSdWl
• Police watchdog dismisses complaint against No 10 officers over alleged party https://t.co/TJL759GKaa 
• 'Gender Critical' ex-police officer wins appeal over force’s guidance on hate incidents - Judge rules Humberside’s actions were ‘disproportionate interference’ with right to freedom of expression https://t.co/LTuasWRaMM

23rd December - Law News

Edition 3649: 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 100,000 families in the private rental sector in England are at risk of losing their homes after falling behind on rent or being served with an eviction notice, according to a YouGov survey obtained exclusively by Channel 4 News. The research, commissioned by housing charity Shelter, lays bare the precarious situation facing many across the country as the rising cost of living pushes household budgets to breaking point.

 
Focus of the Day Story: Next year’s crime contracts are critical to the survival of the criminal defence sector, a senior legal chief has told a meeting to discuss the findings of the government-commissioned legal aid review. | The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Drop in legal aid spending highlights crisis in the sector - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mRAsatBp6w
  
• Information handbook on collective redundancies published | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VVJ1LWDskA 
• BTAS beefs up sanctions for sexual misconduct further still - Legal Futures https://t.co/CpycqjHOQ5
• Data watchdog consults on its regulation style | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZTJoolMGKt 
• ‘Foreign criminals’ are just an excuse: the Tories are trying to take away rights from all of us https://t.co/27tELNFtH7
  
• Convictions quashed for men who drove dinghies across Channel https://t.co/2xcgm5CkIp
  
• #HongKong memorial to Tiananmen victims may be imminently removed: Hong Kong University ordered the removal of the statue Pillar of Shame from its campus in October https://t.co/YkOuLeSwNy
• Hotel Rwanda hero to terrorist ‘show trial’: Paul Rusesabagina’s daughters on the fight for his freedom https://t.co/znxnMLB8M1
  
• Former MoJ chief gets £250,000 ‘exit package’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/tdLXLToQ3z
• Green cards, cannabis and a strip club: JCB heir in US legal battle: Civil case puts business dealings of Jo Bamford under spotlight as well as alleged family tensions https://t.co/SHYqAp49Z5
• Senior CPS barrister was victim of disability discrimination - Legal Futures https://t.co/3JjLIHqWCw
• A man has been jailed for causing the death of his daughter who he threw into a cot more than 20 years ago. Maisie Newell was four weeks old when she suffered head injuries as a result of being thrown, in Edgware, London, in August 2000 https://t.co/oCZvUnlC6F
• Galvin Donegan LLP formed from merger of three historic Cork firms | Irish Legal News https://t.co/AyGgO4wuFU
• Supreme Court rejects barrister’s contempt of Supreme Court appeal - Legal Futures https://t.co/md24W5oPqk
• Practitioners reminded to wear face masks in court | Law Gazette https://t.co/OwpER1awYP 
• Seven in ten legal sector workers suffer from poor mental health - Legal Futures https://t.co/7wMBbmlozA
  
• City firm faces retrial of successful fees claim over pleadings failure - Legal Futures https://t.co/41NEEH0Gek
• Jacob Rees-Mogg cleared of breaking MP rules over loans - Between 2018 and 2020, Mr Rees-Mogg borrowed up to £2.94m a year in director's loans from Saliston Ltd, a UK-based property company he owned https://t.co/gPyXaa4QQk 
• Northern Ireland's nightclubs will have to close on 27 December as fresh restrictions are imposed to tackle the Omicron Covid variant https://t.co/HDRejun8cV 
• CPS admits discriminating against barrister but cleared of harassment | Law Gazette https://t.co/xaUaEtN48w
  
• Groups of no more than six people will be allowed to meet in pubs, cinemas and restaurants in Wales from 26 December, the first minister has said https://t.co/5vXJTLXjzc
  
• Direct access business goes bust "leaving clients out out pocket" - Legal Futures https://t.co/TTCgtA5G6w
  
