Friday

3rd March - Law News

Edition 4084: 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 Chancellor has said he is considering “cost shifting or fees” as a means of ensuring that private law family cases are settled by mediation and not in court. In wide-ranging comments, Dominic Raab also responded to strong criticism of the court reform programme, defended what he has done on criminal legal aid, and indicated plans to open up the profession. Full story Legal Futures

Today's Highlighted Video Story: 600 evacuees have been flown to safety by the Australian Defence Force, after fast rising waters swamped a number of remote communities in the Northern Territory. Those out of the disaster zone are having to count the cost of what's been lost, with many preparing for the possibility of spending weeks away from home.

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Boiling frog syndrome and law firm management - Legal Futures https://t.co/wMQVhv76R8
  • Ministers rally behind Covid inquiry after Hancock WhatsApp revelations - Government seeks to bolster confidence in public investigation amid claims process will take too long https://t.co/hMp7J62p8
  • Legal aid: Society seeks permission to challenge Raab in court | Law Gazette https://t.co/XOf83HsdEW
  • Up to a third of overseas aid budget used for housing refugees in UK, MPs report - Select committee accuses government of wilfully obscuring facts around ‘unsustainable’ trend https://t.co/5ARotCCRWJ
  • Tribunal lifts condition on solicitor “manipulated” by timeshare scheme - Legal Futures https://t.co/FAc6PdQZyx
  • Service at business address is valid, court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/Xv9rt7Sto8
  • Senior civil servant Sue Gray, who investigated Covid lockdown gatherings in Downing Street, has resigned and has been offered the job of Labour leader Keir Starmer's chief of staff https://t.co/cklK1kVqh
  • MI5 missed a significant chance to take action that might have prevented the Manchester Arena attack, an inquiry has found. Chairman Sir John Saunders said the intelligence could have led to Salman Abedi being followed to a car where he stored explosives https://t.co/xDgjx2uR2Y 
  • Ghislaine Maxwell appeals #US court to throw out sex trafficking conviction https://t.co/FJZQtXm54
  • ChatGPT tested on common conveyancing questions | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZsIVLatoAK 
  • Solicitor validly served with claim at address on SRA website - Legal Futures https://t.co/FnDaGz6AZt 
  • Supreme court rules in favour of halting housebuilding in Shrewsbury park - Judgment handed down after five-year legal battle is landmark ruling for protection of green spaces https://t.co/o8oMLWeMq1
  • ICC asked to investigate Turkish government over persecution of opponents around the world https://t.co/A5tuqYKJ6
  • SRA asks court for permission to destroy 765,000 files | Law Gazette https://t.co/w0tpq0pPZl 
  • A former Met Police deputy commissioner is being investigated after allegedly saying the "bulk" of rape complaints were "regretful sex". It was claimed Sir Stephen House made the comments to a Home Office adviser in January 2022 https://t.co/XmDgyBxQsn
  • The head teacher of Epsom College and her daughter died of shotgun wounds at a property in the school grounds, an inquest in Surrey has heard. Emma Pattison, 45, was found dead alongside her seven-year-old daughter Lettie on 5 February https://t.co/Cfrm9I1OlR
  • Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock tried to bypass Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to have schools closed in December 2020, messages published by the Daily Telegraph suggest https://t.co/TcZlj4UjH
  • City law firms using diversity schemes for “reputation laundering” - Legal Futures https://t.co/t2oukHN24d
  • Hillsborough families demand more after MoJ proposes disaster support | Law Gazette https://t.co/vyzDPcfcO0 
  • Aboriginal spears taken by Captain James Cook to be returned to #Australia https://t.co/f7rdJl7d1L 
  • Mosque 'would have done anything' to prevent Manchester Arena attack Fawzi Haffar said he felt Didsbury Mosque was "being used as a scapegoat" after it came under intense scrutiny during the Manchester Arena Inquiry https://t.co/TcuGpUQkvC 
  • Ministers face legal battle with criminal solicitors over legal aid - Law Society of England and Wales to challenge government’s ‘irrational’ refusal to bring in minimum recommended raise https://t.co/btN6WZ6ID4
  • Boss of legal aid giant to face SDT over false document charges | Law Gazette https://t.co/6UUyPYd2SI 
  • Blavo to face SDT at last over huge legal aid fraud - Legal Futures https://t.co/J9DNhsvraR
  • One of #Greece's worst-ever rail disasters, which claimed at least 43 lives, was due to "tragic human error", the country's prime minister has said https://t.co/YP3AOi5wJa
  • The remains of a baby have been found by police searching for the missing child of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon. The discovery in an area of woodland came as hundreds of officers and volunteers were scouring a 90 square mile area near Brighton https://t.co/33Vvqa5XBX
  • TikTok sets 60-minute daily screen time limit for under-18s, but opt-out is possible, so the measure is merely a gimmick? https://t.co/0ZJeu9B2SV
  • Jacob Rees-Mogg admits Covid test was couriered to his home during shortage and accepted it might be deemed "special treatment" https://t.co/1fQOYWPHLY 
  • Kaylea Titford: Parents who let neglected teen die jailed https://t.co/kokZsXB2TQ 

