17th May - Law News

Edition 3794: 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: Jay Chandler (Appellant) v The State (Respondent) (No 2) (Trinidad and Tobago) – JCPC 2020/0051

Focus of the Day Article:  It is difficult to disagree with the sentiments expressed in the editorial about the actions of Messrs Jackson and McConnachie who have damaged the reputation of the legal profession in Scotland and the Faculty of Advocates in particular. There will be those who would wish these two to be removed as practising lawyers and there will be those who will take the view that their activities support the introduction of the proposed regulatory body which will oversee entry to the profession and discipline of those who are already members. Full story - Scottish Legal News

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Accused languishes in jail after Trial Judge misinterprets Supreme Court bail order; SC calls for action | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/6rLGhdrUCh 
• Solicitor apprenticeships: what you need to know... - Legal Cheek https://t.co/f5625ybAZZ 
• Jammu and Kashmir confluence of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam; plurality should be sustained: CJI NV Ramana quotes poet Raja Basu | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/x77kC7FYkC
• Latest speakers announced as profession gears up for LegalEdCon 2022 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/k7BCgAf9S1
• The possibility of more rises in food prices is a "major worry" for the UK and other countries, the Bank of England governor has warned. Apologising for sounding "apocalyptic", Andrew Bailey said the war in Ukraine was affecting food supplies https://t.co/h4J1KohWNU
  
• Meet the Bar Pro Bono Award Winners 2021 | COUNSEL https://t.co/eCtpKyKYOy
• Ropes & Gray launches social mobility work experience programme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/BLW8e9gGmZ
• Callum Wheeler found guilty of murdering police community support officer Julia James while she was walking her dog in woodland in Kent. He beat Mrs James to death with a railway jack after "ambushing" the 53-year-old in woods near her home in Snowdon https://t.co/jg4oylMFif 
• A fifth of law firms will require LPC grads to sit parts of the SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/nJaaGFtJcv 
• Barrister's best: Michael J Beloff QC | COUNSEL https://t.co/a4gqfsY3Hq 
• film actress and her martial arts instructor husband have been jailed for child sex offences. Zara Phythian - who appeared in Doctor Strange with Benedict Cumberbatch - sexually abused a 13-year-old girl together with her husband Victor Marke https://t.co/HdXxLRE7GT 
• The Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) has launched a consultation on the impact of fixed recoverable costs (FRC) on vulnerable parties and witnesses in civil cases | NLJ https://t.co/swioRHz5hF
• How to solve a problem like Brecani? | COUNSEL https://t.co/yg33kLwxSC 
• ‘The legal industry is not a hierarchy with private practice at the top’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Yw1FQo4y5R 
• The fast-developing role of DNA in criminal prosecutions and challenges therein | COUNSEL https://t.co/yr0uScC8Gl 
• A tale of two femicides - and media bias https://t.co/CQROdKMZyS 
• Tail docking, animal fighting, animal mutilation, administering poison and causing unnecessary suffering are to be given more severe sentences, under proposed Sentencing Council guidelines | NLJ https://t.co/iu4zP8j5FN 
• The attorney general’s office was worthy of respect. Suella the stooge disgraces it: Indulging the PM on the Northern Ireland protocol is to hold her own role in contempt https://t.co/6IiU7Uzyoh 
• Delhi High Court seeks report about illegal hair salons after death of 35-year-old from hair transplant | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/O5ZZdihdO5 
• The price of wheat has jumped on international markets after #India banned the export of the staple cereal. The export ban comes after a heatwave hit India's wheat crops, taking domestic prices to a record high https://t.co/Ytrnu314jT 
• Squire Patton Boggs bumps NQ rates to £100k from January 2023 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/pvWxV9WvWH
  
• 'The overall culture in law is damaging many junior lawyers’, JLD chair warns - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mv5Gqry3Ns
  
• Prima Facie: 'Comer is fantastic in this one-woman show' | COUNSEL https://t.co/i2vrfjn9JS' 
• On this day, 100 years ago, the first woman was called to the bar - Legal Cheek https://t.co/MJ6SfSbowh 
• Book review: Spider Woman: a Life | COUNSEL https://t.co/crWD5krzXq May 16, 2022
• SQE prep provider pledges to reduce law fair merch in new eco push - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ad5T3e9lmO

