26th January - Law News

Edition 3683: 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 Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into parties held in No 10 during the coronavirus pandemic. Commissioner Cressida Dick said they were looking into "potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations" in Downing Street and Whitehall since 2020. The news comes after fresh allegations of a birthday party being held for the prime minister in June 2020.

 Focus of the Day Article: Judges will be doing more to encourage the involvement of junior barristers and solicitors in remote hearings, the Chancellor of the High Court has said. Sir Julian Flaux also outlined how he wanted to see more property cases before the Business & Property Courts. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Top-200 firms finalise merger plan but London office to close | Law Gazette https://t.co/V55Zj1BTwB
• Louise Rands Silva obituary: she worked as my assistant for nearly 30 years, on cases, books and a myriad of other activities relating to matters of international law and justice https://t.co/nAFBUceZCW 
• Barrister who made lewd remarks to mini-pupil loses suspension appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/6Ire0AHflO 
• £262bn investor says it will target bosses who fail on climate or human rights - Aviva Investors says voting at AGMs will be influenced by policies on climate, human rights, biodiversity and executive pay https://t.co/jyWuzwExpi
  
• Automated justice: striking the balance in injury claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/cUercFVKRO 
• Day of the Endangered Lawyer | Law Gazette https://t.co/swGfxyWDbZ 
• Barrister suspended for lewd comments to mini-pupil fails in appeal - Legal Futures https://t.co/WXS13MaDDv
• Hymen repair surgery and virginity testing to be banned in UK https://t.co/GU7ddyKQvH
• Attempting to ban protest is usually the mark of a repressive state. That’s not us, is it? https://t.co/kGmOUS5s9H
• The Premier League will speak to the Football Association, the English Football League and the police amid a rise in incidents of crowd trouble. Arrests at football matches across the top five English leagues are at their highest levels in years https://t.co/Yi5IhOHwSU
• Accountancy body refused permission to exit probate regulation - Legal Futures https://t.co/MONVKmeFpj
• Magistrates told to stay silent on 'disrespectful' attacks by lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/BVUMgIwiTZ
• Flaux: Remote hearings robbing junior lawyers of vital experience - Legal Futures https://t.co/A0aGTep38
• Sentencing guidelines plans could be frustrated by ‘limited’ data | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KauqRmAI7T
• Guidance urging people to work from home wherever possible in Scotland is to be relaxed in favour of a "hybrid" system of office and remote working. Phase back into spending some time in the office from Monday 31 January https://t.co/tqiaRYgXn9
• Solicitor “failed to notice” client's judicial review had been struck out - Legal Futures https://t.co/lOK4QOkma
• 'Back in to work' day - offices still half-empty | Law Gazette https://t.co/SP2VlfzVzf
• Rapper Cardi B awarded almost £1m in damages in defamation lawsuit win against a YouTuber https://t.co/4aGDLl7asi
• Three new hires at Weightmans in Glasgow | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ycLGFuw9mP
• NHS Resolution names 11 firms to share work worth £193m a year | Law Gazette https://t.co/w1H0VTtVbk
• Campaign seeks to recruit 4,000 lay magistrates in England and Wales - Largest recruitment effort in 650-year history of magistracy comes amid 372,000 backlog of cases in magistrates courts https://t.co/FrwwVr7Od6
• Police to investigate Downing Street parties over potential lockdown breaches, Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick confirms https://t.co/0h3OObrhwT
• Northern Ireland protocol book released with open access | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WBv5w9IzCJ
• Supreme Court not feeling government 'pressure' over JR - Reed | Law Gazette https://t.co/411KOIcz
• Google warns of ‘devastating’ impact if court ruling on defamatory hyperlinks not overturned https://t.co/F503FE7Er
• Covid danger in St Lucia’s tiny courts puts stop to murder trials - Covid danger in St Lucia’s tiny courts puts stop to murder trials: Ninety wait for justice as infection controls prevent juries from sitting for two years https://t.co/3JeGbfNcJR
  
• Covid focuses minds as more firms look to grow through mergers | Law Gazette https://t.co/WrtCQzybL
• Metropolitan Police apology to woman over language in strip search - Dr Koshka Duff was detained in 2013 after offering a legal advice card to a black teenager during his stop-and-search https://t.co/ncZxBXkxCN 
• Best of the blogs - 22 January 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/u9Igt4X31B
• The chief executive of Scottish beer giant Brewdog has been accused of inappropriate behaviour and abuse of power in the workplace by former staff https://t.co/uhIOPXNgYk
• Vicky Crichton: Introduction of alternative business structures a ‘welcome step’ | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NcmflzJWMc

25th January - Law News

Edition 3682: 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: Find out what the CLAR report really means, hear responses from the Bar Council, Criminal Bar Association and more, find out about the consultation process and take the chance to ask your questions.

