Edition 3377: 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: Neo-Nazis had detailed plans to establish a 'foothold' in Australia. Hours of leaked phone calls from encrypted chat groups detail how a white supremacist organisation "prepping" to incite a race war tried to enlist Australians
Focus of the Day Article: Allen & Overy's ex-managing partner signs up to new law leader Factor. Citing market's appetite for innovation Andrew Ballheimer takes non-exec role at managed services specialist. Full story - The Global Legal Post
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Ireland re-opens door to England and Wales solicitors | Law Gazette https://t.co/BfvRCvR2W
- MPs have 'limited confidence' in MoJ's plans to clear court backlog | Law Gazette https://t.co/K6QsVqiE
- A Dutch travel firm will take nearly 200 people for an eight-day holiday in Greece aimed at seeing if tourism is feasible during the Covid-19 pandemic https://t.co/4E4vq4iTm
- NI: Abuse of trust legislation to be widened beyond statutory settings - Irish Legal News https://t.co/KNAkwXWCW
- Technical bill to facilitate 'full rollout' of new Garda operating model - Irish Legal News https://t.co/39J9nzLLK3
- MPs have voted to extend emergency coronavirus powers for another six months. They backed the health secretary's call to renew "essential" emergency rules to deal with the pandemic as England moves out of lockdown https://t.co/P9K9kTGGM
- Triple appointment to Brodies LLP planning law team - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VLxFRTWc
- Ministers to establish advisory committee to help select next Chief Justice - Irish Legal News https://t.co/PQXYoBqPd3
- Irwin Mitchell reports smaller gender pay gap | Law Gazette https://t.co/mOfr4LrccS
- Children born in Ireland to receive citizenship sooner - Irish Legal News https://t.co/lW9eh9l75u
- Terra Firma Chambers’ 2021 Webinar Series: Employment Law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OJufewOEL
- Women will not be silenced on gender violence https://t.co/JzVbM0tQM
- Women who paid for transvaginal mesh removal to be refunded - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7ZW23C1E
- 'Major flaws': parliamentary committee backs repeal of fixed-term act | Law Gazette https://t.co/nAr6pUXcRG
- Shrewsbury baby deaths prompt midwife recruitment drive https://t.co/cukpz0Q0AC
- Trump aide concealed work for PR firm and misled court to dodge child support #US https://t.co/wNhfS5uVS
- Senior army officer convicted of £48,000 Dorset boarding school fee fraud - Maj Gen Nick Welch believed to be the most senior officer to face court martial since 1815 https://t.co/zZn3b3w0Ct
- A teacher who showed pupils an "inappropriate" cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad - sparking protests outside a school - has been suspended. The image depicting the founder of Islam was used in a lesson at Batley Grammar School on Monday https://t.co/N7Q83TFg
- UK government threatens to take Holyrood bills to Supreme Court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9w4806wT
- Two new part-time commissioners join Scottish Human Rights Commission - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/klyPVBZMsd
- Challenge to definition of ‘woman’ in public boards legislation rejected by Outer House - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iwP15oJM
- Covid operating hours still on the table, Bar Council told | Law Gazette https://t.co/8ALiQn345s
- Vicarious liability for rape: Barry Congregation of JWs | Law & Religion UK https://t.co/HGNFM55BkL
- UK Evaluator Administrator for Pre-Pack Sales https://t.co/QdxtLU4kGi
- Mastercard battles return of $19 billion UK class action https://t.co/0gmDBIGsiY
- Law Society victimisation claim struck out over volunteer status - Legal Futures https://t.co/hLPEeTNLE0
- It may only be possible to introduce a vaccine passports scheme once all adults have been offered a jab, Boris Johnson has suggested. The prime minister said a review on the idea would report in April but no decisions have been taken https://t.co/u91c9G91T
- England: Barrister denied silk after judges intervene - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fr30j3qaiB
- Two members of Freshwater Five lose appeal against drugs convictions - Judges reject appeal by Jonathan Beere and Daniel Payne, who said radar showed convictions were unsafe https://t.co/kRZfTSIh3v
- Ex-Wolstenholmes partner allowed to return to law firm ownership - Legal Futures https://t.co/A6x0WJZHYO
- It is time for the SRA to issue a virtual practice handbook | Law Gazette https://t.co/ilQCTBOBnI
