7th February - Law News

Edition 3695: 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: Protesters in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and in over 20 other cities in Brazil, took to the streets demanding justice for Moise Kabagambe, a Congolese immigrant who was beaten to death, reportedly after asking for pay for two days he'd worked for.

 

Focus of the Day Article: Evolving societal expectations of business and post-pandemic employee requirements are among four emerging risk trends for legal and compliance over the next two years. Full story - New Law Journal 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Gauhati High Court upholds Assam Repealing Act that converted State funded Madrassas to Govt schools | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Bz3VjN2NA
• Improving victims’ experiences of the justice system: CPS responds to Ministry of Justice Victims’ Bill consultation | The Crown Prosecution Service https://t.co/sbycRqcOtJ 
• The law firms with the best offices 2022 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8hVNFXha9Y
• Amir Locke’s parents vow to get justice for their son killed by police executing no-knock warrant #US https://t.co/0FyCsaJJQ3
• Is “Perception-Based Recording” for hate crime compatible with freedom of speech? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/4MV8APsK5
• Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) candidates attempting to book sittings for the next stage of the assessment (SQE2) had to queue for hours for a limited number of slots when bookings opened this week - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7zyin3hnqt
• The Weekly Round-Up: Partygate, trans rights and terrorist flags - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/vlgP2LuoE
• The Corporate Counsel Show: ‘A global trading desk’ of legal services - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/TzD69FAlM
• Des O' Connor's daughter Kristina is taking legal action after a senior Met officer called her 'amazingly hot' when she reported a crime, the officer kept his job and became a top aide to Cressida Dick https://t.co/hHBeidynY5
• Trainee solicitor reveals it took her 17 years to secure a training contract - Legal Cheek https://t.co/niGPqssHmm
• The man serving life for the murder of schoolgirl Millie Dowler has confessed to killing mother and daughter Lin and Megan Russell, a lawyer has said https://t.co/78aEdYWcFy 
• Gujarat High Court closes contempt case against lawyer who alleged court was biased against a religion | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/NKq0VLU9EI
• Supreme Court dismisses protestors’ appeal over PKK flag conviction - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/uWv6Ekr7oQ
  
• ‘I’ve accepted a TC with a firm which doesn’t cover the area I want to practise’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/DAHd3Cuhle
• ‘Mind-blowing tragedy’: deaths of Indian family at US-Canada border put visa sales under scrutiny - #Indians embark on often treacherous journeys to North America through agents who are now the focus of anti-human trafficking officers https://t.co/SXt1QTb0VW
• Judiciary must accept ‘burdensome personal restrictions’ #Ireland https://t.co/WaA1tweMO2
• Removing toxicity from a lawyer’s life - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/lwAgNTMHBZ
• How I passed the first SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/MuzQTnMpJ F
• #US President Biden’s Supreme Court pledge highlights the stain of race and gender bias on America’s judiciary https://t.co/zDj9pIrn5G
  
• The Duke of York will give evidence under oath next month as part of the ongoing civil sexual assault case against him. Virginia Giuffre is suing Prince Andrew in the US, and the prince - the Queen's third child - has repeatedly denied the allegations https://t.co/dgHyhJKnsu
  
• Insidiously intercepting a trader en-route to the market, buying up his goods, then inflating the price, was once considered to be the most heinous crimes known to law. “Forestalling” became the beginnings of antitrust or competition law - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Wk5NtwhFZg
  
• Middlesbrough fan arrested after leaving child to celebrate FA Cup win - 11-year-old boy left in Trafford hotel room while man went drinking after victory against Manchester United https://t.co/lAvQUadcis
  
• Bird & Bird ups NQ lawyer pay by £17k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RIWHwTn1ai
• Gave up US citizenship because I felt Indian, wanted to work in #India: Sudha Bharadwaj | Bar & Bench https://t.co/SxGwY3A2mJ
• #Israel's Mossad suspected of high-level Iran killing - In November 2020, a convoy carrying Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's most prominent nuclear scientist, came under fire. He was killed with an artificial intelligence-assisted remote control machine gun https://t.co/5u4Uuyczyn
• There has been a significant rise in the bail matters before the higher judiciary for the past few decades in #India https://t.co/UF8GgoXV5b 
• Northampton judge sends police armed with lateral flow test to man suspected of faking positive Covid result https://t.co/aDWs4mWv68
• BBC barrister is disbarred after forging a judge's signature to dupe 'dirty dossier' author https://t.co/K7urbhgI62