 Focus of the Day Article: The Court of Appeal dismissed a set of claims for psychiatric injury on the basis of prior binding authority, but indicated that the issue is suitable for consideration by the Supreme Court. Full story - The UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• 8 New Year goals law students have already given up on - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7UBx8KsXcp
• Law graduate refused admission following lengthy litigation history - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/w111Mn469C
• ULaw extends ‘money back’ offer to out-of-work LLM students - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RyC4GWsZiK
• Can anticipatory bail under CrPC be sought by juvenile: Calcutta High Court larger bench to examine | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/tSqHRvLsnk
• Law firms eye M&A as route to private equity or listing - Legal Futures https://t.co/0UsrnhLjDw 
• Linklaters kicks off spring retention season with 94% result - Legal Cheek https://t.co/52hWJqnAe
• Judge married to Tory grandee refuses to recuse herself in ex-MP case - Legal Futures https://t.co/cJWIEU9XvT 
• ‘Challenges are always going to present the best opportunities to learn’ - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/EuUkpNL0G3
• Race disparity remains as first SQE results are unveiled - Legal Futures https://t.co/R1IHvbYdYR 
• A lone gunman is dead after injuring four people inside a lecture hall at Heidelberg University, #German police have said https://t.co/iahugxC3Cu
• People arriving in England from abroad will no longer have to take Covid tests if they are fully vaccinated, the government has confirmed https://t.co/AFWbdyN8dk
• Squire Patton Boggs boosts trainee salaries by as much as 27% - Legal Cheek https://t.co/dfOwZ2hu8D
• Protégé: How working in a legal clinic shaped this new lawyers’ career aspirations - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/rz0QS2Zmhu
• Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a Cabinet Office inquiry into claims made by a Muslim MP who says her faith was given as a reason for her sacking as a minister in 2020 https://t.co/uZhbv2M5FS
• High-profile City litigator fails in appeal against strike-off - Legal Futures https://t.co/fjcjaDOqYe 
• BCLP retains 13 out of 18 spring qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ulY1ziN6eq
• Sex trafficking: Children groomed in Romania sent to UK - Once they arrive as teenagers, they're kept captive and pimped out for sex https://t.co/3hHqyrfFqY
• The Corporate Counsel Show: What you must demand from supply chains in 2022 - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/znI04LYHe6 
• No one is safe from the rich elite’s abuse of British law. Just ask Charlotte Leslie https://t.co/0ZxFnqArxg
• The draft online safety bill would not stop the sharing of "insidious" images of child abuse and violence against women and girls, MPs have claimed https://t.co/g6mQMxcKSF
• Julian Assange wins right to ask UK Supreme Court to consider case against US extradition https://t.co/kbVLDqAziy
• UK firms weigh risks of forcing their staff to get coronavirus jabs https://t.co/Ju6p4ECMKm
• An #Australian man has pleaded guilty to abducting four-year-old Cleo Smith and holding her at his home for 18 days. Cleo vanished from her family's tent last October while on a camping trip in Western Australia https://t.co/T4JrDkbCjE 
• ‘Broken’ gun licensing scheme risks another Plymouth, warn campaigners - ‘Broken’ gun licensing scheme risks another Plymouth, warn campaigners. Pro- and anti-shooting groups warn Priti Patel over lack of resources for firearms control system https://t.co/rrAa14VK6F
• The families of two men who died after incidents involving Welsh police forces have spoken for the first time about their fight for justice. Mohamud Hassan, 24, and Mouayed Bashir, 29, died within weeks of each other after police attended their homes https://t.co/osTUxzNWwn
  
• Revealed: The best chambers for training 2022 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/VA7VE6TMxk 
• Tory Islamophobia: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a Cabinet Office inquiry into claims made by a Muslim MP who says her faith was given as a reason for her sacking as a minister in 2020 https://t.co/kMFCU3Yr4L
• Two men take corpse into Irish post office to claim dead man’s pension #Ireland https://t.co/iWkDQ90Cc3
• ‘Toxic work culture’ impacting productivity, say half of legal workers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rP8W38bPTq
• Criminal barristers vote to take action if government does not increase legal aid - Legal Cheek https://t.co/pkxmjypRT4
  
• Why I rejected a magic circle TC offer to pursue a career at the bar - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lxfFzd4kbh

24th January - Law News

Edition 3681: 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: Citizens of Beirut rallied against corruption and restrictions on bank-account withdrawals amid the country’s economic crisis. The protesters decry the government’s lack of action due to alleged corruption as Lebanon witnesses the worst economic collapse in its history.

 Focus of the Day Article: The Supreme Court has launched a free, online course about its work, including interviews with current and former Justices. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Disturbing material against Dileep, says Kerala High Court; grants interim protection from arrest | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/s00s082YPD
• Barry Bennell abuse claim falls on limitation and vicarious liability - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/YzrOUf6G9E 
• Shoosmiths and Aston Uni join forces to support disadvantaged sixth formers into law - Legal Cheek https://t.co/fojxKphR8D
  
• Self-Employment Support Scheme appeal dismissed - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/SS8FW1ARNH
• Dutch police say they have found a stowaway alive in the wheel section of a plane that landed at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport from #SouthAfrica https://t.co/nLHs0mpaJ
• Slaughters reveals spring trainee retention rate of 85% - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mKLcUzDSE0 
• Leaving the ‘lawyer’ title behind - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/9qUnA55dQX 
• Clydes and Fieldfisher raise junior lawyer pay - Legal Cheek https://t.co/j8KO3E5TQN
• Police powers under Welsh COVID Regulations - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/UDEkEznse8 
• Plea before Uttarakhand High Court to quash FIRs in Haridwar hate speech case | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/CbVgkqkvfO 
• PIL in Supreme Court to deregister political parties promising freebies before elections | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/uRKecVqR1b
  
