Friday

10th December - Law News

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 

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

Thursday

9th December - Law News

Edition 3635: 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: Chair of the Bar for 2022, Mark Fenhalls QC, delivers his inaugural speech at Gray’s Inn on 7 December 2021, setting out his hopes and aims for the Bar during his year as Chair

Focus of the Day Story: A cross-party parliamentary group has urged the government not to pursue a ‘nuclear option’ in its judicial review reforms that could result in serious human rights abuses. In a report published today, the Joint Committee on Human Rights says the government should introduce procedural reforms for so-called Cart JRs, rather than discontinue this particular legal avenue. Full story - The Law Society Gazette 

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • A small Brexit dividend for lawyer-client confidentiality? | Law Gazette https://t.co/tzj0aHq0Cp
  • FAI into M9 crash deaths to take place more than six years after accident - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QC8ZRDO8x1
  • Online litigant penalised for abuse of process | Law Gazette https://t.co/RZqZsFni1r
  • Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O), formerly known as Facebook, said on Wednesday it would ban all Myanmar-military controlled businesses from having a presence on its platforms in an expansion of its earlier curbs on the country's security forces https://t.co/oo9FUqGrZ
  • Campaign to make misogyny a hate crime rebuffed by Law Commission https://t.co/7Cmok07DwV
  • Dyson says it will appeal after £150m damages claim rejected by EU court: Case follows earlier legal victory over energy efficiency stickers on vacuum cleaners that firm said misled buyers https://t.co/evQF2wpxx
  • British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK will diplomatically boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics, due to be held in February 2022. In a parliamentary statement, Mr Johnson said he typically did not support "sporting boycotts" https://t.co/Ji52yxWZ1p 
  • British cyclist Mark Cavendish was assaulted by four armed men during a burglary at his home on 27 November. Cavendish, 36, said he, his wife Peta and their children were threatened "at knifepoint" by the men and he was "violently attacked" https://t.co/4rPZuktWId
  • The government is adding terrifying amendments to the policing bill, putting the UK on a path to dictatorship https://t.co/lAaqFwUK7m
  • Government mulls reforms to essential patent regime | Law Gazette https://t.co/KSSva2gg8B
  • Incoming Bar chair: "I was wrong to be colour blind in approach to race" - Legal Futures https://t.co/VSyBjvXnwq
  • A nurse has been charged with a series of sexual offences against staff and patients at a Sheffield hospital. Paul Grayson, an operating theatre nurse at the Royal Hallamshire, faces 20 charges including sexual assault and voyeurism https://t.co/mn1XAoBaef
  • Sydney GP denies doing deal with dying patient to secure lion’s share of $30m estate, court hears #Australia https://t.co/J8JuGsPx1j
  • Kent firm eyes major expansion as it offers efficient staff a 'You day' - Legal Futures https://t.co/ahcGFY1xyH
  • Super-regulator acknowledges that PII costs are driving firms under | Law Gazette https://t.co/cc41XNFwHH
