6th February - Law News

 Edition 3329: 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: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor comments on the debate about celebrity tweets on farmer protests and says, "we also comment on internal affairs of other counties with the most recent example - MEA commenting on Myanmar coup". Mr Tharoor hit out at government's handling of the situation, calling its reaction embarrassing. He also spoke about Indian celebrities and their 'cut copy' reactions and ways in which India can change its global image.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• LGBT+ History Month: Identity and authenticity | Law Gazette https://t.co/buZS79s8qj
• Police watchdog launches investigation after arrest at shooting commemoration https://t.co/V3FvEAm9Vj
• #Ugandan ex-child soldier guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity ://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/feb/04/uganda-ex-child-soldier-dominic-ongwen-guilty-of-war-crimes-against-humanity
• Encrochat: Secret network messages can be used in court, judges rule https://t.co/3dBPihS5Ct
• First4Lawyers to open law firm and keep RTA enquiries for itself | Law Gazette https://t.co/jcLeVhmTkQ
• Lawyers miss out on £16.2k costs after ending CFA for no good reason | Law Gazette https://t.co/UAUH5tJ3oJ
• Law Society launches Wales manifesto ahead of election | Law Gazette https://t.co/elyINuiYqm
• More Nightingale courts expected by end of March | Law Gazette https://t.co/0Tj8MPXkXh
• Lawyers ordered to pay almost £1m over trustee negligence | Law Gazette https://t.co/16RZVwWHqB
• Former Cubism Law boss charged with misconduct by the SRA | Law Gazette https://t.co/5mc9JQfPdO
• Government 'scraps extended operating hours' | Law Gazette https://t.co/IOnKk9K07a
• Roma communities are some of the most marginalised in Europe. More than 10 million people live largely in poverty, often in overcrowded settlements https://t.co/LCSvSbZynd
• #Denmark unveils world’s first Covid-19 ‘vaccine passport’ scheme - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yZm77DBMIK
• Britons should not face extradition to the US for alleged crimes on UK soil - MPs claim to be appalled by our unjust and uneven extradition deal. But they still won’t change it https://t.co/vrEGCdD3mm
• Growth in new property listings slows as selling prices increase year-on-year - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CltL2LvsiD
• Key considerations for implementing new technology - Legal Futures https://t.co/VugjWb8N9Q
• Parliamentarians hear call for quotas to boost profession's diversity - Legal Futures https://t.co/DW2FiexCpM
• Prospect of negative interest rates and law firm dilemma moves closer - Legal Futures https://t.co/ir5ex4vYd8
• SRA: New areas of practice and legalised cannabis present AML risks - Legal Futures https://t.co/wBlz1NqILV
• Boris Johnson's senior adviser on ethnic minorities resigned complaining of "unbearable" tension within Downing Street - but then decided to stay on https://t.co/YjQvgOH6fC
• Kilmarnock stabbings: Two women and a man die in three linked incidents https://t.co/YWfRziBjNw
• Covid-19: Avoid 'setting dates' for lifting lockdown, scientist warns https://t.co/EDYIjMeZ6r
• Foreign Office minister James Cleverly has defended the government's plan to quarantine travellers in hotels, which begins on 15 February - Arrivals from Covid variant hotspots will have to stay in a hotel for 10 nights https://t.co/nlkYfrZgHm
• Shepherd and Wedderburn commits to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jD3HYufohk
• New rules to allow Attorney General six months’ maternity leave on full pay - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7GwABHVP7J
• Legislative proposals to address impact of Scotland’s concentration of land ownership - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9OsKoSFvoG
• Shirley Phillips: Blended model of legal traineeships set to continue - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vA1ehbZDtZ
• Amendments to strengthen UNCRC Bill lodged - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hoEjxGZJcF
• Lord Glennie appointed judge of Dubai financial court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/i3x5SkQ3Zp
• Traineeship numbers hit by pandemic - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SjK99xYBg8
• NI: McKees opens 2021 trainee programme for applications - Irish Legal News https://t.co/uf6nEXDoLp
• McKenna & Co Solicitors welcomes trainee - Irish Legal News https://t.co/rGqyPTyrBo
• Gillian Keating: When language is loose and 'best efforts' is not good enough - Irish Legal News https://t.co/70eODiwNUx
• Una McGurk SC rebuked by judge in case brought by Nigerian man who said he was bisexual - Irish Legal News https://t.co/JJp3YESPts

 

5th February - Law News

Edition 3328: 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: Two years on from the scathing findings handed down in the Banking Royal Commission, less than a third of the recommendations have been made into law. So how much protection do customers really have?

