Sunday

6th November - Law News

Edition 3967: 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: With more than a million people expected to come to Qatar's FIFA World Cup, preparations for managing them are underway. A three-day festival is taking place in Lusail City, where the final will be held, to see how it will cope. Friday night was South Asia Night.  

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • SDT lifts restriction on solicitor holding management position in firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/hox5D9aK3q 
  • Thousands join London protest calling for general election and demanding resignation from home secretary Suella Braverman https://t.co/lhDN5kr1mB
  • Women barristers earn one third less than their male colleagues, Bar Council analysis has found| NLJ https://t.co/ssCkLjtQyZ
  • A&L Goodbody appoints Amy Martin to pro bono team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EBEz4v3Lp4
  • Supreme Court will not hear appeal on professional tribunal members' pay - Legal Futures https://t.co/aPW2ZRLhr7 
  • The decline of local newspapers has resulted in court proceedings being less visible to the public, and digital media has so far failed to fill the gap, a parliamentary committee has warned | NLJ https://t.co/bdyhiGOOzg
  • The Law Society has called on the government to prioritise reform of the Mental Health Act, after official statistics revealed Black British people continue to be disproportionately detained and compulsorily treated | NLJ https://t.co/DKmOuhRKqp 
  • Scottish Legal Complaints Commission welcomes new board members | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0k3CMRLvKU 
  • Lawyers should "actively advise" clients on their environmental impact - Legal Futures https://t.co/sQkcKD3gPC 
  • High Court: Verdict of unlawful killing will be open to jury in Stardust inquest | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JQY3HvxJ8Q 
  • A #US judge has ruled that an independent monitor should be appointed to oversee the Trump Organization’s finances to “ensure there is no further fraud or illegality” pending the outcome of a $250 million lawsuit | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3H1Qk1l7PD
  • The firebombing of an immigration processing centre was motivated by extreme right-wing terrorist ideology, police have said. Andrew Leak, 66, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, threw up to three incendiary devices https://t.co/YuyFETA9GJ 
  • Clyde & Co calls for greater diversity and inclusion in Northern Ireland law firms | Irish Legal News https://t.co/LH5ULxbIUp 
  • Professional services MDP in process of buying law firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/5TBpvVhQOh 
  • Detainees armed with various weaponry caused a disturbance at a London immigration removal centre during a power outage. No one was injured during the incident at the Harmondsworth detention centre in West London, the Home Office claims https://t.co/MufjXumJK6 
  • An Bord Pleanála chairperson to retire early on personal grounds | Irish Legal News https://t.co/5Pzjbup4Fu 
  • Northern Ireland’s compensation increase for bereaved relatives ‘is not enough’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0Ash41BYn8
  • Eric Allison: warm, polite and tireless - Andrew Neilson of the Howard League for Penal Reform remembers a sympathetic campaigner and journalist https://t.co/M2loIhD2nM 
  • Nick Kyrgios has settled a legal case with a spectator he accused of being "drunk out of her mind" during the Wimbledon final https://t.co/TBjoSHCE7b
  • Convicted murderers and drug dealers who have recently left prison in #Russia face being conscripted to fight in Ukraine under a change to the law https://t.co/K1xw8eDbgG

Saturday

5th November - Law News

Edition 3966: 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 thick layer of haze covered the Delhi on Friday. The National Capital continued to reel under 'severe' air quality with Air Quality Index (AQI) at 472 currently. Climate change is a major issue facing India, and sustainability remains a word paid lip-service by the ruling political machinery.  