  • Regulators of legal services must develop plans for “remedial action to address competence issues” among lawyers, according to a draft policy statement published today by the Legal Services Board - Legal Futures https://t.co/zheCoxQAXl
  • Allegra Stratton has resigned as a government adviser following an angry backlash over a video of No 10 staff joking about holding a Christmas party https://t.co/hgno89PR8b 
  • Fred Konynenburg obituary: Fred Konynenburg, who has taken his own life aged 52, was a highly respected lawyer with the international commercial law firm Hill Dickinson https://t.co/1xoOCHhHbj 
  • The High Court has struck out a barrister’s petition to wind up a company he said he loaned £30,000 so it could pay the solicitors he introduced to them - Legal Futures https://t.co/XkLmIRnU1o
  • Tate viewing platform nuisance case reaches Supreme Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/rMNjp1fq7F
  • Society names interim chief executive | Law Gazette https://t.co/iMc4IUj6n
  • Rehana Popal is the first female of Afghan descent to become a barrister in England and Wales: The former child refugee helping Afghan asylum seekers https://t.co/eAW6tKSqv6
  • Mercedes' sponsorship deal with Kingspan, a firm that made insulation material involved in the Grenfell Tower disaster, has ended a week after it was announced https://t.co/GROHsZYwXg
  • Lord committee recommends amendments to Judicial Review and Courts Bill - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SUC7rPH9Hs 
  • Former Spanish king claims immunity from English courts | Law Gazette https://t.co/yw97fSyoos 
  • UK’s anti-money laundering measures need complete reset, says report https://t.co/dSvJfJlHVU 
  • Lord chancellor faces JR over immigration detainees’ legal advice | Law Gazette https://t.co/kPhDIoPTBQ
  • Bernard Collaery trial: Coalition tells high court release of judgment would risk national security #Australia https://t.co/YyVdcqJlHF
  • Dundee schoolteacher fails to prove mental health deterioration from being hit by wooden partition - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GAeAcGXxni 
  • 'Nuclear option': human rights committee highlights JR danger | Law Gazette https://t.co/2bACg8EpLv
  • Compulsory retirement of partners: problems and opportunities - Legal Futures https://t.co/FvPri5uY5S
  • News focus: Pre-charge anonymity - a presumption of privacy | Law Gazette https://t.co/a7XVeNtej3
  • Sibghat Kadri obituary: Lawyer who pursued principles of racial equality both for those he represented as a barrister and within the legal establishment https://t.co/uz74ZrgHAz 
  • Claimant liable for abuse of process after misusing online claim system - Legal Futures https://t.co/y8UAw4O0f6 
  • Solicitor used estate money to clear overdraft while client was in prison | Law Gazette https://t.co/wsOoHbrajK
  • Solicitor avoids strike-off despite lying to SRA and insurer - Legal Futures https://t.co/Y6TlQCDilq
  • Two clients sentenced to prison over fees contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/BAA1YspDJr 
  • City law firms fund training of social welfare solicitors - Legal Futures https://t.co/7juYTJB1ZY 
  • Tribunal slashes costs awards to SRA | Law Gazette https://t.co/WQt0C4IcxJ 
  • Oversight regulator to put cost of PII under the microscope - Legal Futures https://t.co/82aN2xKeHY

