6th March - Law News

Edition 4087: 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 UK The government has committed itself to ratifying the Singapore Convention on Mediation, in a move welcomed by the legal profession. Full story New Law Journal

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Prime minister Rishi Sunak is set to unveil new laws this week to stop people who arrive in the UK on small boats from claiming asylum - declaring "Make no mistake, if you come here illegally you will not be able to stay". At the moment, people are allowed to stay in the UK to have their asylum case heard. But under the new law that would be stopped, and anyone who's been removed would be banned from returning.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Baker McKenzie Belgium managing partner departs firm following review into racism claims - Legal Cheek https://t.co/SBFoAFkezs 
• Cash for cutting rights | Law Gazette https://t.co/X01yxAVBuh 
• Shearman and Hogan Lovells end merger talks - Legal Cheek https://t.co/50LX3C2Mws 
• Walgreens limits abortion pills sales after pressure from conservative states #US https://t.co/i7mwqEtV5Z 
• ULaw strikes SQE tie-up with Royal Holloway - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GIvE8kdJkh 
• The Weekly Round-up: Shamima Begum, UN resolution against Russia, and new law on Child marriages - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/S6BXF3DTvY 
• US outfit Cravath set to offer English legal services for first time - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2bUyKnXa4I 
• Hogan Lovells and Shearman call off merger talks | Law Gazette https://t.co/gUZ24NlVyf 
• Surrogacy, IVF and equality: JR176(2)’s application for judicial review - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/JL9bnhXQk3 
• Law Society to trial regional admission ceremonies for solicitors qualifying outside London - Legal Cheek https://t.co/TRoCNccGXQ
• Legal aid: Law Society seeks permission to challenge government in High Court - Legal Cheek https://t.co/0rl9zTBXR6 
• Buckland: 'Fast track' Law Commission bills for 'good law' | Law Gazette https://t.co/uaJQfoQJRT 
• The Solicitors’ Charity, which helps solicitors in need or crisis, is asking solicitors to fill out a confidential, online five-minute questionnaire to help it identify areas where they need to provide more support and resources | NLJ https://t.co/26LRC3ctjN 
• Law Pod UK latest episode: The Environmental Minimum with Dr Stefan Theil - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/aHXhIh0Msj
  
• Applications have opened for the Law Society’s annual Diversity Access Scheme (DAS), which aims to improve social mobility and diversity in the legal profession | NLJ https://t.co/hEfy4u9ggf 
• The probation service is in a desperate state https://t.co/0LDmWtaPGG 
• The High Court has rejected a bid to strike out a claim brought on an opt-out basis by a representative against a firm of intellectual property lawyers | NLJ https://t.co/gYmz8hJer4 

5th March - Law News

Edition 4086: 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: The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has announced more inspections at Iran's Fordo nuclear plant and the installation of new monitoring equipment at the facility. Nuclear watchdog head Rafael Grossi said the talks could help restore the nuclear deal between Iran and several Western countries.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The High Court has rejected a bid to strike out a claim brought on an opt-out basis by a representative against a firm of intellectual property lawyers | NLJ https://t.co/gYmz8hJer4 
• The Supreme Court will head north to sit at Manchester Civil Justice Centre next week | NLJ https://t.co/se2kHuN1H3 
• Legal aid 'hurdle' removed for domestic abuse applicants | Law Gazette https://t.co/8yShIjP3a2
  
• Short lived – how to encourage litigants into the new trial schemes - Legal Futures https://t.co/01MQ0Ee5A2 
• The minimum age for marriage rose to 18 this week, as the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022 came into force | NLJ https://t.co/j5UFwphwBu 
• ‘It makes me want to cry’: inside crumbling courts as judges wrestle with rise in rent eviction cases | UK cost of living crisis https://t.co/fgTpeye2tx 
• Bar tribunal chair 'completely misunderstood' his role, court told | Law Gazette https://t.co/uewtUtopKl 
• LPA reform which ends legal executive anomaly backed by MPs - Legal Futures https://t.co/wEQElGUuLF 
• Lawyers have highlighted their concerns about the £1.3bn court reform programme, following a devastating report by the National Audit Office (NAO)| NLJ https://t.co/mHG75aEHMV 
• Sacked solicitor duped investors into thinking he was still working | Law Gazette https://t.co/PWJ2CCZ4MK 
• SRA wins approval to destroy 765,000 files from shut-down firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/2DxtdjCkyl 
• A woman has been awarded nearly £100,000 in damages after suffering image-based abuse by her former partner, who covertly recorded her and posted the images on porn sites | NLJ https://t.co/FKT5FoQt1e
  
• Judges' pension rights will be preserved, Raab confirms | Law Gazette https://t.co/5oKcJING3W 
• Bellamy declines opportunity to back fixed costs uprating - Legal Futures https://t.co/WDCk7w9imp 
• The chair of the City of London Law Society has hit back at allegations that efforts to improve diversity and inclusion in the capital’s business centre 'have failed because they were never meant to work' | Law Gazette https://t.co/AvwzA9413p 
• HF gives staff shares as it bids to double turnover in four years - Legal Futures https://t.co/IFUpu7iYLw
  
