11th July - Law News

Edition 3850: 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: One of the richest people on the planet, says he's changed his mind about buying Twitter. Tesla CEO, Elon Musk says fake accounts could amount to a fifth of Twitter's users - four times more than he was initially told. The company denies this and says it will sue Musk to push through the deal. So, what's likely to happen next?

 

Focus of the Day Article: The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA’s) fining powers have been increased from £2,000 to £25,000 (a rise of 1,150%). Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• How Bored Apes are changing the law - Legal Cheek https://t.co/SZi9q31Nq
• Prosecutorial work involves not only the responsibility a practitioner has to clients, but sometimes also the expectations of the community - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/fdmMKB9FGX
• Person belonging to another religion cannot be prevented entry in temple if he has faith in that Hindu deity: Madras High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/zL2CaVmPda 
• Lawyers ranked amongst the worst kissers in the UK - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ca3GWi5RI
• #Australia Federal Court case demonstrates misapprehensions with contractors and super guarantees - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/5DZm9KFpy
• The Weekly Round up: planned new Bill of Rights; fall in the success rate of JR claimants; Afghan judge applies for relocation to UK - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/TvikFRRU4S
• Thousands of leaked files have exposed how Uber courted top politicians, and how far it went to avoid justice. They detail the extensive help Uber got from leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and ex-EU commissioner Neelie Kroes https://t.co/5Fr24ND5B
• Top judge blasts 'creeping march of anonymity' in solicitor disciplinary rulings - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5s5MQe5NUd
  
• New Tory minister Lia Nici repeats Angela Rayner legs slur https://t.co/NGYUyvoPlA
• Councillor Daniel Cook's claim that the Tories instructed him to hold off making an allegation about former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher was "categorically not true", the party claims https://t.co/uNNTxFQgZ
• Formula 1 will investigate claims that some spectators at the Austrian Grand Prix suffered discriminatory abuse: unconfirmed reports from fan forum postings state a female spectator may have been abused too https://t.co/pfvjh8HsoN
• Non-Binary Passports: R (on the application of Elan-Cane) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) [2021] UKSC 56 - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/U8sJG1sTdc
• Law firm owner charged with attempted murder | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZttwC6N0Ap
  
• Hill Dickinson to offer TCs in the Toon - Legal Cheek https://t.co/21eyepkMTu
  
• Court throws out attempt to have junior solicitor jailed | Law Gazette https://t.co/4Mc65l2Zoo
• CMS boosts NQ lawyer pay to £100k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/MX04FEWgJi
  
• Government plugs two justice resignation gaps | Law Gazette https://t.co/Jf0eBdzKIL
• RPC records 100% autumn trainee retention rate - Legal Cheek https://t.co/eiOIzUNmB
• Solicitor fined for allowing £68,000 deposit payment to fraudster | Law Gazette https://t.co/EGlkdZszcu
• Central Bank to report on price walking ban within six months | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Ml7WWdDtyF 
• Magistrates court staff to vote on strike over Common Platform | Law Gazette https://t.co/69Ilm1k1XX
  
• New solicitor advocates introduced | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/o7FsNuqlQv
• Updated sentencing guidelines to cover new driving offences | Law Gazette https://t.co/AgfBV4VAau
• William Fry hires Colm Manning as corporate consultant | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zLBwymlPMy
• Officials raised ‘flag’ over Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs before he was appointed chancellor - HMRC alert raised as minister faces questions over offshore family trust that held shares worth £20m https://t.co/dz6ImRjneO
• Number of people involved in UK competition class actions more than doubles in a year | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Kq5DDzpU1T
• Akin Gump pushes NQ pay to £179,000 | Law Gazette https://t.co/RqgfIdsy2C
• Report on reform of legal services regulation in Scotland welcomed | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/clZabIEBL1

