14th May - Law News

Edition 3791: 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: Violence broke out between mourners and Israeli police as the coffin of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was being carried to her funeral. The procession began in Jenin where she was shot and killed while covering a raid involving Israeli security services on Wednesday. Earlier, the Israeli Defence Force released a statement acknowledging that one of their soldiers could have been responsible for Abu Akleh's death.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Solicitors lose appeal over £2m invoice charged through DBA | Law Gazette https://t.co/VIXiMruuwI 
• Israeli police have hit mourners at the funeral of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqla, who was killed by #Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, causing a surge of anger https://t.co/E34pwq5UAl 
• Gilson Gray appoints Martin Cryans as business development director | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/us3I61ATnx 
• Plan to leave international surrogacy unregulated slammed by special rapporteur | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Nfv9ucxEdL
  
• Ukraine invasion: the legal basis for reparations | Law Gazette https://t.co/jedobYPoZj 
• Declassified files reveal UK government plan to discredit Amnesty International | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tUG0Zk3dx7
• Hunt for killers of anti-mafia prosecutor on honeymoon - #Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, 45, was shot dead on Tuesday on a beach in Colombia, where he was on honeymoon https://t.co/7dQLIccHSO 
• Law firms selling funeral plans “may need FCA regulation” - Legal Futures https://t.co/DjqKOstMNR
  
• 'We will sue the pants off them': outrage over LAA announcement | Law Gazette https://t.co/gntdKCwJYs
• Matheson: Regulation essential for widespread adoption of blockchain and crypto assets | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SqjSl6bkS3
• Experts scorn UK government claim it can ditch parts of NI protocol https://t.co/P6jNf3pGt6
• Judge finds ex-managing partner was ‘not truthful’ in tribunal claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/mQAlBYikMy 
• Lawtech start-ups bag multi-million pound investments - Legal Futures https://t.co/sf8No5bskd 
• Craig McLachlan denies lying about ‘air kissing’ colleagues in Rocky Horror Show, court hears https://t.co/urxwMwAZyb 
• HFW moving to new ‘sustainable’ London offices | Law Gazette https://t.co/9K6zDCiUCH 
• Solicitor who caused 25 claims on compensation fund struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/nIY95gdOW1 
• The number of adults waiting for social care in England has risen sharply to more than 500,000, according to estimates by social work bosses. Similar research last year put the figure at about 294,000, says Adass https://t.co/Ng5T10Lt1T 
• Beale & Co appoints insurance lawyer Jackie Cunningham as senior associate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/iB3sPvFXp0 
• Kayvon Beykpour, who led Twitter's consumer division, and Bruce Falck, who oversaw revenue, both tweeted on Thursday that the departures were not their decisions https://t.co/0TnTKSSOtF 
• Solicitor vanished after SRA probed missing deposit monies | Law Gazette https://t.co/z1rtSy9Ene 
• Data protection consultancy launches ABS to offer legal advice - Legal Futures https://t.co/slYg0P3p7S 
• #Rwandan genocide fugitive Protais Mpiranya confirmed dead https://t.co/MpFOaTnwSq 
• Under Boris Johnson, the rights of working women have become a feeble joke https://t.co/OdGkqfrGx0 
• A 15-year-old girl who has been missing for 15 days has been found at an address in Bristol, police have said. Madison or Maddie, was the subject of a large police search when she disappeared after leaving her house in the Southmead area on 26 April https://t.co/YLjMYHUZVo 
• Rebekah Vardy appears to accept agent leaked information to press https://t.co/08Rv6ltrxt

13th May - Law News

Edition 3790: 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 Bar Council's seminar exploring the growing number of International Criminal Law opportunities that exist outside of the main court structure, presented by experienced barristers with accomplished practice in International Criminal Law

Focus of the Day Article: Women made up 49% of Fortune 500 general counsel appointments in 2021. Drive by major US corporates to boost diversity bearing fruit as the remit of GC's also broadens, research finds. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Northern Ireland extends consultation on minimum alcohol pricing | Irish Legal News https://t.co/7dYcPJX3vE 
• Film scheme negligence case could yet reach Court of Appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/g8uPS4wXeu 
• A couple in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand are suing their only son and his wife for not giving them a grandchild after six years of marriage. Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad, 61 and 57, say they used up their savings raising their son #India https://t.co/ZYItf4RDBE
• President’s Dinner raises £5,000 for Lawscot Foundation students | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AVzoL7993R 
• 'We're the litigation forum of choice': Boyce optimistic about future | Law Gazette https://t.co/Tu7ZpUYoa1
• Natalie McGarry, former SNP MP found guilty of embezzling £25,000 https://t.co/PwmRhtciGr 
• The government is to fund a helpline for people who have had, or are at risk of, all forms of so-called conversion therapy. It will give tailored pastoral support to transgender people as well as those who are lesbian, gay or bisexual https://t.co/OOS13axYvQ 
• Police issue 50 more fines over Covid-rule breaking in Downing Street https://t.co/ReUPOmj2sz 
• The government is withholding security advice on Evgeny Lebedev's peerage on "national security" grounds. MPs voted in March to force the publication of secret documents, amid claims the security services had raised concerns about the Russian-born mogul https://t.co/wcqV47kwZn
  
