21st July - Law News

Edition 3859: 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: Judgments have been given this morning by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the following cases: [1] Harpur Trust (Appellant) v Brazel (Respondent) - [2022] UKSC 2019/0209 On appeal from: [2019] EWCA Civ 1402 This appeal concerns the calculation of annual leave and holiday pay entitlements for workers who work for varying hours during only certain weeks of the year but have a contract throughout that year (“part-year workers”). More information is available on our website: UKSC 2019/0209

Focus of the Day Article: Prison lawyers have decided to boycott the next meeting of a Parole Board stakeholder forum over the government’s refusal to increase legal aid fees for prison law work. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Supreme Court to proceed with latest independence case | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QoPfdt9ElT
• Lynda Greenwood inquest opening held into death of solicitor in Yorkshire house fire https://t.co/kxjbgV0AG
• SDT makes no order over solicitor’s ‘angry’ email | Law Gazette https://t.co/fs6a7AYVWh
  
• Former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium buys Rs 85-crore Delhi Bungalow #India https://t.co/WNajL5outX
• Axiom solicitor made money ‘hand over fist’ while investors ‘lost everything’, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/x229OccXb3
• Fine for partner who failed to detail work on client files - Legal Futures https://t.co/uxf3WLCXwt 
• Firm to pay £35,000 to paralegal sacked after surgery | Law Gazette https://t.co/e8D0Mm8dua
• Want to get wed in a forest or a field? A makeover of marriage laws could be love at first sight https://t.co/Pmvds1a6B
• Law reform could bring in weddings on the beach | Law Gazette https://t.co/JkDLgz7Evx
• Why I am suing the #Australian government over my hotel detention after being brought from Manus Island - Mostafa Azimitabar https://t.co/3vamgAUbrr
• Apple settles US butterfly-keyboard legal action for $50m. The keyboards were prone to dust and debris related sticky key issues https://t.co/PGZGzc8NO
• The European Commission has urged countries across the bloc to cut their gas use by 15% from August to March amid fears Russia could halt supplies https://t.co/FJZH9PpEW
• Stamp duty holiday sparks 85% surge in Land Registry complaints - Legal Futures https://t.co/wasGwIyn0
• Clients shopping around and more satisfied than ever - official | Law Gazette https://t.co/8IwL3kxvw
• Your sand in marriage: plans to relax wedding rules in England and Wales https://t.co/sEFfwU43um
• Prison lawyers to boycott forum as legal aid dispute escalates | Law Gazette https://t.co/4ecYXNcKpT
• Class action firm scores “largest ever” £100m funding deal - Legal Futures https://t.co/FNxtCQASdj
• Off to see the members: bar takes legal aid fight to parliament | Law Gazette https://t.co/mkiAF8OJmk
• A Samsung ad criticised for showing a woman running alone at 02:00 has been cleared by the advertising watchdog. People complained that the smart watch campaign was irresponsible for encouraging unsafe behaviour https://t.co/wey91TKQ3e
• The Tories are upping their attack on our democracy, under cover of the leadership contest https://t.co/f7YVk4b45
• Legal execs seek SRA regulation switch | Law Gazette https://t.co/7nJdGNUbVm
• Consumers increasingly shopping around for lawyers, panel finds - Legal Futures https://t.co/86xUkXHxe1
• Empire, the common law and the ECHR | Law Gazette https://t.co/jkEdvkOkjP Jul 20, 2022
• Clifford Chance’s record results push PEP above £2m | Law Gazette https://t.co/ySXQj7e1R
• A video showing a student being harassed by a man on a Cardiff street has been watched more than two million times https://t.co/bnFCiapKY7
  
• Medical students in England will have to pass mandatory training to diagnose and treat female health conditions under plans to improve women's health https://t.co/mKS7yUmKFg

20th July - Law News

Edition 3858: 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: Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has severely hit workers in the island’s biggest export industry - tea. The industry, which normally brings in more than $1bn per year, employs some two million people, but production levels have dropped. Farmers said they are struggling for fuel to transport goods and are still reeling from the government’s decision to ban chemical fertiliser last year, which has since been reversed.