6th February - Law News

Edition 3694: 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: Hong Kong's leaders are under increasing pressure to change their no-tolerance approach to the coronavirus pandemic, as Omicron cases reach record levels. Economists warn that failing to relax restrictions could jeopardise the territory's status as a financial hub.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• ‘We want the truth’: families of ethnic Pamiris killed in #Tajikistan call for justice as tensions rise https://t.co/3ZfanmikVV
• Google fails to get claimant's ATE premium disclosed | Law Gazette https://t.co/YRC62QpY2J 
• #Ireland's Judges have approved judicial conduct and ethics guidelines to be enforced by the Judicial Council | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ZXernt8Fjz
• More clients are challenging their solicitors’ bills, research from the Association of Costs Lawyers (ACL) has found | NLJ https://t.co/oXS8b7e3xk
• SRA closes investigation into former Freshfields partner | Law Gazette https://t.co/6uOT5nGBKo 
• High Court: Photocopy of will not admitted to probate after original will went missing | Irish Legal News https://t.co/so0tIOtrHM
• A round-up of human rights stories from around the world | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/pUycgfhEz1
• Postcard from abroad: Anthony Oldfield, Clifford Chance | Law Gazette https://t.co/YVEXS2qWvU
• Clinical negligence claimants seeking damages of £25,000 or less would only be able to recover limited costs, under government proposals | NLJ https://t.co/rtI8ZhIxQc
• Kerala High Court moots setting up toll-free helpline for reporting sexual assault, domestic violence | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/z5GUl5geN5
• IOC defends use of Uyghur athlete in Winter Olympics' opening ceremony. #China continues to deny allegations of genocide and establishing forced labour camps to persecute Uyghur people https://t.co/kKKL5ha06z
  
• Mirror publisher makes £2m interim payment in ‘phone hacking’ litigation | Law Gazette https://t.co/jTbFoHQ3hT 
• US podcast host and MMA commentator Joe Rogan has issued an apology over his past use of racist language on his popular show. A widely-shared compilation video showed him repeatedly using the N-word in early episodes of his show https://t.co/UKhHCtp4E8 
• Evolving societal expectations of business and post-pandemic employee requirements are among four emerging risk trends for legal and compliance over the next two years | NLJ https://t.co/Wa2R6e5sU
• Sending "genuinely threatening" or "knowingly false" messages are among new criminal offences being added to proposed online safety laws. If passed, it could see social networks fined 10% of their global turnover if they fail to remove content https://t.co/hTUzZXXrRk
• The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has recommended a simplified procedure for civil claims worth £500 or less, in its final report on ‘The resolution of small claims’ | NLJ https://t.co/un8luDXj3r 
• Criminal firm’s administration extended as £5.4m debts revealed | Law Gazette https://t.co/qe1HuHoB1D
• Pyramid or ponzi schemes are on the rise amid an overall 42% jump in reported financial investment fraud, according to Office of National Statistics figures, published last week | NLJ https://t.co/lk50eOw7i3
• A coroner due to hold inquests into the deaths at Shoreham air crash has lost her High Court bid to obtain video footage from the pilot's cockpit https://t.co/LkUA5hYEOp
• Serving #Australian SAS soldier tells court Ben Roberts-Smith ordered shooting of unarmed Afghan man in 2012 |https://t.co/KUPR2zUJdf
• Home Office to stop paying for asylum seekers’ toiletries and medication: Letter to former Afghan guard at British embassy in Kabul says measures will come into effect on 11 February https://t.co/9bzDbzBegH
• A federal jury in New York has found celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti guilty of defrauding his former client, the adult film star Stormy Daniels. Avenatti represented Ms Daniels in lawsuits against then-president Donald Trump #US https://t.co/TlMM0SRtrb
• Regulatory vision set out for self-driving vehicles | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yA5SJPp0Dg 
• Jacob Rees-Mogg has been accused of perpetuating a "harmful clinical falsehood" about the morning after pill. Asked if he would make time for a debate on sexual and reproductive health, the minister said he would not "speak in favour of abortifacients" https://t.co/7DqjVdci3p 
• Owen Paterson’s Randox lobbying texts to Matt Hancock released: Government forced to publish messages between disgraced Tory MP and then health secretary https://t.co/VAhsjQfLAn
• The former fiance of late TV presenter Caroline Flack has been jailed for harassing a journalist. Andrew Brady, 31, used social media to send threats and abuse to Dan Wootton, including messages branding him a sex offender and murderer https://t.co/GwpRmou5UG 
• Fake serious incident signs erected in London to highlight police misogyny: Protesters led by Women’s Equality party want government to launch full inquiry into police misogyny https://t.co/6vWHvL59Ue