• Freshfields keeps 34 of 37 spring qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/WNmv0LZYvE 
• The Weekly Round-Up: Questions over Meta's VR child protection policies, and the ethics of banning sexual entertainment venues - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/7P3AESw2lg
• SQE results day hit by technical issues and delays - Legal Cheek https://t.co/90LDZ3rtI9
• This is how Instagram influencer pay stacks up against City law firm partners - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vwzhdRlYj
• Actors and their agents are warning that the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in casting is a huge and increasing problem, with many major producers overly sensitive about the secrecy of their projects https://t.co/HNBpTGVIJm
• Oligarchs use London law firms to intimidate journalists, MPs say - Government urged to protect media from abusive legal action used to ‘intimidate and destroy’ reporters https://t.co/b6Nhj9ggP
• Intense fighting is taking place in north-eastern #Syria after Islamic State (IS) fighters tried to break inmates out of a Kurdish-run prison https://t.co/Rgk3UGifz8
• A gentleman judge: Tribute to Justice S Ranganathan | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/zFI6PgcCSU
• Supreme Court issues notice on plea seeking stringent punishment for offences against Transgender persons | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/a9GD5ZmDrv
• Why all lawyers need coaches - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/8cW8UDgLoU
• 6 top tips for securing pupillage - Legal Cheek https://t.co/HlyENeY5VZ
• Former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith loses ‘ill-founded’ court case over ex-wife’s access to joint email account https://t.co/iRVEUl69t9
• Supreme Court invited to consider secondary victim claims - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/2fSBUxyUsI
• Just over half of students pass first ever SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zrPkS0KHgh
  
• Fans of actress Ana de Armas sue Hollywood studio Universal Pictures, claiming being duped into renting a film because she was in the trailer. Conor Woulfe & Peter Rosza paid $3.99. They are seeking $5m in compensation on behalf of all affected viewers https://t.co/XptW0YX3Id
• High Court grants chancellor a £600m windfall | Law Gazette https://t.co/BgKTIhg6l
• Milbank reignites pay war - raises London NQ lawyer rates to $215k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/LdOJU7hWI
• 'Unwarranted hostility': Magistrates' chief fires back at critics | Law Gazette https://t.co/vowh3rm8Z3
• [Bulli Bai] Conduct of accused against secularism: Delhi Court denies anticipatory bail to Vishal Jha | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/4hc6sTMiR
• No 10 staff have swipe card data logged in probe of ‘partygate’ - Security logs crucial to future of key staff as Sue Gray also ‘has details of new social event’ https://t.co/1cxvSxWokl
• ‘We can’t wait any longer’: anger over incompetent Priti Patel’s ‘inaction’ on violence against women - The killing of Ashling Murphy this month has highlighted the lack of progress on promises made after Sarah Everard’s murder https://t.co/Co3fE8GBJP
• Chief whip comes forward as person behind ‘Muslimness’ sacking claim - Mark Spencer says accusations are ‘completely false’ after Nusrat Ghani says she was told her faith made colleagues ‘uncomfortable’ https://t.co/dlovonB0NU
• An English astrophysicist was killed by a stray bullet that travelled through a wall and hit him in his bed, US authorities have said. Dr Matthew Willson, 31, from Chertsey, Surrey, was found with a single gunshot wound https://t.co/8ESSqlMtMx

23rd January - Law News

Edition 3680: 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: Most public schools in Lebanon will remain closed after the holiday break. Teachers are demanding better pay to cope with the economic collapse. And it is not clear when many of the country’s 1.2 million children will return to school. 

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Lawyer jailed after defying order to hand over firm's files to SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/IMibZTJQwD
• Judge warns expert after claimant described as 'histrionic' | Law Gazette https://t.co/ktBp0SAqb
• Solicitors Lisa Mayhew and Nicola Williams are joining the Board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) | NLJ https://t.co/Td4fvZLALE
• MP calls for windfall tax on libel firms | Law Gazette https://t.co/LEbbN2o8Xe
• Companies face an increased risk of both class actions and climate change-related litigation, law firm DAC Beachcroft has warned in its 2022 predictions for the global insurance market | NLJ https://t.co/q8mnKIvfv9
• 'Good start': 53% pass first SQE assessment | Law Gazette https://t.co/gIW9FhZdMc
• Solicitors have welcomed the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ’s) decision to invest an additional £1.3m into the family mediation voucher scheme, but reiterated calls for legal aid funding to be restored | NLJ https://t.co/3peUI8FPhJ
• Hundreds stripped of British citizenship in last 15 years, study finds: Research by lawyer-run website finds Home Office has removed citizenship of at least 464 people since relaxation of law https://t.co/umAwpZvyCW
• Magistrates are to have their sentencing powers doubled to 12 months, under Ministry of Justice (MoJ) proposals | NLJ https://t.co/WDkOJ14vrO
  
• An illegal route for the Nationality and Borders Bill - The United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, has a list of clauses in the bill that it says are incompatible with the Refugee Convention | Law Gazette https://t.co/vCg0f6QsVw
  