• Man accused of Chris Whitty assault contests charges in dressing gown - Jonathan Chew, charged with putting chief medical officer in headlock, defended himself by video link after lawyer withdrew in embarrassment https://t.co/483CwfJrpe
• Judges who 'sit up' in higher courts win claim for extra pay - Legal Futures https://t.co/njIxvFBt9j 
• Asylum seekers in PM’s constituency claim accommodation ‘not fit to live in’ - Residents begged Boris Johnson for help after no improvements made to rundown flats in Uxbridge and South Ruislip https://t.co/GiQnaWQ4fO
  
• Not a way to regulate lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZDiRLfL46H
  
• Calls for femicide to become separate crime in Greece mount as two more women killed #Greece https://t.co/vXeZqcWXDY
• Proposals to reform Northern Ireland policing oversight bodies out for consultation | Irish Legal News https://t.co/iivdtT12vV
  
• EU working to amend genocide denial law that is blamed for Bosnia crisis: Officials privately accept legislation to counter Serb efforts to deny scope of 1995 Srebrenica massacre risks reigniting regional conflict https://t.co/O2NKgBxCx5
  
• Covid self-isolation cut to seven days with negative test in England https://t.co/YwCSvYeJf4 
• Law Society cautions against change which risks higher legal bills for consumers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BDdiwxmT64 
• A web page and a Facebook post by Arsenal football club promoting crypto-based fan tokens broke advertising rules, a watchdog has ruled. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) argued the club had "failed to illustrate the risk of the investment" https://t.co/uEml5hHZru 
• Absolute failure: direct access bar service goes under | Law Gazette https://t.co/JXYsaWMKTV 
• Campaigners lose court action over lawfulness of UK climate policies https://t.co/e1wlKJdsXw 
• Canadian judge rules unvaccinated jurors can be excluded from criminal trial - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/P449rWIEtK 
• Barrister who sued after colleague asked him to stop farting loses case - Lawyer said flatulence was caused by heart medication and argued the request violated his dignity https://t.co/GvwPwuqGbn

22nd December - Law News

Edition 3648: 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: Japan has executed three prisoners on death row for the first time in two years. The government said it was necessary to maintain capital punishment in the face of continued "atrocious crimes" - the inmates are usually hanged long after sentencing. More than 100 people are currently on death row in the country, most of them being cases of mass murder.

 
Focus of the Day Story: Plans to deliver a new deal for tenants, with stronger rights, greater protections against eviction and access to more affordable housing have been launched. | Scottish Legal News

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Law Society of Northern Ireland optimistic ahead of 2022 centenary celebrations | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dwMvZVhz3a
• Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear SC appeals, SC rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/jBBBo6sZFo 
• Mills Selig promotes Darren Marley to partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/USiPIQIqGy
• LiP’s recusal application against former solicitor dismissed | Law Gazette https://t.co/hmA0aZWrHV
• Police Federation chair John Apter suspended over inappropriate touching claims https://t.co/Xwf4fsdmge
• JMK Solicitors helps to raise over £55,000 for Cancer Fund for Children | Irish Legal News https://t.co/6gXBD5QK44
• Police searching for a student have released CCTV images taken on the night he went missing as they renew their appeal for information. Harvey Parker, 20, from Lambeth, south London, was last seen leaving Heaven nightclub, close to Charing Cross station https://t.co/IGYrOIMbgw
• Microsoft offers 3% bonus to panel firms hitting diversity targets | Law Gazette https://t.co/XhSkQ9I6G9
• Information Commissioner's Office challenged over Whitehall JR submissions | Law Gazette https://t.co/MhCvS3zaM9 
• Court stops Irwin Mitchell claiming £95k costs ‘shortfall’ from client | Law Gazette https://t.co/TCjcPGIdOU
• The rule of law, ABSs and the consultation on regulation of the legal profession - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4vC6Ij2Kkp 
• Transgenders should no longer have to live in their chosen gender for two years before getting legal recognition, MPs have said. The Women and Equalities Committee said the requirement risked "entrenching outdated and unacceptable gender stereotypes" https://t.co/7S1Rx2NbBG 
• A former police officer who spent 17 years in prison for the 2003 killing of his pregnant partner has had his case thrown out during a retrial - Gary Walker, now 57, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 https://t.co/pPE3wlU9lk
• Edinburgh's Hogmanay street party has been cancelled and football matches will be effectively spectator-free as part of tough new Covid rules in Scotland https://t.co/nWXOCvNyl4 
• Creditors out of pocket after firm owing £1.3m sold in pre-pack deal | Law Gazette https://t.co/fJ5hCIyzTM 
• Guaidó closer to £1.3bn in #Venezuelan gold after UK court ruling - Lawyers for disputed president, Nicolás Maduro, criticise overturning of appeal court decision https://t.co/o8cK6CAMBh 
• Doctors up in arms over 'pre-conception negligence' ruling - Legal Futures https://t.co/yhAPmBvXKZ
  
