11th October - Law News

Edition 3941: 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:  In his new book, “Hold the Line,” former DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone details his conversations with GOP leaders after the insurrection at the US Capitol

Focus of the Day Article: ‘Engage with the training – someday it may save your job’: top tips for partners to avoid sexual misconduct risk. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Getting to the ‘heart’ of #Australia’s moral rights in employment law - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/cIflUimQ3l 
• Travers retains 18 of 20 NQ lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5jvuLbqjrj 
• How one US law firm is thriving in London - Legal Cheek https://t.co/g2v5LCm7Hg 
• 10 years on from hospitalisation for anxiety and depression - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/44VZGXVzbU
  
• Pinsents’ plush pad lands role in BBC banking drama Industry - Legal Cheek https://t.co/YLCcXmXsMW 
• Human rights expert Michael Becker joins Trinity School of Law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Wr47HjuIDa
  
• Majority of Holyrood committee supports gender recognition proposals | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FbverSibGt
• Lack of Web Scraping Regulations Hurts Progress – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/HCWt6HfltU 
• Solicitor engaged in ‘pathological’ litigation handed civil restraint order | Law Gazette https://t.co/xJiSH7Kxns
• Lawyer of the Month: Hamish Lean | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/b81R2wK3D9
  
• Court of Appeal concludes in AG referral of jury acquittal of Colston 4 that ECHR rights were not engaged where damage to property was criminal - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/a5TjaZlJyM
• Probe launched after someone claiming to be a law student tells internet they cheated on exam - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lAmb5vQGMf 
• "Government control over the flow of information: Lord Sumption speaks out against the Online Safety Bill in latest episode of Law Pod UK - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/uKklbJ22SS 
• Alastair Gray promoted to Head of Scotland at rradar | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/T4pBeMJTsW 
• The Weekly Round-up: Contempt of Parliament, ECHR no defence for criminal damage, and online safety - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/86zmy9tA2W
• Election Commission freezes Shiv Sena name, symbol; can't be used by Thackeray and Shinde camps for now | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/LMlTAJiPHD
• Police in The Gambia have started an investigation into the deaths of 66 children, which have been linked to four brands of #Indian imported cough syrup https://t.co/KxGbnrFlzR

10th October - Law News

Edition 3940: 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:  Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Ireland's prime minister, has said the nation is in mourning after a petrol station explosion killed 10 people. The blast in County Donegal happened in the village of Creeslough on Friday afternoon. The victims - four men, three women, a teenage boy and girl and a younger girl - were from the village or surrounding areas, said Gardaí (Irish police).

Focus of the Day Article: City solicitor Raymond McKeeve has been given a £25,000 fine and ordered to pay £610,000 costs but escaped prison after allegedly telling a client to ‘burn’ evidence. Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law

• More than 1,300 football hooligans with banning orders in England and Wales are being told to hand in their passports to stop them going to the World Cup https://t.co/gREfnN9cBl
• Matheson: Business leaders feel they need to do more to prepare for cyber incidents | Irish Legal News https://t.co/j2HIIACfbQ 
• LawTech Talks: How technology helps women lawyers succeed - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/EnoqIC6pQl
  
• High Court endorses Abu Dhabi forum for solicitor's divorce | Law Gazette https://t.co/splad5BvhH
• Anderson Strathern has been named as a supplier on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) legal services framework for the first time | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WG2yEfraVS
• Wales to 'declutter' statute book | Law Gazette https://t.co/fQWidhxBYj
• Allan McDougall Solicitors has announced the promotion of Gordon Milligan to partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NFUwi9G20k
  
• Tributes have been paid to the 10 victims of a huge explosion at a petrol station in the Republic of Ireland. The blast happened in the County Donegal village of Creeslough on Friday https://t.co/3H1RJVyg2I
  
• #Iran's state-run broadcaster was apparently hacked on air Saturday, with a news bulletin interrupted by a protest against the country's leader. A mask appeared on the screen, followed by an image of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with flames around him https://t.co/yTgYsmp2Am 
• High Court: Dublin court had jurisdiction in divorce case because solicitor husband acted in superior courts | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VieInEaMTJ 
• ByrneWallace chief appointed to Ibec national council | Irish Legal News https://t.co/IBUxN4LyGW 
• Legal Cheek’s October UK Virtual Law Fair is THIS TUESDAY - Legal Cheek https://t.co/6XU77iAPqz
• Addleshaw Goddard has attracted a new partner to its dispute resolution team in Scotland with the addition of Claire Thornber, who joins from Weightmans Solicitors | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WwHPl9DJT0
• My life as a crypto disputes lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8e2nKG8DFI 
• Full video: The SQE — what we’ve learned so far - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5A5oHDDyfo