16th May - Law News

Edition 3793: 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: Finland has confirmed that it will apply for Nato membership, abandoning the neutral status the country has held since the end of World War Two. The move comes despite warnings from Russian president Vladimir Putin, who told his Finnish counterpart that joining Nato would be a "mistake". President Sauli Niinisto called it a "historic day". He says the shift in policy is in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Focus of the Day Article:  Slater & Gordon has been ordered to provide details of alleged ‘secret commissions’ paid by an insurer, in a test case that could open the ‘floodgates’. The High Court this week ordered the firm to answer Part 18 requests for information from former personal injury clients Rhys Edwards and Wayne Raubenheimer. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Squire Patton Boggs bumps NQ rates to £100k from January 2023 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/pvWxV9WvWH 
• 'The overall culture in law is damaging many junior lawyers’, JLD chair warns - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mv5Gqry3Ns
• Prima Facie: 'Comer is fantastic in this one-woman show' | COUNSEL https://t.co/i2vrfjn9JS' 
• On this day, 100 years ago, the first woman was called to the bar - Legal Cheek https://t.co/MJ6SfSbowh
• Book review: Spider Woman: a Life | COUNSEL https://t.co/crWD5krzXq 
• SQE prep provider pledges to reduce law fair merch in new eco push - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ad5T3e9lmO
• Barristers are particularly at risk of burnout because of the nature of our work and our approach to it – but it doesn’t have to be this way | COUNSEL https://t.co/OGKxRcCC6F
• The man who killed a stranger with a single punch, and then turned his life around https://t.co/SXBLfmwloY 
• Build your practice as a junior tenant: top tips to help fledgling junior tenants navigate the exhilarating – and exhausting – early years of practice | COUNSEL https://t.co/gR2exrzfXT
• Dominoes player wins case over ‘racist’ noise ban in London square - Westminster city council decision to ban Ernest Theophile, 74, and friends from gathering was ‘flawed’ and ‘untenable’, says judge https://t.co/vMMOb8bXDm
  
• Ukraine refugees staying with UK hosts not cleared by criminal record checks https://t.co/2dRUP30chP 
• The Weekly Round-up: Roe v Wade, Bell v Tavistock and guidance on suitable accommodation and misuse of private information - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/Ka7EAeEfEr
  
• David Sherborne: the ‘Wagatha Christie’ star lawyer with a celebrity following https://t.co/MwvdyZ3SwY 
• Young Barristers’ Committee’s raft of initiatives designed to address your issues of concern | COUNSEL https://t.co/8OBqvXIVp
• Bombay High Court pulls up State authorities for compelling English teacher to take Math classes, withholding his salary | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/QOisU9Imr4 May 15, 2022
• Why the UK’s dire rates of sick pay bode ill for the economy https://t.co/uroOkULxHV
• Law Pod UK Latest Episode: Belfast special report. Elections, the Northern Ireland Protocol and non-diminution of EU rights - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/SD8oS18BSp
• Manchester Law School makes module on Excel, PowerPoint and Word compulsory on LLB - Legal Cheek https://t.co/HqMNApzbzB
• A woman who died with her three dogs after they were hit by a car has been named by police. Olivia Riley, 41, from Suffolk, was found dead after officers and paramedics were called to Cheyne Walk in Chelsea at about 06:20 BST on Saturday https://t.co/sivQJHb8cA
• Litigation funder sets aside £6m for client redress | Law Gazette https://t.co/C1pVf3Tccq
  
• US firm trainee: 'Should I pay off my student loan in one go?' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/KFJtudRMI
• Does it pay to represent yourself in court? | Law Gazette https://t.co/CZSA1udjbb
• Ten killed in ‘racially motivated’ shooting in Buffalo, US - Ten killed in ‘racially motivated’ shooting. White gunman kills 10, wounds three at a supermarket in a Black neighbourhood in Buffalo, New York state https://t.co/xUUBhstMDB
• Solicitors are being asked for their views on how to stop unscrupulous sellers, following a surge in the funeral plans market | NLJ https://t.co/wLrarPHXlR 
• Ex-managing partner misled tribunal in discrimination claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/qycbyQRA8o
• Criminal barristers’ ‘no returns’ policy in protest at the underfunding of the justice system & low advocacy fees is ‘causing significant & widespread disruption to the listing of cases in courts’, Criminal Bar Association (CBA) chair Jo Sidhu QC has said https://t.co/LhL30CNMwG
• The UK response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis: should Ukrainian refugees claim asylum in the first safe country they reach? | COUNSEL https://t.co/WbNFea1rQO
  
