4th April - Law News

Edition 3751: 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: Sisters Alex and Chyann were repeatedly raped by their father as children. After their case was rejected three times by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), they found they had one last avenue to try to get justice.

Focus of the Day Article:  Lawyers have been warned to give realistic time estimates for cases at the Commercial Court or risk them being relisted with consequent costs implications. In a Practice Note published this week, Mrs Justice Cockerill, Judge in charge of the Commercial Court, raised concerns about inadequate time estimates, particularly in longer applications and trials, and their effect on the conduct of hearings in the Commercial Court. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Given the capacity to work on both commercial and humanitarian matters, migration lawyers can build diversified practices that those in other areas of law may not get exposed to, says one award-winning practitioner - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/mMdWDaMSAj
  
• 'A new Wild West': Lords urge better oversight of AI in justice - Legal Cheek https://t.co/al7eGDFTA2 
• Guantanamo inmate by the #US sent to Algeria after almost 20 years https://t.co/nIPgv8ZDHU
  
• Legal Lightbulbs: Is law firm market differentiation a unicorn? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/bTvx35XPa9
• Future magic circle trainee pens 10,000 word dissertation inspired by Clueless - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5j5u0FQIEt
• Tory MP David Warburton admitted to hospital after sexual harassment claims https://t.co/186or6yeLg
• French court plays tapes of Bataclan killings at survivor’s request https://t.co/VUL55Zr6Bj 
• Why #Australia is such a big part of this global firm’s growth strategy - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/iPnfOsF8t0
• How being Insta-savvy can help you secure a training contract - Legal Cheek https://t.co/IEL2LtoNTm
  
• At least six people have been killed and 10 injured in a shooting in the centre of Sacramento, police in California's state capital say #US https://t.co/SAcPkve1s8 
• Gas from Mozambique in difficult times for energy: breach of the Paris Agreement? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/kEahBfht6D
• Judiciary Watch: Five Indian High Courts with high judicial vacancies | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/sjMWI8apCO
• BSB ditches bar aptitude test - Legal Cheek https://t.co/216ukckHti 
• Up to 40 cars and vans have been damaged in a spate of arson attacks near Bristol on Sunday. Police said they were first called to a car fire in Stoke Gifford in the early hours, with others later attacked in Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Patchway https://t.co/BvECS6BM7W 
• Maksim Iovenko, 31-year-old was shot dead by #Russian forces that were positioned at the roadside. His wife Ksenia, who was in the car, was also killed while trying to escape western Kyiv in March https://t.co/ZCecFhmH8u 
• Bengaluru court orders registration of case against BS Yediyurappa | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/0qZAxjf1Bu 
• What makes an award-winning barrister? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/jgZnHtdwvb 
• How students can stand out in today’s legal market - Legal Cheek https://t.co/z9TNcXPxIc
• #Pakistan PM Imran Khan seeks fresh poll amid move to remove him - Parliament's deputy speaker refused to hold a vote on the motion which the PM was expected to lose. The no confidence motion may make it constitutionally illegal to dissolve parliament https://t.co/to6YnEZhbU
• London-based port operator accused over Abramovich $600m superyacht https://t.co/NuB1HQLXft 
• Gujarat High Court refuses child custody to father despite allegations against wife's character, her extramarital affairs | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/ZXxdkkEpNg
• Law students get deadline extension to watch basketball game after submitting spoof written submissions - Legal Cheek https://t.co/VGOtIHnkRF
  
• Tories suspend David Warburton amid claims over sexual harassment and drug use https://t.co/qk8arJalzW
• Ukrainian refugee with Royal College of Music scholarship in visa limbo - Two weeks ago the Homes for Ukraine scheme was launched to allow British families to sponsor Ukrainian refugees to live with them https://t.co/3RQVnuONFJ 
• Freshfields sets down marker for magic circle rivals as it boosts NQ lawyer pay to £125k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Ckt8lDyexw

3rd April - Law News

Edition 3750: 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: Yemen's warring sides have agreed to a two-month truce, which can be extended. The UN Envoy for Yemen says the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels will stop all offensive actions inside the country and across its borders. Saudi Arabia and its allies have been fighting to support the government against the Houthis since early 2015. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Donald Reid retires from Mitchells Roberton after 49 years in law | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QXLcYdut1
• The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has issued guidance on the impact of the family court’s approach to costs of the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 | NLJ https://t.co/KJxzygHGYD
  
• Smart legal contracts "need the power of the human mind" - Legal Futures https://t.co/F8uO5NGEGz
• Supreme Court issues circular on physical hearing; Virtual hearing option provided on miscellaneous days | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/zc8sTGzpZv
  
