26th July - Law News

Edition 3864: 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: Four pro-democracy activists have been executed in Myanmar. The ruling military junta accused the men of terror offences, and held their trials behind closed doors earlier this year.  

Focus of the Day Article: UK rape victim left feeling ‘suicidal’ after five-year wait for case to come to trial. The woman’s case is among thousands that have been affected by a record-breaking backlog of hearings likely to increase amid barrister strikes. Full story - Guardian Law

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• After Roe: Recognising the importance of reproductive rights in England and Wales - Legal Cheek https://t.co/AJnK57lb1
• Law Squared opens London office - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/kaWSMNDLYB
  
• Bakers retains 14 of 16 autumn NQ solicitors - Legal Cheek https://t.co/54KIHD8Hd
• Tim Westwood: Ex-BBC employee raised concerns about bullying by DJ, reports say https://t.co/osyxcIMM2
• Judges, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion: Jammu & Kashmir High Court refuses to quash termination of Judicial Officer | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/HmEjPZUdHB
• Clifford Chance's partner profits top £2 million for first time - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PdKBzhzLqq
• Law establishing national guardian ad litem service enacted | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tSPL7NDkqU
• What law can learn from lore - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/4jCg412XI
• An independent review into allegations of racism in Scottish cricket has found the governance and leadership of the sport to be institutionally racist with 448 examples of racism https://t.co/IsITYuQsha
• Battle of the gowns: Ede & Ravenscroft sees off competition claim - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aAprSYEdPr
• Lawyer Dan Nguyen travels the world with his three cats Lawyer Dan Nguyen travels the world with his three cats: Spongecake, Donut and Mocha are adventure-loving cats turned world travellers https://t.co/EX3VNELmBG
• Domestic duties should be divided equitably between men and women: Justice S Ravindra Bhat | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/iEHoMAqgQR
• The parents of a 12-year-old boy on life support have lost an appeal to continue treatment. Archie Battersbee was found unconscious at home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April and doctors at the Royal London Hospital believe he is brain dead https://t.co/TWAGCIo6Um
• Police are investigating death threats against a Conservative MP, the threat was sent to the constituency office of Portsmouth North MP Penny Mordaunt https://t.co/MB8Jt8dPpl
• Mishcon strikes SQE training deal with ULaw - Legal Cheek https://t.co/gCJc9Hdp2Y
• How aspiring solicitors can create their own ‘bespoke training contract’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/p2icJZTkN8
• Four democracy activists have been executed by #Myanmar's military in what is believed to be the first use of capital punishment in decades. The four - including activist Ko Jimmy and lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw - were accused of committing "terror acts" https://t.co/YumGmPLJA
• Legal costs report recommends non-binding guidelines for practitioners | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ul4Ksvd4Zv
• Disabled drivers are being warned that their blue badges may not be accepted in popular European holiday destinations this summer due to Brexit. Ministers are negotiating the status of the badges https://t.co/WxwojvUxgN
• Never assume anything: What makes a property law team thrive - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/FHtft0F2Zl
• Shops in France will be ordered to close doors when using air conditioning and limit neon lighting in a bid to cut energy waste. These rules, already in place in some areas, will be rolled out across #France https://t.co/c74sUEIlV4
• Big Four player PwC joins City firms in upping junior lawyer pay - Legal Cheek https://t.co/jwsSSEa2rM
• Moscow has charged 92 members of the Ukrainian armed forces with crimes against humanity, the head of #Russia's investigative committee has said https://t.co/XSk1VgRFjk
• No diplomatic immunity for actions grounded in modern slavery allegations - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/pFTl2y4t3C
• [Article 300A] Jammu & Kashmir High Court orders government to vacate police station on private land occupied without paying compensation | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/qMPlx4eeD
• Are law firms falling behind on TikTok? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/evM0m8PyTm
• Bar exams: Research highlights attainment gap between white and ethnic minority wannabe barristers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ao5DlYEoAs
• Media running kangaroo courts; Print media has some accountability; electronic media has none: CJI NV Ramana | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/rYrYZ5EeYM
• Fraud claim for millions in missing crypto launched by NFT in legal first - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ot3g1Idc23
• Battle of hardrights: Sunak wants tighten the definition of who qualifies for asylum and introduce a cap on refugee numbers. Truss wants to extend the UK's Rwanda asylum plan and increase the number of Border Force staff https://t.co/M8D38LBpI8 
• I was keen on joining active politics but destiny had other plans: CJI NV Ramana | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/bKXngFkN7U