• First class law grad ditches legal career to play Call of Duty professionally - Legal Cheek https://t.co/oniNnOizkR 
• A Metropolitan Police officer accused of a string of sex offences has appeared in court charged with three further counts of rape. David Carrick, 47, of Hertfordshire, faces a total of 44 charges relating to 12 women between 2003 and 2020 https://t.co/d6iOA81HZW
  
• The attorney general’s office was worthy of respect. Suella the stooge disgraces it https://t.co/F3BdOtKbBa 
• Queen’s platinum jubilee: the royals must span the social divides - Brexit, Covid and Black Lives Matter have highlighted divisions in society. But we have more in common than we sometimes realise https://t.co/b62LQ7MWBC
  
• A man who sexually assaulted two women and carried out a series of hammer attacks in central London has been jailed. Morteza Ahmadi, 39, randomly targeted pedestrians and pub-goers in and around Regent Street on 1 October 2021 https://t.co/scILCoVFuJ

15th May - Law News

Edition 3792: 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: At least 27 people were killed and 12 were injured in a fire at a four-storey commercial building in Delhi, India's Mundka on Friday evening. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today visited the fire incident site. Mr Kejriwal said that the Delhi government has ordered a magisterial enquiry into the incident and the culprits will not be spared. He announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for the families of those who were killed. The injured will be given Rs 50,000 each, he said.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Slater & Gordon has been ordered to provide details of alleged ‘secret commissions’ paid by an insurer, in a test case that could open the ‘floodgates’ | NLJ https://t.co/dOZsqEBekq 
• Northern Ireland’s abortion buffer zones bill referred to UK Supreme Court | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Vp9RSOEgsc
• Legal services boom continues despite sanctions | Law Gazette https://t.co/Oy4d3uxImD
• Protestors against a female immigration detention centre say it "retraumatises" already vulnerable women. Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre in County Durham houses women waiting to be deported from the UK https://t.co/Q49NqIlJFr 
• The Court of Appeal has unanimously rejected BT’s argument that a collective proceedings order (CPO) should be ‘opt-in’, in a mass action claiming it abused its dominant market position by charging excessive landline prices | NLJ https://t.co/IieuTd2rp3 
• A 24-hour curfew has been declared in Sokoto, #Nigeria, after protesters took to the streets demanding the release of two suspects in the murder of a Christian student last week https://t.co/YPFTxv4au8 
• Means test timetable 'could be brought forward' due to inflation | Law Gazette https://t.co/uFlVMLozhz
  
• Wakefield Labour executive resigns accusing Keir Starmer of byelection stitch-up: Members quit en masse over ‘arrogant’ handling of candidate selection process https://t.co/Zsx0HyNCVb
• A film series on the next generation of women leaders in the law, Next 100 Voices, has been launched by Next 100 Years, the successor project to First 100 Years | NLJ https://t.co/nQbGeDGCpS 
• Legal academics appointed to Royal Irish Academy committee | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MzvBW49Pat 
• Bar watchdog ‘must do better’ on investigations, DG admits | Law Gazette https://t.co/6JiGLHWMDI 
• Plan to reduce time limit for complaints to LeO “goes too far” - Legal Futures https://t.co/fSa3mzR5Es 
• A former firearms officer awarded £1m from Police Scotland says no amount of compensation will "ever make up for the pain and sacrifices" she made. Rhona Malone was victimised while working for the force, an employment tribunal ruled last year https://t.co/zi0DFvqZxy 
• Comments about man’s bald head ruled to be sexual harassment | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WMv08CFgYi
  
• High Court: Judge criticises terms in adoption legislation which ‘needlessly hurt the feelings’ of parents and children | Irish Legal News https://t.co/5KTf2vz5eT
  
• Land Registry admits limits of property reference numbers | Law Gazette https://t.co/tJ0S19rxCa 
• MPs and peers urge bigger fines for lawyers who break AML rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/jLparPGh5y
• Mason Hayes & Curran hires Eimear Lyons as corporate partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/IBvbEvq9Fo
• "Eating and petrol. That's what I use the money for," says Zach. The 30-year-old from Chester is explaining how he spent the money he got after pawning his laptop https://t.co/rwv3KpItIl 
• Fifty non-white migrants have been told they will be the first to be sent to Rwanda in east Africa as part of the Tory government's controversial resettlement policy https://t.co/iF1XXW3GPK
  
