5th December - Law News

Edition 3996: 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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Focus of the Day Article: Law firms have been warned again not to use litigation aimed at silencing critics—known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs). Full story - New Law Journal  

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Iran's morality police, which is tasked with enforcing it's strict Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the country's attorney general says. Mohammad Jafar Montazeri made the comments at a religious conference on Sunday, though they are yet to be confirmed by other agencies. He said the morality police had “nothing to do with the judiciary and have been shut down from where they were set up”. Iran has seen months of protests after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by the morality police for allegedly breaking strict rules on head coverings

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Brian Archer takes up presidency of Law Society of Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tZmZiHzgU0 
• CCTV in schools in larger interest of students, parents and staff: AAP government to Delhi High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/BEdursNTZf
  
• Iran's morality police, which is tasked with enforcing the country's Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the country's attorney general says https://t.co/8CK27pvBuy
  
• Almost 20% of unaccompanied child migrants from Albania taken in by Kent County Council this year have disappeared. The local authority took in 197 Albanian children up to 31 October, 39 of whom have gone missing. https://t.co/v2kmUwKTla
  
• The transition from construction lawyer to tutor - and what I learned along the way - Legal Cheek https://t.co/9kCOQRckqu 
• Northern Ireland rights watchdogs establishing clarity on Brexit commitment | Irish Legal News https://t.co/DtzCHEgaI7 
• Currys has stopped using Royal Mail for parcel deliveries "for now" following a wave of strike action at the postal services firm, which would lead to even more redundancies https://t.co/vjxhaGv0g6 
• The White House has condemned former President Donald Trump after he called for the "termination" of the US constitution. Mr Trump made the comments in a post to his Truth social network on Saturday while repeating his false election victory claim #US https://t.co/fPJfRUEMTD 
• Crypto needs cohesive regulation | Law Gazette https://t.co/RBdK60iiFS 
• ‘System failure’: Lawyers respond to abandoned second Lehrmann trial - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/t0I1qvcagq 
• Nowhere in the world Constitutional provisions are undone by courts like in India: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/cyIxMYOqOO 
• Circuit Court: Conflict of interest disclosure by barrister did not breach GDPR | Irish Legal News https://t.co/9d40DCsr65
  
• No more 'sir' or 'madam': Obsolete DJ titles axed | Law Gazette https://t.co/hEUyQlSFZA 
• Salting the Bird's Tail? The Online Safety Bill -v- Musk's Twitter - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/fqtEIXRF3A 
• The head of the police watchdog has been forced to resign after becoming the subject of a police investigation, Home Secretary says https://t.co/25hsWxE5nX 
• Guest v Guest: The recent Supreme Court ruling law students need to know - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aeZOe2cdvP 
• A&L Goodbody named European Competition Team of the Year | Irish Legal News https://t.co/S85SWTtNdE 
• SRA wants statutory designation to encourage reporting of SLAPPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/LIdrFJglKC 
• The Weekly Round-up: Scottish independence referendum, retained EU law and social media - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/ntbEgEY6Lf
  
• Life inside the world’s largest law firm - Legal Cheek https://t.co/IpggPQv9Q7 
• Matheson wins top Irish prize at The Lawyer European Awards | Irish Legal News https://t.co/vhr6p4TH2h 
• A student has been suspended by the University of Derby for taking her baby into lectures. Leah Foster, 35, is half way through a degree and said her tutor had agreed to her taking her son in on a short-term basis but this was overruled https://t.co/Gvx27W4r4s 
• #Israeli troops had entered the village warning of plans to demolish a Palestinian home. Footage shows a group of men and teenagers throwing rocks - then pulling back - as two shots ring out https://t.co/ftMx6jz99u 
• 'Is it ok to take a gap year after my TC in a bid to find the perfect NQ role?' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/xQtWdGsgNG 
• Ince Scotland bolsters offering within real estate and regulatory | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/K9b09GBW6B 
• SDT chief quits in wake of costly eviction | Law Gazette https://t.co/aUP1x5ePAS

