Edition 3696: 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 second-hand clothing trade is a well-established business in Chile. Traders import unwanted garments – mainly from Europe and the US - to resell locally and to other Latin American nations. But more than half of the 60,000 tonnes of clothes imported each year ends up in illegal desert landfills, with dire consequences for the environment and the local community.
Focus of the Day Article: When the IHRAR was announced by Robert Buckland in December 2020, it was accompanied by some of the usual rhetoric about the courts “rewriting” legislation, but the more hyperbolic claims about foreign criminals and pet cats were absent. The Terms of Reference given to the IHRAR were relatively narrow and the Call for Evidence emphasised that it was ‘not considering the substantive rights set out in the Convention’. Instead, the Review was to focus only the operation of the HRA under two themes: the relationship between domestic courts and the ECtHR; and the impact of the HRA on the relationship between the three branches of the state. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Lawyer wellbeing charity LawCare sees spike in stress-related calls - Legal Cheek https://t.co/gUBVAiMwvV
- Amit Prasad, Special Public Prosecutor in Delhi Riots: Spotlight - This week | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/W2sC9ljwP4
- Two people have been arrested after clashes between protesters and police protecting the Labour leader. Starmer was taken away by car near Parliament shortly after 17:00 GMT on Monday, having been surrounded by a group of demonstrators https://t.co/wOrXok8yvO
- Mishcon delays stock market listing - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ZvHveER6GK
- Senate committee gives clause 12 of Religious Discrimination Bill green light - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/KMaImtzTz
- Karnataka High Court passes resolution to place Dr. BR Ambedkar's portrait in all judicial programs | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Igg6esyDzw
- Chelsea agree to pay damages to 8 former youth team players who alleged racial abuse at the club in the 1990s. 4 players suing the club were due for a High Court hearing next month about alleged abuse by former coaches Gwyn Williams & Graham Rix https://t.co/0ICRGIa4Fl
- Primark accused of selling 'hugely sexist' kids clothes - shared images on social media of tops in a Chester store urged girls to "be kind", "keep on smiling" and to be "always perfect" https://t.co/Cbs9E2its9
- Over two-thirds of law applicants are female - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Bh6R93cLL0
- UK Nationality and Borders Bill risks ‘sending people to their deaths’ https://t.co/v5uEr2w2rs
- The Boutique Lawyer Show: Understanding different client types - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/8h82E6KNvp
- MoJ consults again on international mediation convention - Legal Futures https://t.co/NmhQBI51R
- Trowers increases London NQ pay to £77.5k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ErzNXiwuJt
- [Covid] Masks not mandatory for people driving alone in cars: Delhi government | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/22GepOWSv
- Large firms failing to optimise social media in hot recruitment market - Legal Futures https://t.co/AaQ8TRXH7i
- Rose Alchin & Associates barrister on embracing pandemic-driven flexibility | NZ Lawyer https://t.co/ECAfPEK4dY
- Another Pure business goes down but is bought in pre-pack - Legal Futures https://t.co/rm3FxD4qzg
- Big law firms lag behind on partner diversity, SRA reports - Legal Cheek https://t.co/59qV4ObhRA
- Protégé: The initiatives protecting aspiring lawyers on the ‘front line’ of the climate crisis - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/arl3wp8aaz
- SRA rebuke of solicitor revoked for "serious procedural error" - Legal Futures https://t.co/IhW7o8ps3r
- No fundamental right to seek removal of Prime Minister's photo from COVID vaccine certificate: Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Y9zWwxXlj6
- #Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai says there has been a "huge misunderstanding" over a post in which she made a sexual assault accusation against a former Chinese party leader https://t.co/bweZ7H6REU
- Clifford Chance retains 70% of spring qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/WcNK9gTIU9
- Private car parks will have to display prices more clearly, introduce a fairer system for appeals and give drivers a grace period for lateness as part of a government crackdown https://t.co/f4h5nHE5CF
- Husband moves Supreme Court against order barring secret recording of wife's phone calls | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/YkDoEsDozk
- Seabin partners with BigLaw firm to tackle marine pollution - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/ZIGXfEg6J6
- CMS retains 24 of 25 spring qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/VPtN3IMDkd
- Pupillage numbers bounce back following Covid dip - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PrEfQX563o
- #Canada's Ottawa declares emergency over 'out of control' truckers' protest https://t.co/k5oX6OBBi1
- ‘Shameful’ to let David Goodwillie keep playing, says woman he assaulted: Denise Clair condemns ‘silence’ of Scottish FA after footballer found to have committed rape in 2017 https://t.co/BchkHg8GF9
- Johnson
& Johnson faces push to force global ban on talc baby powder
sales:Move to hold shareholder vote follows withdrawal of product in US
and Canada and lawsuits alleging link to cancer cases https://t.co/QsAlYs34B8
- Paul Hastings pumps NQ pay to over £141k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8eAkavm7Fu