Focus of the Day Article: HM Land Registry (HMLR) was hit by a surge of 85% in complaints over the past year in the wake of the property boom sparked by the stamp duty holiday, its annual report has revealed. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A #US judge has ordered that Twitter's lawsuit against Elon Musk go to trial in October, a blow to the world's richest man who had asked for a delay https://t.co/r3FD19KqwZ
• A rise in exotic pet ownership means snakebite injuries are becoming more common in the UK, doctors are warning. In the last 11 years medics have seen and treated 300 victims https://t.co/JiDrcBPv7
• XR protesters smash windows of News UK over coverage of Britain’s heatwave - Activists target London HQ of Rupert Murdoch’s media company after UK weather treated as upbeat story https://t.co/Bt3lNwvo8R
  
• Axiom solicitor made money ‘hand over fist’ while investors ‘lost everything’, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/x229ObVlM
• Volumes 1–4 of Legal Leaders Case Study Compendium feat. Nestlé, Oracle, Telefónica and many more | Irish Legal News https://t.co/1rPCU9S0ub
• £187m of Windsor family wealth hidden in secret royal wills https://t.co/yCVl56ohhp
• South Asian Heritage Month: why it matters | Law Gazette https://t.co/QYLQreXfRj
• BSB board members call for “radical thinking” on backlog - Legal Futures https://t.co/vHR6KmxtJH
• Anti-Corbyn Labour officials covertly diverted election funds away from winnable seats, Forde report finds https://t.co/sxpZQi9Rzr
• Apple has been hit with a lawsuit in the US over Apple Pay. The tech giant is being accused of using its market power in the mobile phone industry to fend off competition from other payment card issuers #US https://t.co/zGnbiPwDHE
• Forensic inquiry to examine UK rape case after man’s 17 years in jail - DNA links another man to the crime in Greater Manchester for which Andrew Malkinson was jailed https://t.co/wx6DF7nkT
• CJC forum brainstorms costs reform | Law Gazette https://t.co/1xr4ogeyFN Jul 19, 2022
• Bar Council and Law Society unhappy with LSB's oversight reforms - Legal Futures https://t.co/JQ5om1jpU
• Ángel Bello Cortés promoted to partner at Fragomen | Irish Legal News https://t.co/V118DA4oM6
• Artificial intelligence rules to require human liability | Law Gazette https://t.co/ogTyawNfEb
• A domestic abuse charity has spoken to ITV about "misogynistic and controlling behaviour" on Love Island. Women's Aid said it was forced to act after being tagged in so many social posts about the show by viewers https://t.co/KhmkfApLl
• ESG key to expanding litigation funding market, says report - Legal Futures https://t.co/kJ9t4eYpBU
• Lindsays lawyers share expertise with emerging game creators | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ewrs1fylrA
• Bar protest goes to parliament as five-day walkout begins | Law Gazette https://t.co/GTrQ87eSOt 
• Court orders UK government to explain how net zero policies will reach targets - Green activists brought challenge, arguing climate change strategy did not spell out how carbon emissions cuts would be achieved https://t.co/TB6tZSreTd
• CLC warns on shutdowns after conveyancer abandons 15,000 files - Legal Futures https://t.co/ufXlBl4CsH
  
• Why did MI5 name Christine Lee as an 'agent of influence'? https://t.co/1YbqCzBRd6
• More than 2,000 tourists have been stranded in a #Chinese coastal city after a surge in coronavirus cases. Officials in Beihai locked down urban areas and ordered the mass testing of its 1.9m residents over the weekend https://t.co/zDfyimBz0T
• SDT blocks solicitor from returning 21 years after strike-off | Law Gazette https://t.co/x1dkVT5k11
• Julie Faverie joins aircraft lessor TrueNoord as legal counsel | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jh8iplwaXE
  
