Thursday

12th November - Law News

Edition 3244: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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 Focus of the Day Legal Article:  Fresh doubt has been cast on whether the Royal Commission announced last December to review and improve efficiency in the criminal justice system will begin its work. The government was pressed for an update on the commission in the House of Lords yesterday. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: CNN legal analyst Elie Honig examines the legal challenges proposed by the Trump campaign regarding election fraud and says they lack legitimacy.

Saturday Conversations on Law
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Wednesday

11th November - Law News

Edition 3243: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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 Focus of the Day Legal Article:  Law firm Shakespeare Martineau has become the first major business to sign up to a ‘Fair Redundancy Pledge’ to be transparent on their redundancy programmes for this year and beyond. The pledge is the brainchild of solicitor Hannah Strawbridge, founder of employment and HR business Han Law. Full story - Legal Futures
 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: The Chairman of the Football Association has resigned after he used an offensive racial term during a Commons committee hearing. Greg Clarke, who was speaking to MPs about providing financial support for smaller clubs during the pandemic, claimed it was a term he'd used abroad.



Saturday Conversations on Law
  • The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has, at times, shown he cares more about the impact of abuse on the Church's reputation than on the victims, a report says https://t.co/0rjNUo4kUa
  • UK: Profession must act to avoid 'lasting detriment' for young lawyers - Irish Legal News https://t.co/iBdc0UJtN
  • SYLA event: Starting from scratch - first-time buyers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/clZYfcE54h 
  • Covid: Mass testing for 67 local areas in England https://t.co/38u6wDqxq2 
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/BCDyH6GRYb
  • Social housing litigation expert Stephen Humphreys joins BTO - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1rccHP0Fo
  • Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP acquires Edinburgh practice - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Uc6VUcQiG
  • Upper Tribunal rules Glasgow man can represent himself in proceedings against property factor - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7gnEPDid
  • Best of the blogs - 7 November 2020 | Law Gazette https://t.co/4tJRbPDVQt
  • NI: Code of conduct for barristers updated - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Fd7w9Tjcjw
  • Litigation lessons from a Pirate of the Caribbean - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zFrYFgbQ2N 
  • Innovators wanted for lawtech sandbox | Law Gazette https://t.co/qiJA2zU1wp
  • Shadow justice secretary calls for UK pro bono network | Law Gazette https://t.co/vwhs9c6Y01 
  • NI: Judicial review to challenge parental approval of compensation payout - Irish Legal News https://t.co/SEfh72RwU
  • GCSE and A-level exams in Wales cancelled for 2021 https://t.co/y1npBY9a9a
  • The European Commission has charged Amazon with abusing its dominant position in online retail to gain an unfair advantage over competitors. It said Amazon had used data on third-party sellers that use its marketplace to boost sales of its own-label goods https://t.co/fDi4DUAlMa 
  • UK’s top court could soon have just one woman judge - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5h2hnBwXUe
