16th February - Law News

Edition 4069: 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: A fresh call for legal aid practitioners to bid for revamped housing contracts shows just how unviable the work has become - potentially leaving families struggling with rising rents, mortgage payments and debt without proper access to justice, the Law Society has warned. Full story The Law Society Gazette

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: The decision to change rules around temporary protection visas leads to an increase in military assets for Australia's northern border.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Our Legal Heritage: When Scots had to earn their salt | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OsC2jr8Op
• SLAPPs: Solicitors ignorant of reporting duties, SRA review finds | Law Gazette https://t.co/136NHpnEJ7
• Ireland’s Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP), popularly dubbed the “golden visa” scheme, is to close to new applications | Irish Legal News https://t.co/771XEwld0j
• Welcome to the Ministry of High Standards and Professionalism | Law Gazette https://t.co/4Du9Wi8yT
• Land Registry calls on law firms to reduce “avoidable errors” - Legal Futures https://t.co/wLM4ysTsB
• Eversheds Sutherland appoints Ian McFarland as Belfast employment partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bqkdu6ZiCi
• Solicitor who had shotgun in car fined | Law Gazette https://t.co/9WnD6yhvLE
  
• Burnley fake psychiatrist committed wicked deception, judge says https://t.co/Pz7f8XAVCG
• #Italy ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi acquitted in 'bunga-bunga' party case https://t.co/mCaxGVCh27 
• Jeremy Corbyn will not be a Labour candidate at the next general election, party leader Starmer has said. Mr Corbyn was suspended from being a Labour MP and sits as an independent because of a fabricated accusation of antisemitism https://t.co/PsfjptWwIV 
• News focus: Australian billionaire raises the stakes on cryptoassets | Law Gazette https://t.co/dywynqH1DE
• Solicitor ghosted client and SRA after receiving divorce settlement - Legal Futures https://t.co/beKxGJWNl1
  
• A judge has given a once-prominent former solicitor ‘one final opportunity’ to purge contempt and avoid another prison term over a long-running dispute with the regulator | Law Gazette https://t.co/0OaSzo4LDH 
• Ireland’s proposed new police ombudsman will not have institutional independence under the government’s current legislative plans, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has warned | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Bl4NWaVIvQ 
• Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she is resigning after more than eight years as head of the Scottish government https://t.co/YOsh9Ail0H
• LSB should focus on 'more pressing' areas than conveyancing | Law Gazette https://t.co/xG3SDzGRRs
  
• Citizens’ assembly to consider drugs law reform | Irish Legal News https://t.co/sPDL9beeUp
  
• Slips and SLAPPs - SRA review finds good level of compliance - Legal Futures https://t.co/EGkF4PKYUk
• Getting the Equality Act Right | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qoNA2b7SXU
• Ukraine war: #Russian student Olesya Krivtsova under arrest for an Instagram story https://t.co/zpTYg6KFIc
• Centrist Starmer tells Labour's left to back him or leave the party founded with close ties to human dignity and socialism https://t.co/PsfjptWwI
• LAA fails to attract sufficient bids for housing legal aid contracts | Law Gazette https://t.co/64Mog4gjnS 
• Mason Hayes & Curran appoints Neil Campbell as head of financial services | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QYUyGrmIjD
• Barristers cannot frustrate disciplinary proceedings by renouncing status | Law Gazette https://t.co/hCqHrQta7f
  
• Islamic fintech company buys law firm specialising in Shari'ah wills - Legal Futures https://t.co/059tUbRazx
• #Sudan court sentences three men to hand amputation for stealing https://t.co/eE5EZfdZcD
• Heart transplant for boy stymied by Northern Ireland assembly deadlock - DUP criticised as Dáithí Mac Gabhann and others needing operation hit by Stormont impasse choking organ donation law https://t.co/bkbfojAZ2K
• Martyna Brulinska appointed senior associate counsel at McKesson Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/xSdBx0GGbl
• British embassy spy snared by Berlin sting, court hears - Briton David Ballantyne Smith, 58, was working as a security guard when he passed secret information to Russian authorities https://t.co/mLxXXpDrE1 
• Legal victory in UK Japanese knotweed case could lead to more claims - Court of appeal ruled homeowner could recover loss of value even if knotweed has been treated https://t.co/LNL3L48Wwv 
• A man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs, causing a police panic about Easter, has been convicted in court. Joby Pool was surrounded by a mountain of the foil-wrapped chocolate when police caught up with him at the weekend https://t.co/i119JCK4dN

15th February - Law News

Edition 4068: 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: More than six out of 10 lawyers (62%) have experienced burn-out as a result of their work in the last year, a survey has found. Most lawyers (57%) put “an unmanageable caseload” at the top of their list of stressors at work, followed by a lack of work/life balance (42%). Full story Legal Futures

