28th November - Law News

Edition 3989: 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: Personal injury lawyers have been given an extra six months’ reprieve on the implementation of the fixed costs regime for civil litigation. Full story - New Law Journal 

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: From truck drivers in Chile and South Korea to rail workers and nurses in the UK, a global cost of living crisis is pushing workers to go on strike. Economies, barely recovering from the pandemic, are now facing more hardship. The war in Ukraine, a climate crisis and the price of food and fuel have pushed several countries beyond their ability to cope. The UN says the cost of living crisis is the worst the world has experienced so far in the 21st century. Is this challenge too big for many governments?

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Legal Twitter divided over review of barrister's book - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Po6yndKOyK 
• The Weekly Round-up: Cop27 deals, advertising restrictions, and online safety - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/EJnPUHv1Ma 
• Lord Chief Justice to retire - Legal Cheek https://t.co/j0tcgjuN4E 
• #Barbados plans to make Tory MP pay reparations for family’s slave past - Richard Drax reported to have visited Caribbean island for meeting on next steps, including plans for former sugar plantation https://t.co/hnJ7ORZMwG 
• A man whose body was found dumped on a street covered in "potentially hazardous" substances had been shot and attacked with acid, police said. Liam Smith's body was discovered on Kilburn Drive in Shevington, Wigan, at about 19:00 BST on Thursday https://t.co/Jnb07rTE7d 
• Protests in China against strict Covid measures have intensified, with some people publicly venting their anger at the Communist Party leaders. Thousands of protesters have turned out in Shanghai, where the BBC has seen people bundled into police cars https://t.co/vHGHFflp8L 
• Report reveals 'most feared' law firms - Legal Cheek https://t.co/4fNj0viJLE 
• Family of man killed over a decade ago demand apology from gardaí | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SQK1byKnBs
  
• Painful lessons about the duty of candour (more on the unlawful seizure of migrants’ mobiles) - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/ccFGECprni 
• Why I chose to be an energy lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/P7r3nfBW8h 
• Removal of gametes from brain dead man would breach his rights to privacy: Court of Protection - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/0EqxwAZGU3 
• King Charles visits legal London - Legal Cheek https://t.co/88KgBzndpX 
• British soldier guilty of manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie in 1988 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/HoZjv24oMf 
• ‘Can I wear a nose piercing to my winter vac scheme?’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/OYhq3D9xPn 
• The beginning of a pushback against Article 2 inquests? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/5bgpqO0m4j 
• High Court: Plaintiff’s second actions should not be dismissed as she did not receive a determination of issues in first action | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Kly182l40T 
• Covid: Over 2,000 law students join group action over lost learning - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2FiF3Ay4om 
• Revealed: half of English police forces fail to meet standards in crime investigations https://t.co/hs0aMGhSBV 
• The path to a training contract is rarely straightforward - Legal Cheek https://t.co/BqHS3uTgA3 
• Meta seeks government protection from Rees-Mogg’s EU law bonfire https://t.co/SYcWUtsqG0 
• Brexit blow: exports to Japan slump after ‘landmark’ free trade deal. First such accord after leaving EU was predicted to bring £15bn boost but UK now lags rivals https://t.co/Pq2GCNdcUc 
• Society condemns Home Office asylum delays | Law Gazette https://t.co/v6HBmlwg4d 
• Baroness Hale badged 'affable member' of Inn 'staff' by newspaper - Legal Cheek https://t.co/w0ptIIMVm7
  
• Key points from the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement last week | NLJ https://t.co/VePl99Dguj 
• How to make the most of your legal software investment - Legal Futures https://t.co/W5CZiSddWl 
• Early legal advice scheme piloted in hospital | Law Gazette https://t.co/nRJfAveOOG

