22nd December - Law News

Edition 4013: 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 Legal Article: Training will be given to prison staff to ensure they are fully aware that immigration detainees are entitled to 30 minutes of free legal advice after inspectors discovered ‘patchy knowledge’ of the policy. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Stanford International Bank ("SIB") collapsed into insolvency on 15 April 2009. SIB’s case is that it was defrauded by its owner, Mr Stanford, via a Ponzi scheme. Through its liquidators, SIB made two claims against HSBC Bank plc, which had operated bank accounts for SIB until they were frozen in February 2009. The first claim was that HSBC negligently failed to spot signs that SIB was being run as a Ponzi scheme (the Quincecare claim). The second claim was that HSBC dishonestly assisted Mr Stanford’s breaches of fiduciary duty.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Rossa Fanning SC appointed as Attorney General | Irish Legal News https://t.co/gPfmUJkor5
• End-of-year review | Law Gazette https://t.co/cDm5C5xeFA
  
• Bilaal Shabbir joins Jersey Appointments Commission | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6QP5VraoyB 
• Should we all be fun at work? - Legal Futures https://t.co/RdRmnvisAb
• Newly-chosen Labour candidate for the symbolic constituency of Bolsover has reportedly stepped down within hours of a 12-year-old misconduct hearing during his time as a solicitor emerging | Law Gazette https://t.co/GjiFySbxHT
• Seven new solicitor advocates introduced to court | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/PpatAYSvT2 
• Eversheds' cash pile swells nearly 50% to £160m | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ej6jgSgNrw 
• Clark Hill promotes two partners in Dublin | Irish Legal News https://t.co/n1D5HsWglx
  
• Law Society at odds with local solicitor groups over future of SIF - Legal Futures https://t.co/h5CvYFbR
• Ampersand Advocates welcomes Brandon Malone | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/azbxaNjrVS 
• Solicitor prosecuted over allegations of sexual misconduct | Law Gazette https://t.co/0KH6Laka
• Brexit rule that makes EU citizens reapply to stay in UK is unlawful, court says - Judge says Home Office rule that puts those with ‘pre-settled status’ at risk of deportation is ‘wrong in law’ https://t.co/Unh6qClPzj
• Seven promotions at Flynn O’Driscoll LLP | Irish Legal News https://t.co/G94DGncebK 
• Walkers hires aviation finance specialist Elliot Milton | Irish Legal News https://t.co/x7kUgPimb8 
• #US pastor robbed on livestream faces fraud and extortion charges - Lamor Whitehead had watches, diamonds and emeralds taken from him in July. Now he has been charged with a raft of crimes, court documents say https://t.co/SxPXK8H5VA
• Elon Musk has said he will resign as Twitter's chief executive officer when he finds someone "foolish enough to take the job" https://t.co/GgYcPoscI
• Non-party condemned by recorder was victim of “unlawful judicial act” - Legal Futures https://t.co/uLJhJLYm
• Legal aid awareness training for prison staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/KiU9LdajeS
• Germany: Suspended sentence for 97-year-old concentration camp secretary | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CPevi7bSYH D
• Tributes paid to recently-appointed district judge Matthew Mawdsley, who died on Friday after a collision on Birmingham’s Aston Expressway. He was struck first by a vehicle that failed to stop, and subsequently hit by two other cars | Law Gazette https://t.co/ucpt0Laro
• Taylor Wessing recruits two senior corporate lawyers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/C9CB8x0F87 
• SRA to step up action over non-compliance with transparency rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/NNmUfnrztS 
• Supreme Court avoided ‘significant backlog’ during pandemic years | Irish Legal News https://t.co/LNUBSD3cmh 
• UN expert’s advice on gender bill ignores women’s concerns | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/U4BmAHBBGk 
• SRA to ramp up sanctions for transparency non-compliance | Law Gazette https://t.co/EZDbfpbQil
• Hundreds of migrants were illegally detained at immigration removal centres, according to Home Office emails, the detention centres were used to hold about 450 people - described in one email as "overflow" from the migrant processing facility at Manston https://t.co/2KXmvUES3D
  