9th October - Law News

Edition 3939: 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:  Israeli soldiers have killed three Palestinian teenagers in the Occupied West Bank in just 24 hours. A funeral has been held for Mahdi Ladadweh, the third 17-year-old Palestinian boy killed on Friday by Israeli forces, during a raid in the Jenin refugee camp. Similar funerals are held nearly every day in the occupied West Bank

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Top City law firms back pro-bono initiative for non-legal staff - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RhpJK5VdXA
• Challenge to government’s lateral flow test contracts rejected by high court https://t.co/k0XqI5cdnw
• Callan Tansey promotes Orlagh Sharkey to partner and head of family law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2JDpX3yz41 
• Conor Burns was sacked as a Conservative minister and suspended as a Tory MP after eyewitnesses saw him touching a young man's thigh at a hotel bar, the BBC has been told https://t.co/3ug0R8ZCOd 
• A proposed rise in legal aid fees is a step in the right direction, but further action is urgently needed to resolve the long-term crisis in the sector, the Law Society of Scotland has said | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/oh6kGrXqsS
• Five teenagers have been sentenced to three years' detention in Hong Kong for advocating overthrow of the Beijing government. It is the first time the national security law has been used in court against under-18s in Hong Kong #China https://t.co/lSLPojWMnI
• City solicitor avoids jail after criminal contempt finding - Legal Futures https://t.co/A9HHtonKSz 
• Increasing numbers of employees are struggling with mental health issues, as employee assistance providers (EAPs) face being overwhelmed by demand | NLJ https://t.co/a6ihQRvtxZ 
• Rebecca Dyer, 2021/22 student director of the Strathclyde Law Clinic, talks about her time in the clinic and offers encouragement to current and future members | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FJvy4eS8Yn 
• Serial killer Peter Tobin has died in hospital, at the age of 76. He was convicted of raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, and hiding her body under the floor of a Glasgow church in 2006 https://t.co/K8OKW2m6bU
• Our objections to assisted dying are based on evidence, not religion | The Guardian https://t.co/UvBQMtSFBn
  
• Belfast lawyer Michael Graham elected to STEP global council | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jZCnEpOVCC 
• Market for corporate and commercial work to "cool substantially" - Legal Futures https://t.co/McSS4mYA70 
• When Ahmad Ali Shariati was awarded the Chevening scholarship to study law at the University of Aberdeen, it was an opportunity he wanted to grasp to make a positive difference in his home country of Afghanistan | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qNYWkQhD7u
• First witness in Kevin Spacey’s New York trial testifies actor grabbed him #US https://t.co/ZVQJKmLLNq 
• Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge by a person of both British and Irish citizenship asserting a right to be recognised as an Irish citizen only | Irish Legal News https://t.co/mALjFE7gbE
• The past two years of growth in the legal market could be a bubble, which is about to pop, according to the latest LexisNexis Gross Legal Product (GLP) Index | NLJ https://t.co/qEo8pVfnhG
  
• Profession backs SIF but SRA "can save £500k" with new scheme - Legal Futures https://t.co/MemAltpzYz
  
• New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency to address a "crisis situation" over an influx of migrants. More than 17,000 have been sent by Republican-controlled states to the city since April #US https://t.co/Zbm7pAO1Gs
• A leading specialist in legal history, human rights, religious freedom, marriage and family law, and law and religion will deliver the opening 2022 Gifford Lecture at the University of Aberdeen | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZicDS3hJAz
• White Feminism Has Appropriated the Hijab Protest, Without Understanding It https://t.co/PqKvEpaC1V
• City solicitor Raymond McKeeve has been given a £25,000 fine and ordered to pay £610,000 costs but escaped prison after allegedly telling a client to ‘burn’ evidence | NLJ https://t.co/u34kw36wgU 
• OIC: Under-settlement fears as system problems grow backlog - Legal Futures https://t.co/3frvDSVnu8
• Pete Duff, professor in criminal justice at Aberdeen University, passed away on 29 September | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/rEM3rt6THo
  