10th July - Law News

Edition 3849: 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: YouTuber Gaurav Taneja was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Noida today after his followers gathered in large numbers at a metro station to celebrate his birthday, reports ANI. Taneja, who runs the YouTube channel 'Flying Beast', had planned to celebrate his birthday at the Sector 51 Metro Station in Noida.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Hayes Solicitors promotes eight including partner Fiona Shipsey | Irish Legal News https://t.co/fGaS3a3iS8 
• The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA’s) fining powers have been increased from £2,000 to £25,000 (a rise of 1,150%), as of last week | NLJ https://t.co/EgKXMyZe8U
• High Court: IPAT decision refusing protection for man claiming to be forced to become a fetish priest upheld | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WxWp0yAEV
• The Supreme Court has been assigned the task of deciding whether the Scottish Parliament has authority to legislate for a consultative referendum on independence without the approval of Westminster | NLJ https://t.co/OeAAxFwLCW
• High Court: Ex-City solicitor failed to return $25m fund to Saudi princess - Legal Futures https://t.co/unpJWFxCxe
• ‘I need justice’: mother of boy stabbed to death calls for change in UK law - The 15 year old who killed Dea-John Reid was convicted of manslaughter and could serve just over two years in prison https://t.co/6FkJA77woW
• The government ‘has failed to make the case for repealing and replacing the Human Rights Act with a Bill of Rights in the form proposed’, the chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), Joanna Cherry QC MP has warned | NLJ https://t.co/JWVya7KEte
• Merger firms allowed to keep their names | Law Gazette https://t.co/wUjWXvZFQe
  
• Resolution embraces 'one lawyer, one couple' approach to divorce - Legal Futures https://t.co/TbpgT4C87C
• New education minister Andrea Jenkyns raised her middle finger to a crowd outside Downing Street https://t.co/l4ydxNOQTE 
• Criminal courts have ground to a halt for the second week running as criminal barristers continued their strike | NLJ https://t.co/iCU46JjhMY
  
• £5bn claim over Brazil dam collapse revived by Court of Appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/VNqahfn0Jb
• Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster to get day in UK courts #Brazil https://t.co/qDsepTNi5H 
• Stop advising clients to pay cyber-ransoms, lawyers told - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ny7asLkR9U 
• Mother in law: The letter 'H' | Law Gazette https://t.co/WrqeDFnIek
  
• A special constable serving with the Metropolitan Police has been charged with rape. Paul Hoile, 40, is due to appear at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court later, facing four charges including one of anal rape and two counts of oral rape https://t.co/pItZz7XqTG
• Biden signs executive order to protect US abortion access and urges Americans to ‘vote, vote, vote’ – as it happened #US https://t.co/sBu7FwUmfe
  
• Ness Gallagher promotes family lawyer Louise Gillies to director | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6qyJtXe8nV
• Government cools on manifesto pledge for criminal justice Royal Commission - Legal Futures https://t.co/HVAD37Wf
• The Attorney General, Suella Braverman has thrown her hat in the ring for job of Prime Minister, while the Solicitor General, Alex Chalk and Justice ministers, barrister Victoria Atkins | NLJ https://t.co/sNz9JRUYxy
• Elon Musk withdraws $44bn bid to buy Twitter after weeks of high drama https://t.co/qU9p0vwXyX
• Committee backs ‘swift passage’ for PIAB reform bill | Irish Legal News https://t.co/xxp6SO8a9N
  
• Aberdein Considine makes raft of trainee appointments | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xGiKIgRVWI
• Justice for Bernard Collaery must be the beginning of decisive action on whistleblowers #Australia https://t.co/pRpSYrlWoz

9th July - Law News

Edition 3848: 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: Why is judicial independence important? What role does the Supreme Court play in maintaining democracy and the rule of law? This video about the independence of the Supreme Court explores the roots of the highest court in the land, unpacks the principle of separation of powers, and explains judicial review. This video is the second in our series about the role and workings of the Supreme Court. It is part of a wide range of learning resources designed to aid teaching in the classroom about the law, as well as to complement educational visits here. If you are a teacher or student interested in such a visit, please visit www.supremecourt.uk/education for more information.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Ghislaine Maxwell appeals against sex trafficking conviction #US https://t.co/nPKiDPjp4g
• Raab vows to seek more funding to fix court repair backlog | Law Gazette https://t.co/FiC9bqdoB3
  
