10th December - Law News

Edition 4001: 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 video shows new details about Brittney Griner's life in a Russian penal colony. TJ Quinn, investigative reporter and senior writer for ESPN who reported on these details, joins CNN's Erin Burnett to discuss.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Watchdog criticises UK ministers’ ‘antagonism’ towards human rights https://t.co/ngddmLz5Je
  
• Magic circle firm to welcome solicitor apprentices | Law Gazette https://t.co/VYsfhwmGkt 
• Settlement day before trial 'moderately unreasonable', court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/RPwtzUHJp3 
• Socioeconomic rights deserve legal protection https://t.co/mZmEmEqgBg 
• Sunak’s next U-turn may be to ditch Raab’s bill of rights https://t.co/6gqb9cmW8y 
• Truth matters in court reporting | Law Gazette https://t.co/wnlo4UPmoc 
• Struck-off solicitor banned from actions against SRA | Law Gazette https://t.co/Vr2bS78HhW 
• Raab announces £5m to cut immigration and asylum backlog | Law Gazette https://t.co/RdqDDx3ANL
• MPs approve management specialist as JAC chair - Legal Futures https://t.co/5YMzXefdl8 
• The deadline by which hosts of short-term lets in Scotland need to get a licence has been delayed by six months. The scheme, which could see fines of up to £2,500 imposed on people who rent out property without permission https://t.co/wr1MlE5Dmp 
• Mass marketing campaign to kick off £17bn Mastercard claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/Kl0VBg5JBO
• Cleaver Fulton Rankin welcomes five new trainee solicitors | Irish Legal News https://t.co/XsmqlkisPq 
• A Backstreet Boys Christmas special has been pulled by US TV network ABC following news that a woman is suing singer Nick Carter, alleging he raped her during a 2001 tour when she was 17 https://t.co/pZjA620zag 
• Santander has been fined £107.7m over "serious and persistent gaps" in its anti-money laundering controls which opened the door to "financial crime", the bank "failed to properly oversee and manage" systems aimed at verifying information https://t.co/85V2Ia91VM 
• Sexual harassment on the street will be made a crime with jail sentences of up to two years, the government has said. Wolf-whistling, catcalling and staring persistently will be criminalised in England under plans backed by Home Secretary  https://t.co/PiZdj5EAfU
  
• A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with two counts of rape. PC Rupert Edwards, attached to the South West Basic Command Unit, was arrested on suspicion of rape on 5 September https://t.co/CPIzW3srvX 
• SRA seeks restraint order on struck-off solicitor | Law Gazette https://t.co/FHeVP3NuKb 
• Northern Ireland’s abortion buffer zones bill cleared by UK Supreme Court | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zJ6VPGxcq0 
• Solicitor’s visual modelling start-up receives £3m funding boost - Legal Futures https://t.co/mYVGcaQhBl
  
• Carson McDowell appoints three partners and 14 senior associates | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VTOVNCB4eY 
• Law leads on social mobility - but ‘too focused’ on top universities | Law Gazette https://t.co/yA69v2AMuH 
• Browne Jacobson recruits digital disruption expert Mike Rebeiro | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dpliNO1PCy 
• Tory MP plans legislation to strip Harry and Meghan of royal titles https://t.co/aUjmxWDbhP 
• Jewish students want change after NUS antisemitism claims - the rows have centred on what constitutes criticism of Israel's persecution of Palestinians, and what can be described as anti-Semitism https://t.co/t1P4iajwTn
  
• A new law is set to be passed by the Scottish Parliament which will simplify the legal process for anyone in Scotland who wants to change their gender. But the signs are that the UK government could refuse to recognise it https://t.co/9B6Z4KXMuX
  
• Hundreds of thousands of people were affected by passport-processing delays and many experienced travel disruptions this year, a watchdog has found https://t.co/pBYLQw2HN4 
• Emma Meagher Neville elected president of Southern Law Association | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KgIWT6H5IS 
• ABS aims to combine best of traditional and consultancy law firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/iLu7M9ysJX
  
• Islamophobia from the likes of Boris Johnson must be punished – and this is how to do it https://t.co/KrmqIIVtOk 
• Will Carmody to take reins of Mason Hayes & Curran | Irish Legal News https://t.co/P2WQcJeAM4
• Murderer publicly executed by his victim's father, Taliban say #Afghanistan https://t.co/haG8thrVh8
  
