Saturday

18th February - Law News

Edition 4071: 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: A covert team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media have been exposed in a new Guardian investigation

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • US litigation funding capital commitments jump by 16% to $3.2bn - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/Ph06402MOE
  • Top government lawyers get 16% rise amid staff exodus fears | Law Gazette https://t.co/EQBFHBdjFS 
  • BSB leaves door open to reaccreditation of barristers - Legal Futures https://t.co/FJjU5Actfb
  • Mentors and mentees wanted: Judicial Reverse Mentoring Scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/ceRPCbjGxY
  • Joint enterprise prosecutions to be monitored for racial bias - CPS agrees, following legal challenge, to record age and race data after studies show young men and black boys suffer most https://t.co/NNQlpYAubb
  • Allen & Overy integrates ChatGPT-style chatbot to boost legal work - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/pbTDwDAIRM
  • #India claim to have uncovered irregularities in the BBC's accounting books after searches at the broadcaster's offices. A recent BBC documentary unravelled PM Modi's role during Gujrat riots https://t.co/ZHLVGgDlE
  • Thousands of part-time judges could lose billions in pension benefits | Law Gazette https://t.co/xzel1E2a2
  • Ask me anything - Allen & Overy adopts ChatGPT-style legal AI tool - Legal Futures https://t.co/CbDPwQkB6
  • A spy at Berlin's British embassy, who sold secrets to Russia has been jailed for 13 years and two months. David Smith, 58, tried to damage Britain's interests by passing on details of the embassy and its staff  https://t.co/aOMkqXFN3t
  • Drake and 21 Savage have settled a lawsuit after using a fake Vogue cover to promote their 2022 album, Her Loss #US https://t.co/OsUTLOJSG
  • Five former Memphis police officers charged with murder over the death of Tyre Nichols have pleaded not guilty. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith were involved in the arrest of Mr Nichols #US https://t.co/dL0rl7qhb2
  • Report sheds light on the law firms getting the most patent work in the US - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/nLA9bI1iRo
  • The death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes is nearing 44,000: Alarm over ‘nobody’s children’ https://t.co/WOzKTMuPBK
  • Solicitors in UK warned not to act as ‘hired guns’ to silence critics of super-rich https://t.co/zQomMQBi9H
  • EPO extends deadlines for proceedings following earthquakes in Turkey and Syria - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/xYNFSFxmLf
  • Sewage leaks are causing hospitals a host of problems as the backlog in repairs and maintenance grows. Hospitals in England reported patients slipping on sewage, staff becoming ill, and leaks in A&E departments, cancer wards and maternity units https://t.co/Pe4B6tRFgx
  • Big Four increasing share of legal market | Law Gazette https://t.co/PytaLwpeXt
  • New funder for public interest cases which “clarify the law” - Legal Futures https://t.co/i8uVEKSlW3
  • A man has admitted attacking Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale following the north London derby at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last month: Joseph Watts, 35, from Dalston, Hackney, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court https://t.co/VYtYFtOywq 
  • Juries deserve the truth on climate protests https://t.co/EeHHQwTrae
  • 'The plagues will fall on you': Solicitor who sent 'inappropriate' emails struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZQHX6raIuK 
  • Lucy Letby: Murder-accused nurse breaks down at trial https://t.co/O5UKliEHjI
  • Almost half of US lawyers see no rate increases in 2022, Wolters Kluwer report shows - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/agve68SOh
  • Charter aims to “shift the dial” on female barristers’ earnings - Legal Futures https://t.co/mIcL1VXFko 
  • The home secretary has raised concerns with Lancashire Police after they revealed personal information about missing mother Nicola Bulley https://t.co/0AMGJT9P8b 
  • Rishi Sunak visits Northern Ireland with protocol deal imminent https://t.co/rbp75Jzoi4

Friday

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

Thursday

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