14th February - Law News

Edition 3702: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: The opening of a temporary office of Religious Zionist Party Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir in East Jerusalem sparked a violent protest, with clashes between ultranationalist Israelis and Palestinians

Focus of the Day Article: Law firms have been given guidance from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on creating healthy work environments, after a review highlighted an array of concerns. Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Proposed reforms nothing but ‘scrappy vandalism against class actions’ - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/W6s7Y1Nb8J 
• Barrister fined for calling opposition lawyer a 'hysterical woman' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/A1lrRl9SEv
• Hill Dickinson replaces TCs with apprenticeships in training shake-up - Legal Cheek https://t.co/4ncSukU5AR
• A mob has killed a man for allegedly burning pages of the Koran in central #Pakistan, police say, in the latest case of blasphemy-related violence in the country. Police say more than 80 people have been arrested in connection https://t.co/facmlc7GhB 
• Two NHS hospital trusts are working with police after a doctor was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault. Staffordshire Police has launched a major incident review of the doctor's work at hospitals in Dudley, West Midlands, and Stoke-on-Trent https://t.co/ATx3pYG3Bn
• Religious Discrimination Bill ‘Trojan Horse for hate’ - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/wgGvdJlj1M
• Northern Powergrid sorry for Storm Arwen trillion pound compensation error https://t.co/Zb0sJrUy9j
• How should we respond to racial bias and stereotypes in the criminal justice system? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PQSBLY95Ot
• Devadatt Kamat, Senior Advocate for petitioners in Hijab Ban case: Spotlight this week | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/I1zDXTCMXW
• David Lammy requests pardon for 1823 slave rebellion convicts: Shadow minister says pardon would be ‘significant step in Britain’s acknowledgement of its role in history of slavery’ https://t.co/kh6sqYxRiC
• Nightingale court tells parents of victim of alleged rape there is no room for them at trial https://t.co/Y0sTvsteN7
• Addleshaw Goddard merges with Irish law firm - Legal Cheek https://t.co/BWWuuyLaLp 
• The good and bad of litigation and advisory during COVID: Law Society - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/a8QBV65geJ
• Instagram is failing to take action, a novelist who had a fake account set up in his name has said. Joe Dunthorne said he "literally couldn't make contact" with the company to report the fake account https://t.co/0hnPzfiKA6 
• Meet the TikTokin' junior lawyer documenting the highs and lows of corporate life - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qgF8iUHzRf
• Amending human rights laws to give priority to domestic law could result in uncertainty, former Supreme Court justice Lord Carnwath has said | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/D9El4hfB62
  
• Former #Nicaraguan rebel leader Hugo Torres has died in prison aged 73, eight months after being detained on treason charges. The retired general fought alongside current President Ortega during the country's revolution, helping free him from jail in 1974 https://t.co/SZ6ZnIYapV
• 'How do I put up with my noisy law firm colleagues?' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/204F1EvbNU 
• Law Pod UK latest: the most significant cases of 2021.  - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/RPrxfJzBhC
• Supreme Court starts hunt for two new justices - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vt0Q3lWzX3

13th February - Law News

Edition 3701: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan last August created a financial dillemma for nations holding the country's foreign cash reserves. The deposed Afghan government had $7 billion in the US Federal Reserve Bank in New York. U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to split that money and keep it out of the Taliban's hands. Is this plan fair to the Afghan people? 

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Victims of crime don’t understand the role of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and how it makes decisions, the CPS said last week in its response to the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) consultation on a new Victims’ Bill, ‘Delivering justice for victims’ https://t.co/YPr3cyuPKQ 
• Law firms have been given guidance from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on creating healthy work environments, after a review highlighted an array of concerns | NLJ https://t.co/VPy0EK3Pf
• Best of the blogs - 11 February 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/w9zW76M6BX
• Social media companies will be expected to take proactive action to prevent online abuse happening, rather than simply react once abuse has occurred, under proposed legislation | NLJ https://t.co/gdN1Xl5m9i 
• A leading activist who was released from prison in #Egypt last month has told that during his time in detention he saw first-hand a system where torture was used to make people inform on each other https://t.co/J1wfvM1Ka
• Mishcon ordered to clarify privilege claims in ‘potentially tainted’ cash case | Law Gazette https://t.co/jgIK40rRxZ
  