 Focus of the Day Article: A plan to roll out extended operating hours in Crown courts has been abandoned, according to an announcement by the Criminal Bar Association (CBA). In a Twitter post, the CBA said the Ministry of Justice has decided not to continue with the scheme and it 'will not be proceeded with in the foreseeable future. We consider it will not raise its head again’. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Simpson Thacher unveils Brussels office launch plan in response to Brexit - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/NPEqjDYb4
• Covid vaccine: Teachers sent Covid jab booking link for NHS staff https://t.co/8nCoSHODI
• New research finds public sentencing of rape offenders in line with actual sentences - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VwWC9x2cWX 
• Oxford don awarded nearly £1m in damages after law firm negligently drafted property trust agreement - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/scSsYKgcs
• Three new Senators of the College of Justice appointed - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MCxoHWdFfV
• #Nigerian separatist Nnamdi Kanu's Facebook account removed for hate speech https://t.co/oqtgyRsgfw
• A collective of anti-fascist #Israeli hackers have broken into a website of a group allied to the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan (KKK) https://t.co/er1oDYGeqV
• Communities hit by a dam disaster in #Brazil two years ago which killed 270 people will get a $7bn (£5bn) payout https://t.co/4HJg6KzISE
  
• #US Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene has expressed regret for past incendiary comments and support for conspiracy theories https://t.co/oeWOmT3R
• Covid in Wales: Youngest set to return to primary schools from 22 February https://t.co/tw6G8ECnLv
• UK residents returning from coronavirus hotspots abroad will have to quarantine in hotels from 15 February https://t.co/2mYykmpWPB
• Assisted dying bill needs 'further safeguards' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/1K0nBdUE7p 
• KPMG reveals alliance with legaltech startup SirionLabs to boost contract offering - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/D0HbvLrOyY
• McCarthy Denning taps magic circle veterans for private equity launch - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/Vk6r1SjPi8
  
• Dentons secures five-partner insurance team from Cassels in Canada - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/DCjbXW9B2v
• The UK government has said it was not aware Harry Dunn's alleged killer was employed by an intelligence agency in the US at the time of the fatal crash https://t.co/cA3h28pilz
• Responding to online criticism of lawyers’ services | Law Gazette https://t.co/chn3FG9uTj
  
• Domestic Abuse Bill: calls for data 'firewall' to protect migrant women | Law Gazette https://t.co/NHaZ7sDb
• Dangerous products remain for sale on Wish shopping website https://t.co/WPLfbHlSp
• ICC finds #Ugandan LRA commander guilty of war crimes - Child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen convicted by Netherlands-based court https://t.co/e7X2s5R0Ya
• Probate delays falling despite pandemic, says HMCTS | Law Gazette https://t.co/JkvesWLIFi
• Uighur camps in #China: US, UK governments condemn reports of systematic rape https://t.co/wejP2TSjeE
• Ofcom revokes Chinese broadcaster CGTN's UK licence https://t.co/yBpVMARAZ
• Solicitor who blamed support staff for his own failures struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/RXBo6muJS
• BBC fined £28,000 for broadcasting footage of remote hearing | Law Gazette https://t.co/6cM5foJWA
• More firms embrace ‘John Lewis’ business model | Law Gazette https://t.co/SwcgubZMUY
• Undercover policing inquiry: Keir Starmer urged to give evidence, campaigners asking whether Labour leader was involved in cover-up when he was in charge of the CPS https://t.co/Ew3CamR6y
• Firms rush to boost presence in mainland Europe | Law Gazette https://t.co/PIeHFmLpAB
• Two teenagers who tortured and murdered Angela Wrightson, a vulnerable woman in her own home, have been granted lifelong anonymity https://t.co/QruzHYyVMo
• Law change to allow maternity leave for Attorney General Suella Braverman https://t.co/ofid5aZlZy
• #France bomb plot: Iran diplomat Assadollah Assadi sentenced to 20 years https://t.co/4XUETpEDYh
  
