Tuesday

14th February - Law News

Edition 4066: 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 Lord President, Lord Carloway made the appointment after Lord Armstrong intimated his intention to resign as chair. Lady Drummond has been appointed as vice-chair. Full story Scottish Legal News
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Whether the Jamaican statutory regime to combat money laundering is constitutional insofar as it applies to attorneys–at–law

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Suits' Rachel Zane ranked among TV’s most influential characters - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3vYNPhFAaL 
  • A&L Goodbody appoints nine partners and three of counsel in Dublin and Belfast | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lEdOsDismv 
  • The day Easter nearly died: the theft of 200,000 Cadbury's Creme Eggs from an industrial estate nearly threw Easter into doubt, according to the most diligent West Mercia police https://t.co/OKcNnFHVhI
  • Ireland urged by UN committee to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KbP66t6yIo
  • Delhi High Court restrains Parle from using 'FABIO' or 'FAB!O' mark to sell biscuit after OREO alleges trademark infringement | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/uFQ0Ta2zuI
  • Uefa bears "primary responsibility" for the chaotic scenes that "almost led to disaster" before last year's Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, says an independent report https://t.co/G61xXKjFgc
  • Calling all aspiring lawyers! Have your say in our short student perceptions survey - Legal Cheek https://t.co/oMrE2Y9Z9f 
  • An award-winning #German ballet director has been suspended after smearing dog faeces on a critic's face. Marco Goecke was apparently furious about a review of one of his shows by journalist Wiebke Hüster https://t.co/JqbNqv81nA
  • Ex-Law Society president joins Linklaters as diversity and inclusion advisor - Legal Cheek https://t.co/sYq1Ov68h8
  • TC in the Toon? A former Magic Circle lawyer makes the case for legal life in the North - Legal Cheek https://t.co/QRN14dXzzf
  • Amanda Stewart, the chief executive of the Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI), has been awarded an OBE for public service | Irish Legal News https://t.co/arXC9Ecboe
  • Former Met Police officer Wayne Couzens has admitted three counts of indecent exposure, two of which he committed weeks before he murdered Sarah Everard https://t.co/XDHK7nJBwq 
  • Twice as many women as men apply to study law - Legal Cheek https://t.co/SmZ1Cn4aiH 
  • Jamia violence case: Judge who discharged Sharjeel Imam, others recuses from another matter related to case | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/OA798qJmaq
  • One arrested amid Tate Britain protest over drag queen children’s event - Rightwing demonstrators outside gallery met by counterprotesters including trans-rights campaigners https://t.co/WsaWhG7sa7
  • Post-Brexit rules leave British woman with Alzheimer’s facing removal from Sweden: Bed-bound Kathleen Poole, 74, who lives in a dementia care home, has been unable to complete required paperwork https://t.co/ketTu0udOb
  • Pallas Partners and Slaughter and May on opposing sides in pioneering Shell climate change case - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/QYRPerilhM 
  • #US workplace safety regulators have fined a Pennsylvania factory after two workers fell into a vat of chocolate and had to be rescued. The Mars Wrigley factory was fined more than $14,500 (£12,000) by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration https://t.co/JtYJ1TMnoW
  • Caroline Flack's family have been given an apology by the Metropolitan Police for not keeping a record about why it charged her with assault. IOPC carried out a review after complaints from the late television presenter's mother https://t.co/HUsGtqr1lg
  • ‘They haven’t the foggiest who we are’: the watchdog fighting to protect Britain’s exploited workers https://t.co/UNBo5Qlua8 
  • A ‘catalogue of waste’ on government ‘credit cards’: Analysis of civil service spending includes Rishi Sunak’s Treasury department spending £3,000 on Tate photographs https://t.co/f9d9f617BF 
  • Dar UI-Isra Mosque in the Cathays area of Cardiff has so far raised £25,000 as well as five vans of clothes and shoes to be delivered to the affected areas for earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey https://t.co/QlL8lFoTHG
  • Criminal justice social work services ‘should not be included’ in National Care Service | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/eJ6r2A0yX8 
  • A boy and girl, both aged 15, have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 16-year-old girl at a park in Warrington. Brianna Ghey was found by members of the public at Linear Park in Culcheth https://t.co/oylo4Fcxbz 
  • Prime minister's wife Akshata Murty held shares in collapsed firm that had near £300k ‘Sunak’ taxpayer loan - Employees and Lloyds Bank among creditors, after liquidation of firm that benefited from pandemic aid devised by husband https://t.co/gotpafEsNS
  • Taylor Wessing targets school leavers with new solicitor apprenticeship - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Km3XjCbk9U 
  • Legal Notes by Arvind Datar: Seeds of Basic Structure first sown by Justice JR Mudholkar | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/gYOURbQ7Pb 
  • Vinson & Elkins bumps UK trainee pay to £60-£65k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7uRmtoRaeG 
  • Orrick secures former Hughes Hubbard arbitration group co-head in New York - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/uaJg4OJM1F 
  • Judge says he used ChatGPT in court ruling - Legal Cheek https://t.co/R5BLLDH22r
  • Supreme Court imposes ₹50k costs on Uttar Pradesh for challenging Allahabad High Court order granting gratuity to wife of deceased employee | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/MzdzoikMLq 
  • The perils of the DoJ's new corporate self-reporting guidance - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/piGrdXXTk5 
  • Pat Fox rejoins LK Shields as real estate partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/eTTTXboFRZ

