11th February - Law News

Edition 4063: 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: Turkey Earthquake: Rescuers are working round the clock to find survivors six days after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Mother in Law: Being a tough mum | Law Gazette https://t.co/lQN7U6cjDT 
• Dear Lee Anderson: Derek Bentley was innocent and hanged. We scrapped the death penalty for a reason https://t.co/lk39py7yD9
  
• Far-right demonstrators clash with police at Liverpool hotel housing asylum seekers - Eyewitnesses say police van set on fire and counter-protestors surrounded https://t.co/0UFqkU4kNI 
• Barclays teams up with firms to offer 'pioneering' training contract | Law Gazette https://t.co/A0Vt7qVFG
• Six operational strategies for a successful 2023 - Legal Futures https://t.co/gWs3ucbuYz
  
• A "high-altitude object" was shot down over Alaska earlier on Friday, the White House has said. Spokesman John Kirby said the unmanned object was "the size of a small car" and was over a sparsely populated area at the time #US https://t.co/vR7AcYm5L
• Lawyer asks to prosecute Xinjiang governor in the UK - Erkin Tuniyaz, who allegedly played a central role in Uyghur persecution, is expected to visit the UK https://t.co/JTeUtIQuuV 
• UK government rejects call to resentence prisoners detained indefinitely https://t.co/RAOyxGBwjw
• PI firm absorbs £5m profit hit in 'year of transition' | Law Gazette https://t.co/alidOCUcI0 
• New chair a “dominating issue” for Legal Services Board - Legal Futures https://t.co/hSTtV6Fm7Y 
• Northern Ireland’s abortion buffer zones now law | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/C93DfmUMEt
• Lord Beckett appointed chair of Judicial Institute for Scotland | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/u3sjVVZ0Y1
• Paralegal sacked while pregnant suffered discrimination | Law Gazette https://t.co/tdT6CE60h9 
• “Difficult to see” future for unbundled conveyancing - Legal Futures https://t.co/tyTrVFUCW0 
• Women and black employed barristers 'most likely to report bullying and discrimination' | Law Gazette https://t.co/JWHmKKCiw3
• It will soon be illegal to smoke cannabis on the street in Amsterdam's red light district under new regulations unveiled by the city #Netherlands https://t.co/i2FzEwsryQ 
• Public land bodies and estate leaders join forces | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qZwxQcksgN 
• Cars have been stripped of parts in a spate of separate thefts while parked in Birmingham city centre, motorists came forward after one woman's car was targeted in Digbeth https://t.co/nUN2K8SFAC
• A man suspected of attacking a congresswoman in the lift of her Washington DC apartment building on Thursday has been arrested, police say. Angie Craig, a Minnesota Democrat, fought back by throwing hot coffee at the assailant, a police report says #US https://t.co/9Ox9jQ7syk 
• MHC: Banking professionals want competition to be taken into account in regulatory policy | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VHSqZq2qzY
• Employed barristers “undervalued” by wider profession - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ob26HHU89U
• Ms Justice Marie Baker to chair new electoral watchdog | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0u7J2H6v20
• Payments were 'exceptional' but not bribes, says employee in $11bn Nigeria oil case | Law Gazette https://t.co/itKLpuSiEA
• Solicitor hid 743 cheques worth £233,000 in filing cabinet - Legal Futures https://t.co/NIQxKJjFyR
• Three new partners at Nolan Farrell & Goff | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YXDurBYXqi 
• Press watchdog investigating Jeremy Clarkson's Meghan column https://t.co/Ab4heZEJU3

10th February - Law News

Edition 4062: 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:Ms Justice Marie Baker has been appointed as chairperson of An Coimisiún Toghcháin, the new statutory electoral watchdog formally established. Full story - Irish Legal News  

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Transitional Justice in Gambia after dictatorship – from truth seeking to justice. Keynote address by Salieu Taal, President of the Bar Association of The Gambia

Saturday Conversations on Law

• #Zimbabwe is losing doctors, teachers to British hypocrisy https://t.co/GeZYPdsPrW
• Family Court reporting: a change for the better? | Law Gazette https://t.co/seeN2S7ReX 
• For #Palestine, justice is not a question of law - international law itself is a form of imperial violence https://t.co/sVwYLqnQbS
  