• Newcastle striker Joelinton fined £200 for lockdown haircut https://t.co/lwtfh3oaSi 
• Europe as a Global Actor: Externalization of the EU Asylum and Migration Policies following the Arab Spring Uprisings | Berfin Nur Osso https://t.co/ODP2jhTuG
• Peers accuse government of breaking Covid eviction promise | Law Gazette https://t.co/96LqgcA9ID
• Profession claims victory in fight against extended court hours - Legal Futures https://t.co/cQZZy5gNVy
• Solicitor's mismanagement combined with COFA's incompetence - Legal Futures https://t.co/Sh510tcMT5
  
• “Ignorance” the main barrier to law firm EOTs, says newest adopter - Legal Futures https://t.co/g00HU0e3hP
  
• First4Lawyers sets up law firm to handle road traffic claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/9H2rCCQer2
  
• Taylor Swift is being sued by a #US theme park called Evermore, which says the star's latest album has infringed its trademark by using the same name https://t.co/lcs5kKCZKf
• A large hotel chain says it has not had "any discussions at all" with the UK government over plans to introduce mandatory quarantine for travellers https://t.co/PFyfEfHfL
• Benjamin Bestgen: 'the extinction of rights upon death is more complicated a matter than it first seems' - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZbR4rBiZ
• Gillian Mawdsley reflects on role of lawyers and others in the Holocaust - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mOsfj9M0Nt
• Tayside lawyers predict continued rise in property prices - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NndtG3dPLp
  
• John Sturrock QC: The costs of litigating - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ml9u1CTM2
• Landowners challenge notices to terminate telecomms leases - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/k4DVy5hEfO
  
• Ministers warned by Lady Poole over no-trawl scheme dawdling - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1Abdj6vNXa
  
• #US supreme court sides with Germany in Nazi art dispute https://t.co/UIU6Bp5gRU
• Blog: High Court delivers first adjudication enforcement judgment pursuant to Construction Contracts Act 2013 - Irish Legal News https://t.co/rbSFfIl6VJ
• The law on fixed-term contracts expiring during maternity leave - Irish Legal News https://t.co/4RZPqPNNTB
• 'It's madness': emergency doctor being forced to travel abroad slams #Australia's visa rules https://t.co/KU0gj4z5ES
  
• Phoney flag-waving is not the way for Labour to win back the red wall - Voters will reject fake patriotism. Keir Starmer should have the courage to embrace the complexity of our national story https://t.co/EhPykkMGFB
• Smuggler found with nearly 1,000 cacti and succulents strapped to her body - Woman sentenced in #NewZealand for biosecurity violations after hiding plant material inside stockings https://t.co/d5C5Stu3b
• US 'deeply disturbed' by reports of systematic rape in #China's Xinjiang camps https://t.co/7H2j0BZos
• Harry Dunn’s alleged killer's intelligence work 'a factor' in departure from UK - Anne Sacoolas was ‘employed by an intelligence agency in the US’ at time of fatal road crash, a court has heard https://t.co/agMzoD3eRj

4th February - Law News

Edition 3327: 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: Anti-money laundering - what you need to know (Compliance Officers conference 2020)