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Junior lawyers won’t have to ‘turn in’ bullying workmates | Law Gazette https://t.co/JmEDDG4ryY
  • Philip: SRA will make full use of unlimited fining power for economic crime - Legal Futures https://t.co/QfKjF5Lajl 
  • William Tyrrell’s former foster mother knows where he is, NSW detective tells court #Australia https://t.co/F6Dpz8dN4C
  • Lead-generation company acquired to boost PI business | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZaRM2aiRr9 
  • Council bosses have said they were not consulted or notified by the Home Office about the arrival of 55 migrants to a hotel at a seaside resort. North Devon Council said the hotel in Ilfracombe was an "unsuitable location" for them due to its remoteness https://t.co/mWT6k3cg5E
  • Barney Ross elected Clerk of Faculty | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gCRytgUgq7
  • Woman claiming to be Christ warned to stop using court time | Law Gazette https://t.co/TseVIoDzH
  • LeO seeks 9.6% budget rise equivalent to £7.20 per solicitor - Legal Futures https://t.co/hj8XabzjNO
  • Automating IP checks will require legislation | Law Gazette https://t.co/4wC8vlWTSd
  • KOD Lyons promotes Katie Dowling to associate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SrEMkjJiyO
  • 'Hillsborough Law' on the agenda of new parliamentary group | Law Gazette https://t.co/bqcii1hTLS
  • Cat MacLean to join BTO’s dispute resolution team | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gf6Y1Kv4NI
  • US legal profession ‘still opposed to ABS-style reform’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/n4flAejkZt
  • PE firm adds digital marketing business to law firm acquisitions - Legal Futures https://t.co/jJxfeQ3vaL 
  • Minister says 'bit of a cheek’ for asylum-seekers to complain about conditions - Chris Philp’s comments come as government faces pressure to fix ‘chaos’ at Manston immigration centre https://t.co/BsL02J2uo
  • SFO secures record penalty in Glencore bribery case | Law Gazette https://t.co/PSnT6dxWiQ
  • South West Ambulance has the longest waits in the country for people to get through to the operator. It takes almost a minute on average for ambulance control to answer 999 calls compared with just five seconds for the West Midlands service https://t.co/If0z9Cv96k
  • Evidence of Albanian drug gangs using the migrant camps of northern France as a recruitment ground, offering to pay the passage of those prepared to work in the UK drugs industry on arrival https://t.co/PKLOxoLJbq
  • Les Allamby appointed to NI Policing Board | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KGrFA6LYY5
  • Metamorph director leaves as new winding-up petition emerges | Law Gazette https://t.co/Hgs0iUIHZx
  • UCD academic supporting judicial training in Ukraine | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Lt3FQLqyGf
  • SRA rows back on requiring junior staff to challenge bad behaviour at work - Legal Futures https://t.co/T7Tkxaaprg
  • A farewell to 'fax it up' | Law Gazette https://t.co/Hx67yP9FFw
  • Just when refugees thought Manston couldn’t get any worse, here comes Leaky Sue https://t.co/oz0WGuSaFu
  • Andrew Blain re-elected managing partner of Shepherd and Wedderburn | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/dQug1fFNeE
  • Protecting the rights of lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/tY33aTLp0o 
  • Carson McDowell secures apology from Unite the Union | Irish Legal News https://t.co/XtQvvLAVoT
  • The #French parliament was brought to a halt after a far-right MP Grégoire de Fournas, a member of National Rally (RN) shouted "They should go back to Africa" as a black colleague talked about immigration https://t.co/6S6pF6RwA3 
  • Abject failure of Scotland’s FOI regime highlighted by irritated public | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/353A0GGT3L 
  • 128 scholars ask UN not to adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism: Leading scholars in anti-Semitism said IHRA definition has been ‘hijacked’ to protect Israel from international criticism https://t.co/zoKme91r7Z

Friday

4th November - Law News

Edition 3965: 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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Focus of the Day Article:  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. Full story - Scottish Legal News
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Daniel Lavelle is a journalist who spent some of his teenage years in the care system. He is also somewhat of an anomaly. Statistics show one in four people who leave care in the UK end up homeless. They are also likely to end up in a prison. In a special Guardian video Lavelle reflects on his experiences, and meets others who've been through the system to find out what is going wrong for some of the country's most vulnerable children. He also talks to those who've made it out the other side 'damaged but not broken'