• Research into gaps in access to justice across England and Wales has been commissioned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) | NLJ https://t.co/KynMXa174j
  
• 'Messy situation': ground rent reform becomes law | Law Gazette https://t.co/AZ6biC6wyE
  
• Ryanair has lost its appeal against an order to pay compensation to passengers affected when its pilots went on strike in 2018, in Civil Aviation Authority v Ryanair [2022] EWCA Civ 76 | NLJ https://t.co/QzZ3j9oTlY
• Director banned after firm sued him for £120,000 withdrawals | Law Gazette https://t.co/5na0EusUvW
• The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) in England and Wales has accused justice secretary Dominic Raab of lies against the backdrop of a looming crisis in the criminal courts | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/v2DOXehrtI
• Claimants can be added when proceedings issued but not served – High Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/Swbt1JAI8W
• The government has said will begin a review of prison mental health in the spring, in its response to a Justice Committee report, Mental Health in Prisons | NLJ https://t.co/f4Cvqj3crm
• Duty solicitor data lays bare looming crisis | Law Gazette https://t.co/uHnqMUYFR7
• UK online shoppers face more identity checks as new anti-fraud rules kick in: Under changes coming in on 14 March, retailers will have to verify customer is who they claim to be https://t.co/b9zeXf3zP1
  
• Durham police help save woman 3,000 miles away in Canada: Suspect arrested 30 minutes after woman in Durham, Ontario, mistakenly contacts English force https://t.co/4Irnr58fVK
• DfE is ‘criminalising parents’ in England, say families still shielding from Covid: Parents facing prosecution for home schooling say vulnerable children and relatives’ safety comes before school attendance https://t.co/uSyHVG1yGR
• Peers have raised objections to government plans for prospective-only quashing orders and the removal of Cart appeals, during the second reading of the Judicial Review and Courts Bill | NLJ https://t.co/pq7D2nuLMU 
• Ministers accused of fuelling conspiracy theorists’ bogus ‘common law’ ideas: Activists handing out ‘writs’ at schools part of trend drawing on non-existent law that was also factor in Keir Starmer incident https://t.co/zT4n6GBZMZ
• Protesters are still occupying a main crossing at Canada's border with the United States, despite a court ruling ordering them to leave. The injunction came into effect at 19:00 local time (midnight GMT) on Friday to end days of protests https://t.co/JUEMTXvDGc
  
• 'This is a lie': Criminal bar accuses Raab over legal aid demand | Law Gazette https://t.co/zALzF7ryl6
• Boris Johnson sent Downing Street lockdown party questionnaire by police https://t.co/leFVDcu6XF

12th February - Law News

Edition 3700: 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: Music Composer Shankar Mahadevan makes a clarion call of equality and inclusion for persons with disability with his new song 'Garv Se Jiyenge' for NGO Enable India

Saturday Conversations on Law

• KPMG facing £1.3bn High Court claim over Carillion audits | Law Gazette https://t.co/f3KXDAhoXP
• The dangers of trial by social media | Law Gazette https://t.co/rjMld8lHC
• Six people have been appointed to the board of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), allowing it to resume functioning | Irish Legal News https://t.co/8fWhmrdAuV
• Addleshaw Goddard expands international footprint with Irish merger | Law Gazette https://t.co/fOQ1tOBBWa 
• British women and children detained in Syria failed by UK government, inquiry finds https://t.co/jYpQb3vOYB
  
• Family solicitor embarks on menopause campaign | Law Gazette https://t.co/rOrakM0Wuq
• #US House to investigate whether Trump broke law in handling of documents - Panel asks National Archives to turn over communications about missing and destroyed records relevant to Capitol attack https://t.co/Xc0A4VipRI
• Salary wars should not mean junior lawyers accept exploitation | Law Gazette https://t.co/42IadT2ByJ
• Lord Ordinary orders proof in dispute over completion certificate for Glasgow Airport advertising structure | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GdX5Bmhrlg
• No lawyers referred to SRA over collapsed SFO prosecution, MPs told | Law Gazette https://t.co/NAR7GQgCPw
• International law firm Bird & Bird to launch Dublin office | Irish Legal News https://t.co/UtT2YQDutf
• Rushing legal aid reform 'opens us up to legal challenges', claims Raab | Law Gazette https://t.co/rhlp4Xpnd6
  
