Edition 3755: 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 Bob Brown Foundation has said an issue with a decades-old piece of legislation means the Tasmanian government has been illegally logging forests in the state for years. The government has denied the issue rendered past logging operations "illegal", however Resources Minister Guy Barnett said he intended to introduce legislation that would remove doubt.
Focus of the Day Article: The Solicitors Regulation Authority has begun spot checks on firms named
in parliament as working for Russian oligarch clients. In his report to
the SRA board ahead of last week’s meeting, chief executive Paul Philip
revealed that the regulator had responded to allegations that lawyers
are helping individuals included on the sanctions list to seek a
defence. MPs have also alleged that firms are not conducting proper
checks on clients, or are threatening litigation in a way designed to
stifle public debate. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Law firms under pressure to improve safeguards against dirty money | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MdoIhrK6t0
- Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife pays £30,000 a year to maintain her non-dom status, her spokeswoman has confirmed https://t.co/sAq4ZHuMsV
- Belfast firm Edwards & Co welcomes employment partner Niall McMullan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dsIRjteVO4
- New York's top lawyer has asked a state judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court, for allegedly failing to turn over files for an investigation into his business practices #US https://t.co/p8UB1iM0Z7
- Philip Lee appoints Gerard Byrne as dispute resolution and litigation partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/OaZ6OKMciO
- Murgitroyd’s expansion continues with acquisition of Creation IP | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Z0kU8EwmeS
- British solicitor named as Australian landslide victim | Law Gazette https://t.co/c3wbjmJiC3
- Dentons promotes three to partner in Scotland | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gtyPaABk7N
- PI business ready to expand following £13.5m investment | Law Gazette https://t.co/xuzgqZc8hI
- Law Society warns of six-month gap in implementation of new capacity law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/12j1pban0R
- Judge finds ‘no justification’ for firm charging £1,100 an hour | Law Gazette https://t.co/61inICYDMk
- Ban on fur farming comes into effect | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zN5GBWrZ0I
- Former MP’s barrister apologises for disclosing skeleton | Law Gazette https://t.co/D4mYuRZJkV
- SRA bans host of unadmitted staff for backdating documents - Legal Futures https://t.co/i8lmvCe7nJ
- #Australia's government seeks legal power to deport Aboriginal non-citizens https://t.co/A5RzKA1RaI
- Eversheds makes up 19 UK lawyers to partner | Law Gazette https://t.co/RcPGUddgjA
- How tech can help firms achieve their post-pandemic goals - Legal Futures https://t.co/nCoq5rb2pr
- Co Galway firm appoints Laura King to lead second office | Irish Legal News https://t.co/kvuHLUKFDV
- Security guards in Qatar working on projects that include some linked to the 2022 World Cup have been subjected to conditions "which amount to forced labour," claims Amnesty https://t.co/2EPO2REtK8
- SRA starts visiting firms named as acting for Russians | Law Gazette https://t.co/ADMTb4nUug
- Regulator probes law firms accused in Parliament over oligarch work - Legal Futures https://t.co/7CjpuKGtwE
- Reed denies political ‘pressure’ over departure from Hong Kong | Law Gazette https://t.co/AyAFuSQnP2
- No criminal charges will be brought against a Minneapolis police officer who shot dead 22-year-old Amir Locke in an apartment during a "no-knock" raid #US https://t.co/v6BSM2MkRX
- How minority power brokers command ideology and homophily on the online Gab network of the alt-right – fake news, brokerage and advantage through social capital | Yannick Bowe https://t.co/cXivwzYn74
- Mason
Hayes & Curran: Regulatory issues the greatest challenge to digital
transformation in financial services | Irish Legal News https://t.co/kTzhu33lNy
- The US has imposed sanctions against #Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle, including his daughters https://t.co/74xO7BbXfg
- D-Day for family lawyers as no-fault divorce arrives | Law Gazette https://t.co/zUnl9cBRxp
- Tigray
has been the scene of ‘ethnic cleansing’, say human rights groups -
Human Rights Watch-Amnesty report accuses #Ethiopian paramilitaries of
war crimes and crimes against humanity https://t.co/N7VqEMy5LS
- Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, worth nearly 500 million has revealed she has non-domiciled status for UK tax purposes. The status means Ms Murty legally does not have to pay UK tax on income she earns outside Britain https://t.co/EsmCC2Hrfq
- Personal injury group raises £13.5m to aid international expansion - Legal Futures https://t.co/OB1b8EjR1t
- #Russian teacher ‘shocked’ as she faces jail over anti-war speech pupils taped https://t.co/36cp3JCCN9
- Eversheds Sutherland backs launch of new anti-fraud body in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/m9VCmyNO4P
