13th February - Law News

Edition 4065: 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 Law News/Article: Lawyers have expressed dismay at a legislative change that reverses Ho v Adelekun on costs recovery under the qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) scheme, allowing the defendant to recover more costs from settlements as well as damages. Full story New Law Journal 

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Interpol is experimenting with metaverse technology to research threats and provide officers with remote training. It also has plans to use it as an investigatory tool. The force’s role is to connect police forces across international borders to fight threats such as organised crime, terrorism and cyber-crime. Madam Oberi, executive director of technology and innovation at Interpol, said threats on the metaverse could be on “existing media” and some could be new to the technology.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Stipend scheme of ₹3,000 for young lawyers inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/TyZeBZYq6z
• Simmons & Simmons and TLT launch joint training contract with Barclays - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mjfwTU9Pun
• No tents, no aid, nothing: Why #Syrians feel forgotten https://t.co/UIXpw6eKw
• Firm won £25.8m PPE contract after Greg Hands approached by Tory activist: New Tory chair referred Luxe Lifestyle in April 2020 despite it apparently having no history of supplying PPE https://t.co/WRYFjJYHUz
• Apprentices among top performers on SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rKmNKM4wnQ
• Plea before Kerala High Court to ban circumcision of children, declare it as non-bailable offence | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/jlnf0qRYuX
• Want to write a good judgment? You’re best avoiding Wikipedia, judges warned - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RgpjYPYsq
• Shearman & Sterling lays off 38 US lawyers and staff - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/V44Na8un
• Jarad Skeete, 19, of Irwell Close, Aigburth, Liverpool, has been charged with beating an emergency worker after disorder broke out near a hotel in Merseyside housing asylum seekers https://t.co/tCMHfePWQR
• Firm admits ousted CEO used racist phrase over dinner - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Y8iyQDlaYZ 
• Schrödinger’s Defendants: Inquests, Unlawful Killing and Criminal Acquittals - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/KtqSWABgJc 
• Adani Group enlists Wachtell to take on short seller as stocks take a beating - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/hwRKVDRb6X 
• Mishcon to host 'in conversation' with Matt Hancock - Legal Cheek https://t.co/AhsN9p0Gfg
• Kerala POCSO Court convicts transwoman under Section 377 IPC for sexually assaulting minor boy | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/7qan6t7YXh
• A round-up of human rights stories from around the world | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7k0qhd1N29
• Torn between the SQE and LPC? Here's what to consider - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JchBU235Qg 
• BBC chairman Richard Sharp made "significant errors of judgement" in acting as a go-between on a loan for Boris Johnson while he was applying for the post, MPs have said https://t.co/sjrOvGYJJ
• A seriously injured teenage girl has died at a park in Warrington. Officers were called to Culcheth Linear Park at 15:13GMT on Saturday in response to reports that a girl had been seriously hurt https://t.co/X8X2dFQp5
• Why are BP, Shell, and other oil giants making so much money right now? https://t.co/R5H2K3C6fW
• Strikes, private nuisance, protest Bill: The Weekly Round up - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/aWObgyZuRT
  
• Life as a lawyer in a countercyclical practice area - Legal Cheek https://t.co/piaSijFoRS 
• Northern Ireland court upholds use of special measures in schoolgirl’s tribunal claim | Irish Legal News https://t.co/8IMn2VC85X 
• Man City sign Blackstone super silk who charges rumoured £5k an hour to defend Premier League claim - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RAgzETrxLZ
  
• Struggling Ince misses third deadline for publishing results | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZivNAcCAyS

12th February - Law News

Edition 4064: 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: It has been three years since Sudan’s government banned female genital mutilation. But UNICEF says it is still going on. The UN children’s agency says the frequency of FGM was dropping before the ban, but it is a practice still being carried out within some families and communities.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• ‘He’s really dangerous’: fear as Wagner convict soldiers return from Ukraine - Murderers and other hardened criminals among those recruited by #Russian mercenary group in exchange for freedom https://t.co/DqrRGmrvZV 
• Another unidentified object has been shot down over North American airspace, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed. He said the latest object "violated Canadian airspace" and was shot down over Yukon in north west #Canada https://t.co/4jRFV1dwmr
• Legal aid widened for child cases following public law challenge | Law Gazette https://t.co/bIwbv900Ak 
• Rust shooting: Baldwin’s attorneys say prosecutors made ‘a basic legal error’ #US https://t.co/gOgsqLwo7x 
• Legal Services Board “needs to focus more on access to justice” - Legal Futures https://t.co/DkSXWbOcmQ 
• Solicitor of 50 years banned after 743 cheques found stashed away | Law Gazette https://t.co/y1kKmEMDwG 
• Children fleeing danger in small boats should be deported, says Tory thinktank - Policy Exchange paper envisages sidestepping Human Rights and Modern Slavery Acts to eliminate legal challenges https://t.co/izweVh8yjH
• The UK legal sector’s turnover in December 2022 was £3.5bn - up 8.6% on the same month in 2021 | Law Gazette https://t.co/4sg50PfgHv
• Assam, #India, child brides desperate after mass arrests https://t.co/pkIBY8CCOF
• Fifteen people have been arrested after violent clashes outside a Merseyside hotel accommodating asylum seekers https://t.co/srj0V5RIeA 
• Former LNP leader calls for 72-hour limit on children being held in Queensland watch houses #Australia https://t.co/xaiFgn8d2a
• High Court rejects client's bid to escape £417k payment to City firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/mFkFkkRFAH
• Beneficiary allowed to challenge firm's fees after fourfold rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/SVxDvgVCzm 
• Gillian Keegan at odds with Home Office plan to restrict overseas students. Education secretary says UK ‘should be very proud of’ university sector, amid briefings with Suella Braverman https://t.co/nwI5ZhGyvO
  