• The Tory government is cutting ties with the National Union of Students because the latter's support of Palestinian rights, which is seen as anti-Israel bias by some Jewish students https://t.co/Mc45sgqgyA
• The government is to delay a ban on multi-buy deals for junk food and pre-watershed TV advertising as families struggle with the cost of living https://t.co/VKWg9T7zOn 
• MoJ denies new pilot scheme removes right to a trial | Law Gazette https://t.co/enjfJnUYnw 
• Ukraine has started its first war crimes trial since the beginning of #Russia's invasion, with a 21-year-old soldier appearing in the dock accused of killing an unarmed civilian https://t.co/XggLbevsK1 
• Why lawyers should be thinking about sustainable development - Legal Futures https://t.co/fyuwkDq1Sz 
• Clyde & Co promotes six to legal director in Scotland | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9BKX9ORgpR 
• Two women have been arrested over the death of an eight-month-old baby following a "medical episode" at a nursery. Police were called to an incident at a nursery in Stockport, Greater Manchester, on Monday https://t.co/mZYp4LjpOf
  
• Calling a man ‘bald’ is sexual harassment, employment tribunal rules https://t.co/f8tQmwX4Gx 
• A former bank employee has been jailed for taking almost £900,000 out of accounts, police have revealed. Hamzah Issak, 30, altered account details while working at a Leicester branch of HSBC between 2016 and 2018 https://t.co/8f223ptXAh

14th May - Law News

Edition 3791: 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: Violence broke out between mourners and Israeli police as the coffin of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was being carried to her funeral. The procession began in Jenin where she was shot and killed while covering a raid involving Israeli security services on Wednesday. Earlier, the Israeli Defence Force released a statement acknowledging that one of their soldiers could have been responsible for Abu Akleh's death.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Solicitors lose appeal over £2m invoice charged through DBA | Law Gazette https://t.co/VIXiMruuwI 
• Israeli police have hit mourners at the funeral of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqla, who was killed by #Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, causing a surge of anger https://t.co/E34pwq5UAl 
• Gilson Gray appoints Martin Cryans as business development director | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/us3I61ATnx 
• Plan to leave international surrogacy unregulated slammed by special rapporteur | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Nfv9ucxEdL
  
• Ukraine invasion: the legal basis for reparations | Law Gazette https://t.co/jedobYPoZj 
• Declassified files reveal UK government plan to discredit Amnesty International | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tUG0Zk3dx7
• Hunt for killers of anti-mafia prosecutor on honeymoon - #Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, 45, was shot dead on Tuesday on a beach in Colombia, where he was on honeymoon https://t.co/7dQLIccHSO 
• Law firms selling funeral plans “may need FCA regulation” - Legal Futures https://t.co/DjqKOstMNR
  
• 'We will sue the pants off them': outrage over LAA announcement | Law Gazette https://t.co/gntdKCwJYs
• Matheson: Regulation essential for widespread adoption of blockchain and crypto assets | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SqjSl6bkS3
• Experts scorn UK government claim it can ditch parts of NI protocol https://t.co/P6jNf3pGt6
• Judge finds ex-managing partner was ‘not truthful’ in tribunal claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/mQAlBYikMy 
• Lawtech start-ups bag multi-million pound investments - Legal Futures https://t.co/sf8No5bskd 
• Craig McLachlan denies lying about ‘air kissing’ colleagues in Rocky Horror Show, court hears https://t.co/urxwMwAZyb 
• HFW moving to new ‘sustainable’ London offices | Law Gazette https://t.co/9K6zDCiUCH 
• Solicitor who caused 25 claims on compensation fund struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/nIY95gdOW1 
• The number of adults waiting for social care in England has risen sharply to more than 500,000, according to estimates by social work bosses. Similar research last year put the figure at about 294,000, says Adass https://t.co/Ng5T10Lt1T 
• Beale & Co appoints insurance lawyer Jackie Cunningham as senior associate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/iB3sPvFXp0 
• Kayvon Beykpour, who led Twitter's consumer division, and Bruce Falck, who oversaw revenue, both tweeted on Thursday that the departures were not their decisions https://t.co/0TnTKSSOtF 
• Solicitor vanished after SRA probed missing deposit monies | Law Gazette https://t.co/z1rtSy9Ene 
• Data protection consultancy launches ABS to offer legal advice - Legal Futures https://t.co/slYg0P3p7S 
• #Rwandan genocide fugitive Protais Mpiranya confirmed dead https://t.co/MpFOaTnwSq 
• Under Boris Johnson, the rights of working women have become a feeble joke https://t.co/OdGkqfrGx0 
• A 15-year-old girl who has been missing for 15 days has been found at an address in Bristol, police have said. Madison or Maddie, was the subject of a large police search when she disappeared after leaving her house in the Southmead area on 26 April https://t.co/YLjMYHUZVo 
• Rebekah Vardy appears to accept agent leaked information to press https://t.co/08Rv6ltrxt

