3rd February - Law News

Edition 4055: 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 Law News/Article: Arbitration Chambers welcomes big names in London and New York. Former IBA president and former co-chair of Skadden Arps’ international arbitration group among four legal veterans joining Hong Kong-based set. Full story - The Global Legal Post 

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: The Ohio Department of Education is investigating an online homeschooling network after reports that parents shared messages of White supremacy as educational resources, according to a state education official with knowledge of the review

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Gardaí to pilot body-worn cameras as soon as this year | Irish Legal News https://t.co/qFjYRunlfd
  
• Top-100 firms call off merger plan | Law Gazette https://t.co/9DjyOX1Q2m 
• Where next for the regulation of NFTs? - Legal Futures https://t.co/nhYixX7Oex 
• Supreme Court: Tate 'liable in nuisance' for gallery overlooking luxury flats | Law Gazette https://t.co/w62nbc98JQ 
• SC Tate judgment will not impact on ordinary neighbourly disputes, lawyers say | Law Gazette https://t.co/JOmjLu9jN2 
• Growth of alternative legal services providers accelerating - Legal Futures https://t.co/JmlWdsx6Me 
• Aidan McAnespie killing: Ex-soldier Holden avoids jail over Troubles shooting https://t.co/11poTe1XeA
  
• Charges of attempted rape and assault have been dropped against Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood. The 21-year-old was arrested in January last year https://t.co/yBuxtJ4UCY 
• Arthur Cox appoints nine new of counsel | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JBamZ0tmVw 
• Taylor Wessing’s top earner enjoys 48% rise to nearly £5m | Law Gazette https://t.co/912lRGZGx0 
• LawtechUK confirms it will survive closure of host body - Legal Futures https://t.co/pcNqCwwYR0 
• Andrew Tate: Influencer's appeal against detention rejected by #Romanian judges https://t.co/XoOtUYmaCp 
• Tate Modern viewing platform invades privacy of flats, supreme court rules: Court finds owners of apartments opposite London gallery face unacceptable level of intrusion https://t.co/7KtJu4tnRK 
• The boss of British Gas owner Centrica has said he is horrified that debt collectors have broken into vulnerable customers' homes to fit energy meters https://t.co/beh9bwQJWR
  
• Police chiefs set out reforms in apology to Hillsborough families | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/avf2hVR0GS
  
• Government promises 'robust approach' to crypto regulation | Law Gazette https://t.co/7Hf8hMFEQu 
• Court can enter judgment in favour of sanctioned Russian party - Legal Futures https://t.co/l9ks0kQCYD 
• Firms accused of creating 'toxic culture' will be hauled before SDT | Law Gazette https://t.co/nly7md7WXQ 
• Northern Ireland solicitors to benefit from private healthcare discount | Irish Legal News https://t.co/NsHOvlzsMo 
• Blackadders bolsters private client team with five appointments | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xYEpK20FZM 
• Former British soldier to be sentenced for manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2xQmC3ErZ4 
• Double partner appointment at Ogier Leman LLP | Irish Legal News https://t.co/8sYA5J8EnG 
• Carson McDowell launches charity partnership with Air Ambulance NI | Irish Legal News https://t.co/hhdXz1kx7u 
• Mourners and protesters have gathered - and clashed - at the funeral for Cardinal George Pell in his Australian homeland. The Catholic Cardinal died in Rome last month, aged 81, after complications from hip surgery #Australia https://t.co/3GJMM0Yh43 
• British Gas has suspended the force-fitting of prepayment meters, after a report said it imposed them on vulnerable customers - owner Centrica said it would suspend the use of court warrants that allow forced installations https://t.co/beh9bwQJWR 
• Terra Firma’s Licensing Seminar now available on YouTube | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YhfSB3Mw9W 
• ‘My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent - Higher education is one of the most casualised sectors of the UK economy, and for many it means a struggle to get by https://t.co/wqZlng9BvT 
• Households in England face fines of up to £300 and even criminal records if they flout new log burner rules. A tightening of emissions regulations has reduced the amount of smoke new stoves can emit per hour from 5g to 3g https://t.co/60af1nLErE 
• Síofra O’Leary to deliver St Brigid’s Day lecture | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AKUoexCq9A

2nd February - Law News

Edition 4054: 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 Law News/Article: Firms failing to take continuing professional development seriously can expect enforcement action from the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the regulator warns today. The warning comes in a 'progress report and action plan' published in response to the super-regulator’s concerns about in-career training. Full story - The Law Society Gazette 

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Survivors of child sexual abuse and their supporters have been involved in a heated clash with mourners outside a Sydney church on the eve of Cardinal George Pell's funeral

