Edition 3636: 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: More than 2.2 million Australian children will have access to the Pfizer COVID vaccine from next year. Bookings will open in the next couple of weeks after health authorities gave the final tick of approval for the jab in five to 11-year-olds.
Focus of the Day Story: ICC appoints co-chairs of new disability inclusion and international arbitration task force. King & Spalding associate Simon Maynard and Toronto-based independent arbitrator Todd Weiler are set to take the reins on the 'first-of-its-kind' initiative. Full story - The Global Legal Post
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Review of abortion legislation begins with public consultation | Irish Legal News https://t.co/09GGCSyfqr
- Why do English legal texts matter in developing countries? | Law Gazette https://t.co/gCKGjtcXmh
- Women in #Myanmar have been tortured, sexually harassed & threatened with rape in custody: Five detained for protesting against a military coup in the country earlier this year say they were abused and tortured in the detention system after their arrests https://t.co/ebLaCIfgFF
- Ian Forrester QC returns to Ampersand Advocates - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NKJYoPVFO7
- AML crackdown needed on lawyers who enable kleptocrats - Legal Futures https://t.co/benqubsJR6
- ‘Status quo isn’t enough’: LSB targets new checks on solicitor competence | Law Gazette https://t.co/YEMUgOAlW6
- Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, #German court rules: Man who slipped and broke his back while working from home was commuting, it is decided https://t.co/HgPWoKRyNi
- Bosses at West Suffolk hospital criticised over ‘intimidating’ hunt for whistleblower https://t.co/CmUdVK0lAa
- Amid growing international concern about #China's human rights record, an unofficial tribunal in London has ruled China has committed genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang https://t.co/zsJutACUFi
- BLM: Irish government should learn from UK on flood insurance | Irish Legal News https://t.co/34jrMxrjAg
- New analysis cannot explain why BAME lawyers and solicitors struggle to reach bench - Legal Futures https://t.co/rPgXQwsdOr
- Dublin City University to establish Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence | Irish Legal News https://t.co/p7WW9W69qJ
- British citizenship of six million people could be jeopardised by Home Office plans https://t.co/cTeNHYCCiC
- At least three people who held or went to unlawful gatherings on the same day as a Downing Street party have been fined by courts this month https://t.co/t0bGgcp83F
- Judge
Alison Nathan has put Ghislaine Maxwell's federal sex trafficking trial
on hold for the day after a lawyer in the case fell ill and needed
medical attention. The attorney was needed for direct examination of an
upcoming witness #US https://t.co/tfRASREKST
- Solicitor convicted of assaulting elderly mother suspended indefinitely - Legal Futures https://t.co/wFemqAmiLi
- Four convicts wrongly released due to sentence 'misunderstanding' | Law Gazette https://t.co/b8V0oihSsK
- Litigants in person continue to shun Official Injury Claim portal - Legal Futures https://t.co/QpqbDxlvkI
- Helping refugees starving in #Poland’s icy border forests is illegal – but it’s not the real crime https://t.co/m5bMlkVmt6
- A major financial settlement paid to Sienna Miller over phone hacking is "tantamount" to an admission of illegal activity by the Sun, a court has heard https://t.co/NPjs5mWoNp
- A #French woman has been fined €1,200 ($1,357; £1,028) for causing a huge crash at the Tour de France by waving a cardboard sign in the riders' path https://t.co/tmU8NSH4dE
- Three judges elevated to Inner House - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yUZ5L6xZTt
- Newspaper should not have to identify commenters, ECtHR rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/4HjMuYlbMm
- UKHSA
considers legal action against privately run Immensa lab - Watchdog
refuses FoI request from Good Law Project to give details of audit https://t.co/OfbFg9uwdb
- Ince profits up in ‘solid set of results’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/oCr3n0kMnt
- The
Conservative Party has been fined £17,800 for "failing to accurately
report a donation" that paid for the refurbishment of the PM's flat. The
Electoral Commission also said the party failed to "keep a proper
accounting record" around the donation https://t.co/k26Mh85uzd
- An official investigation into government staff parties is to focus on three events that took place last year. Downing Street parties on 27 November and 18 December, and at the education department on 10 December will be examined for Covid rule breaches https://t.co/fPRUSDn0NJ
- New personal injury discount rate to be set in Northern Ireland early next year | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VCThjN53Oq
- Firm's boss kept quiet for months about employee's theft of £670k | Law Gazette https://t.co/bFyMgCKB81
- #NewZealand
will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to
eventually phase out smoking. Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to
buy cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime https://t.co/E8hK3InDW6
- A picture of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell relaxing at what appears to be British monarch's Balmoral residence has been shown to a US court https://t.co/Ris9fvN1NG
- Hamilton sheriff convicts man who failed to secure cars on transporter of dangerous driving - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6D3Disb6vP
- Society welcomes proposed reforms to tackle hate crime disparities | Law Gazette https://t.co/9Uvki5oBuM
- Boris Johnson’s ‘war on judges’ is a fiction – the truth is, it is an attack on all of us https://t.co/0pONAPaSyp
- Judicial selection review to be published 'early 2022' | Law Gazette https://t.co/I11D4az9ik
- The ex-boyfriend of an accuser in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex crimes trial has given testimony that she performed sex acts on paedophile Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/6cVPW3aq3w
- UK ‘embarrassed’ into funding #Mozambique gas project, court hears https://t.co/vfjlHXoKI5
- Sienna Miller settles phone hacking claim with News Group Newspapers https://t.co/YghbLl0snN
- Pre-recorded evidence could be ‘counterproductive’, new bar chair warns | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ji7weCRPoI
- Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes testified she "never" lied to investors as her defence team rested its case in her criminal fraud trial #US https://t.co/0G0En0QrAC
- UK’s anti-money laundering measures need complete reset, says report https://t.co/dSvJfJ46xk
- People in England are being asked to work from home again if possible and face masks will be compulsory in most public places, as part of new rules to limit the spread of Omicron https://t.co/P9bvdhYwts
- Family WhatsApp conversation protected under proposed hate crime reforms | Law Gazette https://t.co/arzvlbvIVN
- Litigation funder Novitas makes shock exit from the legal market | Law Gazette https://t.co/6cRJqfBDK0
- NHS Covid Pass crashes after Plan B announcement - Users reported being unable to download their domestic or travel passes from the NHS app and website following Boris Johnson's announcement https://t.co/itbfbXuCW2