  • Suspected Covid-19 outbreaks in two Irish prisons - Irish Legal News https://t.co/J02zuL2VtI 
  • IBA 2020: Robots don black cap for lower court judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/ipWC7j9K5k 
  • NI: Legal challenge to argue Johnson 'acted in bad faith' on Brexit - Irish Legal News https://t.co/fTdBCmFZC
  • Abuser fails in argument that 'Covid pressure' made conviction unsafe - Legal Futures https://t.co/septc0hNQ
  • Judge recuses himself in contempt case against ex-solicitor | Law Gazette https://t.co/qa3E58TlVL
  • 'No one questioned it': teacher's tribunal victory shines light on unfettered academy powers - Herefordshire academy conspired to sack drama teacher for her union activities https://t.co/wshhwo2Nap
  • Rough sex excuse in women's deaths is variation of 'crime of passion' – study: Normalisation of BDSM enabling abusers to justify fatal violence against women, says researcher https://t.co/GRCEVbbDjk 
  • Barrister gave court wrong address to “fraudulently” obtain divorce - Legal Futures https://t.co/RDAPoihVRQ
  • Womble Bond partners fined over client account failures - Legal Futures https://t.co/okROHW6n4s
  • Extended operating hours to continue until April | Law Gazette https://t.co/DlkzhAfW6S
  • The NHS is ready to start providing the new coronavirus vaccine "as fast as safely possible", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said https://t.co/pJg9QVowRR
  • The government has suffered a heavy defeat in the House of Lords over its controversial Brexit legislation. The Internal Market Bill contains measures that overrule parts of the UK's Brexit agreement with the EU https://t.co/tQCTgmdPMV
  • One in every 17 people who have had Covid-19 could be diagnosed with anxiety, depression or insomnia for the first time, a study of millions of US patient health records suggests https://t.co/fOhWzL8JhF 
  • #US attorney general William Barr has allowed prosecutors to probe alleged irregularities in the presidential election, prompting a senior justice department official to quit https://t.co/NCEQvmDVPo
  • High Court: Man awarded €231,000 for life-changing injuries in pub assault - Irish Legal News https://t.co/MwU5NjOAzB
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/3keW06ZsZV
  • Call for discrimination on basis of criminal conviction to be banned - Irish Legal News https://t.co/QrRruPxJnY 
  • Reserve training contracts for disabled, says Law Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/rwVSlTZqWU
  • My legal life: Bahareh Amani, Hodge Jones & Allen - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/BAB2oojZKG
  • Remote evidence could tackle expert shortage in family court | Law Gazette https://t.co/JN0o8lF2tW
  • Brexit and UK devolution - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Bgt5UzUtMl 
  • Lawyers of Tomorrow – Katie Deans - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yYDbthxZQH 
  • Lord Hodge: Profession must act to avoid ‘lasting detriment’ for young lawyers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hacn10aX1F
  • Debt Recovery Tribunal Slaps Rs 5 Lakh Penalty on Bank of #India for Compromising Loan Recovery https://t.co/fv2UAmT11E
  • Pinsent Masons advises on landmark Scottish offshore wind project - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Hvd0M98itA
  • UK set to cut Covid self-isolation to 10 days after Cummings and Whitty row https://t.co/pocndAxjIj 
  • Former deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist party and member of the House of Lords, Lord Kilclooney, has been called on to apologise after referring to the US vice-president-elect as “the Indian” in a tweet https://t.co/AIfSy0Izp7
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Tuesday