• Irish Government apologises to people affected by illegal birth registration | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Bxr7Ee72TP
• Are #Canadians being driven to assisted suicide by poverty or healthcare crisis? https://t.co/zLJswGzgbd 
• SRA disciplinary decisions could stay in public domain for longer - Legal Futures https://t.co/3IiCgP0FUQ 
• Slater and Gordon ordered to answer secret commissions allegations | Law Gazette https://t.co/w5xNXE2ZIM
• This British ‘bill of rights’ is constitutional butchery that will make us all less free | Shami Chakrabarti https://t.co/A0Z7mhnMAo 
• Serial killer Levi Bellfield is engaged and has applied to marry in prison, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed. The 53-year-old will need the permission of the governor at HMP Frankland in County Durham https://t.co/z76VDlGNjr 
• MPs see lawyers clash over need for action to curb SLAPPs - Legal Futures https://t.co/xKI0ovE2va 
• A new group looking at whether to decriminalise cannabis in the UK has been set up by London mayor Sadiq Khan. Former justice secretary Lord Charlie Falconer QC will chair the first ever London Drugs Commission https://t.co/aYHrRP8v9U
  
• The PSNI has made an undisclosed settlement to the family of a GAA official murdered by loyalists in 1997 and apologised over inadequacies in the original investigation https://t.co/k3XwTUgYOG 
• Media silk pushes back on SLAPP legislation plans | Law Gazette https://t.co/1bl24TwQ6y 
• Editorial: Faculty must try harder to retain its independence | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vaJr1ElnsV 
• Judge throws out most of Swedish businessman’s libel claim in England - Svante Kumlin brought action in London court against Swedish journalists writing about him and his firm https://t.co/xknU2qIfjw
  
• A 77% rise in the most serious safety incidents logged by paramedics in England over the past year, compared to before the pandemic: Ambulance wait times endangering patients https://t.co/8dqYKEJUMa 
• Listed compliance company targets law firms with acquisition - Legal Futures https://t.co/XJ7dgU6rKy 
• #Cambodia is calling on the UK government to help it recover antiquities it says were stolen from its temples. The country's culture minister says the Victoria & Albert and British Museums both have looted objects https://t.co/82CaCFgc8o 
• UN Secretary General António Guterres says he is "appalled" by Wednesday's killing of veteran Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqla by #Israeli soldiers https://t.co/Udx8H98M1M 
• Magic circle firm Linklaters will train senior lawyers on the impact of menopause under a new global policy aimed at retaining and supporting women of all ages into senior roles | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ygpl1Rxf97 
• #India's Supreme Court has put a controversial colonial-era sedition law on hold that critics say is used to stifle dissent against the ultra-rightwing BJP government https://t.co/rOsuBAsdBe 
• It’s not just the US, Britain needs no-protest buffer zones around its abortion clinics too https://t.co/unYXn0yoL9
  
• Newry immigration firm shares some insights into advising clients from a border region location | Irish Legal News https://t.co/UqmkG5N9ec
  
• Due to the nature of the job, judges are so careful not to do anything that casts doubt on their independence or create a perception of bias that it’s sometimes easy to forget they’re just like you and me – human | Law Gazette https://t.co/oGNIzTYPUQ 
• PI firms face more deduction claims after Checkmylegalfees court win - Legal Futures https://t.co/RF1ynCQinw
  
• Elon Musk says if his bid to buy Twitter is successful he will reverse Donald Trump's ban from the platform. The richest man in the world agreed a $44bn (£34.5bn) takeover bid with the Twitter board last month https://t.co/gHQ35cA7RS 
• Craig McLachlan says 2018 reports of his alleged misconduct made him feel ‘helpless’, court hears https://t.co/USimjW7BXH 
• Costs bill struck out after it failed to give fee earner details | Law Gazette https://t.co/1oHHytR3cy 
• Stella Creasy says she was threatened with gang-rape at university: Labour MP says Cambridge officials reprimanded her instead of taking action against her harassers https://t.co/ZwfiawutUe