• Turkish man claims her payment to Prince Andrew was falsely described as a wedding gift for his daughter Princess Beatrice. Nehebat Isbilen is claiming at the High Court in London that her business adviser Selman Turk "dishonestly misappropriated" £38m https://t.co/5zTNUuU5YZ 
• More than 80 arrested as climate change protesters continued to block oil terminals. Activists from Just Stop Oil said they had obstructed access to a tanker park and revealed an underground network of tunnels at two oil terminals in Essex https://t.co/vHVgp26aZH
• Conservative MP David Warburton has been suspended from the parliamentary party pending an investigation into allegations about his conduct https://t.co/ykWJV6yeh
• The Home Secretary unlawfully seized more than 2000 mobile phones from asylum seekers and extracted vast amounts of data, the High Court has held | NLJ https://t.co/1tmg8QuNtb
• #French court plays tapes of Bataclan killings at survivor’s request https://t.co/VUL55Zr6Bj
  
• BSB scraps student aptitude test despite Bar Council opposition - Legal Futures https://t.co/ptrVayYclB
• The Sentencing Council has proposed its first set of guidelines for the offences of perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation | NLJ https://t.co/sXaenqgtm0
  
• High Court: Garda Commissioner acted unlawfully by seeking to dismiss member after Appeal Board previously rejected dismissal | Irish Legal News https://t.co/md2V4fNy6v
• Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson named in legal case over £750,000 ‘scam’ https://t.co/2oifI69dW
• Care and supervision cases are taking five weeks longer on average and 77% fail to meet the 26-week limit, according to the latest figures from the family court | NLJ https://t.co/X5WamTwGUM 
• London-based port operator accused over Abramovich $600m superyacht | Roman Abramovich | The Guardian https://t.co/NuB1HR3yE3
• Saoirse Brady appointed as executive director of Irish Penal Reform Trust | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dtX6g8Eqhq
• A team of Amazon workers has forced the technology giant to recognise a trade union in the #US for the first time. Workers at a New York warehouse voted 55% in favour of joining the Amazon Labor Union https://t.co/eJGQoQoVNR
• People living in some of England's poorest households and those who rent could miss out on the government's £150 council tax rebate https://t.co/vxYVlISW2M
• #US judge has upheld Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction, denying her bid for a new trial. Maxwell, 60, had complained that one of the jurors falsely stated before the trial that he had never been sexually abused https://t.co/HxefCsGokd
• The Duke and Duchess of York have been named in a court case in which a Turkish millionaire is claiming £38m has been "dishonestly misappropriated" by a business adviser https://t.co/nlJk4ep6mq
  
• Lawyers have been warned to give realistic time estimates for cases at the Commercial Court or risk them being relisted with consequent costs implications | NLJ https://t.co/BtLZ3olPzG
• Collective redress lawyers join forces amid calls for reform - Legal Futures https://t.co/jbwCVjplYz 
• Ireland to make €150,000 contribution to ICC prosecutor | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RE118Xdqx5
• The £1bn UK class action against banks for Forex rigging (FX Claim) cannot proceed on an opt-out basis, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has ruled by a 2-1 majority| NLJ https://t.co/kNCLdQYc8
• Motorhomes, car engines and gambling - now group sets up ABS - Legal Futures https://t.co/FzEtL2VtrG
• "Interest of litigants paramount:" Bombay High Court rejects plea challenging approval to establish court in Wai | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Rg8SPc5l8R
• Diversity of thought – why you need to think about it - Legal Futures https://t.co/HdUe0qZcAY 
• Burges Salmon advises on biomass deals | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OXL0Izj8QF
  
• Covid experts call for return of free tests as UK cases hit new high https://t.co/Zn8UizAXxG 
• P&O Ferries faces a probe into the controversial no-notice sackings of nearly 800 members of staff. The Insolvency Service has launched criminal and civil investigations into the circumstances around the redundancies https://t.co/XamHV2IqpN

2nd April - Law News

Edition 3749: 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: After the Ukraine invasion, hundreds of people found themselves stranded in Calais as they tried to navigate the UK visa process. It put a spotlight on the city where many young refugees have been living outside all winter in harsh conditions, while NGOs struggled to provide the most basic services. The UK has given millions of pounds to France to try to prevent border crossings but people continue to attempt to get to Britain.  Meanwhile, the residents of Calais complain of an increasingly militarised city.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• No leapfrog to the Supreme Court, SDT tells banned consultant | Law Gazette https://t.co/PShLIvP6aM 
• Revealed: migrant workers in #Qatar forced to pay billions in recruitment fees https://t.co/e4F9ZZhbZ8
  