5th February - Law News

Edition 3693: 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: Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's stirring speech in Parliament earlier this week, where he spoke about his idea of India, in it, he spoke about India's federal identity, while that's nothing new but by raising the issue of states having primacy with their own independent identities may seem to suggest that Rahul Gandhi was trying to position the Congress party as a natural ally and representative of state parties. Is Rahul Gandhi's vision of India a challenge to the ultra-rightwing BJP?

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The National Security and Investment Act gives the government power to intervene in any business transaction Proponents say it is designed to provide businesses and investors with the certainty and transparency they need to do business in the U.K. https://t.co/R9rlEaRS00
• Criminal firm’s administration extended as £5.4m debts revealed | Law Gazette https://t.co/qe1HuHoB1D
• A UK Supreme Court ruling on the rights of leaseholders to manage their buildings is a “really useful and common-sense decision for residential and mixed-use schemes” https://t.co/h9vqV92IuF
• A woman has alleged she was raped during the production of a new BBC TV cooking show. Police said the assault is alleged to have happened in London last September, and they are reviewing the evidence https://t.co/bUzCk717K7
• Government to pilot publicly funded early legal advice - Legal Futures https://t.co/GzVP4AVAoy 
• MoD given ultimatum to drop legal action against firm run by billionaire - Ministers have two weeks to accept one-off payment instead of taking over 38,000 military homes from Guy Hands’ Annington https://t.co/ddhWi0NzZQ
• Transgender woman, 23, is executed by her enraged brother in 'honour killing' in Iraqi #Kurdistan  https://t.co/zmS2N4LRi
• Disgraced former Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has been jailed for five and a half years for sexually abusing two children in the 1970s. He was found guilty in January of a serious sexual assault against a boy and the attempted rape of a young girl https://t.co/Yxy7hvpTcx
• Sustainability – from impact investing to impact supplying - Legal Futures https://t.co/KDhDPr6M3
• SRA moves beyond regulation to research access to justice | Law Gazette https://t.co/kLrgSVMLv6
• SRA outlines concerns over inadequate advice to leaseholders - Legal Futures https://t.co/5EBwlJktMR
• SAS soldiers considered Ben Roberts-Smith ‘arrogant’ and undeserving of Victoria Cross, court told #Australia https://t.co/YwvEe6VGuO
• Wills and probate market tops £2bn with contentious work on the rise - Legal Futures https://t.co/cigL7KFEpn
• Land Registry trials 'quick phone call' to resolve queries | Law Gazette https://t.co/l1s7Mb1Sz3 
• Funder fails in claim to recover losses from firm's indemnity insurer - Legal Futures https://t.co/iSCfVRXVab
  