12th May - Law News

Edition 3789: 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: US officials say a murder suspect and a prison official who helped him escape from lockup were prepared for a shootout when they were captured by police. The manhunt came to a dramatic end when officers gave chase and collided with the couple's getaway car. The inmate, Casey White, is now back in custody - while his accomplice died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Focus of the Day Article: The head of the Criminal Bar Association has hailed the ‘extraordinary’ commitment of barristers participating in a nationwide protest over legal aid funding – with trials being listed deep into 2023. Since 11 April, hundreds of barristers have adopted ‘no returns’ – declining to cover for colleagues on cases that have been ‘returned’ – over the government’s refusal to increase criminal legal aid advocacy fees by 25%. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Three-day menstrual leave in Spain offered to women in European first https://t.co/Gv8PVrga7N
• The Rwandan lawyer trap has snapped shut | Law Gazette https://t.co/H3aSrwGXCd
• ‘My world fell apart’: life in prison with serious mental illness https://t.co/gIZ6Pyd5Y4
• Hundreds of mentally ill prisoners denied urgent treatment in England https://t.co/Gt7g9bDTub
• Nathaniel Leckie, Tyler Tucker, and Jordell Keegan held gun to dad's head before taking dog's eye out in terrifying burglary - now jailed for a total of 26 years https://t.co/yowlYKGDV2
• Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, one of the Catholic Church's most senior members has been arrested in Hong Kong for breaking #China's national security law, police have confirmed https://t.co/swl6quNTTG 
• England: Guidelines propose tougher sentences for animal abusers | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yCo5grzuss
  
• William Fry appoints new partners and consultants | Irish Legal News https://t.co/NSNHBo1TBi 
• Criminal bar chief hails 'extraordinary' commitment to legal aid action | Law Gazette https://t.co/9iyh4ncAGn 
• Police say they believe a missing 15-year-old girl has been abducted. Madison Thomas, known as Maddie, has not been seen since she left her home in Southmead, Bristol, on 26 April, telling her family she was going to the shops https://t.co/LF2TSRRUkv
• Face masks will no longer have to be worn on flights and in airports in EU countries from next Monday, according to new official guidance https://t.co/ZSLcXmAdzg
• Craig McLachlan defamation trial: 11 women expected to allege misconduct by actor, court hears #Australia https://t.co/lf0MB3xMhC
  
• Neil Mackenzie QC: Libraries, like democracies, will outlast the violence of Putin | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SU3whFoEUW
• Government puts back fixed costs extension by six months - Legal Futures https://t.co/JoBTfXGi4p 
• Ropes & Gray launches social mobility scholarship scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/Wckryfd1sX 
• Priti Patel, hear this loud and clear: Julian Assange must not be handed over to the US https://t.co/rOXnawbX5u 
• BT collective proceedings to remain ‘opt-out’ claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/aWO4GvPJjY
• An advertising campaign for Tesco Mobile which used the names of foods as substitutes for expletives has been banned. The newspaper ads, Twitter posts and outdoor posters used words like "shiitake" and "pistachio" instead of swear words https://t.co/LfxXxoY3Iw 
• An attack on a boy in Bristol who was struck with an oar is now being treated as a racially motivated assault. Police officers were called to Conham River Park on 26 March after a woman pushed Antwon, 12, during a dispute and hit him with the paddle https://t.co/YCgHpuQp3Z 
• Appeal court deprecates “act of deliberate concealment” by party - Legal Futures https://t.co/P5lMWnMyaB
• Wigan cocaine boss rumbled after posting beer snap online - Leon Atkinson led a gang involved in drug deals worth £9m in just three months, Greater Manchester Police said https://t.co/5EaMX1aBg0
• #SriLanka witnessed a second night of arson attacks on Tuesday, with properties damaged in the town of Negombo, near the capital, Colombo. A mob torched a luxury holiday resort owned by the son of the former Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaks https://t.co/ZRuNQcmXoq 
• A New Jersey court has granted parole to the oldest former member of the Black Panthers after nearly five decades in prison. Sundiata Acoli, 85, was sentenced to life in prison in 1974 for the murder of a police officer the previous year https://t.co/JqyVIK5m1s 
• ‘Criminalising our right to protest’: green groups’ anger over public order bill https://t.co/b7DJawlV1G 
• Tax Bar Association to be launched this week | Irish Legal News https://t.co/cDKGATTON7
  
• Fixed costs extension earmarked for April 2023 | Law Gazette https://t.co/yzwcadfWl9 
• People will be given the right to vote on proposed property extensions in their area as part of new planning reforms, the government says. The plan sees previous proposals which made it harder to block development dropped after a backlash from Tory MPs https://t.co/TX9ZcDetyz 
• Al Jazeera journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh has been shot dead while reporting on a raid by Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. He was shot "deliberately" and "in cold blood" by #Israeli troops. Another reporter was shot & wounded https://t.co/tszoUHPnGl 
• Shepherd and Wedderburn advises on distribution facility deal | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JAsAGicJt0
• Judge tells regulators to use summary processes against vexatious litigants - Legal Futures https://t.co/ljP9R2BCaU
  