• TLT welcomes new associates and solicitors in Belfast | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EansnpxGLs
  
• MHC: White collar crime ‘not sufficiently enforced’ in Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YX7ROfGWuQ

8th October - Law News

Edition 3938: 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:  Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has highlighted South Indian teachers concerned by the issue of the Kannada language and culture being "under attack". He said that "our education system is under systematic attack from adverse ideological forces & that attack has reached now our curriculum."

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Jeremy Clarkson told to shut his farm’s restaurant and cafe - West Oxfordshire council says setup at Diddly Squat farm is ‘visually intrusive and harmful’ https://t.co/BCDf4tSNw
• Solicitors took ‘unfair advantage’ of client by deducting costs, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/7hfJxQPZGD
• UN vote to ignore human rights abuses in #China leaves west in dead end https://t.co/YsABxqFjsE
• Number of lawyers at fee-share firms up by 45% in three years - Legal Futures https://t.co/TBjG64HbHA 
• ‘House of brands’ consolidator merges with firm and subsumes its brand | Law Gazette https://t.co/D3GlYYTqnf 
• Stephen Lawrence case: Jamie Acourt to be freed in November - he has served half of a nine-year sentence, after spending more than two years on the run in Spain https://t.co/K2RUOcv9L9 
• Rise of plea-bargaining coerces young defendants into guilty pleas, says report https://t.co/IIZNgZRVrR
  
• Trade minister Conor Burns has been sacked from the government after a complaint of serious misconduct. He has also had the Tory whip removed while allegations of inappropriate behaviour during the party conference are investigated https://t.co/x3QdSggCja 
• Why your firm should improve its source of funds and wealth processes - Legal Futures https://t.co/9YZmX8qu8k 
• Directors owe sliding scale of duties to creditors, SC rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/5hl3kfeasX 
• The mother of a teenage girl who died during protests in Iran has accused authorities of murdering her daughter. Farda, Nasrin Shakarami said she had seen injuries on her daughter's body which contradict an official statement https://t.co/wv4CLU5ykV
  
• Regulator consults on indemnity scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/COp67u3Tpt 
• A search for the last victim of the Moors murderers has been completed with no evidence of human remains being found, police have said https://t.co/C4YUJE1HI3 
• Law firm’s “courageous conversations” help staff discuss taboo issues - Legal Futures https://t.co/SEeuUrJb36 
• Divorce applications reach decade high | Law Gazette https://t.co/0ircwpxWGV 
• Balancing profit with purpose: Brabners becomes largest law firm B Corp - Legal Futures https://t.co/xfoH9LNXDF
• Serial cyberstalker Matthew Hardy has jail term cut https://t.co/JMapJNdH6n
  
• SQE pass rates reveal continuing racial divide | Law Gazette https://t.co/5Grc0RDWBH
  
• SRA allows struck-off solicitor to join firm after opposing return to roll - Legal Futures https://t.co/r1am2SXJ9T
• Refugees arriving in UK on boats asked to find own accommodation https://t.co/L86L1gQ9Cy 
• UK drivers for Bolt ride-hailing app pursue worker benefits claim https://t.co/yiNrYlRM6O
• 'Bubble' economy: Corporate lawyers warned of sharp slowdown | Law Gazette https://t.co/I7qGuyqGUD 
• Afghan family in hiding wins waiver on biometric tests for UK visas https://t.co/B01jyd9kdA
• Author JK Rowling has supported a protest rally by wearing a T-shirt calling Scotland's first minister a "destroyer of women's rights". The author tweeted a picture of herself as demonstrators gathered outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh https://t.co/KscJiWrNJH
• UK defies climate warnings with new oil and gas licences https://t.co/4ByoNQFwQf
• President Joe Biden is issuing an executive order pardoning all Americans who have been federally convicted of "simple possession of marijuana". The move will only affect a relatively small number of marijuana convictions #US https://t.co/NWDayGOmlC

7th October - Law News

Edition 3937: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story:  For millennia, Aboriginal people living on the far south coast of New South Wales have fished for abalone. It's a cultural practice that's sacred to them. Elders say they only take enough abalone to feed their family, but some, like Yuin man Kevin Mason, have found themselves in trouble with the law, despite the practice being legal.