• The UK's High Court on Tuesday awarded a lump sum settlement of £251.5m to Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussain - the sixth wife of the ruler of Dubai https://t.co/kuo2B294VS 
• Malicious prosecution scandal: Cost to public purse reaches almost £40m - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aE0SWB2zCE
• Ex-Dechert partner used ‘self-destructing messaging’, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/oS56ETL1GY
• Former shareholders in Perth car dealership lose appeal against enforceability of expert determination in share price dispute - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZETBGwuai9 
• Microsoft offers financial bonus to firms that meet its diversity targets - Legal Futures https://t.co/Hk3VjVh2YU
  
• Court of Appeal rules police ‘hate incidents’ guidance unlawful | Law Gazette https://t.co/8qTIqLPara 
• County lines: How the state is failing our young | Law Gazette https://t.co/sZlD8AaWvJ 
• "Eminently reckless" solicitor had misplaced belief in lawyer fraudster - Legal Futures https://t.co/SSrnN0Du4J 
• Omicron: Would tougher measures really be worth it? https://t.co/4rDvwVakmp
  
• Ghislaine Maxwell trial jurors begin deliberations #US https://t.co/WrIKFNFhnv 
• London's New Year's Eve celebration event in Trafalgar Square will not go ahead because of the surge in Omicron Covid variant cases in the capital https://t.co/tBmywSVz4H 
• Scottish Power debt enforcers have been caught on camera illegally breaking into a woman's flat seeking payment for debts she did not owe https://t.co/UCrgB6M5tf
• ‘Safety should be the priority’ - Society warns on Covid case rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/Hvh0WwiAEG 
• Asking the right questions of ATE insurance providers - Legal Futures https://t.co/v4OFA2pnOj 
• Trans-institutionalisation in Ireland: New and Emerging Congregated Settings for People with Disabilities | Health and Human Rights Journal https://t.co/GOM23w93rx

21st December - Law News

Edition 3647: 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: Options for post six-year insurance cover and the Solicitors Indemnity Fund

 
Focus of the Day Story: In this week’s episode of Law Pod UK Rosalind English reports from the UK Bar Council’s 19th Annual Law Reform Lecture, exploring the role of law reform in the context of climate change. You will hear excerpts from the speeches given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the UN and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, and Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill, a former UK Supreme Court judge | UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A man who killed one of the UK's richest men and paralysed his own mother in a "ferocious" knife attack has been given a life sentence. Thomas Schreiber fatally stabbed 83-year-old Sir Richard Sutton at his home near Gillingham https://t.co/j9Q4JDgJxy
• Fake Covid passes advertised for sale online https://t.co/JyCPb55Byx 
• The Corporate Counsel Show: Why barristers make great in-house lawyers - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/MX1iJPE0H6
• Teacher sacked after horse kick video shared - Mowbray Education Trust has said Sarah Moulds had been sacked https://t.co/2yMkKhLOQx
• A council has been accused of "dumping" vulnerable people in homeless accommodation in neighbouring towns. Hundreds of homeless people in Brighton have been sent to emergency housing outside the city https://t.co/0syFTZ7AlD
• [Omicron variant] Senior Advocate Rajiv Nayar requests Delhi High Court to revert to virtual functioning | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/UVarkvS0uq
  
