17th February - Law News

Edition 4070: 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: Making mental health a global priority in the legal profession. Full story Barrister Magazine

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Michigan State University assistant professor Marco Díaz-Muñoz tells CNN's Miguel Marquez about seeing the gunman who killed three students and critically wounded five others

Saturday Conversations on Law

• National conveyancer set to grant share options to staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/hOkgsKjZ3E
• Widow left out of husband’s will after 66-year marriage wins half of £1m estate - High court judge rules ‘reasonable provision’ was not made for 83-year-old, ‘left with next to nothing’ https://t.co/yokiQyQZJ0
• To transparency and beyond! - Legal Futures https://t.co/Xoi2rxTdVs
• Bar tells LSB to rethink 'wrong-headed' business plan | Law Gazette https://t.co/rhIr40DW0Q
• Buffalo shooting: Relative lunges at gunman before sentencing #US https://t.co/l6bFWQXp21 
• Running indemnity fund won’t require a levy - or more staff, SRA chief says | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y75x5B026o
  
• SRA finalises rules for successor to Solicitors Indemnity Fund - Legal Futures https://t.co/TtlbnyGDj3 
• US fintech chases Islamic wills market with law firm acquisition | Law Gazette https://t.co/XrIlPUzyJ0
• Solicitor struck off for practising without firm’s knowledge | Law Gazette https://t.co/1RERqK48A
• Allahabad High Court quashes case against Salman Khurshid for quoting Shahenshah movie dialogue in response to CM Yogi Adityanath | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/UqnhTi92Ri
• Solicitor used friend’s identity to obtain prescription drugs - Legal Futures https://t.co/DnPX2HUeW
• SRA confirms new fining powers | Law Gazette https://t.co/MBfPrh1ubG 
• Bombay High Court orders probe agencies not to disclose identity of rape victims even in chargesheet | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/FV9n3E0ErM
• A boy and girl, both aged 15, have appeared in court charged with murdering 16-year-old Brianna Ghey. The transgender schoolgirl was found with fatal stab wounds on a path in Linear Park in Culcheth, Cheshire https://t.co/NXcLZJJyQN 
• SRA to keep many disciplinary decisions online for longer - Legal Futures https://t.co/SBuSP9Yh7b 
• Digital securities “can be accommodated” within existing English law - Legal Futures https://t.co/Fx3n6D9i5r
  
• British Gas owner Centrica has posted huge profits after energy prices soared last year. Centrica's full-year profits hit £3.3bn for 2022, more than triple the £948m it made the year before https://t.co/pEsYlYB56X
• #Chagos islanders must get full reparations for forced exile, says NGO - Human Rights Watch also demands trial for ‘appalling colonial crime’ of expulsion – and continuing ill treatment – of Chagossiansn https://t.co/yHhABHnqt
• 'Get on board Hague 19 ASAP,' Law Society tells government | Law Gazette https://t.co/I7SVTU87Em 
• ‘All we have had is losses’: Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80m ransom demand - ‘Under no circumstances will we pay that absurd amount,’ delivery firm says, telling hackers it is not the booming company they think https://t.co/8KlgHvpRBy
  
• Tehran summons lawyer Sotoudeh's husband to prison | Law Gazette https://t.co/mvDcfd87N8 
• Magic circle firm rolls out 'gamechanger' ChatGPT-type platform | Law Gazette https://t.co/iCzm5h2Nh1
• Judge rejects Trump DNA offer in E Jean Carroll rape defamation case - Lewis Kaplan says Trump has missed his chance to provide DNA sample to rebut allegations first made by Carroll in 2019 book #US https://t.co/mArK1vEZgL 
• A 15-year-old boy has been detained for at least 14 years for stabbing a man to death outside an Asda store. Ian Kirwan, 53, was attacked at the supermarket in Redditch on 8 March after telling a group of boys https://t.co/JKBDp0KrUr

16th February - Law News

Edition 4069: 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: A fresh call for legal aid practitioners to bid for revamped housing contracts shows just how unviable the work has become - potentially leaving families struggling with rising rents, mortgage payments and debt without proper access to justice, the Law Society has warned. Full story The Law Society Gazette