• Thank goodness for immigration lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/L7LOe8ARXn
• Wikipedia information "undermining quality of judgments" - Legal Futures https://t.co/Es8VSopEzM
• Transgender prisoners in Scotland to be placed according to birth gender https://t.co/r3rr3T6lSY 
• MPs want inquiry into Ashford school after attack on black schoolgirl https://t.co/HOhucwx8yz 
• Women outnumber men two to one in law studies | Law Gazette https://t.co/oECFQSezr9
  
• Act now on energy bills subsidy or see fuel poverty surge, says Martin Lewis https://t.co/upW0X6H5Ks 
• Firm admits deposed chief executive used racist expression over dinner | Law Gazette https://t.co/erIdlpnMLJ 
• Sikhs who carry the kirpan knife in England and Wales, are at risk of being unlawfully banned from entering court https://t.co/z596yWFq5M
• PE-backed conveyancing giants shying away from acquisitions - Legal Futures https://t.co/hBJkN9TslA 
• Black people four times as likely as white people to be murdered, ONS data shows https://t.co/v0n5KbUXmm 
• Supreme Court clarifies law on leasehold service charges | Law Gazette https://t.co/StYa1c5rdM 
• Leonardo would have backed gallery protest, say Just Stop Oil activists https://t.co/7BIeZV2GuL 
• Former MP Jared O'Mara who tried to claim £52,000 of taxpayers' money to help fund his cocaine habit has been jailed https://t.co/mjvSc3dtzg
  
• Divorce lawyer ghosted client and held onto £132,000 | Law Gazette https://t.co/oVPMCXT4HR 
• SDT orders client who brought case against City solicitors to pay £291k in costs - Legal Futures https://t.co/zMBalS7BXR
  
• Contempt ruling against environmental protester is a crime against justice https://t.co/g2QP4wRz1s
  
• Battle of the brands: Lidl takes Tesco to court over logo | Law Gazette https://t.co/Of1NKFHFsI 
• Listed law firm's chief executive used racially offensive term - Legal Futures https://t.co/OuQi3drAqf 
• Twitter outage sees users told they are over daily tweet limit https://t.co/tyHPeVlq3L 
• Family solicitor 'stabbed colleague after becoming mentally ill during pandemic' | Law Gazette https://t.co/o9pC3sAzBt 
• Solicitor fined for allowing elderly woman in care to sell home | Law Gazette https://t.co/BgPX8hYUZY
  
• Outrage over Charlie Hebdo’s Turkey-Syria earthquake cartoon - The #French satirical magazine has once again come under fire for its provocative comic strips https://t.co/UiNXpeY4P4 
• Before and after satellite images show scale of earthquake destruction in #Turkey https://t.co/NnehU1jbVC

9th February - Law News

Edition 4061: 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: The head of the Crown Prosecution Service and bar chiefs have secured extra cash from HM Treasury to restore parity in fees between prosecution and defence barristers – prompting calls for the chancellor of the exchequer to do the same for solicitors. Full story - The Law Society Gazette  

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: As Europe’s most infamous migrant camp burned to the ground on the island of Lesbos in 2020, two Syrian friends evaded police to stay. Living in a post-apocalyptic graveyard, Ayham and Khalil now race against local scrap metal collectors to find what they can, which they are forced to sell at a reduced price. With what little money they make they buy food and cook together, dreaming of Aleppo before the civil war forced them to leave and waiting for an end to their bureaucratic limbo. From their shared tent their friendship endures, despite their impossible circumstances

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Focus on real-life not high concepts, consumer watchdog tells regulator | Law Gazette https://t.co/wjfTJkdL7L
• The Gareth Thomas case proves it: no one wins when an HIV transmission fight goes to court https://t.co/kDGXuYhYtw
• Lidl accuses Tesco of ‘deception’ in legal dispute over yellow circle logo - German discounter claims its rival has infringed its trademark by using design for Clubcard promotions https://t.co/x16nr3tWli
  