• A farmer who used a telehandler to pick up a car and dump it in a road to defend his property has been cleared of dangerous driving and criminal damage https://t.co/qwwiHjNOZK
• Convicted attacker may claim negligence - despite dishonesty | Law Gazette https://t.co/MRpQm5tzJN
• Scam ads: why an #Australian billionaire is launching legal action against Facebook https://t.co/Gv2awgkqdy
• A modern slaver whose disabled victim was exploited for 40 years has been given a suspended prison sentence. Peter Swailes' victim was made to work on farms for little pay and slept in a shed, Carlisle Crown Court heard https://t.co/qfdAtpKHto 
• National firm scents opportunities in crypto crime | Law Gazette https://t.co/E0HTtL0nkw
• DUP Minister's halt on Irish Sea border checks will be suspended, the High Court has ordered. Mr Justice Colton confirmed inspections on goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain must continue pending the outcome of legal challenges https://t.co/302BzrInoX Feb 04, 2022
• Upper Tribunal rules on ability of councils to impose financial penalties on joint landlords for HMO offences https://t.co/bkxSNvCgoN
• Let juniors conduct more advocacy, Commercial Court says | Law Gazette https://t.co/IPgfnIVbNr
• ‘Very disappointed’: INXS guitarist Tim Farriss loses $1.2m severed-finger case #Australia https://t.co/N03quhCHpC
  
• Sibghat Kadri obituary - The 1971 Immigration Act was a novel and complex piece of legislation. As a young barrister, Sibghat Kadri argued a number of the early cases on it https://t.co/JZ2cyd4PmP
• Strikes not ‘extraordinary circumstances’ for cancelled flights, CoA rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/LvjL4eifje 
• The prime minister and the Home Office have been criticised by the UK statistics watchdog for incorrectly claiming crime has fallen. Speaking in the Commons on Monday, Boris Johnson said crime had come down by 14% since he took office https://t.co/vSsuTQ1OCK
• Magistrate 'accidentally' breached coronavirus restrictions | Law Gazette https://t.co/LRH7ttFzDw 
• Legal advice centres could be piloted in hospitals | Law Gazette https://t.co/emmNrrR2zV
• Mishcon accused of ‘turning a blind eye’ to £3m of ‘potentially tainted’ cash | Law Gazette https://t.co/EGMMHHTqhk 
• Levelling up? MoJ to move 2,000 jobs out of London | Law Gazette https://t.co/1jxeBXqEhT
• 'Levelling up' to involve upfront information for homebuyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/JyV4XSOe30
• The government should tax motorists based on miles travelled as the use of petrol and diesel vehicles decreases, the Transport Select Committee said https://t.co/2LZt5nDAL
• Amnesty International has denounced #Israeli rule over the Palestinians as a form of apartheid. But the British government is trying to outlaw the Boycott and stop it from using the same tactics that helped liberate South Africa https://t.co/vSiGtP0Ogx 
• On fixed costs, the defendant voice is again the only one heard | Law Gazette https://t.co/vv4avzIdnO
• English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson will be quizzed about his finances after he failed to pay legal bills for a libel case he lost. The 39-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was sued by Jamal Hijazi after defaming him online https://t.co/iZjPsK0m9B

4th February - Law News

Edition 3692: 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 a growing number of American cities, if you call the police, there are fewer officers taking the call.

 Focus of the Day Article: 1,000 days between rape offence and case completion in UK, data shows. Median delay was over two and a half years in first nine months of 2021, up more than a quarter on previous year. Full story - Guardian Law

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Will Glover and David Hardstaff elected co-chairs of London Irish Lawyers Association | Irish Legal News https://t.co/3F2AvhRYVA 
• Two men and a 17-year-old girl have been found guilty of murdering a doctor in a homophobic attack in a park in the centre of Cardiff. Lee Strickland, 36, Jason Edwards, 25, and Dionne Timms-Williams killed Dr Gary Jenkins, 54, in Bute Park in July 2021 https://t.co/lCXcO7oMEs
  
• Ashley Edwards QC named principal crown counsel | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hjSQllYuOu
• US: Native American tribes receive $590m settlement in opioid case | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/R19MjbJOKS
• E-signatures can provide 'witness' security, working group concludes | Law Gazette https://t.co/kRSF99ynbF
  
• Met officer was promoted despite misconduct over sexist and racist messages https://t.co/DAGvG1RXvB
• Ex-City partner struck off for misleading High Court mounts appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/fwCvqbijhY
• Diversity questions make up 20% of marks in panel tender - Legal Futures https://t.co/nOqkZ6RqYF
• Anomalies in court system are adding to huge case backlog https://t.co/HAR0gftrZQ
  