• The mother of Baby P has been released from prison. Tracey Connolly was jailed in 2009 after admitting causing or allowing the death of her son Peter at their home in Tottenham, north London, in 2007 https://t.co/Den1MWhvqP
• Justice minister takes a dig at criminal bar in resignation letter | Law Gazette https://t.co/wc3g5IqzU
• ‘Heads I win, tails you lose’: firm loses DBA appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/8UTLjUOlWy
• Taylor Wessing posts 32% profits bump | Law Gazette https://t.co/peDmiyYsMv
• Twitter says it suspends 1m spam users a day as Elon Musk row deepens https://t.co/KkesimDRLM
• A Moscow councillor has been jailed for seven years for speaking out against #Russia's war in Ukraine - in what is said to be the first full jail term under new laws targeting dissent. Alexei Gorinov, 60, was arrested in April https://t.co/JXk7aaqxHf
• Bevan Brittan eyes acquisitions after record revenues | Law Gazette https://t.co/NkxTDxjBv8 
• Criminal reforms target ‘deepfake’ and nonconsensual pornographic imagery https://t.co/xo8EXdyGCQ
• A man who murdered police community support officer Julia James while she was out walking her dog has been jailed for life. Callum Wheeler beat Mrs James to death with a metal bar after "ambushing" her near her Kent home in April 2021 https://t.co/i2BmFoHaqq
• Lord chief worried about growing reliance on part-time judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/9Qt6qHLzma
  
• Education of children in care in England held back by ‘system failings’ https://t.co/GqosE2bfRG 
• High Court criticises SDT for "sweeping anonymity orders" - Legal Futures https://t.co/yExKB0x2h7
• #Finland passes law to bolster border fence with Russia https://t.co/XhbHgMwdjh 
• Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini have both been found not guilty following their fraud trial in #Switzerland. The pair stood trial over a payment of 2m Swiss francs (£1.6m) made by Blatter to Platini in 2011 https://t.co/ZJvbptYaX
• Parts of a Mail on Sunday article about Prince Harry's legal claim against the Home Office were defamatory, a High Court judge has said https://t.co/pnHZ6qtfzG
• Shinzo Abe: #Japan's ex-leader Abe assassinated while giving speech https://t.co/eoCKKxPSbM 
• Solicitor's "oversight" saw £68,000 paid to conveyancing fraudster - Legal Futures https://t.co/AVsKcxoD8
• Defendant DBAs are unlawful, Court of Appeal rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/MTjDuP6EFu 
• More people - mostly women - have been underpaid their state pension than previously thought, latest government figures show. A new estimate suggests 237,000 state pensioners were paid less than their entitlement, with a total of nearly £1.5bn underpaid https://t.co/b9TmUOaJm6
• LawtechUK launches ‘regulatory pathfinding’ programme - Legal Futures https://t.co/xhRAGeCksu
• Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights. Chauvin, 46, pleaded guilty to the separate federal civil rights charges in December #US https://t.co/pQm5DHnuYy
• Resolution backs 'one lawyer, two clients' divorce model | Law Gazette https://t.co/98gsKQ6FhR 
• Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMose1
• Judge lambasts SDT’s ‘sweeping’ anonymity orders | Law Gazette https://t.co/8nOW9I5Ein
• Mother in law: The letter 'H' | Law Gazette https://t.co/WrqeDFFjCU 
• Attorney general refuses to resign despite calling for PM to go | Law Gazette https://t.co/ua9aa7AjEb
• Solicitor general and justice minister join wave of resignations | Law Gazette https://t.co/Juq7TeAwkK

8th July - Law News

Edition 3847: 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 basketball player Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty in a Russian court to drugs charges that could see her jailed for 10 years.