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: A diplomatic spat is deepening between China and the US as they accuse one another of sending up spy balloons into each other's airspace. Just 12 days ago the world was gripped by the appearance of a large suspected Chinese spy balloon floating over the USA. Since then three more flying objects have been taken down by fighter jets over Alaska, Canada and MIchigan.. The origin of these ones - officially at least - remains a mystery.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Matheson launches 2023 Tim Scanlon Corporate Law Bursary | Irish Legal News https://t.co/J6vOwfhSBN
• Rees-Mogg’s crazed tilt at red tape is quixotic nonsense. We need regulation to survive https://t.co/44vDImdm26
• Defendant accusing party of 'warehousing' claim loses strike-out bid | Law Gazette https://t.co/Pd5oWsDuMQ
  
• Candlelit vigils have been held for 16-year-old Brianna Ghey, who was stabbed to death in a park. The schoolgirl was found lying wounded on a path in Linear Park in Culcheth, Cheshire, on Saturday https://t.co/mSW5an6QFv
• Barristers cannot avoid disciplinary action by renouncing status - Legal Futures https://t.co/yAQpj3MvqY
• Insulate Britain activists found guilty over London roadblock https://t.co/EGYUDRN8pN 
• One of the most devastating and costly forms of cybercrime that is affecting thousands of people across the UK is being tackled through a research project at Abertay University | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HxPG0cUh80
• Officials in Turkey have targeted more than 130 people allegedly involved in poor and illegal construction methods following the pair of earthquakes that caused the collapse of thousands of buildings last week | Irish Legal News https://t.co/OkZ1nAbtbF
  
• Partners want to break away and set up their own firm - survey | Law Gazette https://t.co/8pook0ywNk
• Partner hid conveyancing proceeds in secret bank account - Legal Futures https://t.co/pWFOmwBFU
• Solicitor struck off over false whiplash claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/DIwnC3Hcbj
• BBC offices in #India have been searched as part of an investigation by income tax authorities. The searches in New Delhi and Mumbai come weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary in the UK critical of Indian PM Narendra Modi https://t.co/aiwir9DTB3
• Two police officers face misconduct cases over the handling of reports of indecent exposure by Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens. A Metropolitan Police constable has a case to answer for gross misconduct, the IOPC said https://t.co/nBWBVkakz
• #Gibraltar’s chief minister threatens top rights lawyers with defamation - Lawyers call for apology and withdrawal of threats made during inquiry into alleged government corruption https://t.co/ptaTLgt2pJ
• Pioneering US judge to deliver Law Society’s human rights lecture | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JskDK3iVEq
• The sensors from the first suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down over the US have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, the US military says, "significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified" #US https://t.co/uOpJgrZF0l 
• A decade after a property dealer was jailed for one of the UK’s biggest mortgage frauds, the Serious Fraud Office has brought further confiscation orders against him - over money recovered by his son from a donation to a school | Law Gazette https://t.co/22CMgKcEI
• My legal life: Seema Gill, Howell Jones - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/u48L4FyQyB
• Self-employed consultant was employee of firm under Equality Act - Legal Futures https://t.co/oa6E09ND8
• A council has removed parish councillors' contact details after several received "vile" telephone calls over missing Nicola Bulley. The 45-year-old went missing on 27 January https://t.co/M0YdiUkywK
• At least three people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at Michigan State University, police say. As well as the three victims, police said the suspect had died apparently from a "self-inflicted gunshot wound" #US https://t.co/XkTZJcs4oq
• Global law firm Ropes & Gray expands into Dublin | Irish Legal News https://t.co/fQGcjjJA4S 
• US: Cousin of boy murdered by racists in 1955 sues to force arrest of woman | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/q1Xkzh2oou
  
• There is no stopping the relentless rise of data. The amount now created and held by corporate clients is growing at a rate of 40% annually – fuelled in part by the post-pandemic shift towards remote communications | Law Gazette https://t.co/8FaD4EmEbn
  
• North-east "best location" for small conveyancing firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/DLAvE31yNa 
• Guy Hands firm challenges MoD over controversial £8bn property estate - Annington Property launches judicial review arguing ministry does not have right to take back houses after ‘disastrous’ sell-off https://t.co/7p3AmheYHZ
• An award-winning #German ballet director has been suspended after smearing dog faeces on a critic's face. Marco Goecke was apparently furious about a review of one of his shows by journalist Wiebke Hüster https://t.co/JqbNqv7ty2 
• Lawyer in the news: Natasha Rees, Forsters - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZE0tyF9K5O 
• Tory vice-chair Lee Anderson faces libel claim over bribery allegations - Man who runs a food bank charity alleges MP for Ashfield defamed him in a Facebook post https://t.co/U8k4JXeSuM 
• NI Court of Appeal: Reduction for ‘excessive’ £71,860 award to 15-year-old sexually harassed by her employer | Irish Legal News https://t.co/V19YwYETIE

14th February - Law News

Edition 4066: 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: The Lord President, Lord Carloway made the appointment after Lord Armstrong intimated his intention to resign as chair. Lady Drummond has been appointed as vice-chair. Full story Scottish Legal News

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Whether the Jamaican statutory regime to combat money laundering is constitutional insofar as it applies to attorneys–at–law