4th December - Law News

Edition 3995: 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 Palestinian foreign ministry has said the shooting of a Palestinian man by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank was tantamount to an execution meant to escalate already spiralling violence in the occupied territory. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The UK is the ‘leading Western centre for Islamic finance’, according to a TheCityUK report, ‘Islamic finance: global trends and the UK market 2022’, published last week | NLJ https://t.co/zIrRt79F37 
• Facing eviction, I’ve learned that relying on ‘good landlords’ is a feudal throwback https://t.co/owf2DpL8MA 
• QualitySolicitors undergoes MBO in latest Metamorph twist - Legal Futures https://t.co/j5ZzEnlOCs 
• Push for ‘victim advocates’ to support alleged rape survivors in court following Bruce Lehrmann trial https://t.co/7wkIZ280iT 
• Disquiet is growing in the City of London about the likely impact of the Bill of Rights Bill on the UK’s economic competitiveness, the Law Society has warned | NLJ https://t.co/mkKOflJpD6 
• Anger at ‘irresponsible’ Christmas sales of e-scooters banned on UK roads. Big-name retailers are marketing the popular mode of transport, despite use of privately owned models being banned in public places https://t.co/iWdzO6xMLg 
• Letting agencies are earning thousands of pounds in commission and in some cases flouting the ban on tenant fees by forcing renters to sign up to controversial “zero deposit” schemes https://t.co/zQw4BC2ZAu 
• Incompetent solicitor a 'serious and continuing' risk to the public | Law Gazette https://t.co/tvn8dZoWhx 
• A third teenager has been charged with murdering two boys who were stabbed a mile apart in south-east London. Kearne Solanke, 16, was found wounded in Titmuss Avenue in Thamesmead on Saturday 26 November https://t.co/VfboSKz4is 
• Former government minister Conor Burns has been cleared of misconduct and will be readmitted to the Tory Party. Mr Burns was sacked as trade minister in October amid allegations that he touched a man's thigh in a hotel bar during the Tory Party conference https://t.co/vKA4K9UVK6
  
• Dominic Raab urged to release prisoners jailed under abolished IPP scheme https://t.co/dIobgfoWnc 
• Ban for conveyancer who took second job with client on the quiet - Legal Futures https://t.co/PzgrFZZ4TO 
• Divorce action funder failed to carry out checks before lending £232k | Law Gazette https://t.co/0NDgdL2m9x 
• Ten firms out of 40 taking part in a Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) thematic review of immigration services providers have been referred to disciplinary processes after ‘significant shortcomings’ were found | NLJ https://t.co/QV8wb8wpla 
• Prisons are an overflowing, squalid, absurd waste of money. So why do the public want more of them? https://t.co/1jQ1owlDqJ 
• A mural by graffiti artist Banksy remains intact after a group of people tried to steal it from the wall of a war-torn building in #Ukraine. The group cut off a section of board and plaster bearing the artwork of a woman in a gas mask, officials said https://t.co/UOglTS65iy 
• The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, is to retire on 30 September 2023, after six years in post | NLJ https://t.co/p4g5neaUcH 
• Solicitor jailed for 12 years for castle fraud after private prosecution - Legal Futures https://t.co/E4G3GAxwDv 
• The Supreme Court’s decision regarding a draft Scottish Independence Referendum Bill will ‘not have come as a surprise’ to the first minister, according to public law specialist Stephen Parkinson | NLJ https://t.co/ZZjzmi2Jp8 
• Seasonal worker visa puts migrants at risk of exploitation, say supermarkets https://t.co/GjWfKiBRcq 
• A criminal offence of sharing ‘deepfakes’—explicit images or videos which have been manipulated to look like someone without their consent—is to be added to the Online Safety Bill, in a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) amendment | NLJ https://t.co/FLAbmg4H1A 
• Court green lights inheritance claim despite solicitor's limitation error - Legal Futures https://t.co/bo6WPQLoMS 
• Judge praises solicitor subject to ‘intense, personal’ abuse from LiP | Law Gazette https://t.co/hfHMblsLqB 
• Six children have died with an invasive condition caused by Strep A - including five under 10-year-olds in England since September - the UK Health Security Agency has said https://t.co/QWdvGhIdQS 
• Law firms have been warned again not to use litigation aimed at silencing critics—known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) | NLJ https://t.co/bdyr84uEpp 
• Barristers taking 'financial hit' to tackle race inequality | Law Gazette https://t.co/ueWOgGVVkS 
• Hong Kong withholds British lawyer’s visa, delaying Jimmy Lai trial https://t.co/m1sF8XqDqd 
• #US Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy after he was ordered to pay almost $1.5bn (£1.2bn) for falsely claiming a 2012 school shooting was a hoax https://t.co/eRtI9h53FU 
• SRA gets £120,000 grant for work on IT-enabled dispute resolution | Law Gazette https://t.co/QNJsguNjn4