Focus of the Day Article: The Law Commission’s corporate criminal liability reform: what you need to know. Proposals seek balance between reform of archaic rules and need not to overburden corporations. Full story - The Global Legal Post

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A man was murdered in his own home after being set up by three women in a "honeytrap", a court heard. Vishal Gohel, 44, was found dead with gaffer tape on his face at his flat in High Street, Bushey, Hertfordshire, in January https://t.co/CWIyr3OcGI
• A woman who fatally wounded a man but claimed she did not mean to kill him has been jailed for at least 16 years. Stephanie Bowie stabbed 21-year-old Darren Russell twice in the chest outside a restaurant in Erskine, Renfrewshire, on New Year's Day 2021 https://t.co/jLnmd79Uf
• A woman who took about 150 theory and practical tests for other drivers has been jailed for eight months. Inderjeet Kaur, 29, of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, admitted taking the tests between 2018 and 2020 https://t.co/jQtB153uOE
  
• Partner profits up 16% at Pinsents | Law Gazette https://t.co/Fv5Tkslvw
• Ithaka review – emotional look at absent Julian Assange’s legal troubles https://t.co/pYrHjDgZt3 
• Knights sheds conveyancing business to Scottish incomer | Law Gazette https://t.co/2y4akljHi2 
• Outrage as boys moved from Western Australian juvenile detention centre to maximum security adult prison #Australia https://t.co/jcCOfa2grf
• US basketball player Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to drug charges in a #Russian court but has denied deliberately breaking the law https://t.co/TYniU8cz0T
• Scottish firm targets major expansion after first English acquisition - Legal Futures https://t.co/HDi2KjYy4
• A senior HSBC executive who accused central bankers and officials of exaggerating the financial risks of climate change has resigned https://t.co/VMM84fOgNw
• Some aspects of overturning Roe v Wade for bars and lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/H6plP8gZs6
• Shailesh Vara, the former justice minister is the new Northern Ireland secretary https://t.co/vk2aLySNle
• Three Wimbledon security guards arrested after alleged fight on grounds https://t.co/lJbScU8LKs 
• The government has accused the criminal bar of ‘threatening’ to delay justice as it doubled down on its controversial legal aid offer | Law Gazette https://t.co/BQe7WGNd6K
• What does 21st century client service mean to the client? - Legal Futures https://t.co/4PkMETbReB
• Boris Johnson admits to private meeting with ex-KGB agent - Meeting with Alexander Lebedev in 2018 when Johnson was foreign secretary occurred during ‘weekend-long party’ in Italy https://t.co/7byiDl6kn9
• New litigation funder targets “niche within a niche” - Legal Futures https://t.co/fmXNe9hmyx 
• An LGBT activist has been removed from a tribunal which is due to hear an appeal by a school worker who was sacked after claiming pupils being taught that ‘gender is a matter of choice’ amounted to ‘brainwashing’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/kq15OnabyX
• Further allegations of sexual assault have been made against former deputy chief whip and MP Chris Pincher. Conservative councillor Daniel Cook told Channel 4 News that Mr Pincher, who has been suspended as a Tory MP, had groped him in 2005 and 2006 https://t.co/6UdRdyWpdM 
• Frenkel Topping raises £10m to boost injury market consolidation - Legal Futures https://t.co/O7OQifPcE
• Boris Johnson is to stand down as Conservative Party leader after losing the support of his ministers and MPs. A Tory leadership contest will take place this summer and a new prime minister will be in place in time for the party conference in October https://t.co/CI8bMpOH0S
• Peter Dennehy BL has been appointed to the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland for a four-year term | Irish Legal News https://t.co/3GTkECoQK0
  
• MoJ could be sued over refusal to backdate legal aid fee increase | Law Gazette https://t.co/VePCTe0kjt
• Barrister settles whistleblower claim against Foreign Office for £423k - Legal Futures https://t.co/ip4H40Hylb 
• Apple has announced a new security feature to protect high-risk users from spyware cyber-attacks. Lockdown Mode will be available in the autumn with the next operating system across all of the company's iPhones, iPads and Macs https://t.co/b1Dz9BPXmu
• Belfast solicitor Shannon Gawley joins EYBA executive committee | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bIdNfAHS9u
• The man who shot and killed Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle minutes after a brief argument in 2019 has been found guilty of murdering the rising artist https://t.co/aaTGo5vu
• Court of Appeal: Receiver not entitled to interlocutory injunction removing elderly couple from rented property | Irish Legal News https://t.co/HKisNf7hG
• A man accused of opening fire on a Fourth of July parade near Chicago contemplated a second attack after the deadly shooting, authorities say #US https://t.co/til7F1M6wc
• Rebrand Announcement – ILRS is now LQSI | Irish Legal News https://t.co/hNq835fFIk