• Judge bemoans huge costs of 17-inch boundary dispute - Legal Futures https://t.co/Xihr0XoFlH 
• Barristers will down tools if the government has not agreed by mid-February to raise legal aid fees by the end of March | NLJ https://t.co/xklpOHUbhB 
• Should bad science be censored on social media? https://t.co/WgVNxacs09
• A Conservative backbencher who accused Downing Street of trying to "blackmail" MPs seeking to oust Boris Johnson is to meet police to discuss his allegations. William Wragg said he will be speaking to a Met Police detective  https://t.co/HZFa2h4TM
• An illegal route for the Nationality and Borders Bill - The United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, has a list of clauses in the bill that it says are incompatible with the Refugee Convention | Law Gazette https://t.co/vCg0f6yRwW
• The Supreme Court has launched a free, online course about its work, including interviews with current and former Justices | NLJ https://t.co/KJK7zWR8IO
• New #HongKong barristers’ chief warns profession to stay out of politics - Victor Dawes says the group should build closer ties to mainland China amidst concerns about the rule of law https://t.co/hxeGftJGsM
• Firm comes off record in face of harassment by angry ex-husband - Legal Futures https://t.co/5LUOEpC95J 
• The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has launched a consultation on possible changes to professional indemnity insurance cover for conveyancers and probate lawyers | NLJ https://t.co/JXQUf5VozT 
• Blacker banned from CILEX for not disclosing chequered past | Law Gazette https://t.co/1YCqO3s52
• A Connecticut woman is suing Instagram's parent company Meta and Snap Inc, alleging an addiction to their social media platforms caused the suicide of her young daughter #US https://t.co/z2VMGvJ1vg
• Law firms helping oligarchs suppress criticism "a cancer", says MP - Legal Futures https://t.co/Iq0WAMtBn
• City veteran loses appeal against strike off | Law Gazette https://t.co/1npz0eOQoz
• Conveyancers: are you afraid of outsourcing? - Legal Futures https://t.co/R40zeYXn28
• The boyfriend of killed blogger Gabby Petito "admitted responsibility" for her murder in a journal found with his body, according to the FBI. Brian Laundrie, 23, shot himself after Petito was found in September strangled in a Wyoming campground #US https://t.co/jo2rLQz4Ik
  
• Some learners are waiting 10 months for a driving test while others face eight-hour round trips for theirs due a shortage of examiners and instructors https://t.co/9N6tNjLSgC
  
• Police response to £25,000 fraud branded woeful https://t.co/2qW7KtWvzX

22nd January - Law News

Edition 3679: 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 Indian state of  Karnataka today lifted the weekend curfew, however, the night restrictions (10 pm-5am) will continue as part of efforts to stem the spread of coronavirus

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A Lords committee has called for the creation of a revitalised, better-functioning and less rancorous United Kingdom in a new report | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5PrB36ZwBf
• Registered foreign lawyer Jakub Wojciech Pawlak sentenced to 13 months for contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/zUbWtYDdO3
• UK incident reporting laws updated as ransomware attacks rise https://t.co/5a9xWxG6hu
• A "Devil-obsessed" murderer has been warned he faces a whole-life prison term for killing a woman and attacking two others in the space of four hours. Brian Sengendo was convicted at the Old Bailey of seven charges, including the murder of Therasia Gordon https://t.co/IITQHiio7H 
• Anti-vaxers use 'crime number' to try to halt jabs - Police say it "merely acknowledges" an allegation has been received, but there is currently no criminal investigation https://t.co/876Zx7vMr5
• Physical Irish court hearings are due to resume on a “phased basis” from Monday following a month dominated by Covid-19 disruption | Irish Legal News https://t.co/1qDHlD41C9
  
• Noted #Indian criminal lawyer Shrikant Shivade, who represented Salman Khan in hit-and-run case, dead at 67 https://t.co/xiO4B9k08f 
• We must do something to level the playing field in the SDT | Law Gazette https://t.co/lL83eDd9b8
• Self-acquired property of Hindu male deceased before Hindu Succession Act devolves by inheritance; daughter entitled to it: #India Supreme Court | Bar & Bench https://t.co/NpJHyW58Fn
  
• Government pauses plans to rewrite UK copyright laws after authors protest - Intellectual property rule changes were mooted in the wake of Brexit but have been shelved after warnings about how this could hit writers’ incomes https://t.co/sbkNIAyIFr
• An appeal has been launched to find a man who was filmed kicking a cat which he had on a lead in Newport. The man was filmed by a cyclist's head camera on a path off the Southern Distributor Road in the city at about 14:25 GMT on Wednesday 12 January https://t.co/JigOuH6fB7
• British astrophysicist shot dead while visiting his girlfriend in the #US state of Georgia, local police say. Dr Matthew Willson, 31, from Chertsey, Surrey, was found in bed with a single gunshot wound to the head https://t.co/Lx3bPwlhhi 
• Fee earner who rushed to backdate document is banned | Law Gazette https://t.co/PKJRMOYpng 
• After consensual sex with his Grindr sourced victims, 28-year-old Anouar Sabbar would claim he was actually an escort and demand payment for his visit. He stole £2,360 from his victims between April 2019 and June 2021 https://t.co/PV3dmq6YJo
  
• Met Police detective Neil Corbel jailed for three years for voyeurism https://t.co/Jmqn871Q7c
  
