30th September - Law News

Edition 3930: 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:  Cheap renewable energy doesn’t always mean cheap energy bills - that’s because of how electricity prices are set and, even more importantly, the crazy high price of gas. So, what can be done to change that? We look at how renewable energy could be used to drive down energy bills during this cost of living crisis. Climate reporter Simon Roach explains all.

Focus of the Day Article: Clyde & Co secures victory for top barrister in tax scheme claim by ex-footballers and law firm partners. Nearly £1m costs awarded as High Court claims by 123 high net worth individuals are 'dismissed in entirety' ahead of slated January trial. Full story - The Global Legal Post

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Queen's cause of death given as 'old age' on death certificate https://t.co/PWcs3k5kO8
  
• Criminal barristers are to vote on whether to end strike action after the government put forward a revised offer on legal aid funding. The Criminal Bar Association said the lord chancellor's 'premature' press release was not a good start | Law Gazette https://t.co/sajCuNm0sK 
• Scottish Parliament refuses to close incompetent petition after SLN inquiry | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FAfUqpwfuX 
• Criminal law firm creates pre-charge accreditation scheme - Legal Futures https://t.co/LrCS1vAxLT
• Emails at 2am and no holiday respite: Lawyer reveals work-life struggles | Law Gazette https://t.co/1eIYrORIu7
• Personal injury and road traffic accident specialist firm JMK Solicitors has opened a new office in Derry as part of plans to expand across Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/F4YA8USoiD 
• Defendants could be released before trial if legal aid dispute continues – High Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/zsioMzlMEh 
• UK Supreme Court justice Lord Burrows receives Trinity College Law Society award | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bN4Ae4YzSF
• Sweden has found a new leak in a major undersea pipeline carrying #Russian natural gas to the EU - making it the fourth discovered this week https://t.co/HCzxtlU8WJ
• Consumers buying second-hand cars online are being warned to beware of scams, after a rise in cases of fraud. It comes after a BBC investigation exposed a fake car dealership website called Auto-Promotions https://t.co/mcIdM0xT6Q
• BSB plans “statement of good practice” for chambers - Legal Futures https://t.co/qrJ61ZAJPw 
• The UK Supreme Court will soon have the opportunity to settle the law relating to the proximity issue of plaintiffs as secondary victims in claims arising from clinical negligence, writes Belfast barrister James Stitt | Irish Legal News https://t.co/XWksr0kEBQ
• Labour may abolish House of Lords if it wins next election, leaked report reveals - Constitutional review by Gordon Brown also recommends devolving economic powers https://t.co/dtNYPHfgzq 
• Healthcare lawyer Sandra O’Malley has been appointed by LauraLynn, Ireland’s Children’s Hospice, as chair of its board of directors | Irish Legal News https://t.co/53pTRyhy9W
• NHS officials ruled a man who died after his ear infection was not picked up in GP telephone consultations should have been seen face to face https://t.co/pL0Ad6yvAx
• The number of people complaining to His Majesty's Revenue and Customs about companies claiming tax repayments on their behalf has more than tripled in two years https://t.co/KjewTNQyRh
  
• Call to re-sentence 3,000 prisoners trapped under indefinite jail terms https://t.co/0lB0cnWmHr 
• Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMG35z 
• Éilís Barry, chief executive of legal rights group FLAC, has been appointed as an adjunct professor with University College Cork (UCC) School of Law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/BnR3yi8RAd
• #Ireland must step up fight against human trafficking, experts say - Council of Europe report criticises lack of convictions over trafficking for labour exploitation https://t.co/Ef02pdNC9u
• Court refuses assessment costs cap despite 'odd' initial bill | Law Gazette https://t.co/wdAnAK7pCj
• Solicitor's libel defence fails over ‘oppressive and unjust’ conduct | Law Gazette https://t.co/Cw9bB96rvT
  
• Investigation launched after killer of Stephen Lawrence reportedly obtains smartphone in prison https://t.co/udMiybIrl0
• ECtHR: UK can deport Nigerian man with indefinite leave to remain | Irish Legal News https://t.co/m5b5zFWH9b 
• Labour conference: judicial appointments 'must be more transparent' | Law Gazette https://t.co/thBjZFKtEb
• New Met commissioner declines to say whether force is institutionally racist https://t.co/00jxSapuJR
• The Solicitors Regulation Authority has defended its work on access to justice after being accused at the Labour party conference of overreaching its remit | Law Gazette https://t.co/fdSabhG4Ov

29th September - Law News

Edition 3929: 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 Tuesday 30 August 2022, a special ceremony was held for the swearing-in of Lord Lloyd-Jones as a Justice of the UK Supreme Court. This followed the announcement of Lord Lloyd-Jones’ reappointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court in August 2022.

