Sunday

12th March - Law News

Edition 4093: 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: Jonthan Rynhold, Head of the department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, speaks about the "unprecedented pressure" of mass demonstrations against the Israeli government's plans to "reform" the judiciary. He says ties with US and Western European allies that democracy in Israel - central to underlying support - could be "severely damaged" because of threat to independence of the judiciary and individual and minority rights.

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Do you need to adapt your pricing models to safeguard profitability? - Legal Futures https://t.co/CREdbJMTyT 
  • Despite the current dip in professional services as a whole, the legal sector is predicted to buck the trend and grow by 6% this year | NLJ https://t.co/niCIK9wPDD 
  • Convictions for child cruelty offences will lead to tougher punishments under revised sentencing guidelines | NLJ https://t.co/3pz1c4OxJY 
  • Solicitor kept £60,000 of client funds as cash in firm’s safe - Legal Futures https://t.co/Lg0E4Supxq
  • The government has extended legal aid in private and public family law cases, and changed the evidential requirements for domestic abuse | NLJ https://t.co/ct2ljs2pE7 
  • PE-backed family law firm makes second acquisition in a year - Legal Futures https://t.co/QafxiS5Ssh
  • The chairman of the Manchester Arena inquiry has called for legislative change to ensure the participation of witnesses | NLJ https://t.co/isVEHqocsb
  • New Zealand urged to embrace ABSs and independent regulation - Legal Futures https://t.co/pijpTEKcEK
  • LawCare, the mental health and wellbeing charity, has launched a free online course for legal professionals | NLJ https://t.co/LdhpLLx8AZ 
  • High-value Amazon orders 'switched for cat food', say customers & many other similar complaints from horrified customers https://t.co/XiDVlto0qO 
  • Republicans push wave of bills that would bring homicide charges for abortion #US https://t.co/J5TqhdE9te
  • Lawyers have lambasted both the government’s Illegal Migration Bill and the surrounding rhetoric about ‘lefty lawyers’ | NLJ https://t.co/ED7RKbJ4io 
  • Giving the middle finger is a ‘God-given right’, #Canadian judge rules https://t.co/gHxRYcwWnB
  • Gary Lineker spoke his mind. Now we should too: fate could have put any one of us in those migrant boats https://t.co/ckI5qb1fPl 
  • The government has committed itself to ratifying the Singapore Convention on Mediation, in a move welcomed by the legal profession | NLJ https://t.co/hVxQKjin0T
  • A former suspect in the Manchester Arena bombing had his British citizenship revoked and then returned after MI5 changed its view of his role in the attack https://t.co/1qzmIywQ32 
  • RT @jemmaforte: Joan Salter - holocaust survivor, confronting Braverman about her ‘language’. https://t.co/gTRHG0zd1G
  • Unregulated paralegal firm "conducted litigation" in possession claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/KONtwqQ5p0
  • Magistrates ‘incredibly disappointed’ as sentencing powers scaled back n https://t.co/KUkgQYgRQt 
  • The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has come in for criticism over its decision to drop charges against three former G4S executives following a ten-year investigation | NLJ https://t.co/JwQ2DHmyUM 
  • #US regulators have shut down Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and taken control of its customer deposits in the largest failure of a US bank since 2008 https://t.co/SiFMFihBnX 
  • BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ‘rightwing backlash’ https://t.co/9nCjruvtpk 
  • Rishi Sunak offers soft rebuke to claims Boris Johnson abused honours list - PM said Father’s Day card would be his ‘limit’ in response to Johnson nominating his father for knighthood https://t.co/yq0otXaz91
  • UK to help fund immigration detention centre in France, says Rishi Sunak https://t.co/8SX9pIqL6V
  • The government's rejection of all but one application for bathing water status for English rivers is "very disappointing", environmentalists say https://t.co/eTKxuhvUS9 
  • #China rejects Canada ‘smears’ amid covert ‘police stations’ probe - Beijing says Ottawa harming its reputation as police investigate alleged Chinese-run ‘police stations’ in Quebec https://t.co/frtYcjNYbg 
  • Ex-Tory minister who tried to sell off forests is given Natural England role - Appointment of Dame Caroline Spelman to nature watchdog’s board sparks cronyism allegations https://t.co/23bccDuhSI

Saturday

11th March - Law News

Edition 4092: 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 day after the India's Rajasthan police detained BJP leader Kirodi Lal Meena, the violent element of the ultra-conservative party workers held another protest in Jaipur today. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot accused Mr Meena of using the widows for political gains. Mr Meena, in turn, has accused the police of "trying to kill him". The protests turned violent today as the protesters were marching towards Mr Gehlot's residence