10th November - Law News

Edition 3242: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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 Focus of the Day Legal Article:  Convicted rapist loses mutual corroboration appeal based on paternity of complainer’s child. Full story - Scottish Legal News
 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: President Ilham Aliyev has said his forces are winning the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and said Armenia's "opportunities to compromise are shrinking". Fighting has flared in the territory, which is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but governed by ethnic Armenians backed by the Armenian government.


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • A lawyer denied accusations by the ICC of bribing witnesses in the case against Kenyan deputy president William Ruto https://t.co/tovvi5nyF6
  • The 2018 suicide of the senior legal counsel at Victoria's Coroners Court was linked to a toxic workplace culture that turned her "dream job" into an "unimaginable nightmare" within a few weeks, an inquest has found #Australia https://t.co/ZtWNWJNF0G
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/CmAgF3sa3c
  • As a lawyer, I know exactly why outgoing #US President Donald Trump should be prosecuted after he leaves office https://t.co/vnKVNkzE2z
  • More than 50 people have been beheaded in northern #Mozambique by militant Islamists, state media report. The militants turned a football pitch in a village into an "execution ground", where they decapitated and chopped bodies, other reports said https://t.co/7JdwciRW4X 
  • Corona Newton has endured jokes about her unusual name for as long as she can remember. Beer-related nicknames have followed the 49-year-old civil servant since before she was legally able to buy her first pint https://t.co/yYMOse03xa
  • A millionaire fashion mogul has lost a bid to save a skate park, tennis court and garage unlawfully constructed on a Devon beauty spot https://t.co/x3HC0GAsJ3
  • Karam Daulet-Singh on rebranding Platinum Partners as Touchstone Partners #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/sSizHJvDH2 
  • Mental health, clinical negligence and the illegality defence - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/cuibb53dVC
  • The mega trends aspiring lawyers need to know about - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8jhUwn9qip
  • Justice will survive Covid-19 intact - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cIVhb99Ru9 
  • Simpson & Marwick appoints real estate lawyer Jill Andrew as director - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yDBkvzLXl9
  • Convicted rapist loses mutual corroboration appeal based on paternity of complainer’s child - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fxd8WjSIrg
  • The breakthrough of a coronavirus vaccine has "cleared one significant hurdle but there are several more to go", Boris Johnson has said https://t.co/HlkTimu8iM
  • Podcast - Brexit and the Flaws of the Delegated Legislation System - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/qLnKLRJjIw
  • A low bridge in Leicestershire has been dubbed the "most bashed" in Britain after being struck 25 times in a year https://t.co/Klgmh68MdT
  • A man obsessed with horror films has been convicted along with his boyfriend of murdering and dismembering a woman in their flat https://t.co/c7vhcXu6jb
  • Junior barrister imagines Boris Johnson and top Tory MPs as fictional QCs in hilarious Twitter thread - Legal Cheek https://t.co/E7kqInwDKP 
  • The NewLaw sector is in the midst of an identity crisis. Practitioners in this space should be kind to one another and focus on one’s own race - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Ngaxpoey2e
  • ICC Uighur genocide complaint backed by parliamentarians around world - ‘Chance should not be squandered’ to bring #Chinese government to justice, letter states https://t.co/YontJQeHG
  • Concern over #French bill that cracks down on photos identifying police - Journalists call for removal of clause that would ban footage disseminated ‘with intent to harm’ officers https://t.co/qmSoEtLfZb