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Removing the ‘A’ from ALSPs - Legal Futures https://t.co/dqBgI8ZnWC
  • Eight in 10 rape charges tried by UK military courts end without conviction - Only 11 out of 53 charges of rape heard by service justice system in past three years led to guilty charges https://t.co/ZXvvjz2MFz
  • Solicitor fined over convictions for assault and drink driving | Law Gazette https://t.co/rkXzphFQ2l
  • UK subsidiary of mining giant Glencore ordered to pay more than £275m for bribing officials in African countries to get access to oil. It paid $26m through agents and employees to officials of crude oil firms in Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast https://t.co/EEaoFnay3a 
  • Knights partner fined after assault and drink-drive convictions - Legal Futures https://t.co/Jft3wmndO0
  • Mining giant Glencore flew cash bribes to Africa via private jet, UK court hears - Corruption at FTSE 100 firm described as endemic at sentence hearing https://t.co/syVI9TFYJV 
  • 'Resourcing' required to achieve 53,000 backlog target, DPP tells MPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/xnS5TPxX94 
  • A child and a teenager have been sexually assaulted at a hotel used to house asylum seekers in London https://t.co/vgqPyARt1M 
  • Home secretary Suella Braverman facing legal action over Manston children safety https://t.co/GppOr0BYlt 
  • Diversity Lab certifies more than 40 in-house teams for D&I efforts - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/v6iRaKyEwl 
  • ‘Freedom-killing monster’: illegal rave crackdown in #Italy draws criticism https://t.co/cwFLlNoiqM 
  • Ministry of Justice "reinforced negative race stereotypes" with advert - Legal Futures https://t.co/JRevrC2mUP 
  • #Egyptian regime criticized as climate activist arrested in run-up to Cop27 - Concern over country’s human rights record after Indian Ajit Rajagopal arrested on walk to raise awareness about climate crisis https://t.co/moOFvharFF 
  • Former City partner appointed to Court of Appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/hKCx2EkqtT 
  • #Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan, has been shot and wounded in the leg in an attack on his protest march in the eastern city of Wazirabad https://t.co/iESRUdffEk
  • Perkins Coie acquires New York start-up advisory boutique Kluk Farber Law - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/v70sGjTyWd 
  • PI firm bought out after profits more than halve in a year | Law Gazette https://t.co/Fvq26m7yns 
  • SRA fines overhaul “of grave concern” to solicitors - Legal Futures https://t.co/A9uUMR3mCJ 
  • You should all understand crypto, lawyers told | Law Gazette https://t.co/qBAovRcIcU 
  • Singer Mariah Carey is no longer being sued for copyright infringement over her hit song All I Want for Christmas is You, after country singer Andy Stone dropped his legal action. He sued claiming he co-wrote a song with the same name five years earlier https://t.co/l8wOMrMjmB 
  • Call to end use of gagging orders to silence victims of police misogyny - Chief constables most to blame for crises sapping legitimacy of policing, says Police Federation leader https://t.co/jGRm3FOnKI 
  • Eric Allison, Guardian’s prison correspondent, dies at 79 - Former inmate, who claimed to be only man to escape from Strangeways, joined paper at 60 and worked to expose cruelty of prison system https://t.co/AWa9TmAWWq 
  • Large PI firm sold in latest post-reform consolidation move - Legal Futures https://t.co/23XAfHldVc
  • Senior arbitration talent departs Matrix Chambers for 3 Verulam Buildings in London - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/HkUOJys8Yr 
  • Prison officer job ad banned over ‘negative racial stereotype’ - ASA rules that UK Facebook ad showing white officer with black prisoner showed an ‘imbalanced power dynamic’ https://t.co/FUDJDHoce8 
  • The UK should stop discriminating against Albanians to excuse "policy failures", the country's PM has said. Edi Rama said "rhetoric" blaming his citizens for the UK's crime and border problems ignored the facts https://t.co/C5VorsP5RM

Thursday

3rd November - Law News

Edition 3964: 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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Focus of the Day Article:  A significant number of chambers do not know whether their barristers have declared that they are subject to the money laundering regulations (MLRs), the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has warned. Full story - Legal Futures
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: SSAFA and another (Respondents) v Allgemeines Krankenhaus Viersen GmbH (Appellant) - SSAFA and another (Respondents) v Allgemeines Krankenhaus Viersen GmbH (Appellant)