 Focus of the Day Article: The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) is “setting itself up to fail” by proposing to give itself more work than it can cope with and asking for an “extraordinary high” budget increase of 19%, the Bar Council has warned. The Bar Council said that while there was a need for staff to take time off at a “challenging time”, it was “alarming” to learn that 1,250 staff hours were lost at LeO in a single month by people taking special leave. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Solicitor with money laundering convictions restored to roll | Law Gazette https://t.co/d9f2b1zUpa
• Losing claimants to pay £8m interim costs for Brazil dam litigation | Law Gazette https://t.co/2vcQh7okBf
• Russia and Turkey dominate ECtHR workload | Law Gazette https://t.co/H9tPyqdk
• New rules promise clarity on issue of interest in Part 36 offers | Law Gazette https://t.co/bzMxZ4f5
• Deloitte Legal doubles UK headcount | Law Gazette https://t.co/xsO8AM2vm
• Police filmed carrying asylum seeker into Kent barracks against his will - Legal experts question officers’ authority to return man to site government says is not a detention centre https://t.co/pQVtuEOLL
• Sir Elton John has had "very positive" talks with Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden about EU travel for UK musicians, but said visa-free touring is not currently "on the cards" https://t.co/2eX6GaaqDy
• Solicitor blamed paralegal as immigration client misled for years | Law Gazette https://t.co/4nkZfCsCOh
• ICC ready to rule on ex-child soldier accused of war crimes | International criminal court - Dominic Ongwen was abducted by #Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army aged 10 before rising to high rank https://t.co/jt7hkYo9n
• Former trade union strikers challenge convictions at appeal court - Actor Ricky Tomlinson among 14 people seeking to overturn 1972 convictions https://t.co/kDTI0AgzDj
• Fears rise that #Polish libel trial could threaten future Holocaust research - Case brought in wake of rightwing government criminalising blame of Polish nation for Nazi crimes could have implications for further research https://t.co/IHWitX1e8
• Asylum seekers deserve far better https://t.co/gWhE0vkHqW
• A woman has been fined £10,000 for a "blatant breach" of Covid restrictions after a birthday party attended by more than 30 people was broken up by police https://t.co/Ue0eJJ0jQy
  
• Latest house price index shows 8.5 per cent rise last November - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/dtzUTbw0LC
• Law Society sets out priorities ahead of Scottish elections - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/TC4auAqpL6
  
• Cumbernauld man who stabbed upstairs neighbour in doorway loses appeal against attempted murder conviction - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/d1uNljYPV
• No need to read emails past 6pm, barristers told | Law Gazette https://t.co/UG1p3KyTiY
  
• Yorkshire have threatened a lifetime ban for anyone found to have made threats against Azeem Rafiq or his family and legal team. The former Yorkshire spinner, 29, has filed a legal claim over allegations he suffered racist abuse when at the club https://t.co/vQh5CXlOCH
• An Irish teenager who admitted sending racist abuse to former England footballer Ian Wright has not been given a criminal conviction. Patrick O'Brien, 18, sent 20 messages on Instagram after losing a Fifa video game on PlayStation in May 2019 https://t.co/3krVwP2UDl
• Conspiracy theorist woman barred from hospitals after filming https://t.co/xNkQ8GlrX
• No-fault compensation for clin neg on ministers' agenda | Law Gazette https://t.co/TpjZhBG9lQ 
• Bitcoin and Bandwagons - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ap2zUeSYV
• Shepherd and Wedderburn trainee Emma Hendrie kicks off the firm’s celebration of LGBT History Month with a look at the history of the month itself - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8u7EzjUVr
• Inner House New Lanark cases illuminates charities’ ‘public benefit test’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/saiyChs8kw
• UK asks EU for Brexit grace period extension to 2023, BBC reports https://t.co/5AE3q1CSu8
  
• Mariah Carey's sister is suing the #US singer for $1.2m (£875,000) for "immense emotional distress" she says was caused by remarks in her memoir https://t.co/Pcr2mtn5Uj
• SLAS calls for change in law to prevent SLCC from approving its own budget - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/76Y3Ep3jua
• Scotland records 275 deals worth £4.9 billion in 2020 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wF6ufIXeTA
• Author Meena Harris lends support to farmers' protest, says 'Militant nationalism is just as potent a force in US politics as it is in India or anyplace else,' #India https://t.co/pgknWJUIt
• PM Boris Johnson has encouraged members of the public to clap for Captain Sir Tom Moore at 18:00 GMT on Wednesday. The 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden https://t.co/ax0sjgIDO
• Faryma Bahrami has returned to full-time practice at Terra Firma Chambers, having spent three years working as an investment professional at Baillie Gifford - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iDRqYD6mtv
• Dentons’ 20-strong private client team joins Shepherd and Wedderburn - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9L9NNFEOSE
• Filters should not be applied to social media adverts if they exaggerate the effect of the product, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled https://t.co/Y1JXg0Iyfe
• From Turkey to Libya: The EU Migration Partnership from Bad to Worse | Mariagiulia Giuffré https://t.co/oRZ90CLPGF
• Ditching office space is a costly business - Legal Futures https://t.co/MUtR8lBTxm
  