Wednesday

8th December - Law News

Edition 3634: 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 – a look to the future (Compliance Officer Conference 2021)

Focus of the Day Story: The disruption caused by Covid last year was not a good enough excuse for a law firm missing a deadline to file amended particulars of claim by four months, the High Court has ruled. Full story - Legal Futures 

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Owners of flats near Tate Modern take privacy case to supreme court - Ruling in Neo Bankside residents v viewing platform could potentially have wider implications for neighbour disputes https://t.co/yuj70PbtFV
  • City watchdog appoints new general counsel | Law Gazette https://t.co/dYhkh2Dc7C
  • Fortress Europe: the millions spent on military-grade tech to deter refugees https://t.co/R65wPFerM
  • No 10 staff joked about party amid lockdown restrictions - The PM's then press secretary Allegra Stratton is asked by colleagues about reports of a party, as they rehearse a news conference in December last year https://t.co/uLsZ7C2SjG
  • A Saudi man suspected of involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been arrested in #France, police say https://t.co/vyvpIOdLXd
  • My legal life: Colin Secomb, Lewis Denley - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/RfL02uFExE 
  • Arthur Cox recognised for work with those facing US death penalty | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tmXk9373ud
  • Fee concerns over remodelled emergency housing scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/Hajqb9y5jC 
  • Star Hobson: lawyer concedes murder accused was ‘terrible mother’ to toddler. Frankie Smith, 20, has admitted child cruelty but accuses her partner, Savannah Brockhill, of killing 16-month-old girl https://t.co/XvThK3DhzH 
  • Runner faces UK deportation despite state of emergency in Ethiopia: Officials refused Seyfu Jamaal’s asylum claim after he had waited more than three and a half years https://t.co/hSl30rb9fl 
  • Black #US couple sue appraiser valuing home $500k less versus white friend https://t.co/1LpqGHyOXd
  • Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide - Victims in US and UK legal action accuse social media firm of failing to prevent incitement of violence https://t.co/G0oSWY0qZN 
  • Andrew Neil threatens to sue Jennifer Arcuri after tweet about Epstein: Businesswoman had made claims about journalist’s inclusion in a contact book owned by Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/AHgRO9uLZB 
  • Government primed for new assault on judges - report | Law Gazette https://t.co/25EoAvhE8I
  • The government has admitted a series of failings in the years leading up to the Grenfell Tower disaster and apologised to victims of the fire https://t.co/94get8PRh6
  • Judicial review: New bill poses risk of government eschewing legislative process - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sNyYwvmLqK
  • Jails in England and Wales will be set targets for the first time to keep out drugs under prison reform proposals. The plans in the government White Paper - proposals for future laws - include assessing every new inmate for drug addiction upon arrival https://t.co/QJqXcaJ5fw
  • Negligence claim against tax silk ‘classic piece of reverse engineering’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/gE4bvUh0zw
  • Police and other agencies made failures after twin sisters, who went on to take their own lives, reported sexual abuse, reviews have found - Sam and Chris Gould, from Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, died by suicide four months apart, aged 16 and 17 https://t.co/a4Jyc23uG4
  • Traces of cocaine found in Parliament ahead of government announcement on drug crackdown - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OT09GLtHNs
  • Cleared lawyer asks for SRA to cover her £534,000 defence costs | Law Gazette https://t.co/UDUqb9G7
  • Man who spent first two weeks in mother and baby home to sue over redress scheme | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YvLXpDSmv
  • City firms to fund social welfare lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/5YBwflT
  • Sheriff Appeal Court refuses appeal by Glasgow woman convicted of sending offensive emails to SNP MP - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KwGECrMNn
  • A British woman has testified in court that socialite Ghislaine Maxwell asked her to find "cute, young, pretty" girls for paedophile tycoon Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/IvCzRSnZwc
  • Households in Wales could have their council tax bands changed as part of a proposed Welsh government shake up. Ministers are considering the first revaluation of residential properties since 2003 https://t.co/GtVndauY5Y
  • Lawyer in the news: Filiz Kiani, Cohen Davis Solicitors - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/BXL1FvFAf6
  • Cleared lawyer must pay £534,000 defence costs, SDT rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/arAmALXh2
  • Clients committed to jail for contempt over unpaid solicitors' bills - Legal Futures https://t.co/O1tQtLE4w
  • Society welcomes first global services agreement in 24 years | Law Gazette https://t.co/YbpsuBr9DZ
  • Solicitor struck off after cutting out partners from running of firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/63mhoVA0u7 
  • Ministerial code can be justiciable, High Court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/PeKfznuWsY
  • Covid not good enough reason for solicitors missing court deadline - Legal Futures https://t.co/e22GyaVush
  • Raab shows his hand on rights revision | Opinion | Law Gazette https://t.co/bCxoidPo8c 
  • Law firm eyes group action against Simplify over cyber-attack - Legal Futures https://t.co/5TVjO3WEp8
  • #US boss of mortgage firm Better(dot)com fires 900 employees over Zoom - Vishal Garg has been much criticised over social media following the pre-Christmas mass sacking https://t.co/bKriNSyZnc
  • Foreign Office's handling of the Afghan evacuation was "dysfunctional" and "chaotic", a whistleblower has said. The process of choosing who could get a flight out was "arbitrary" and thousands of emails with pleas for help went unread https://t.co/DgOnSYa0WS