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: The decision to change rules around temporary protection visas leads to an increase in military assets for Australia's northern border.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Our Legal Heritage: When Scots had to earn their salt | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OsC2jr8Op
• SLAPPs: Solicitors ignorant of reporting duties, SRA review finds | Law Gazette https://t.co/136NHpnEJ7
• Ireland’s Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP), popularly dubbed the “golden visa” scheme, is to close to new applications | Irish Legal News https://t.co/771XEwld0j
• Welcome to the Ministry of High Standards and Professionalism | Law Gazette https://t.co/4Du9Wi8yT
• Land Registry calls on law firms to reduce “avoidable errors” - Legal Futures https://t.co/wLM4ysTsB
• Eversheds Sutherland appoints Ian McFarland as Belfast employment partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bqkdu6ZiCi
• Solicitor who had shotgun in car fined | Law Gazette https://t.co/9WnD6yhvLE
  
• Burnley fake psychiatrist committed wicked deception, judge says https://t.co/Pz7f8XAVCG
• #Italy ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi acquitted in 'bunga-bunga' party case https://t.co/mCaxGVCh27 
• Jeremy Corbyn will not be a Labour candidate at the next general election, party leader Starmer has said. Mr Corbyn was suspended from being a Labour MP and sits as an independent because of a fabricated accusation of antisemitism https://t.co/PsfjptWwIV 
• News focus: Australian billionaire raises the stakes on cryptoassets | Law Gazette https://t.co/dywynqH1DE
• Solicitor ghosted client and SRA after receiving divorce settlement - Legal Futures https://t.co/beKxGJWNl1
  
• A judge has given a once-prominent former solicitor ‘one final opportunity’ to purge contempt and avoid another prison term over a long-running dispute with the regulator | Law Gazette https://t.co/0OaSzo4LDH 
• Ireland’s proposed new police ombudsman will not have institutional independence under the government’s current legislative plans, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has warned | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Bl4NWaVIvQ 
• Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she is resigning after more than eight years as head of the Scottish government https://t.co/YOsh9Ail0H
• LSB should focus on 'more pressing' areas than conveyancing | Law Gazette https://t.co/xG3SDzGRRs
  
• Citizens’ assembly to consider drugs law reform | Irish Legal News https://t.co/sPDL9beeUp
  
• Slips and SLAPPs - SRA review finds good level of compliance - Legal Futures https://t.co/EGkF4PKYUk
• Getting the Equality Act Right | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qoNA2b7SXU
• Ukraine war: #Russian student Olesya Krivtsova under arrest for an Instagram story https://t.co/zpTYg6KFIc
• Centrist Starmer tells Labour's left to back him or leave the party founded with close ties to human dignity and socialism https://t.co/PsfjptWwI
• LAA fails to attract sufficient bids for housing legal aid contracts | Law Gazette https://t.co/64Mog4gjnS 
• Mason Hayes & Curran appoints Neil Campbell as head of financial services | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QYUyGrmIjD
• Barristers cannot frustrate disciplinary proceedings by renouncing status | Law Gazette https://t.co/hCqHrQta7f
  
• Islamic fintech company buys law firm specialising in Shari'ah wills - Legal Futures https://t.co/059tUbRazx
• #Sudan court sentences three men to hand amputation for stealing https://t.co/eE5EZfdZcD
• Heart transplant for boy stymied by Northern Ireland assembly deadlock - DUP criticised as Dáithí Mac Gabhann and others needing operation hit by Stormont impasse choking organ donation law https://t.co/bkbfojAZ2K
• Martyna Brulinska appointed senior associate counsel at McKesson Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/xSdBx0GGbl
• British embassy spy snared by Berlin sting, court hears - Briton David Ballantyne Smith, 58, was working as a security guard when he passed secret information to Russian authorities https://t.co/mLxXXpDrE1 
• Legal victory in UK Japanese knotweed case could lead to more claims - Court of appeal ruled homeowner could recover loss of value even if knotweed has been treated https://t.co/LNL3L48Wwv 
• A man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs, causing a police panic about Easter, has been convicted in court. Joby Pool was surrounded by a mountain of the foil-wrapped chocolate when police caught up with him at the weekend https://t.co/i119JCK4dN

15th February - Law News

Edition 4068: 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: More than six out of 10 lawyers (62%) have experienced burn-out as a result of their work in the last year, a survey has found. Most lawyers (57%) put “an unmanageable caseload” at the top of their list of stressors at work, followed by a lack of work/life balance (42%). Full story Legal Futures

