13th 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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 Focus of the Day Law News/Article: Lawyers have lambasted both the government’s Illegal Migration Bill and the surrounding rhetoric about ‘lefty lawyers’. Full story New Law Journal

Today's Highlighted Video Story: The BBC's director general Tim Davie who has had strong Conservative party links and is a government favoured appointee said, it had been a "difficult day" for the corporation after a Match of the Day staff walk-out led to the programme going ahead with no commentary and without pundits. Presenters and commentators walked out in support of Gary Lineker, who was suspended from the show after taking to Twitter to criticise the UK government's extremist asylum policy.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Chancery Lane unveils 21st Century Justice project | Law Gazette https://t.co/nZsL2T7EcO 
• Power under Section 319 CrPC to summon additional accused should be exercised only when strong evidence exists: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/6FFjHHHFYO
• Apprenticeship specialist creates new pathway for part-qualified aspiring solicitors - Legal Cheek https://t.co/L7RtiaTUwH
  
• Czernuszka v King: A new precedent for rugby injury claims? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7Rm84KE6ld 
• SQE added to routes for becoming a government lawyer | Law Gazette https://t.co/qMBLNQS8mu 
• Bar course provider pass rates vary from 93% to just 22%, new report shows - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FaXWjIjiuR 
• Number of right-wing extremist prisoners on the rise | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gqs5PgqhTi 
• Government to meet tech firms following collapse of Silicon Valley Bank UK - Industry leaders expected to call for state intervention to avoid failure of hundreds of UK firms https://t.co/mv2TtBcqoT 
• PI specialist Fletchers expands TC offering with Leeds office launch - Legal Cheek https://t.co/THjwWiUK6B
• Pay dispute between government and judges rumbles on | Law Gazette https://t.co/33i8DoMOW3 
• Delhi High Court allows Bharat Bachao collective's seminar on fascism | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/riJ83Igp0D 
• 'I have my first pupillage interview. Any advice?' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/KIuPQwNPt1
• Bar on transgender, gay persons from blood donation due to higher HIV, Hepatitis prevalence among them: Central government to Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/XqtbrBYbR7 
• Afghan girls may be blocked from taking GCSEs as families moved from London - ‘Barbaric’ to take away exam chance after all teenage refugees have overcome, headteacher says https://t.co/vLdLB3Noxb 
• Magistrates' sentencing powers scaled back | Law Gazette https://t.co/XzEZGSfTFS 
• Over a third of lawyers missed out on pay boosts last year - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mvgyqH9ZT9 
• One of the main leaders of the #US Capitol riots emigrated from Serbia soon after the 2020 election. The extremist and his wife continue to encourage political violence https://t.co/adYqlQrEeg 
• Belfast solicitor Alphonsus Maginness has been appointed to the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) for a four-year term | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RFjdd4Iqa9 
• ‘A training contract is like a marriage - you need to find the right one’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/1dn8pwprCG 
• Revealed: child refugees will be detained or deported under small boats plan - Senior Tories condemn ‘sickening’ plans which would allow unaccompanied minors to be held, in U-turn on past legislation n https://t.co/1DO5EclD7m
• Sexting solicitor says he didn't see power imbalance with 18-year-old | Law Gazette https://t.co/CDzRVRHHdA
• Gender pay gap bot targets law firms (again!) - Legal Cheek https://t.co/TvdjmXv4px 
• #French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to enshrine the right to abortion in the country’s constitution | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zruAUgKtLC
  
• Email typo causes lawyer to have a complete nightmare on live TV - Legal Cheek https://t.co/B0uW0XGq9H 
• Soophia Khan sentenced to 12 months in prison for contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/MkpKPPVkzl 
• Equality law failures around Northern Ireland’s high street voucher scheme | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EOX0FeFfmh 
• Lineker row threatens to topple BBC chiefs and hit Tory asylum plans - Broadcaster forced to slash TV coverage, while BBC's chair and director general face calls to resign over crisis https://t.co/n7XcC2N3XY 
• A man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after a woman was stabbed outside a leisure centre in Cheltenham on Thursday night and was taken to hospital where she is now said to be in a stable condition https://t.co/7GIub3OTVW

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