• Queen’s speech shows Boris Johnson is out of ideas, says Labour - Agenda includes bills to overhaul planning and human rights law but few new cost of living measures https://t.co/2JVHecet3j 
• 'Reach out': lawyers highlight pressures of dispute resolution work | Law Gazette https://t.co/GCiHJhQJbY 
• Solicitor struck off for sexually assaulting friend’s wife - Legal Futures https://t.co/Vj3GV22cXz 
• Police spy who stole identity of dead baby was not prosecuted, inquiry hears - CPS decided not to pursue case against undercover officer despite evidence he had broken the law https://t.co/SImIo71xxx 
• Ports and unions criticise Shapps’ plan for law on seafarers’ minimum wage - Legislation announced in Queen’s Speech in response to P&O Ferries’ sacking of 800 crew https://t.co/ZOYvz5JqKl 
• Queen’s Speech: Bill of Rights and Brexit freedoms | Law Gazette https://t.co/DUa68YKV1g 
• A nurse "fixated by sex" who filmed up the gowns of unconscious hospital patients has been jailed for 12 years. Paul Grayson videoed four women as they recovered from surgery at Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital https://t.co/41yJR0XjNW
  
• Overturning Roe v Wade will destroy our civil rights – so don’t ask us to be ‘civil’ #US https://t.co/sTeNQIPwVp

11th May - Law News

Edition 3788: 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: For the first time since 1963, the Queen missed reading out the government's legislative plans - leaving Prince Charles and William to fly the royal flag. For Boris Johnson's critics this wasn't the only omission. There was no dedicated bill to help families bear the burden of the highest price rises in 40 years: in its place a vague commitment to grow the economy. But the heir to the throne did have a list of 38 bills - including legislation to try and make good on the levelling up pledge. 

Focus of the Day Article: The difficulty of people signing up to a collective action and the availability of third-party funding were legitimate factors to take into account in making it opt-out, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Full story - Legal Futures

Saturday Conversations on Law

• NEW Law Society of Scotland accredited PEAT2 training provider – Kinch Robinson | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/i6NkL3DYuF 
• Consequences ‘dire’ if Human Rights Act ditched, more than 50 groups warn https://t.co/WbRt7DvPje
  
• #SriLankan troops ordered to open fire on looters and vandals as protests continue - Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the island's worst economic crisis in history https://t.co/98xA3gzLhL 
• Rights groups condemn plan to scrap Human Rights Act | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CQLRofmZI3 
• Turkish flight aborted as passengers get plane crash pics - Several young #Israelis were identified as suspects and are being questioned. The plane departed five hours late after being cleared to leave https://t.co/qj33jidi5R 
• SLAPPs risk tarnishing the reputation of our justice system | Law Gazette https://t.co/MF57P8oBd5 
• Matheson opens new premises in Cork city centre | Irish Legal News https://t.co/27xudm526N 
• Judges have overturned a decision to award £290,000 compensation to the son of a diver who died off Cape Wrath. Lex Warner, from Sutton Coldfield, was injured in a fall on the boat before he made the dive on the Highlands' north coast in 2012 https://t.co/LEveVOB8fz
• Mental health: 'Time for a culture change in the law' | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZhgljZIGT5 
• Troubles victims’ families seek Supreme Court appeal over UK legacy plans | Irish Legal News https://t.co/h96iOPIdoe 
• Footage of the moment Ava White was stabbed and her alleged killer fleeing the scene has been played to a jury. The 12-year-old died after she was stabbed in Liverpool city centre while out with friends on 25 November 2021 https://t.co/yV3ztDxef7 
• Rebekah Vardy "had no choice" but to bring the libel claim against Coleen Rooney, the High Court has been told. Her lawyer Hugh Tomlinson said it was necessary to "establish her innocence and vindicate her reputation" https://t.co/J8KlIKfHUn 
• Rights reform and Brexit freedoms expected in Queen’s speech | Law Gazette https://t.co/Sd0DrubTUM 
• Tory MP Jamie Wallis has pleaded not guilty to four traffic offences. Mr Wallis, from Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, has denied failing to stop, failing to report a road traffic collision, careless driving and leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position https://t.co/BoEmy255xu 
• The omission from the Queen's Speech of measures to improve workers' rights has been met with backlash. Flexible working rights, protections against pregnancy discrimination, and rights for staff to keep all tips had been hoped for in an Employment Bill https://t.co/vbBx1vTIr7 
• NI Court of Appeal: Prisoner fails in bid to have his housing benefit continue while imprisoned | Irish Legal News https://t.co/OdDStpMAFr 
• LiP loses costs challenge over 'no longer instructed' barrister | Law Gazette https://t.co/PrsgHkicj9 
• Solicitor who injected blood into food not guilty due to insanity - Legal Futures https://t.co/s9cKffLn6h 
• Swansea is the first Welsh council joins Land Registry's digital register | Law Gazette https://t.co/zsslSyC4r5 
• Davidson Chalmers Stewart promotes Steven McAllister to partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mYVhFTKx7b 
• Women have spoken about their experiences of sexual assaults and violence in and around city centre venues. Police in Southampton have said tackling violence against women and girls is now their top priority https://t.co/wSGfcWb2Wt 
• Solicitor jailed for sexual assault struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/mWygysHWbC 
• Prince Charles is to read the Queen's Speech on her behalf for the first time ever, after the 96-year-old monarch pulled out due to mobility problems. He will open Parliament with the Duke of Cambridge, after the Queen granted special permission https://t.co/WGwWTGw5zb 
• Court of Appeal backs decision to make collective action opt-out - Legal Futures https://t.co/A84ZUQLIwz 
• Alarm after EHRC says long Covid should not be treated as disability https://t.co/GRpbXixYe9 
• Russia - City firms 'applying sniff test' to potential clients | Law Gazette https://t.co/NGaVNn425d 
• Best of the blogs - 7 May 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/V6fnIbpKtT 
• SRA budget to rise £5.3m this year as cost of living crisis bites - Legal Futures https://t.co/B0SFi8ZktJ 
• Affordable Covid drugs kept out of reach by sluggish WTO https://t.co/ncH5RPOtFK 
• Mother in law: The writing process continues - Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England | Law Gazette https://t.co/hBBH9krbQR
  