27th November - Law News

Edition 3988: 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 Delhi Court today took strong exception to jailed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) minister Satyendar Jain requesting Tihar Jail officials to provide him with a special diet in keeping with his religious beliefs. Dismissing his plea, the court also ruled that jail authorities cannot be held responsible for his weight loss.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Barrister jailed for child sex offences disbarred - Legal Futures https://t.co/dRW3oQQOHj 
• The Law Commission has launched a call for evidence on decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs)—a type of organisation typically reliant on blockchain systems that are increasingly important in crypto-markets| NLJ https://t.co/YRihbV9e1f 
• Perpetrators offered help in firm’s domestic violence policy | Law Gazette https://t.co/rAZNHwmxsj 
• Turnover and profits continue to rise at first listed law firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/sgCod6MvWW 
• Pseudonymous claimant debarred from proceedings | Law Gazette https://t.co/AOSehg1P6P 
• The five-year review of the judicial salary structure has been postponed, the Lord Chancellor Dominic Raab has confirmed | NLJ https://t.co/tDgHmIcztZ 
• Trafficking would not have affected citizenship decision, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/UCwPftC9Eh 
• "Win-win" as Sussex firm embraces employee ownership - Legal Futures https://t.co/xm4uH51Ruz 
• The justice budget suffered a ‘real terms cut’ in the Autumn Statement this week, lawyers have warned, despite Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s pledge to protect public services | NLJ https://t.co/CNrRkXQ5GA 
• PI claimant may escape costs in 'perverse incentives' case | Law Gazette https://t.co/lifirs2jEP 
• SRA uses enhanced fining power for the first time with £15,000 penalty - Legal Futures https://t.co/a6FxXYXLYD 
• Personal injury lawyers have been given an extra six months’ reprieve on the implementation of the fixed costs regime for civil litigation | NLJ https://t.co/sqpuGU2V0u 
• We are in the foothills of true judicial diversity | Law Gazette https://t.co/F8AHEiwBue 
• London Fire Brigade institutionally misogynist and racist - report https://t.co/XDV9Wk4cZU 
• Sharing pornographic deepfakes to be illegal in England and Wales - Tackling the rise in manipulated images, where a person's face is put on someone else's body, is part of a crackdown on the abuse of intimate pictures in the Online Safety Bill https://t.co/MLCbxctU0G 
• Donald Trump sued as New York Adult Survivors Act takes effect #US https://t.co/cGdFK6JK0A

26th November - Law News

Edition 3987: 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: As China's coronavirus cases rise Beijing is still sticking to its zero-covid policy, locking down cities and enforcing harsh restrictions such as daily mass testing in some areas. East Asia correspondent Bill Birtles tells The World frustration appears to be growing among residents who are struggling to go about their daily lives.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Donald Trump sued as New York Adult Survivors Act takes effect #US https://t.co/cGdFK6JK0A 
• MPs back tougher economic crime fines and oversight for lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/3SxCCkO4br 
• UK minister rejects measure designed to tackle Slapp legal cases https://t.co/DXqfU4m3Pm 
• 'Wrong, confusing, unbalanced': SRA told to improve guidance | Law Gazette https://t.co/DQ3JpAJp7p 
• Gove under pressure to explain role in PPE deals for Mone-linked firm https://t.co/509n12tTHF 
• Bar Council piles pressure on BSB over Dinah Rose case - Legal Futures https://t.co/aLJha8eq5f 
• Lord chief justice announces his retirement | Law Gazette https://t.co/P57Hq11Zf1
  
• Listed firms' share prices jump while Ince looks to raise another £4m - Legal Futures https://t.co/CdByKrvdeT 
• Why this supreme court ruling presents an opportunity for Scottish nationalists https://t.co/T6MIm6HxMf 
• Blow to corporate transparency as top EU court backs anonymity | Law Gazette https://t.co/2iizpCSJtF 
• Fewer than 1% of ‘illegal’ tree felling cases in England result in convictions https://t.co/8rnL399FR2 
• Former soldier David Holden has been found guilty of the manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie in Tyrone 34 years ago. The 53-year-old is the first veteran to be convicted of a historical offence in Northern Ireland since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement https://t.co/x4demTjw4M 
• Bar Council wades into BSB complaint-handling uproar | Law Gazette https://t.co/3G5jfa5Hke 
• The Ministry of Justice has been "inundated" with complaints of alleged bullying by Justice Secretary Dominic Raab. He is already facing an investigation into two complaints made about his conduct https://t.co/ZE1glFGGeu 
• A woman with Down's syndrome has lost her appeal over a law that allows abortion up until birth for a foetus with the condition. Heidi Crowter, 27, from Coventry said she was "angry that the judges say my feelings do not matter" https://t.co/MLymHSwLoK 
• Quarter of firms in SRA review of immigration work face disciplinary action - Legal Futures https://t.co/WwzvD67WYi 
• Rude judge? Don't just shrug your shoulders, says LCJ | Law Gazette https://t.co/Akrq9I5IIt 
• Twelve people, including three women, have been flogged in front of thousands of onlookers at a football stadium in Afghanistan. The group were guilty of "moral crimes" including adultery, robbery and gay sex, a Taliban official told https://t.co/RDcFcv5VeP 
• Nadia Cook joins Harper Macleod | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6forGZ8RiD 
• Last Flight Home review – heartbreaking portrait of assisted dying https://t.co/XawMaeZ1M5 
• Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial review – courtroom panto https://t.co/nbLz7usUWR 
• Squaring Circles’ Rachael Bicknell appointed to RICS and SIMI | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Xu4fHgvo1x 
• ‘An explosion’: what is behind the rise in girls questioning their gender identity? https://t.co/rKunpovV2c 
• Boyd Legal acquires Fife firm Baird & Company | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fseEYRoGO1 
• Threat to UK financial services watchdogs off the table - Government ‘committed’ to financial regulators’ independence says City minister in Tory U-turn https://t.co/B502EMOgNa 
• Johnson and Truss join rebels against Sunak keeping new onshore wind ban https://t.co/ic4Sz5UZDs 
• More cash for solicitors? Not the right thing to do - Raab | Law Gazette https://t.co/WLvdBAWUuc 
• Supreme Court ‘in no doubt’ that Scottish government’s indyref2 bill is ultra vires | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gSc2EHhPxQ