Focus of the Day Article: ‘Engage with the training – someday it may save your job’: top tips for partners to avoid sexual misconduct risk. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Four India made cold and cough syrups in question "have been potentially linked with acute kidney injuries and 66 deaths among children" in #Gambia, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus https://t.co/EkzLH4ZdUv
• Ex-Met Police officer arrested over racist WhatsApp chat - Rob Lewis, now a Home Office official, is being held on suspicion of offences under the Communications Act and misconduct in a public office https://t.co/RfX9u27Igu
• Conservative conference: Lewis appeals for end to strike ‘brinkmanship’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/7BJ6FPD2TY
• British teachers found not guilty over death of girl, 12, on French school trip https://t.co/1egVK2pnSB
• Solicitor had cannabis at courthouse to help with Covid anxiety - Legal Futures https://t.co/t27qaqlpEj
  
• 'Problems with your ex?': McFarlane suggests mediation rebrand | Law Gazette https://t.co/3XF8BhjHNc
• Evidence of woman's relatives in matrimonial dispute can't be brushed aside terming them 'interested witnesses': Madras High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/WJzLVn7S7w
• Sir Elton John takes legal action against Daily Mail publisher for 'privacy breach' https://t.co/gmsgA0ihM9
  
• Alleged fugitive facing extradition from Scotland to the #US has had photos of his tattoos taken in prison as part of a bid to establish his identity. Prosecutors believe he is Nicholas Rossi, who is said to have faked his own death to escape charges there https://t.co/HYmWAY7HLT 
• Ankle tags used to target young black men, London mayor’s report finds https://t.co/v4d4jeys7I 
• Men jailed for life for murder of Sheffield solicitor | Law Gazette https://t.co/MCHPFXGmT2 
• Chambers merge to create common law giant | Law Gazette https://t.co/miySOS94bA
• McFarlane urges shift away from mediation in mandatory pre-divorce meetings - Legal Futures https://t.co/VW0iInJLya
• Linklaters lawyers could be financially rewarded for diversity work | Law Gazette https://t.co/lKvLQpC4rP
• Woman to sue CPS after rape case dropped over sexsomnia claims - Prosecutors admit error after Jade McCrossen-Nethercott was accused of having rare sleep condition https://t.co/pXIWUbMzgM
• Master of rolls questions 'impenetrable' client documents | Law Gazette https://t.co/XZ6UkeFogR 
• Acquisition number 13 for listed law firm pioneer Gateley - Legal Futures https://t.co/BZZabZu9fA 
• ‘Burn it’ City solicitor escapes jail for contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/AXqFHhZaTk
• An immigration official at the Home Office suspended after an investigation revealed he had been posting racist content on WhatsApp. Rob Lewis, an ex-Metropolitan Police officer created the group chat, which also included other former Met police officers https://t.co/GdDcC4kSjS
• At least 28 people have been killed after a former police officer opened fire at a pre-school child daycare centre in #Thailand, police say. The gunman is still at large after the attack in Nong Bua Lamphu, in the north-east of the country https://t.co/MAh54QfzUR
• Serial cyberstalker who harassed dozens of women has jail term cut https://t.co/JMZHccZkT4 
• Public need protection from so-called ‘legal advisers’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/STXVBwUqx0 
• Hybrid working disconnect between fee-earners and support staff - Legal Futures https://t.co/FRDVIDACI3
• Alec Baldwin has reached a settlement with the family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, after she was killed on a film set when he fired a prop gun #US https://t.co/fkoaBCX1ah 
• Twitter v Musk trial still on as neither side requested a pause, judge says - Billionaire offered to complete his proposed $44bn buyout of Twitter in a dramatic U-turn on decision to withdraw from deal https://t.co/88XRgpW8hr

6th October - Law News

Edition 3936: 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:  Judgment has been given this morning by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the following case: BTI 2014 LLC (Appellant) v Sequana SA and others (Respondents) - [2022] UKSC 25 On appeal from: [2019] EWCA Civ 112 Sequana’s subsidiary was liable to indemnify BAT for costs arising from the clean-up of a polluted river. The directors of the subsidiary resolved that it should pay a substantial dividend to Sequana, without – BAT says – leaving enough money in the subsidiary to pay for the clean-up costs.