• Three lifeboats from Kent and a French salvage tug were launched after a fire broke out on a ferry in the Channel. The lifeboats from Dover, Ramsgate and Dungeness were sent to the vessel - the Isle of Innisfree, owned by Irish Ferries https://t.co/B9A9MEhlLB 
• Police have been granted more time to question two men arrested in connection with the attempted murder of Det Ch Insp John Caldwell. The senior officer was shot several times in Omagh last week and is still critically ill in hospital https://t.co/nI5Ws5deub 
• The government has committed itself to ratifying the Singapore Convention on Mediation, in a move welcomed by the legal profession | NLJ https://t.co/hVxQKjiUQr 
• Five airlines are suing the Dutch government over plans to cut the number of flights operating from Europe's third-busiest airport. The government cited local concerns at Amsterdam Schiphol about the impact of flying on noise pollution and climate https://t.co/E6ELzLUQ4O 
• Lawyers have been combing through the fine detail of the Windsor Framework, an agreement in principle on amending the Northern Ireland Protocol | NLJ https://t.co/Scr9cIxMkH 
• Reality TV participant Stephen Bear's revenge porn prison sentence 'sends clear message' https://t.co/S96pNaMqsh 
• Johnson may have misled Parliament over parties, say MPs - The privileges committee said it had seen evidence that "strongly suggests" Covid rule breaches would have been "obvious" to Mr Johnson https://t.co/Bb0vgbmwzI 
• Court set to hear claims of 'secret' IP commissions | Law Gazette https://t.co/hZqaXKD72w 
• Burges Salmon promotes Claire MacLean to partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JUA4JAKozC 
• Consultants in England want at least three times their basic pay to provide emergency cover for junior doctors during this month's three-day walkout https://t.co/6kTojqgMwr
  
• Matt Hancock's reaction to photo of kiss with aide revealed in text leak https://t.co/FGEYUmwSsx

4th March - Law News

Edition 4085: 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: District collectors in some Tamil Nadu districts in India have issued written appeals in Hindi after rumours about attacks on migrants, especially those from Bihar. The state police chief issued a denial saying videos circulating on social media were false, but with the rumours unrelenting new measures are being taken.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• EU drops investigation into Apple in-app payments system | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/K7kWN1O6jK
  
• Barrister arrested after climbing tree to stop "unlawful" felling - Legal Futures https://t.co/R88Hb0L5wn
  
• Irish lawyer appointed to prestigious role at American Bar Association | Irish Legal News https://t.co/qSvE1DEEnO
• Supervising solicitor 'manipulated and controlled' female colleague, tribunal hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/kkd46e6w8J
• Larysa Zhdankina: From Kyiv to Glasgow – one lawyer’s journey | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/tTl2x770n7
• LPA reforms 'will generate legal services competition' | Law Gazette https://t.co/MxYJ9jczKc 
• TLT grows corporate team in Edinburgh with appointment of Douglas Roberts | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cZDwpcB1k1
• Reality TV contestant Stephen Bear has been jailed for 21 months for sharing a private video of him having sex with his ex-partner https://t.co/2vJK3vZM31 
• International firm faces negligence claim after losing time-bar fight | Law Gazette https://t.co/g0ftxEKgAM
  
• Raab considers “cost shifting” to keep family law cases out of court - Legal Futures https://t.co/cNwAtRs86y
• Manchester firm unveils plans to recruit 150 new staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/p3ZbdkBB6I 
• Callan Tansey promotes Joanne Leetch to senior associate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2Dlb2bbfTr 
• Agile working policy attracts talent to Anderson Strathern | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/oj9P8kKG6y
  
• National firm gives staff free stake in the business | Law Gazette https://t.co/s790nEag3a 
• A court in #Belarus has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison. He was convicted of smuggling and financing "actions grossly violating public order", the Viasna human rights group said https://t.co/SgWWOZjEyh
  
• Messages published by the Telegraph seem to show Matt Hancock and Simon Case joking about travellers being "locked up" in "shoe box" hotel rooms in quarantine during lockdown https://t.co/1tRVb7fJHD
• ChatGPT fails solicitor’s conveyancing test - Legal Futures https://t.co/YCtuGE3nUa 
• South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh found guilty of murdering his wife and son to distract from his multi-million dollar financial crimes. The jury deliberated for less than three hours before convicting , 54, of two counts of murder #US https://t.co/zOJS2Z0DTX 
• Tory Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson has said he has sympathy with people protesting outside hotels providing refuge for asylum seekers. A spate of violent far-right protests have been organised at hotels across the country in recent weeks https://t.co/b4oSTV02rz 
• Jacqueline Moore joins Thorntons | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Fwu6IsQKDL 
• JUSTICE to intervene in case of woman refused entry to UK over national security | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RFsXfN3tBm
• Hallissey & Partners LLP promotes Maura Crean to partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/AFp47t2gMv
  
• Barrister misled court into removing child from father - Legal Futures https://t.co/GbMTkSN6DK 
• Matheson promotes 14 lawyers to partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Z0gjVQblHX 
• Constance Marten and Mark Gordon charged with gross negligence manslaughter https://t.co/YD2qaZI6jM
  
• 'My Friday prison release led to a disastrous mistake' https://t.co/rsCd8TF59S