• EDITORIAL Ecological Justice and the Right to Health: An Introduction | Health and Human Rights Journal https://t.co/xhWBYGK2g
• TikToking Morrison & Foerster lawyer goes viral with response to 'unhinged' law student demanding free careers advice - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ophOYAo71
• [Rohini court blast] DRDO scientist arrested by Delhi Police | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/J70Vk68P4a 
• PERSPECTIVE Beyond Anthropocentrism: Health Rights and Ecological Justice | Health and Human Rights Journal https://t.co/7n5AWtaco
• The Boutique Lawyer Show: The benefits of a ‘partners on commission’ model - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/E3mONBO9HP
• NDIA spending on law firms to fight participants over cuts to payments #Australia https://t.co/H5xOjQhMBO
• East Anglia Uni student uses contract law revision notes to defeat landlord in court - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tkYciG45v2
• An ex-police officer has won a legal challenge against a national policy for forces to record gender-critical views as non-crime "hate incidents". Police visited Harry Miller in January 2020 after a complaint over alleged transphobic tweets he made https://t.co/FuCKDRxLNK 
• How flexible lawyers could help plug the gap of skills shortages in the construction industry - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/BDiZES0IZl 
• Madhya Pradesh lawyers to go on strike in protest against lower judiciary work environment | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/i2UFkCl386
• The Legal Cheek 2021 Xmas Gift Guide - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qNIfRjSBu5
• PERSPECTIVE Emerging from COVID-19: A New, Rights-Based Relationship with the Nonhuman World? | Health and Human Rights Journal https://t.co/jPaGSeVatV
• 4 new appointments to Victoria’s Magistrates Court - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/rKonp1y41I
  
• Shifting the Moral Burden: Expanding Moral Status and Moral Agency | Health and Human Rights Journal https://t.co/s5IocI4YqY
• UK changes tack over Northern Ireland protocol with push for ‘interim’ deal https://t.co/MYGhgGPBUY 
• Labour urged to vote down ‘draconian’ changes to crime bill - Call for opposition to counter ministers’ ‘cynical attempt to bypass parliamentary scrutiny’ https://t.co/Nz3b2I3uVh

20th December - Law News

Edition 3646: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: Thousands of protesters marched through Brussels against recent COVID restrictions. A strong police presence was deployed on the streets and 13 arrests were made.

Focus of the Day Story: The number of solicitors working in-house has risen ‘significantly’ in the past decade, amid a UK-wide boost in legal services output | New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• UK-Israel deal reflects Britain’s ambitions in the Middle East - in an effort to increase its post-Brexit geopolitical clout, London is strengthening its relations with states accused of gross human abuses https://t.co/Bez9VcVhbI 
• Christmas curbs could be brought in within days, says Sajid Javid: Health secretary expected to announce whether social mixing will be curtailed over festive period https://t.co/fKfQkSzr9
• Supreme Court has consistently not agreed to establishing its Benches outside Delhi: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Zlxg6E3S9A
  
• Met Police officer has been charged with sexual communication with a child. PC Will Scott-Barrett, who is based in intelligence command, was charged in November following an investigation by the force's online child sexual abuse and exploitation unit https://t.co/jbMv60uq2
• Lessons for lawyers from the 2021 property market - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/1q2ObuVt7X
• Criminal lawyers make 'boring' dinner party guests, says judge - Legal Cheek https://t.co/1qzoXIWCF
• Secret Justice Review: The Special Advocates respond to the Government’s submission - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/sa5KsSciZ1
• UK fishing licences for bottom-trawling could be unlawful, says Oceana https://t.co/FvNAQZBJhw
• Sister of Sameer Wankhede files defamation complaint against Nawab Malik in Mumbai Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/fzJTiQRcxz
• Bristol man who rioted at ‘kill the bill’ protest jailed for 14 years https://t.co/yUMynurJK5
• Online law school launches £7k LLM with SQE prep - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aUUlOdF8h2
• Direct access to barristers 'could improve justice outcomes' for ethnic minorities | Law Gazette https://t.co/zXYx3SMKAp
• Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has been kicked out of a Conservative WhatsApp group after urging ungrateful MPs to show the prime minister "a bit of loyalty" https://t.co/t9jUnIMN2F
  