• LeO “setting itself up to fail” with budget plans - Legal Futures https://t.co/LMEz6QuMgz
• MPs warn of dangers of stamp duty “cliff edge” - Legal Futures https://t.co/Qz5ihdeuyG
• Conveyancer blamed secretary to “cover up lack of progress” - Legal Futures https://t.co/3lPFvkatR8
• Police in #Myanmar have filed several charges against the elected civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi following Monday's military coup https://t.co/jkSqVOPU90
  
• #India has accused "foreign individuals" and celebrities of "sensationalism" after a tweet by pop superstar Rihanna, extending support to protesting farmers, drew global attention to it's hard-right government's policy https://t.co/9E1Zn59Tik
• Kameel Ahmady, British academic facing jail escapes #Iran over mountains https://t.co/k0DypxLfDJ
• Ex-sheriff says ‘Rangers case’ has eroded respect for Scottish lawyers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/TNuRj4gsA
• Prisoner serving life sentence fails to obtain judicial review of decision not to move him to lower security prison - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ackE2vInwX
• Misconduct at the Bar; Missing the Mark? – Crime Girl's Blog https://t.co/d3x6ebE5yD
  
• NI: Solicitors appointed to leadership of UK-wide environmental protection office - Irish Legal News https://t.co/LujCnGz50d
• NI: Rights groups welcome reinstatement of abortion services - Irish Legal News https://t.co/azRhTnXIww
• New website explores use of restorative justice in Ireland - Irish Legal News https://t.co/MmpeM4mgEB
• NI: Long-delayed review into support for vulnerable prisoners to be completed by summer - Irish Legal News https://t.co/4PWJyrcF
• ByrneWallace appoints William Johnston as banking consultant - Irish Legal News https://t.co/wmxERJ4qZ
• The Conservative peer who is the government's preferred choice to chair the Office for Students (OfS) watchdog has suggested he could continue taking his party's whip at the same time as being an independent regulator https://t.co/LL9BebqHk
• DLA Piper makes double appointment in Dublin - Irish Legal News https://t.co/wxWfcuKxV7 
• Court of Appeal: €65,000 award upheld for laceration injuries sustained by child while ice-skating - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Ew1mNQvzuF
• Lords defeats government over UK courts' role in genocide rulings - Peers vote for second time to amend trade bill and take a tougher stance on China’s human rights record https://t.co/5SxkoAMdhB
• New claims of migrant abuse in the #US as Ice defies President Biden to continue deportations - Ice condemned as ‘rogue agency’ after rights groups allege torture by agents and man deported to Haiti who had never been there https://t.co/gSMAtcwaBz 
• Lawyer in the news: Richard Leedham, Mishcon de Reya - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/icBtHUP1P
• 'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape #China https://t.co/4vx3zAhOc0

3rd February - Law News

Edition 3326: 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 former follower of the fascist conspiracy QAnon movement tells how she came to believe in the movement and ultimately decided to leave.

 Focus of the Day Article:  Prisoner serving life sentence fails to obtain judicial review of decision not to move him to lower security prison. Full story - Scottish Legal News

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Putin critic Navalny jailed in #Russia despite protests https://t.co/lsSBKcD4R
• My legal life: Manjinder Singh Kang, Kang & Co Solicitors - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/pyISwoLLaH
• Swift condemnation of Labour’s jury proposal is unwarranted | Law Gazette https://t.co/55T4mVF30Y
  