• Kerida Naidoo SC has been nominated for appointment as an ordinary judge of the High Court | Irish Legal News https://t.co/K50FbJ0Vrz
• The Irish Society for European Law (ISEL) will next month host a careers event highlighting opportunities for Irish lawyers within the EU | Irish Legal News https://t.co/nHaEQVEoep
• ‘Zero’ bug in whiplash portal stopping claims getting through | Law Gazette https://t.co/1WobYLtTTI
• UK Nationality Bill: Legal experts fear 'disproportionate' impact on minorities - Human rights barrister Raza Husain and other legal experts described Clause 9 of the proposed bill as 'unconstitutional' and 'ill-defined' Eye https://t.co/kSm8mpcjyV
• Facebook stalling report on human rights impact in #India, allege whistleblowers - Papers leaked by Frances Haugen revealed users in India were inundated with fake news and anti-Muslim posts https://t.co/FAS34WyR8X
  
• US charges four #Belarus officials with aircraft piracy over flight diversion https://t.co/irCobSF3Xq 
• A dyslexic judge in England has won a disability discrimination case against the Ministry of Justice over its failure to provide her with voice recognition software and training | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mLwPdM78VS
• UN is Urged to Ban Abusive #Bangladesh Unit from Peacekeeping Role of Rapid Action Battalion Should Be Reviewed Following US Sanctions https://t.co/kBYIPkjTVQ
• Trains told to get rid of torrent of 'Tannoy spam' https://t.co/J8b7b1lsQA
• CPS denies suggestion it shrinks font to reduce page count | Law Gazette https://t.co/oI5n5CVVU2
• Pro-Palestinian lawyers will next week host an online event to help lawyers and law students navigate apartheid-related issues in the UK courts, including in asylum, defamation and discrimination cases | Irish Legal News https://t.co/yZVN4zPTvu 
• From student law to Steinem: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s library up for auction - Bonhams says late #US supreme court justice’s collection gives sense of who she was and how she came to be https://t.co/82WKx9FxE
• The government has announced plans to tackle what the head of the Environment Agency has called the "new narcotics" of fly-tipping and waste crime https://t.co/N54WqXgyXx
• Lawfare and the UK Court System - House of Commons Library https://t.co/xznsU5wJfn
• City firm launches domestic abuse support service for staff - Legal Futures https://t.co/4O3cDjptAJ
  
• UK ethnic minorities face a breathtaking legal onslaught https://t.co/6U9wIHS6E4
  
• Struck-off solicitor’s JR against regulator refused | Law Gazette https://t.co/k5XZGZkwfS
• Record proportion of Crown court backlog outstanding after a year | Law Gazette https://t.co/GvhsyB796J
  
• Analysis: Supreme Court ruling is a bitter legal and personal blow to Trump #US https://t.co/oE6OrLPkWB
  
• Partners fined for letting non-lawyer take control of group litigation - Legal Futures https://t.co/lNrCS2KjgS 
• BBC My Family, the Holocaust & Me: Judge Robert Rinder's real story of his Jewish family's tragic history https://t.co/AmllQCMacx
  
• Clyde & Co and Fieldfisher latest firms to boost NQ pay | Law Gazette https://t.co/qg3UacOJdk 
• The UK government has refused permission for a £1.2bn electricity link between England and France. Aquind Ltd wanted to lay cables through Portsmouth, Hampshire, to Normandy https://t.co/L1DSuDYqO0 
• Lawyers hits back at attacks by international bodies on privilege - Legal Futures https://t.co/YdGUDFRwqf 
• US congressional investigators have asked Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the former president, to testify about the 6 January riot at the #US Capitol https://t.co/sTr3RHegxC 
• Insurance firm develops AI app to boost clients’ reserving - Legal Futures https://t.co/yRZvOfOV30
  
• Highway Code: Cyclists to get priority on roundabouts with new 2022 driving laws https://t.co/zVZswcn1P0 
• Ince set to complete takeover deal after shareholder vote | Law Gazette https://t.co/idsGDAvfIv 
• The AA faced a backlash after customer Helen Mott was told lone male and female drivers were given the same priority as "that's equality" https://t.co/R6ivQf47vt 
• Supreme court rejects Trump bid to shield documents from January 6 panel - Court’s move leaves no legal impediment to turning National Archives documents over to congressional committee https://t.co/FXHB9sGosS

21st January - Law News

Edition 3678: 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 Federal Court releases the reasons why it upheld the federal government's decision to cancel the visa of tennis star Novak Djokovic, five days after he was deported from Australia

 

 Focus of the Day Article: Global graft enforcement set to rise as regulators revive anti-corruption efforts. Compliance burden also likely to increase around ESG issues. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law