Monday

13th February - Law News

Edition 4065: 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 have expressed dismay at a legislative change that reverses Ho v Adelekun on costs recovery under the qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) scheme, allowing the defendant to recover more costs from settlements as well as damages. Full story New Law Journal 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Interpol is experimenting with metaverse technology to research threats and provide officers with remote training. It also has plans to use it as an investigatory tool. The force’s role is to connect police forces across international borders to fight threats such as organised crime, terrorism and cyber-crime. Madam Oberi, executive director of technology and innovation at Interpol, said threats on the metaverse could be on “existing media” and some could be new to the technology.

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Stipend scheme of ₹3,000 for young lawyers inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/TyZeBZYq6z
  • Simmons & Simmons and TLT launch joint training contract with Barclays - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mjfwTU9Pun
  • No tents, no aid, nothing: Why #Syrians feel forgotten https://t.co/UIXpw6eKw
  • Firm won £25.8m PPE contract after Greg Hands approached by Tory activist: New Tory chair referred Luxe Lifestyle in April 2020 despite it apparently having no history of supplying PPE https://t.co/WRYFjJYHUz
  • Apprentices among top performers on SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rKmNKM4wnQ
  • Plea before Kerala High Court to ban circumcision of children, declare it as non-bailable offence | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/jlnf0qRYuX
  • Want to write a good judgment? You’re best avoiding Wikipedia, judges warned - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RgpjYPYsq
  • Shearman & Sterling lays off 38 US lawyers and staff - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/V44Na8un
  • Jarad Skeete, 19, of Irwell Close, Aigburth, Liverpool, has been charged with beating an emergency worker after disorder broke out near a hotel in Merseyside housing asylum seekers https://t.co/tCMHfePWQR
  • Firm admits ousted CEO used racist phrase over dinner - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Y8iyQDlaYZ 
  • Schrödinger’s Defendants: Inquests, Unlawful Killing and Criminal Acquittals - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/KtqSWABgJc 
  • Adani Group enlists Wachtell to take on short seller as stocks take a beating - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/hwRKVDRb6X 
  • Mishcon to host 'in conversation' with Matt Hancock - Legal Cheek https://t.co/AhsN9p0Gfg
  • Kerala POCSO Court convicts transwoman under Section 377 IPC for sexually assaulting minor boy | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/7qan6t7YXh
  • A round-up of human rights stories from around the world | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7k0qhd1N29
  • Torn between the SQE and LPC? Here's what to consider - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JchBU235Qg 
  • BBC chairman Richard Sharp made "significant errors of judgement" in acting as a go-between on a loan for Boris Johnson while he was applying for the post, MPs have said https://t.co/sjrOvGYJJ
  • A seriously injured teenage girl has died at a park in Warrington. Officers were called to Culcheth Linear Park at 15:13GMT on Saturday in response to reports that a girl had been seriously hurt https://t.co/X8X2dFQp5
  • Why are BP, Shell, and other oil giants making so much money right now? https://t.co/R5H2K3C6fW
  • Strikes, private nuisance, protest Bill: The Weekly Round up - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/aWObgyZuRT
  • Life as a lawyer in a countercyclical practice area - Legal Cheek https://t.co/piaSijFoRS 
  • Northern Ireland court upholds use of special measures in schoolgirl’s tribunal claim | Irish Legal News https://t.co/8IMn2VC85X 
  • Man City sign Blackstone super silk who charges rumoured £5k an hour to defend Premier League claim - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RAgzETrxLZ
  • Struggling Ince misses third deadline for publishing results | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZivNAcCAyS

Sunday

12th February - Law News

Edition 4064: 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: It has been three years since Sudan’s government banned female genital mutilation. But UNICEF says it is still going on. The UN children’s agency says the frequency of FGM was dropping before the ban, but it is a practice still being carried out within some families and communities.