• Meghan and the Mail | Law Gazette https://t.co/c9GSO9TdP4
• Stagnant progress in profession’s diversity is disheartening | Law Gazette https://t.co/DN9W7XEY8Q
• Barclays revamps legal arm with shared platform adoption | Law Gazette https://t.co/jSaNjPo6I
• Slater and Gordon backs care home public inquiry | Law Gazette https://t.co/r3EtTZCJV
• Court Covid safety confusion continues | Law Gazette https://t.co/eVhwWg7Qd8
• The #French health authority has said AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine should only be given to people aged under 65 https://t.co/No0Czf0tN
• How should the family court treat allegations of domestic abuse? | Law Gazette https://t.co/99PEix5zTa
• Obituary: Tom Moore, a hero who gave a nation hope https://t.co/tMOnZvjDL
• Chris O'Shea, the boss of British Gas owner Centrica, has said his family was posted excrement amid a pay row at the firm https://t.co/Q28pwqJ1uv
• Captain Sir Tom Moore dies at 100 after testing positive for Covid https://t.co/NTjBJ2j9j
• Israeli-made spying tools were bought for #Bangladesh intelligence service, despite the South Asian country not recognising Israel https://t.co/SCBTANKHQi
• LSB kicks off new regime of transparency over PC fee spending | Law Gazette https://t.co/eSurnC8I0M
• Wall Street billionaire backed Republicans who later tried to overturn election result - Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman faces scrutiny over donations to rightwing Republicans including Kelly Loeffler #US https://t.co/YVm4xzl5k
• The Stansted 15's quashed conviction shows we were never terrorists - I was one of 15 charged for blocking a deportation flight. We’ve got justice, but victims of the UK’s hostile environment haven’t https://t.co/MktUGWC2
• Tweeting barrister Holbrook parts company with chambers | Law Gazette https://t.co/0cqr3EyuHR
• Tesla has begun to recall 158,000 Model S and Model X vehicles in the #US over issues with failing touchscreens that regulators were concerned could increase the risk of crashes https://t.co/luiEOPJzE
• #Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine gives around 92% protection against Covid-19, late stage trial results published in The Lancet reveal. It has also been deemed to be safe - and offer complete protection against hospitalisation and death https://t.co/A4gJUAwe4
• New practising fee rules will allow “more meaningful debate” - Legal Futures https://t.co/lanSW8oEge
  
• High Court: Law firm was not operating collective investment scheme - Legal Futures https://t.co/WjGS5LGqQ
• Most firms made a profit last year despite Covid, survey finds - Legal Futures https://t.co/hRDqriyrg
• Solicitor jailed for money laundering returns to profession - Legal Futures https://t.co/gspIz0PLA
• Solicitors to skip court security queues from today | Law Gazette https://t.co/v5Ek26nX2t
• Barrister disbarred for work as a solicitor | Law Gazette https://t.co/ThgrvAnRI5
• 'We demand results': Coca-Cola threatens to deduct 30% from fees over diversity | Law Gazette https://t.co/37H6EDq18i
• Alcohol deaths hit record high during Covid pandemic https://t.co/qvMS22wO5B
• Buy now, pay later firms such as Klarna face stricter controls https://t.co/EMZ4Gnrmqj
• People in areas that have been singled out for enhanced testing for the South African variant should further limit the time they spend away from home, a minister has said https://t.co/JhKSNNmyz
• Coercion, Prohibition, and Great Expectations. The continuing failure of the Common European Asylum System, Common Market Law Review 53(2016), p. 607-642 | Thomas Spijkerboer https://t.co/ycgmW4UQK
• Faulks hands in his findings on judicial review | Law Gazette https://t.co/gnQvVeu6S
• Shoosmiths signs up to science-based targets initiative in net zero carbon push - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1mA7rUYeB
• SLCC launches budget and operating plan consultation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WjrDyw7j5
• Standalone offence of misogynistic behaviour under consideration - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QRi2nVqwZ
• Additional funding takes tram inquiry costs to almost £12m - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nIYPcJcfW
• Dr Sarah Munro: EAWs and extradition post-Brexit – the need for mutual trust - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/T3mtfEZHC
• #US actress Evan Rachel Wood has claimed singer Marilyn Manson "horrifically abused" her during their three-year relationship in the late noughties https://t.co/ZU7kAapo12
• Michaela Guthrie promoted to senior associate at Balfour and Manson - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Fzj3nMU3F
• Burness Paull charts future growth with partner promotions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/y7A07wC6lJ
• Lord Uist retires, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Courts in April 2006, having previously served as a temporary judge from July 2001. - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nAxEgO0fQd
• An unrepentant gym owner who has been fined three times for ignoring Covid-19 regulations is still refusing to close https://t.co/DuJ7x9wHfx
• The inhuman face of malicious prosecution is revealed - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lGXq63SVOX
• People in Wales who are told to self-isolate by the NHS Covid-19 phone app can now apply for a £500 payment, the Welsh Government has announced https://t.co/L7XW8K7rxl
• Brexit: Portsmouth port bosses accuse government of withholding cash https://t.co/UJNNXT0aTb 
• Fears army will tighten grip in #Myanmar after Aung San Suu Kyi detained https://t.co/VMtSlGhwNC
• Joanna Cherry sacked from SNP frontbench at Westminster, QC had clashed with ex-deputy leader Kirsty Blackman over party’s policies on transgender rights https://t.co/M1WxipYjjo
  