• PI firm still suffering 'headwinds' from Covid lockdown | Law Gazette https://t.co/sDCbqgkh5V
• Ex Guantánamo detainee plans legal action to restore British passport: Moazzam Begg’s application for new passport rejected despite terror prosecution collapsing in 2014 https://t.co/Nhgwkzs1Ox
• #Thailand plans to make marijuana legal and axe jail terms for possession https://t.co/roxRWDtda
• Tory defector says whips told him to back PM or lose school funds: Christian Wakeford allegation comes as senior Tory urges MPs to report claims of attempted blackmail https://t.co/BDxB57g1oG
• Legislation to bring the promotion of crypto-assets under the wing of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will be introduced when parliamentary time allows | Law Gazette https://t.co/Cg6mQkMP4g
• Former #India Supreme Court judge Justice AK Sikri joins as associate member of 4 Pump Court in London | Bar & Bench https://t.co/4cXpB74G8G
• MoJ criticised for not prioritising work to support female offenders | Law Gazette https://t.co/zXRW4TuLup
• Stormont ministers have agreed to drop the use of vaccine passports in pubs, restaurants and cinemas in Northern Ireland from midday on Wednesday. The move is part of several relaxations to Northern Ireland's Covid rules https://t.co/2tsaesYC7R
• Delays in prosecuting suspected criminals have hit a record 708 days for the average time it takes to go from offence to completion of a case. In the three months to September 2021, the average time it took to deal with a crime rose 15%, up from 620 days https://t.co/xCaDYdhcNc
• An Edinburgh nursery has been fined £800,000 after an 11-month-old boy in its care died after choking on a piece of food | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GXTT9BifE3
• Conveyancing firms may be forced to buy stand-alone cyber cover | Law Gazette https://t.co/p3rg11SZ5c
• Analysis: Reflections on the judicial review application on the UK government’s use of a PPE ‘VIP lane’ | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8y07eavzZX
• Solicitors are facing a ‘more parlous’ situation than barristers in relation to legal aid, the retired judge who led a government-commissioned review has told MPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/BmeZ1V5hyY
• Legal opinion by leading immigration barristers finds clause 9 of Nationality and Borders Bill gives Home Secretary “exorbitant, ill-defined and unconstitutional” power to remove citizenship https://t.co/AJpR59xFQg
• McCann FitzGerald survey finds employers want access to employees’ vaccine status | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MOUqytP4ND
• Former pope Benedict XVI failed to act over four child abuse cases when he was archbishop of Munich, a #German probe into the Catholic Church has found https://t.co/7hx7D49NuF
• Police unlawfully ‘vetoed’ Everard vigil, High Court told | Law Gazette https://t.co/lSYvTu3o1L 
• From barrister to bobby on the beat - meet the County Durham man who changed career at 51 - Defence barrister Christopher Mitford has given up courtroom antics in exchange for policing the streets of County Durham https://t.co/TXXHFxAovl
• Peers in the Lords have voted in favour of an amendment to the Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill to scrap the Vagrancy Act across England and Wales| Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yfqIXCDdAF
• Fake endorsements from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are being used on social media to promote Bitcoin-related investment schemes. Photos and bogus interviews with Prince Harry and Meghan and other celebrities are being used to attract investors https://t.co/X6zh5rrYIs
• Mona Warren obituary - A solicitors and former councillor for Broadwater, justice was core to her outlook – but social justice, not just narrow legalism https://t.co/bl55ttoSw9
  
• Ex-Dechert partner alleged to have put investigator through ‘perjury school’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/F77tnuASVs
• People owed an estimated £2m by English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson have appointed an independent insolvency expert to try to recover their money before a March deadline https://t.co/7iXglS9lKY
• Ghislaine Maxwell has officially requested a retrial, weeks after she was convicted on sexual abuse charges. The 60-year-old was found guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/oztP3poITW
  
• #Italian police arrest alleged Black Axe Nigerian mafia members over trafficking https://t.co/9LITnQxvqI
  
• Criminal law solicitors suffering more than barristers, says Bellamy - Legal Futures https://t.co/bkYwuunVWH
• Without reform of child justice, things will get bleaker | Law Gazette https://t.co/Z05RxgIffP
• Hacking attack on Red Cross exposes data of 515,000 vulnerable people - Global headquarters forced to shut down computer systems for programme that reunites families separated by conflict https://t.co/WNJKxDqSlm
• MoJ threatened with fine over huge data request backlog - Legal Futures https://t.co/yGgsK9lljX 
• Government could be forced to draw up new bill after ‘draconian’ protest laws defeated by Lords https://t.co/RzzLfAKasg
  
• Úna Butler appointed to Competition and Consumer Protection Commission | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lOq7n2nKWu
• Barrister disbarred for false judicial review promise - Legal Futures https://t.co/FihSmVwolt
• A man has appeared at a special court in the Republic of Ireland charged with the murder of Ashling Murphy. He is Jozef Puska, 31, with an address in Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, Tullamore https://t.co/ccs1zjredI 
• Solicitor exploited elderly client to arrange under-value sale | Law Gazette https://t.co/NjY7v5zvIZ
• Scottish beer giant Brewdog sent multiple shipments of beer to the US, in contravention of US federal laws: Staff at its Ellon brewery were put under pressure in 2016 and 2017 to ship beer with ingredients that had not been legally approved https://t.co/Ho4xi7RKQz
• Christian Porter and barrister Sue Chrysanthou ordered to pay Jo Dyer $430,000 in legal costs #Australia https://t.co/OfXB99QkP4

20th January - Law News

Edition 3677: 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: This intimate portrait of Gamal 'G' Turawa, an ex-Metropolitan police officer, explores his memories of racially profiling and harassing black people and homophobia in his early career.