• Leading firm acted for client without obtaining authority - Legal Futures https://t.co/azyNvXpMiv 
• Jacqui Taylor appointed as temporary president of Local Taxation Chamber | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cIU2sGPv91 
• Aspiring barrister subjected to "extreme discrimination" launches disability group - Legal Futures https://t.co/oT0BWF8niu
• PI solicitor who made an offer without client consent is rebuked | Law Gazette https://t.co/QyHhip0gjo
• Government mulls estate agents' disclosure of referral fees - Legal Futures https://t.co/mcNKjGGqns
  
• Shops have been warned deliveries of nuts and crisps could be at risk, after KP Snacks was hit by ransomware. The producer of McCoys, Hula Hoops and various varieties of nuts apologised for any disruption https://t.co/7cGVRfhYsz
• Lawyer’s extradition appeal error not attributable to client – Supreme Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/f2L2t6Gt0p
• Competition watchdog to gain additional powers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jWAh6qaYQr
  
• CMA struggling to hire M&A lawyers due to 'very hot' private sector | Law Gazette https://t.co/6WBfYAWZx
• So you want to be… a judicial assistant at the UK Supreme Court? | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/m3L6R4KOex
  
• Imprisonment can't exceed 25 years as per extradition treaty: Plea by Abu Salem; Supreme Court issues notice | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/WIaNmo0pEE 
• Mediation convention 'aligns with UK's post-EU role' | Law Gazette https://t.co/qHnmIH4G4n 
• Why are #US rightwingers so opposed to a Black woman supreme court nominee? https://t.co/fh8J9Wk93O
• #NewZealand has announced a phased reopening of its borders, as the country starts to ease some of the world's toughest Covid restrictions https://t.co/xrSbxQPSAq 
• Prosecutors in #Serbia say there is no evidence to suggest that Novak Djokovic submitted falsified Covid test certificates to Australian authorities https://t.co/lcGChlZZ9n
  
• Former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores is suing the NFL, the New York Giants and every other NFL franchise alleging racial discrimination in hiring practices. Flores was passed over for a job with the Giants last week #US https://t.co/WhwWgKeDrg 
• Michael McColgan obituary - He retrained as a lawyer so that he could represent people fighting for justice, and was involved in the cases of the Orgreave miners in the 1980s and in the fight for truth and justice following the Hillsborough disaster https://t.co/ThfMpKStsh
  
• Solicitor apprenticeships: Building the future of the legal profession | Law Gazette https://t.co/5YlVQML0UI 
• About 500 jobs will be created in Wales by the Ministry of Justice. The roles in finance, human resources and digital, will head to Swansea, Cardiff and Newport along with some others heading to north Wales https://t.co/YJkzzbGS8
• "Real challenges" for large law firms in improving diversity, says SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/AQysD8UMGM 
• The trial of a man accused of defrauding a retired lecturer who was murdered with a crossbow of £200,000 has collapsed. The jury at Mold Crown Court was discharged on Wednesday https://t.co/CrRuoC1Rew
  
• Electronic signatures “more reliable” than live witnesses - Legal Futures https://t.co/PlxN7qa8aN 
• Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick put "on notice" by the London mayor after a report by the police watchdog found "disgraceful" misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment among PCs https://t.co/fHKUgcZZ7I
• Tribunal rejects return to roll for ex-solicitor 30 years after leaving - Legal Futures https://t.co/SuuKHauQVT
  
• Six children are suspected of orchestrating a nationwide campaign of bomb threats against black colleges in the #US, law enforcement officials have said https://t.co/cLva6Y8lVf
• #Chechen politician threatens to ‘rip heads off’ family of activist: Death threat follow arrest in Russia of mother of exiled anti-torture lawyer Abubakar Yangulbayev https://t.co/MFSn4p4Dd3 
• Some 37,000 asylum seekers & Afghan refugees are living in UK hotels at a cost of £1.2m per day, MPs were told. The home secretary said there was a struggle to find permanent homes for thousands of refugees months after they were evacuated from Afghanistan https://t.co/NMVxBzdGml
  