7th July - Law News

Edition 3846: 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: Basfar (Respondent) v Wong (Appellant) [2022] - UKSC 2020/0155

Focus of the Day Article: A law firm has announced it will make a one-off payment to its lower earners to help with the cost of living. Bird & Bird in London will pay a one-off £1,000 bonus this month to all staff on an annual salary of less than £50,000.. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Amazon is under investigation in the UK over concerns that the company is giving an unfair advantage to certain sellers on its marketplace https://t.co/bRc2zvRW7
• Richard Pugh: Engaging with young people to inspire future advocates | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RGlOo2L6O
• Negligence case over 2013 property sale was not statute barred, court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/k39OY0No5c
• Three-way race for next Bar Council chairperson | Irish Legal News https://t.co/IGmRSKHUJf
• I led the #US lawsuit against big tobacco for its harmful lies. Big oil is next https://t.co/8Ttwxw5Duj
• Philip Lee appoints Finola Igoe as senior associate in construction team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/b3Y6xhBOW
• Firm hands staff £1,000 cost-of-living crisis bonus | Law Gazette https://t.co/EjLZmtbf1U
• The UK Supreme Court has ruled that a Saudi diplomat cannot hide behind immunity to exploit workers, in a victory for campaigners against modern slavery https://t.co/vQxYZ9qwqJ
  
• Promotions and new hires at Gibson Kerr | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sNfyPPtcKg
• Good Law Project wins costs cap in PPE case | Law Gazette https://t.co/Vy9u9pBsjY
• A woman who said people cannot change their biological sex was discriminated against by her employers, an employment tribunal has ruled. Tax expert Maya Forstater did not have her contract renewed after posting a series of tweets about gender and sex https://t.co/s124FOTSL9 
• Three promotions to senior associate at Balfour and Manson | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fjee6nJ2ls J
• Litigant in person can sue law centre and barrister for negligence - Legal Futures https://t.co/5r0AzLASZz
• Freeman Johnson select PracticeEvolve to bring consistency to their business | Irish Legal News https://t.co/9Rpwz8B8UD
• Ukraine Bar Association opens to foreign members | Law Gazette https://t.co/pboH8E7Zvt
• Mariano Janin whose 14-year-old daughter killed herself is calling for parents to be able to access their children's social media after they die https://t.co/UsYaZtbKbe
• Lady Hale warns of ‘dangers’ of British Bill of Rights in Belfast speech | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7XJVJ6JIp
• Solicitors could escalate legal aid action next week | Law Gazette https://t.co/jaEJADqplV
• Firm cleared of disability discrimination against senior support manager - Legal Futures https://t.co/kVryVzZKR
• UK ‘backsliding on human rights’ – Council of Europe | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZdBDJEwP1q 
• Bernard John Higgins, from Hemlington, was convicted at Teesside Magistrates' Court after confronting a youth allegedly responsible for causing trouble on the 65-year-old's estate https://t.co/4HtYOLNzva
• Robert Crimo, who opened fire on a Fourth of July parade near Chicago has been charged with seven counts of murder, officials say #US https://t.co/XipEABXkFI 
• Supplier of slurry tank damaged by landslip fails in attempt to have breach of contract action thrown out by prescription | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VAVpyGpwm2
• My legal life: Michael Roberts, Hogan Lovells - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/IF18Ghecgo
  