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Dechert’s security for costs granted in 'unlawful detention' case | Law Gazette https://t.co/j6SfM4oUVx 
• Ukraine war ‘opening eyes’ to need to reform England’s libel laws, says lawyer - Geoffrey Robertson says wealthy Russians using legal system to intimidate British journalists and publishers https://t.co/mDpHEreNxY
• #Pakistan mosque blast: What is behind the deadly attack? https://t.co/6yzcClAd1n
• MoJ reveals drawn out timetable for civil legal aid review | Law Gazette https://t.co/D470oC0A3
• Rishi Sunak under pressure over what he knew about claims against Dominic Raab https://t.co/yDaVmREjAv
• UK Labour MP apologises for calling Israeli government 'fascist' - #Israel's new government, formed after elections in November, includes senior ministers from the ultranationalist far right party https://t.co/ST0Hv8518B
• Lawyers for modern slavery survivors need to help with non-legal needs too - Legal Futures https://t.co/96nmBSNbuG 
• Non-legal panels set to be removed from most ET hearings | Law Gazette https://t.co/8qZXQSY0Yt
  
• Man secures cheaper gym fees that could benefit disabled Britons - Andrew Gray made a discrimination claim against Nuffield Health, which has now agreed to offer reduced rates https://t.co/tNU6qTN4f2
• State dissent monitoring units ‘operating outside law’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/hqf38XBjTA
• Recruitment “by far the biggest obstacle” to law firm growth - Legal Futures https://t.co/c0554IVKty 
• SRA promises to act on competence failures | Law Gazette https://t.co/QW1yd6ig8i
  
• Campaigners seek to overturn Liz Truss’s resumption of #Saudi arms sales https://t.co/Tt736BWl2F
• Listed law firm sacks chief executive citing 'cultural concerns' | Law Gazette https://t.co/P9vUotInaf
• Listed legal business fires CEO after losing confidence in her - Legal Futures https://t.co/2rFytJK6NT
• Judge who told Pence not to overturn election predicts ‘beginning of end of Trump’ - ‘What Trump has done is quite arguably the worst crime against the US that a president could commit,’ says J Michael Luttig https://t.co/epzD0OyqOb 
• A Chicago prosecutor is dropping sexual abuse and assault charges against singer R Kelly, who is already facing decades in prison after being convicted of federal charges #US https://t.co/Gp5uxljo6Q
• Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab should be suspended while he is investigated over bullying allegations, a civil service union leader has said https://t.co/ahim8bTNNL 
• MPs grill permanent secretary on MoJ morale | Law Gazette https://t.co/QaFxkdOJDJ 
• The family of a transgender woman who died after nearly three years on an NHS waiting list said her death was caused by the delay in care. Alice Litman, from Brighton, took her own life last May https://t.co/shV89nCqUL 
• LeO bringing down backlog but will miss year-end target - Legal Futures https://t.co/xj8PLMXaoy
• The crew of an #Indian airline tied an Italian woman to her seat during a flight after she allegedly punched one member of staff and spat on another. The woman, who was travelling on a Vistara flight from Abu Dhabi, was arrested in Mumbai https://t.co/veib8TOOyr 
• Another senior civil servant who worked with Dominic Raab has given evidence as a witness to the inquiry into his behaviour. Both individuals ran government departments in which Mr Raab was a minister https://t.co/3G4qao6iRo
• Lawyer in the news: ​Emily Bolton, APPEAL - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/4rZzacaNII 
• Judge lambasts education secretary over lack of secure places for children - Top family judge accuses Gillian Keegan of ‘complacency bordering on cynicism’ over severe shortages in England and Wales https://t.co/bKzIoQ6chL
• Two Just Stop Oil protesters must pay Madame Tussauds £3,500 in compensation after slapping vegan chocolate cakes in the face of a waxwork of the King. Westminster Magistrates' Court heard they targeted the model "in the manner of a slapstick comedy" https://t.co/aiv1n22cPL 
• Slater and Gordon fights £63m conspiracy claim in High Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/kjLVRyIONt 
• LGBTQ+ History Month: a time to look to the past to inform our future | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZoxsRgxtNW
• MP receives rape and death threats after speaking against Andrew Tate - Labour’s Alex Davies-Jones ‘bombarded’ with abuse for highlighting influencer’s ‘toxic’ effect on schoolboys https://t.co/xDhcAwvyHJ

1st February - Law News

Edition 4052: 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 Law News/Article: Lawyers for modern slavery survivors need to help with non-legal needs too. Full story - Legal Futures 

