Edition 3793: 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: Finland has confirmed that it will apply for Nato membership, abandoning the neutral status the country has held since the end of World War Two.
The move comes despite warnings from Russian president Vladimir Putin, who told his Finnish counterpart that joining Nato would be a "mistake".
President Sauli Niinisto called it a "historic day". He says the shift in policy is in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Focus of the Day Article: Slater & Gordon has been ordered to provide details of alleged ‘secret commissions’ paid by an insurer, in a test case that could open the ‘floodgates’. The High Court this week ordered the firm to answer Part 18 requests for information from former personal injury clients Rhys Edwards and Wayne Raubenheimer. Full story - New Law Journal
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Squire Patton Boggs bumps NQ rates to £100k from January 2023 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/pvWxV9WvWH
- 'The overall culture in law is damaging many junior lawyers’, JLD chair warns - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mv5Gqry3Ns
- Prima Facie: 'Comer is fantastic in this one-woman show' | COUNSEL https://t.co/i2vrfjn9JS'
- On this day, 100 years ago, the first woman was called to the bar - Legal Cheek https://t.co/MJ6SfSbowh
- Book review: Spider Woman: a Life | COUNSEL https://t.co/crWD5krzXq
- SQE prep provider pledges to reduce law fair merch in new eco push - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ad5T3e9lmO
- Barristers are particularly at risk of burnout because of the nature of our work and our approach to it – but it doesn’t have to be this way | COUNSEL https://t.co/OGKxRcCC6F
- The man who killed a stranger with a single punch, and then turned his life around https://t.co/SXBLfmwloY
- Build your practice as a junior tenant: top tips to help fledgling junior tenants navigate the exhilarating – and exhausting – early years of practice | COUNSEL https://t.co/gR2exrzfXT
- Dominoes
player wins case over ‘racist’ noise ban in London square - Westminster
city council decision to ban Ernest Theophile, 74, and friends from
gathering was ‘flawed’ and ‘untenable’, says judge https://t.co/vMMOb8bXDm
- Ukraine refugees staying with UK hosts not cleared by criminal record checks https://t.co/2dRUP30chP
- The
Weekly Round-up: Roe v Wade, Bell v Tavistock and guidance on suitable
accommodation and misuse of private information - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/Ka7EAeEfEr
- David Sherborne: the ‘Wagatha Christie’ star lawyer with a celebrity following https://t.co/MwvdyZ3SwY
- Young Barristers’ Committee’s raft of initiatives designed to address your issues of concern | COUNSEL https://t.co/8OBqvXIVp
- Bombay
High Court pulls up State authorities for compelling English teacher to
take Math classes, withholding his salary | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/QOisU9Imr4 May 15, 2022
- Why the UK’s dire rates of sick pay bode ill for the economy https://t.co/uroOkULxHV
- Law Pod UK Latest Episode: Belfast special report. Elections, the Northern Ireland Protocol and non-diminution of EU rights - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/SD8oS18BSp
- Manchester Law School makes module on Excel, PowerPoint and Word compulsory on LLB - Legal Cheek https://t.co/HqMNApzbzB
- A woman who died with her three dogs after they were hit by a car has been named by police. Olivia Riley, 41, from Suffolk, was found dead after officers and paramedics were called to Cheyne Walk in Chelsea at about 06:20 BST on Saturday https://t.co/sivQJHb8cA
- Litigation funder sets aside £6m for client redress | Law Gazette https://t.co/C1pVf3Tccq
- US firm trainee: 'Should I pay off my student loan in one go?' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/KFJtudRMI
- Does it pay to represent yourself in court? | Law Gazette https://t.co/CZSA1udjbb
- Ten killed in ‘racially motivated’ shooting in Buffalo, US - Ten killed in ‘racially motivated’ shooting. White gunman kills 10, wounds three at a supermarket in a Black neighbourhood in Buffalo, New York state https://t.co/xUUBhstMDB
- 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/wLrarPHXlR
- Ex-managing partner misled tribunal in discrimination claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/qycbyQRA8o
- Criminal barristers’ ‘no returns’ policy in protest at the underfunding of the justice system & low advocacy fees is ‘causing significant & widespread disruption to the listing of cases in courts’, Criminal Bar Association (CBA) chair Jo Sidhu QC has said https://t.co/LhL30CNMwG
- The
UK response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis: should Ukrainian refugees
claim asylum in the first safe country they reach? | COUNSEL https://t.co/WbNFea1rQO
- First class law grad ditches legal career to play Call of Duty professionally - Legal Cheek https://t.co/oniNnOizkR
- A
Metropolitan Police officer accused of a string of sex offences has
appeared in court charged with three further counts of rape. David
Carrick, 47, of Hertfordshire, faces a total of 44 charges relating to
12 women between 2003 and 2020 https://t.co/d6iOA81HZW
- The attorney general’s office was worthy of respect. Suella the stooge disgraces it https://t.co/F3BdOtKbBa
- Queen’s
platinum jubilee: the royals must span the social divides - Brexit,
Covid and Black Lives Matter have highlighted divisions in society. But
we have more in common than we sometimes realise https://t.co/b62LQ7MWBC
- A man who sexually assaulted two women and carried out a series of hammer attacks in central London has been jailed. Morteza Ahmadi, 39, randomly targeted pedestrians and pub-goers in and around Regent Street on 1 October 2021 https://t.co/scILCoVFuJ