• A citizens’ assembly on drug use will take place in “the latter part of this year”, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said | Irish Legal News https://t.co/knlV8fjRQC
• Labour suspends whip from Neil Coyle after allegations of racist comments. MP has had party whip suspended after claims about racist remarks made about Chinese people https://t.co/7cXo8JmHwd 
• [Hijab row] No religious garments till we decide the case, will pass interim order: Karnataka High Court | bAR & bENCH #iNDIA https://t.co/cvX8wqQeK7 
• Solicitor rebuke overturned after SRA panel’s ’serious procedural error’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/fzGNLhtDW3
  
• Rebecca Hogue's boyfriend beat her toddler son to death while she was at work. So why is she the one being called a murderer? #US https://t.co/cSHL0rTNQU 
• Scottish government told to justify ongoing use of emergency rule-making powers | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/t3L71HwuqO
  
• Convicted prosecutor claims CPS colleagues shared confidential files | Law Gazette https://t.co/XSL4DdSbt0 
• HMRC accused of ‘ignorance and inaction’ over £6bn Covid fraud: Public accounts committee chair condemns tax authority after billions written off https://t.co/kr3DfMQ34E 
• Three lawyers have been appointed to Northern Ireland’s Civil Legal Services Appeal Panel, which adjudicates appeals against civil legal aid decisions | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JqwkS7q3uj
• Ban on Rupert Murdoch’s interference in Times and Sunday Times ended: Culture secretary Nadine Dorries removes restrictions, potentially paving way for merger of newspapers https://t.co/Ov5Fqj9I16 
• Balfour and Manson’s Michaela Guthrie gains Law Society medical negligence accreditation | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/53soNAu1mz
  
• Britain's human rights watchdog faces a legal challenge to its status over a row about transgender rights. LGBT charities want the UN to revoke the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) status as an independent group https://t.co/HUremIawOF
  
• ‘Like schoolchildren’ - judge lambasts solicitors’ behaviour in costs row | Law Gazette https://t.co/JBtWXCJl4h 
• Ex-Cheer star Jerry Harris pleads guilty to child sexual abuse image charges - Harris, a Chicago native, was first arrested in September 2020 on a charge of production of child sexual abuse images #us https://t.co/n4buyKR9vu
  
• Eugene F Collins to merge with international law firm Addleshaw Goddard | Irish Legal News https://t.co/nibMDOaQxW 
• Solicitor Nadhia Ahmad-Ali has been appointed as a non-executive director to the board of Scottish Ballet | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UTPn7a17PO 
• Online review site to verify posters' identities | Law Gazette https://t.co/tKKsKQDEsS 
• The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has identified economic equality, justice, respect and recognition, future-proofing and the public sector duty as its five key priorities for the next three years | Irish Legal News https://t.co/FGy3Sub7WW 
• The law in Wales requiring people to wear face masks could be scrapped by the end of March, Covid passes for entertainment venues, nightclubs and large events will no longer be needed from 18 February https://t.co/kAl9KwmHV5
  
• Cornish hotel ordered to demolish rooms built for G7 summit: Planning inspector says facilities built without permission caused ‘very significant’ harm to landscape https://t.co/V5X1EOjtwm 
• We cannot take democracy for granted – this government’s failings imperil us all | John Major https://t.co/p7ysRHMion

11th February - Law News

Edition 3699: 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: White House call records now in possession of congressional investigators do not reflect calls made to or from then-President Donald Trump as the violence unfolded on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, leaving them with gaps so far in their understanding of what transpired that day, three sources familiar with the House investigation into the insurrection 