• Jail for solicitor who plundered elderly client's bank account - Legal Futures https://t.co/FVa6bytRPQ

10th May - Law News

Edition 3787: 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: Raw sewage was discharged into rivers in England nearly 375,000 times by water companies last year, according to the Environment Agency. The UK government has said that this is unacceptable and is promising a 40% reduction by 2040. ‘Citizen scientists' have been taking samples from waterways near their homes to find out just how much sewage and other chemicals are in the water.

Focus of the Day Article: UK urged to act after UN panel rules detention of Briton in India ‘arbitrary’. Jagtar Singh Johal has been detained since 2017 and allegedly tortured, accused of helping to fund assassination plot. Full story - Guardian Law

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The Corporate Counsel Show: No corporate integrity without courage - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/YKcwrTw7bA
  
• What junior lawyers should look for in their post-qualification training and education - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7vxfOqvcP3
  
• The International Law Framework – Establishing Violence Against Women and Girls as a Human Rights Abuse – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/zAscrIn1IH
• Séamus Ó Cróinín appointed chair of A&L Goodbody | Irish Legal News https://t.co/7iPUaTvgNc
• A law firm (Ince) has launched an investigation after allegations senior members of staff treated a Cardiff restaurant manager badly. Lily Griffiths, 22, had served the group of six at Cora, Pontcanna, where they spent £1,000 https://t.co/1hVLXWnBg6 
• Salary bunching: the unspoken effect of the City talent war - Legal Cheek https://t.co/XDmjAmLtUM
  
• Labour leader Keir Starmer has said he will quit if given a fine by Durham police for breaking lockdown rules. But speaking to reporters, the Labour leader insisted he was "absolutely clear that no rules were broken" https://t.co/cPfMBmcfmp 
• How ESG credentials are gaining relevance in business restructuring | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SsUXRgh76K 
• Understanding the issues with hybrid working - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/yQvCMV74IX
  
• Britain's top legal education YouTuber to deliver keynote at LegalEdCon 2022 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FJ7FxdaZ4x 
• LK Shields hires Jenny Ahern to lead banking and finance team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ALINXaeH9v
  
• KPMG reveals plans to double UK lawyer headcount - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Jv7YvwzMmO 
• A man killed police community support officer Julia James after "ambushing" her in woodland while she walked her dog, a court heard. Callum Wheeler, 22, launched a "brutal attack" on the 53-year-old in woods in Snowdown, Kent, in April last year https://t.co/XPOCcER2C2 
• The Labour leader Keir Starmer, who drank beer and ate curry in an MP's office during a visit before a by-election last year, when social distancing legislation was still in force, has cancelled an appearance on Monday https://t.co/ojhxIRWpZ
• Looking Beyond The Picture: How To Trust Video Evidence – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/xbC15dRTiQ
• Partner appointments at MacRoberts | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iKwfaULuYa 
• Skadden lawyer to lead City social mobility charity - Legal Cheek https://t.co/xBLF3CofeT 
• Mystery of phone in North Sea could hold key to ‘Wagatha Christie’ case https://t.co/4Gs1GO9HrV 
• Many social media influencers are unscrupulous and their followers need more protection, say MPs https://t.co/5qO3asKrK9 
• Legal Platforms: An opportunity for the Bar – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/yEgARVhPbD 
• Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial: witness expected to deny wrongdoing in killing of Afghan villager https://t.co/u3tfTJjJeS 
• DAC Beachcroft appoints three new Dublin partners | Irish Legal News https://t.co/UCzPt25qqT 
• Global competition regulators must better collaborate - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/zDntqOZ7uN 
• Tortured to death: the 14 Cypriot men killed by British in 50s uprising #Cyprus https://t.co/sVs7wtDVrh 
• The legal psychedelics industry: Capitalism is tripping over itself to get people tripping on legal psychedelics https://t.co/ata2mFoxM6
  