Focus of the Day Article: The government has quietly revealed that it will embark on a major review of civil legal aid – but the chief executive of a practitioner group warns it could be too little, too late to prevent the sector shrinking further. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

Saturday Conversations on Law

• An advert- and tracker-free search engine launches in the UK, France and Germany on Thursday. Neeva has 600,000 users in the US, where it launched last year https://t.co/r6mSum02pu
• Scottish ministers have rejected calls to confirm whether King Charles III asked for changes to a Scottish rent freeze bill that could affect tenancies on his Highland estate https://t.co/r0xhMvjtA3
• Belsner-type claims ‘ridiculous’ and driven by costs chasers, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ly0cHg5eIA
• King Charles allowed to vet proposed Scottish rent freeze law https://t.co/UIlcVkzxXo
• Convicted ‘swindler and cheat’ denied return to solicitor profession | Law Gazette https://t.co/0dOFO4kVix
• Primark will reintroduce women-only fitting rooms after concerns were raised about combined changing spaces. It follows an incident in Cambridge where a woman claimed two men walked in on her in a changing room https://t.co/ho4Pr1Xt2f
• A primary school targeted by racist abuse online after a visit by the first minister will not quit social media, its head teacher has vowed. Police continue to investigate the comments directed at pupils of St Albert's in Pollokshields, Glasgow https://t.co/cJdPHtx4WS 
• Big law firms failing to provide "modern digital experience" - Legal Futures https://t.co/GtBGtUNgbs 
• The Guardian view on digital dangers: after Molly Russell, MPs must act on Instagram and Pinterest, who led the teenager down a self-destructive path https://t.co/mTcL9po7Mk
  
• Civil legal aid review in the pipeline, agency reveals | Law Gazette https://t.co/5CUkD8N7Pj 
• Ex-solicitor labelled “disgrace to profession” refused return to practice - Legal Futures https://t.co/mhjollHzpo 
• Angelina Jolie alleges physical abuse by Brad Pitt in countersuit https://t.co/xoSFwhKf5C 
• Braverman to renew attacks on ‘abuse’ of asylum rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/if12fDOyaI 
• Compulsory mediation – an opportunity for small claims triage? - Legal Futures https://t.co/nMiCILpDut
• Jade McCrossen-Nethercott's rape case was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) because of claims she had an episode of a rare sleep condition called "sexsomnia" https://t.co/ASX5OAF00n
  
• #Dutch town falsely linked to satanic paedophiles loses Twitter court case - Judge rules Twitter has ‘done enough’ to remove defamatory tweets about Bodegraven Reeuwijk https://t.co/DCxCrSCSqv
  
• Pinsents faces negligence claim for fielding ‘too junior' staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/Zt0NyTezfK
• Shortage of solicitors a “real risk” to Northern Ireland - Legal Futures https://t.co/yJrePvO0M5 
• Legal secretary barred for abuse of City firm’s air miles | Law Gazette https://t.co/0u5RTPF163 
• Teen held in hospital for months due to lack of secure children’s home place - Case at family court highlights lack of facilities in England for very vulnerable youngsters https://t.co/WbrguEgf4g 
• Police chiefs in England and Wales have pledged to send an officer to every single burgled home https://t.co/k8oO25McDN 
• Magistrates' expenses system 'not fit for purpose' | Law Gazette https://t.co/PxjMzs0hdy 
• Government to launch review of civil legal aid sustainability - Legal Futures https://t.co/4JGhy7wWvo 
• Mother in Law: Older and wiser – but still learning on the job | Law Gazette https://t.co/KzyUhi4HqK
• Trump asks supreme court to reverse ruling on classified Mar-a-Lago files #US https://t.co/zjgJkkODqw
• Vardy to pay Rooney £800,000 now and cover 90% of her costs | Law Gazette https://t.co/7q2Qz59WlR
• Rees-Mogg seeking to evade scrutiny of new fracking projects, email shows: Note setting out business secretary’s views looks for ways to accelerate schemes, including streamlining HSE requirements https://t.co/NLJ44HCKIP