• Deborah Miller: Dorothy the turkey, veganism and the Equality Act | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/p0iYwnFEek 
• Medical expert witnesses ‘should not scapegoat doctors’ | Doctors | The Guardian - Ben Roberts-Smith was targeted after being awarded Victoria Cross, his barrister tells court #Australia https://t.co/h64GT7l9ee https://t.co/6wcf1jAqFX 
• Shoosmiths hands out £1,000 cost of living payment | Law Gazette https://t.co/DhyGa7K8Cq 
• How law firms can overcome the top five operational challenges - Legal Futures https://t.co/v4CdqgJG4l
  
• NI Court of Appeal: Man who sawed off partner’s head fails appeal alleging ineffective counsel | Irish Legal News https://t.co/mUjxDTNhkg
  
• Analysis: Service of proceedings via NFT on the blockchain — the future? | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ce9b2cifUh 
• Best of the blogs - 16 July 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/J2pBmBzTgh

19th July - Law News

Edition 3857: 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: A report into the fatal school shooting in Uvalde in Texas has found there were “multiple systemic failures” in the police response Nineteen students and two teachers were killed in the attack at Robb Elementary school - and although almost 400 police officers were at the scene - the report says they put their own safety ahead of the lives of children and staff, waiting more than an hour before the decision was taken to confront the gunman. 

Focus of the Day Article: Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal has rejected 12 separate grounds of appeal by a murderer who claimed his counsel were dishonest, lacking integrity, and encouraged him to perjure himself. Full story - Irish Legal News

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMG35z
• Ben Roberts-Smith was targeted after being awarded Victoria Cross, his barrister tells court #Australia https://t.co/h64GT7l9ee
• Clifford Chance joins firms handing cost of living bonuses to trainees and staff - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2mLqlpez8D
• Party autonomy, independence from governmental controls the guiding principles of IAMC: Registrar Tariq Khan | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/UDwenPr2l1
• Unpacking reforms to cyber and critical infrastructure - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Th0FsBLRqs
• Bye bye, BCAT: Bar aptitude test to be ditched this month - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PbwCnTUofb
  
• Drone to search wreckage after aircraft carrying ‘dangerous’ cargo crashes in #Greece https://t.co/SR8i15MbTy
• Unmarried women pregnant from consensual sex cannot terminate pregnancy older than 20 weeks: Delhi High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/7W4OZc6kiL 
• Jeremy Hartwell from the second series of Netflix show Love Is Blind is suing the streaming service over alleged breaches of labour laws alleging producers encouraged the cast to drink alcohol, while limiting access to food & water and underpaying them https://t.co/QMHMHEfL
• Bakers boosts NQ lawyer salaries to £110,000 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/T9udfgURmg
• Bombay High Court denies bail to 23-year-old accused of murdering girlfriend at New Year's eve party | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/1tN28VTqZF
• 'Pay criminal barristers properly', says PM hopeful Nadhim Zahawi - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zZRogleZK
• A ban on heading by players in matches at under-12 level is to be trialled by the Football Association https://t.co/snzsTtyccN
• You’re not taking the dog! How pet custody battles turned nasty https://t.co/p014Ne9BUd
• Rowdy sheets under Police Standing Orders, home visits, collecting personal info infringe privacy: Andhra Pradesh High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/giESwjvrGs
• A letter to the Law Society of England and Wales and the Bar Council, from the UK-based National Cyber Security Centre, has warned the legal professional body about “the role of solicitors paying off cyber black mailers” - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/LyIiv56CvQ
• Willkie increases LPC and GDL maintenance grants by a quarter - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mgo8u873qa
• The father of a sex-assault victim is backing barristers' strike action, even though it could add to the court delays. The fourth week of the action, over pay, will last for five days, adding to trial delays in England and Wales https://t.co/WB15X21FOp
  