• Adulterated cocaine has killed at least 16 people and left 50 in hospitals around the Buenos Aires region of #Argentina, the authorities say. Investigators believe the illegal drug was either laced with some kind of poison or "cut" with another substance https://t.co/jcIHmQpOcf
  
• The commission established to find the remains of murder victims buried in secret graves during the Troubles is taking on a new case for the first time in more than 10 years https://t.co/Zk1DYKpc8H 
• Family law start-up refused injunction in £22m contract battle - Legal Futures https://t.co/cMFBqyGQyb

3rd February - Law News

Edition 3691: 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: Resources companies have been urged to fix the sexual harrassment, bullying and racism revealed in a damning report commissioned by Rio Tinto. Women's and Indigenous groups have condemned the culture at the mining giant, calling for better reporting and accountability as well as more support for victims.

 Focus of the Day Article: Only 2% of lawyers working in law firms are black, according to diversity data published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority that appears to show minimal diversity progress in relation to ethnicity. The figures are based on information submitted to the SRA last summer from more than 8,700 firms employing more than 180,000 people. Firms are required to collect, report and publish data about the diversity make-up of their workforce every two years. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A Violent Man review – hardnut prison drama is guilty as charged https://t.co/A5IgYG6eR7
• Four charged in drug death of The Wire actor Michael K Williams #US https://t.co/E6yYsDKHOX
• Fiona Moriarty appointed senior legal counsel for Ireland at elipsLife | Irish Legal News https://t.co/8PHS6nG0q2
• DUP minister Edwin Poots has ordered his officials to halt Irish Sea border checks from midnight. He had been threatening to act, as part of the DUP's ongoing opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol https://t.co/BjHQYGvCS
• Human Rights Act consultation 'not a response to my report' - Gross | Law Gazette https://t.co/Jlo6zbTeEy
• Conveyancing fees rise by 21%, survey finds | Law Gazette https://t.co/UuRED6f0pH
• Alan Hunter, the former chief executive of the Law Society of Northern Ireland, has been appointed to the board of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland (CCNI) | Irish Legal News https://t.co/LREnUiyQrT
• Statuary provisions – time they were toppled? | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qIWUNn8vEh 
• Tensions between home secretary Priti Patel and No 10 over Met Commissioner Cressida Dick https://t.co/HD18srkXOE
• Solicitors found not negligent after passing on counsel advice orally | Law Gazette https://t.co/ctIHWynKo
• Gardaí say they are preparing a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) following the arrest of a solicitor and two other men as part of a major investigation into organised crime in Limerick #Ireland https://t.co/1kTBwxbizS
• Good Law Project tries to revive PPE claim after service blunder | Law Gazette https://t.co/kHujBhmr7r
• UK mulling law forcing tech giants to pay for hosting news https://t.co/CtNf2GHM99
• Claimant lawyers outraged at prospect of fixed clinical negligence costs | Law Gazette https://t.co/d3mslyrj5e
• Twenty-seven people have been charged over large scale disorder which broke out in part of Swansea last May. Defendants aged between 15 and 44 face charges for the offence of riot, while two were also charged with arson with the intent to endanger life https://t.co/fSbbD3Y95Y
• The government is launching a consultation to tackle disproportionate legal fees for lower value clinical negligence claims https://t.co/XhvmZlZShI
• Legal services to benefit from Brexit freedoms, PM claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/tqch8qWIXc 
• Three-judge Bench of Supreme Court to examine validity of Section 15 of Hindu Succession Act | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/JR3MmhCPU
• At least 75% of ethnic minority NHS doctors experienced racism more than once in the last two years, while 17.4% said they regularly faced racism at work, a survey reveals https://t.co/eZoPjhfDGC
• Justice Minister questioned on proposed Human Rights Act reforms https://t.co/l8ObK6Qg6a
• US healthcare giant’s takeover of GP practices lands in high court - Judicial review hearing could overturn Centene takeover branded by opponents as ‘NHS privatisation by stealth’ https://t.co/ZxUGi5snn4 
• A significant number of young lawyers are either leaving or considering leaving their current job in the next five years, according to a new report from the International Bar Association (IBA) | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uqO0ctxvxy
• Proposed UK Law Forces Big Tech to Hand Data to Family After You Die https://t.co/9seFqEaRvP 
• #Israeli authorities must be held accountable for enforcing a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians, Amnesty International says https://t.co/rSDWRJ6d0u
• Chinese New Year: To work or not to work? | Law Gazette https://t.co/771C4nJb3D
• Law firm wants discovery tab added to billionaire's $63 million legal bill #US https://t.co/C5cEUGcdpH
  