• Akin Gump announces big bonuses for London lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/EduFUIjdZ5 
• Plea claims case decided in 2013 listed for "fresh hearing" in 2018: Supreme Court orders enquiry by Madras High Court CJ | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/mvp9M3V5P
• USA successfully appeals Assange case - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/yr5nh0ua28
• Is lawyer fashion evolving? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/dxR1yg8L8T 
• BPP to offer free SQE and bar ‘bridge courses’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FJku1fdVYH 
• Police in the #Indian city of Amritsar say a man suspected of trying to commit a sacrilegious act at Sikh holy shrine has been beaten to death by worshippers and guards https://t.co/U9IFDsPQkX 
• Former Supreme Court judge Justice GT Nanavati passes away | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/NYfIdHNc7i
• Tackling climate change: human rights campaigners or shareholders? Law Pod UK latest - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/aPJf8VemH6
• High Court judge left unimpressed after barristers spoke too quickly - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PEDpw40aaD 
• Ghislaine Maxwell trial: attorneys and judge hash out jury instructions https://t.co/hOlKptLsgv 
• Victoria opens 5th Specialist Family Violence Court - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/QXcaYZ6gvR
• Slaughter and May joins magic circle rivals in upping NQ pay to £107.5k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2CfNxtf4M
• [Bhima Koregaon] Kin of Stan Swamy moves Bombay High Court to clear "guilt" attached to Swamy’s name, restore reputation https://t.co/f86lZ2wx8Y
• Millions of daffodils ‘will rot’ if Brexit denies UK farmers foreign workers https://t.co/goipAo3g6h
• #French ski season in disarray as UK tourists banned https://t.co/uLSsL8zChY
• The High Court has dismissed solicitor Soophia Khan’s application to adjourn a committal hearing in relation to two contempt applications brought by the Solicitors Regulation Authority | Law Gazette https://t.co/waOEJL3wvF 
• Police suffer minor injuries in London scuffles with anti-vax protesters https://t.co/ei2fFXPrit

19th December - Law News

Edition 3645: 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 US, Latino and Black voters say they are losing their right to vote. Non-white voters in Texas are complaining of being frozen out after Republican politicians campaigned to have electoral maps redrawn following President Donald Trump's election loss. The Department of Justice claims Republican lawmakers are deliberately discriminating against a growing non-white population. And it's not just Texas - around the US, fights are brewing about voting-district gerrymandering.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• [Kolkata Municipal Elections] BJP moves Supreme Court against Calcutta High Court order declining central paramilitary force | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/pR25Oai9rS
• Limerick solicitors donate €2,500 to Afghanistan appeal fund | Irish Legal News https://t.co/wmcPfA6aDn
• Law Commission to tackle 'rape myths' | Law Gazette https://t.co/g9zZbSnXjk 
• Sustainability for small businesses - Legal Futures https://t.co/Yqe9BjEnDG
• Disbarred barrister loses bid to practise pending appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/NLZ1MTWMwV
• Figen Murray, mother of one of the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing has graduated from university with a Master's degree in counter-terrorism https://t.co/6nTeFijTzM
• The #Netherlands has announced a strict lockdown over Christmas amid concerns over the Omicron coronavirus variant https://t.co/JtUPmCMHl3
• An ex-bank worker who has the financial details of 1,600 customers hidden under her bed said her efforts to return them have "taken over her life" https://t.co/PPSO3l8WQc
• Bar Council hits out at BSB over bid for big budget increase - Legal Futures https://t.co/8LdYs1UlAZ
  