• #Ukraine president Zelensky suspends security chief and top prosecutor - A total of 651 collaboration and treason cases had been opened against law enforcement officials, he added https://t.co/HuyGdBzN46
• Crypto: The good, the bad and the ugly - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/07LsgMeY2p
• X marks the spot: Treasure law reforms in England and Wales - Legal Cheek https://t.co/i6Z8xu1vw6
• Tool to assess jailed terrorists before release criticised as unreliable and prejudicial to Muslims #Australia https://t.co/yWLgO69NpM
• NIRF Rankings 2022: Symbiosis Pune joins NLSIU, NLU Delhi in top three Indian law schools | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/cj1w0wTcn
• Linklaters decides against upping NQ lawyer pay - for now - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JmN7qB6E75
• A union has called for a legal limit on how hot it can be in a workplace ahead of a red warning for extreme heat. The GMB union said workers should not have to contend with temperatures any higher than 25C https://t.co/hWLNKp4LBj
  
• Police in #Iran arrested several at protests against the near disappearance of what was once the world's second largest salt lake. Lake Urmia was the main began shrinking in 1995 due to extreme drought, agriculture & dam building https://t.co/i3Z5TSGR6Z 
• Highlights from The Legal Cheek-ULaw Summer 2022 Virtual Vacation Scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/n531PQIL0b
• Every lawyer owes a duty to the institution; don’t be a silent spectator: Madhya Pradesh's criminal law doyen Anil Khare | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/UGvHetnVJS

18th July - Law News

Edition 3856: 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: On creating inclusive workplaces for trans and non-binary people - Lesbian, gay, bi, trans and non-binary inclusion by the SRA. 

Focus of the Day Article: The Crown Court backlog has reduced by a mere 111 cases, from 58,386 in April 2022 to 58,275 in May 2022, the latest Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures show. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Has the Magic Circle lost its magic? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/6kOHL0hvIf
  
• ‘ESG is now BAU’, says BigLaw firm’s report: A new report from a global law firm details leading concerns for #Australian business leaders at this critical juncture, as well as their headline ESG priorities - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/b0tZqpJoG
• Freshfields ups financial support for SQE trainees to £20,000 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/YVEXdqnrZC
• Full video: How the SQE can help create a more diverse legal profession - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ky2peirFLM 
• Zahawi urged to explain source of £26m mystery loans: Chancellor’s £58m property firm used loans to buy commercial and retail premises across the UK https://t.co/TfuHypXECJ
• Law Pod UK latest: The 2022 Bill of Rights - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/lLfq3eHbSv 
• Bill forcing restaurants to hand over tips to staff wins MPs’ backing: Employers will no longer be able to withhold tips and will be obliged to share tipping records https://t.co/WvdahMFsHD
• Adam Harry, #India transgender pilot's long fight to fly - halfway through his flight training course, the state of Kerala stopped funding him after he came out as transgender https://t.co/UsLPboIYvG
• Political opposition translating into hostility, not sign of healthy democracy: Chief Justice of India NV Ramana | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/R55O3vxSzu
• Heat emergency: courts set to continue despite ‘red warning’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/YacmnjO1p
• Ricky Bibey, a two-time Challenge Cup winner with Wigan Warriors and St Helens, was found dead in the room at the Hotel Continentale on Saturday morning, alongside a 43-year-old woman who had suffered serious injuries https://t.co/gi2CeNc4Cx
  
• German law firm opens office in metaverse - Legal Cheek https://t.co/iwUS9pbUpR 
• Grand Slam winning rugby captain Ryan Jones has joined a legal action against rugby's governing bodies after being diagnosed with early onset dementia https://t.co/O48UCWkf50
• [Narendra Modi assassination plot] Bombay High Court grants bail to convict in 2006 Aurangabad arms haul | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/0mRfIOJF9r
• Boris Johnson and the Lebedevs: The ties between the PM and an ex-KGB officer, first revealed three years ago, could be Johnson’s lasting legacy https://t.co/JPyu5RO7N7
• The #India couple in 'one pizza a month' wedding contract https://t.co/lyc3wKobs
• A famous beauty queen from Ethiopia's war-wracked Tigray region, Selamawit Teklay, has described her harrowing ordeal crossing the English Channel to seek asylum in the UK https://t.co/r3SFXS0NeE
• A&O: ‘Exceptional’ US growth pushes partner profits close to £2 million - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mStiMnTJiY
  