3rd December - Law News

Edition 3994: 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: Several walls and faculty rooms at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi were defaced with slogans against the Brahmin and the Baniya community yesterday - photos of which were shared on social media triggering a row

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Met pays out to black brothers searched and handcuffed outside home https://t.co/8LHVBCUJR2 
• SRA wins £120k grant to support tech-enabled dispute resolution - Legal Futures https://t.co/cgbJIzUwXD 
• Calls for Sunak to withdraw Tory whip from Michelle Mone in Lords - Opposition parties say retention of whip in face of PPE claims reveals PM’s ‘empty promise’ of integrity https://t.co/5zRzh4cHkl 
• Public scepticism about class actions still high in the UK, survey reports | Law Gazette https://t.co/S6RSdiMRWL 
• Defense blames Trump Organization employee’s ‘greed’ in tax fraud trial - Lawyer argues chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg committed crimes to enrich himself and company’s benefit a byproduct #US https://t.co/LiU4lPato6 
• Don’t double compensate for the same claim, defendants tell CoA | Law Gazette https://t.co/YnKauILlx5 
• Chambers focusing diversity efforts on access to the Bar, not retention - Legal Futures https://t.co/E92lHLUE3w
• The reappointment of Suella Braverman as home secretary - after she broke ministerial rules - sets "a dangerous precedent", MPs have said. She was sacked from her role after leaking restricted material but given her job back just six days later https://t.co/IaNSlYuNm3 
• LSB to seek a budget rise of 9% next year | Law Gazette https://t.co/DWmL5Zyeyk 
• Bruce Lehrmann: #Australia parliament rape retrial abandoned https://t.co/TSBd3VaQ0h 
• Kanye West has been suspended from Twitter and accused of "inciting violence" over offensive tweets - just two months after his last ban https://t.co/BsRA3zLQy0 
• Conveyancing giant consults on redundancies | Law Gazette https://t.co/805pezVFTs 
• Solicitors fury at "real-terms cut" in criminal legal aid fees - Legal Futures https://t.co/eO90XlCJUl 
• Metamorph ditches Quality Solicitors as network bought out | Law Gazette https://t.co/LKauZzadIS 
• Blaming public sector staff for the failings of politicians is infuriating https://t.co/6AwVgkpY3o 
• 'Reckless' legal aid reforms put 'futures in jeopardy' | Law Gazette https://t.co/ibh7PdC1Rv 
• #Israel strips Palestinian-French rights lawyer of Jerusalem residency - Salah Hamouri expected to be deported after decision on grounds of ‘breach of allegiance’ to state https://t.co/Xh0jSD5G4d 
• Trainee wins claim against law firm that changed employment terms - Legal Futures https://t.co/vR554tlKFB 
• Solicitor jailed for 12 years after private prosecution for fraud | Law Gazette https://t.co/wZmDwv2QQK 
• Sheikh and fakes: 159-page judgment probes Asian 'antiquities' | Law Gazette https://t.co/vj1zXehcy6

2nd December - Law News

Edition 3993: 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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Focus of the Day Article: Cooley lays off 150 lawyers and staff in response to 'unexpected economic downturn'. Seventy-eight attorneys affected across US network as CEO blames ‘aggressive hiring’ during boom. Full story - The Global Legal Post 