Thursday

2nd March - Law News

Edition 4083: 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 woman has been awarded almost £100,000 in damages after her former partner covertly recorded her naked and then published the images online. In what is believed to be the first case of its type to come before the civil courts in England and Wales, Mrs Justice Thornton awarded the woman, who is not named, general damages of £60,000 and special damages of £37,041.61 for consequential financial losses. Full story The Law Society Gazette

Today's Highlighted Video Story: R (on the application of Day) (Appellant) v Shropshire Council (Respondent) - [2023] UKSC 8 - Shrewsbury Town Council sold a parcel of land to CSE Developments (Shropshire) Limited (“CSE”) on 4 October 2017. It is agreed between the parties that, prior to the sale, the land was subject to a statutory trust for the benefit of the residents of the area. In selling the site, Shrewsbury Town Council failed to comply with the statutory requirements contained in section 123(2A) of the Local Government Act 1972, namely the advertisement of the land for two consecutive weeks in a local newspaper and the subsequent consideration of any objections. Following the sale, Shropshire Council granted conditional planning permission to CSE to build 15 dwelling houses on the site on 8 November 2018. Dr Day brought a judicial review claim challenging the grant of planning permission. The claim was allowed in part by the High Court, but the High Court refused any remedy as it concluded that it was highly likely that the outcome would not have been substantially different if the conduct complained of had not occurred. Dr Day’s appeal to the Court of Appeal was dismissed. The Supreme Court unanimously allows the appeal. Lady Rose gives the judgment with which Lord Reed, Lord Kitchin, Lord Hamblen and Lord Stephens agree. More information is available on our website: UKSC 2021/0031