• Virtual student event NEXT WEEK: How to become a human rights lawyer — with Bindmans, Cornerstone Barristers and ULaw - Legal Cheek https://t.co/EbDjYm1ks7 
• Solicitor convicted over VAT fraud agrees to be struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/qDdsmEkUnC
  
• The Weekly Round-up: PM resigns, Criminal Bar strikes, and no diplomatic immunity for modern slavery - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/OKc9xeZ0Q9
• A man who died after being attacked near a nightclub has been named as Matthew Thomas. The 47-year-old, from Neath, was assaulted close to The Arch nightclub, on Commercial Street, Neath Port Talbot, at about 00:50 BST on Friday https://t.co/VIyNqUBKED
  
• British man, 40, found dead in Florence hotel with injured woman - The pair were staying at the four-star Hotel Continentale, in the historic centre of Florence, having reportedly arrived in the city on Friday night https://t.co/6P6am9xHxV
• Appeal court kicks out judge’s ban on police investigation - Appeal court kicks out judge’s ban on police investigation: Veto on Met interviews into child abuse allegations ‘overreached powers’ https://t.co/VNaTyC1Dpg 
• Why you should be worried about halloumi IP: the unusual intellectual property laws protecting the popular cheese - Legal Cheek https://t.co/h90GJIIuGJ 
• Bar strikes begin to bite hard | Law Gazette https://t.co/FQ7zuCqskb 
• LPA registration speeding up - but complaints taking longer to resolve | Law Gazette https://t.co/m1s06jpNSp
• MPs angry as Raab ducks human rights committee | Law Gazette https://t.co/aCRyMnzAFx 

17th July - Law News

Edition 3855: 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: Freedom is a key right preserved and protected by most countries around the world, and in France, it is one of the central tenets of its very identity. But in recent years, the French government has been accused of restricting some of the freedoms it is meant to uphold. This episode of The Big Picture: France in Focus, examines how civil liberties, the rights protecting French people against state actions, are increasingly under threat. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Mr Justice Trower in the High Court has granted permission to serve court documents on unknown fraudsters via the transfer of a token on blockchain, in a legal first | NLJ https://t.co/fS4oUCrbO4
  
• Employers urged to be mindful of workers rights ahead of heatwave | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/oO0W0bj8U4 
• Court blocks bid to issue 3,500 cases on just one claim form | Law Gazette https://t.co/GOECxiLfHX 
• Cameron Wood, 25, from Hereford, said Transport for Wales staff told him it was the only space to sit due to the lack of available wheelchair bay https://t.co/KXKBpnZW1Q 
• White former barristers occupy 95% of senior court judiciary roles, while progress has stalled for ethnic minority candidates and solicitors, the Judicial Diversity Forum has revealed in its statistics report for 2022 | NLJ https://t.co/8MtfuUf6Na
  
• New law to reduce ‘unnecessary judicial reviews’ of planning decisions | Irish Legal News https://t.co/nfYAKCNmfg 
• The Crown Court backlog has reduced by a mere 111 cases, from 58,386 in April 2022 to 58,275 in May 2022, the latest Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures show | NLJ https://t.co/R8LND1p9LG 
• Platform aims to help smaller law firms "democratise" group actions - Legal Futures https://t.co/wpAGQsA2bb 
• Non-binary barrister: "Judges can be ignorant of gender neutral address" - Legal Futures https://t.co/pbFmVl49J8
• Criminal barristers have entered their third week of strike action, downing tools from Monday to Thursday, and enduring uncomfortable temperatures to protest | NLJ https://t.co/Rv9TqNXs8C 
• Ivana Trump, Donald Trump's first wife, died of "blunt impact injuries" to the torso, the New York City medical examiner's office has said. It added that the death of the 73-year-old on Thursday was accidental #US https://t.co/viRZKObqJZ
• New platform pledges to democratise access to group claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/f72mN6CfhZ
• Alex White SC appointed to National Paediatric Hospital Development Board | Irish Legal News https://t.co/UteQdjwWaH
  