• Firm and owner fined for failing to complete undertakings | Law Gazette https://t.co/6uNLDjqKtj 
• Life prisoners in separate institutions lose challenge against prohibition of inter-prison phone calls - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/11b7lMMRfF
• Investors back conveyancing network and managed account provider - Legal Futures https://t.co/h9Hoo7SL8
• An #Indian student from the northern city of Agra has spent nearly two months in jail for supporting Pakistan. Lawyers are refusing to represent him for fear of reprisal https://t.co/E8XQ6bIEcC
• A round-up of human rights stories from around the world | Irish Legal News https://t.co/3ddU4aM3D
• NHS could face surge in hospitalisations despite booster, scientists warn: Drop in protection against Omicron variant may lead to ‘a large number of people’ needing treatment https://t.co/tLQ35q1CCD 
• Public like 'class actions' but think lawyers are biggest winners - poll | Law Gazette https://t.co/T2nQJP0Z
• Digital law firm makes first international move with Australian acquisition - Legal Futures https://t.co/mbWMr1an5
• Law Society welcomes Australia trade deal | Law Gazette https://t.co/1FfnzRhE6
• Judicial review to argue Northern Ireland’s Covid passports are unlawful | Irish Legal News https://t.co/OXGPrJpsM
• Eric Clapton wins legal case against woman selling bootleg live CD for £8.45 - Rock star wins case against German woman who says her late husband bought the disc at a popular department store in the 80s https://t.co/y0TozNaN8S 
• A former Minnesota police officer has tearfully recounted the "chaotic" moment she shot and killed a black motorist in April. Kim Potter, 49, claims she mistakenly drew her gun instead of her Taser and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright https://t.co/5ZK5r0epTe
• #US federal appeals court reinstates Covid vaccine mandate for large US based businesses https://t.co/5lUeNKRPBE 
• SRA demands summary strike-off for Khan | Law Gazette https://t.co/gHUh2xVkW
• Rod Stewart and his son plead guilty to battery in 2019 Florida altercation case: The singer entered the plea to ‘avoid the inconvenience’ of a high profile court trial. Neither will do jail time or pay any fines https://t.co/euMQX80yhf
• The Irish cabinet has agreed that hospitality venues, cinemas and theatres should have a closing time of 20:00 from Sunday to curb the spread of Covid-19 https://t.co/h40HTp7p2
• Solicitor judge rejects recusal call based on professional ties - Legal Futures https://t.co/ULCJ8uviRx 
• Reform of heritable securities focus of new law commission paper - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/TPmKY9Gzne 
• New court guidance in light of Omicron - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qCDCyX9IfS
• Met PC sacked for racial slur uncovered during murder photos probe https://t.co/1NhrxwNJ0n 
• Listed funder’s shares slide after director sacked | Law Gazette https://t.co/VwDyjj5nyy 
• Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Maxwell won't testify as defence rests case https://t.co/M56eA3Vp8n

18th December - Law News

Edition 3644: 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: A comment in very poor taste by a senior Congress MLA in the Karnataka assembly has been facing a backlash leading to his apology and criticism by his own party leaders. Former Speaker K. R. Ramesh Kumar, in the context of MLAs not listening to the Speaker, said that "if rape was inevitable, one should lie back and enjoy it." The remark was greeted with laughter by the Speaker and others but the crass comment has left many far from amused.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Sector facing mental health crisis, union warns | Law Gazette https://t.co/pJQjgj4hHg
• Windrush: high court rules claimants’ human rights breached by Home Office https://t.co/F77c3IxVai
• UK's top civil servant Simon Case has stepped aside from his role leading an inquiry into Downing Street lockdown parties, after it emerged an event was held in his own office https://t.co/4hUUzvMEyv
• Fraudster jailed for posing as solicitor to steal £237,000 | Law Gazette https://t.co/i9Zz7I6yOB
• UKSC: Northern Ireland – decision to end investigation into Hooded Men torture unlawful - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LeV3COqdVt
• Gender-neutral passports appeal dismissed in key ruling on ECHR | Law Gazette https://t.co/oCXqZRJyvQ
• Prisoners’ charity receives festive boost from prison and probation services | Irish Legal News https://t.co/meShmi7Ho
• SRA says solicitors embracing change as 400 go freelance | Law Gazette https://t.co/nlEykkEdPC 
• Tories consult on ‘Victims Law’ and seek to abolish ‘not proven’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NjDMNw772A 
• Conveyancing nightmare continues weeks after 'security incident' | Law Gazette https://t.co/OkbnOR4CZE 
• Thomas Schreiber found guilty of murdering Sir Richard Sutton: aspiring artist also found guilty of attempting to murder mother while being locked down with couple in Dorset https://t.co/X2jiO4bxdE
• Rights watchdogs call for action to secure access to kosher food in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Zdkw6KOC0D 
• £135m more needed each year to save criminal legal aid | Law Gazette https://t.co/QS6YF9Zjf0 
• The Guardian view on human rights: not foreign to British instincts https://t.co/HmDxDj2KHT 
• 'Tricky conversation with my employer': network reveals magistrates' challenges | Law Gazette https://t.co/zeGsvsmLVH
• #India lawmaker from the Karnataka state sorry for 'lie down and enjoy rape' remark https://t.co/4b1PEMB43j
• A 27-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect after two sets of young twins were killed in a house fire in south London. The children, all boys aged three and four, were given immediate CPR by firefighters called https://t.co/IkPZ3iWUDP
• Banking giant HSBC has been fined £63.9m by the UK's financial regulator for "unacceptable failings" of its anti-money laundering systems. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said weaknesses in HSBC's financial crime safeguards had been highlighted https://t.co/IBkaT3fjBJ 
• Police investigating the fatal shooting on the set of the Alec Baldwin film Rust have obtained a search warrant for the actor's phone. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died and director Joel Souza was injured in October #US https://t.co/VdbfeLtKf1
  