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • High Court: Irish dancing teacher fails to halt disciplinary process into competition fixing but has suspension lifted | Irish Legal News https://t.co/FrcJGd2t1h
  • Former England bowler Tim Bresnan used a racial slur towards Azeem Rafiq's sister, a hearing into allegations of racism at Yorkshire has been told https://t.co/VfyUMN7FNJ 
  • People struggling with living costs were "more resourceful" in previous decades, the Tory deputy chairman has said. Lee Anderson told the BBC there was a "different culture" in his youth, and people were more likely to take on extra work https://t.co/NtCwF7epfZ 
  • Metamorph firm's staff to miss out on £190,000 as creditors wait in limbo | Law Gazette https://t.co/praw6RhaDY
  • Stormont to gain veto powers over new EU goods laws | Irish Legal News https://t.co/kGgqOwcLYY
  • First 'revenge porn' civil case sees judge award £100,000 | Law Gazette https://t.co/6UgZHzpvwM
  • Balfour and Manson appoints Scott Foster as chief operating officer | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JAakeV2kEQ 
  • Covid clinical negligence protocol cut number of litigated claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/IeeFKRC6cr
  • City firms' growth rate doubled in 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/qmhnQsJoqw
  • LK Shields hires banking and finance solicitor Ailis Brennan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/sFUxfIr7Gt 
  • Eversheds Sutherland to move into Capital Square Edinburgh office | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5Dn9HDZrGz
  • MoJ opts against payment reform to Mental Capacity Act | Law Gazette https://t.co/yCKepyD1Ux 
  • Kobe Bryant’s family agree to $28.5m settlement after crash photos shared #US https://t.co/E6vat4t6nn 
  • #Greece train crash: What we know so far https://t.co/ozJ17NFEaC
  • Pop Star Melanie Brown has said she would not call the police to report domestic abuse because it might not be taken "seriously". The Spice Girl said she would only report it if "the whole entire system" of justice was reformed by the government https://t.co/jBPAisYNhL
  • Kearney Law Group expands with addition of two claims specialists | Irish Legal News https://t.co/IzjRmhposr
  • Partner ignored SRA’s warning over providing banking facilities - Legal Futures https://t.co/s11Qbi1rOL
  • Shoosmiths’ corporate team reflects on 2022 | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/N5bDB0p0wm 
  • Former registrar of solicitors to take up role in surveyors’ regulator | Irish Legal News https://t.co/3JHFM0N7tr 
  • Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has disputed claims he rejected expert advice on Covid tests for people going into care homes at the start of the pandemic https://t.co/2vqZk9SIwA 
  • Hundreds of sex offenders across the UK slipped off the radar of police in a three-year period. Freedom of Information requests by BBC News to 45 police forces reveal 729 sex offenders had gone missing or were wanted for arrest from 2019-2021 https://t.co/g9BpOiiQUJ 
  • Election court awards costs against petitioner in 'dates bribe' case | Law Gazette https://t.co/5d5EB7iBol
  • Professor Colin Murray: The Protocol deal — a ‘just like that’ moment seven years in the making | Irish Legal News https://t.co/R75rIwpZ4w
  • Arron Banks loses two of three challenges to failed libel action against Carole Cadwalladr - Court of appeal upholds one claim Brexit backer suffered serious harm by continuing publication of inaccurate Ted Talk criticisms https://t.co/mQpE69SvrX 
  • ChatGPT "struggles to cope" with high street law - Legal Futures https://t.co/oz8HDKbnBL 
  • Cut parents' benefits over school truancy, suggests Michael Gove https://t.co/IkfSyX5mWw
  • Elon Musk overstated Tesla’s autopilot and self-driving tech, new lawsuit says #US https://t.co/Im21mpQMXv 
  • Doctors pressured not to make a fuss over Lucy Letby, trial told https://t.co/AUUxsWCgr9 
  • Stunning Rupert Murdoch deposition leaves Fox News in a world of trouble - Media mogul’s admission in Dominion Systems election case that he let cable network broadcast falsehoods stuns observers #US https://t.co/rUF7P1kM7I
  • Crikey examines Rupert Murdoch’s admission that Fox News hosts ‘endorsed’ US election lie #US https://t.co/nJWtQxFrB
  • Constance Marten and Mark Gordon arrested on suspicion of manslaughter - A vast outdoor area in Brighton is being searched, and police say the infant could still be alive https://t.co/v44ImxSMhO
  • Should climate activists be punished at all? https://t.co/MPFZrV80ba

Wednesday

1st March - Law News

Edition 4082: 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 High Court has refused an application for an interlocutory injunction restraining An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG) from pursuing disciplinary proceedings against an Irish dancing teacher. The plaintiff had been implicated as one of dozens of instructors involved in fixing dancing competitions by sending texts to judges. Full story Irish Legal News

Today's Highlighted Video Story: News Corp UK & Ireland Ltd (Appellant) v Commissioners for HMRC (Respondent) - The issue is: Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that News Corp's supplies of digital issues of The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and The Sun on Sunday were not supplies of "newspapers" within the meaning of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (the "VAT Act") such that they could not be zero-rated for Value Added Tax ("VAT") during the period 30 August 2010 – 4 December 2016.