• Judges have a duty to speak out when the rule of law is under threat at a national or international level, according to new guidelines from the Council of Europe’s Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) | Irish Legal News https://t.co/wU4xLFyjut

21st December - Law News

Edition 4012: 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 Legal Article: Almost £3.4 billion will be invested across the justice system in 2023-24 to fund front-line services, provide continued support for victims and witnesses, and to tackle the causes of offending, the Scottish government has announced. Full story - Scottish Legal News

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Why the January 6 committee chose its four criminal referrals for former president Donald Trump and why they did not pursue any others

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A powerful new lobby has joined the fight to stop the government capping costs for clinical negligence claims worth less than £25,000 | Law Gazette https://t.co/PeccYCm5Od
• Suella Braverman brings little comfort and less joy except to Tory backbenchers https://t.co/QT7d7Dvol2
• Reality TV star found fundamentally dishonest in PI claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/SAK7i6GKI
• A charity that provides legal representation to people seeking asylum says it is considering whether it has any grounds to appeal this morning’s ruling on deportation flights | Law Gazette https://t.co/VcxPJghmw
• Retail giant Marks & Spencer is seeking remedial costs from Aldi after it claims the budget supermarket infringed the intellectual property of its gold flake gin liqueur with an integrated light feature | Law Gazette https://t.co/22nL7XYWPS
• US supreme court blocks government from ending Title 42 border policy - Biden administration temporarily blocked from lifting pandemic-era migration policy after 19 Republican states ask court to act https://t.co/iZMuaQ2o9
• 6,844 cases disposed of by Supreme Court after CJI DY Chandrachud assumed office | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/SfJglbmNfs
• Court of Appeal rejects costs set-off | Law Gazette https://t.co/zD9lok0as
• A former secretary who worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murders of more than 10,500 people. Irmgard Furchner, 97, was taken on as a teenaged typist #Germany https://t.co/ZnbhzBFLtS
• Pupil sanctioned for passing off other people's work as his own - Legal Futures https://t.co/Abs8ke3HwO
• Eleven men who died when a Hawker Hunter plane crashed on the A27 in West Sussex as it carried out a stunt at the Shoreham Airshow on 22 August 2015, were unlawfully killed, a coroner has concluded https://t.co/E6knNkCeN5
  
• Scotty T whiplash case collapses over Ibiza Instagram posts | Law Gazette https://t.co/8dArzYtErP 
• Train drivers across 15 rail companies will stage a fresh strike on 5 January in a long-running row over pay, according to the Aslef union, strikes already announced by the RMT rail union, running between 3-4 and 6-7 January https://t.co/kvu7FxwRRf
• A 44-year-old woman has been charged with murdering two young boys who were found dead at a home in east London. Kara Alexander, of Dagenham, is accused of killing the boys, aged two and five https://t.co/QEMykhMz6C
• Siddharth Raja and team from Saakshya Law join Vertices Partners in Bengaluru | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/cKryJaVi3c 
• Metamorph's empire continues to crumble as two more firms are shut - Legal Futures https://t.co/ZCLVfPi3Er
  
• 'Leaky ceilings, disgusting toilets, no heating': state of court buildings exposed | Law Gazette https://t.co/cdGag6Y1Mp
• FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to face fraud charges after #US extradition https://t.co/4IV0Lnt4wA 
• Poor state of English and Welsh courts worsening backlog, says Law Society - Survey identifies slew of problems, with half of lawyers experiencing cases being adjourned because of disrepair https://t.co/nGB8vWWBot
  
• House January 6 panel recommends criminal charges against Donald Trump - The referral marks the first time in US history that Congress has taken such action against a former president#US https://t.co/1KwTF1gjXx
  
• SRA intervenes to shut down two more Metamorph firms | Law Gazette https://t.co/ddGN4l90nj 
• Exeter law firm brings in client as external investor - Legal Futures https://t.co/QmUKt8wEaR 
• 10 hearings, 1,000 interviews, millions of documents: the House panel has spoken #US https://t.co/j5Fs3YTM4
• Violent misogynistic fantasies like Jeremy Clarkson’s are not new – but the Sun gleefully publishing them is https://t.co/82cnra2tlt
• Rwanda asylum policy 'consistent with refugee convention', High Court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/XZy7g5CTpp