• Clifford Chance reports ‘social mobility’ pay gap data | Law Gazette https://t.co/wBUTuW2nQb 
• Facebook users angry after accounts locked for no reason https://t.co/vCrnzcUt7C
• Choose your submissions wisely, says judge in time-estimate warning - Legal Futures https://t.co/yo8xj9w3Wt 
• 'Smart home' information added to HIP-inspired form | Law Gazette https://t.co/k1wG4nunnk 
• Indian tech giant Infosys, in which UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife owns shares worth more than £400m, is closing its office in Russia https://t.co/MDfwUorYX
• Met police officer charged with GBH after man paralysed by Taser - Jordan Walker-Brown is paralysed from the chest down after being shot in May 2020 https://t.co/sSFfTsCltR 
• Mediation seen as ‘form of capitulation’, MoJ poll finds | Law Gazette https://t.co/FPZUIwbDSL 
• Lack of progress on innovative pricing ‘deep rooted issue’ for legal profession, new research finds - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/RgAETFrou8
  
• Paul Hastings unveils hire of ‘extraordinary’ 18-partner Stroock restructuring team - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/4kqNIPGY95 
• Karnataka court orders probe against Minister KS Eshwarappa for alleged communal hate speech | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/4jPH1GMrZi
• New law means future medical scandals could be missed, says NHS watchdog - Staff ‘safe space’ means cases such as ‘shocking’ baby deaths in Shrewsbury may not be properly investigated https://t.co/x0HS8z1Go
• A strip-search of any child in two London boroughs will need approval from an inspector in the wake of the Child Q controversy, the Met Police says https://t.co/r7IOG993MZ
  
• Camelot launches legal challenge over National Lottery licence loss https://t.co/D993auvZTU 
• City merger creates 72-lawyer firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/d3ZlGVaeLB
• Funding for victims’ organisations boosted by 20 per cent | Irish Legal News https://t.co/DIHBldEQQg
• Ambassador barred from Beijing spy trial of Australian journalist Cheng Lei #China https://t.co/OFpQJDbwCz
• Controversial judicial selection tool to be dropped in some circumstances | Law Gazette https://t.co/5iSlwhfF0
• ‘Wild West’ warning on predictive policing | Law Gazette https://t.co/aRIKmiCBD1 
• Legal aid work "close to being unsustainable", new campaign warns - Legal Futures https://t.co/bbPMEA20fG
• Five foetuses have been discovered in a Washington home reportedly belonging to an anti-abortion activist, police say. Lauren Handy, 28, is a leader of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) group and describes herself as a "Catholic anarchist" https://t.co/MbeTKXf6f8 
• Six people have been arrested after a campaign group targeted fuel terminals in a protest against oil. The arrests were made at three sites in Thurrock, Essex Police said https://t.co/aJtOFPaxWM 
• Ukraine war: Gruesome evidence points to war crimes by #Russia on road outside Kyiv https://t.co/8yKEptBrg6
• Britons living overseas for 15 years to get right to vote in UK elections https://t.co/BZBpmSsdBl 
• Statutory and independent Electoral Commission to be established | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Y9u4ok5pBi 
• Firm's error gave sex offender access to child's confidential data - Legal Futures https://t.co/suYkmRXeaw
• Dishonesty finding overturned after claimant ‘ambushed’ at trial | Law Gazette https://t.co/mFvca18pfN
  
• The SEND Green Paper: more obstacles to access to justice | Law Gazette https://t.co/XcGuepYWz
• Legal regulators should not be “overly risk averse” about technology - Legal Futures https://t.co/lcMYjUZmYI
• Todner agrees £25,000 fine for rule breaches | Law Gazette https://t.co/H3dVmQskLt
• Statutory sick pay for all Irish workers to be phased in over four years | Irish Legal News https://t.co/CrBeF2WbzN
  
• Boris Johnson backtracks over LGBT conversion practices ban after backlash https://t.co/vp5cHPkrP
• Nearly two million anti-social behaviour reports have gone unattended by 34 police forces in England and Wales over the past three years, new figures show https://t.co/hR2tnevarL 
• UK farmers call for weedkiller ban over Parkinson’s fears https://t.co/gIkEimIUox 
• Belfast firm Diamond Heron welcomes family lawyer Karen Edwards | Irish Legal News https://t.co/XkpmzSwr3R
• Plans to ban so-called conversion therapy in England and Wales have been abandoned by the government. According to NHS England, conversion therapy tries to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity https://t.co/fVWmptdl5O

1st April - Law News

Edition 3748: 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: Indian ruling party BJP leader in Rajasthan has been arrested for instigating a mob to harass a doctor after the death of a patient in a private hospital she owned. Archana Sharma, the doctor who was accused of murder, died by suicide on Wednesday leaving behind a heartbreaking suicide note where she asserted her innocence. Following the suicide, which has triggered outrage across the country, the Chief Minister suspended police officers in the area.