• How billionaires pay less tax than you https://t.co/137fNz0ZCY
• Workplace Relations Commission launches strategy statement for 2022-24 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dZnCoAheEQ 
• ‘Obsession’: LiP ordered to end decade of negligence claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/aBVyl3qkq
• Tenant of vacated commercial premises has averments of implied lease terms excluded in payment action - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nyDv7lpsAw 
• Victim's testimony that accused "hugged and impregnated me" without indication of penetration not enough to prove rape: Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/23RyROLK1V 
• Outgoing bar chair appointed to bench | Law Gazette https://t.co/MG8vsVrWRr 
• Sports and Law – The F1 Abu Dhabi Controversy | Law Gazette https://t.co/yNT402KqmD
  
• Facebook bans seven ‘cyber mercenary’ companies from its platforms https://t.co/fL6NEEy0sl 
• Can the SRA be trusted with extra powers? | Law Gazette https://t.co/p8BAwJ2f4y
  
• Capitol attack panel subpoenas author of PowerPoint plan for coup: Trump operative who outlined ‘Options for 6 Jan’ met with the president’s chief of staff repeatedly before the Capitol riot #US https://t.co/TPg9K056oa
  
• Disposal times more important than backlog, bar tells MPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/6FhFOJdWng

17th December - Law News

Edition 3643: 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: A  look at the new text messages from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that show some Fox News hosts asking former President Donald Trump to take action to stop the January 6 insurrection.

Focus of the Day Story: Three years after the government announced plans to embark on a wider review of criminal legal aid payments, the findings of the judge-led investigation are expected to be published today. However, practitioners will reportedly have to wait until the new year to see how the government responds. Full story - The Law Society Gazette 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Legislative change to pave way for more tree-planting | Irish Legal News https://t.co/oQgst7HefR 
• Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland) LLP announces appointments - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fMSDjVQECZ 
• Nightclubs will close in Wales after Boxing Day in response to the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The Welsh government said it will also impose restrictions on businesses, including social distancing in offices, from 27 December https://t.co/SNTU35qj6x 
• Lady Poole appointed chair of Covid inquiry - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/PHYuifhStL 
• European justice ministers adopt ‘Venice Declaration’ on restorative justice | Irish Legal News https://t.co/c916JhK89l
  
• Start-up enables general counsel to compare law firms on ESG - Legal Futures https://t.co/wgkovTyhwz
• Scottish human rights groups reject plans to replace HRA - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zatRzho073
  
