1st April - Law News

Edition 4113: 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 unique boxing program which sees fighters donate public service hours instead of paying gym membership fees is helping at risk youth in regional Western Australia to fight their way out of hardships.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Andrew Tate and brother to be released into house arrest - The ruling by the Court of Appeal in Bucharest replaces the latest period of custody, which was to end on 29 April https://t.co/F6hJBwYUI6
  
• Bhatia cleared of discrimination against pregnant employee | Law Gazette https://t.co/ouLET5vCW
• South Yorkshire PC jailed for taking photo of teenager's breasts - Paul Hinchcliffe, 46, sexually assaulted the 18-year-old in a pub in Wath upon Dearne in October 2020 https://t.co/DM4gRaPKeO
• A critical incident has been declared at Dover as coach passengers face delays of several hours at the start of the Easter getaway due to bad weather and long processing times in France https://t.co/HRIoX0pvuG
• New workers’ rights, including domestic violence leave, have been introduced under the Work Life Balance Bill passed by the Oireachtas | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Z4KTOR8Div
  
• Corporate criminal liability reform still on agenda, government insists | Law Gazette https://t.co/yWK8ZpFz4L
• “Tension” between legal and non-legal firms holds back ‘justicetech’ - Legal Futures https://t.co/lTPpneMmeL 
• ChatGPT banned in #Italy over privacy concerns https://t.co/aRsHimFbHN 
• Linklaters meets new woman partner target | Law Gazette https://t.co/vjFOpQJ9Fd 
• Mulholland Law welcomes Clodagh Roe | Irish Legal News https://t.co/92rv1onWO7 
• GLD pay gap report reveals bonus divergence | Law Gazette https://t.co/AWuUpPmcs4 
• UCC’s Professor Dagmar Schiek awarded prestigious grant to develop new theory of European law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ywBzeGLAtU
  
• Law Commission widens planned discrimination ban in arbitration - Legal Futures https://t.co/Yj2o3vru0l
• Liverpool gun murders: 'Sadly, it's probably going to happen again' https://t.co/FnvLf2T3jm 
• Extend tax break to legal firms - Law Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/Tjeoyfd6P0 
• Blackadders appoints Neil Robb as head of commercial property | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UPUjDNgsTM 
• A #SouthAfrican parole board is to consider whether former Paralympics star and convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius can be released from jail. He has so far served half of his 13-year sentence for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013 https://t.co/1cDqoQlvhB 
• What happened between former porn actress Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump? https://t.co/Atw72dIuBR 
• Russian and Belarusian players will be able to compete at Wimbledon this summer after the All England Club lifted the ban it imposed last year https://t.co/8DG1to9JQl 
• Three people arrested after a father and son were shot dead in two villages remain in police custody. Cambridgeshire Police found the body of a 32-year-old man after gunshots were heard in Meridian Close, Bluntisham, just after 21:00 BST on Wednesday https://t.co/VX5k10BmyM 
• Constance Marten and Mark Gordon will stand trial in January 2024 over the alleged manslaughter of a baby girl. The infant's remains were found in a plastic bag under nappies in a shed in Brighton https://t.co/nAaaAztflR
• Former England captain Michael Vaughan cleared 'on balance of probabilities' of using racist language towards Azeem Rafiq https://t.co/hy95MHfTvL
  
• Judge blasts family solicitor's 'expensive and pointless' action | Law Gazette https://t.co/f9krWQCtm
• LawscotTech boosted with new expertise to lead on legal technology innovation | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/y8NwfCpXFk
• Donald Trump will be the first former #US president to face criminal charges. He will be the first former president to be fingerprinted, taken for a mugshot and compelled to stand as an accused defendant before a judge https://t.co/7uLg2ZwKeF
• Immigration lawyer secretly recorded by BBC struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/GEr1zRHo4P
• Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow has thanked jurors who found her not liable for a 2016 ski crash at a resort in the US state of Utah. Retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76, had said Ms Paltrow crashed into him, inflicting life-changing injuries #US https://t.co/3VoVvQsrR9 
• Can we regulate what we cannot define? | Law Gazette https://t.co/67AUblu9RF 
• Police Scotland faked data to meet response time targets | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iLiHZIWOzt
  
• Private investigators have provided new and "compelling" evidence of illegal work for the Mail newspapers, the Duke of Sussex's barrister told a court. The privacy case centres on allegations of widespread illegality in the 1990s and 2000s https://t.co/8iDtfJmVJQ
  
• Boarding schools group launches ABS to help with overseas students - Legal Futures https://t.co/FooHKIT8gZ
  
• Ex-Hogan Lovells employee banned for dodging train fares | Law Gazette https://t.co/wJEeSvjzfd 
• Probe into meat 'falsely labelled' as British at supermarkets https://t.co/FpRdXbC18S 
• Staff at a quarter of fire and rescue services in England have reported alleged racist, homophobic and misogynistic behaviour in their ranks in the past five years, inspectors say https://t.co/jF3oAR4f9t 
• More than 20 far-right #Austrian MPs walked out of parliament during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The politicians from the Freedom Party (FPO) argued Mr Zelensky's speech violated Austria's neutrality https://t.co/ysIG4mbxGr

31st March - Law News

Edition 4112: 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:  Professor Dagmar Schiek of University College Cork (UCC) has been awarded a European Union research grant of €2.5 million to develop a new theory of European law. Professor Schiek is the first legal scholar in Ireland to secure an ERC Advanced Grant. She has received funding for a project entitled RIGHTS-TO-UNITE. The project aims to generate a new socio-legal theory of European integration, covering the EU and its neighbours, and to explore its viability through qualitative research. Full story Irish Legal News

