Edition 3832: 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: Afghanistan's devastating earthquake will be a major test for the Taliban-led government, since they took over the country less than six months ago. Sanctions imposed by the international community mean the nation has been cut off from receiving much overseas assistance. Longtime Afghanistan reporter Lynne O'Donnell tells The World has called it "a desperate situation".
Focus of the Day Article: The High Court has ordered that a law firm should be paid for months of work it carried out on a bond issue despite the transaction eventually being aborted. In Blacklion Law LLP v Amira Nature Foods Ltd & Anor His Honour Judge Paul Matthews ruled that central London firm Blacklion completed more than 90% of the work that would be needed for the transaction and should received the agreed £300,000 fixed fee. Full story - Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Surrogate girl, 6, loses battle to list her father on UK birth
certificate - Child’s case argued that practice of naming surrogate
mother’s husband breached her human rights https://t.co/vcWbECCy8d
- Profits soar by 25% at Weightmans | Law Gazette https://t.co/BFIK42igwK
- The Guardian view on Raab’s bill of rights: liberty bent to prejudice | Editorial https://t.co/WsONLiHUk8
- Solicitor who let one mistake "snowball" fined by tribunal - Legal Futures https://t.co/sPCRzSU2E
- The #US is banning the sale of all products sold by Juul, one of the country's top e-cigarette companies. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it did not have enough data to be sure that marketing the firm's products was "appropriate https://t.co/BbOT6Bw6vO
- Three
years after an artwork by graffiti artist Banksy was stolen from a door
at the Bataclan music hall in Paris, eight people have been convicted
of theft or handling stolen goods #France https://t.co/YXV4gatn78
- #Ukraine and #Moldova have both been granted EU candidate status, President of the European Council Charles Michel has announced https://t.co/fr6Lf3WjNX
- Greens MP calls for inquiry into botched NSW police operation against Blockade #Australia https://t.co/wyxPKzF3Cc
- Bill of Rights: Raab pledges ‘fundamental commitment’ to ECHR | Law Gazette https://t.co/HhBNYZY570
- Lawyers who break AML rules face bigger, more public fines - Legal Futures https://t.co/x30nx39FA
- Environmental concerns remain as Toyota files appeal against class action ruling over diesel filters #Australia https://t.co/mWJgrUpFqU
- The provisions so far announced for the government's Bill of Rights will put the UK on a collision course with the rule of law, the Law Society said | Law Gazette https://t.co/EEAJy0OsoD
- Court says widower can use embryo made with late wife - Ted Jennings, 38, has argued he has the blessing of Fern-Marie Choya, who died, aged 40, in 2019, while pregnant with their twins https://t.co/V73GphFXqi
- The #US Supreme Court has struck down a New York law restricting gun carrying rights. The law required residents who want a licence to prove "proper cause" to carry concealed weapons https://t.co/0UVdUdLCr0
- Two people have been charged with conspiring to transport a child into the UK in order to harvest organs. Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, and Ike Ekweremadu, 60, both Nigerian nationals, will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court later https://t.co/Ydr76EaXFK
- Value of medico-legal market slumps by further 5% - Legal Futures https://t.co/bcyNJpU5Kf
- A British bill of rights? This draconian plan is a rights removal bill https://t.co/lqLIrYYYZT
- 11-year old Raheem Bailey, a pupil at Abertillery Learning Community in Blaenau Gwent, caught his finger climbing a fence trying to escape racist bullies https://t.co/NYMozZCBbX
- Met to be re-investigated over serial killer - Stephen Port, 47, is serving a whole-life term for the murders of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor in Barking, East London https://t.co/kUj8vWQdhR
- Young people go to European court to stop treaty that aids fossil fuel investors - Five claimants aged 17-31 want their governments to exit the energy charter treaty, which compensates oil and gas firms https://t.co/DD2muTDviz
- Widower wins right to have baby using embryo created with his late wife - ‘False narrative’: campaigners say British bill of rights could undermine free speech https://t.co/7vTLkoOV1Q https://t.co/datu3Vwis
- Family specialists choose employee ownership over acquisition - Legal Futures https://t.co/3hFAMabYV9
- The Guardian view on criminal record checks: the case for second chances https://t.co/fCLCRzAqj
- Barristers participating in court walkouts over the government’s legal aid reforms could face wasted costs and disciplinary proceedings, the lord chief justice warned | Law Gazette https://t.co/N6JyG2LcsU
- Refugees previously despatched to Rwanda now in Europe - as recently as 2017, refugees despatched there by Israel were rapidly deported and are now in Europe https://t.co/lHQE7hbKT3
- Three fishing crew died off north Wales because their boat was unstable and heavily loaded, a report has found. Ross Ballantine, 39, Alan Minard, 20, and skipper Carl McGrath, 34, all died when their boat, the Nicola Faith, sank https://t.co/PAfxL2cni
- The days of spending paper banknotes in the shops are numbered: 100 days, to be exact - so start hunting at home. Remaining paper £20 or £50 notes should be spent or deposited by the end of September, the Bank of England said https://t.co/4XffPijTrK
- Heavy rain, threadbare resources and rugged terrain are hampering rescuers in south-east #Afghanistan, where a powerful earthquake is reported to have killed more than 1,000 people https://t.co/yGAPMsWQ1
- 8 medical personnel to stand trial accused of criminal negligence in the death #Argentinian Diego Maradona. A judge has ordered a culpable homicide trial after a medical panel found Maradona's treatment was rife with "deficiencies and irregularities" https://t.co/zuhapllIz
- Glencore pleads guilty to bribery related to African oil operations - SFO says subsidiary of commodity trading company will be sentenced in November https://t.co/XErWwHpFH
- Lawyers who break AML rules face bigger, more public fines - Legal Futures https://t.co/x30nx3rgYE
- The master of the rolls Sir Geoffrey Vos, in his recent speech on the future of disputes, predicted that most personal injury and medical negligence disputes ‘will be resolved very quickly’ by artificial intelligence | Law Gazette https://t.co/dpbsU02UrC
- A pregnant woman has recounted the "horrendous" conditions she endured as a modern slavery victim. Maros Tancos tricked the victim and numerous other vulnerable Slovaks into coming to the UK with the promise of a better life https://t.co/AECwh2GeeH
- Solicitor struck off for blue badge misuse fails in High Court appeal - Legal Futures https://t.co/FFSyd1CAEo
- The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that #Russia may stop supplying gas to Europe this winter https://t.co/ZhnTZ3llxb
- Legal profession finding new ways to treat trauma | Law Gazette https://t.co/25Jf6vDWKH