• Firm ordered to pay wasted costs over lack of authority to act - Legal Futures https://t.co/lLPzYxCxRC
• Some aspects of overturning Roe v Wade for bars and lawyers | aw Gazette https://t.co/H6plP8gZs6 
• Portsmouth’s £25m border post stands empty after minister’s imports U-turn: At least £450m of taxpayers’ money has been spent on facilities to handle post-Brexit checks, now delayed https://t.co/wrAeNVGmqC
• SRA left with £20,000 bill after tribunal clears veteran solicitor of dishonesty | Law Gazette https://t.co/rXiNz5bySg
  
• A doctor who killed a mother-of-three when he botched a procedure during a routine appointment has been jailed. Dr Isyaka Mamman, now thought to be 85, admitted gross negligence manslaughter over the death of Shahida Parveen https://t.co/xrU1Tt3PId

6th July - Law News

Edition 3845: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011. 

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: A quarter of parliamentary staff say they’ve witnessed someone being sexually harassed. 70% said they felt that if they reported inappropriate behaviour their careers would be harmed - and today parliamentary authorities admitted to us that there are barriers to speaking up

Focus of the Day Article: A rethought costs system that puts digitisation, vulnerable court users and a properly functioning civil justice system at its heart is the goal of a Civil Justice Council (CJC) working party, which yesterday began consulting on four key areas for possible reform. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Firm to pay wasted costs after ‘negligence’ in bringing case | Law Gazette https://t.co/Oxz2KLW7dP
• The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, and the Secretary of State for Health, Sajid Javid, have resigned from Boris Johnson's government https://t.co/ME4K8foUky
• Briton captured in Ukraine by Russians appeals against death sentence: iden Aslin, a marine in Ukrainian army, sentenced with UK citizen Shaun Pinner by proxy court in Donetsk https://t.co/SSWAnZbuoV
• NQ salary war cools, but HSF increases pay | Law Gazette https://t.co/vBeGZ3vHmE
• Parliament an unsafe workplace due to sexual misconduct by MPs, say unions - Political parties cannot be trusted to deal with misbehaviour by their own MPs, claim general secretaries https://t.co/Ytlctgbir6
• ‘Size matters’: Clyde and BLM create biggest defendant practice | | Law Gazette https://t.co/53AAJ8YOvI
• Twelve members of a religious group have been arrested over the death of an eight-year-old girl in #Australia. Elizabeth Struhs died on 7 January at a home south of Brisbane, after the type one diabetic was allegedly denied insulin for almost a week https://t.co/ZLIVlD4GBU
• Dominic Raab accused of failing to address concerns of criminal barristers https://t.co/aumxqKUv3U
• 'We're back': legal aid lawyers begin second week of strikes | Law Gazette https://t.co/4ayMOiuyq8
  
• Firm cleared of disability discrimination against senior support manager - Legal Futures https://t.co/kVryVzZKRw
• Wimbledon quarter-finalist Nick Kyrgios is set to appear in court in Australia next month in relation to an allegation of common assault - "in the context of a domestic relationship" https://t.co/QcVKn1mSra
• How the #US Supreme Court is reshaping America https://t.co/wNuo8cxNVM
• Strike data collection caused ‘immediate distress’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/oj6IdiZHVr 
• Climate protesters glue themselves to National Gallery artwork - Campaigners from Just Stop Oil pressure group reimagine The Hay Wain by John Constable https://t.co/4Vw1ahxYVy
• #US police have arrested a suspect after six people were killed in a mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois. Robert E Crimo III, 22, was detained after a brief chase, police said https://t.co/4ZM9Mj3QZS
• Dechert’s former head of white-collar crime Neil Gerrard was involved in ‘the most grotesque perjury’ – representing ‘in all likelihood the most serious fraud on the court in English legal history’, the High Court has heard | Law Gazette https://t.co/l0pKZkGjeR
  
• Why the legal profession should lead the way for women and families who have had miscarriages | Law Gazette https://t.co/fnh9hFPiNA
• A litigant in person is not statute-barred from suing a law centre and barrister for professional negligence, a High Court master has ruled - Legal Futures https://t.co/5r0AzLji81
• For civil rights groups, Roe v Wade is reminder of supreme court’s limits #US https://t.co/Ot6D2z7pG1
• Being a relative does not give right to touch a girl's body without consent: Mumbai court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Vwkwe1gYLz
• Senior Council of Europe official urges UK not to repeal Human Rights Act - Council’s commissioner for human rights says replacing act with British bill of rights would send ‘wrong signal’ https://t.co/DPLKNH2KdP
  