Focus of the Day Article: The government has revived intrusion of privacy plans to make pornography websites carry out age checks, which would require British users to provide data such as their credit card or passport details to prove they are over 18. Full story - Guardian Law 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Woodland Trust joins objection to Kirsty Young’s plan for Scottish island: Broadcaster and husband hit by claims they plan to cull wallabies and chop down trees on Inchconnachan island https://t.co/FmQIDXQ3f
• ‘Life was lovely’: Chagossian women head home 50 years after forced exile: Women on Mauritian-chartered vessel bound for Chagos Islands recall how life there was ‘paradise’ https://t.co/4o9VhgXIUB 
• United Kingdom Regulator Moves Forward With Greenwashing https://t.co/Nk3RHOQTkN
• Reddit and Twitter users in the UK could be required to submit details of their passport or credit card as part of the government’s proposed age verification rules for pornography citing privacy fears https://t.co/VcVSJyGhvm
• Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick is leaving her role after a series of damaging controversies. She had been left with "no choice" after London Mayor Sadiq Khan made it clear to her he had no confidence in her leadership https://t.co/UfKEfQgeRV
• Barrister fined for calling opposition client 'hysterical woman' | Law Gazette https://t.co/h0urG944Sd
• Anti-Jewish hate incidents hit record high in UK - Biggest surge coincided with bloody conflict between Israel and Palestinians as a result of illegal Israeli land grab and settlement building https://t.co/MZoXGzcdy
• Firm to pay ex-employee £9,500 over ‘Chinese chip shop’ comment | Law Gazette https://t.co/Zy7nVfKXC
• General accused of rights abuses made Ugandan head of police - Maj Gen Abel Kandiho is blacklisted by US for presiding over ‘horrific’ targeting of opposition activists #Uganda https://t.co/bffKmArv9b
• Committee examines how Government reforms could change human rights protections in the UK - Committees - UK Parliament https://t.co/oDQc8F4zaX
• The SQE is not living up to its promise on diversity | Law Gazette https://t.co/R7tybujPb9 
• Dame Cressida Dick has "absolutely no intention" of leaving her post as commissioner of the Met Police. She intends to root out "disgusting behaviour" within the Met and had told officers "enough is enough" https://t.co/RO74dIRtkz
• A #Russian art gallery guard has been accused of doodling on a Soviet-era painting he was responsible for guarding on his first day in the job. Two visitors spotted eyes drawn in ballpoint pen on Anna Leporskaya's work Three Figures https://t.co/dVe6vnvOla 
• Offspring of #Italy’s last king sue state in battle to reclaim crown jewels - King Umberto II descendants take legal action over treasure kept in Bank of Italy deposit box for 76 years https://t.co/uw4wn8ILD9
• Appeal judges throw out case after appellant fails to turn up | Law Gazette https://t.co/14WQPpWAFG 
• International Data Transfers under the UK GDPR: International Data Transfer Agreement and Addendum laid before Parliament https://t.co/xS8dqUFizy
• Human rights reform would leave former SC justice 'very confused' | Law Gazette https://t.co/gNymjh4Kyf
• Met considering whether to investigate PM over Downing Street flat refurb - Solicitors for Labour have written to Cressida Dick suggesting force is ‘duty-bound’ to launch inquiry https://t.co/uZmpI7piMf 
• A number of women who participated in protests demanding women’s rights in #Afghanistan are missing: Evidence mounts of Taliban reprisal arrests and killings https://t.co/pYoVLEkdMb 
• #HongKong's tough Covid laws threatened by virus surge - The city has recorded more than 1,000 Covid infections for the first time since the pandemic began - a worrying milestone for officials who are aggressively pushing for zero-Covid https://t.co/9QOmLXxfLG 
• Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers renew call to seal juror’s legal arguments - Scotty David, who was Juror 50, made comments about prior sexual abuse that prompted a request for a new trial #US https://t.co/5qivgcgVgs 
• SFO’s disclosure failings to be probed by former High Court judge | Law Gazette https://t.co/peP1U7jSPd 
• More than 50 people to face police questions on Downing Street parties https://t.co/qbLGrnOD86 
• SRA tells firms to provide 'safe environment' for concerned staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/imbxxEP8VM 
• Animal charity the RSPCA has taken West Ham defender Kurt Zouma's pet cats away after videos emerged on social media of him kicking and slapping one of them https://t.co/ccVPvulR5f 
• Survey: LSRA seeks views of recently qualified non-practising solicitors and barristers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/r7vDaSOAaQ
  