• Local authorities told to draw up Traveller accommodation equality action plans | Irish Legal News https://t.co/pfXTW2xS36
  
• #Iran has announced the first execution of a protester convicted over the recent anti-government unrest. Mohsen Shekari was hanged on Thursday morning after being found guilty by a Revolutionary Court of "enmity against God", state media reported https://t.co/gCQo2Iyy7a
  
• How the Brittney Griner prisoner swap with #Russia was done https://t.co/8HdJQ9D1Vp 
• Legal sector revenues still growing, City reports | Law Gazette https://t.co/z73zszfIeP 
• Trump lawyers find two more classified documents at Florida storage unit #US https://t.co/Qe1POTxqZn 
• Prospective judicial appointments chief quizzed on diversity | Law Gazette https://t.co/WFRewmHXo3
  
• A US citizen responsible for the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn has been sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for a year https://t.co/bbAsSBvQK3 
• Lawyers billing more hours, but write-offs increasing too - Legal Futures https://t.co/wPfJQKLofq
  
• ‘Historic’ Irish language law in Northern Ireland receives royal assent | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ZwhVEkG8EL 
• NHS workers could be banned from striking, No 10 suggests https://t.co/sXSN3lxV8D 
• The draconian law that saw climate activist Violet Coco jailed #Australia https://t.co/SzxIcRB7cJ 
• Court of Appeal rejects father’s plea for male expert | Law Gazette https://t.co/ODxWFev1nt 
• MPs quiz government’s choice for JAC on dual roles and diversity - Legal Futures https://t.co/3LMZXbRvfi 
• GSK shares surge as #US judge dismisses Zantac cancer claims https://t.co/wtnACmkH7K 
• Crypto duty ruling ‘could affect millions’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/u4OKYu99Gp 
• MPs must listen to the public on assisted dying | Assisted dying https://t.co/3aIwRzDwIK 
• 'Depoliticise' the courts by constraining interveners - thinktank | Law Gazette https://t.co/7CYbWbvy7r 
• Leading Midlands law firm is latest to adopt B Corp status - Legal Futures https://t.co/RhnbzrwXOP

9th December - Law News

Edition 4000: 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: Legislative change is just one step in the journey to achieve a racially diverse arbitration profession. Full story - The Global Legal Post  

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story:  With strikes, the economy, and migration the issues currently dominating political conversation, Labour today tried to throw another into the mix - unveiling a blueprint for constitutional reform which includes the abolition of the House of Lords and devolving more power from Westminster.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The deaths of four people on a paddleboarding trip was "tragic and avoidable", a report has said. The organisation of the trip on the River Cleddau on 30 October 2021 was strongly criticised by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) https://t.co/yHAv76o8Kq 
• The BBC has been given photos of Twitter office space that has been converted into bedrooms, which San Francisco authorities are probing as a possible building code violation #US https://t.co/ZA70reSbTi
  
• Julian Knight has been suspended as a Conservative MP after a complaint was made to the Metropolitan Police, a party spokeswoman has said. She declined to comment on the nature of the complaint as it is now under investigation https://t.co/i57abbogX8 
• Kingsley Napley argues JR was not ‘reasonable alternative’ in fees fight | Law Gazette https://t.co/aoEVxzRzFY 
• UK woman whose children were removed against their wishes loses appeal - High court case is landmark test of use of unregulated experts in family justice proceedings in England and Wales https://t.co/xpgX4gCaQL
  
• Post Office victims to be compensated but cap put on legal costs | Law Gazette https://t.co/tS2EanGGau 
• #US supreme court hears case that could radically reshape elections - Case brought by North Carolina would give partisan state legislatures near total control over elections with no role for courts https://t.co/WLjkTbxeGJ 
• Bar regulator faces formal LSB action over performance crisis - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ob56LA1n8W 
• The late Supreme Court judge, Séamus Henchy, was born in County Clare 105 years ago this week to Patrick and Margaret Henchy who ran a shop in Corofin | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MwWI4lydgO 
• Labour MP Conor McGinn has been suspended from the party pending an investigation, the BBC has been told. Mr McGinn, who has represented the St Helens North constituency since 2015, will now sit as an independent MP https://t.co/vKHGIoGB1e 
• Border Force staff at UK airports to strike over Christmas in pay row https://t.co/dOxnQFiHhG 
• Peru's ousted president Pedro Castillo has been seen on police premises after being impeached - just hours after he tried to dissolve Congress https://t.co/fC7KJRItaL 
• Bitterness after striking ICC support staff barred from ASP | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/dnxEgoiPNb 
• Law firms “lack confidence in negotiating fees” - Legal Futures https://t.co/xtHd2K2eb0 
• The SRA is looking for statutory designation under the whistleblower law, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA), to encourage reporting of SLAPPs - the announcement could provoke a number of responses | Law Gazette https://t.co/ki2y6I0qfX 
• Trio of appointments at McKee Campbell Morrison | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3cHEDV0hx5