Focus of the Day Article: Pinsent Masons elevates 11 women in 23-strong partner promotion round. Latest cohort includes Vario and Advanced Delivery members as UK firm continues focus on non-traditional legal service delivery work. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law

• David and Victoria Beckham's west London mansion has been burgled while the couple were inside with their 10-year-old daughter. Their Kensington home was broken into between 20:30 and 23:30 GMT on 28 February https://t.co/p24e7B93mm
  
• The Centre for Women's Justice has warned that "unfit laws & practices" are seeing vulnerable women, forced into crime by their abusers, "failed" and "unjustly" arrested, detained and prosecuted for offences arising directly from their experience of abuse https://t.co/25S8zexHou
• When the same awful thing happens often enough, it ceases to be newsworthy – and that is a big problem https://t.co/0JGZ2Q1r8Z
• Witness at defamation trial refuses to answer questions about whether Ben Roberts-Smith ordered him to shoot Afghan prisoner #Australia https://t.co/jehFzJR4YN 
• Lawyers should think about data ethics | Law Gazette https://t.co/Zvf6c9GDe7
• A former hostage has testified in a #US court that he was subject to beatings and given dog names by his Islamic State captors. Federico Motka, an Italian aid worker, was one of dozens of hostages held in harsh captivity by the group in Syria https://t.co/ymtCdFm5om 
• #Russia may be committing war crimes in Ukraine, UN human rights chief says https://t.co/Sc5gJxfaVG
• British judges resign from Hong Kong’s Supreme Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/IINT6lN4c3 
• Trump used White House phone for call on January 6 that was not on official log #US https://t.co/wVCx1ltcLm 
• Dominic Raab to appeal against release of Baby P’s mother from prison https://t.co/rA0XCmCBXc
  
• Family barrister cleared by BSB over royal baby tweets | Law Gazette https://t.co/qLmixxW5Bo 
• Allahabad High Court grants bail to Kashmiri students booked for raising pro-Pakistan slogans during T-20 | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/efsP35vTxv
• Scottish government to provide £48m for victims’ groups | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Q4TvFKPPjY
  
• The Centre for Women's Justice has warned that "unfit laws & practices" are seeing vulnerable women, forced into crime by their abusers, "failed" and "unjustly" arrested, detained and prosecuted for offences arising directly from their experience of abuse https://t.co/25S8zePig2 
• David and Victoria Beckham's west London mansion has been burgled while the couple were inside with their 10-year-old daughter. Their Kensington home was broken into between 20:30 and 23:30 GMT on 28 February https://t.co/p24e7BqEdU 
• A police force is investigating about 600 cases of maternity care in a probe of hospital failings that may have led to hundreds of baby deaths https://t.co/9Di03zcT7P
  
• MoJ defends legal aid offer following Law Society broadside | Law Gazette https://t.co/GOgAUUXJYG
  
• Choose your submissions wisely, says judge in time-estimate warning - Legal Futures https://t.co/yo8xj9w3Wt 
• Finnish court upholds right to free speech | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lisE79XkF7 
• Six new Pinsent Masons partners in Scotland | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jiUUIc3uxT 
• Legal regulators should not be “overly risk averse” about technology - Legal Futures https://t.co/lcMYjVgXQg 
• Covid test centre staff in Wales say they have been "thrown to the wolves", with some given just days' notice that their jobs would disappear. All PCR testing sites in Wales will close on Thursday amid plans to move beyond the Covid emergency response https://t.co/FQudZzRJ6g 
• MoJ urged to extend family mediation voucher scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/VHmpedcB9p 
• Federal police blame ‘oversight’ for delay in Australian review of Sri Lankan war crime allegations #Australia https://t.co/Ge2wg0BrxB 
• Lawyer-free divorce app leads spate of lawtech investments - Legal Futures https://t.co/y12hRgPcbE 
• Trial begins over collapsed £120m legal financing fund | Law Gazette https://t.co/QzPGSRBxYf 
• YouTube refuses to remove account of prisoner who films videos in his cell - Sam Walker, currently serving at Forest Bank prison in Salford, has been making videos of himself inside various forms of custody since 2018 https://t.co/b2jn1cLXC3 
• Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges banned from racing at British meeting after UCI ruling https://t.co/jKMmA0pR9C
  
