4th February - Law News

Edition 4056: 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: The ultra conservative ruling BJP political party of Narendra Modi, organised a huge protest outside the Aam Aadmi Party's offices in Delhi, demanding Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's resignation over allegations of corruption linked to the now-scrapped liquor sales policy. The BJP has targeted the Chief Minister for questioning the Enforcement Directorate's supplementary charge sheet in the case and said it proved that he was involved in corruption.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter freed from prison - Glitter, 78, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was sentenced in 2015 for attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one of having sex with a girl under 13 https://t.co/U0NDKnjkkv 
• LiP sending last-minute email had 'good reason' for missing deadline | Law Gazette https://t.co/CYOGyVcRve 
• UK Athletics wants open category for male and transgender athletes https://t.co/AbRjj1pm2K
  
• RAC employee convicted of passing accident data to claims companies - Legal Futures https://t.co/aqssesR3Vh 
• Beware of taking fees in crypto, SRA warns | Law Gazette https://t.co/4QVNI0VzgM 
• Law firms flock to support National Conveyancing Week - Legal Futures https://t.co/1QqIx9iH8V 
• Ex-Slater and Gordon boss discussed 'back channel' to Quindell | Law Gazette https://t.co/agGwIin3F7 
• Solicitors may now avoid SDT for significant but inadvertent breaches - Legal Futures https://t.co/3gH255KTXQ 
• Energy firms told to stop force-fitting prepayment meters https://t.co/mgLxCtolaf 
• A man who arrived at Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow and told a protection officer "I am here to kill the Queen" has pleaded guilty to a charge under the Treason Act. Jaswant Singh Chail, from Hampshire, was arrested on Christmas Day 2021 https://t.co/7IBUeuYmTa 
• Murder trial adjourned for three days 'because heating not working' | Law Gazette https://t.co/Cym7uVU1SY
  
• #Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has admitted assaulting an ex-girlfriend but avoided a criminal conviction. The 27-year-old's guilty plea in a Canberra court came after his lawyers failed to have the charge dismissed on mental health grounds https://t.co/X5KC538Saq 
• Barrister wins nine-year fight to overturn critical tribunal findings - Legal Futures https://t.co/ShkGaJ2ihb 
• Court in #Italy rules in favour of children who do not want to see grandparents - An unwelcome and unwanted relationship cannot be imposed, supreme court rules https://t.co/7TwDPpUEYj 
• The government has abandoned plans to house asylum seekers in a Pontins Holiday Park on Merseyside, the local authority has said. Sefton Council and Southport MP Damien Moore had opposed converting the resort in Ainsdale into asylum accommodation https://t.co/oSMLMh7P79 
• Rate of executions in #Saudi Arabia almost doubles under Mohammed bin Salman https://t.co/BbnqXnSoBb
  
• Infected blood inquiry: Five things we have learned https://t.co/wNxfJmiDJO 
• Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC appointed special rapporteur on child protection | Irish Legal News https://t.co/FwaU6v6EpW 
• Mystery remains over new home of LawtechUK | Law Gazette https://t.co/SlLHRuuPyy 
• Samantha Geraghty takes reins of P. O’Connor & Son | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ysUPmObUbq 
• New Glasgow office for Thorntons | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bvdl58yM7m 
• Shannon Gawley elected chair of Northern Ireland Young Solicitors’ Association | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tJUlLArQF7 
• Law firms less fearful of Big Four threat | Law Gazette https://t.co/LFQtZBXKfX 
• Scottish government’s legal aid package not a ‘product of agreement’ | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OKAq5WxQqF 
• Employee collected 'at least' £338,000 in land tax fraud | Law Gazette https://t.co/phonmD8D3E 
• Cleaver Fulton Rankin’s Suzanne Keenan shortlisted for Women in Business award | Irish Legal News https://t.co/djfe5GW1l1 
• Court of Appeal: Three-month custodial sentence upheld for young woman convicted of gross negligence manslaughter of her baby | Irish Legal News https://t.co/XOIeJUhI0D 
• Former PwC partner denies disclosing Quindell struggles over 'quiet coffee' meeting | Law Gazette https://t.co/IPKeVLLASY 
• SRA to throw spotlight on incompetence in the profession - Legal Futures https://t.co/cqMZKcKHsl

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