Focus of the Day Article: Almost 90% of the self-employed barristers on government legal panels are white, a report by the Bar Council has found, urging the government to take action. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Treasury minister has rejected calls for the government to abandon last week's mini-Budget in the face of market turmoil and economic catastrophe https://t.co/DYzgx02mqo 
• Mohammed bin Salman named prime minister ahead of Khashoggi lawsuit #Saudi Arabia https://t.co/Q75iByMzDt
  
• Profits up 5% at Burges Salmon | Law Gazette https://t.co/25JicnmwcX
  
• Police have dropped an investigation into an online threat to JK Rowling, over her support for Salman Rushdie after he was attacked on stage https://t.co/DWTFuxk130 
• Humiliated, abused and isolated for weeks - patients were put at risk due to a "toxic culture" at one of the UK's biggest mental health hospitals, Edenfield Centre https://t.co/pfEIg22JKn 
• Police officer Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith was accused of striking footballer Dalian Atkinson with her baton when he posed no threat in August 2016, but claimed she was "very frightened", she now walks free https://t.co/OGPkeocZKC
  
• People are being asked only to travel by train if necessary on Saturday as services will be significantly disrupted by rail strikes https://t.co/bL6mIs3NNa
  
• People are being asked only to travel by train if necessary on Saturday as services will be significantly disrupted by rail strikes https://t.co/bL6mIs3NNa 
• Humiliated, abused and isolated for weeks - patients were put at risk due to a "toxic culture" at one of the UK's biggest mental health hospitals, Edenfield Centre https://t.co/pfEIg22JKn 
• Colombian music star Shakira will stand trial in a Spanish court for allegations of tax fraud amounting to €14.5m (£12.9m). A Barcelona court has ordered the singer to stand trial for six alleged tax crimes, although a date has not yet been set https://t.co/NNEcp3KTAU 
• Bar attacks 'disproportionately white' government panels | Law Gazette https://t.co/WrbWBO9Tbw
• The Ministry of Defence and the Home Office are among seven organisations that have failed to respond to personal information requests https://t.co/ujMVbmxkgG
• Barred former trainee allowed back by SRA after 15 months | Law Gazette https://t.co/9LT2px2Kmy
• Peter Dutton’s defamation case against refugee activist Shane Bazzi ends with resolution #Australia https://t.co/0qYhVXzI50 
• A man has lost his licence after drink-driving a child to a hospital, fearing an ambulance would not arrive in time. Liam Goodall-Keen from Gayton on Merseyside, drove his four-year-old godson to Glan Clwyd Hospital, in Denbighshire, while over the limit https://t.co/r91nYfBhxd 
• Sussex police has been criticised by the home secretary for "policing pronouns" after it said it would not tolerate hateful comments about a child sex offender's gender identity. Suella Braverman intervened after a row erupted about jailed Sally Ann Dixon https://t.co/6UGYO2xNfS
• Society ‘extremely concerned’ at proposals for unlimited SRA fines | Law Gazette https://t.co/mQpRW8FmQ
• Top human rights barrister Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, has highlighted Chinese cyber-attacks on her and others - Legal Futures https://t.co/p69VhlH5GG 
• Pre-recorded evidence rolled out in courts in England and Wales https://t.co/nfkdzZyrRK
  
• The Guardian view on pursuing crimes against humanity: a laborious yet urgent challenge https://t.co/G3j24Rf7tF
  
• Truss completes line-up of MoJ ministers, including ex-crime solicitor - Legal Futures https://t.co/7BQY0fBpPb