25th July - Law News

Edition 3863: 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 UN says the Russia-Ukraine conflict has left many nations vulnerable to food insecurity. Global food prices are at a near all-time high and more than a dozen countries are banning grain exports. In Zimbabwe, maize production plummeted by 43% this year following long dry spells. It's one of the countries now seeking to import maize as well as find alternative sources for wheat and fertiliser previously sourced from Russia and Ukraine.  

Focus of the Day Article: It should be mandatory for medical expert reports to consider the role of ‘system failures’ as well as individual actions in an adverse patient outcome, the Medical Protection Society (MPS) has urged. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A six-year-old girl and her parents have been shot dead while camping in the #US state of Iowa, police have said. The bodies of Sarah and Tyler Schmidt, both 42, and their daughter Lula were found in their tent in the Maquoketa Caves State Park https://t.co/BOr9a1diO7
• When two consenting adults decide to live together as husband and wife, families cannot interfere: Delhi High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/ZUG6vU8y6W
• ‘You can’t bring my boy back’: why are so many UK prisoners dying on remand? https://t.co/GGL2UfUF9o
  
• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act can be "read down" to accord with Convention family rights - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/zlAOKW39OJ 
  
• Applications now open for The Legal Cheek Campus Ambassador Programme 2022-2023 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Ov4cxzOm9H
• Lindsays lawyers visit Edinburgh mental health project | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NdSRQAMZu5
• How to be a human rights lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ejxYsTiKb
• Tamara Ecclestone has offered a reward of up to £6m for the return of her £25m stolen jewellery. Three Italian men have been jailed for their part in the biggest domestic burglary in English legal history https://t.co/7jmro8rCmy
• Strip search class action filed against State of NSW - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/QHNgTvhui7
• ByrneWallace names five new partners | Irish Legal News https://t.co/AVaKE2qEnY
• An amateur boxer has been cutting homeless people's hair for free in his spare time. Each month Wisdom Oviawe, 22, walks around Nottingham city centre with his clippers and chair, offering cuts to those living on the streets https://t.co/QvGmW0KaKC
• Disabled lowest ranks dragged to the highest Court; Why? | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/GfiakdPSYo
• 5 important points to remember about the SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cYqgNviOgy
• The Weekly Round-up: Supreme Court to rule on indyref2, pandemic WhatsApps, and protection for pupils - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/0wcGnmSw1F
• Supreme Court finds part-time music teacher entitled to same holiday pay as full-time worker | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MQpVbIDIiV
• Parents could take up to an extra 12 weeks of paid leave if their child is born prematurely, as part of a new law. Both parents would qualify for one week's extra help - in addition to existing maternity and paternity leave and pay entitlements https://t.co/AsJ6Ib6Xhd
• Travers Smith boosts trainee numbers by a third - Legal Cheek https://t.co/xoRkMN2Dgw
• Sir Andrew McFarlane - who is head of family courts in England and Wales - estimated one fifth of marriage break-ups were wrongly ending up in court with one partner suing the other https://t.co/2QbXZQV087
• Climate protesters were dragged away after attempting to glue their hands to Botticelli's Primavera masterpiece. The activists had one hand pressed onto the painting when they were tackled by staff at the Uffizi Gallery in #Italy https://t.co/4rqNDR3dLW
  
• Supreme Court finds part-time music teacher entitled to same holiday pay as full-time worker | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MQpVbIm7rn
• How the competition regulator plans to stop malicious cyber actors from targeting #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/9WEOdVuL62
  
• Law firm to open bookshop and café to combat loneliness - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aSMqdgzOww 
• ‘It’s easier to stay silent’ about bullying in law - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/DIavxzCzSr 
• Students unable to sit SQE exam after London test centre suffers 'IT issue' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/agvUDu6SnC
• Plymouth kinship carer wins legal bid over slashed payments https://t.co/cMfrgAlD60
  