• Top law firms invest in content marketing “which does not work” - Legal Futures https://t.co/EX8cvzwKO
• Tribunal 'wrong to strike out judge's grievance claims' | Law Gazette https://t.co/8Fa3fWzqGC 
• Owners of 53,000 properties still unknown | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZGb9shSt5f
• Defendants of colour more likely to be charged than white people, finds CPS study - Mixed ethnicity suspects in England and Wales charged 10 percentage points higher than rate of white counterparts for similar offences https://t.co/UQDHjoP0YA
• Leading PI firm pays tribute to 'wonderfully kind' solicitor | Law Gazette https://t.co/9qcsqwbP6z 
• LeO has 22 ongoing enforcement actions against lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/UTNDBmJFsc
• We have done 'huge amount' to support welfare of judges, LCJ insists | Law Gazette https://t.co/sJz2fzwTHb
• Parliament’s part in the C of E’s rifts on equality for women and gay people https://t.co/rQ2848Zzox
• The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said it is opposed to Microsoft's planned purchase of games developer Activision Blizzard https://t.co/Ac6o3xm2y
• The Northern Ireland Protocol is lawful, the UK Supreme Court has ruled. Part of the Brexit deal, the protocol creates a trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK https://t.co/mByUWqr7V
• Global firm sees off £400,000 fees challenge in High Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/OjP9qikC8
• Mediators ready for compulsion as caseload tops pre-Covid level - Legal Futures https://t.co/fRS5IUCaDC
• We weren’t going to spend £700m on Quindell, ex-SG directors tell court: | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZL4708PwJ
• Removing undergarment, forcing girl to lie on ground would amount to rape: Calcutta High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/YIu0iwlpd
• The head teacher of Epsom College made a distressed call to a relative before she and her daughter were shot dead by her husband - George Pattison is believed to have killed Emma Pattison and Lettie, seven https://t.co/ivbPm9Mq5M
  
• Controversial HS2 rail line builder has underestimated its impact on habitats and wildlife, according to a coalition of wildlife charities: the methodology used to calculate the impact on biodiversity of the project was "fundamentally flawed" https://t.co/nkzJ4qdQFC
• The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be questioned as part of a #US defamation case brought by Meghan's half-sister. Samantha Markle is suing Meghan for "defamation and injurious falsehoods" following the couple's interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 https://t.co/qlrJTLygay 
• Strike-off for solicitor whose fake PI claim “shattered public trust” - Legal Futures https://t.co/1d3zUFpvpr
• Women in the UK: share your experience of being subjected to online misogyny https://t.co/EJG8xIint
• Five lawyers part of Central government panel set up to assess need for separate law on competition in digital markets | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/amApS91njs
• From demands about avocado rotation to staff in tears, working for the Tories can be perilous https://t.co/i24JbKGlh
• Suella Braverman’s Rwanda flight ‘dream’ could happen this year, sources say - Home secretary reportedly believes European court of human rights will rule on policy by end of 2023 https://t.co/jnwR9qFfi
• McDonald's manager 'exposed himself in front of me' https://t.co/t2ob3NyRuH
• SNP MP Stewart McDonald's emails hacked by Russian group https://t.co/ef0JBeAZz
• The House of Lords has overturned plans to clamp down on protest marches that cause too much disruption. The government had proposed giving police powers to stop protesters using tactics such as blocking roads https://t.co/jSHW03JVZ
• A 53-year-old man has been charged following the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl who was later found in the Scottish Borders https://t.co/NsAkQlyYU9
• Consent review – a horribly timeless tale of male sexual violence https://t.co/XqpEp3YbOn
• As the detective who inspired TV’s Prime Suspect, I know this: the misogyny of David Carrick lives on https://t.co/TTv7Lm22x
• Taking exception to the REUL | Law Gazette https://t.co/nCdxMm1Flt
  
• Trump porn star payment a ‘zombie case’ that wouldn’t die, ex-prosecutor says in book - Mark Pomerantz writes of frustration of attempt to make hush money to Stormy Daniels a money-laundering case #US https://t.co/TPKEynjzSJ
• Insulate Britain protester faces prison over contempt of court conviction - David Nixon defied judge’s instruction not to cite climate crisis as motivation for causing public nuisance https://t.co/Ca8m0qGQme