• TikTok tours of some of the City's fanciest law firm offices - Legal Cheek https://t.co/yUFbPhNizM 
• ‘Access is vital’: picnicking protesters target Duke of Somerset’s woods https://t.co/yPuw7DS4MK 
• Huddersfield law grad through to MasterChef final - Legal Cheek https://t.co/HfegnvtFlM

9th May - Law News

Edition 3786: 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: John Lee is the former security chief who led the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. The result was a foregone conclusion because there was only one candidate to choose from. Following a secret ballot, Hong Kong has a new leader. John Lee is due to replace Carrie Lam as Chief Executive on July first. The staunch China loyalist was elected by a committee of around 1500 members, all vetted to ensure their patriotism to President Xi Jinping and Beijing.

Focus of the Day Article: A £25m fraud squad, to be known as the Public Sector Fraud Authority, will be up and running by July, the Treasury has announced. Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Ofsted to get new powers to tackle illegal unregistered schools in England https://t.co/vuBrKQDKi9
• ASPC: Aberdeen sees annual house prices rise by 1.4 per cent | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lhl93SG4x
• UK YouTuber Benjamin Rich quizzed and fined at Russian space centre https://t.co/FOs1UCV0E1
• Why the SQE needs to be integrated into an academic programme so students reach their potential - Legal Cheek https://t.co/XjrSuYPUfr
  
• Taliban orders Afghan women to cover their faces in public: The move is one of the harshest restrictions imposed on Afghanistan’s women since the Taliban seized power last year https://t.co/Tvu3Q2XfFM
  
• Would you take a pay cut to WFH permanently? 88% of our readers say no - Legal Cheek https://t.co/67GyffaVqg
• Legal Lightbulbs: How can firms keep new lawyers? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/r7Cgm8PfDx 
• When will most law firms embrace the SQE? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Mcxl7xnUbY
• Criminal Legal Aid: Review calls for new measures to secure sustainability of criminal defence sector – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/JNGMPvOEYQ May 08, 2022
• Acid attack survivors in #Mexico: 'Justice is not enough' https://t.co/zaKriWL9jI
  
• A dedicated pro bono category at the Partner of the Year Awards program is a testament to how #Australia is paving the way in this area of the law, according to an award winner - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/6Cv4PLPDc
• An 80-year-old Welsh woman has said she lost her sight in one eye after her regular hospital eye clinic appointments were cancelled during the Covid pandemic https://t.co/g5ZryFvY6l 
• Midlands barristers launch £15k bar course scholarship for students with 'strong' regional links - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GGGh2jWbgQ
• Dominic Raab has accused Keir Starmer of "hypocrisy" after police launched an investigation into whether he breached Covid rules in 2021. The deputy PM stopped short of calling for the Labour leader to quit over what he called "rank double standards" https://t.co/ZcKLZkjMd5
• The Weekly Round-Up: unlawful care home policies, new legislation and voter ID - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/WQn66EKlfk
• Should lawyers take a pay cut for permanent WFH? Speaking to employment partners about the viability of such an approach in #Australia | Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/iYRI4SwUHj
• The journey from legal publisher to tech giant - Legal Cheek https://t.co/jWfIrNw5I
• Challenge to Government policy of discharging hospital patients to care homes at start of pandemic partly upheld - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/Tr0DpF4IGn
• Boris Johnson accused of undermining rule of law again over ‘left-wing lawyer’ comments | Irish Legal News https://t.co/CVdeohQqTO
• Labour leader Keir Starmer is facing further questions over whether he broke Covid lockdown rules at an MP's office in Durham, amid reports a leaked party memo suggested time was set aside for him to eat dinner with colleagues https://t.co/AmUYsAGDIN
• Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan for UK asylum seekers faces its first legal challenge: Home secretary is violating international law, the UN refugee convention and data protection rules, say lawyers https://t.co/GXtITjLPJ
• Shadow cabinet reveal their frustration after elections as police re-examine allegations of Covid rules breach by Starmer https://t.co/lwklD8LGbH
• Solicitor calls for period payments to be linked to wage inflation | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WjpdgBLiHT
  