28th September - Law News

Edition 3928: 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 newest addition to former President Donald Trump’s legal team, Chris Kise, has been sidelined from the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation less than a month after he was brought on to represent Trump in the matter,

Focus of the Day Article: Two Crown court judges wrongly blamed the government for failing to resolve the criminal bar strike when refusing extend custody time limits, lawyers for the Crown Prosecution Service told the High Court today. The CPS is challenging decisions in two separate criminal cases, arguing that the non-attendance of counsel at trial due to the Criminal Bar Association’s ongoing industrial action amounts to a ‘good and sufficient cause’ to extend the custody time limit (CTL). Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Museums in England and Wales to gain powers to dispose of objects on moral grounds - a provision of the new Charities Act could have a significant impact on restitution cases for years to come https://t.co/5bZXwRvelA 
• SRA bans IT worker convicted of stealing hardware from law firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/ekuDeCQDEP
  
• A new study has cast doubt on government claims that hydrogen could be used to heat homes and so cut greenhouse gas emissions. The report, published in the journal Joule, analysed more than 30 studies that looked at hydrogen and heating https://t.co/plMv5ZDBe
• UK climate activists held in jail for up to six months before trial - Campaigners say protesters arrested for blocking roads getting ‘lost in prison system’ while on remand https://t.co/cluzs76agJ 
• Best of the blogs - 25 September 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/gMZPMwRdn
• BSB to test if review and comparison websites work for barristers - Legal Futures https://t.co/BdSt27MEPQ
  
• Disability should not be treated as a diversity afterthought | Law Gazette https://t.co/a1ugBBuZqB 
• "Credible sanctions": Bill to remove SRA fining cap for economic crime - Legal Futures https://t.co/Bf134otbD6
• Labour MP Rupa Huq has been suspended from the parliamentary party pending an investigation after she called the chancellor "superficially" black https://t.co/2PiwX06u1J
• My legal life: Jane Wessel, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/4d85lvMt51 
• Two years ago, Isobel, a British woman in her early 20s, went to the police and told them how a gang of men had sexually exploited her https://t.co/3Ylp0E9hqa
  
• Licensed conveyancers to face explicit duty to treat customers fairly - Legal Futures https://t.co/uK5OhhMIbl 
• A leaked dossier has suggested the process of awarding a £97m Scottish ferries contract may have been rigged. The two ferries are still being built for CalMac, but will be at least £150m over budget and five years late https://t.co/bSxbkw3Puf
  
• Met Police will attend all London burglary reports - the proportion of reported burglaries attended by an officer from the force had fallen to 50% https://t.co/KyBBPWM4QH 
• The assault on EU workplace rights begins | Law Gazette https://t.co/G0wzWvmxFW 
• Police made four arrests after a group of about 100 men assaulted customers at a pub near Wembley Stadium before England's match with Germany on Monday https://t.co/5QoOwdiGjT 
• #Australian soldier alleges torture survival course involved simulated child rape and left him with PTSD https://t.co/Fxv1B7DoZb 
• Progeny looks to increase legal services offering after Scottish MDP move - Legal Futures https://t.co/I27MhbNhXT
  
• Lawyer in the news: Nicola Hall, Robert Lizar Solicitors - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/PSAOVirXd9 
• Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked extensive US intelligence surveillance operations, has been granted Russian citizenship https://t.co/s7IzcFFjFN 
• SDT grants law firm access to papers to help sue struck-off solicitor - Legal Futures https://t.co/Q5CqrlnkcK
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• Star and Arthur: A group of MPs remains "extremely concerned" about council failings in areas where two children were murdered https://t.co/CWDX9i9hcI
• Urgent call for review into sentencing pregnant women due to health risks https://t.co/bINLEuLpHH 
• Home Office U-turn over deportation of Albanian asylum seekers: Letter undermines Priti Patel’s claim that Albanian’s arriving with ‘spurious’ claims could be removed quickly https://t.co/AwE62WxF1U
  