• The Boutique Lawyer Show: Law grad at 50 to award-nominated firm owner, Adele Anthony - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/4sq9RXnrPg
  
• 'How easy is moving from Hong Kong to a City of London firm as a junior lawyer' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3NMxUqQmpx

24th July - Law News

Edition 3862: 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: Protesters in Tunisia say Monday's referendum on constitutional reforms is illegal. The proposed changes would sideline parliament and remove most checks on the president's power. Opposition groups say it's a return to autocracy. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Mother in law: Decision fatigue | Law Gazette https://t.co/D31jrj5IfG 
• Genocide case against Myanmar over Rohingya atrocities cleared to proceed https://t.co/qu9O0gdIVN
• DWF bounces back into profit as Bird & Bird posts higher revenues | Law Gazette https://t.co/mlDK3PvS9P
• Legislating against lying would do more harm than good https://t.co/3a07NyU1i1
  
• 'Insufficient lawyers' to cross-examine parties in domestic abuse cases | Law Gazette https://t.co/QQfEXkiFl3 
• A Chinese man has been executed for murdering his ex-wife by setting her alight while she was livestreaming. The woman, known as Lamu, was a well-known social media personality https://t.co/IIuMG9o2n3
• A housing group that did not realise one of its residents had been dead for two and a half years has apologised. Sheila Seleoane, 58, was found in her Peckham flat in February and had to be identified by dental records https://t.co/Taz00fCpGx 
• It should be mandatory for medical expert reports to consider the role of ‘system failures’ as well as individual actions in an adverse patient outcome, the Medical Protection Society (MPS) has urged | NLJ https://t.co/PyaPMmsAFE
• An independent review is expected to find that there is evidence of institutional racism in Scottish cricket. The investigation was commissioned by SportScotland last year and is due to be published on Monday https://t.co/w8pKDitE20
• SFO loses appeal over ‘unfair’ sacking of Unaoil case controller | Law Gazette https://t.co/Dob9s4sR6c
• The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) costs caps should increase, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) has recommended | NLJ https://t.co/QvT2By9QSw
• Estate agents need “more respect” from conveyancers - Legal Futures https://t.co/juKbGJnBVc 
• Justice data is already monetised | Law Gazette https://t.co/Tgbj0QYxAO
• EU launches four more legal cases against UK over Northern Ireland protocol https://t.co/fPKmrWo4nJ
• Law Commission examines robot planes | Law Gazette https://t.co/HzfYmwjqOQ
• The extradition from #Serbia of a wanted man accused of one of the biggest burglaries in English legal history was refused. Daniel Vukovic is said to have led a series of burglaries on the luxury homes of three celebrities https://t.co/yGwDjUOZB7
• Solicitors at incorporated firms should not give personal undertakings - Legal Futures https://t.co/k8jGl0UFos
• Barristers who deliberately misgender someone on Twitter or send seriously offensive private messages on LinkedIn could potentially face disciplinary proceedings under revised social media guidance drawn | Law Gazette https://t.co/KBN81YXPFw
• Google has fired one of its engineers who said the company's artificial intelligence system has feelings. Last month, Blake Lemoine went public with his theory that Google's language technology is sentient https://t.co/tXrnnhm80r
• #Czechs demolish pig farm on Nazi concentration camp for Roma - Historians say 1,309 Roma citizens were interned at Lety in South Bohemia during the war https://t.co/xmrzxuVM9U
• MoJ considers £5,000 costs cap to protect defendants against SLAPPs - Legal Futures https://t.co/DBRGAfeQ57
  
• Barring media from hearing on Prince Philip’s will ‘did not harm public interest’, court hears https://t.co/XFeuFJY4dR
  
• Prince Harry’s case against Home Office can proceed, high court judge rules https://t.co/TgQjhNl5N5
• High Court: Developer’s claim of maintenance and champerty against planning objectors struck out as bound to fail | Irish Legal News https://t.co/R5M3WeP7Bs
  
• Law firms and entrepreneurs have backed the launch of an online platform designed to facilitate group actions | NLJ https://t.co/hNSYxPVTOT
  