• Solicitor who injected food with blood found not guilty due to insanity - Legal Cheek https://t.co/clLokyH7UY
• 3PB breaks through £30m turnover – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/wPn6WaUnFN
• Grier gets appeal date set in case against police and prosecutors | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8Vja6BrwYD 
• Career-changing doctor: 'Can I negotiate my training contract salary?’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/gYnWTI6jeG
  
• Revealed: betting giants lobbied UK government over proposed crackdown - Documents show gambling firms warned Treasury officials against tightening up industry laws https://t.co/6Yudwd382S 
• Landlords in England could be forced to let empty shops in a bid to rejuvenate high streets, under government plans - buildings left vacant for a year would have to be entered into a "rental auction" https://t.co/xf0lNcUxgX 

8th May - Law News

Edition 3785: 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: Dr. Renu Raina Sehgal, Director and Chief of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Artemis Hospital and Daffodils, India says that “gynae visit once a year should be there in the rule book”. However, not many women visit a gynaecologist on a regular basis to ensure good reproductive and sexual health. It’s about time, women start giving importance to self care and pay attention to their health

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A British YouTuber has been detained at a Russia-controlled space centre in Kazakhstan, officials have said. Benjamin Rich, known for his travel channel Bald and Bankrupt, was held near a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome https://t.co/FvcS1oUGJF 
• Reprieve: Richard Branson, Stephen Fry and Timothy Shriver plead with Singapore’s President for mercy as Nagaenthran Dharmalingam’s execution scheduled – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/umj2HVGFsH 
• Law firm Stephenson Harwood is offering its employees the option of working from home full-time on lower salaries | NLJ https://t.co/4Ej4xQ5nSm 
• The remains of hundreds of people are being deliberately destroyed in an organised campaign to dispose of evidence of ethnic cleansing in the west of #Ethiopia's Tigray region, according to interviews with 15 eyewitnesses https://t.co/mtu6pTPPJr
• Litigant banned over ‘unjustified’ complaints to regulators | Law Gazette https://t.co/PzTHAFL9OS
  
• Temple Church is offering four choral scholarships for young female singers, soprano or contralto, as part of its equality and diversity activity https://t.co/6ImYnenpRz 
• Howard Kennedy sees off negligence claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/3cLIhcyDzD 
• Land Registry output 'higher than before the pandemic' | Law Gazette https://t.co/bQ53QeDgPl 
• Qualified barristers and solicitors in the early stages of their careers can now apply for the 2022/23 Judicial Assistants scheme, which provides an invaluable ringside view of the trial process from the perspective of the judge https://t.co/RZWq7ikYu
• PC fee to rise - but overall practising bills will fall | Law Gazette https://t.co/R6ZH7fBYFR 
• Former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott says Sir Keir Starmer should consider his position as Labour leader if he is fined for breaking Covid laws https://t.co/AmUYsAGDIN 
• Injured NHS patients need full and fair redress https://t.co/5IuzwSKgcj
  
• A court in #Belarus has sentenced a Russian student to six years in jail, one year after she and her dissident journalist partner were removed from a Ryanair plane and arrested https://t.co/xeJpdoLB2h 
• Solicitors are being asked for their views on how to stop unscrupulous sellers, following a surge in the funeral plans market | NLJ https://t.co/vm8fSMnSw0 
• Florida pension fund sues Elon Musk and Twitter to stop buyout. The class-action lawsuit argues that the deal cannot close before 2025 #US https://t.co/yytIyAnzFm 
• Fundamental business habits that modern law firms need to succeed - Legal Futures https://t.co/CJunZyVrWV 
• Kathy Boudin obituary: Radical #US activist jailed for her part in a robbery who became an advocate for women in prison and their children https://t.co/onQGP5LkRG 
• A woman who was secretly filmed getting undressed and using the shower by a man who preyed on nearly 170 victims says she is still waiting for justice. John Wood concealed cameras to film women in a number of locations https://t.co/vRYgiwHxy8 
• Getting £135m for criminal legal aid not easy, says minister | Law Gazette https://t.co/n67XlveTsp 
• Lawyers limit community care cases “to help firms stay afloat” - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ll1KhzmdEM 
• An intruder who pretended to be a priest and spent a night in an Army barracks near Windsor Castle will face no further action. The man gained entry into Victoria Barracks, home to the Coldstream Guards, in Windsor on 27 April https://t.co/HfMtsiLbBF 
• ‘I didn’t believe stories of atrocities in #Ukraine. But then I saw the photos’ https://t.co/UjAtWwZnTl
  