- Johnny Depp loses bid to overturn ruling in libel case: High court ruling last year concluded Hollywood actor assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard https://t.co/cN7zbUGElI
- Child
asylum seekers 'falling apart' due to Home Office delays - Halt to
interviews in March last year due to Covid has had ‘devastating
emotional impact’ https://t.co/ucnrq1A7Uw
- Barrister in plagiarism row admits "technical breach of copyright" - Legal Futures https://t.co/xkltRhMV
- 'Unless you're wealthy, don't come back': dismay over new rules for returning to #NewZealand. Charge of $3,100 will have to be paid if a returnee leaves again within six months, instead of the previous three months https://t.co/MdQ6AqrKFg
- Boohoo
severs ties with hundreds of UK manufacturers after critical review -
Alison Levitt QC review HAD concluded there were“endemic” problems at
Leicester factories in its supply chain, including minimum wage and
life-threatening fire risk https://t.co/fzkP28c5mn
- Some UK Deliveroo drivers earning as little as £2 an hour according, survey finds: Analysis of 300 couriers found that as many as a third of them were paid less than legal minimum wage https://t.co/7InKlsgZD
- Revealed: police barred from searching Queen's estates for looted artefacts: palace and government refuse to say why exemption from 2017 law was deemed necessary https://t.co/tlb2yDUIW
- CA slates barristers whose failures led it to wrongly quash conviction - Legal Futures https://t.co/xASCaVyy
- SLAS calls for Law Society to regain regulatory function for solicitors - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/pQCNLgi9Es
- Norway players wore T-shirts bearing the message 'Human rights on and off the pitch' before their 2022 World Cup qualifier against Gibraltar to show support for #Qatar migrant workers https://t.co/fqcroP6jD
- MPs will vote later on extending emergency coronavirus laws in England for another six months amid warnings of a "checkpoint society" https://t.co/P9K9kTGGMk
- ‘Informed consent’ fees dispute set for Court of Appeal showdown | Law Gazette https://t.co/EBnww4BKb
- Reducing Irregular Migration and Human Rights: an Impossible Combination? | Annalisa Morticelli https://t.co/mCoeJAIYn
- #Chinese TV stars cut ties with Nike over Xinjiang comments: Backlash brews in China against Western firms speaking out over alleged abuses against Uighurs held in camps https://t.co/o4LlNzoTAA
- Scottish government loses court challenge over ‘draconian’ limits on worship - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/r0ikljf9lT
- People in England aged over 50 and in at-risk categories are being urged to book their Covid-19 jabs before next Monday when slots are set to dry up https://t.co/k6f9yrRDvL
- If we really want to tackle femicide, we need to track violent men https://t.co/G5Fu6hnXsq
- Mary Keane becomes first woman to serve as Law Society director general - Irish Legal News https://t.co/nqlzYpDrn
- Tablighi Jamaat men #India held for ‘spreading COVID’ share ordeal: Muslims from several nations underwent trials for ‘spreading the virus’ and were vilified by the BJP and Indian media https://t.co/JREvXXWaUm
- Supreme Court: Test for security for costs refined as Quinn Insurance ordered to cover €30m legal bill - Irish Legal News https://t.co/iW7ZDT0akq
- Law Society Awards opens for entries | Law Gazette https://t.co/Oj3xzGklCE
- Dismay grows over failure of Covid-19 resilience fund for lawyers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/L2kStBNOm0
- UK Mercedes-Benz car owners seek damages over alleged emissions cheating: Law firm representing UK owners claims German marque installed ‘defeat devices’ in diesel cars https://t.co/NLAphg12gt
- Home Office unveils widely trailed immigration reforms | Law Gazette https://t.co/vBQRPjZvk0
- Prosecutors offered pay boost in bid to avert Crown Office strike - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5iS9BkuG6k
- Full High Court bench finds nobile officium petition by rape complainer competent - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/m3fPpoSyAM
- Virginia has become the first Southern #US state to abolish the death penalty after its governor signed into law a bill that ends capital punishment https://t.co/ld10Xb8huN
- #Libyan
commander wanted for war crimes by ICC shot dead - Top military figure
loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar killed in the
eastern city of Benghazi by unidentified attackers https://t.co/vMopOcf2K4
- Labour calls for extra 33,000 court sitting days | Law Gazette https://t.co/qZ7YMTONyW
- Pub goers could be asked to provide a vaccine certificate, Boris Johnson has told MPs, saying it "may be up to individual publicans" https://t.co/QlhH7dxtlE