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Family firm with lofty ambitions buys up another practice | Law Gazette https://t.co/8VJ2yHegFQ
  • Barcelona football club have been charged with corruption over payments the club made to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, a former vice-president of #Spain's referees' committee 
  • The National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) is investigating potential food fraud involving pre-packed sliced beef which was labelled as British but came from South America and Europe https://t.co/x9R5WG9W65 
  • New duty on licensed conveyancers to treat customers fairly - Legal Futures https://t.co/sGTJqkrfve
  • Fall in cost of training fails to impress bar students | Law Gazette https://t.co/27tIS3EMDs
  • Cybersecurity unicorn Armis hires first CLO ahead of planned IPO - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/LInZrQSuGd
  • The final three members of a money laundering gang which also stole £10m of UK taxpayers' money after taking advantage of a covid loan scheme, have been sentenced https://t.co/euxIi3k1ZR
  • Two leading Ohio Republicans found guilty in $60m bribery scheme - Ex-House speaker Larry Householder and ex-state Republican party chair Matt Borges convicted in Ohio’s largest corruption case#US https://t.co/xF0Eq81n5e 
  • Barcelona football club have been charged with corruption over payments the club made to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, a former vice-president of #Spain's referees' committee https://t.co/8v92ySrueq
  • Gary Lineker is to step back from presenting Match of the Day until an agreement is reached on his social media use, a Tory favouring BBC has said. It follows an impartiality row over comments he made criticising the government's new asylum policy https://t.co/VZmEsn7XAv 
  • Bar courses still unaffordable, students tell regulator - Legal Futures https://t.co/93kbcTFcOu 
  • Teenage colleague 'instigated' sex fantasy, lawyer tells tribunal | Law Gazette https://t.co/x84X6A0YNH
  • Protesters stood outside an empty pub on Friday morning to rally against a non-existent drag event. Turning Point UK had organised a demonstration at The Great Exhibition pub in East Dulwich for 11:00 GMT https://t.co/uATsPeSK28 
  • Woman and two boys found at house - Police were called to Mayfield Road in Belvedere at about 11:50 GMT on Thursday where they found the bodies of a 47-year-old woman and two boys aged nine and seven https://t.co/k3cXwntpVe
  • Police have released an image of a man detectives want to speak to after an 82-year-old man was set alight outside a mosque in west London. The elderly man was attacked on Singapore Road in West Ealing https://t.co/AtEqjdOO6r
  • Defence secretary says US ‘disturbed’ by Israeli settler violence - Lloyd Austin meets senior #Israeli officials as protesters rally against the government’s controversial judicial reforms https://t.co/6WZCnnzuCJ 
  • Why access to legal aid is impossible for those who need it most https://t.co/HA5041wynP 
  • High Court ruling expected to widen scope of legal aid for parents | Law Gazette https://t.co/4fM5iiJzn1
  • Clients “holding City law firms to account on diversity” - Legal Futures https://t.co/fkPJFFvfzx 
  • Video shot by an eyewitness appears to show a person firing a weapon through a window at a Jehovah's Witness centre in Hamburg, #Germany https://t.co/AIVomWdfDQ 
  • Ministers are staging another Brexit coup – and only the House of Lords can save us https://t.co/ZCGb69N4Nj 
  • Law Society agenda encompasses LPA and Mental Health Act reform | Law Gazette https://t.co/FK3WpCbbsT
  • Solicitor struck off after investing client money into scam scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/IxhwiKUczO 
  • Killer exposed himself to Libby Squire weeks before murder, mother believes https://t.co/0EmWLfZIH3
  • Solicitor lost £230k of client money after falling for investment scam - Legal Futures https://t.co/b0mAtQaWr
  • Boris Johnson nominates Daily Mail chief Paul Dacre for peerage for second time - Placing of media boss on resignation honours list despite previous rejection puts Rishi Sunak in difficult position https://t.co/Akwvxj4IYy
  • Meta to review moderation of Arabic word ‘shaheed’ - The word, which translates as ‘martyr’, accounts for more content removals on the company’s platforms than any other word https://t.co/VUXpnroN0X
  • Trump told of possible criminal charges for paying off Stormy Daniels – The ex-president has been given a chance to testify next week before a grand jury listening to evidence in the possible case #US https://t.co/UJROD8BW6S
  • Three wounded in Tel Aviv shooting, #Israeli police say - Israeli police said the assailant has been ‘neutralised’ after he opened fire near a café on Dizengoff Street https://t.co/e62ZN7k7BL