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Lanny Davis, the attorney representing Michael Cohen, urged people watching the case to remember that former President Donald Trump is innocent until proven guilty in the hush money case he's facing in Manhattan. However, Davis believes the case against Trump is strong

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Paltrow awarded 'symbolic' $1 https://t.co/cxyMm3H7dS
• Former #US President Donald Trump will be charged over hush money payments made to a porn star just before the 2016 presidential election. The details of the charges he will face have not yet been released https://t.co/LlT004NAhV 
• Thorntons appoints seven newly qualified solicitors | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1uhfAFeO8O
• Declaration of Conscience a "magician's trick", says top KC - Legal Futures https://t.co/B5fPNqKt
• DCC Malcolm Graham appointed to the Scottish Sentencing Council | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JinihIjDC
• New appointments at Tughans | Irish Legal News https://t.co/1jCnWre7C
• Regional litigation funder lifts £1m cap on new investments | Law Gazette https://t.co/XnxjbtNDDa
• Lawyers should “draw line” on which clients to represent - Legal Futures https://t.co/YYt6W8FVji
• Family lawyers welcome 'revolutionary' surrogacy recommendations | Law Gazette https://t.co/PIiIkSlcgz
• Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has lost his latest bid to be freed from jail, the Parole Board has said. The panel said he had a "history of persistent rule-breaking", "lives his life rigidly by his own rules" https://t.co/WxwlU3oxid
• Carolyn Jameson recruited as Citizen Ticket chair | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NmyeS1fERg
  
• 'Impact investors' needed to build justicetech ecosystem | Law Gazette https://t.co/hyQbGhiPod 
• LSB chief: We’re “five years too late” to regulate AI - Legal Futures https://t.co/ym9N41PZwy 
• The police watchdog has referred the case of an unarmed black man shot dead by an officer to the CPS. Father-to-be Chris Kaba, 24, was shot by a Met Police officer through the windscreen of a car in Streatham Hill, south London, on 5 September last year https://t.co/8C22Yo0pXI
• Humza Yousaf's first question session in the Scottish Parliament has been hit by a series of disruptions from climate protesters. The public gallery in the Holyrood chamber was eventually cleared after the session had to be suspended five times https://t.co/uDv2CCSAq
• 'National Legal Service' plan puts City levy back on the agenda | Law Gazette https://t.co/42cW8wlMrQ
• Brian McConnachie KC fined £8,000 and censured over phone messages | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9UnSrbgjTd
• Bhatia tells SDT he was 'fairy godmother' to pregnant employee | Law Gazette https://t.co/JTs5zzDnPN
• SRA warns profession: Practising fees will go up this year - Legal Futures https://t.co/lJMzodfv2N
  
• 'Cautiously optimistic' ombudsman plans to halve waiting times | Law Gazette https://t.co/2Mmz1pTpBX
• Simple rules of engagement for barristers - Retired circuit judge Alasdair Darroch on observing the ‘cab rank’ rule https://t.co/IWHh9knzr
• Innes & Mackay named top estate agency for second year running | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/P3PvTUPG56
• #Switzerland and France accused of lack of climate action in ECHR hearing https://t.co/f2vMNw2g0d 
• Council allowed to defend £6m claim despite 'inexcusable' delay | Law Gazette https://t.co/uQe71gCFSU 
• Europe’s human rights watchdog warns UK over illegal migration bill https://t.co/XD61RtkYs1 
• Oisín McLoughlin joins Ogier Leman LLP | Irish Legal News https://t.co/yBoH52f6lW 
• A man has been found guilty of murdering a 71-year-old who mistook his home for a B&B and got into his bed. Margaret Barnes, from Birmingham, died following the attack last July while she was visiting Barmouth, Gwynedd https://t.co/LM5npjmcCz
  
• Northern Ireland software developer settles disability discrimination case | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MgYSmnRA4u 
• Addleshaw Goddard marks first anniversary in Ireland with launch of energy practice | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0vC3NzzaKm 
• Rishi Sunak's wife has shares in childcare firm that will benefit from budget policy - calls for an investigation after it emerged Akshata Murthy is a shareholder in Koru Kids - one of England's six private childminder agencies https://t.co/tWCW48rVEX 
• Met Police drop sexual assault investigation into Tory MP Julian Knight - Scotland Yard received an allegation on 28 October last year, before a further referral relating to the incident was made on 7 December https://t.co/2D5TYgFPzH
  
• Welsh government to press ahead with visitor levy plan - Proposal for charge to stay overnight in commercially let accommodation will be put to Senedd https://t.co/hUGKfxAcSG 
• Angry Fox News chief said fact-checks of Trump’s election lies ‘bad for business’ - Suzanne Scott wrote in December 2020 that fact-checks ‘have to stop’, messages obtained from $1.6bn Dominion lawsuit reveal #US https://t.co/wICkwWZKHo
  
• Billionaire chic: the meaning of Gwyneth Paltrow’s court wardrobe https://t.co/79C6mh5tbc 
• I’ve seen abusers use family courts to control and torment victims – but change is coming | Charlotte Proudman https://t.co/m5UxafdIQ3 
• Intended parents should get legal status from birth, says British surrogacy review https://t.co/dJYeRCuKdE 
• Adidas asks #US to bar Black Lives Matter from using three stripes in trademark - The sportswear company claims the BLM Global Network Foundation’s yellow-stripe design would be confused with its three-stripe logo https://t.co/qUHbEDT5r8 
• A man who killed a fellow passenger with a horseshoe after a row about music being played on their train has been found guilty of murder. Kirkpatrick Virgo attacked Thomas Parker, 24, on a platform at Reading station after the journey on 30 July https://t.co/3oq6tgPUVP