• #Mexican drugs lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who is on the US most wanted list, has been arrested in the western Sinaloa state, the Mexican Navy says. Quintero is accused of kidnapping, torturing and murdering a US drug enforcement agent in 1985 https://t.co/4MvKQpFfCc
• UK legal services sector’s revenue dipped significantly last month, according to official figures, though one lawyer said the fall was unlikely to be the start of ‘a worrying new trend’. | Law Gazette https://t.co/FvBdSKhrpZ
• The common-law partner of the gunman behind #Canada's worst mass shooting has said she feared for her life. Lisa Banfield, 53, testified before a joint federal and provincial inquiry looking into the April 2020 shooting https://t.co/xGHepoK5ii
• Solicitor jailed in Germany for role in VAT carousel fraud struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/dAiK0EvBdX
• The judiciary and Ministry of Justice intend to make it easier for judges to move from one practice area to another, ‘removing barriers that prevent judges with appropriate authorisation from hearing different types of cases’ | NLJ https://t.co/pEw54eFw5w
• Met police officer sacked after punching handcuffed black child in the face: Steve Martin found guilty of gross misconduct after punching and verbally abusing 15-year-old boy https://t.co/5pcjcruoEG
• A 25-year-old black man killed by Ohio police last month had 46 gunshot wounds or graze injuries on his body, an autopsy report has found. The medical examiner said it was impossible to know which bullet killed Jayland Walker #US https://t.co/MslhKmHTTL
• Brian Wilkinson, who has died aged 93, was a lawyer and parliamentary legal draftsman who worked in this capacity around the world until 2010 https://t.co/3rqLVG4rZB
• When will we see more black lawyers on the bench? | Law Gazette https://t.co/XqN2AUZxIR
  
• The Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) is to be scrapped from 31 July because it ‘no longer… serves a useful purpose’, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has confirmed | NLJ https://t.co/dk8dQyNSyI
• Barrister Eoin Delap appointed CEO of Irish Centre for European Law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KYGN0ncY8I
• BSB highlights freedom of expression in social media guidance - Legal Futures https://t.co/DwiUCFPmLo
• The Supreme Court handed down 56 judgments while the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council gave 34 judgments in 2021-22, according to their annual report and accounts | NLJ https://t.co/1UjUNi2qAz
  
• Irish office helps to boost Simmons & Simmons revenue to €547m | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0bTHaKHwSX 
• EU energy rationing can't be ruled out, Shell warns https://t.co/SM4IdSr0Se 
• The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has a temporary team in charge until at least 5 September, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to give way to a new leader | NLJ https://t.co/CzpU4p0Mv5

16th July - Law News

Edition 3854: 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 Gujarat police (India) has opposed activist Teesta Setalvad's bail application while claiming that she was a part of a "larger conspiracy" by Congress veteran Ahmed Patel against then Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Ms Setalvad is one of the two persons arrested by Ahmedabad crime branch recently on the charge of conspiring to falsely implicate people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots

Saturday Conversations on Law

• All to play for if Supreme Court takes indyref2 case: Nicola Sturgeon has made her grand gambit, presenting a draft bill to the Scottish Parliament to hold a referendum on Scottish independence on October 19, 2023 | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yrM7VCrfx0 
• British aid worker held by Russian-backed Ukraine separatists reported dead: Paul Urey, who was captured and accused of being a mercenary, has died, Donetsk official says https://t.co/2KxFZW3ChL
• ‘Instruments of injustice’: Victoria’s highest court denounces state’s mandatory sentencing #Australia https://t.co/PI2sYgQfHe 
• A number of schools are closing next week and others are ditching uniforms, as temperatures in parts of the UK are predicted to hit 40C (104F). A national emergency has been declared after a red extreme heat warning was issued for Monday and Tuesday https://t.co/gmd7ffz1tm
• Woman who had to adopt own child made legal parent - Sarah Osborne, who was in a same sex relationship, was refused permission to be named as a parent on the birth certificate after a Cambridge registrar said "there could only be one mother" https://t.co/GvHbBR4QxY
  