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Litigant who flouted ‘all courts’ ban jailed for 15 months | Law Gazette https://t.co/tOtEvoZvOv
  • A group of migrants were mistakenly taken from Kent and stranded in London, cold, hungry and without accommodation. About 40 migrants were transported out of Manston, the overcrowded processing centre, on Tuesday https://t.co/oTRBr1goTt 
  • My legal life: Anna McIntyre, Serious Fraud Office - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/72hpv0CoQB 
  • Improve access to court judgments, MPs tell HMCTS | Law Gazette https://t.co/FNeWPZSbPX 
  • MPs call for single portal for public access to courts - Legal Futures https://t.co/IEr9FTLk32 
  • New network to support junior solicitors | Law Gazette https://t.co/7Hl5L4gokG 
  • Ombudsman sets start date for one-year complaint limit | Law Gazette https://t.co/uMmMKdLbG2 
  • Jailed policemen Jonathon Cobban, 35, and Joel Borders, 45, shared WhatsApp messages about women and disabled people in a group with Wayne Couzens https://t.co/yBl0zfFQqc 
  • We can do better than female quotas, says former Law Society president | Law Gazette https://t.co/GjFvxXzR1R
  • In-house counsel ‘risk averse’ about reporting cyber crime | Law Gazette https://t.co/qHD5LXqD44 
  • Bullying within judiciary revealed in research commissioned by LCJ | Law Gazette https://t.co/49om1uCNX
  • Chambers “do not know money laundering status of barristers” - Legal Futures https://t.co/GAUJox7TpP
  • A Victims Commissioner has described the sentence handed down to her stalker of 19 years as "an insult". In October Elliot Fogel, 47, was found guilty for a sixth time of breaching a lifetime restraining order designed to stop him contacting Claire Waxman https://t.co/i5EiTifRHh 
  • Government breaching EU withdrawal terms, High Court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/MyalpyCIHt
  • Solicitor siblings fail in High Court appeal against strike-offs - Legal Futures https://t.co/HbhR3tJjjI
  • Conditions at an overcrowded migrant centre in Kent were akin to living in a prison or a zoo, a recent resident. Ahmed - not his real name - said people at the Manston processing centre were treated like "animals" with 130 forced to share a single tent https://t.co/cH3zUmoE3J 
  • ‘Prevalent’ predatory, misogynistic culture in police, official report finds - inspectorate uncovers widespread vetting failures with officers cleared to join after committing serious crimes https://t.co/TOriueMPMK
  • Military police records of LGBT people dismissed for being gay have been destroyed. Veterans who requested documents about investigations and interrogations into them by the military police have been told the files were deleted in 2010 https://t.co/R0vAxtrOoe 
  • Allahabad High Court stays demolition of hospital accused of transfusing juice instead of platelets | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/CrDmuaC702
  • Non party applying for copy of court order can keep anonymity | Law Gazette https://t.co/Zn6sBsfWNu
  • All change for the Law Society’s communities | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ta2GpR0ig5 
  • Lawyer in the news: Manoj Vaghela, Charles Russell Speechlys - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/NHJFckcBXg 
  • A prison job advert showing a black inmate and a white officer has been banned due to racial stereotyping. The Ministry of Justice's (MoJ) paid-for Facebook ad showed "an imbalanced power dynamic", the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled https://t.co/k9dmSUUL9J 
  • Hundreds of police officers who should have failed vetting checks may be in the job in England and Wales, a damning report has found https://t.co/MpKc8NjH1k
  • Workload-sharing app seeks to boost lawyers' job satisfaction - Legal Futures https://t.co/9JYpLlqOn4
  • Government tests energy blackout emergency plans as supply fears grow https://t.co/k6AENRor0n