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • ‘He’s really dangerous’: fear as Wagner convict soldiers return from Ukraine - Murderers and other hardened criminals among those recruited by #Russian mercenary group in exchange for freedom https://t.co/DqrRGmrvZV 
  • Another unidentified object has been shot down over North American airspace, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed. He said the latest object "violated Canadian airspace" and was shot down over Yukon in north west #Canada https://t.co/4jRFV1dwmr
  • Legal aid widened for child cases following public law challenge | Law Gazette https://t.co/bIwbv900Ak 
  • Rust shooting: Baldwin’s attorneys say prosecutors made ‘a basic legal error’ #US https://t.co/gOgsqLwo7x 
  • Legal Services Board “needs to focus more on access to justice” - Legal Futures https://t.co/DkSXWbOcmQ 
  • Solicitor of 50 years banned after 743 cheques found stashed away | Law Gazette https://t.co/y1kKmEMDwG 
  • Children fleeing danger in small boats should be deported, says Tory thinktank - Policy Exchange paper envisages sidestepping Human Rights and Modern Slavery Acts to eliminate legal challenges https://t.co/izweVh8yjH
  • The UK legal sector’s turnover in December 2022 was £3.5bn - up 8.6% on the same month in 2021 | Law Gazette https://t.co/4sg50PfgHv
  • Assam, #India, child brides desperate after mass arrests https://t.co/pkIBY8CCOF
  • Fifteen people have been arrested after violent clashes outside a Merseyside hotel accommodating asylum seekers https://t.co/srj0V5RIeA 
  • Former LNP leader calls for 72-hour limit on children being held in Queensland watch houses #Australia https://t.co/xaiFgn8d2a
  • High Court rejects client's bid to escape £417k payment to City firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/mFkFkkRFAH
  • Beneficiary allowed to challenge firm's fees after fourfold rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/SVxDvgVCzm 
  • Gillian Keegan at odds with Home Office plan to restrict overseas students. Education secretary says UK ‘should be very proud of’ university sector, amid briefings with Suella Braverman https://t.co/nwI5ZhGyvO
  • Met urged to reopen Partygate inquiry as fresh allegations emerge: ‘new information’ includes claims that Downing Street staff corroborated stories and destroyed evidence https://t.co/G8XCNJHyXA
  • One of #SouthAfrica's leading rappers, popularly known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the coastal city of Durban. Kiernan Forbes was killed along with his close friend, the chef and entrepreneur Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane https://t.co/C3DvCGaekH
  • Central government notifies appointment of Justice Pritinker Diwaker as Acting Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court # Bar & Bench #INdia https://t.co/BomTZzRnCx
  • Marina Ovsyannikova, anti-war #Russian journalist recounts dramatic escape https://t.co/DnWFNamwWH
  • A barrister who accidentally breached a confidentiality order has avoided a contempt of court charge – but could still face disciplinary action from their regulator. | Law Gazette https://t.co/qAm2rNliJs
  • Abandoned children entitled to same benefits as orphaned children; no distinction between them: Bombay High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/iWV9PgNXSw
  • Vapes should be kept out of sight of children in shops and the legal minimum age of 18 should be marked clearly on each product, say councils in England. Too many children are being illegally sold vapes with fruity flavours https://t.co/QiAH1S5GE
  • MPs launch inquiry into impact of whiplash reforms - Legal Futures https://t.co/Gi10SBo6r
  • Knowsley: Three arrested after protest at Merseyside asylum seeker hotel https://t.co/UPP6gzVaRd
  • Twitter spat involving two law lecturers has reached the High Court in a claim with ‘multiple causes of action’ including harassment, defamation, and breach of data rights| Law Gazette https://t.co/GgAkn4i7qW
  • SQE: Apprentices 'outperforming' other candidates | Law Gazette https://t.co/SqU2e4unN8 
  • Warning for fee-share consultants in solicitor's strike-off - Legal Futures https://t.co/vukKwlq6Iy 
  • Follow AG's lead over legal aid fees, Raab urged | Law Gazette https://t.co/uHHjwnJDc4