20th December - Law News

Edition 4011: 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 Legal Article:  Poor state of English and Welsh courts worsening backlog, says Law Society. Survey identifies slew of problems, with half of lawyers experiencing cases being adjourned because of disrepair. Full story - Guardian Law

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: The government's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was supposed to deter people from trying to cross the Channel to reach the UK on small boats. 40,000 have done so this year. But the first flight to the east African country in June was grounded after legal challenges. Yesterday, though, senior judges ruled the policy was lawful and Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she was “committed” to making it work.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A man armed with a knife has been shot dead by police at a house in Cumbria. Police were called to reports of a man threatening people at a home in Borland Avenue, Carlisle, just after 15:30 GMT https://t.co/esPZCb3cut 
• How can leaders in law address psychosocial risks? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/3Tzpng1VzD 
• Weil bumps NQ solicitor rates to £165k in London - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FIZC0zaftP
  
• Supreme Court rejects review plea by Bilkis Bano against judgment allowing application of Gujarat's 1992 policy for remission of convicts | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/i1s4tA26va 
• Multi-million pound funding boost for former Magic Circle lawyer’s deal visualising tool - Legal Cheek https://t.co/J2W8Y3erBl 
• Innovation in legal education - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/8Zxa6inFXq 
• England got its first woman solicitor 100 years ago this week - Legal Cheek https://t.co/SWMQeiXAQA
• No case is big or small for district judiciary, High Court or Supreme Court: CJI DY Chandrachud reiterates after Law Minister's remarks | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/TSAGywHopT 
• Inns of Court College of Advocacy and Chancery Bar Association launch bursary fund to support wannabe barristers from ‘non-traditional’ backgrounds - Legal Cheek https://t.co/npY1blYFak 
• A second woman has died after being injured in a crush at a gig at London's Brixton O2 Academy. The concert, by Afro-pop singer Asake, was abandoned. Gabrielle Hutchinson, 23, who was working as a security contractor that night died in hospital https://t.co/xizuPn1cKf 
• US actress Amber Heard has settled her defamation case against ex-husband Johnny Depp. Ms Heard, 36, wrote on Instagram that she had made the "difficult" choice to settle, adding the decision was "not an act of concession" https://t.co/j2zqfe8SFN 
• The government is suing a company that supplied it with personal protective equipment (PPE) for £122m plus costs. PPE Medpro won contracts through the government's so-called VIP lane in 2020 after being recommended by Conservative peer Baroness Mone https://t.co/5iVlUk3ciG 
• BigLaw partners predict a big year for M&A in 2023 - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/jDyB76GOq5
  
• More firms commit to offering part-time training for disabled aspiring lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aG7vkGZA7F
• Suella Braverman feeding Farage politics, says outgoing government adviser - Nimco Ali says Rishi Sunak should sack the home secretary, or risk losing the next election https://t.co/s9bmKQo4W4
• US firm Milbank snaps-up Scottish player Dickson Minto’s London office - Legal Cheek https://t.co/6cG3zSS5YS 
• CBI moves Supreme Court challenging Bombay High Court order granting bail to Anil Deshmukh in corruption case | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/svdVK9NU7Q
  
• Government insiders happy to win on lawfulness question as High Court rules that Rwanda asylum plan is legal https://t.co/AVJcapzK8I
  
• Administrative Appeals Tribunal to be abolished - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/2J7z9WLmpY 
• Cleary Gottlieb boosts NQ rates by 14% to £160k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ty9jXQK423
  
• Law firms performed strongly in the 2022 Social Mobility Employer Index, occupying more than one third of top 75 positions—including the number one spot. | NLJ https://t.co/yRdS28iAf3 
• Law student unwittingly asks Supreme Court justice for directions - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rL3mwnanTE
  
• The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has published its latest gender pay gap and ethnicity pay gap reports | NLJ https://t.co/TTxK9KJMr2 
• [Nirav Modi scam] ICAI can initiate suo motu proceedings against CAs even in absence of written complaint: Delhi High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/yDCznfkHME 
• A day-by-day account of a virtual winter vacation scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ziyHpuYg8o 
• Supreme Court dismisses plea challenging election of Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad in 2019 Lok Sabha polls | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/liktLrAymI
  