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Suits' Rachel Zane ranked among TV’s most influential characters - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3vYNPhFAaL 
• A&L Goodbody appoints nine partners and three of counsel in Dublin and Belfast | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lEdOsDismv 
• The day Easter nearly died: the theft of 200,000 Cadbury's Creme Eggs from an industrial estate nearly threw Easter into doubt, according to the most diligent West Mercia police https://t.co/OKcNnFHVhI
  
• Ireland urged by UN committee to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KbP66t6yIo
• Delhi High Court restrains Parle from using 'FABIO' or 'FAB!O' mark to sell biscuit after OREO alleges trademark infringement | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/uFQ0Ta2zuI
  
• Uefa bears "primary responsibility" for the chaotic scenes that "almost led to disaster" before last year's Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, says an independent report https://t.co/G61xXKjFgc
  
• Calling all aspiring lawyers! Have your say in our short student perceptions survey - Legal Cheek https://t.co/oMrE2Y9Z9f 
• An award-winning #German ballet director has been suspended after smearing dog faeces on a critic's face. Marco Goecke was apparently furious about a review of one of his shows by journalist Wiebke Hüster https://t.co/JqbNqv81nA
  
• Ex-Law Society president joins Linklaters as diversity and inclusion advisor - Legal Cheek https://t.co/sYq1Ov68h8
  
• TC in the Toon? A former Magic Circle lawyer makes the case for legal life in the North - Legal Cheek https://t.co/QRN14dXzzf
• Amanda Stewart, the chief executive of the Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI), has been awarded an OBE for public service | Irish Legal News https://t.co/arXC9Ecboe
  
• Former Met Police officer Wayne Couzens has admitted three counts of indecent exposure, two of which he committed weeks before he murdered Sarah Everard https://t.co/XDHK7nJBwq 
• Twice as many women as men apply to study law - Legal Cheek https://t.co/SmZ1Cn4aiH 
• Jamia violence case: Judge who discharged Sharjeel Imam, others recuses from another matter related to case | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/OA798qJmaq
• One arrested amid Tate Britain protest over drag queen children’s event - Rightwing demonstrators outside gallery met by counterprotesters including trans-rights campaigners https://t.co/WsaWhG7sa7
• Post-Brexit rules leave British woman with Alzheimer’s facing removal from Sweden: Bed-bound Kathleen Poole, 74, who lives in a dementia care home, has been unable to complete required paperwork https://t.co/ketTu0udOb
• Pallas Partners and Slaughter and May on opposing sides in pioneering Shell climate change case - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/QYRPerilhM 
• #US workplace safety regulators have fined a Pennsylvania factory after two workers fell into a vat of chocolate and had to be rescued. The Mars Wrigley factory was fined more than $14,500 (£12,000) by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration https://t.co/JtYJ1TMnoW
  
• Caroline Flack's family have been given an apology by the Metropolitan Police for not keeping a record about why it charged her with assault. IOPC carried out a review after complaints from the late television presenter's mother https://t.co/HUsGtqr1lg
  
• ‘They haven’t the foggiest who we are’: the watchdog fighting to protect Britain’s exploited workers https://t.co/UNBo5Qlua8 
• A ‘catalogue of waste’ on government ‘credit cards’: Analysis of civil service spending includes Rishi Sunak’s Treasury department spending £3,000 on Tate photographs https://t.co/f9d9f617BF 
• Dar UI-Isra Mosque in the Cathays area of Cardiff has so far raised £25,000 as well as five vans of clothes and shoes to be delivered to the affected areas for earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey https://t.co/QlL8lFoTHG
  
• Criminal justice social work services ‘should not be included’ in National Care Service | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/eJ6r2A0yX8 
• A boy and girl, both aged 15, have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 16-year-old girl at a park in Warrington. Brianna Ghey was found by members of the public at Linear Park in Culcheth https://t.co/oylo4Fcxbz 
• Prime minister's wife Akshata Murty held shares in collapsed firm that had near £300k ‘Sunak’ taxpayer loan - Employees and Lloyds Bank among creditors, after liquidation of firm that benefited from pandemic aid devised by husband https://t.co/gotpafEsNS
• Taylor Wessing targets school leavers with new solicitor apprenticeship - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Km3XjCbk9U 
• Legal Notes by Arvind Datar: Seeds of Basic Structure first sown by Justice JR Mudholkar | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/gYOURbQ7Pb 
• Vinson & Elkins bumps UK trainee pay to £60-£65k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7uRmtoRaeG 
• Orrick secures former Hughes Hubbard arbitration group co-head in New York - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/uaJg4OJM1F 
• Judge says he used ChatGPT in court ruling - Legal Cheek https://t.co/R5BLLDH22r
  
• Supreme Court imposes ₹50k costs on Uttar Pradesh for challenging Allahabad High Court order granting gratuity to wife of deceased employee | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/MzdzoikMLq 
• The perils of the DoJ's new corporate self-reporting guidance - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/piGrdXXTk5 
• Pat Fox rejoins LK Shields as real estate partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/eTTTXboFRZ