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Judge recuses himself in proceedings against Dechert ex-partner | Law Gazette https://t.co/dT4NV5gwwj
  • My legal life: Faris Amin, Capsticks - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/NXTbJXMKUZ
  • Rugby liability ruling 'sets legal precedent' for sport claims, says lawyer | Law Gazette https://t.co/7LZKaUDeKW 
  • Carrot or stick? The future for AML supervision of the legal sector - Legal Futures https://t.co/F65nnnAxyi
  • Sanction for judge who 'displayed subconscious bias' | Law Gazette https://t.co/NtLxZFpemE 
  • Maths teacher accused of misgendering pupil on religious grounds - Joshua Sutcliffe denies regulator’s charge of prioritising his convictions over pupil’s interests https://t.co/nqmzB2WRhG 
  • City director gave 18-year-old tasks 'relating to sexual gratification', tribunal told | Law Gazette https://t.co/jcEUmUVW3Z
  • The number of people sleeping rough in England rose by more than a quarter last year, official statistics suggest. On a single night in autumn, 3,069 people slept outside, 26% more than in 2021 https://t.co/M0ucqTrXfM
  • The austerity-hit CPS can’t cope and people aren’t getting justice. We, the police, want the power to fix that https://t.co/dzG8vGQgkm 
  • SDT lifts restrictions on twice-fined solicitor despite SRA objection - Legal Futures https://t.co/ammfbPd1yr 
  • Lawyer in the news: Lana Adamou, Liberty - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/y9595p89c1 
  • ‘Like an animal’: Queensland boy, 13, spent months confined to cell for 20-24 hours a day #Australia https://t.co/EjanBGQ6ba
  • A double rapist who changed gender while waiting to stand trial has been jailed for eight years. Isla Bryson attacked two women in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as Adam Graham https://t.co/eMR5dcIF2S
  • Criminal legal aid decline resumes | Law Gazette https://t.co/iyH9oj3ZB
  • A woman who represented herself in court using 80-year-old contract legislation has beaten British Airways (BA) in a row over flight vouchers https://t.co/4DNot10hc5
  • Urgent search for baby as Constance Marten and Mark Gordon arrested https://t.co/oYzD2zBZRT 
  • Police should be given power to charge suspects, say senior officers in England https://t.co/oxsGWupti4
  • Litigator able to bring disability discrimination claim, tribunal rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/m0QGxOUkXF
  • Rugby player Levi Davis's disappearance is being examined by #Spanish detectives to establish whether a crime has been committed https://t.co/Eg1QxrGYUV 
  • Mother in Law: Stuck in bad habits? Seek out small wins | Law Gazette https://t.co/y0Yo5wobwe 
  • A #Romanian court has rejected an appeal by Andrew Tate against his continued detention, ruling that he should remain in custody until 29 March https://t.co/X9NNGK5G7P 
  • Negligence claim against law firm to go ahead after limitation ruling - Legal Futures https://t.co/ywisyNmnhB 
  • Ince results delayed again as fourth deadline passes | Law Gazette https://t.co/LHx3Vc3OWG 
  • #Canada bans TikTok on government devices https://t.co/NlDtimwO6l
  • Footing the bill for our own values | Law Gazette https://t.co/C31EfLZIXG
  • IP law firm fails in bid to strike out 'secret commissions' claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/CLauYpzL3N 
  • Wizz Air to suspend Moldova flights over airspace safety https://t.co/aq81Kilqa2 
  • #Ukrainian Nobel peace laureate calls for special tribunal to try Putin https://t.co/UfkUYIg6pi