Tuesday

7th December - Law News

Edition 3633: 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: Six Palestinian men went on the run after tunnelling out of one of Israel’s maximum security prisons in September. It led to renewed fears of a flare-up in the region and saw Israel scramble a massive search, while many Palestinians celebrated the bid for freedom. But this is about more than just a dramatic jailbreak.


Focus of the Day Story: In R (Babbage) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 2995 (Admin), the Claimant applied for judicial review, claiming that his immigration detention from 27 February 2020 to 29 April 2021 had been unlawful and/or that there was a public law error relating to the delay in the provision of s.4 accommodation.  Full story - UK Human Rights Blog 

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • How Tiffany blue and Louboutin shoes are revealing trademark law’s true colours - Legal Cheek https://t.co/TidySiuty
  • [Faceless Assessment Scheme] After Madras, Kerala High Court notice to Centre in challenge to Sec144B Income Tax Act | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/0zrh7zCMRf
  • The Corporate Counsel Show: Good governance in the new normal - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/19PAxPJqe
  • Uber has said it may soon have to start charging its UK customers VAT at 20%, after a High Court judgement, pushing up the cost of rides https://t.co/mlh7kZPwTq
  • Dismay at UK’s offshore detention plans for asylum seekers: Detainees and workers from Australia’s offshore detention camps say Britain is ignoring the failings and financial costs of that system https://t.co/x4efbn2Me
  • Clydes and BLM in 'early stage' merger talks - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FpjK01oabx
  • Work on a national investigation into the death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes is to begin immediately, the education secretary has said https://t.co/5LDmlEe8r5
  • Parliament Watch: Extension of ED Director tenure, e-voting, ODR and more [Day 5 roundup] | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/q8HTaON3N
  • Middle-class drug users could lose UK passports under Boris Johnson’s plans: Campaigners say government going backwards by targeting ‘lifestyle’ users of class A drugs with tough criminal sanctions https://t.co/mlGaOLNhHK
  • Overcoming pain points with drafting - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/MBi1Lf2kbU
  • Met Police constables PCs Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis who took photos of two murdered sisters and shared the images on WhatsApp groups have each been jailed for 33 months https://t.co/oaQw1bdwKQ 
  • My journey from STEM grad to lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/KGmpEiuavG 
  • Service Rules on prevention of sexual harassment at workplace should not be given hyper-technical interpretation: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/DmMKV1XfEm
  • Clean energy, decarbonisation and the future - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/TReAGBrkbC
  • A brutal mob killing of a Sri Lankan man accused of blasphemy in #Pakistan has sparked protests in both countries. Priyantha Diyawadanage, 48, a factory manager in the city of Sialkot, was beaten to death https://t.co/Lf5zGF62B3
  • The senior civil servants union loses High Court challenge to Boris Johnson's decision to back Priti Patel over claims she bullied staff. Last year, the PM kept his home secretary in post despite a report accusing her of breaking the ministerial code https://t.co/kQiKpTsEV
  • Football manager Joey Barton has been found not guilty of attacking a rival after a match. He had denied pushing over the then Barnsley manager Daniel Stendel in the tunnel at the Oakwell stadium after a match in April 2019 https://t.co/cmOliQvunF 
  • Oxford v Cambridge moot debacle shows that even top law students make mistakes - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lftKyjjBrK
  • Arbitration, exorbitant fees and the fear of Contempt | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/vYBM9IlaXk
  • RACE consortium acquires Supercars Championship - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/gzzF0irDFf 
  • Navy rape complainant backs civilian court trials for serious offences https://t.co/Oux8aH709p 
  • Labour reshuffle: Former law textbook publisher appointed shadow justice secretary - Legal Cheek https://t.co/weQN5szN49
  • Aung San Suu Kyi, the ousted leader has been sentenced by a #Myanmar court to four years jail https://t.co/QtTz6JU1ft
  • Sai Krishna Bharathan, Vivek Bajaj to leave AZB Partners for Trilegal after two decades; two more to follow | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/txGwVx1g5D
  • Federal election poll launched for legal profession - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/2xjOYKmp15 
  • BCLP and Mishcon raise London NQ lawyer pay - Legal Cheek https://t.co/LdoHrzVGkw
  • The Corporate Counsel Show: ACC chair Mike Madden on elevating the GC role - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/bZCbLkFpOX 
  • Ex-barrister jailed for life for false rape, kidnap and stabbing claims against ex-lawyer lover has sentence overturned on appeal - Legal Cheek https://t.co/1ySMJBk0IH
  • The killing of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes will be the subject of a national review to protect other children from such evil crimes, the government says https://t.co/klAkLEJyeA
  • ED case against Anil Deshmukh a witch hunt to topple State government: Hrishikesh Deshmukh to Mumbai court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/wxzvzsMvx4 
  • Legally Blonde 3 will follow Elle Woods juggling motherhood with legal career - Legal Cheek https://t.co/jbpGqOOJSC
  • Several people have been injured after a military truck rammed into a crowd of protesters in #Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon https://t.co/1fULOZCNRd

Monday

6th December - Law News

Edition 3632: 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: As a caravan was stranded in Veracruz state, Mexico, migrants were seen trying to board trains in attempts to leave for other areas. The group was previously held due to official restrictions for several days and couldn’t cross the northern border

Focus of the Day Story: A charity which provides legal textbooks donated by the UK legal community to non-for-profit organisations around the globe, has celebrated its 15th anniversary.  Full story - New Law Journal 