• British justice with Chinese characteristics no more as Lords Reed and Hodge resign from Hong Kong court | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/77nj6PhUV2 
• Firm's error gave sex offender access to child's confidential data - Legal Futures https://t.co/suYkmSePz6 
• Ketanji Brown Jackson to receive rare Republican vote as Collins says yes #US https://t.co/gNapOPFcvt 
• High court overturns acquittal of HS2 protester after appeal by prosecution https://t.co/dDOVZwxgMV 
• Sweeping changes to maternity services in England are expected after a report laid bare catastrophic failures at an NHS trust that may have led to the deaths of more than 200 babies https://t.co/gHBWNd3hrA
  
• War in Ukraine delays $4.2bn fraud trial | Law Gazette https://t.co/iC4EnrgMHf

31st March - Law News

Edition 3747: 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:  Western Australia is easing its COVID-19 restrictions, even as case numbers continue to grow significantly. The state has set another case record with nearly 10,000 new cases, while there are now more than 50,000 known active infections.

Focus of the Day Article: Publishing Whitehall submissions on judicial review reform proposals would have been helpful to parliamentarians, a tribunal has said, while ruling for the government on non-disclosure. The first-tier tribunal (general regulatory chamber) dismissed Public Law Project’s appeal against the Information Commissioner’s decision not to require the Ministry of Justice to disclose submissions by 14 government departments and 10 Downing Street to the Independent Review of Administrative Law. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Family law ‘the poor relation’ in justice minister’s plans | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bBVVfuvCrP 
• Dixcee Fast joins Anderson Strathern as partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mwGqHoRXvG
  
• PI giant edges into profit as it emerges from Covid effect | Law Gazette https://t.co/KaCOzMrux9 
• Lorna Hale awarded medical negligence law accreditation | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7CnXll0sgG 
• Brian Martin, a civil servant has admitted he could have potentially prevented the Grenfell Tower fire on a number of occasions https://t.co/XqEjr1HLyo
• There have been 2,700 visas issued for refugees coming to the UK as part of Homes for Ukraine - less than 10% of the 28,300 applications made in the scheme's first 15 days https://t.co/eT5PiJ4aQx 
• End of Scottish face mask rules delayed until Easter https://t.co/nhgLsqdUJO 
• Council solicitor arranged payments to husband’s company | Law Gazette https://t.co/ai0L6c4m9s 
• Wasted costs orders can be brought against barristers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/esEkvxuDJh 
• MoJ has 'botched' criminal legal aid response - Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/E4GRTXwMUg 
• How an Indian lawyer and a Ukrainian woman trumped geographical barriers, COVID-19 and war to be together | Bar & Bench https://t.co/10wvntLaCc 
• Whitehall submissions would have 'facilitated' scrutiny of JR reforms - tribunal | Law Gazette https://t.co/KM1xukZxDo
• Frank Clarke joins board of Community Law & Mediation | Irish Legal News https://t.co/hSUVzyPaMa
  
• Partial CoA victory for Greene - but SDT case continues | Law Gazette https://t.co/w8XKfdFhgX 
• National Accident Helpline's law firm takes greater share of cases - Legal Futures https://t.co/BRCqHTuI3m
• Dixcee Fast joins Anderson Strathern as partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mwGqHoAmE8
  
• UK’s draft refugee and police laws are ‘human rights vandalism’, says Amnesty https://t.co/EIKcj3SrFu 
• Burford bullish despite $72m loss last year | News | Law Gazette https://t.co/UngFlLeLZP
  
• Shrewsbury maternity scandal: Repeated failures led to deaths https://t.co/MtxNQmsvoT
• British Museum facing legal action over Parthenon marbles 3D scan refusal https://t.co/2BcPnlwHOr 
• Council lawyer lied about husband’s company to get invoices paid - Legal Futures https://t.co/i3b9Kne6ZD
• SFO director ducks questions on Unaoil investigation | Law Gazette https://t.co/9d5RfMPz6v
• High Court: Application for payment on account of plaintiff’s costs in settled swine flu vaccine case refused | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ucphfBZHpP
  
• MPs take Russian election interference case to human rights court https://t.co/yvRZ8AfDhr 
• The Sun backs down as it settles immigration solicitor's libel claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/DnUqpSzS96
• More transparency on land ownership as public register launches | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jJsLw0RMoG 
• The Sun settles claim from solicitor falsely labelled ‘dinghy chaser’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/w3rwATS6zI 
• GPs attack "bullying" solicitors over Covid exemption letters - Legal Futures https://t.co/0l4Lb32tPc