• More NHS claims settling pre-issue but legal costs continue to rise - Legal Futures https://t.co/9DNxIxGIUi
• Mullany Walsh Maxwells promotes Clodagh O’Hagan to partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/d5dCQzvs79

23rd July - Law News

Edition 3861: 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: Four railway employees have been arrested in connection with the gangrape of a 30-year-old woman on a platform at New Delhi railway station, police said. Police said all the four accused are employees of the Railways' Electrical Department. The gangrape, police said, took place inside a train lighting hut on the platform late on Thursday night. While two of the accused allegedly raped the woman, the others stood guard outside

Saturday Conversations on Law

• #US supreme court rules against Biden in key immigration case https://t.co/iNl7qlL8hn
• A #Brazilian court has charged three men with the murder last month of British journalist Dom Phillips and a local indigenous expert, Bruno Pereira https://t.co/YWtsg8tZjE
• A #US jury has found Donald Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress over his refusal to co-operate with the congressional committee probing the events leading up to the Capitol riot https://t.co/qBDOdudYSm
• Profits and PEP up at Eversheds | Law Gazette https://t.co/3QVIabjRCC
• Ex-Minneapolis officer given two and a half years over George Floyd killing - Thomas Lane convicted of violating Floyd’s civil rights as Derek Chauvin, convicted of murder, pinned Floyd’s neck with his knee #US https://t.co/T8fnPLlpm8
• Partner profits surge at 200-year-old Ashurst | Law Gazette https://t.co/C7lOjK8Ufx
• More rape cases reaching court in England and Wales after years of decline - Police referred 14% more cases to CPS in 2021-22 than in previous year, and more suspects were charged https://t.co/rovyBppMoP
• Solicitors warned on corporate undertakings risks | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZJy01SHV90
• Solicitor who considered herself “beyond regulation” is struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/8sTIQQVgeE
• Serious Fraud Office chief found to have made errors over major corruption trial https://t.co/rBb027Jwcx
• LAA reveals recruitment and retention struggles | Law Gazette https://t.co/7pGweE7Gg7
• A #Kenyan court has found three policemen and a civilian guilty of the murder of a human rights lawyer and two other people in June 2016. The bodies of Willie Kimani, his client and a taxi driver were found after they had been dumped in a river https://t.co/Cu1SRDzWAw
• Regulator threatens legal action over CILEX talks with SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/WTwoo65Ihi
• RDJ expands employment team with senior associate Sinead Morgan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/e6bh3DpIyt
• NHS claims bill still rising despite new resolution approach | Law Gazette https://t.co/Qm9B20IqWb
• Ex-policeman Thomas Lane jailed for two-and-a-half years for violating the civil rights of George Floyd, whose 2020 Minneapolis death led to protests. He was one of the officers who tried to arrest Mr Floyd, was sentenced following a conviction in February https://t.co/p30oktVc9b
• Legal Ombudsman on track to halve backlog by March 2023 - Legal Futures https://t.co/rooPjccuG
• A #PuertoRico judge has lifted a restraining order taken out against Ricky Martin by a family member who had claimed the singer harassed him https://t.co/UZphig5AXl
• Law student Danielle DerGarabedian takes reins of UCD College Tribune | Irish Legal News https://t.co/717Je4BFMP
• Serious farce: SFO slammed over Unaoil case as third conviction quashed | Law Gazette https://t.co/oWr8Mf6bsp
• Public uncomfortable with tech firms’ use of court data - Legal Futures https://t.co/2liMagRQDp
• UK: MPs call for principle of EU law’s supremacy to be scrapped | Irish Legal News https://t.co/LQXOPqDlEZ
• SQE fiasco: candidates 'waiting more than five hours' before exam cancelled | Law Gazette https://t.co/y6TC1t8PcD
• Ten weeks to go – looking ahead to PII renewal - Legal Futures https://t.co/uSXoaFl7wv
• Guildford pub bomb inquest: Device could have been planted by a 'courting couple' https://t.co/Rhfg55VQ1X
• International firm's 'oversight delayed trial by two years' | Law Gazette https://t.co/9JxtAPqK7e
• Starmer's Labour must come clean on sexual harassment claims a lawyer representing two female former Labour employees who made complaints https://t.co/vIEPZdGzGj
• Crypto exchange becomes first VASP registered with Central Bank | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dfWVld5Dhy
• Military raids #SriLanka protest camps, leaders arrested - Protesters say some ‘brutally assaulted’ after soldiers descend on Colombo sites in early hours of Friday morning https://t.co/M9vMP1cnPZ 
• Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has become the first person to formally ask for a public Parole Board hearing after rules were changed https://t.co/lKOxQFsGrJ 
• British drugs policy is punitive and contradictory. And now it’ll go backwards https://t.co/FqzpayfZtI