• ‘We have to make ourselves seen’: the New York rent strikers fighting eviction #US https://t.co/V3zS1paLfU
• DLA Piper wades into NQ salary war | Law Gazette https://t.co/9ouDqGXmuE 
• Catholic church in legal battle over bid to force schools to become academies - Unions write to education secretary calling on him to withdraw orders issued to group of Catholic schools https://t.co/98fh4jz3o9
  
• A passenger was arrested at Heathrow Airport after a woman said she was raped in business class on an overnight transatlantic flight from New Jersey. She was attacked by a 40-year-old man while others slept on the flight from Newark on 31 January https://t.co/e9YynQ6Oba

10th February - Law News

Edition 3698: 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: Statistics consistently show that family violence is pervasive in our community, yet few victims report their experiences and even fewer perpetrators are convicted of their crimes. In the ACT Legislative Assembly, a new bill will be introduced, that if passed, will give Canberra's courts more power to impose harsher penalties on those who inflict family violence. It will also change the way sexual abuse of a children is described, a move inspired and applauded by former Australian of the Year, Grace Tame.

Focus of the Day Article: Failing to provide a safe environment for staff to raise concerns or admit a mistake could be a breach of SRA regulations, the regulator said. In 'workplace culture' guidance published today, the regulator states that firms should do ‘everything they reasonably can’ to look after their staff’s wellbeing and protect them from bullying, harassment, discrimination and victimisation. It expects firms to have effective systems and controls to supervise staff, and to monitor concerns which may affect their wellbeing and competence. Full story - The Law Society Gazette 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The proposed royal commission on the criminal justice system does not have a start date more than two years after it was first announced, peers have heard | Law Gazette https://t.co/1FvLmmnVuT
• A no-fly list for unruly passengers? I have a better – and crueller – idea https://t.co/Siy6bgrw29
  
• Accounts show the Captain Tom Foundation gave out grants of £160,000 to four charities and paid out more than £162,000 in management costs in its first year https://t.co/hJBnBDF4k7
• Divorcee who showed ‘barefaced contempt’ for court faces jail | Law Gazette https://t.co/F5WzjMow5W
• The UK's terror threat level has been lowered from severe to substantial, meaning a terror attack on British soil is considered "likely" https://t.co/sFEHtxLXSA
• West Virginia students to stage walkout over Christian revival at high school. Students instructed to raise their arms in prayer at event in public school’s auditorium #US https://t.co/RgQRKB70hK 
• Court of Appeal: €85,000 award upheld for woman who witnessed aftermath of fatal car accident | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Vc2dHFkpS7 
• Metropolitan Police to review No 10 quiz decision after Boris Johnson photo leak https://t.co/43CY8B4TJ
• All remaining Covid restrictions in England - including the legal rule to self-isolate - could end later this month, Boris Johnson has said. Under the current rules, anyone who tests positive must self-isolate for at least five full days https://t.co/9mMu7YMhZi
  