• Tribunal clears former Law Society President of misconduct - Legal Cheek https://t.co/kYK5IEV467 
• Twitter will shut down accounts solely designed to promote other big social media platforms: the move affects content from platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post https://t.co/W2DDzjKcbc

19th December - Law News

Edition 4010: 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 Legal Article:  Law firms performed strongly in the 2022 Social Mobility Employer Index, occupying more than one third of top 75 positions—including the number one spot. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: UKSC 2020/0202 This appeal concerns the meaning of a condition that was attached to the grant of planning permission for a development site in the outskirts of Swindon. The proposed development included two roads, a "North-South access road" which ran southward from a new junction with the A420 and continued to the southern boundary of the site, and an "East-West spine road" which ran to the eastern boundary of the site from a roundabout on the North-South access road. Swindon Borough Council’s planning committee granted outline planning permission for the site subject to a number of condition:

Saturday Conversations on Law

• More than half of costs lawyers have said they hope the landmark decision in Belsner will trigger a review of the ‘outdated’ Solicitors Act 1974 | NLJ https://t.co/I3JwYeaRly
• SQE: Students perform best in ethics and contract, but struggle with business and property - Legal Cheek https://t.co/d26AuZ9Tmx 
• Law Pod UK Latest Episode: Permacrisis in Public Law? With Sir Jonathan Jones - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/TpGfA3zLge 
• [Honour killing] Hundreds of young people die because they love someone or marry outside caste: CJI DY Chandrachud | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/VrgqZWuv1e
• National law firm signs SQE training deal with College of Legal Practice - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tH5UgAkoLE
• Santander UK has been fined £107m for ‘serious and persistent’ gaps in its anti-money laundering (AML) controls on business banking customers | NLJ https://t.co/XWJrAxNU2x 
• TC applications, exams and volume of work among top sources of stress for law students - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5uZ2YWhqBP
• Critical of politically driven Hinduism books in Indore law college library: Supreme Court stays arrest of Principal Prof Inamur Rehman | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/cu595a25XT
  
• Lawyers are advising businesses to start preparing for regulatory reforms on deforestation-free supply chains | NLJ https://t.co/jFkLTlTwA7
• The Weekly Round-up: Online Safety Bill, access to abortion and religious freedom - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/NHoR44V6NG 
• ‘I don’t think lessons have been learned’: asylum policies fall short after more Channel deaths https://t.co/YLnt0ofqTe
• Representatives for Walter Merricks’s £17bn ‘opt-out’ claim against Mastercard have launched the biggest public noticing campaign in legal history | NLJ https://t.co/OIq5J0YA7f 
• The requirement to ring-fence retail banking from investment activities, which was introduced following the 2008 financial crash, is to be abolished | NLJ https://t.co/sa54EwoEAk
• Braverman acting unlawfully over asylum seeker support, high court finds - Decision follows legal challenge over amount of financial support given to asylum seekers during cost of living crisis https://t.co/3k5YnVaq7r
• Linklaters has launched a solicitor apprenticeship programme, offering an alternative route to qualification at the magic circle firm | NLJ https://t.co/iqcLPLwy8y 
• Protest and proportionality in the Supreme Court: The Safe Access Zones Bill Reference [2022] UKSC 32 - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/cBSnVt2cWN
• Bates Wells, Browne Jacobson and Freeths have become the latest law firms to join Project Rise, a scheme to widen access to the profession by offering part-time solicitor training| NLJ https://t.co/O866uNBpGz 
• De Montfort law lecturer helps Team GB bag gold at World Dodgeball Championships - Legal Cheek https://t.co/kR7eMr08fb 
• The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) is considering dropping hours-based requirements for continuous professional development (CPD) and adopting an outcomes-focused approach | NLJ https://t.co/BKzKL25Wkd 
• UK hospitality sector fears rail strikes will make its gravy train hit the buffers this Christmas https://t.co/jsPAjmrUbt 
• About 1,200 members of the military are to cover for striking ambulance drivers and Border Force staff over Christmas, the government has confirmed https://t.co/PjRS8qZqNo