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Eversheds ups trainee intake by a quarter and offers 'high calibre' paralegals pathway to solicitor qualification - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GZgItcLL8b 
  • Loss of Chance with Sarah Lambert QC and Dominic Ruck Keene - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/NFLSXFFsPK
  • HSF joins City pay war with £105k base NQ salary - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ocZHgRAPE1
  • Do not manually lift disabled person without consent, remove prosthetic limbs/calipers during security checks: Supreme Court to DGCA | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/7oO8eSKC9
  • [Faceless appeal scheme] If Centre can make statement in Supreme Court, why not here: Bombay High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/whf9fTtZHv
  • House of Commons Speaker Sir has promised to raise allegations of drug use in Parliament with the Metropolitan Police. He described a report in the Sunday Times that traces of cocaine had been found in several lavatory areas as "deeply concerning" https://t.co/ST0iV5KvTd
  • Lawyers analyse child’s ‘new room contract’ with 9-year-old sister - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tWdVwgqcVV
  • Omicron response shines spotlight on flawed travel restrictions, HRLC says - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/yW7Rhq4JKH
  • Grace period in a time of Covid - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/ZWpz82hhBb
  • Law students seminar bingo card goes viral - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qhjop2JC8F 
  • Firm hit by pandemic bought after entering administration | Law Gazette https://t.co/u2IUoJtdki 
  • Family of Salford Uni law student murdered in drive-by shooting collect her degree - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ndtbhXHmfl
  • Cosmetic surgery review welcome but overdue: ALA - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/rdHOmg8MiY 
  • 'Dramatic increase' in complaints about barristers social media posts - Legal Cheek https://t.co/jm3iHXlG0Y
  • Hundreds of court staff support strike over Common Platform, union says | Law Gazette https://t.co/TthQMzhmji
  • The return of pre-departure tests for travellers heading to the UK has been described by the travel industry as a "hammer blow" to the sector https://t.co/3EnTazdqR3
  • #US news anchor Chris Cuomo has been fired by CNN for help he gave his brother, ex-New York governor Andrew Cuomo, while he was battling harassment allegations https://t.co/qTDqK7UjbR 
  • Edinburgh Uni grad scoops full SQE1 scholarship with 'law firm of the future' essay - Legal Cheek https://t.co/juWSrLlw8I 
  • Mandatory vaccination for care home workers not unlawful nor in breach of ECHR - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/8pqzC6tCWm
  • Eco-law students launch boycott of US law firm Gibson Dunn for ‘shielding corporate polluters’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/OY9wgAzIT2
  • The Boutique Lawyer Show: Intersectionality is critical to legal service delivery - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/9U5r28NXuF
  • Trainee solicitor cleared after giving colleague suggestive Christmas card | Law Gazette https://t.co/L13vWcOXQp
  • Ex-Dentons trainee wins misconduct appeal over ‘sexualised’ Christmas card - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JLotgrkhDP
  • All donations to LawCare will be doubled if made between 30 November and 7 December | NLJ https://t.co/1QuBLFPKlx
  • Courts should be last resort, only after exploring alternative dispute resolution: CJI NV Ramana | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/BZVbTQoSbG 
  • A charity which provides legal textbooks donated by the UK legal community to non-for-profit organisations around the globe, has celebrated its 15th anniversary | NLJ https://t.co/87SuiLdBFP 
  • Using privilege and legal skills to help others - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/VBq7Yp3JgV

Sunday

5th December - Law News

Edition 3631: 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: The leaders of 14 European far-right parties are at a conference in Poland. Among the nationalist and populist issues up for discussion is the building an alternative centre of power in the European Union. It's aimed at opposing the EU on issues such as migration, national sovereignty as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. They face a number of challenges caused by their differences. Despite that, what's clear is they all want more influence in European politics. But how much influence do they have now? How dangerous is a united far-right?



Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Travellers heading to the UK will now have to take a Covid test before their departure in an effort to limit spread of the virus, the government has said. The tightened requirements would come into force from 04:00 GMT on Tuesday https://t.co/LeRRQ1v4eC
  • Lawyers have been advised to keep electronic court bundles clearly labelled and brief, in general guidance issued by the judiciary | NLJ https://t.co/ax6HLSEq0
  • Disgraced Police Scotland gives £1m to family of M9 crash victim Lamara Bell - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bUAYwNiLCH
  • A Calderbank offer does not have the same effect as a Part 36 offer and should not be treated the same by a judge, the Court of Appeal has held | NLJ https://t.co/32fxrrm0jy 
  • 'Dangerous offender' snatched woman's handbag as she sat outside coffee shop with friends - Marc Morgan has 114 previous offences on his record including robbery, numerous assaults, and 38 burglaries https://t.co/SiIuq5bKmr
  • Publishing lawyers’ complaints data won’t help consumers, says Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/AjsPkLBtR1
  • The Attorney General is to be asked to review the "lenient" jail sentences given to a couple who killed six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Emma Tustin was jailed for 29 years for murder and child cruelty and Thomas Hughes, was given 21 years https://t.co/rhhknI4jGK
  • Swansea based Cinema & Co, closed down over covid pass row, advertise Muppet Christmas Carol screening 'starring Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford as Scrooge' https://t.co/knvO7ioTBZ 
  • The Law Commission is to launch a major review of the Arbitration Act 1996, the principal legislation governing arbitrations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland | NLJ https://t.co/1snFzSjNTm
  • ‘HMRC gave me £775,000 by mistake – and it’s turned into a nightmare’ - Staff processing a £23 parcels duty rebate paid the life-changing sum into a woman’s bank account https://t.co/Mue9JAuTe1 
  • Lawyers could be referred to regulators for inappropriate urgent applications | Law Gazette https://t.co/QSUYOQha8o
  • Anti-Semitism: 2021 likely to be 'the worst year on record' https://t.co/h3DiScMsld
  • A man with no mental capacity to understand consent does not have capacity to enter into sexual acts, the Supreme Court has held | NLJ https://t.co/XmMc1VUc9H 
  • The Metropolitan Police has said it does not routinely probe "retrospective breaches" of Covid laws amid calls for an investigation of a No 10 Christmas party held during 2020's restrictions https://t.co/FqPCmcyBEj 
  • Womble Bond Dickinson finally fights off negligence claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/8x4vt8pN4O 
  • RNLI takes down its website after suspected hacking attempt: Charity’s site reduced to a landing page after ‘suspicious activity’ and staff sent threatening emails from far-right activists https://t.co/bkfrC6ZXaP
  • RNLI vows to continue Channel rescues ‘without judgement’ amid new hate campaign by Britain First - Far-right group claims to have sent thousands of emails to rescue charity claiming to be from ‘concerned citizens’ https://t.co/yHOGycAuDT 
  • The parents of a teenager suspected of a deadly school shooting have been arrested in a Detroit basement hours after going on the run, police say. James and Jennifer Crumbley were found unarmed hiding in a warehouse after a tip-off #US https://t.co/k9lU0W58sd
  • The High Court has sent a warning to lawyers with illegible signatures, in a case where a bill of costs was held not to have been validly served | NLJ https://t.co/HlpMbBqvZg 
  • Increase in BSB staff not ‘reasonable or proportionate’ - Bar Council | Law Gazette https://t.co/JKZT3dVKhs
  • The Law Commission has confirmed that smart legal contracts can be accommodated by existing law, and there is no need for statutory law reform | NLJ https://t.co/sGPt2cvfe6 
  • Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Key moments from the first week https://t.co/6Yzli23lMK 
  • Firm lets staff take 'you day' if they've already done their hours | Law Gazette https://t.co/y7bIxoc5Yp 
  • E-Scooters set to be banned from London Tube after Parsons Green fire https://t.co/2SxkU2XQFO 
  • Two army veteran MPs are trying to force the government to waive visa fees for foreign citizens who served in the military and want to remain in the UK. Visas for foreigners who served in UK armed forces currently cost £2,389 https://t.co/pV4WXfBsPQ 
  • I had £18,000 stolen after my drink was spiked' - Ben Gregory, 26, believes his drink was spiked during a night out in Clapham in south London https://t.co/62OK5dz4Va 
  • GPs in England can defer some of the services they provide to patients to allow them to deliver Covid booster jabs instead, NHS chiefs have said https://t.co/24G60m7YvT 
  • Man detained in secure Glasgow hospitals who claimed he should have been released earlier loses damages claim against health board - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XtKXsgpI8w
  • Mother in law: Paternity leave and the gender pay gap | Law Gazette https://t.co/gM39FPOcMr 
  • Legal tech is having a strong impact on the probate process, with various innovations making this an exciting time | NLJ https://t.co/4ZWrJHUAS7

Saturday

4th December - Law News

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: In the wake of two cases of Omicron detected in India, Tamil Nadu's Madurai today announced that unvaccinated people would not be allowed to enter malls, shopping complexes and other public places from next week