• ENRC ‘highly disputes’ allegations in ‘dirty money’ book, High Court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/Bhw9VoQRAS
• #Ireland's Justice Minister Helen McEntee is to be asked why the Courts Service enjoys a private parking arrangement outside Cork’s circuit courthouse building, the Irish Examiner reports | Irish Legal News https://t.co/f4owuPfbS
• Solicitor ‘played to harmful lawyer stereotypes’ with £2.9m costs claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/KEKYzBTHc
• Washington Commanders defensive back Deshazor Everett has been charged with involuntary manslaughter following an investigation into a fatal car crash - His girlfriend, Olivia Peters, died from injuries sustained in a one-car accident on 23 December #US https://t.co/A5sau86CBx
• The Scottish legal system can be a mystery to English lawyers and there are plenty aspects of Scots law which are (understandably) entirely alien to our friends south of the border | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UHVPueUJxx
• 'We did not panic': minister praises courts backlog progress | Law Gazette https://t.co/GEV7uM8SZY
• Nepalis who made UK’s PPE speak out on claims of abusive working conditions: Glove manufacturer Supermax has repeatedly won NHS contracts during the pandemic, despite claims of forced labour. Now, a group of former workers are seeking justice https://t.co/5KZlPWpMyR 
• Investigation has raised fresh doubts about the evidence used to throw thousands of people out of the UK for allegedly cheating in an English language test https://t.co/ZXtnzC6BDp
• JR reforms face tough committee stage in Lords | Law Gazette https://t.co/QGjKTTuMkD
• The University of California has agreed to pay nearly $250m (£185m) to over 200 women who allege they were sexually assaulted by a campus gynaecologist, James Heaps https://t.co/1YHREQDTL4
• Iranian refugees face deportation from Turkey for attending demonstration: Lawyer says refugees, who were protesting against Turkey leaving Istanbul convention on violence against women, are at risk in Iran https://t.co/Bn9fAQv0rK
• Latest MoJ figures reveal continuing legal aid decline | Law Gazette https://t.co/5nLvPh9WTv 
• Bristol student tells court she faced ‘intimidation’ from trans rights activists: Raquel Rosario Sánchez launches civil action claiming University of Bristol failed to stop ‘bullying’ https://t.co/uKQCeqwX9
• Listen to prosecuted solicitors for ‘balanced’ view of SRA, says Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/eYGsat6dkY
• Tory health minister has apologised for continuing with a meeting despite discovering she had tested positive for Covid. Gillian Keegan said she found out her result during a visit on Tuesday, after taking a "precautionary" lateral flow test beforehand https://t.co/5tqtiAseBd
  
• It would be wrong to think that concerns about the Pegasus spyware from NSO, the Israeli company, are behind us here in the UK, particularly in relation to lawyer confidentiality | Law Gazette https://t.co/lUWnzCJZ7f
• Rebekah Vardy said it was "war" after Coleen Rooney publicly accused her of leaking stories, a court has heard. A trial is due to start in May, and the two-day hearing this week is to decide what evidence can be used when that comes around https://t.co/pft6r3iSxv

9th February - Law News

Edition 3697: 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: There are an estimated 5million CCTV cameras dotted around the country. In an exclusive interview, one of the UK's leading forensic scientists has questioned the quality of CCTV facial comparison used in criminal convictions.

Focus of the Day Article: The pandemic has had more of an impact on incomes at the lower-earning end of the Bar than among the big billers, according to new research by the Bar Standards Board (BSB). One in four White male barrister earns more than £240,000 a year, compared to one in 15 female barrister from a minority ethnic background. The regulator’s latest analysis of data on barristers’ income by gender and ethnicity showed the same overall patterns as when it was first published two years ago, with women earning less than men, and those from minority ethnic backgrounds less than White barristers. Full story - Legal Futures 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• IPRT report finds regression in the penal system over five years | Irish Legal News https://t.co/rhoL8Tx6UX
• United Kingdom and the Republic of India formally launched their negotiations on an ambitious free trade agreement (FTA) last month (13 January 2022) | Law Gazette https://t.co/Kh5MLUXu7E
• Burness Paull launches new family law practice | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1oJGOMJEm9
  
• #Czech millionaire investigated over alleged 417km/h motorway drive in Germany - Radim Passer is now being investigated for his apparent drive along a motorway in the state of Saxony-Anhalt https://t.co/LlKOr9aNUT
• Best of the blogs - 5 February 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/kkHvB1gxYW
  
• The UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) was the target of a "serious cyber-security incident", it has emerged. The details came via a tender document published on a government website, seemingly by mistake https://t.co/SRsKx2Ea8
• Cocaine use is contributing to drive a rise in disorder at matches in England and Wales, says the country's lead police officer for football. Fan incidents are also post-lockdown related, added the English Football League security chief https://t.co/9iBK3oaX5e
  