• Cancel culture is real but it’s not the ‘woke mob’ you should worry about https://t.co/zIcvJeukww 
• Belgian civil servants given legal right to disconnect from work - Law allows 65,000 federal workers to make themselves unavailable outside normal working hours https://t.co/mtprxsNJ4e 
• Case of Rastafarian woman left naked in a police cell shows officers need greater understanding of minority groups. Yvonne Farrell said she was "humiliated" after sitting naked in a cell for three hours following her arrest by Hertfordshire Police https://t.co/OGdNKCp1kw
  
• Marks & Spencer and Aldi have reached a settlement in a copyright row over caterpillar cakes. M&S had accused the German discounter of copying its Colin the Caterpillar cake https://t.co/fa7b4clCux
• Former SFO director joins international firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/hVh1qp657M

2nd February - Law News

Edition 3690: 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 shadow of New York City, one of the world’s richest cities, the people of Mount Vernon, New York face an unpleasant problem inside their homes: sewage. The city’s under-resourced sanitation crew struggles to keep up with complications stemming from its crumbling, 100-year old sewer system — a system strained even further by the extreme rain brought on by climate change. Meanwhile, residents must shoulder the financial, emotional and health burdens when sewage backs up into their basements and homes

 Focus of the Day Article: Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) should be compulsory for claims worth less than £500, the Civil Justice Council (CJC) has said. The CJC said that if claimants refused to mediate, claims should be stayed for a period and then struck out. If defendants refused, costs sanctions could apply. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is to re-examine the case of a man convicted in 2012 of the first murder of a serving police officer in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dwFjntUdoD
  
• Force small claims into mediation, says CJC | Law Gazette https://t.co/OtF6uYT1Y3
• Dublin barrister and arbitrator Arran Dowling-Hussey has been appointed to the advisory board of the Gujurat International Maritime Arbitration Centre (GIMAC), the first specialised centre of its kind in India | Irish Legal News https://t.co/m7EYdQlUjX
• Police and councils still failing to properly identify and investigate child grooming gangs, a report warns. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said officials often denied the scale of the issue, thinking incorrectly that it was "on the wane" https://t.co/5Lm7Z0DiG8
  
• Court rejects 'ring of deceit' allegation against top divorce firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/tnpsGpRXLL 
• Women’s groups seek end to UK courts’ powers to jail people for own protection: call to abolish law among coalition’s 10-point plan to tackle inequalities in the criminal justice system https://t.co/c0KpNzomoX
  
• A driver who used his car to try to stop a woman being stabbed by her stalker ex-husband in west London has been released without charge https://t.co/rbYhlsA1Py
• Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been further arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and making threats to kill https://t.co/XziBM1MOuL 
• Compulsory ADR needed for smallest claims, says CJC - Legal Futures https://t.co/aDr2pwdFm6 
• Government proposes fixed costs for clinical negligence claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/pmWuwsIaCL
• Knights expands East of England presence with £11.5m deal - Legal Futures https://t.co/JIgc07nc8V
  