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • There are eight attacks on emergency workers every day on average, according to new figures. The 1,400 in the first half of this year saw workers headbutted, kicked, punched and coughed at, while 21 involved weapons being brandished https://t.co/mU7SUe80wL
  • Northern Ireland arbitration law to be reviewed | Irish Legal News https://t.co/PYWN2GQvOE 
  • #Italian man tries to dodge Covid jab using fake arm - But a nurse was not fooled and the man has now been reported to the police https://t.co/1Y2GDTHmh1 
  • Swansea cinema that defied orders to shut after not enforcing Covid pass rules may have to pay back some of the £53,000 it received in Covid grants https://t.co/DcODSY5oNS
  • Prosecutors have charged the parents of a suspect in a deadly Michigan school shooting with involuntary manslaughter. Authorities have issued a fugitive warrant for James and Jennifer Crumbley #US https://t.co/h8m6vxRMAE
  • Court orders contempt of court hearing following SLCC petition to secure file - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yeuuUlpETM 
  • Outrage at Taliban takeover of Afghanistan bar association | Law Gazette https://t.co/xOcxGolp7m
  • Man tortured and killed in #Pakistan over alleged blasphemy - Government accused of having emboldened extremists after lynching of Sri Lankan in Sialkot https://t.co/YIB8fBsFjm 
  • Meghan calls for tabloid industry overhaul as Mail on Sunday loses appeal https://t.co/lBnQh5H5CS
  • Act now against Omicron to stop new Covid wave, UK ministers warned: Government privately being urged by advisers to tell people to work from home until more is known of variant https://t.co/iFLEDpPVTh 
  • Cleaver Fulton Rankin promotes Jeanette Donohoe to head of dispute resolution | Irish Legal News https://t.co/OWFEFNNwki
  • Law Society’s annual awards to end after 15 years | Law Gazette https://t.co/VPSLVTGNWd 
  • Douglas Mill: No whitewash in the White House - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vGKXaiOVFd 
  • Mail lawyers criticised for lack of ‘clear focus’ in Meghan appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/3Zz1zTvofX
  • A man has been jailed for 21 years and his partner for a minimum of 29 years over the torture and killing of his six-year-old son, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Emma Tustin, 32, murdered the boy with a fatal head injury at her home in Solihull last year https://t.co/GcDwvXhpQE
  • ECJ adviser backs rule-of-law measure in blow to #Poland and #Hungary https://t.co/VwXc5UgTsx 
  • Charities watchdog set to be led by poetry and finance specialist - Nadine Dorries promotes Forward Arts Foundation trustee Martin Thomas for politically sensitive role https://t.co/O9pOVBGosm 
  • Will the SQE affect diversity in the legal profession? - Legal Futures https://t.co/02yLOr4Sk6 
  • Police dogs to gain extra protections in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/U8irVjvJui 
  • "Ticketless, drunken and drugged-up thugs" could have caused death as they stormed Wembley before the Euro 2020 final, says a review into the disorder. The report by Baroness Louise Casey said there was a "collective failure" in planning for the match https://t.co/ZirpfhUJ4x 
  • Top 50 law firms heading for “two-track” future - Legal Futures https://t.co/wqaiuA2SZy 
  • Carnwath disappointed ‘legal enforcement’ was not discussed at Cop 26 | Law Gazette https://t.co/knjMrWgJbb
  • Law students pledge to boycott top firm for "shielding polluters" - Legal Futures https://t.co/kjMBTWkLB4 
  • Northern Ireland landlords could be required to give six months’ notice to quit | Irish Legal News https://t.co/nqcVKCBoEK 
  • Unregulated firm uses AI to offer clients debt repayment guarantee - Legal Futures https://t.co/pe4xiVfuDf
  • A male trainee solicitor at global law Dentons has successfully appealed a rebuke from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over a sexually suggestive Christmas card he left on the desk of a female colleague - Legal Futures https://t.co/3iXypTB7ED 
  • Younger lawyers unhappy about working hours | Law Gazette https://t.co/uDSI4kJS05 
  • The risk of catching and becoming very sick from Covid remains higher for people belonging to certain ethnic groups: Black and South Asian people are among those hit hardest, along with people in cities with high levels of deprivation https://t.co/g5QQdTedI8 
  • Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire and government minister Michael Gove have criticised Formula 1 team Mercedes for signing a deal with a firm linked to the tower https://t.co/5jj5DLQvy8 
  • Inner House rules “success fee” charged by solicitor in debt recovery action not a judicial expense - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/PgNoGCnFJs 
  • CJEU advised to dismiss Hungary and Poland's rule of law case | Law Gazette https://t.co/SUY0hu6Twx 
  • ByrneWallace announces appointment of seven new partners | Irish Legal News https://t.co/C3jM1iYjF5 
  • Michael Fawcett honours claims: Charles' ex-aide worked with 'fixers', investigation finds https://t.co/XMhqHEs4p7 
  • A broken system: education, health, and care plans | Law Gazette https://t.co/UUyoHrcgY6 
  • Meghan’s all-out war may have taken Mail on Sunday by surprise https://t.co/SYWY3RKQsS 
  • Small claims taking 51 weeks to go to trial as litigants wait for justice | Law Gazette https://t.co/mcrG94k9XH

Friday

3rd December - Law News

Edition 3629: 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: Former Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota speaks about John the death threat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) received by voicemail and reacts to Rep. Nancy Mace's (R-SC) heated Twitter spat with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)


Focus of the Day Story: Whatever happened to those down under law firm recruitment roadshows? A generation of lawyers from Australia and New Zealand cut their teeth in London, now they are more likely to go to New York.  Full story - The Global Legal Post 