• Lawyer of the Month: Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh | Irish Legal News https://t.co/porrcQNNgC
• SRA and Post Office agree disclosure order in Horizon investigation | Law Gazette https://t.co/8ihKBZtkbl
• Review sought over failure to provide deaf man with interpreter in court | Irish Legal News https://t.co/8ZEpNpwW5b
• London firm to train solicitor-apprentices on business services | Law Gazette https://t.co/j1oMbT410N 
• Fionntán O’Flynn has been named the recipient of the Scott Scholarship, which is awarded through the Law Society of Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/M4SbNFzZXc
• My legal life: Laura Frederick, founder of How to Contract - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/KQZVRcTPZw
• Edinburgh Foundation for Women in Law book club | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nSsIQFWVEr 
• Network launched to link “lonely” class representatives - Legal Futures https://t.co/vJobqaPB2T 
• Disbarral for fabricating court order in ‘Trump dossier’ case | Law Gazette https://t.co/46nyqBp8Sm
  
• Pandemic hit lowest-earning barristers hardest as big pay gaps persist - Legal Futures https://t.co/bECVqecNL6
• The government has revived plans to make pornography websites carry out age checks, which would require British users to provide data such as their credit card or passport details to prove they are over 18 https://t.co/2cQtxCY3e5
• Solicitor who used disbursement cash to prop up PI firm struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/xMEj2FYEQc
  
• Women barristers' incomes are half those of men - BSB | Law Gazette https://t.co/kHZXh5FWHo 
• Family law firm embraces employee ownership and plots big expansion - Legal Futures https://t.co/qiOyJ6mSuH
• Ex-owner of Norton Motorcycles faces jail over breaches of pensions rules https://t.co/L81F6tPJlP
• West Ham United have "unreservedly condemned" Kurt Zouma for hitting his cat after a video emerged of the France defender kicking and slapping his pet. The video shows 27-year-old Zouma kicking the cat across the floor and slapping it in the face https://t.co/sTuEzZQ99
• Porn site legal requirement to verify users' age would benefit age verification companies while offering "little practical benefit for child safety, and much harm to people's privacy" https://t.co/zrvJdsXfdf
• Oil giant BP has reported its highest profit for eight years, amid calls for a windfall tax on energy companies. BP posted a profit of $12.8bn (£9.5bn) for 2021, and it made more than $4bn in the final quarter of the year when oil and gas prices surged https://t.co/ZtRFzs6Wg2
  
• Solicitor banned after not paying disbursements for seven years | Law Gazette https://t.co/pF6tUxZyjB
• The Tories’ ‘tough on crime’ stance has only led to misery and death in prisons https://t.co/opCOP9l3WI 
• Warner Bros sued over ‘abysmal’ Matrix Resurrections release: Production company Village Roadshow says December release of sci-fi sequel was ruined by a simultaneous streaming release in #US https://t.co/PtddR1LOTR 
• Midlands firm announces recruitment drive for 100 roles | Law Gazette https://t.co/gTl1IZ7JLf 
• [Hijab ban] Two more college students move Karnataka High Court - This is the third such petition to be filed in this regard before the High Court. The matter will be heard on Tuesday | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/O7Nw8xouhp
• Roma accuse government of hypocrisy over Jimmy Carr joke: Ministers’ criticism of comedian at odds with planned laws harmful to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, leaders say https://t.co/RcS0I0OhSC

8th February - Law News

Edition 3696: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: The second-hand clothing trade is a well-established business in Chile. Traders import unwanted garments – mainly from Europe and the US - to resell locally and to other Latin American nations. But more than half of the 60,000 tonnes of clothes imported each year ends up in illegal desert landfills, with dire consequences for the environment and the local community.