13th May - Law News

Edition 3790: 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 Bar Council's seminar exploring the growing number of International Criminal Law opportunities that exist outside of the main court structure, presented by experienced barristers with accomplished practice in International Criminal Law

Focus of the Day Article: Women made up 49% of Fortune 500 general counsel appointments in 2021. Drive by major US corporates to boost diversity bearing fruit as the remit of GC's also broadens, research finds. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Northern Ireland extends consultation on minimum alcohol pricing | Irish Legal News https://t.co/7dYcPJX3vE 
• Film scheme negligence case could yet reach Court of Appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/g8uPS4wXeu 
• A couple in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand are suing their only son and his wife for not giving them a grandchild after six years of marriage. Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad, 61 and 57, say they used up their savings raising their son #India https://t.co/ZYItf4RDBE
• President’s Dinner raises £5,000 for Lawscot Foundation students | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AVzoL7993R 
• 'We're the litigation forum of choice': Boyce optimistic about future | Law Gazette https://t.co/Tu7ZpUYoa1
• Natalie McGarry, former SNP MP found guilty of embezzling £25,000 https://t.co/PwmRhtciGr 
• The government is to fund a helpline for people who have had, or are at risk of, all forms of so-called conversion therapy. It will give tailored pastoral support to transgender people as well as those who are lesbian, gay or bisexual https://t.co/OOS13axYvQ 
• Police issue 50 more fines over Covid-rule breaking in Downing Street https://t.co/ReUPOmj2sz 
• The government is withholding security advice on Evgeny Lebedev's peerage on "national security" grounds. MPs voted in March to force the publication of secret documents, amid claims the security services had raised concerns about the Russian-born mogul https://t.co/wcqV47kwZn
  
• Irish Government apologises to people affected by illegal birth registration | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Bxr7Ee72TP
• Are #Canadians being driven to assisted suicide by poverty or healthcare crisis? https://t.co/zLJswGzgbd 
• SRA disciplinary decisions could stay in public domain for longer - Legal Futures https://t.co/3IiCgP0FUQ 
• Slater and Gordon ordered to answer secret commissions allegations | Law Gazette https://t.co/w5xNXE2ZIM
• This British ‘bill of rights’ is constitutional butchery that will make us all less free | Shami Chakrabarti https://t.co/A0Z7mhnMAo 
• Serial killer Levi Bellfield is engaged and has applied to marry in prison, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed. The 53-year-old will need the permission of the governor at HMP Frankland in County Durham https://t.co/z76VDlGNjr 
• MPs see lawyers clash over need for action to curb SLAPPs - Legal Futures https://t.co/xKI0ovE2va 
• A new group looking at whether to decriminalise cannabis in the UK has been set up by London mayor Sadiq Khan. Former justice secretary Lord Charlie Falconer QC will chair the first ever London Drugs Commission https://t.co/aYHrRP8v9U
  
• The PSNI has made an undisclosed settlement to the family of a GAA official murdered by loyalists in 1997 and apologised over inadequacies in the original investigation https://t.co/k3XwTUgYOG 
• Media silk pushes back on SLAPP legislation plans | Law Gazette https://t.co/1bl24TwQ6y 
• Editorial: Faculty must try harder to retain its independence | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vaJr1ElnsV 
• Judge throws out most of Swedish businessman’s libel claim in England - Svante Kumlin brought action in London court against Swedish journalists writing about him and his firm https://t.co/xknU2qIfjw
  