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Tory peer Michelle Mone accused of sending racist and abusive message - Mone is alleged to have called man of Indian heritage ‘a waste of a man’s white skin’ in WhatsApp exchange https://t.co/8aiM2KJ5hw
  • Professor Derek Auchie joins Squaring Circles - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/28hTT9YOMK
  • Caoimhe McConnell joins Richard Grogan & Associates | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WfqKTal1Ub
  • Harassment arrest breached journalist's human rights, ECtHR rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/90UAj9RuLI
  • “Diligent and caring solicitor” was not dishonest over medical reports - Legal Futures https://t.co/O6YniWFto
  • Images have been released of three men police want to speak to about allegations of anti-Semitic abuse directed at Jewish passengers on a bus https://t.co/mDdcvj4Fyx
  • #Germany's national and regional leaders have agreed to bar unvaccinated people from much of public life in a bid to fend off a fourth wave of Covid-19 https://t.co/boXVlTyPIz
  • Solicitor struck off after almost £600k of client money vanished | Law Gazette https://t.co/stE4l9pq0X 
  • Remand inmates in England and Wales ‘facing second Christmas behind bars’ - Figures obtained by charity show rising number of people held longer than six months awaiting trial or sentence https://t.co/6B99emCJbu 
  • McEntee hosts virtual National Missing Persons Day event | Irish Legal News https://t.co/irAIfIl2fj 
  • Ministers should face misconduct charges over Covid crisis, say UK campaigners https://t.co/FE41AtkpEk
  • Supreme Court allows DWP’s appeal over universal credit | Law Gazette https://t.co/lKaDs9kfi8 
  • Leading Conservative MP outlines worries about state of county court - Legal Futures https://t.co/V1LzcQcZb0
  • Tribunal rejects solicitor judges' claims for backpay - Legal Futures https://t.co/wMbrY3JlrC
  • Chef sentenced after one killed and 31 left ill by undercooked shepherd’s pie - John Croucher admits contravening food regulations after incident in which woman died in Northamptonshire https://t.co/nrODi1kEr9 
  • Bundesliga matches can only have an attendance of up to 50% and a maximum of 15,000 after #Germany reintroduced Covid-19 restrictions on Thursday https://t.co/usNttHqs8f
  • “Misconception” that review websites are bad for small firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/lckL6WCMne
  • The family of M9 crash victim Lamara Bell is to receive more than £1m in compensation from Police Scotland. The force previously admitted failures in its call-handling system "materially contributed" to the death of Ms Bell following the crash in 2015 https://t.co/yELC2H5OBy 
  • Meghan has won the latest stage in her legal fight against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday over a letter she sent to her father: The Court of Appeal rejected Associated Newspapers' attempt to have a trial in the privacy and copyright case https://t.co/Tp44oTul1h
  • Religious discrimination bill: moderate Liberals strike deal to protect gay students #Australia https://t.co/MxoW8CNvrQ
  • Raab invites ‘drastic and bold’ ideas to keep family matters out of court | Law Gazette https://t.co/cLvWvAkbd6
  • Ireland's Justice Minister Helen McEntee has secured Government approval to recommend to President Higgins that he exercise his right to pardon John Twiss, who was convicted of the murder of John Donovan and executed in January 1895 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/02zrKRfV29
  • What are the Coalition’s proposed anti-troll social media laws and who do they benefit? https://t.co/bOCfkoXZmx
  • IT crash firm says only a 'small proportion' of clients have moved | Law Gazette https://t.co/eudc9GjRIo 
  • Controversial mitochondrial donation legislation passed after conscience vote - Maeve’s law will legalise partial DNA donations, allowing women to give birth without passing on a genetic disease https://t.co/tZejjdisfV
  • Scottish government welcomes prison proposals: A new process to investigate prison deaths has been welcomed “in principle” by Justice Secretary Keith Brown - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9d69WDO3lp
  • Essex mega-prisons pose threat to rare wildlife, warn environmentalists - Government accused of reneging on environmental pledges with plan to build on old airfield near Braintree https://t.co/UNxgNcWRXm 
  • Landmark privacy ruling not ‘novel, radical or surprising’, Supreme Court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/2YZnv4Lx2s 
  • How an innocent Black man served time for the rape of author Alice Sebold - Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in jail as victim of miscarriage of justice but has accepted author’s apology https://t.co/H6culyqOJW 
  • Complaints about barristers’ conduct soar | Law Gazette https://t.co/kbdB4bbIV7 
  • High Court refuses application to introduce evidence of subsequent child contact litigation by man accused of rape - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BaWYeZAog7 
  • High Court to hear Khan case seven days after arrest warrant issued | Law Gazette https://t.co/lsHVC7dAzG 
  • Landmark privacy ruling not ‘novel, radical or surprising’, Supreme Court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/2YZnv4tWaU 
  • Abortion rights advocates vow to fight on after supreme court hearing: Leaders say they will look to statehouses and lower courts if justices allow undermining of Roe v Wade #US https://t.co/993wAwLOT3
  • Khan released from bench warrant after 'surrendering herself to the court' | Law Gazette https://t.co/2EgsIBS6J6 
  • The #US Supreme Court appears poised to accept a Mississippi law that would bar abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest https://t.co/YO13NcXAwA 
  • Conveyancers face 'unjustified' negligence claims over stamp duty | Law Gazette https://t.co/hT86o0M6j6