• Charities and patient groups urge rethink on negligence costs plans - Legal Futures https://t.co/BS4zZC2cMw 
• A £25m fraud squad, to be known as the Public Sector Fraud Authority, will be up and running by July, the Treasury has announced | NLJ https://t.co/TZLtbLtwOX 
• Consumers open to optional top-up cover to reduce cost of PII - Legal Futures https://t.co/tZ0oQ9tuOu
  
• No retainer between law firm and businessman in £2.5m dispute - Legal Futures https://t.co/RpDcWh3TEq 
• ‘Tommy Robinson’ faces contempt proceedings | Law Gazette https://t.co/jijTJb4wE1

7th May - Law News

Edition 3784: 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: New rules on health and wellbeing in the workplace - This webinar is a chance to learn more about, and ask questions, regarding proposed changes to rules linked to the health and wellbeing of solicitors in the workplace, especially where clients and the public may be being placed at risk. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• ‘I didn’t believe stories of atrocities in #Ukraine. But then I saw the photos’ https://t.co/UjAtWwZnTl 
• Charities and patient groups urge rethink on negligence costs plans - Legal Futures https://t.co/BS4zZC2cMw 
• A £25m fraud squad, to be known as the Public Sector Fraud Authority, will be up and running by July, the Treasury has announced | NLJ https://t.co/TZLtbLtwOX 
• Consumers open to optional top-up cover to reduce cost of PII - Legal Futures https://t.co/tZ0oQ9tuOu
  
• No retainer between law firm and businessman in £2.5m dispute - Legal Futures https://t.co/RpDcWh3TEq
• ‘Tommy Robinson’ faces contempt proceedings | Law Gazette https://t.co/jijTJb4wE1 
• #Italy has ordered the seizure of a $700m yacht linked to Russia's President Vladimir Putin. The Scheherazade has been undergoing repairs at a port in Tuscany since September last year https://t.co/kWoh6RxNqe
• LK Shields hires Jenny Ahern to lead banking and finance team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ALINXaeH
• Sturgeon: Human rights laws an impediment to banning abortion protests | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MbEBj73GXv
• Faculty lends helping hand to mooters | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kO94thKPmf 
• Upbeat Fladgate reports record revenue growth | Law Gazette https://t.co/C449HPG30k 
• The billionaire Issa brothers are poised to rescue the convenience chain McColl's as it enters administration. PwC is set to become the administrators for the company and it is understood a sale to the Issa brothers' EG Group could come soon after https://t.co/upxTPSDc8J 
• Durham police are investigating whether Labour leader Keir Starmer broke lockdown rules on a visit during which he drank beer in an MP's office https://t.co/bq8ZCIVtof 
• England: Supreme Court refuses application for appeal in puberty blockers case | Irish Legal News https://t.co/T6NzyZjqiM
• Legal services escape latest Russia sanctions | Law Gazette https://t.co/KW1cZCHVHr 
• Proposal to disregard historic convictions of gay and bi men to go out to consultation | Irish Legal News https://t.co/A8rXy6h53W
  
• Fundamental business habits that modern law firms need to succeed - Legal Futures https://t.co/CJunZyVrWV 
• Adjudicators – off on a frolic of their own? | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/btOsqBzPnI
  
• Boris Becker could face deportation from UK, Home Office confirms - Ex-tennis star may have to represent himself in potential case that could set post-Brexit legal precedent https://t.co/kwlOJ5UvF9 
• Lawyers limit community care cases “to help firms stay afloat” - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ll1KhzmdEM 
• Acoustic shock claim back on after ‘fundamental error’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/OgPGYN2uDL 
• UK man brings high court case to have dead wife’s baby with surrogate - Ted Jennings says his wife, Fern-Marie Choya, would have wanted him to have their baby using embryo frozen during IVF https://t.co/UbDDsLNZIf 
• British Virgin Islands premier Andrew Fahie replaced after drugs arrest https://t.co/iqljOyPaWw 
• Charities and patient groups urge rethink on negligence costs plans - Legal Futures https://t.co/BS4zZC2cMw 
• Khan seeks to appeal High Court order over files | Law Gazette https://t.co/f4iTW3csei 
• SRA rebukes solicitors whose work involved family members | Law Gazette https://t.co/1UL06pJkRI 
• Consumers open to optional top-up cover to reduce cost of PII - Legal Futures https://t.co/tZ0oQ9bTpU 
• A round-up of human rights stories from around the world | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JU7TvSagNk 
• Trump the hero for anti-abortion movement after bending supreme court his way #US https://t.co/FSWw0JgTmP 
• No retainer between law firm and businessman in £2.5m dispute - Legal Futures https://t.co/RpDcWh3TEq