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: A diplomatic spat is deepening between China and the US as they accuse one another of sending up spy balloons into each other's airspace. Just 12 days ago the world was gripped by the appearance of a large suspected Chinese spy balloon floating over the USA. Since then three more flying objects have been taken down by fighter jets over Alaska, Canada and MIchigan.. The origin of these ones - officially at least - remains a mystery.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Matheson launches 2023 Tim Scanlon Corporate Law Bursary | Irish Legal News https://t.co/J6vOwfhSBN
• Rees-Mogg’s crazed tilt at red tape is quixotic nonsense. We need regulation to survive https://t.co/44vDImdm26
• Defendant accusing party of 'warehousing' claim loses strike-out bid | Law Gazette https://t.co/Pd5oWsDuMQ
  
• Candlelit vigils have been held for 16-year-old Brianna Ghey, who was stabbed to death in a park. The schoolgirl was found lying wounded on a path in Linear Park in Culcheth, Cheshire, on Saturday https://t.co/mSW5an6QFv
• Barristers cannot avoid disciplinary action by renouncing status - Legal Futures https://t.co/yAQpj3MvqY
• Insulate Britain activists found guilty over London roadblock https://t.co/EGYUDRN8pN 
• One of the most devastating and costly forms of cybercrime that is affecting thousands of people across the UK is being tackled through a research project at Abertay University | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HxPG0cUh80
• Officials in Turkey have targeted more than 130 people allegedly involved in poor and illegal construction methods following the pair of earthquakes that caused the collapse of thousands of buildings last week | Irish Legal News https://t.co/OkZ1nAbtbF
  
• Partners want to break away and set up their own firm - survey | Law Gazette https://t.co/8pook0ywNk
• Partner hid conveyancing proceeds in secret bank account - Legal Futures https://t.co/pWFOmwBFU
• Solicitor struck off over false whiplash claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/DIwnC3Hcbj
• BBC offices in #India have been searched as part of an investigation by income tax authorities. The searches in New Delhi and Mumbai come weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary in the UK critical of Indian PM Narendra Modi https://t.co/aiwir9DTB3
• Two police officers face misconduct cases over the handling of reports of indecent exposure by Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens. A Metropolitan Police constable has a case to answer for gross misconduct, the IOPC said https://t.co/nBWBVkakz
• #Gibraltar’s chief minister threatens top rights lawyers with defamation - Lawyers call for apology and withdrawal of threats made during inquiry into alleged government corruption https://t.co/ptaTLgt2pJ
• Pioneering US judge to deliver Law Society’s human rights lecture | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JskDK3iVEq
• The sensors from the first suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down over the US have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, the US military says, "significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified" #US https://t.co/uOpJgrZF0l 
• A decade after a property dealer was jailed for one of the UK’s biggest mortgage frauds, the Serious Fraud Office has brought further confiscation orders against him - over money recovered by his son from a donation to a school | Law Gazette https://t.co/22CMgKcEI
• My legal life: Seema Gill, Howell Jones - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/u48L4FyQyB
• Self-employed consultant was employee of firm under Equality Act - Legal Futures https://t.co/oa6E09ND8
• A council has removed parish councillors' contact details after several received "vile" telephone calls over missing Nicola Bulley. The 45-year-old went missing on 27 January https://t.co/M0YdiUkywK
• At least three people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at Michigan State University, police say. As well as the three victims, police said the suspect had died apparently from a "self-inflicted gunshot wound" #US https://t.co/XkTZJcs4oq
• Global law firm Ropes & Gray expands into Dublin | Irish Legal News https://t.co/fQGcjjJA4S 
• US: Cousin of boy murdered by racists in 1955 sues to force arrest of woman | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/q1Xkzh2oou
  
• There is no stopping the relentless rise of data. The amount now created and held by corporate clients is growing at a rate of 40% annually – fuelled in part by the post-pandemic shift towards remote communications | Law Gazette https://t.co/8FaD4EmEbn
  
• North-east "best location" for small conveyancing firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/DLAvE31yNa 
• Guy Hands firm challenges MoD over controversial £8bn property estate - Annington Property launches judicial review arguing ministry does not have right to take back houses after ‘disastrous’ sell-off https://t.co/7p3AmheYHZ
• 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/JqbNqv7ty2 
• Lawyer in the news: Natasha Rees, Forsters - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZE0tyF9K5O 
• Tory vice-chair Lee Anderson faces libel claim over bribery allegations - Man who runs a food bank charity alleges MP for Ashfield defamed him in a Facebook post https://t.co/U8k4JXeSuM 
• NI Court of Appeal: Reduction for ‘excessive’ £71,860 award to 15-year-old sexually harassed by her employer | Irish Legal News https://t.co/V19YwYETIE