• Firm ordered to pay wasted costs over lack of authority to act - Legal Futures https://t.co/lLPzYxkWt2
• Colston Four - AG accused of subverting jury system | News | Law Gazette https://t.co/Drj9BaZpjS
• Hotels, restaurants cannot add service charge automatically or by default in food bill: Central Consumer Protection Authority | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/b8e5uKxVtH
  
• Manchester MP to write to minister over ‘guilty by association’ verdicts https://t.co/FsD9TIHAK
• Microsoft 365’s dirty little secret: It is not responsible for backing up the data you share and manage across its various services - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ohc4AFmtoZ
• Bookseller of Kabul becomes asylum seeker in London: Shah Muhammad Rais survived decades of misrule in Afghanistan but finally fled to escape the Taliban https://t.co/8fl50XxqxG 
• Some cinemas have banned young people wearing suits from screenings of Minions: The Rise of Gru over rowdy behaviour fuelled by a TikTok trend. Teenagers have been accused of making noise and throwing things during screenings https://t.co/wC7SfZeTpd
  
• Courts should be sensitive when poor and deprived knock at its doors: Delhi High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Y6arblKTlw

5th July - Law News

Edition 3844: 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: Hastings (Appellant) v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd and another (Respondents) (Scotland [2022] – UKSC 19 

Focus of the Day Article: In R (Gorani) v HM Assistant Coroner for Inner West London [2022] EWHC1593 (QB), a Divisional Court comprising Macur LJ and Garnham J rejected on all grounds a wide-ranging challenge to the conduct of in inquest into a suicide. Of particular interest were the Court’s observations on the effect of a finding that the investigative duty under article 2, ECHR was engaged, and their clarification that a coroner does not need to hear submissions before refusing to make a ‘preventing future deaths’ report. That said, it is a broad and interesting judgment and deserves reading in full by those with an interest in coronial law. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Has a robot really just hired a lawyer? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/wWFDj3VKfg
• ‘The property market is disgraceful’: why bosses are renting homes to staff - Some bosses are taking action amid claims sites such as Airbnb are pricing workers out of housing https://t.co/1UyFJY0j20 
• Squires to give 75% of internships and work experience places to disadvantaged students as part of new ESG strategy - Legal Cheek https://t.co/00lpRWTEoU 
• A Premier League and international footballer has been arrested in north London on suspicion of rape. The 29-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was taken into custody on Monday morning where he remains https://t.co/X3s3H5hpf9
  
• The government has said it wants all new public buildings in England to have separate male and female toilets. Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch stated it was "vital that women feel safe" and "that their needs are respected" https://t.co/9hQ4ok4iJd
• Councils will be able to control numbers of second homes and holiday lets under new Welsh government plans. A new licensing scheme for people who want to operate short-term holiday lets, such as Airbnb, is also planned https://t.co/MeAWLI6fUG
  
• India needs stronger enforcement of copyright and IP laws to reduce piracy and counterfeiting | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/fTItr6jWRp
  
• US firm Sidley latest to up LPC and GDL maintenance grants for future London trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mmzF9N6Xqv 
• A court in India has sent to prison a man who was found guilty of posing as the son of a wealthy landlord for 41 years https://t.co/OgiKoABrGE
• Two serving soldiers sold hundreds of rounds of live ammunition for cash to an undercover police officer posing as a criminal, a court has heard https://t.co/RMGBuUH4vm
• Protégé: How to spearhead wellness initiatives at your workplace - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/ngtMgsDKnN
  