• The declining provision of civil legal aid has been a “disaster” for Orkney and risks turning it into a legal aid desert: David Fairnie is the only solicitor in Orkney with a mixed legal aid practice | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ouRvvNBxCM
• "Injured people will suffer twice" - furious reaction to clin neg fixed costs - Legal Futures https://t.co/sS2jwXSUdA
• Organised crime gangs are illegally burying thousands of tonnes of waste across Scotland. Some of the rubbish is being brought up from the north of England by the gangs, and is believed to include hazardous clinical waste from hospitals https://t.co/r33gYto45C 
• The author Val McDermid has said she will withdraw her support and sponsorship of Raith Rovers football club after it signed David Goodwillie. The striker was ruled to be a rapist and ordered to pay damages in a civil case in 2017 https://t.co/oUwl7ZnJcS
• Judge asks ‘Dr Bitcoin’ to put up hard cash for costs security | Law Gazette https://t.co/RGO5R2749c
• Aboriginal spiritual connection to land no bar to deportation, Morrison government says #Australia https://t.co/j6csSXJYc4 
• Prince Andrew's former assistant could give a sworn statement as part of the the civil sexual assault case against the duke, after a formal request from a New York judge https://t.co/N0BYJhuN2h
  
• Judge excoriates "reckless and quite possibly dishonest" solicitor - Legal Futures https://t.co/AoD2D0yZVF
• The police watchdog says it has found evidence of "disgraceful" bullying, misogyny, discrimination & sexual harassment in some ranks of the Met. The IPCC made 15 recommendations including tackling "underlying cultural issues" https://t.co/hii09KVALr 
• Bar slowly becoming more diverse but 'still more work to be done' | Law Gazette https://t.co/34VGZ1ZAxE 
• The Scottish Prison Service is to publish the results of a review of its transgender prisoner policy later this year | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1hbPc3pdVj 
• The Solicitors Regulation Authority has told the High Court its intervention into the practice of solicitor Soophia Khan on suspicions of dishonesty was justified because she misappropriated money. | Law Gazette https://t.co/7wBVgiZgmI 
• Accused cannot apply for anticipatory bail once he has appeared before trial court: Karnataka High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/agePzmgEWQ
  
• Almost 70 fee earner roles ‘under review’ after £11.5m acquisition | Law Gazette https://t.co/RnvgIA19KG 
• ‘It’s the tip of the iceberg’: shining a light on the horror of wrongful convictions https://t.co/E7fwB36Upn 
• Police have been granted more time to question Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood who was arrested on suspicion of rape and assault https://t.co/jFcZYHwxwO 
• 1,000 days between rape offence and case completion in UK, data shows https://t.co/oPzM777Zec 
• The Cox’s Bazar Sessions Judge Court on Monday awarded death penalty to two accused and life-term imprisonment to six others, acquitting seven in the case over the murder of retired major Sinha Mohammad Rashed Khan in Cox’s Bazar in July 2020 #Bangladesh https://t.co/4Ldvebc5Ky 
• NHS doctor killed his partner’s father with poison, civil court finds - Judgment came in ruling at family court, which also heard partner and mother nearly died from thallium poisoning https://t.co/OClUoT6jeS 
• A Dutch publishing house has apologised for printing a book which identifies a Jewish person who may have betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis https://t.co/uqSykODWZv 
• Obituary: Birds Solicitors announces that Martyn Fisher passed away on 14th October 2021 after a period of illness aged 67 | Law Gazette https://t.co/P28Fey8PVU
  
• Lahore court acquits PML-N leader, 15 others in Saaf Pani corruption case #Pakistan https://t.co/wCmL4Rr6ky
  
• Solicitor lambasted by judge over ‘Primark service’ for £100m will | Law Gazette https://t.co/CdnJZtZsxZ 
• #US judge Lisa Wood rejects plea deal between federal prosecutors and two of the three white men convicted of murdering black jogger Ahmaud Arbery: not willing to be bound to the clause that allowed them to serve time in a federal, and not state, prison https://t.co/hDHQHtwJuz 
• The Commons’ European Scrutiny Committee has begun an inquiry into the future of EU law that was copied into the UK statute book to avoid a legal cliff-edge when the country left the block | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0eNnD27Ew7
  
• The Guardian view on the care-leaving age: teenagers are children too | Editorial https://t.co/eZYnjgDLkR
  
• The National Crime Agency can seize £5.6m from a sophisticated global money laundering scheme: Financial investigators can take the money from the London-based family of Javanshir Feyziyev, an MP in the Azerbaijan parliament https://t.co/n3wFk0G2Cu