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Last year the war in Afghanistan came to a chaotic and dispiriting end for the United States, and the conflict all but faded from the American consciousness. But as the Opinion video above explores, a new struggle was only just beginning for some American veterans and civilians. Not only had the United States lost a war at an extraordinary cost in lives and money, but the U.S. had also left tens of thousands of Afghan allies and their families to the mercy of the Taliban, despite American assurances of protection. The most vulnerable included interpreters, translators, military base support staff members and other contractors who had worked directly with the U.S. government and should have been eligible for special visas to enter the United States.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Officials slow to act on Covid contact-tracing warnings, leaked evidence says https://t.co/TrRW3SW5Hh 
• Crypto fraud victim wins information order against overseas exchanges | Law Gazette https://t.co/O0UOwOFAa0
• Independent inquiry over death of boy, 5, sent home from hospital https://t.co/BfyxLpkDKG
  
• Barrister jailed for child abuse offences is disbarred | Law Gazette https://t.co/Jcaz12nTET
• CAT rebukes City law firms for going around class action representative - Legal Futures https://t.co/oDmHgryE8h
  
• Law schools 'not immune from student class action' | Law Gazette https://t.co/DY0DbQLxdv
  
• Lachlan Murdoch alleges Crikey hired marketing firm to turn legal threat into subscription drive https://t.co/Ll3bBlHhuS
• Conveyancing giant consults on redundancies | Law Gazette https://t.co/805peAdhi2 
• Banks stopping law firms with licences acting for sanctioned people - Legal Futures https://t.co/qfp40dnw0a 
• MoJ requests urgent use of 400 police cells for male prisoners https://t.co/amYgvi0O9v 
• Brexit has added £210 to the average household food bill in the two years to the end of 2021, new research suggests. Academics at the London School of Economics found that the cost of food imported from Europe went up because of extra red tape and checks https://t.co/9jbXF02eco
• £5k fine for sole principal with 'massive holes' in accounts knowledge | Law Gazette https://t.co/uWYBLzjXH
• Iranian man, 27, shot dead for celebrating team’s World Cup exit https://t.co/mwabbCHuiP 
• A jury in Los Angeles has failed to reach a verdict in a rape case against US actor Danny Masterson. Mr Masterson, who is best known for his role in the sitcom That 70s Show, was accused of raping three women at his home in Hollywood in the early 2000s #US https://t.co/4Mvw35qh5M
• Powers of attorney to lead the way in strong wills and probate market - Legal Futures https://t.co/nVzdgoIVyX
• UK high court approves Bulb takeover by Octopus Energy - Proposed buyout of collapsed supplier gets go-ahead despite judicial reviews lodged by rivals E.ON, Centrica and Scottish Power https://t.co/fR5bF1ow5D
• Court to decide if NHS waiting time pledge is legal obligation | Law Gazette https://t.co/joite4z9Cc
  
• MoJ: Number of unrepresented claimants is not measure of OIC success - Legal Futures https://t.co/BFMrcHcozi 
• 'Fatal blow': Raab sounds death knell for criminal defence | Law Gazette https://t.co/dQXRWt3DNA 
• From the Amazon to Australia, why is your money funding Earth’s destruction? https://t.co/1JcHuhDtQV
• The troubling first use of the SRA's new fining power - Legal Futures https://t.co/6SthyJK8g1 
• San Francisco's ruling Board of Supervisors has voted to let the city's police use robots that can kill. The measure permits police to deploy robots equipped with explosives in extreme circumstances #US https://t.co/r5SthGWFQE 
• D-day for criminal legal aid as Raab prepares to unveil review response | Law Gazette https://t.co/G7S2Eezrw5
• Metamorph business goes into liquidation | Law Gazette https://t.co/bJL8adqWha
  
• Batteries thrown in household rubbish bins cause about 700 fires every year in dustcarts and waste-processing centres, local authorities say. Lithium-ion batteries can explode if damaged or crushed https://t.co/6ORYVh3rQG 
• MoJ lauds whiplash portal after 37% fall in claim numbers | Law Gazette https://t.co/TEpQIdmS1m