30th March - Law News

Edition 3746: 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:  Are you an overseas or UK qualified lawyer? The introduction of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) last year changed how you can become a solicitor. This free webinar will give you the facts on: what becoming a solicitor through the SQE means what we mean by a qualified lawyer and who it includes what qualified lawyers will need to do, including UK and Irish lawyers, barristers and chartered legal executives how you can apply for SQE assessment exemptions and tips for a good application the options for current Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme candidates and the important deadlines they need to know

Focus of the Day Article: A law firm unfairly dismissed an assistant solicitor who was recovering from cancer, an employment tribunal has ruled. However, Employment Judge Bedeau found that Luton firm Rodman Pearce would have validly terminated the employment of Elona Onibere two months later had it followed the correct procedures. Full story - Legal Futures

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Knights replaces shares with cash for acquisition after price crash - Legal Futures https://t.co/WUGSMVDIb5 
• Solicitor absent for cancer treatment was unfairly dismissed | Law Gazette https://t.co/iiAaBIsBa
• Rules on free lateral flow and PCR Covid tests published https://t.co/ztZX4gpvNI
  
• #Polish woman is first activist to face trial for violating strict abortion law https://t.co/KFTEvYmaK
• Best of the blogs - 26 March 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/rdOeusLXhU
• Sir Howard Morrison QC appointed to advise Ukraine on war crimes investigations | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8v276KnVOf
  
• Tweeting barrister wins appeal over £500 fine | Law Gazette https://t.co/zIH9W6GZ2V
• Law firm unfairly dismissed assistant solicitor absent due to cancer - Legal Futures https://t.co/MVIG5xzl
• UK seizes first superyacht in British waters https://t.co/2Xg2SXP2eg
• UK appoints war crimes judge to investigate Ukraine atrocities | Law Gazette https://t.co/wu4hPM60TD
• EU agrees on landmark new rules for Big Tech companies | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/B57NW7B8yB 
• Comparison sites could ‘shut out’ small firms and BME solicitors – Law Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/sCdnC2JYxB 
• Clinical negligence, a changing market – part 2 - Legal Futures https://t.co/2uXx3zIc6h 
• Burford launches new ‘lower risk, lower return’ fund | Law Gazette https://t.co/xxGolurLLD
  
• I gave birth in a British prison – no woman should suffer what I went through https://t.co/I1mNQvZYRn
• Only twenty fines will be issued as part of the police inquiry into Downing Street parties that breached Covid rules. The police will not be saying who is fined or confirming which events the fixed penalty notices relate to https://t.co/TC8w3P1tdE
• Development funding secured for Wales law centre | Law Gazette https://t.co/YB3A8FdH3
• Mothers and babies join protest against UK imprisonment of pregnant women https://t.co/hPV6mpMLqE
• Tech giants will be the new disruptors, ABS pioneer predicts | Law Gazette https://t.co/IHwmG97cV0
• Standard cyber-security form to aid solicitors instructing barristers - Legal Futures https://t.co/ceCPEt2C8W
• ‘Phone hacking’ litigation continues – for now | Law Gazette https://t.co/qh0kbzmyI8
• Financial service providers pay out €7m in cases brought to ombudsman | Irish Legal News https://t.co/aXYE77TvCb
  
• Knights completes deal with cash after shares tumble | Law Gazette https://t.co/zXIPqaW1jI
• A Bar Standards Board (BSB) panel applied too low a threshold in sanctioning a barrister for a tweet about Muslims that it said would cause offence, a tribunal has ruled - Legal Futures https://t.co/VcJTWv4sH
• Can P&O be forced to reverse its mass sacking of workers? https://t.co/oUK1VqzNjo
• Wales' four police forces should be scrapped and replaced with a single nationwide service, according to Dyfed-Powys Police's new chief constable https://t.co/jkNaevWNJL
• Judge lambasts parties’ animosity in latest ‘Dr Bitcoin’ ruling | Law Gazette https://t.co/KAlNiywGuF
• Calcutta Run sets ambitious €350,000 fundraising target | Irish Legal News https://t.co/PdiE4Qi17
• Human rights commissioner calls for national strategy on care #Ireland https://t.co/XI6BCLnUWG
• Passengers in cars could be fined £1,000 for using mobile under new rules: If a passenger is supervising a learner driver, they could be fined £1,000 as well as given six points on their licence https://t.co/mNr7qENuV1

29th March - Law News

Edition 3745: 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:  Angela Davis grew up in segregated Alabama and became a world renowned political thinker, activist, author and academic. Her involvement with a politically distorted murder trial sent her into hiding, becoming one of the FBI’s most wanted. She spent 18 months in jail before she was acquitted of all charges. She returned to teaching, writing a series of seminal books on social justice and equality. She joined Krishnan to talk about Socialism, how change happens, and her life.