25th November - Law News

Edition 3986: 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: Artificial Lawyer to switch to ‘library mode’ while founder takes year-long sabbatical. Online UK legaltech site to pause news service in January as Richard Tromans makes lifestyle choice to pursue other projects. Full story - The Global Legal Post

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: They say they're sorry, they've sacked their Chief Executive and after accusations of racism, they've acknowledged they made assumptions about the lifestyle of two-year-old Awaab Ishak's parents that were wrong. But despite the claims from Rochdale Boroughwide Housing that lessons have been learned, tonight this programme reveals residents on the estate where Awaab died are still being housed in conditions so bad they say it is making them ill.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Anti-SLAPP law takes a step closer | Law Gazette https://t.co/upf8UcakyC
  
• BSB apologises to high-profile barrister over handling of complaint | Law Gazette https://t.co/3fXKTcS3KM 
• The Guardian view on Scotland and the constitution: a crisis is brewing https://t.co/wA3fXQzBFO
  
• Litigation bellwether sounds warning note for London | Law Gazette https://t.co/7irdvRQu4L
• Belfast conference calls for equality law reform | Irish Legal News https://t.co/U4RREr52e8
• Law firm wins VAT battle with HMRC over office leases - Legal Futures https://t.co/m1AhISJBqK 
• What is the supreme court’s Scottish independence ruling about? https://t.co/clTZQLz8cX 
• Scottish parliament does not have independence referendum power, SC rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/WBxge01SC7 
• Dillon Eustace appoints Martin Colman as head of real estate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Dp8EhfCpVd 
• Some 3,000 Metropolitan Police officers cannot be fully deployed due to misconduct allegations or health issues, including "about 100" who are not trusted to speak to the public https://t.co/YhhSQnPvTg
  
• Society welcomes Switzerland travel deal | Law Gazette https://t.co/C1w8brBWe6 
• Courts returning "large number" of claims forms for ex-OIC cases - Legal Futures https://t.co/k9jOTlVw15 
• Lawyers among victims of latest Iran clampdown | Law Gazette https://t.co/airSF8PVZq 
• Eversheds Sutherland partners with NI Chamber’s International Champions series | Irish Legal News https://t.co/gmsOdPrbfK 
• Squaring Circles’ Rachael Bicknell appointed to RICS and SIMI | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Xu4fHgvo1x 
• There's growing evidence that #French rescue services failed to respond adequately to a migrant boat that sank in the Channel last November, with at least 33 people on board https://t.co/2Xqo0izAwE
• England: Solicitor guidance on reporting serious misconduct is legally deficient | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nndmS9junw
  
• Female GCs “more likely to coach and mentor” than men - Legal Futures https://t.co/IlJV3KHTen 
• Santander cut mortgage offer because I was pregnant - Its terms and conditions state it does not discriminate https://t.co/v7I9NuJPPw
  
• The removal of Shamima Begum's UK citizenship in 2019 was unlawful, her lawyers have argued. Ms Begum's citizenship was stripped after she travelled to Islamic State group-controlled Syria when she was 15 https://t.co/yEXBGcKHSw
  
• Police will text 70,000 people to warn them they have been victims of a banking scam in the UK's biggest anti-fraud operation. The Met have arrested an east London man accused of running an international service enabling fake phone calls to victims https://t.co/eBj1v8xrZW 
• Crypto crash underlines need for legal certainty, says Vos | Law Gazette https://t.co/pK9FRdqbv7 
• Just Stop Oil protesters guilty of criminal damage to Van Gogh frame https://t.co/TcEBaGlNvL 
• The supreme court’s batting away of Indyref2 leaves Sturgeon more isolated than ever - The five judges’ robust decision leaves the SNP with no choice but to seek independence through a general election https://t.co/QVSFRNAXoH 
• Kate Spencer joins aviation lessor LCI as legal counsel | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jGm8nBjqz8 
• 'Penalised, isolated and alone': Lawcare highlights men's mental health struggles | Law Gazette https://t.co/f7U4xhPAca 
• The yacht, the wedding and £29m: Tory peer Michelle Mone’s life during the Covid crisis https://t.co/uMir5U1z2I 
• Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29m from ‘VIP lane’ PPE firm https://t.co/b9ABjkJqJO