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: On appeal from: [2020] EWCA Civ 104. The Tate Modern opened an extension in 2016 called the Blavatnik Building. The Blavatnik building is ten stories high and, on its top floor, has a viewing platform which offers panoramic views of London. The Appellants own flats neighbouring the Tate Modern which are of a similar elevation to the Blavatnik building and whose walls are mainly made of glass. On the southside of the viewing platform, visitors to the Tate can see directly into the flats of the Appellants. The Appellants seek an injunction requiring the Tate to prevent its visitors from viewing their flats from the viewing platform, or alternatively, an award of damages. Their claim is based on the common law of nuisance.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• An end to the M&A boom? - Legal Futures https://t.co/k8EOQKwvvy 
• Home Office threatened with libel action over Prevent strategy review - Critics fear still-unpublished review into anti-radicalisation strategy could link it to extremism https://t.co/FR8uUWFOKd
• Mother in law: The 10 commandments of LinkedIn | Law Gazette https://t.co/WrMJb9dTxa
  
• Express, Ince, NAHL and Fletchers step up PI market activity - Legal Futures https://t.co/nvmDyxmRH2
• CoA shows mercy over judgment embargo breach | Law Gazette https://t.co/oT4CNpVCSn
• Eva Green: ‘corners were cut’ on film at centre of legal battle https://t.co/nWYpBOlPDd
  
• RT @familylaw: Judge lambasts education secretary over lack of secure places for children https://t.co/AQJgtWJ8pU
• More law students join class action | Law Gazette https://t.co/XfmNwjbqYb
• Conveyancing fee-earner banned over £338,000 tax scam - Legal Futures https://t.co/dWeI0MvZSw
• Legal lender Novitas pays £5.3m ‘redress’ to divorce and probate clients | Law Gazette https://t.co/oOLymtODsT
• ‘When I saw the gun I froze’: David Carrick victim recalls rape ordeal https://t.co/38sArybRBa 
• Secretive #Saudi executions leave families in the dark https://t.co/HTvUmDg3m
• Detectives are offering a £10,000 reward in the search for Constance Marten, her partner and newborn baby. Police believe the 35-year-old is sleeping rough with her child and Mark Gordon, 48, a convicted sex offender https://t.co/QBPuLTrMIn
• Police forces have apologised for "profound failings" which have "continued to blight" relatives of victims of the Hillsborough disaster. On behalf of all 43 forces, police chiefs have promised "cultural change" https://t.co/ZQPEB4onYi
• PI firm ‘first’ to offer pupillage for barristers | Law Gazette https://t.co/VuGBSltlB4
  
• Lawyers increasingly questioning their futures, LawCare warns - Legal Futures https://t.co/HOzQfceVaY
  
• I miss my wife every day, but knowing she died with dignity brings me great solace - Readers offer personal stories in response to Polly Toynbee’s article on assisted dying https://t.co/YJiUjmRC7n
  
• Priscilla Presley, rock'n'roll legend Elvis Presley's ex-wife, has filed a legal challenge to the validity of their late daughter's will. The court petition disputes a 2016 amendment to Lisa Marie's will that ousted Priscilla as the estate trustee #US https://t.co/EvubJGsyiN
  
• Job uncertainty matches stress among lawyers' biggest concerns | Law Gazette https://t.co/PUJx8QbNnB
• Accent bias still holding back regional barristers, research finds - Legal Futures https://t.co/sR6B3BNw3A
• Firms 'moving away from billable hours' | Law Gazette https://t.co/gBFekxYAi
• Couples in #China's Sichuan province will be allowed to have as many children as they want, as the country continues to try and get a grip on its declining population https://t.co/s3XWdvWp3j 
• A building firm has been fined £120,000 after two workers were seen fitting a stone on a new house from the airborne bucket of a digger https://t.co/VQnQqp2ujc 
• Former junior lawyer goes public with decision to quit City law - Legal Cheek https://t.co/L329m1X44g
• My legal life: Rajvinder Jagdev, Powell Gilbert - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/VMuoel60AS 
• The Guardian view on Brexit’s unsound legal thinking: turning back the clock | Editorial https://t.co/ZlYvzZSl4C
• 8 out of 9 spring NQs stay put at Addleshaws - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cKP8tzRPwd
• A Welsh branch of McDonald's has started playing classical music and rationing wi-fi in a bid to deter anti-social behaviour. The fast-food restaurant has taken action after incidents at its Wrexham branch https://t.co/mDH03Z1GuJ
• How #Egyptian police hunt LGBT people on dating apps https://t.co/kurV5p3KDC
• A sixth officer has been suspended amid an ongoing investigation into the death of Tyre Nichols, a Memphis Police spokesperson said. Preston Hemphill, 26, was one of the police officers who initially stopped Mr Nichols for an alleged traffic violation #US https://t.co/vVkALB9vX8