• A 77% rise in the most serious safety incidents logged by paramedics in England over the past year, compared to before the pandemic: Ambulance wait times endangering patients https://t.co/8dqYKEJUMa 
• Listed compliance company targets law firms with acquisition - Legal Futures https://t.co/XJ7dgU6rKy 
• #Cambodia is calling on the UK government to help it recover antiquities it says were stolen from its temples. The country's culture minister says the Victoria & Albert and British Museums both have looted objects https://t.co/82CaCFgc8o 
• UN Secretary General António Guterres says he is "appalled" by Wednesday's killing of veteran Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqla by #Israeli soldiers https://t.co/Udx8H98M1M 
• Magic circle firm Linklaters will train senior lawyers on the impact of menopause under a new global policy aimed at retaining and supporting women of all ages into senior roles | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ygpl1Rxf97 
• #India's Supreme Court has put a controversial colonial-era sedition law on hold that critics say is used to stifle dissent against the ultra-rightwing BJP government https://t.co/rOsuBAsdBe 
• It’s not just the US, Britain needs no-protest buffer zones around its abortion clinics too https://t.co/unYXn0yoL9
  
• Newry immigration firm shares some insights into advising clients from a border region location | Irish Legal News https://t.co/UqmkG5N9ec
  
• Due to the nature of the job, judges are so careful not to do anything that casts doubt on their independence or create a perception of bias that it’s sometimes easy to forget they’re just like you and me – human | Law Gazette https://t.co/oGNIzTYPUQ 
• PI firms face more deduction claims after Checkmylegalfees court win - Legal Futures https://t.co/RF1ynCQinw
  
• Elon Musk says if his bid to buy Twitter is successful he will reverse Donald Trump's ban from the platform. The richest man in the world agreed a $44bn (£34.5bn) takeover bid with the Twitter board last month https://t.co/gHQ35cA7RS 
• Craig McLachlan says 2018 reports of his alleged misconduct made him feel ‘helpless’, court hears https://t.co/USimjW7BXH 
• Costs bill struck out after it failed to give fee earner details | Law Gazette https://t.co/1oHHytR3cy 
• Stella Creasy says she was threatened with gang-rape at university: Labour MP says Cambridge officials reprimanded her instead of taking action against her harassers https://t.co/ZwfiawutUe

12th May - Law News

Edition 3789: 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: US officials say a murder suspect and a prison official who helped him escape from lockup were prepared for a shootout when they were captured by police. The manhunt came to a dramatic end when officers gave chase and collided with the couple's getaway car. The inmate, Casey White, is now back in custody - while his accomplice died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Focus of the Day Article: The head of the Criminal Bar Association has hailed the ‘extraordinary’ commitment of barristers participating in a nationwide protest over legal aid funding – with trials being listed deep into 2023. Since 11 April, hundreds of barristers have adopted ‘no returns’ – declining to cover for colleagues on cases that have been ‘returned’ – over the government’s refusal to increase criminal legal aid advocacy fees by 25%. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Three-day menstrual leave in Spain offered to women in European first https://t.co/Gv8PVrga7N
• The Rwandan lawyer trap has snapped shut | Law Gazette https://t.co/H3aSrwGXCd
• ‘My world fell apart’: life in prison with serious mental illness https://t.co/gIZ6Pyd5Y4
• Hundreds of mentally ill prisoners denied urgent treatment in England https://t.co/Gt7g9bDTub
• Nathaniel Leckie, Tyler Tucker, and Jordell Keegan held gun to dad's head before taking dog's eye out in terrifying burglary - now jailed for a total of 26 years https://t.co/yowlYKGDV2
• Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, one of the Catholic Church's most senior members has been arrested in Hong Kong for breaking #China's national security law, police have confirmed https://t.co/swl6quNTTG 
• England: Guidelines propose tougher sentences for animal abusers | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yCo5grzuss
  
• William Fry appoints new partners and consultants | Irish Legal News https://t.co/NSNHBo1TBi 
• Criminal bar chief hails 'extraordinary' commitment to legal aid action | Law Gazette https://t.co/9iyh4ncAGn 
• Police say they believe a missing 15-year-old girl has been abducted. Madison Thomas, known as Maddie, has not been seen since she left her home in Southmead, Bristol, on 26 April, telling her family she was going to the shops https://t.co/LF2TSRRUkv
• Face masks will no longer have to be worn on flights and in airports in EU countries from next Monday, according to new official guidance https://t.co/ZSLcXmAdzg
• Craig McLachlan defamation trial: 11 women expected to allege misconduct by actor, court hears #Australia https://t.co/lf0MB3xMhC
  