• Crown Court judges have been releasing potentially dangerous criminals unlawfully because of delays linked to the criminal barristers' strike, the High Court has heard https://t.co/EC3jb0xykU 
• Judges wrong to state views about barristers’ strike, high court told - DPP is challenging decisions by judges not to keep defendants behind bars in cases affected by strike https://t.co/WQcKFuKx6V 
• MPs investigating if Boris Johnson misled Parliament over Partygate have rejected claims the probe is "unfair". The Privileges Committee is looking into what the former PM told Parliament about Covid-rule breaking https://t.co/99rx4fzcXd 
• Hundreds recalled over shoulder op concerns at Walsall hospital https://t.co/KNhRj9tEj8 
• TikTok could face a £27m fine for failing to protect children's privacy when they're using the platform. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found the video-sharing platform may have processed the data of under-13s without appropriate consent https://t.co/715QGHcMxI 
• Ukraine war: #Russia admits mobilisation errors, amid growing public opposition - Multiple reports say people with no military experience - or who are too old or disabled - are being called up https://t.co/lbr4OB58Gc
• Solicitors have welcomed a decision to replace the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF) with an indemnity scheme managed by the regulator | NLJ https://t.co/Ca5jnmCEBT

27th September - Law News

Edition 3927: 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:  Iran's President has warned protesters they will be dealt with 'decisively' following a week of anti-government demonstrations across the country. 35 activists urging gender equality have been killed by the security apparatus of the government 

Focus of the Day Article: Victims’ commissioner quits, launching scathing attack on government. In letter to justice secretary, Dame Vera Baird says ‘criminal justice system is in chaos’ and victims’ interests not a priority. Full story - Guardian Law

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The peer who organised the Queen's funeral has been banned from driving for six months, despite claiming he needed his licence to arrange the King's upcoming coronation https://t.co/J1n8sjlX9t
• Different cultures, different projects: Life on international secondment with a Magic Circle law firm - Legal Cheek https://t.co/K5MYiUxVAO
• Addleshaws selects new City HQ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/eNAStJfbwS
• Two teenage boys have appeared in court charged with the murder of Khayri Mclean, who was stabbed outside his school in Huddersfield. Khayri, 15, was attacked near the entrance to North Huddersfield Trust School https://t.co/5BognnAR2u 
• Supreme Court to be included in National Judicial Data Grid, e-courts app; all judgments to be freely available | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/0iv3twUAir
• US trio boost junior City lawyer pay - Legal Cheek https://t.co/VczDOzdfQa 
• A former looked-after child can bring a human rights claim against council authorities for failing to remove him from the care of his mother soon enough, the Court of Appeal has agreed | NLJ https://t.co/mUFudTzPKE
  
• Hate speech on TV channels not dealt with firmly: Supreme Court https://t.co/CZFcPuleyJ 
• Life as an international lawyer in Hong Kong - Legal Cheek https://t.co/HhG7HBKbbH 
• Squire Patton Boggs adds private equity team from Lamy Lexel in Paris - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/1DuePWhges
  
• Sidley keeps 10 out of 12 London NQs - Legal Cheek https://t.co/z4q4zlESVQ
• Glasgow leapfrogs Oxford in latest law school rankings - Legal Cheek https://t.co/szlG9dPUvc 
• Tughans welcomes six new trainee solicitors | Irish Legal News https://t.co/N83eFKyF4n
  
• Eyewitness accounts take precedence where expert testimony is unable to ‘unlock’ a case, the Court of Appeal has held | NLJ https://t.co/uTGlSfIE2g
• MKB Law welcomes three new trainee solicitors | Irish Legal News https://t.co/65xnOD3g7b
• Allowing Hijab may help expose other students to diversity, be culturally sensitive: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/R0ZN6xoetY
• J.D. Scanlon & Co welcomes new solicitor Hilary Cahalan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zqLj6IDJ0j 
• Police have dropped an investigation into an online threat to JK Rowling, over her support for Salman Rushdie after he was attacked on stage https://t.co/DWTFuxk130
• Calcutta High Court takes note of surge pricing, ride cancellations; refuses Uber's plea for stay on guidelines regulating cab aggregators | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/nNtlW3nhwg
• Dillon Eustace hires Conal Keane to lead Cayman Islands litigation and insolvency practice | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JnphUfmS29
• Former Supreme Court judge Justice KT Thomas nominated as trustee of PM Cares Fund | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/1AsjTDh3CB
• Celebrate 100 years of women at the bar at the UK Supreme Court | Irish Legal News https://t.co/1pZQ0dbiYu
  