  • Wigan man fined for visiting friend for cup of tea in Covid breach - Police in north-west England have warned of ‘greater levels of enforcement’ in lockdown https://t.co/YybCGFfGzj 
  • 'An obese turtle that has rolled over on to its back' - Caller tell's Donald Trump's voter fraud line. https://t.co/IC1PCdj4OW
  • Trump 'voter fraud hotline' inundated by prank calls - Reports in #US media say the hotline has turned into a ‘nightmare’ after TikTok and Twitter users began calling in with bizarre stories https://t.co/1Ge4uxFik1
  • Homeworking now a "reasonable adjustment" for disabled lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/5ZIKDfgmbM
  • UK government fails to publish details of £4bn Covid contracts with private firms: Good Law Project and MPs call for independent inquiry over apparent breach of UK law https://t.co/qgdH0j2vRk
  • The UK is making "good progress" towards being able to test people for coronavirus on arrival at airports, the transport secretary has said https://t.co/qe5ORy9uWM
  • Second Minister for Law Edwin Tong on the #Singapore Convention on Mediation | Bar & Bench https://t.co/e6KJ9Cb9Bh
  • SRA "may not allow" firms to recharge cost of negative interest rates - Legal Futures https://t.co/olBM0RyeP
  • 3 killer mistakes women make when promoting themselves - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/cn6RipyoYS
  • Solicitor used 'rubber' cheques to hide client money misuse - Legal Futures https://t.co/M7t9ZLiA8G
  • Unregulated firms "will force traditional practices to get better" - Legal Futures https://t.co/lWVEW2TBbc
  • Over 250,000 people who work for an employer who has voluntarily signed up to the "real living wage" are set for a pay boost of 20p to £9.50 an hour https://t.co/UuVCBl7cHJ
  • The first coronavirus vaccine can prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19, a preliminary analysis shows https://t.co/60324Bd2Uu
  • British soldier Deacon Cutterham's medal-winning grenade hurling heroic actions questioned ahead of auction https://t.co/ihPx5oDVIH
  • Selecting an SQE training provider - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RJTeCt5Wyo
  • #Australian Law Reform Commission welcomes special counsel - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/YMuLKuwDX
  • AG Venugopal again turns down request to initiate contempt against Andhra CM #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/g9YAF2fIV
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/1h2kth4no8 
  • Courts hearing cases against MPs/MLAs to grant witness protection: Supreme Court #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/eGuDFhkaL
  • Reed Smith signs SQE training deal with BARBRI and College of Legal Practice - Legal Cheek https://t.co/utVTErYRnT
  • ACT makes ‘historic’ first step towards raising the age of criminal responsibility #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/rarLdlu0Uu
  • Ban for former Travers Smith trainee who 'misled colleagues' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/IrP3TgQDfn
  • Gujarat HC allows AIBE-hopeful to continue employment until she clears Bar Exam #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/tvh6q2nsuz
  • Seven petitions in seven months: Arnab Goswami's litigation #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/SQmK0bNvv6
  • Divisional Court gives guidance on article 2 inquests - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/kC90ZCBkqq
  • Rest Super climate lawsuit has far-reaching implications - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/xQ6LX6BAoR
  • DWF ‘cautiously optimistic’ following summer cost-cutting measures - Legal Cheek https://t.co/XpgCnFENdK
  • Big Four giant Deloitte snaps up London law firm - Legal Cheek https://t.co/o7Gfs5SVs5
  • Wales' 17-day firebreak lockdown has ended and a new set of nation-wide regulations have come into force https://t.co/NmOE2OJJRH
  • More than 1,600 African migrants have been rescued at sea or reached #Spain's Canary Islands over the weekend, Spanish emergency services said https://t.co/2VQ9qC6JT
  • Suspended sentence for banking lawyer caught with indecent images of children - Legal Cheek https://t.co/LOwlpPrCsI
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Monday