• Neil Mackenzie QC: Libraries, like democracies, will outlast the violence of Putin | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SU3whFoEUW
• Government puts back fixed costs extension by six months - Legal Futures https://t.co/JoBTfXGi4p 
• Ropes & Gray launches social mobility scholarship scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/Wckryfd1sX 
• Priti Patel, hear this loud and clear: Julian Assange must not be handed over to the US https://t.co/rOXnawbX5u 
• BT collective proceedings to remain ‘opt-out’ claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/aWO4GvPJjY
• An advertising campaign for Tesco Mobile which used the names of foods as substitutes for expletives has been banned. The newspaper ads, Twitter posts and outdoor posters used words like "shiitake" and "pistachio" instead of swear words https://t.co/LfxXxoY3Iw 
• An attack on a boy in Bristol who was struck with an oar is now being treated as a racially motivated assault. Police officers were called to Conham River Park on 26 March after a woman pushed Antwon, 12, during a dispute and hit him with the paddle https://t.co/YCgHpuQp3Z 
• Appeal court deprecates “act of deliberate concealment” by party - Legal Futures https://t.co/P5lMWnMyaB
• Wigan cocaine boss rumbled after posting beer snap online - Leon Atkinson led a gang involved in drug deals worth £9m in just three months, Greater Manchester Police said https://t.co/5EaMX1aBg0
• #SriLanka witnessed a second night of arson attacks on Tuesday, with properties damaged in the town of Negombo, near the capital, Colombo. A mob torched a luxury holiday resort owned by the son of the former Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaks https://t.co/ZRuNQcmXoq 
• A New Jersey court has granted parole to the oldest former member of the Black Panthers after nearly five decades in prison. Sundiata Acoli, 85, was sentenced to life in prison in 1974 for the murder of a police officer the previous year https://t.co/JqyVIK5m1s 
• ‘Criminalising our right to protest’: green groups’ anger over public order bill https://t.co/b7DJawlV1G 
• Tax Bar Association to be launched this week | Irish Legal News https://t.co/cDKGATTON7
  
• Fixed costs extension earmarked for April 2023 | Law Gazette https://t.co/yzwcadfWl9 
• People will be given the right to vote on proposed property extensions in their area as part of new planning reforms, the government says. The plan sees previous proposals which made it harder to block development dropped after a backlash from Tory MPs https://t.co/TX9ZcDetyz 
• Al Jazeera journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh has been shot dead while reporting on a raid by Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. He was shot "deliberately" and "in cold blood" by #Israeli troops. Another reporter was shot & wounded https://t.co/tszoUHPnGl 
• Shepherd and Wedderburn advises on distribution facility deal | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JAsAGicJt0
• Judge tells regulators to use summary processes against vexatious litigants - Legal Futures https://t.co/ljP9R2BCaU
  
• Queen’s speech shows Boris Johnson is out of ideas, says Labour - Agenda includes bills to overhaul planning and human rights law but few new cost of living measures https://t.co/2JVHecet3j 
• 'Reach out': lawyers highlight pressures of dispute resolution work | Law Gazette https://t.co/GCiHJhQJbY 
• Solicitor struck off for sexually assaulting friend’s wife - Legal Futures https://t.co/Vj3GV22cXz 
• Police spy who stole identity of dead baby was not prosecuted, inquiry hears - CPS decided not to pursue case against undercover officer despite evidence he had broken the law https://t.co/SImIo71xxx 
• Ports and unions criticise Shapps’ plan for law on seafarers’ minimum wage - Legislation announced in Queen’s Speech in response to P&O Ferries’ sacking of 800 crew https://t.co/ZOYvz5JqKl 
• Queen’s Speech: Bill of Rights and Brexit freedoms | Law Gazette https://t.co/DUa68YKV1g 
• A nurse "fixated by sex" who filmed up the gowns of unconscious hospital patients has been jailed for 12 years. Paul Grayson videoed four women as they recovered from surgery at Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital https://t.co/41yJR0XjNW
  
• Overturning Roe v Wade will destroy our civil rights – so don’t ask us to be ‘civil’ #US https://t.co/sTeNQIPwVp

11th May - Law News

Edition 3788: 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: For the first time since 1963, the Queen missed reading out the government's legislative plans - leaving Prince Charles and William to fly the royal flag. For Boris Johnson's critics this wasn't the only omission. There was no dedicated bill to help families bear the burden of the highest price rises in 40 years: in its place a vague commitment to grow the economy. But the heir to the throne did have a list of 38 bills - including legislation to try and make good on the levelling up pledge. 