22nd July - Law News

Edition 3860: 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: China's radio and television regulator warned that the media industry must adhere to Chinese values and should not follow a Western aesthetic. The move comes after both Chinese and Western brands have been criticised for ignoring China's beauty standards and accused of depicting women as "ugly.

Focus of the Day Article: UK’s part-year workers entitled to full paid annual leave, court rules. Workers such as teachers on term-time contracts may be able to claim back pay after supreme court judgment. Full story - Guardian Law

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Ombudsman confident of huge improvements within 18 months | Law Gazette https://t.co/fORwkp4aMi
• Judge acted unlawfully over hearing on Prince Philip’s will, court told https://t.co/IGWUO3SAux
• ‘We will sue you’ - civil war breaks out at CILEX | Law Gazette https://t.co/ho0jp1eTGe
  
• The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has announced that the new caveat portal will go live next Monday, 25 July | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FiGmZ5Prq7 
• Public wary of big tech's use of courts data | Law Gazette https://t.co/a8OXVsfOKE
  
• UK’s part-year workers entitled to full paid annual leave, court rules https://t.co/MnCEkqrfUU 
• Mishcon and RPC post double-digit revenue growth | Law Gazette https://t.co/FIOuHCumcM
  
• No sanction for solicitor who threatened firm over complaint - Legal Futures https://t.co/hxx3bajfWE 
• Government snubs review body with 3% pay rise for judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/4uXqtSBsVL
  
• Man who cut his terminally ill wife's throat in a suicide pact has been cleared of her murder. Graham Mansfield, 73, said he slit his wife Dyanne's throat at their home in Hale, Greater Manchester, in March 2021 in an "act of love" https://t.co/zY7TEkLNHc
  
• BBC to pay damages to former royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke - Alexandra Pettifer, known as Tiggy, was given an apology at the High Court over unfounded allegations she had an affair with Prince Charles and an abortion https://t.co/F3Nqe6PkZK
  
• Be careful when ex-clients seek 'one-off' advice, CA warns solicitors - Legal Futures https://t.co/5cKhU3m3dd
• Withers wins negligence appeal over ‘super-prime’ development | Law Gazette https://t.co/U5Rhks8LJV
  
• Why the long wait for recognition of humanist weddings in England? https://t.co/RnbkOyNYQ4 
• Legal aid increase SI is laid - at last | Law Gazette https://t.co/5pOJRYlzui
  
• CILEX begins talks over transferring regulation of members to SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/BrUHhzX9w7
  
• Alleged fraudster can spend frozen assets on legal fees, Supreme Court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/37vU9C4lHJ 
• English courts get new powers to dismiss Slapp cases against reporters https://t.co/jAsSZsBuCo 
• Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMG35z
  
• England: Crackdown on corrupt elites abusing UK legal system to silence critics | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VjySwquPdV
• Government to tackle SLAPPs with early dismissal and costs cap | Law Gazette https://t.co/TJ0QlS26b3
• Research highlights ethnic minority attainment gap on Bar course - Legal Futures https://t.co/kt1BZicaVS 
• Clifford Chance increases partner pay to more than £2m | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XV4DHgeOhA
  
• ‘All views are my own’ won’t save you | Law Gazette https://t.co/U6Ba4vcrn0

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
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• 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
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• NI Court of Appeal: Man who sawed off partner’s head fails appeal alleging ineffective counsel | Irish Legal News https://t.co/mUjxDTNhkg
  
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