9th November - Law News

Edition 3241: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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 Focus of the Day Legal Article:  The shrinking pool of family experts could be addressed by providing clinical and social work professionals with online training courses, paying judges to provide training and amending legal aid guidance on payment provision. Full story - New Law Journal
 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Water cannons were used against anti-government protesters as scuffles broke out at a demonstration in the Thai capital Bangkok.



Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Teaching teenagers is harder than studying law at Harvard, says ex-English teacher in viral TikTok - Legal Cheek https://t.co/IDfF0TeiFv
  • UK supreme court could be left with only one female justice: News that Lady Black is to step down has raised fears of reversal in progress on gender diversity https://t.co/cNMzS2aq1z
  • Open borders are the best economic cure for a pandemic, says NRF head #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/2G1rGHuzv
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/1pUcgXxqUa 
  • Prosecution of trafficking victim not an abuse of process - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/27yF1vuPVM
  • A critical analysis of the Johnny Depp libel trial - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Y3WN9Dw6rm
  • There is nothing in religious sphere which is private: Justice Chandrachud explains Sabarimala judgment #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/8tAMd4oZWA
  • Law graduate who came 76/85 in his class set to become world's most powerful person - Legal Cheek https://t.co/u52YBHOwA4
  • Taylor Wessing ends flexi-working scheme early - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Rm4hMa3iQW
  • Compulsory vaccination - the next step for Covid-19? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/kfPkLsWo6E
  • What the second lockdown means for employment lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2JKVTpHBQW
  • Wales is starting to see a "levelling off" of Covid-19 case rates, the country's health minister has said on the final day of its 17-day lockdown https://t.co/W5WKbgwHP
  • Top law prof to oversee independent review into summer bar exam fiasco - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3AdD8IZhSQ
  • How process automation can help law firms in a COVID-19 world - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/oDmFv65B09
  • What powers do police have if people break Covid rules? - BBC News https://t.co/JjvH4M6uJ
  • Lockdown: Can students visit their parents in term-time? And other questions https://t.co/jylI62mRo
  • Why I became an international disputes lawyer - Milena Szuniewicz-Wenzel, a partner in Clyde & Co’s international arbitration group - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3PjLWR3QP
  • #Iran temporarily frees human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh - The release follows warnings about her health after six-week hunger strike https://t.co/GC9eNVLr5b
  • ‘The SQE Sessions’ launches as super-exam countdown begins - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5PzJ4Nphz
  • FRA publishes #Bulgarian and #Croatian versions of non-discrimination legal handbook https://t.co/uDHFxezDt
  • Virtual student event on MONDAY, Monday 9 November, from 4pm to 6:30pm: Secrets to Success North — with Pinsent Masons, Squire Patton Boggs, Kings Chambers and ULaw - Legal Cheek https://t.co/oWymGU5FD
  • A man has been shot dead by a police officer in Swindon. The 57-year-old man died just before 03:00 GMT in the shooting in Summers Street, said the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which is investigating https://t.co/WyI4ENPlH
  • Freight drivers who are not UK citizens and have been through Denmark in the last fortnight are warned they will be turned away from the British border https://t.co/RCP6AR1Dr
  • The Queen has led the nation in marking Remembrance Sunday, as people around the UK privately paid their respects at home due to the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/Ng8TRN820V
  • Private equity investors are taking a closer look at legal expenses. Slowing deal volume is a primary reason, but it’s not the only one https://t.co/m6B2xXxif
  • The ICO agreed that the AdTech industry had violated the GDPR but says that a tribunal will decide the matter 'in due course' https://t.co/ZXrYusoMpj
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/B4CSaDagfa
  • City Law School alumnus Hashi Mohamed authors book on social mobility in the UK https://t.co/v2sExnXGdb
  • US sanctions #Lebanon’s Gebran Bassil, citing corruption - Bassil, a close Hezbollah ally, ‘exemplified corruption’ in Lebanon https://t.co/KbjcQOcOKO
  • Prominent #Zimbabwe journalist Hopewell Chin’onoremains behind bars for tweet https://t.co/u2ZCZXUrzt
  • American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit requests federal records on COVID-19 response in immigration detention centres #US https://t.co/UozbkNeFf
  • Arthur Cox scoops pro bono law award - Irish Legal News https://t.co/lC0uKIMCaG
  • NI: Just three per cent of rape reports lead to conviction - Irish Legal News https://t.co/r83paWimtR
  • Defendants bank on new legislation to reduce plaintiff costs in personal injury actions - Irish Legal News https://t.co/0LrCxc48fM
  • Legal experts join call for all-island Citizens' Assembly on constitutional change - Irish Legal News https://t.co/6jjb5wihFl
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Sunday

8th November - Law News

Edition 3240: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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Today's Highlighted Video Story: Joe Biden is now projected to have 290 Electoral College votes, the Associated Press (AP) news agency said on Saturday, above the threshold needed to clinch the hard-fought United States presidential election. The president-elect was projected to have surpassed the 270 electoral vote threshold after the AP called Pennsylvania in his favour. Shortly after that, AP also called Nevada for Biden.




Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Report recommends fee guidelines to bring down cost of litigation - Irish Legal News https://t.co/gfRtph7vg0 
  • Greater flexibility of working achieved during the pandemic could enhance access to the profession for disabled lawyers, a survey of more than 100 disabled lawyers has found | NLJ https://t.co/umgLCU973F
  • Stop-and-search plans risk 'perpetually criminalising' people, say UK rights groups - Letter to home secretary says widening police powers increases racial disparities https://t.co/6Jd70vL2sT 
  • Mr Justice Woulfe finally meets Chief Justice over golfgate - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Mm4V6rHvNi
  • A man has been fined £10,000 after about 60 people turned up at a party in a two-bedroom flat in Manchester https://t.co/pTJLLp7FkB
  • Legal aid services are on the brink of collapse, CILEx (the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) has warned | NLJ https://t.co/zGLPQOqymC 
  • Supreme Court: High Court and Court of Appeal overturned in catastrophic injuries at birth case - Irish Legal News https://t.co/FDqnBGszX9
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/sm6MLbzuOg
  • The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, has called for ‘realistic’ funding for the courts and tribunals, in his annual report | NLJ https://t.co/44EtEMYcT3
  • Lockdown II: Law firm offices allowed to open and clients can visit | Law Gazette https://t.co/tH8bUQlORI
  • The criminal and civil courts will stay open through the second lockdown, the government has said | NLJ https://t.co/dJxKgldVmH
  • The shrinking pool of family experts could be addressed by providing clinical and social work professionals with online training courses, paying judges to provide training and amending legal aid guidance on payment provision | NLJ https://t.co/J0osV80OjQ 
  • White male barristers earn more – even within same practice area | Law Gazette https://t.co/wShFdty0b3 
  • Five law firms and recruitment firm Rare have launched an initiative to give black and ethnic minority candidates the same opportunities as their white counterparts when competing for roles | NLJ https://t.co/70Vce3S1es 
  • Cherie Blair QC has received a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Inspirational Women in Law Awards | NLJ https://t.co/4SDiqC4swE
  • Solicitor called dishonest by judge over inflated costs is struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/KxhesWigyH 
  • The Supreme Court has clarified the illegality defence, in a landmark case: The court unanimously dismissed Ecila Henderson’s appeal, confirming the illegality defence applied, in Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust | NLJ https://t.co/W8cj3WYYhp
  • The charity behind the London Legal Walk is making a direct appeal to lawyers for help during London Legal Giving Week, 24 November-1 December | NLJ https://t.co/VB9HXSwgNK
  • IBA 2020: Lawyers will become more like Uber drivers, panel predicts | Law Gazette https://t.co/IKmOVy16hH 
  • #US Federal Election Commission official: "There really has been no evidence of fraud" https://t.co/x3yqXoqv7a
  • Joe Biden has won the race to become the next #US president, defeating Donald Trump following a cliff-hanger vote count after Tuesday's election. Lawsuits related to personal business matters is expected to follow Trump once out of office https://t.co/ljlNVUYWlK
  • #Indian actor and model Milind Soman has been charged by police after he shared a naked picture of himself on Instagram https://t.co/zZrrL64e1m 
  • Freshfields' first female senior partner overwhelmed by support | Law Gazette https://t.co/Dks9LlYqcK 
  • Expect no relaxation in AML regime, solicitors warned | Law Gazette https://t.co/ygS27GhFDt 
  • Insurers face costs bill for Swift v Carpenter fight | Law Gazette https://t.co/iPxgXhaIzE 
  • Lawyers and insurers extend pandemic pact to cooperate | Law Gazette https://t.co/GAFnOeZsjZ 
  • Jobs at risk as Law Society modernises member services | Law Gazette https://t.co/9sx9bjjUNJ 
  • UK bans Denmark visitors over mink Covid-19 fears https://t.co/woa7U4kkw6 
  • 'I was refused a home Covid test after credit check' https://t.co/GwLNywP5PQ
  • Judicial induction training to tackle 'implicit bias' | Law Gazette https://t.co/yoa5y7zRxI 
  • Minority female barristers lowest earners, report finds - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/015K3ej9B2
  • Inverness Justice Centre given ‘Most Considerate Site’ award - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/C0ImrbMdZD 
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/kTCCLt12Vw
  • Lawyers of Tomorrow – Liam McCreath - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1bkOBWnesU
  • Clyde & Co successfully defends First Group on injury claim - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gFsPNBpv47
  • Judicial review sought over Sutherland spaceport decision - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/R9VEzwnlsb 
  • Defamation bill passes stage one at Holyrood - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Z6mYH3C9zb 
  • Data Protection Commission finds prison security system in breach of GDPR - Irish Legal News https://t.co/IFFKTe4lgj 
  • Scotland becomes first part of UK to ban smacking https://t.co/DyqLiNgvDS 
  • #US election 2020: How a misleading post went from the fringes to Trump’s Twitter https://t.co/rQoesVBiJa 
  • #Kosovo’s president resigns to face war crimes charges in The Hague - Hashim Thaçi was guerrilla leader during 1990s war for independence from Serbia https://t.co/jFKqx8hByB 
  • Small law firms are at risk as the pandemic continues to bite. But others are planning for a bright future, using lessons they have learned in lockdown | Law Gazette https://t.co/yWSRSwIbpE
  • Activists hail bill to make violence against LGBT people a hate crime in #Italy https://t.co/cJYxn7zOLf
  • Women lawyers’ forum planning to approach the cyber cell after misogynistic elements disrupt webinar #India https://t.co/Csm3wOJkok
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Saturday