• Criminal complaint threatened over malicious prosecution - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qt2LKxmYr1

2nd February - Law News

Edition 3325: 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: Almost two thirds of UK firms have been experiencing "significant disruption" to their supply chains across the EU border since the start of this year, according to the manufacturers’ association, Make UK. Many claim that the extra paperwork required since the end of the Brexit transition period has meant delays for firms trying to export and import goods into Europe and they are urging the government to solve the problem.

 Focus of the Day Article:  “No case to answer” — Stansted 15 convictions quashed by Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal held today that a group of activists who broke into Stansted Airport in an act of protest should “not have been prosecuted” for an “extremely serious” terror-related offence under s.1(2)(b) of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990 (“AMSA”). Full story - UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Housing Evictions, Human Rights, and the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination #US – Health and Human Rights Journal https://t.co/Hn29VXFkA
• International Human Rights Process Finally Achieves Equal Treatment for Foreign Teachers in Korea: The Case of L.G. v. Republic of Korea – Health and Human Rights Journal https://t.co/YiItnNcfG
• Mid and East Antrim Council says it has withdrawn staff from Brexit inspection duties at Larne Port due to concerns for their safety https://t.co/5hKjrxsOJ
• The legality of opening a bank account abroad | Lawyer Herald https://t.co/tKNGLw00tm
• #Israel holds all the cards in the West Bank – it should vaccinate everyone - the occupying power is responsible for the healthcare of the Palestinians, whose economy and medical systems are in ruins https://t.co/Ar7RJ9ZWc
• Is Getting a Personal Injury Attorney Worth It? #US | Lawyer Herald https://t.co/76Rqgx9BHr 
• Teenage neo-Nazi from Cornwall is UK's youngest terror offender https://t.co/wIb89plOgX
• Divorcing couples to face costly complex battles during Brexit transition period – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/Ns2lRHMzzS
• A suspected crime boss is still working at the top of world boxing, a BBC Panorama investigation has found. Daniel Kinahan has no criminal convictions but has been named in the Irish courts as the head of one of Europe's most prominent drug cartels https://t.co/eaNnLSX5nE
• Tulane Forrester Fellowship 2021-2022 https://t.co/fj3P53QG
• Worker at H&M supply factory was killed after months of harassment, claims family - Fashion brand to investigate the death of 20-year-old Jeyasre Kathiravel, reportedly killed by supervisor at Natchi Apparels #India https://t.co/L3k46LC7W
• Barrister in racism row previously fired by council over anti-migrant rhetoric - Jon Holbrook, who caused outcry with ‘stroppy teenager of colour’ tweet, was sacked from Brighton council legal team https://t.co/xRIaNunrU1
• Douglas Mill: Some of this article is about all of us. Some of it is about lawyers. Some of it is about lawyers my age. And some of it is about me - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XSRgB2jsCs 
• David Whitehouse has given a searing account of his ordeal at the hands of Scottish prosecutors and police who subjected him and his colleague Paul Clark to what the authorities now admit was a malicious prosecution - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0V3lhfDQjY
• New Lanark Trust-owned businesses’ charitable status upheld by Inner House - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2P6WhSqEBY
• Covid social distancing rules on the Isle of Man have been scrapped by the government following a 25-day lockdown. Restrictions were lifted at 00:01 GMT after the island recorded 20 days without an unexplained community case https://t.co/WfaDQqxh0k
• Some practical points for litigating under TOLATA – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/ynVQPovq5
• How client needs may dictate firms of choice post-pandemic #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/jRHdzAYJrI
• Police will speak to a Premier League footballer and his barber who were photographed together during lockdown. Newcastle United's £40m striker Joelinton shared a picture of him and Tyneside stylist Tom Baxter on Friday https://t.co/XBFmdTdLZu
• The Brexit referendum emboldened racists: Is football's racism battle being lost on social media? https://t.co/l9CNBzN64f
• Publishing IDs of accused persons other than proclaimed offenders on police flyboards violates Privacy: Allahabad High Court #India Bar & Bench https://t.co/lzmQN8Qe2w
• The Duke of Sussex has accepted an apology and "substantial damages" from the publishers of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over an article published last year https://t.co/MhqbJLaSHh 
• Linklaters keeps 47 out of 50 NQ solicitors - Legal Cheek https://t.co/oaFs5agAcb
• Urgent testing for the South Africa variant of coronavirus is to start in parts of England, after cases were found with no known links to travel or previous cases https://t.co/BsC8bKF5Mh 
• Coca-Cola to penalise outside firms for insufficiently diverse teams - Legal Futures https://t.co/3vC99e6bWw
• Regulators join forces to pilot comparison and review options for firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/MiIVKHRCkI
• Solicitor who lied to client, SRA and insurers struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/8vFiRWh64x 
• Twitter row barrister Jon Holbrook expelled by chambers - after he resigned four days earlier - Legal Futures https://t.co/nIsoFtuRbo
  