 Focus of the Day Article: Public authorities do not generally owe a duty of care ‘where it has intervened but has done so ineffectually’ in a way which fails to confer a benefit rather than ‘making matters worse’, the Court of Appeal ruled today. Lord Justice Stuart-Smith rejected the claimant’s argument that a duty can arise ‘where a defendant had the power to exercise physical control, or at least influence, over a third party, including a physical scene … and, absent their negligence, ought to have exercised such physical control’. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

Saturday Conversations on Law

• You win some, you lose some – class actions post Google - Legal Futures https://t.co/rgEfOkzxyr
• Thorntons Solicitor gains data protection certification | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/koo9N2yH56
• Ruling in $5bn fraud case expected ‘imminently’, High Court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/d55ccr3HJQ
  
• Thousands more to be called for jury service in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/1w3zBBn0i9
• Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski has been given a one-day suspension from sitting in Parliament. It follows an apology to the House of Commons from the member for Shrewsbury and Atcham earlier for undermining an initial apology for bullying staff https://t.co/o3QkAgn8Al 
• Solicitor ‘didn’t realise’ client’s case was struck out years before | Law Gazette https://t.co/140Bo7fRHs
  
• Intervene Project: Providing representation for the abandoned | Law Gazette https://t.co/iuLNtUzQpB 
• A high-profile US lawyer who represented Guantanamo Bay detainees and NSA whistleblower Chelsea Manning will argue for the abolition of Ireland’s Special Criminal Court at an online event next week | Irish Legal News https://t.co/5d4qPQSnm8
• At Westminster Magistrates' Court, the 14-year-old, who cannot be named, admitted three counts of possessing information useful to a terrorist https://t.co/nFzW6ghpeV
• White extremist Ben John told by a judge to read classic literature after being found guilty of a terrorism offence will be jailed after a suspended sentence was quashed https://t.co/bG4Vs1e91G 
• Twelve of Britain's most-wanted suspects believed to be hiding in Spain have been named by officials in a bid to flush them out https://t.co/017TwZXOd9
  
• Negligence case ended against firm after claimant guilty of 'warehousing' | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZO8obeOzPj
  
• Barrister Joanna Torode, 46, blames “horrific” working conditions at the London office of international firm Ropes and Gray for a “meltdown” in front of colleagues https://t.co/Aa3ovF0Ntv
• Magistrates to get power to impose one-year jail terms to cut backlog | Law Gazette https://t.co/g0v97wfaqO
• I study crowds – that’s why I know the police and crime bill will make us less safe - Priti Patel’s crackdown on peaceful protesters ignores all the evidence about how to handle large demonstrations https://t.co/ZjpVyQsNOA
• 'Westernisation' can provide basis for leave to remain in UK, tribunal rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/iqvCUtqwZx
• A man has been charged with murder after a child was found dead in a barrel in #Australian bushland. The victim is believed to be a nine-year-old girl who went missing last week from a property in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, police said https://t.co/KPVN5zIcK
• Ruth Innes QC joins as advocate member and Lynsey Walker as solicitor member have joined the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service Board. Their four-year terms began this week. They replace Dr Kirsty J Hood QC and Simon J D Catto | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Yqu1quK72g
  
• An advert for Dairylea cheese has been banned for encouraging unsafe behaviour, after showing a child eating while hanging upside down https://t.co/KyKfTQfgW4 
• Negligence claim brought over negligence claim to proceed - Legal Futures https://t.co/EyzpVIpFw7
• Master of the Rolls legality of Upper Tribunal Practice Guidance Note https://t.co/ebzPhA6cNo 
• Sewage regularly dumped illegally in England and Wales rivers - It found seven water companies in England and Wales discharged untreated sewage into rivers and the sea more than 3,000 times between 2017 and 2021 https://t.co/ntPqHvjhS
• 'No going back': Criminal bar gives resounding 'yes' to direct action | Law Gazette https://t.co/k361wkeys
• Not only Devas management, officials of Antrix as well as those of Department of Space are facing prosecution for fraud, criminal conspiracy and offences under IPC and PMLA #India https://t.co/4jyAnUlhDi
• Torture complaint filed against new president of Interpol - Move against Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi made by lawyer for human rights defender jailed in UAE https://t.co/bqPV3Z9yNQ
• Medical involvement in crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, China https://t.co/rsXiRyLuvM 
• Conveyancers might be forced to buy cyber-insurance in PII rejig - Legal Futures https://t.co/N9aB5Xyn8X
• A man who pretended to be a lawyer, doctor and council official to control his girlfriend's life has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence: The 29-year-old used fake email accounts to lie, including saying his partner had been drugged and abused https://t.co/sb7tktC0Qr
• "Warehoused" case against law firm struck out - Legal Futures https://t.co/OvlSOy4zb3
• Mastercard fined £31.5m over illegal UK prepaid cards cartel: Five firms fined total of £33m for agreeing not to compete with each other for local council business https://t.co/XUYEsZE3q4
• Mills Selig recognised by Diversity Mark Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/okbHWLwVpf
• How many more babies must die before England stops jailing pregnant women? https://t.co/SEK169YAwJ 
• Solicitor who "accidentally bought run-off cover" struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/zuSpFTuBNp
• The UK Home Office has pledged to introduce a new law requiring venue operators to consider the risk of terrorist attacks and to take proportionate and reasonable measures to prepare and protect the public https://t.co/gipnYaJDqL
• Magistrates will get power to give one-year jail sentences to cut backlog. Pandemic has caused huge delays in justice system but barristers claim change in England and Wales is ‘distraction politics’ https://t.co/2SejDZ2tVz
  