7th November - Law News

Edition 3239: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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Today's Highlighted Video Story: Across India - from Karnataka to Haryana - BJP chief ministers are stoking fears, promising to bring laws to combat "love jihad" - the unproven right-wing conspiracy theory that Muslim men try to seduce non-Muslim women and have covert to Islam. The most strident has been Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who issued a not-so-veiled warning that those who practise "love jihad" will be sent on their "antim sanksar" or last rites.



Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Ban on over-35s becoming gardaí ruled unlawful - Irish Legal News https://t.co/6iMjG48BFN
  • ESPC: Scottish property market remains ‘exceptionally busy’ as prices rise year-on-year - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vzJ2UttzrD 
  • #HongKong informers’ hotline receives 2,500 tip-offs within hours - Citizens urged to report suspected breaches of controversial security law https://t.co/iuHjk6ZYc
  • Government QCs call for end to ministers' attacks on 'lefty' lawyers - Letter to attorney general says emotive language politicising lawyers undermines system https://t.co/5S4uTwThIz
  • Half a million borrowers mis-sold payday loans by collapsed lender Sunny are likely to receive no more than 1% of their compensation entitlement https://t.co/qNn7C1FXB
  • White supremacist 17-year old who was part of a banned neo-Nazi group has been jailed for preparing acts of terrorism - Rugby teenager Paul Dunleavy can be named https://t.co/BJsDVD5y6H
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/cbGyTj4QYy
  • Bill to regulate private security enforcing court orders still being drafted - Irish Legal News https://t.co/FauU3SuuaZ
  • Review: Textbook as tool, nutrition and weapon - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4HfGbxcpWO 
  • Steve Bannon’s lawyer quits after Bannon calls for Dr. Fauci to be beheaded #US https://t.co/oOb0UBFrUt 
  • Averil Hart: 'Neglect and systemic failures caused anorexia death' https://t.co/SxDnXVCkDC
  • Deal struck to enable EU to block budget payments to rogue members - Qualified majority vote by states will be sufficient for removal of voting rights https://t.co/nnRFUafuhC 
  • Gibson & Associates appoints Neil Butler as consultant solicitor - Irish Legal News https://t.co/NdpSRrLgXm 
  • Free EHRC webinar: Challenging discrimination under the European Convention on Human Rights - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/V7jjOPIWsr
  • High Court: Renewal of professional negligence summons set aside - Irish Legal News https://t.co/8LjNucuFRR 
  • Donald Trump's baseless vote fraud claim opens cracks in Republican ranks #US https://t.co/EE6GsYHKeR
  • Ireland-UK extraditions could take a year after Brexit transition ends - Irish Legal News https://t.co/QcPhBw44rG
  • Remembrance Sunday: People urged to join two-minute silence on doorstep https://t.co/71XsYWXQxi
  • Covid: Government defends statistics after death projections revised https://t.co/ze7rFX7gCE 
  • Man who defrauded Dundee City Council has sentence reduced on appeal - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZWdrE4DX7n
  • Law to prevent physical punishment of children comes into force tomorrow - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ncBTnOvXyt
  • Actor Johnny Depp will no longer appear in the Fantastic Beasts film franchise following his losing a libel case over being labelled a wife beater https://t.co/bfYFHXWYpY
  • Charity pilots last-minute pro bono help in family cases | Law Gazette https://t.co/eIIRy2fE7J 
  • #Israel to High Court: Dying Palestinian Still a Security Risk https://t.co/Y4luOESpG8
  • University of Law fails to block trade mark in dispute with former student | Law Gazette https://t.co/7UXoibi1F5
  • #Norway’s Supreme Court Hears Rights Challenge to Arctic Oil Drilling https://t.co/2oHPVRkyVW
  • A university that spent £11,000 on campus fencing has been forced to remove the barriers hours later amid protests. Students living at the University of Manchester's Fallowfield halls awoke to find workers putting up "huge metal barriers" on Thursday https://t.co/zHglGLOMFW