 

Focus of the Day Article: When the IHRAR was announced by Robert Buckland in December 2020, it was accompanied by some of the usual rhetoric about the courts “rewriting” legislation, but the more hyperbolic claims about foreign criminals and pet cats were absent. The Terms of Reference given to the IHRAR were relatively narrow and the Call for Evidence emphasised that it was ‘not considering the substantive rights set out in the Convention’. Instead, the Review was to focus only the operation of the HRA under two themes: the relationship between domestic courts and the ECtHR; and the impact of the HRA on the relationship between the three branches of the state. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Lawyer wellbeing charity LawCare sees spike in stress-related calls - Legal Cheek https://t.co/gUBVAiMwvV
• Amit Prasad, Special Public Prosecutor in Delhi Riots: Spotlight - This week | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/W2sC9ljwP4
• Two people have been arrested after clashes between protesters and police protecting the Labour leader. Starmer was taken away by car near Parliament shortly after 17:00 GMT on Monday, having been surrounded by a group of demonstrators https://t.co/wOrXok8yvO 
• Mishcon delays stock market listing - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ZvHveER6GK
• Senate committee gives clause 12 of Religious Discrimination Bill green light - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/KMaImtzTz
• Karnataka High Court passes resolution to place Dr. BR Ambedkar's portrait in all judicial programs | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Igg6esyDzw
• Chelsea agree to pay damages to 8 former youth team players who alleged racial abuse at the club in the 1990s. 4 players suing the club were due for a High Court hearing next month about alleged abuse by former coaches Gwyn Williams & Graham Rix https://t.co/0ICRGIa4Fl
• Primark accused of selling 'hugely sexist' kids clothes - shared images on social media of tops in a Chester store urged girls to "be kind", "keep on smiling" and to be "always perfect" https://t.co/Cbs9E2its9
• Over two-thirds of law applicants are female - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Bh6R93cLL0
• UK Nationality and Borders Bill risks ‘sending people to their deaths’ https://t.co/v5uEr2w2rs 
• The Boutique Lawyer Show: Understanding different client types - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/8h82E6KNvp
• MoJ consults again on international mediation convention - Legal Futures https://t.co/NmhQBI51R
• Trowers increases London NQ pay to £77.5k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ErzNXiwuJt
• [Covid] Masks not mandatory for people driving alone in cars: Delhi government | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/22GepOWSv
• Large firms failing to optimise social media in hot recruitment market - Legal Futures https://t.co/AaQ8TRXH7i
• Rose Alchin & Associates barrister on embracing pandemic-driven flexibility | NZ Lawyer https://t.co/ECAfPEK4dY
• Another Pure business goes down but is bought in pre-pack - Legal Futures https://t.co/rm3FxD4qzg
• Big law firms lag behind on partner diversity, SRA reports - Legal Cheek https://t.co/59qV4ObhRA
• Protégé: The initiatives protecting aspiring lawyers on the ‘front line’ of the climate crisis - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/arl3wp8aaz
• SRA rebuke of solicitor revoked for "serious procedural error" - Legal Futures https://t.co/IhW7o8ps3r
• No fundamental right to seek removal of Prime Minister's photo from COVID vaccine certificate: Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Y9zWwxXlj6 
• #Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai says there has been a "huge misunderstanding" over a post in which she made a sexual assault accusation against a former Chinese party leader https://t.co/bweZ7H6REU 
• Clifford Chance retains 70% of spring qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/WcNK9gTIU9
• Private car parks will have to display prices more clearly, introduce a fairer system for appeals and give drivers a grace period for lateness as part of a government crackdown https://t.co/f4h5nHE5CF 
• Husband moves Supreme Court against order barring secret recording of wife's phone calls | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/YkDoEsDozk
• Seabin partners with BigLaw firm to tackle marine pollution - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/ZIGXfEg6J6
• CMS retains 24 of 25 spring qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/VPtN3IMDkd
• Pupillage numbers bounce back following Covid dip - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PrEfQX563o
• #Canada's Ottawa declares emergency over 'out of control' truckers' protest https://t.co/k5oX6OBBi1
  
• ‘Shameful’ to let David Goodwillie keep playing, says woman he assaulted: Denise Clair condemns ‘silence’ of Scottish FA after footballer found to have committed rape in 2017 https://t.co/BchkHg8GF9
• Johnson & Johnson faces push to force global ban on talc baby powder sales:Move to hold shareholder vote follows withdrawal of product in US and Canada and lawsuits alleging link to cancer cases https://t.co/QsAlYs34B8
  
• Paul Hastings pumps NQ pay to over £141k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8eAkavm7Fu