8th December - Law News

Edition 3999: 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: Prison lawyers have accused the government of being ‘shortsighted’ over its decision not to increase their legal aid fees. Full story - The Law Society Gazette  

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story:  An extraordinary political stoush has broken out in Fiji, with the election supervisor accusing an opposition party of spreading misinformation. It comes after the National Federation Party raised concerns against the Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum at an election printing centre. With the election just a week away, ABC reporter in Suva, Lice Movono, tells The World political tensions are heating up

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Soophia Khan in court again as SRA seeks documents | Law Gazette https://t.co/7heWrLgDj5 
• Bar regulator counts cost of “extremely challenging year” - Legal Futures https://t.co/PtV2qaDuYB 
• Kingsley Napley in fees fight over conviction notification case | Law Gazette https://t.co/VSYwYnRTTV 
• Trump Organization guilty of tax fraud, New York jury finds - Twelve-person jury returns guilty verdict against former president’s company after being sent out on Monday to deliberate #US https://t.co/qBAyJTBtOL
  
• Refusal to increase prison law fees 'shortsighted' | Law Gazette https://t.co/zKJhawb6Dw 
• Listed legal business hints at ditching litigation funding arm after losses - Legal Futures https://t.co/6Nbp1JgZQs 
• Firm expands south east with latest merger deal | Law Gazette https://t.co/rhr3Q8M4VT 
• Tumbling Lassie Seminar and Reception | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3CN2kWWfEf 
• The wide-ranging implications of HMRC’s Construction Industry Scheme tribunal decision | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/dk2D18N1EE 
• Share your views on #Indonesia’s new laws criminalising sex outside marriage https://t.co/QXFWZ6Yktm 
• Wait time for county court trials reaches new all-time high - Legal Futures https://t.co/htBAdrhwDU 
• Prince Harry and Meghan received the Ripple of Hope Award from the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) organisation at a gala in New York https://t.co/8SV2lhwyZx 
• Twenty-five people have been arrested in raids across #Germany on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. A group of far-right and ex-military figures planned to storm the parliament building, the Reichstag, and seize power https://t.co/tLhA297CUN 
• Reforms to law on moveable property welcomed by Holyrood committee | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7swQZNZJ89 
• The Law Society of Scotland has granted extended rights of audience to seven solicitors, with the new solicitor advocates introduced in a ceremony at the Court of Session | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/pOqffOP0Nw
• Trial over alleged threat to kill solicitor adjourned | Law Gazette https://t.co/UpvP10Jzsc 
• Climate protesters told to pay National Gallery £1,000 for damaging painting https://t.co/cU0VMJMeWg 
• The long-awaited arrival of no-fault divorce law in the spring has revolutionised family law as we know it - Legal Futures https://t.co/7obFBrnhzF 
• 'New Britain': Labour plans to protect 'basic social rights' | Law Gazette https://t.co/bfJZVEHIli 
• Bank alleges that firm conspired with client to deny payment | Law Gazette https://t.co/NibTo64s4p 
• Defence crowdfunding 'exacerbated' libel damage | Law Gazette https://t.co/ykt7z63GVR 
• Those in India have to act as per its culture: Supreme Court in PIL against religious conversion | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Se22OrgPU0 
• Crypto needs cohesive regulation | Law Gazette https://t.co/RBdK60iiFS

7th December - Law News

Edition 3998: 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 law firm unfairly dismissed an assistant solicitor by failing to follow the correct procedure – even though it was justified in firing him, an employment tribunal has ruled. Full story - Legal Futures  