• Celebrate 100 years of women at the bar at the UK Supreme Court | Irish Legal News https://t.co/1pZQ0dsUn4
• A British man released by #Russia has said he was "treated worse than a dog" and kept in solitary confinement for five months https://t.co/nWD4mGutw3
• Clare Daly: Independent complaints mechanism a welcome advance for online safety | Irish Legal News https://t.co/DkTDlUcII2
• Has general category pool shrunk due to EWS quota? Supreme Court asks [Day 5] | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/vrT9aYTXq
• Lord Advocate pledges robust prosecution for crimes of domestic abuse | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cf2JdUKY1q
• The Weekly Round-up: Elizabeth II's state funeral, section 28 roll-out, and facial recognition technology - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/QKCq5c7ok
• Steven Walker KC admitted to Thailand Arbitration Center Panel of Arbitrators | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jqOBtXzLV
• A judicial review challenge brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to refusals to extend the custody time limits of defendants in two separate cases has hit obstacles due to administrative delays | NLJ https://t.co/U0xVhfdh9Z
• Police have charged a further five men in relation to disorder in Leicester. They were all arrested in the days and weeks before 17 September, when major disorder broke out involving hundreds of people https://t.co/STQa9Q36F8

26th September - Law News

Edition 3926: 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: Elana Bolds, Tina Padilla and Claudia Bracho are leaders in the gang violence intervention field – from active shooter drills with children in Richmond to bringing in gang members to help with food distribution in Los Angeles. 

Focus of the Day Article: Lifelong support for Glasgow Rangers Football Club is not enough to pass the ‘philosophical belief’ test under the Equality Act 2010, an employment tribunal has ruled. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Graduate programme grows at Thorntons | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VkKefSPJgQ
• Drelon v France: Collection and retention of personal data concerning presumed sexual orientation was a violation of Article 8 - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/qscERL6Lh1 
• Gilson Gray acquires Wallace Financial Planning | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/R1U7DL5QOQ
  
• Addleshaw Goddard signs 15-year lease on new London headquarters - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/eAYRFFlGuo
• TLT achieves international standard for environmental management | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hyLDqCKcBx
• ‘Tiny changes can have a massive butterfly effect’: Clifford Chance's UK inclusion head on her D&I story - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/3vxjeEow0P 
• Willkie hires crypto partner from Perkins Coie as it bolsters digital assets leadership - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/idb763iAsM
• Witnesses can give evidence by WhatsApp, Court of Appeal rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/EQWOfZDX6Z
  
• Demonstrations paused after 'constructive' meeting with Lewis | Law Gazette https://t.co/GwzEag8pEX
• NHS litigation: grounds for optimism | Law Gazette https://t.co/laaoBJhqnF
• Arbitration’s development must maintain parity with litigation, judge warns - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/0aaIFZZ58
• Hillsborough lawyer nominated for Liverpool's highest civic honour | Law Gazette https://t.co/YDzE5OmCX
• Number of law firms continues to sink despite ever-expanding profession - Legal Futures https://t.co/3sLz0zCKCp
• Ashfield hot tub row councillor Tom Hollis guilty of careless driving https://t.co/dNJzBo1oOk 
• Government in court for no sign language at Covid briefings https://t.co/fO3aVqMhm1
• The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has extended the closing date of its consultation on costs by an additional two weeks, to 12pm on 14 October 2022 | NLJ https://t.co/ES2UcBf6Gl 
• Claimant hit with indemnity costs over witness statement | Law Gazette https://t.co/phBlgRXCm1 
• “Exponential growth” for open-source contract platform - Legal Futures https://t.co/BqBH3AY5IH
• Addleshaws signs 15-year lease on new London office | Law Gazette https://t.co/uO20obT81K 
• Law Commission seeks ban on discrimination in appointing arbitrators - Legal Futures https://t.co/hG3jiVCCMS
• Linklaters rehires M&A partner from Latham & Watkins in Spain to boost corporate practice - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/wDFsGOLMFY 
• Digital law firm partners with start-up platform as part of expansion - Legal Futures https://t.co/X4iJCeocbb
• Greene tells tribunal: I did not lie to the court | Law Gazette https://t.co/JCVJhg19Nf
  