Wednesday

2nd November - Law News

Edition 3963: 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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Focus of the Day Article:  Prosecutors accuse Trump Organization of ‘greed and cheating’ in tax fraud trial. Lawyers argued the firm paid an executive $1.76m through perks such as free apartment, leased car and grandchildren’s tuition fees. Full story - Guardian Law
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: In the debate over abortion, it often seems there’s not much room for nuance: You’re either for it or against it. But in the Opinion video above, the Rev. Clinton L. Stancil, the pastor of Wayman A.M.E. Church in St. Louis, articulates a position that is heard all too rarely, particularly among faith leaders. He is opposed to abortion on moral grounds and counsels his parishioners against getting the procedure. But he is also vehemently supportive of a woman’s right to choose. In an interview with Opinion Video, he called the Supreme Court decision that eliminated the constitutional right to abortion “a tragedy.”

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • About 1,000 people in Tehran have been charged in connection with the anti-government protests that have engulfed #Iran, the city's chief prosecutor says https://t.co/22fHjQIuaw
  • Elon Musk has said Twitter will charge $8 (£7) monthly to Twitter users who want a blue tick by their name indicating a verified account https://t.co/KFw4bQ9Cp
  • ‘I felt like a failure as a woman and as a mother’, the birth of barrister Rhiannon Malone’s son, one year ago, was supposed to be the happiest day of her life - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/oQ6EIWY6GP
  • The National Union of Students (NUS) has dismissed its president, Shaima Dallali, because she tweeted about a Jewish massacre from 628 AD, which the NUS deemed as anti-Semitism https://t.co/k9nDl8VMC
  • Early advice pilot 'lost opportunity' to collect valuable data | Law Gazette https://t.co/OeUS1SLhuq
  • Dover attack on migrant centre driven by hate, say terror police https://t.co/qR8c7iHlW0 
  • Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been suspended as a Conservative MP after joining the cast of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! https://t.co/CDKQKR4AZ1
  • Barrister's app shuns AI in favour of human collaboration - Legal Futures https://t.co/GXPldrnB9h
  • Lawfare slips through parliamentary warfare | Law Gazette https://t.co/q45eKYfMfF
  • Making financial services less ‘male, stale and pale’ - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/1qdLK3GxNB
  • SRA reported £149m of ‘suspicious activity’ last year | Law Gazette https://t.co/F5o1AW7P47 
  • Fine for complaints partner who “frustrated” Legal Ombudsman - Legal Futures https://t.co/iGTHtyAahN
  • ‘Unconscionable’ for A-G to let prosecution of lawyer-turned-whistleblower go ahead - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/pkdcB4bXF5
  • Government 'must prioritise' Mental Health Act reform | Law Gazette https://t.co/owPYEWGcrU 
  • The Guardian view on China’s response to dissent: repression, at home and away https://t.co/lzV4RVhyx
  • Mothers in law still struggle to juggle despite more supportive employers - Legal Futures https://t.co/XmDk2piA1Q
  • Tech can reinvigorate our commitment to the rule of law - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Qc57FBJ1Bc 
  • Lawyers should uphold Constitution; actions of lawyers in the present will impact society in future: Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/KeQPs5jDwU
  • SRA refers firms handling matters worth £149m to crime agency - Legal Futures https://t.co/inZtgpvDqz 
  • Justice Crowley on the ‘greatest rewards’ from service as a lawyer - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/6zdE78pkjL
  • Womble Bond Dickinson in merger talks with BDB Pitmans - Legal Cheek https://t.co/jfOVnDIGRd
  • Lawyers will put an end to this war, Zelensky tells international bar | Law Gazette https://t.co/V3VfRjZuVE
  • Will Clifford Chance wave the Wharf goodbye? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/H8GnhCv4vC
  • A man has been charged with attempting to kidnap senior US politician Nancy Pelosi and assaulting her husband. The 42-year-old is accused of breaking into the couple's San Francisco home early on Friday and assaulting Paul Pelosi, 82, with a hammer #US https://t.co/IMsgyT6dLk 
  • Complaint under Section 138 NI Act cannot be transferred as per convenience of accused: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/zfCC14fpF9
  • Former Premier League footballer Joey Barton has been cleared of assaulting his wife after a judge ruled he could not have a fair trial https://t.co/Q3QqVbXkgn