• Everyone aged 50 and over will be offered a Covid booster vaccine this autumn to top up their immunity and cut their risk of becoming severely ill. Younger people at high risk from Covid, as well as health and social care staff, will also get the booster https://t.co/WjTCRBPxwg
• New funds for charities that support LiPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/o3wSWd3ZRs
• Simmons & Simmons’ PEP tops £1m | Law Gazette https://t.co/93UF5qugdo
• High Court strikes out “fanciful” allegations against law firm and QC - Legal Futures https://t.co/LddG4rRnZ0
• Allen & Overy posts 9% profit rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/3dILNtyvtn
• Almost 5,000 driving test booking accounts have been blocked after operators were found bulk booking slots and reselling them for profit https://t.co/YBeszggeaV
• A mother who murdered her two-year-old son the day she was due at an access hearing has been jailed for life. Daniel Hodgson Green was found suffocated next to his mother at home in Guisborough, Teesside, in February https://t.co/ZTCPpleVLt
• Judicial diversity - solicitor numbers continue to dwindle | Law Gazette https://t.co/bxGSUpxg8d 
• Six men have been jailed for their parts in a raid at ex-footballer Ashley Cole's home and a £3.5m tiara heist. Cole and his partner Sharon Canu were bound by cable ties when they were robbed at their home in January 2020 https://t.co/OeJPPbOycI
• One in 18 has Covid in the UK - the rate of admissions stood at just 17.9 per 100,000 people in the week ending July 10, and is slowly falling, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) https://t.co/RtSfHSiUr8
• Life-support treatment for 12-year-old Archie Battersbee can end, a judge has ruled: Doctors at the Royal London Hospital said he was "brain stem dead" and it was in his best interests to stop treatment https://t.co/N6pAvLxBt1
  
• Ex-Olympic hopeful solicitor: "Legal winners will be innovators" - Legal Futures https://t.co/cj2kXO7RDo
  
• Slater and Gordon returns to London with new office opening | Law Gazette https://t.co/PFndWZGrcP 
• On social mobility, aim for the ceiling | Law Gazette https://t.co/h58vrMIVn0 
• BSB to probe if solicitors give clients choice when instructing barristers - Legal Futures https://t.co/vuV1CQcwpO
• Uber faces 550-passenger lawsuit over alleged rape and assault in #US - irm accused of failing to protect women from kidnap, false imprisonment and sexual battery https://t.co/vFkg38CSyg
• Hundreds of thousands of unmarried women who were forced to give up their babies for adoption should receive a government apology, a report has said https://t.co/tQXcVCL14y 
• The general secretary of the UK's biggest private sector union has warned of a 'summer of discontent' over pay. There could be hundreds of disputes involving tens of thousands of people if workers are made to "pay the price for inflation" https://t.co/USvrWyVpDk
• Lawyers and other potential ‘enablers’ may be targeted with sanctions if they help designated individuals hide their assets from law enforcement, according to a ‘red alert’ issued this week | Law Gazette https://t.co/HH9wSVyuUs
  
• Queen’s sweeping immunity from more than 160 laws - Monarch enjoys extraordinary exemptions under law – which extend to her private estates and even a royal fishing business https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/14/queen-immunity-british-laws-private-property 
• Solicitor judge misappropriated £288,000 from law firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/TiqCIDl2O6 
• Christian Porter loses appeal against Jo Dyer in spinoff case to ABC defamation action #Australia https://t.co/hnfFtA8xUj
  
• Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMose1 
• Clients given ‘no choice’ of barrister by solicitors | Law Gazette https://t.co/V6djYqPlt8 
• Law firm mergers: What are the ingredients for success? - Legal Futures https://t.co/gGf94Ouv7X

15th July - Law News

Edition 3853: 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: When police used tear gas amid chaotic scenes outside the Champions League final in Paris in May, the French authorities were quick to blame Liverpool supporters. But now a report from the French Senate has said that initial judgement was used to "divert attention" from the failures of the organisers. The report was welcomed by the Liverpool fans' groups who called for a full apology from the French government.