• Anexo drops interim dividend to invest in emissions cases instead - Legal Futures https://t.co/Fu7l2juTd1
  
• Many English maternity units not meeting safety standards https://t.co/zyu4HErDco
• The second reading of the government’s Bill of Rights Bill, which was due to take place on 12 September 2022, did not go ahead as scheduled, as parliamentary business was suspended for the period of national mourning | NLJ https://t.co/9xTl0zhS5
• Investment in paralegals pays dividends - Legal Futures https://t.co/2yAtL8OIfL
• Lifelong support for Glasgow Rangers Football Club is not enough to pass the ‘philosophical belief’ test under the Equality Act 2010, an employment tribunal has ruled | NLJ https://t.co/fjl9X0tKeG 
• Barrister "could and should" have stopped offensive tweets being sent - Legal Futures https://t.co/ihEESe3tBt 
• Emiliano Sala crash death: Pilot told friend doomed plane was 'dodgy' https://t.co/Y53SWnFFJJ 
• The family of Chris Kaba, an unarmed black man killed by the Metropolitan Police in south London, has been shown body-worn police camera footage of the moments leading up to his death https://t.co/QyfLCXoI4P
• ‘He’s done’: how Donald Trump’s legal woes have just gotten a lot worse - New York civil lawsuit accusing Trump family of ‘staggering’ fraud could derail presidential bid, experts say #US https://t.co/HOFepjP377 
• Majority of UK public agree with liberal views on race and sexual identity - Annual survey shows rapid shift in attitudes over recent decades https://t.co/7Z2JlxR8hk 
• Kwasi Kwarteng to shrink part-time work benefits to grow labour supply - New UK chancellor aims to reverse inactivity in labour market, especially among over-50s https://t.co/igRsgA0BJR
  
• #Iran sends police to end Mahsa Amini protests as reports say seven killed - Internet blackouts and Instagram blocks also reported amid anger after 22-year-old woman’s death in custody https://t.co/dtRvILGhCK

25th September - Law News

Edition 3925: 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 pilot of Emiliano Sala's plane told friends the aircraft was "dodgy" before the flight that killed the Argentine footballer. Pilot David Ibbotson is heard in audio saying "I'll be wearing my life jacket" on the journey from France to Wales. He also revealed the technical difficulties he had experienced with the 35-year-old Piper Malibu plane. The plane crashed into the English Channel in 2019, killing them both.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Students and staff at a school in Huddersfield are "devastated" after a 15-year-old pupil was stabbed to death, its head teacher has said. The boy was attacked on Wednesday afternoon, near the entrance to North Huddersfield Trust School https://t.co/PVnKCBQpJt 
• The government has formally announced it is lifting the ban on fracking in a statement by Jacob Rees-Mogg. Hydraulic fracturing - fracking - is a technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock https://t.co/jNdd5qxJuN 
• The Met is "failing" in several areas of its work, according to the police inspectorate, which has raised "serious concerns" over the force's performance https://t.co/SyxkUF5qhm
• Cambodia scams: Lured and trapped into slavery in South East Asia https://t.co/w2OSfhu8va 
• Claimant to pay indemnity costs after latest witness statement failure - Legal Futures https://t.co/M6L8KtQd3t
  
• Children as young as nine say they are ill from work recycling plastic in #Turkey https://t.co/KBsImWnpWt 
• PCs in WhatsApp group with Sarah Everard killer found guilty - Jonathon Cobban, 35, and former PC Joel Borders, 45, shared WhatsApp messages about women and disabled people with Wayne Couzens https://t.co/P5IgdrwHhk 
• Russia must face "just punishment" over its invasion of #Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the UN General Assembly in New York https://t.co/wteV7zAppK
  
• Five British nationals held by Russian-backed forces in Ukraine have been freed. The news ended "months of uncertainty and suffering for them", UK Prime Minister Liz Truss said https://t.co/nj8I1xTjN9 
• A record reward of up to £200,000 has been offered in the search for the gunman who killed Olivia Pratt-Korbel https://t.co/TH35uqAbZP