Focus of the Day Article: The difficulty of people signing up to a collective action and the availability of third-party funding were legitimate factors to take into account in making it opt-out, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Full story - Legal Futures

Saturday Conversations on Law

• NEW Law Society of Scotland accredited PEAT2 training provider – Kinch Robinson | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/i6NkL3DYuF 
• Consequences ‘dire’ if Human Rights Act ditched, more than 50 groups warn https://t.co/WbRt7DvPje
  
• #SriLankan troops ordered to open fire on looters and vandals as protests continue - Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the island's worst economic crisis in history https://t.co/98xA3gzLhL 
• Rights groups condemn plan to scrap Human Rights Act | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CQLRofmZI3 
• Turkish flight aborted as passengers get plane crash pics - Several young #Israelis were identified as suspects and are being questioned. The plane departed five hours late after being cleared to leave https://t.co/qj33jidi5R 
• SLAPPs risk tarnishing the reputation of our justice system | Law Gazette https://t.co/MF57P8oBd5 
• Matheson opens new premises in Cork city centre | Irish Legal News https://t.co/27xudm526N 
• Judges have overturned a decision to award £290,000 compensation to the son of a diver who died off Cape Wrath. Lex Warner, from Sutton Coldfield, was injured in a fall on the boat before he made the dive on the Highlands' north coast in 2012 https://t.co/LEveVOB8fz
• Mental health: 'Time for a culture change in the law' | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZhgljZIGT5 
• Troubles victims’ families seek Supreme Court appeal over UK legacy plans | Irish Legal News https://t.co/h96iOPIdoe 
• Footage of the moment Ava White was stabbed and her alleged killer fleeing the scene has been played to a jury. The 12-year-old died after she was stabbed in Liverpool city centre while out with friends on 25 November 2021 https://t.co/yV3ztDxef7 
• Rebekah Vardy "had no choice" but to bring the libel claim against Coleen Rooney, the High Court has been told. Her lawyer Hugh Tomlinson said it was necessary to "establish her innocence and vindicate her reputation" https://t.co/J8KlIKfHUn 
• Rights reform and Brexit freedoms expected in Queen’s speech | Law Gazette https://t.co/Sd0DrubTUM 
• Tory MP Jamie Wallis has pleaded not guilty to four traffic offences. Mr Wallis, from Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, has denied failing to stop, failing to report a road traffic collision, careless driving and leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position https://t.co/BoEmy255xu 
• The omission from the Queen's Speech of measures to improve workers' rights has been met with backlash. Flexible working rights, protections against pregnancy discrimination, and rights for staff to keep all tips had been hoped for in an Employment Bill https://t.co/vbBx1vTIr7 
• NI Court of Appeal: Prisoner fails in bid to have his housing benefit continue while imprisoned | Irish Legal News https://t.co/OdDStpMAFr 
• LiP loses costs challenge over 'no longer instructed' barrister | Law Gazette https://t.co/PrsgHkicj9 
• Solicitor who injected blood into food not guilty due to insanity - Legal Futures https://t.co/s9cKffLn6h 
• Swansea is the first Welsh council joins Land Registry's digital register | Law Gazette https://t.co/zsslSyC4r5 
• Davidson Chalmers Stewart promotes Steven McAllister to partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mYVhFTKx7b 
• Women have spoken about their experiences of sexual assaults and violence in and around city centre venues. Police in Southampton have said tackling violence against women and girls is now their top priority https://t.co/wSGfcWb2Wt 
• Solicitor jailed for sexual assault struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/mWygysHWbC 
• Prince Charles is to read the Queen's Speech on her behalf for the first time ever, after the 96-year-old monarch pulled out due to mobility problems. He will open Parliament with the Duke of Cambridge, after the Queen granted special permission https://t.co/WGwWTGw5zb 
• Court of Appeal backs decision to make collective action opt-out - Legal Futures https://t.co/A84ZUQLIwz 
• Alarm after EHRC says long Covid should not be treated as disability https://t.co/GRpbXixYe9 
• Russia - City firms 'applying sniff test' to potential clients | Law Gazette https://t.co/NGaVNn425d 
• Best of the blogs - 7 May 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/V6fnIbpKtT 
• SRA budget to rise £5.3m this year as cost of living crisis bites - Legal Futures https://t.co/B0SFi8ZktJ 
• Affordable Covid drugs kept out of reach by sluggish WTO https://t.co/ncH5RPOtFK 
• Mother in law: The writing process continues - Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England | Law Gazette https://t.co/hBBH9krbQR
  
• Jail for solicitor who plundered elderly client's bank account - Legal Futures https://t.co/FVa6bytRPQ