Focus of the Day Article:  The Scottish government should act to review the scope of its new land interests register in the wake of proposed UK legislation to force overseas entities to declare their ‘beneficial owner’. Full story - Scottish Legal News

Saturday Conversations on Law

• One fifth of London trainees paid less than Law Society’s recommended minimum - Legal Cheek https://t.co/i8qZt0Vd6e 
• Coaching helps lawyers ‘redefine success’ - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/oCkbxaS1O5 
• How I secured a magic circle training contract as a neurodivergent graduate - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cGKq0ZlbO7
• No one wants to take responsibility: Delhi High Court pulls up authorities for dengue menace | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/rOixRoxGe9
• Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning at talks in Kyiv earlier this month, sources close to him claim. The Chelsea FC owner - who has now recovered - reportedly suffered sore eyes and skin peeling https://t.co/DreegM9tiV 
• The first fines for breaches of Covid-19 rules as part of a police investigation into government lockdown parties will be issued soon. Westminster sources suggested the force will issue at least 15 fines initially https://t.co/hmmolt8Gtt
• Dentons increases NQ lawyer pay by 15% to £92k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/OLqCQfr8ct 
• Time for Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from election cases – his wife’s texts prove it #US https://t.co/F782Dgfehm
  
• Trainee numbers dipped 11% in first year of pandemic, new stats show - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vHyZAx5vvb
  
• The long fight to prosecute our father for rape: Sisters Alex and Chyann were repeatedly raped by their father as children https://t.co/3IA9wG3vZK 
• Plea filed before Bombay High Court against non-implementation of child marriage prohibition laws in Maharashtra | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/BjpP2beJ7x
  
• A woman has admitted using her car to try to move a climate change protester blocking the road in Grays, Essex. Sherrilyn Speid, 35, of Grays, pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving when she appeared at Southend Magistrates' Court https://t.co/pdyvim38gx 
• 5 ways to use the SQE to qualify as a solicitor - Legal Cheek https://t.co/CaVi1Y7PfK
  
• 5-step guide on building your CPD plan - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/tapr17FxAC 
• Legal recruiters help displaced Ukrainian lawyers find jobs - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5CTCcXHuIT 
• "Where are the judges:" Bar, Bench bemoan burgeoning vacancies in Bombay High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/0dXURVG4Bo 
• Actor Noel Clarke will not face a criminal investigation over sexual offence allegations, police have said. The Metropolitan Police says they have insufficient evidence to take the matter further https://t.co/AyfF54KqYB 
• #Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shadowed by an agent linked to a political assassination team for almost a year before he was shot dead, an investigation has found https://t.co/oOAyQuzriH 
• Online law school launches ‘O Shaped Lawyer’ course - Legal Cheek https://t.co/r8cPRgk31i 
• Ministers plan to force all ferry companies operating from UK ports to pay at least the National Minimum Wage, in a bid to persuade P&O Ferries to reinstate 800 workers it has sacked https://t.co/rmKFF3kN8W
  
• Meet the senior lawyer running against Craig Kelly - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/1DDIYpIj7s 
• Criminal bar gets its first hijab-wearing QC - Legal Cheek https://t.co/adNm2dZJRC 
• The UK's attorney general has appointed a war crimes lawyer to advise Ukraine over the Russian invasion. Suella Braverman said Sir Howard Morrison would become an independent adviser to Ukraine's chief prosecutor, Iryna Venediktova https://t.co/g3vbS0yNLk
  
• Will Smith slapped Chris Rock in the face on stage at the Oscars after the comic's joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. "Jada, can't wait for GI Jane 2," he said, in a reference to her shaved hairdo, a result of the hair loss condition alopecia #US https://t.co/vLtWwJ9Hgy
  
• City law firm partner apologises after breaking judgment embargo by posting result in group chat - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aw64GZCNOF 
• Supreme Court allows persons with disability to provisionally apply for entry into IPS, DANIPS, IRPFS | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/b34UFudEu0 
• Government paid firm linked to Tory peer £122m for PPE bought for £46m https://t.co/zGdCigselb 
• Full video: The non-law dilemma - Legal Cheek https://t.co/uLjYTAVSaO
• No sea experience needed, says P&O agency ad for crews - Stewards sought on Facebook to replace crew members sacked without notice https://t.co/TIxyQOPAsZ 
• Barrister Amy Stout gives birth after leaving Supreme Court in taxi - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GGFyNjmsuD 
• Sanction under Section 188 CrPC necessary only if entire offence is committed outside India: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/zF2Vhpm1Q1

28th March - Law News

Edition 3744: 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:  Is the Bilderberg Group – a group of political and economic elites -  trying to control the world through capitalism.