• Solicitor who backdated tribunal application "to avoid criticism" struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/hoI5FIxDD7
• A tale of two Londons | Law Gazette https://t.co/GNpuTAIVvy 
• Review calls for £135m cash injection to save criminal defence sector - Legal Futures https://t.co/Rmc8kbuogZ 
• Like Shamima Begum, I could soon be stripped of British citizenship without notice | Naga Kandiah https://t.co/gCNw1MgirY 
• Personal injury sheriff orders Lanarkshire man to pay over £50,000 to driver of car hit by trailer on bend - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JGUoC7LZIP 
• Surge in number of freelancers as solicitors reach for the STaRs - Legal Futures https://t.co/6pTX5y1W1U 
• Rape survivors arriving in UK on small boats neglected by authorities – report https://t.co/f5F6HfdgJH
• Is wife living in husband's house entitled to maintenance? Delhi High Court issues notice in plea | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/sggMpqkZyQ
• Solicitor ‘cynically misled’ clients over missing £180,000 | Law Gazette https://t.co/KJWcxylNX7 
• PDR to cut red tape and help rural communities - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bDAvInie6K 
• Koci Selamaj has accepted responsibility for the killing of primary school teacher Sabina Nessa, but pleaded not guilty to her murder. Ms Nessa, 28, was found dead in Cator Park, Kidbrooke in south-east London on 18 September https://t.co/XJtOERDUpb
• #US releases 1,500 documents about JFK assassination inquiry https://t.co/gXN3wrWJRv
• Arson attack and cannabis farm discovery in empty court | Law Gazette https://t.co/fBm5UryeOl 
• Children of inter-faith couple are entitled to be maintained by their father: Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/WicEK4cSwV
• Pharmacies in Wales will become the "first port of call" for many patients to ease strain on GPs under new plans. From April 2022, services such as advice, flu jabs and emergency contraception will be available https://t.co/tCQlJMsln5
  
• Lawyers for the “Hooded Men” say they have been vindicated by a UK Supreme Court ruling that the PSNI’s decision not to investigate their allegations of torture by the British Army in 1971 was unlawful | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QWIsIcnWf3
• People worst affected by the post-Grenfell fire safety crisis may be able to sell their flats to the Welsh government. Housing Minister Julie James has announced a "buy-out" scheme, which will be launched next year https://t.co/ARjnYUZ7H
• People with nowhere to sleep, poor medical care, and a lack of rape support are all failings at Kent's migrant facilities, say two reports. A 16-year-old girl was left with potentially permanent scars after burns went untreated for two days https://t.co/NwkGE0Bub
• Why are vaccine passports so controversial in the UK? https://t.co/ln0JbKdeBI 
• Groundbreaking Black feminist writer bell hooks dies at 69 https://t.co/fY5fXCFnKD 
• Human rights should not be diminished under proposals for reform - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GWBrSVegyZ
• #France to tighten Covid restrictions on travel from Omicron-hit UK - Government spokesperson says tourism trips will be limited and quarantine enforced for returnees https://t.co/dYzZ5eY9FY 
• Beijing criticises UK for creating ‘second-class citizens’ with Hong Kong visa scheme https://t.co/GfiORuqLAw
• #US judge Michelle Odinet is to take leave of absence after video recorded at her home captured a racial slur directed at a burglar, local media report https://t.co/npZ2e8OTIO 
• A right-wing #Dutch MP has been ordered to delete social media posts comparing Covid restrictions to the Holocaust. Thierry Baudet, leader of the Forum for Democracy party, had said on Twitter that unvaccinated people were "the new Jews" https://t.co/oei28ohwOt 
• The prime minister and England's chief medical officer have urged the public to be cautious if they socialise before Christmas, amid record UK Covid cases https://t.co/u42GeZ9gYv
  
• Post Office victims say settlement agreement 'obtained under duress' | Law Gazette https://t.co/aRlphs4vfF
• PSNI decision to end ‘hooded men’ inquiry was unlawful, says court - Supreme court ruling on police inquiry into men interrogated by British army during Troubles described as ‘landmark victory’ https://t.co/ovG9ABADon
• On the very day that the European Commission Stakeholder meeting on the Recognition of Parenthood took place, the CJEU determined the ‘baby Sarah’, Stolichna obshtina, rayon ‘Pancharevo’ case - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HGHClgRvT
• Skye farmer who destroyed ancient cairn for topsoil fined £18,000 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VxoAgKqCPT
• Practitioners await criminal legal aid review findings | Law Gazette https://t.co/RMQOhUp9ZF 
• Arthur Cox names six new partners | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Ub09vGrnnl 
• Four-fifths of firms enjoyed a Covid uplift | Law Gazette https://t.co/QFpSYJHleX
• Body protecting EU citizens in UK takes Home Office to court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/n81bmGD6n3