  • German police have searched the homes of four men over suspected links with a militant Islamist gunman who shot dead four people in central Vienna https://t.co/wlRfsWmVYQ
  • Two solicitors have been appointed as interim non-executive members to the Board of the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) - Irish Legal News https://t.co/xAlWJc6si5
  • Research lays bare Bar's gender and ethnicity pay gap - Legal Futures https://t.co/GvHhdbDCZD 
  • Nottingham single mother 'overdosed after benefits cut', family say https://t.co/VxMTOqh1ge 
  • Self-employed people 'are being left in the dark' - many fail to qualify for much-needed assistance https://t.co/axnVgw2JlF
  • Priscilla Jana obituary: Lawyer and key anti-apartheid figure in South Africa who represented Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners https://t.co/9DysRCgf5O
  • Solicitor handed suspended sentence over indecent images - Legal Futures https://t.co/EKHGAbN6HI
  • Flashbacks to Florida in 2000 as Trump Heads to Court to Save His Presidency #US https://t.co/kF3eN2FGNE
  • The return of Crown preference – is the time right to change the order of priority? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/znLV0oPqW2
  • Firm to start telling clients they won't complete by end of SDLT holiday - Legal Futures https://t.co/Z14esBmItU 
  • Solicitor who sold business for £61m: I couldn't do it in a law firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/alLMPYdco
  • Lawyers of Tomorrow – Ussamah Nasar - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/csRDG3Jvs
  • Japan trade deal: what does it mean for lawyers? | Law Gazette https://t.co/Pk2R2GDDhv
  • Erosion of judicial review would have ‘particularly stark impact’ on Northern Ireland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/htRDzs0W95
  • The retiral of Edinburgh solicitor and sole practitioner Magdalen A. Ogilvie - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ancoz5lD63
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/cH4zCMXtLR
  • Parties in HMCTS pilot snub small claims mediation | Law Gazette https://t.co/xWQ1UVSzsc 
  • European Court of Human Rights has driven social change in Ireland - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ukImBvbgvH
  • DWF tells investors to be optimistic despite second lockdown | Law Gazette https://t.co/GNNPoi9Sw
  • CMS appointed to Unity Trust Bank panel - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/u30Tyg1nLZ
  • Ledingham Chalmers to host free webinar for professionals - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FQcIWUC5wn
  • Met chief pays tribute to 'inspirational' police officer Matt Ratana - Cressida Dick praises New Zealand-born sergeant’s unconventional policing style and warm heart https://t.co/OVeKuE0NJR 
  • Solicitors hit back at MoJ's ‘fence-sitting’ economic crime review | Law Gazette https://t.co/B6pDSTt7Py
  • Release of State papers delayed due to Covid-19 - Irish Legal News https://t.co/UTTyXp3IpZ 
  • NI: Erosion of judicial review would have 'particularly stark impact' on Northern Ireland - Irish Legal News https://t.co/zcGSnhwYN
  • Brexit: Watchdog warns of 'significant' border disruption https://t.co/S5whdZpDT
  • #Denmark removed from UK's travel corridor list https://t.co/BdN7JcA4HG
  • Financial services must put mental health at top of agenda, according to Pinsent Masons survey - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iUC6UADW3p
  • Taylor Wessing eases Covid measures ahead of second lockdown | Law Gazette https://t.co/DcNjXbJJNH
  • NI: Bill to streamline committal process introduced - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Zy8c6YPcCn 
  • Manchester Arena Inquiry: Six wanted for questioning over bombing https://t.co/IN1OUHFM9N 
  • 'Toxic lockdown' sees huge rise in babies harmed or killed https://t.co/dQwuD0067p 
  • London anti-lockdown protest leads to 104 arrests https://t.co/YxBysZGdYy
  • In the pandemic, pro bono work has never been more vital | Law Gazette https://t.co/OKdLYtEjea
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