• Glasgow University apologises to blind student over law firm grad rec leaflets - Legal Cheek https://t.co/yP081EUWBS
• Online fashion retailer Asos has bought the Topshop brandname and its stock, as well as Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands from failed retail group Arcadia in a deal worth £295m, sacrificing 13,000 jobs https://t.co/WcIea1lYQ
• Muslim Council of Britain elects first female leader https://t.co/fCMMVJmZu6
• #HongKong migration agents report rush of inquiries for UK visas https://t.co/ucneSbDp8
• Ten years of freedom ends: #Myanmar's tarnished heroine sees dark days return https://t.co/ucneSbDp8
• UK betting faces bigger threats than losing its sport shirts | Gambling - Industry fears the government’s review of gambling laws could introduce ‘existential’ changes https://t.co/eSSjxiliJ2
• Landmarks in law: the moral dilemma of separating conjoined twins - The birth of conjoined twins presented judges at the court of appeal with their most difficult case ever https://t.co/ZFVE5xUyw
• Refugees in the European Union: from emergency alarmism to common management. | Daniele Archibugi and Marco Cellini https://t.co/ZlcT1fEyG
• Sydney partner claims Law Society owes him apology #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/vLjgXj2n6
• Delivering high quality legal education at a time of change - Legal Cheek https://t.co/twMEM4WvQt
• ‘Top of their game’: What it’s like to work as a BigLaw graduate - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/EaDXL7gNF4
• Barrister who touched two people ‘sexually’ handed three-month suspension - Legal Cheek https://t.co/07ZGW5ghL3
• The buzz around the WhatsApp privacy policy and a possible antidote #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/di8DlH3jzE
• Ashurst to teach NewLaw to Stirling University law students - Legal Cheek https://t.co/1TsGvhIB0U
• Munawar Faruqui case: When comedy becomes crime and bail is the exception - An analysis of the bail order and why some observations are contrary to the settled principles of law #India https://t.co/mP2TCMCewo
• Baker McKenzie, DLA Piper and Dentons beat magic circle rivals in 2021 brand power list - Legal Cheek https://t.co/wSqa7QTb1X
• [TRP Scam] Republic employees not even named as accused yet: Mumbai Police #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/ycDLzv7vj
• Fears of ‘borderline unethical’ advertising after 75% of older #Australians found to be taking supplements https://t.co/NHD4QwsEx1
• Ministers move to stop backbench revolt over UK courts' role in genocide rulings - Government offers alternative to amendment that could force UK to reconsider trade deals with countries such as China https://t.co/6SuSmOHJ2K
• Thousands of ultra-Orthodox mourners have gathered in Jerusalem to attend the funeral of a top rabbi, in breach of #Israel's coronavirus regulations https://t.co/gHQBIcgtjG
• Delhi Court abates criminal proceedings against Moti Lal Vora in National Herald case #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/Va1bKshjCw
• The role of lawyers in the post-COVID recovery - Legal Cheek https://t.co/UiWTOECviT