• Met urged to reopen Partygate inquiry as fresh allegations emerge: ‘new information’ includes claims that Downing Street staff corroborated stories and destroyed evidence https://t.co/G8XCNJHyXA
• One of #SouthAfrica's leading rappers, popularly known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the coastal city of Durban. Kiernan Forbes was killed along with his close friend, the chef and entrepreneur Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane https://t.co/C3DvCGaekH
  
• Central government notifies appointment of Justice Pritinker Diwaker as Acting Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court # Bar & Bench #INdia https://t.co/BomTZzRnCx
• Marina Ovsyannikova, anti-war #Russian journalist recounts dramatic escape https://t.co/DnWFNamwWH
  
• A barrister who accidentally breached a confidentiality order has avoided a contempt of court charge – but could still face disciplinary action from their regulator. | Law Gazette https://t.co/qAm2rNliJs
• Abandoned children entitled to same benefits as orphaned children; no distinction between them: Bombay High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/iWV9PgNXSw
• Vapes should be kept out of sight of children in shops and the legal minimum age of 18 should be marked clearly on each product, say councils in England. Too many children are being illegally sold vapes with fruity flavours https://t.co/QiAH1S5GE
• MPs launch inquiry into impact of whiplash reforms - Legal Futures https://t.co/Gi10SBo6r
• Knowsley: Three arrested after protest at Merseyside asylum seeker hotel https://t.co/UPP6gzVaRd
• Twitter spat involving two law lecturers has reached the High Court in a claim with ‘multiple causes of action’ including harassment, defamation, and breach of data rights| Law Gazette https://t.co/GgAkn4i7qW
  
• SQE: Apprentices 'outperforming' other candidates | Law Gazette https://t.co/SqU2e4unN8 
• Warning for fee-share consultants in solicitor's strike-off - Legal Futures https://t.co/vukKwlq6Iy 
• Follow AG's lead over legal aid fees, Raab urged | Law Gazette https://t.co/uHHjwnJDc4

11th February - Law News

Edition 4063: 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: Turkey Earthquake: Rescuers are working round the clock to find survivors six days after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Mother in Law: Being a tough mum | Law Gazette https://t.co/lQN7U6cjDT 
• Dear Lee Anderson: Derek Bentley was innocent and hanged. We scrapped the death penalty for a reason https://t.co/lk39py7yD9
  
• Far-right demonstrators clash with police at Liverpool hotel housing asylum seekers - Eyewitnesses say police van set on fire and counter-protestors surrounded https://t.co/0UFqkU4kNI 
• Barclays teams up with firms to offer 'pioneering' training contract | Law Gazette https://t.co/A0Vt7qVFG
• Six operational strategies for a successful 2023 - Legal Futures https://t.co/gWs3ucbuYz
  
• A "high-altitude object" was shot down over Alaska earlier on Friday, the White House has said. Spokesman John Kirby said the unmanned object was "the size of a small car" and was over a sparsely populated area at the time #US https://t.co/vR7AcYm5L
• Lawyer asks to prosecute Xinjiang governor in the UK - Erkin Tuniyaz, who allegedly played a central role in Uyghur persecution, is expected to visit the UK https://t.co/JTeUtIQuuV 
• UK government rejects call to resentence prisoners detained indefinitely https://t.co/RAOyxGBwjw
• PI firm absorbs £5m profit hit in 'year of transition' | Law Gazette https://t.co/alidOCUcI0 
• New chair a “dominating issue” for Legal Services Board - Legal Futures https://t.co/hSTtV6Fm7Y 
• Northern Ireland’s abortion buffer zones now law | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/C93DfmUMEt
• Lord Beckett appointed chair of Judicial Institute for Scotland | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/u3sjVVZ0Y1
• Paralegal sacked while pregnant suffered discrimination | Law Gazette https://t.co/tdT6CE60h9 
• “Difficult to see” future for unbundled conveyancing - Legal Futures https://t.co/tyTrVFUCW0 
• Women and black employed barristers 'most likely to report bullying and discrimination' | Law Gazette https://t.co/JWHmKKCiw3
• It will soon be illegal to smoke cannabis on the street in Amsterdam's red light district under new regulations unveiled by the city #Netherlands https://t.co/i2FzEwsryQ 
• Public land bodies and estate leaders join forces | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qZwxQcksgN 
• Cars have been stripped of parts in a spate of separate thefts while parked in Birmingham city centre, motorists came forward after one woman's car was targeted in Digbeth https://t.co/nUN2K8SFAC
• A man suspected of attacking a congresswoman in the lift of her Washington DC apartment building on Thursday has been arrested, police say. Angie Craig, a Minnesota Democrat, fought back by throwing hot coffee at the assailant, a police report says #US https://t.co/9Ox9jQ7syk 
• MHC: Banking professionals want competition to be taken into account in regulatory policy | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VHSqZq2qzY
• Employed barristers “undervalued” by wider profession - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ob26HHU89U
• Ms Justice Marie Baker to chair new electoral watchdog | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0u7J2H6v20
• Payments were 'exceptional' but not bribes, says employee in $11bn Nigeria oil case | Law Gazette https://t.co/itKLpuSiEA
• Solicitor hid 743 cheques worth £233,000 in filing cabinet - Legal Futures https://t.co/NIQxKJjFyR
• Three new partners at Nolan Farrell & Goff | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YXDurBYXqi 
• Press watchdog investigating Jeremy Clarkson's Meghan column https://t.co/Ab4heZEJU3