Focus of the Day Article: UK law firm financial results tracker - How the top practices performed in a year characterised by record deal markets, salary wars and escalating geopolitical instability. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Alex Magaisa obituary: Lawyer and key adviser to Morgan Tsvangirai who helped draft #Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution https://t.co/vI5ABUeKk1
• Steven Walker QC receives arbitral appointment | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qMVyT5soH1
• Students in St Andrews say landlords have tried to push them out of their rooms to make "a whole lot of money" out of visitors to The Open. 300,000 people visiting the town which normally has a population of 19,000 https://t.co/iHXWGKy0Zf
• High Court permits service by NFT in ‘English legal first’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/ma7IZb3mlz
  
• Michael McLean qualifies as a solicitor advocate | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WJgnt6rZRB 
• What a difference a decade makes: Knights growth story continues - Legal Futures https://t.co/O8OBfOwA9
• Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMG35
• #Sudan woman faces death by stoning for adultery in first case for a decade https://t.co/DEKIXz3e3
• Editorial: Not long for ‘not proven’ | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ot9pMzueXR
  
• Backdating legal aid fee hike is legal - but it's a pyrrhic victory | Law Gazette https://t.co/3nhOoGgf
• National firm Thrings has merged with Wye Valley-based Okells FrancisLaw in a move that brings together specialists in agriculture and private client law | Law Gazette https://t.co/qI73vvvG3I
• CILEX calls in ex-LSB chief as it considers whether to change regulator - Legal Futures https://t.co/l4jUgsreNV
• 'Honoured and bemused': legal aid lawyers celebrated at annual LALYs | Law Gazette https://t.co/AQ0JCzZRE
• Blackadders’ Stephen Connolly accredited as employment law specialist | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/drn1ZKAclY
• Amber Heard has lost her attempt to have the verdict in her trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp thrown out because one juror served instead of his father, in a case of mistaken identity #US https://t.co/qIBwXse3i
• Pinsent Masons elects Andrew Masraf as senior partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/tXOXG1zdi
• HSF posts record revenue, profits and PEP | Law Gazette https://t.co/i9DulijxK
• LSB approves scrapping of Bar student aptitude test - Legal Futures https://t.co/5tidrXda9F
• Belfast-based Thompson Crooks Solicitors promotes William Nugent to director | Irish Legal News https://t.co/d0pYnXWjuM
• Scotland Yard is likely to question a married couple Farah accused of forcing him into domestic servitude https://t.co/OaslrmXcc
• Baker McKenzie latest to announce Russian spin-off | Law Gazette https://t.co/MsMQytg1T
• Boston Scientific to pay $105m to #Australian women who received pelvic mesh implants https://t.co/pfD4vUxUs8
• Trouble for Trump as committee makes case Capitol attack was premeditated: Criminal prosecution appears increasingly likely as January 6 committee strengthens case against former president https://t.co/1tWl3H8sT
• Commercial rent disputes projected to reach new low in Scotland | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/TAXKTIwAen
• A solicitor who used money from a client’s estate to buy a house he then lived in has been struck off, with the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) saying the public would be “horrified” by his actions - Legal Futures https://t.co/OA8jVcZ5p
• Broadcaster Jeremy Vine became visibly upset as he described the effects of allegedly being stalked by a former BBC radio presenter. Mr Vine said Alex Belfield became "fixated", repeatedly accusing him of stealing £1,000 of BBC money https://t.co/966JawIMTz