Focus of the Day Article:  The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has dropped plans for further reforms to whiplash claims for the time being, prompting relief among claimant personal injury lawyers. Publishing its delayed response to the second part of its consultation ‘Reforming the soft tissue injury (whiplash) claims process’ this week, the MoJ confirmed there would be no change to the recoverability of disbursements since adding further restrictions at this time ‘would put undue burdens on unrepresented claimants’. Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Why I quit the London office of a US law firm to pursue my passion for beekeeping - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FpUlY2EhEF 
• How P&O Ferries broke the law – and what the consequences might be https://t.co/whkwM5mZ9R
  
• Amnesty hits out at Tory plans to replace Human Rights Act with bill of rights https://t.co/18WIdDc1ac
• The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has dropped plans for further reforms to whiplash claims for the time being, prompting relief among claimant personal injury lawyers | NLJ https://t.co/AhuaqePphI
  
• Why the Birmingham Six’s story must not be forgotten https://t.co/U4BvjtMu2T 
• A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a mother-of-two was stabbed to death in east London while her children were at school. She has been named as Yasmin Begum, 40, from Globe Road in Bethnal Green https://t.co/oXcnVH4IQh 
• Milbank bumps trainee pay to £62.5k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3BYFQUxJfD
  
• Ted Cruz and the ‘racist baby’: sometimes reality threatens my political maturity #US https://t.co/bCCAFDfx6x
  
• A prisoner who escaped wearing nothing but his underwear and socks is now believed to have changed his appearance. Dorset Police said Kyle Darren Eglington assaulted a security officer in Hardy Road, Poole, on Saturday before making off from a prison van https://t.co/z7ktfv1QeB
  
• Much tougher guidelines will be introduced in response to the "hugely distressing" strip-searching of a black schoolgirl referred to as Child Q, the education secretary has said https://t.co/k3nojvlSk5
• 10 predictions for class actions in 2022 - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/yzbXkB6dxu 
• Muslim Americans sue over #US border officers’ ‘invasive’ questions on religion https://t.co/T2Bmi2fvyy
  
• There will be ‘no more paper in the county courts’ by 2024, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, has said | NLJ https://t.co/zJK8zJlsgh 
• The Weekly Round-Up: Nazanin returns, P&O face protests, and Met "likely" racist - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/2xB1Q8a3gC
  
• Top tips to kickstart your career in law - Legal Cheek https://t.co/XK8asSgEQt
  
• Overseas nurses in the UK forced to pay out thousands if they want to quit jobs - Observer investigation uncovers NHS trusts and private care homes charging staff who leave to recoup recruitment costs https://t.co/CCuqTqK6Lp 
• Asian cricketer was ‘silenced’ for criticising club’s blackface party: ECB to investigate as game risks losing generation of aspiring players over racism https://t.co/QErpyHDru3 
• New UK bill of rights will stop fascists' speeches being ‘whittled away by wokery’ https://t.co/rcc5408QZA 
• More rape survivors allowed to pre-record evidence in England and Wales https://t.co/HdT8RQ4zr4 
• Parliament was given insufficient opportunity to scrutinise and amend emergency pandemic laws, the cross-party Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) has said | NLJ https://t.co/FqwJGJRBDX 
• 'Lingering myth' holding up digital ID verification | Law Gazette https://t.co/usqE8Art3f 
• Secure your place at The Legal Cheek Spring 2022 Virtual Vacation Scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Feqip5jQ3y 
• Punishing refugees who seek asylum in the UK is at odds with voters’ views, according to a poll of 1,954 respondents, weighted to reflect the UK population, commissioned by the Law Society | NLJ https://t.co/W0qojgyymZ 
• And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards 2022 are… - Legal Cheek https://t.co/gUlOqbba5M 
• P&O Ferries will face expensive legal action for firing 800 crew members with immediate effect via video call, lawyers have predicted | NLJ https://t.co/GhqlRKnKLL
  
• A man whose body was discovered buried in a back garden died as a result of a stab wound to the neck, a post-mortem examination has found. Nicholas Billingham, 42, was found at a house in Moore Street, in the Kingsley area of Northampton https://t.co/jF5zuKy7qb