• Anonymous criminal barrister posts breakdown of entire year's earnings on Twitter - less than £20,000 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/w0BCRjj1jd
• Rape survivor moves Supreme Court challenging anticipatory bail granted to accused-actor Vijay Babu by Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/AvcmrOgcs3
• The BBC has revealed that a complaint against former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood had previously been referred to police. The complaint is one of six the corporation now says it received about alleged bullying or sexual misconduct by Westwood https://t.co/Q7pIhzPahP 
• More than a dozen arrested after demonstrators targeted motorways in England, Wales and Scotland over high fuel prices. The go-slow action is targeting three-lane motorways with convoys of vehicles crawling along two lanes - leaving the outside lane free https://t.co/XKkq3NZeRh
• Why law students should ‘explore their passions’ and ‘keep an open mind’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/yrQIZ8wbRa 
• Criminal cases in courts across England and Wales face disruption for a second week as barristers pledge to extend their strike action into August. Rallies have taken outside the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, plus Liverpool & Birmingham Crown Courts https://t.co/aWkWI2LBVc
• Fines for UK lawyers to increase by up to 1,150% - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/AVUCIWQPVt 
• #US police have released video of a chase in Akron, Ohio, which ended in a black man being shot dead, hit more than 60 times by pursuing officers https://t.co/VKUYevOKwT
• Don’t get 'super sh*tfaced' at socials and don’t ask lawyers about working hours: Reddit users list their top vac scheme ‘pitfalls’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Duw4Vn5KXJ
  
• Mob-style killings shock #Netherlands into fighting descent into ‘narco state’ - Murders, corruption and ‘Mocro Maffia’ prompt Dutch to set up war chest to tackle wave of organised crime sweeping nation https://t.co/oVp7yhpIG
• In India, political parties wrongly believe judiciary should endorse their actions, advance their political cause: CJI NV Ramana | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/1Gc1qNKaFs
• Freshfields keeps 32 of 36 autumn NQ solicitors - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3Lx9hFg5hz 
• The week the supreme court reshaped America: ‘We’re being hurled back decades’ #US https://t.co/5AuB8nP7G
• BPP to offer paid qualifying work experience - Legal Cheek https://t.co/uO09CSeCQZ
• Navigating the first year of partnership - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/dTLAGfDdBZ
• The tide is finally turning in Italy in favour of protecting women in the sex trade https://t.co/RKjjHwsIno
• A round-up of the best pet pooches from Slaughter and May's ‘Bring your Dog to Work Day’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/1lOZunp6vX 
• The British Army says it is investigating after its Twitter and YouTube accounts were hacked. Videos on cryptocurrency using images of billionaire businessman Elon Musk appeared on the YouTube channel https://t.co/S5SzNbZr8Q 
• Rajasthan High Court directs Excise Officer to expeditiously decide plea for release of 1,500 boxes of BIRA Beer seized by Police | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/z2Km1PQNha
  
• A group of 67 MPs and Lords have called on the government to ban the sale and use of Hikvision and Dahua surveillance equipment in the UK. Supporters range across the parties and include Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey and four ex-Conservative ministers https://t.co/d9ExuniyBg
• London lawyers refuse legal aid jobs in dispute over fees: Cases rejected include assaults on health workers and harrassment offences https://t.co/PdXx1Ut38K
• [BREAKING] Delhi Court denies bail to Mohammed Zubair, sends him to 14-day judicial custody | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/8bXefY4iKD
• Pups, legal celebs and stylish merch: The London Legal Walk in photos - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Lyb4rjdhj4
• A terminally ill #Russian physicist who was arrested in Siberia on suspicion of treason has died in custody after being flown to Moscow. FSB officers took Dmitry Kolker, 54, from his hospital bed in Novosibirsk on 30 June. He had pancreatic cancer https://t.co/wAh0mR99zC 
• Police in Londonderry attacked with petrol bombs while dealing with a security alert which has since been declared a "shameful hoax". Masonry, bottles and other items were also thrown at officers in what police called a "sustained and senseless attack" https://t.co/LG3UY2iPHt
  
• The Nigerian gas deal, the Irish impresario and the £8bn ruling amid claims of bribery #Nigeria https://t.co/aar6Dgbo5o