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Meta has threatened to remove news content from Facebook in the US. It objects to a new law that would give news organisations greater power to negotiate fees for content shared on Facebook. A similar law, passed in Australia, led to news on Facebook being briefly suspended last year. Meta claims their platform, in fact, provides increased traffic to struggling news outlets.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• My legal life: Kate Fawell-Comley, Hill Dickinson - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/bKdMJSbjg9 
• BSB mulls SLAPPs guidance as Zahawi's solicitors are referred to SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/Kvj0AQ9ut5 
• Flood of sexual abuse lawsuits expected in New York as new law takes effect #US https://t.co/ERs9wNKdo1 
• Climate clauses to support conveyancers with 'duty of care' | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ssdy5s7Ddu
  
• Raab's rights bill: there may be trouble ahead | Law Gazette https://t.co/54a4kxEDkG 
• A man has been arrested on suspicion of common assault after an egg was reportedly thrown in the direction of the King. The alleged incident happened while King Charles was on a walkabout in Luton town https://t.co/qEDhNScj33 
• Lawyer bosses at one listed legal business invest heavily in another - Legal Futures https://t.co/HtDY47EmEn 
• Free speech is stifled by laws made for the rich https://t.co/pAIzUSDhws 
• Listed firm owner warns of £4m hit after litigation funder losses | Law Gazette https://t.co/9cfE6xiNBe
  
• A woman who killed a motorcyclist will not attend a sentencing hearing in person after advice from her employer, the United States government. Anne Sacoolas, 45, admitted causing the death of Harry Dunn, 19, by careless driving via video-link https://t.co/mOufgNtWHb 
• Tory peer Michelle Mone is taking a leave of absence from the Lords to clear her name of the allegations that she claims to have been unjustly levelled against her https://t.co/KpYT4ZLaCS 
• UN refugee body criticises ‘errors’ in asylum report backed by Braverman https://t.co/eb6eulcZ4O 
• A man who shot and wounded Lady Gaga's dog walker during a dog theft has been sentenced to 21 years in prison. James Howard Jackson pleaded no contest - similar to a guilty plea - to attempted murder #US https://t.co/B1xzMQvUO5 
• 'New Britain': Labour plans to protect 'basic social rights' | Law Gazette https://t.co/bfJZVEZjJS 
• Tweeting barrister sues BSB for belief discrimination - Legal Futures https://t.co/Kn7qfJfT6y
• Pupils at schools with cases of streptococcus A could get preventative antibiotics after nine children died from infections linked to the bacteria https://t.co/eVNTnFS1h9 
• MPs to revisit assisted dying with an inquiry next year | Assisted dying https://t.co/9c6JnmfmOA 
• The police chief of Tampa, Florida, has resigned after it emerged that she used her position to dodge a ticket for using her golf cart on the street. Mary O'Connor and her husband were stopped last month by a Pinellas County sheriff's deputy #US https://t.co/Buh3SdPFMU 
• #Indonesia's parliament has approved a new criminal code that bans anyone in the country having sex outside marriage and restricts political freedoms. The new laws won't come into effect for another three years https://t.co/E09e2U6Nmj 
• Solicitor's dismissal while he was off sick was unfair, tribunal rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/iwK5JHojpI
• ‘The Roding is sacred and has rights’: the hammer-wielding barrister fighting for London’s forgotten river https://t.co/nTmM7DOCnq 
  
• Law firm's dismissal of solicitor was procedurally unfair, tribunal rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/NKvBdneaoB 
• Lawyer in the news: Adnan Hussain, Tank Jowett Solicitors - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/4yAiNCIdY2
• Ex-MP Imran Ahmad Khan loses appeal against sexual assault conviction - Former Conservative MP was jailed for 18 months in May for sexually assaulting teenage boy in 2008 https://t.co/kfVom0GWSg
• Delays plague civil justice with trials taking months to come to court | Law Gazette https://t.co/kNExypPY9g
• Matt Hancock has accused Tory peer Michelle Mone of being aggressive and threatening when trying to secure a government Covid contract for a firm. She asked for help to secure contracts in an email in June 2021, when he was health secretary https://t.co/1KMmZmQ9Wh 
• Best of the blogs - 3 December 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/l5ckSLfLIj 
• Allotment of public property should be only by auction, not favouritism or political interference: Karnataka High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/qqq8tCsYfy 
• Cat MacQueen appointed as ad hoc advocate depute | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jkc5KgPYwb