• Keystone predicts pre-tax profits ‘materially ahead of current market expectations’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/H61eiaq0RS

19th January - Law News

Edition 3676: 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 six-year cold case investigation into the betrayal of Anne Frank has identified a surprising suspect in the mystery of how the Nazis found the hiding place of the famous diarist in 1944

 Focus of the Day Article: A heavyweight City solicitor and leading Welsh in-house lawyer have been named as new members of what is now the smallest-ever board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). Lisa Mayhew, co-chair of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, joined the board on 1 January, while Nicola Williams is legal and compliance director and company secretary of Welsh Water and will join the board in September. Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Two teenagers arrested in England as part of the investigation into a hostage-taking at a synagogue in Texas have been released without charge, police say https://t.co/IFymD8TDbK
• Conveyancers told to 'get ready' for fee increase | Law Gazette https://t.co/B4G6cPKRX
• Staff in Priti Patel’s department had drinks and snacks to celebrate a Home Office policy leading the six o’clock news in March 2021 https://t.co/BYqrJfTwD5
• Witness willing to testify she saw Prince Andrew with a ‘young girl’ at London nightclub - Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers seek her statement to counter the royal’s insistence he has never met their client or visited the club https://t.co/yn1U2cqcOG
• Scotland's Covid-19 restrictions are to be eased, with nightclubs reopening, large indoor events resuming and social distancing rules dropped. The changes will take effect from Monday 24 January https://t.co/8WbmJ1c2b
• Mastercard would gain £180m a year as group action members die, CAT hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/zAE9lRLA9V 
• Fate of Nazi-looted Pissarro to be decided by #US supreme court - The legal battle over the painting, in the hands of a Madrid museum, has spanned more than 15 years https://www.theguardian.com/
  
• Second government cash boost for family mediation | Law Gazette https://t.co/AgYWGE1KMM 
• ‘Kill the bill’ protests: new legislation is proportionate, says Buckland: Former justice secretary defends police and crime bill as it reaches final stages in parliament https://t.co/2viNIJSMO
• Judge demands costs security from ‘Dr Bitcoin’ company | Law Gazette https://t.co/CE6V4aWIi6 
• Lawyer of the Month: As one of Scotland’s busiest trial counsel, Thomas Leonard Ross QC is well-known for passionately fighting for justice – in the courtroom and out of it | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WeDRIlkt1G
• Arron Banks may have been ‘used and exploited’ by Russia, court hears: Journalist Carole Cadwalladr gives evidence as she defends her reporting on multimillionaire Brexit backer https://t.co/ni0BKPVNEy
• Government breached duty over solicitor-judge's disability struggles | Law Gazette https://t.co/ozPW7jEV2o
• Boris Johnson has "categorically" denied he was warned a drinks party in the No 10 garden risked breaking lockdown rules https://t.co/UH8La9bzsE
• EY Law to increase Irish headcount to 50 within three years | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YO43zo5fAZ
• Law school extends ‘money back’ offer to jobless graduates | Law Gazette https://t.co/YrP4PzxjYq
• Event: Edinburgh Law School to launch new alumni engagement programme | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/x0drTcAcu
• Whiplash portal bosses want to know why LiPs aren’t using it | Law Gazette https://t.co/rm2qeJ9w74
• Djokovic case exposes ‘dysfunctional and dangerous’ #Australian visa rules, experts say https://t.co/EI0n6WrZOD
• Academics defend human rights expert Colin Harvey after abuse | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WOm5ZHGf7l
• Crime bill: The government has suffered a series of defeats in the House of Lords over its plans to clamp down on disruptive and noisy protesters https://t.co/MV7gykZUKc
• Man seeks to change name to ‘Kill the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill’: Nick Newman applies to high court to change name in protest at legislation going through parliament https://t.co/HtVkPZggRN
• Fraud trio who conspired against employer ordered to repay almost £6m | Law Gazette https://t.co/ObDOYuKTY
• Charge against Frank Lampard of using phone while driving dropped https://t.co/QoiULiDi6F
• Law Society invites nominations for Cupar, Dunfermline and Kircaldy Council members | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/TDVXf3tO54
  
• My legal life: Saadiya Ahmad, UEL Legal Advice Centre - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/Tq9TjbjHTA
• A disabled woman is calling for greater understanding of female safety after she "begged" a bus driver to let her travel home when her pass did not work https://t.co/BzJaqGH3Mu
• Legal Twitter, can you help? | Law Gazette https://t.co/7SaeiI3Xre
• More MI5 alerts to come to counter foreign interference https://t.co/mjBL8mfa7Y
• David Strang has been named as the new chair of the Drug Deaths Taskforce. He is a former chief constable who previously chaired the independent inquiry into mental health services in Tayside | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KxygzE9YCX
  
• No action will be taken against transgender activists who targeted author JK Rowling, police have said. The Harry Potter author complained to police after campaigners posted a photo of her Edinburgh home on Twitter https://t.co/ZHziEZeS83
• Best of the blogs - 15 January 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/BVTHdt3u8b
• The government has suffered a defeat in the House of Lords as peers voted to make misogyny a hate crime in England and Wales. The move would enable judges to impose stronger penalties if prejudice against women is proved to be the motivation https://t.co/MV7gykZUKc