12th August - Law News

1691st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Some 100,000 people have now joined paramilitary organisations in Poland. Others - so called "preppers" - are learning how to survive a possible invasion. Now the Polish government hopes these "pro-defence" groups will form the backbone of a new reserve force to help the professional army.


Focus of the Day article:  Legal aid not designed to fund 'spurious cases' against our 'brave armed forces,' says Lord Chancellor. The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has terminated its contract with Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) over the human rights firm's involvement in the £31m Al-Sweady inquiry. The Birmingham-based outfit, run by Phil Shiner, will no longer receive state money for ongoing legal cases after the LAA said it had 'breached its contractual requirements'. Full story - Solicitors Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Juries have no place at rape trials – victims deserve unprejudiced justice https://t.co/pSRajJMoCs 
• Feminist zealots want women to have their cake and eat it, says Tory MP Philip Davies to men’s rights conference https://t.co/LYzpTwW9nV 
• It’s easy to cheer the judge who used the C-word. But we shouldn’t https://t.co/Rn7pL4eTZH 
• Parking ticket chatbot creator sets sights on homelessness - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZYkc7qynhd 
• Not guilty verdicts rise to 20 per cent for TV licensing prosecutions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ae9ud579wV
• University of Strathclyde Law Clinic biggest in the UK - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/07PkoAFSQ7 
• Scots law graduate Katherine Grainger becomes most decorated female Olympian - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gGegk383tQ 
• Gilson Gray proves the perfect buddy for St Mirren deal - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iOGAfl4PJJ
• Total of 42 years' imprisonment for UK’s largest cocaine haul - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wvKMoNf51l 
• Lindsays continues to grow commercial property and rural teams - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cFh4L3l3Sb
• GMB defeats supermarket's attempt to prevent workers from having union representation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/IBkQ8s3TVf 
• Gamekeeper found guilty of killing wild bird loses appeal against conviction - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/94hQIGV6kb 
• Summary sheriff failed to properly consider prejudice to accused in granting motion to adjourn trial - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2UV9xNum4L 
• Trials: On Death Row in Pakistan - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ck8FdE7B7X 
• Former priests jailed for historic abuse - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/PuSJJkjlp4
• Drugs offences accused fails in appeal against admissibility of police ‘expert’ evidence - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/X7wvGjI8hZ 
• It is right to report sweary judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/sHTQ36h5d7 
• Repossession court orders continue to fall | Law Gazette https://t.co/xJUJQRnNm2 
• Drunk Essex EasyJet passenger threatened to kill everyone on board https://t.co/pe0zBDCLJj 
• Professor Alexis Jay appointed new chair of child abuse inquiry | Law Gazette https://t.co/cAKyJmtwRA 
• Nothing inherently riskier about ABS, says super regulator | Law Gazette https://t.co/8GYrIKkLXQ 
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/r9JNtqgWIz
• Blocked Facebook ads unblocked, for now https://t.co/jw9khy1x1b
• McDonald's pressured to serve up global antibiotics ban https://t.co/23QPr3pGV9 
• Election fraud: Politically correct sentiment a problem, report says https://t.co/o9DQBBaos1 
• Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe 'to move back to prison' https://t.co/KTxBbkEPUQ 
• QASA: a four-year delay and still we wait | Legal Futures https://t.co/lcO1PEckvc 
• Complaints made after judge trades insults with defendant in court https://t.co/yRsZRkWqcW
• Audio file revives calls for inquiry into massacre of #Iran political prisoners https://t.co/Sroz1d5hcc 
• 'Inspired by other survivors’: campus rape victim demands to be heard #US https://t.co/8GtijbApi2 
• How To Change Your Specialism In Law https://t.co/S8XBnZ1W2A 
• Britain First High Court Battle Could Cause A Major Problem For The Far-Right Group https://t.co/HSvAIoHzeB 
• #US couple sues IP mapping firm over 'digital hell' https://t.co/vnGZbPwOBd 
• Rio Olympics 2016: #Kenyan coach John Anzrah sent home after posing as athlete https://t.co/gghYdLj7yK 
• Twitter not liable for ISIS tweets, judge rules | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/10rOD9cJaH 
• Greek Lawyer unexpectedly qualifies for the Olympics | | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/5hUeA6wMer 
• DLA Piper eyes up Chile launch | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/pz9Jv6GvyD
• SRA to overhaul legal panel | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/QdCReRPego 
• Kennedys and Waltons & Morse merge in London | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/pR4UPRX4GC 
• India in bid to become arbitration hub | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/xyNrjShsOm 
• The full Lord Harley SDT judgment has been published - Legal Cheek https://t.co/UIuwhj4ak9 
• Legal Cheek interview: Julian Assange, and Labour in the Court of Appeal https://t.co/8MxcBDEVEW 
• Fighting a trans woman for her pension reveals a new low for a Tory government https://t.co/jEfYTyF2us
• Footballer Howard Gayle turns down MBE as it'd be "a betrayal" to Africans who suffered at the hands of the British…https://t.co/VMndT7I4V4 
• Reform the Solicitors Compensation Fund, says lawyer | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/S0zHsuxSlW 
• Brazilian law requires lifeguards at Olympic pool | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/wzXVvEi4WF 
• Government must find solution for open-ended sentences | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/YfB0XO2buv 
• Rights groups hail Caribbean gay sex ruling | Law Gazette https://t.co/HpXiNy60a4 
• Professor Alexis Jay, who led the Rotherham abuse inquiry, is to be new chairwoman of national inquiry into child se…https://t.co/P5SSc5hnJx
• Delays in discharging patients 23% rise https://t.co/hIjwYkkOBy
• Appeal court clash over Labour leadership vote rules https://t.co/6lAY2F5FlV
• The 19-year-old guy who made the chatbot that beat 160,000 parking fines is now using it to help homeless people https://t.co/YmOjGJF57C
• How open data helps citizens to know the law https://t.co/NFDDm0kEvd 
• An employer's guide to tackling bullying and harassment at work https://t.co/RUnrFsVGJS

11th August - Law News

1690th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: The UN is demanding that Ethiopia allow international observers into parts of the country after a weekend of deadly protests. It wants to investigate allegations of excessive force used across the Oromia and Amhara regions. At least 90 demonstrators were killed during the wave of anti-government protests.


Focus of the Day article:  Two barristers from the same chambers have between them accounted for more than one in ten of the four hundred plus new complaints made against their branch of the profession in 2015/16. The revelation came amid a crisis of public confidence in the fairness and openness of the barrister’ complaints process. Invited to agree that the process was open and fair, nearly 70% of complainants said it was not. However, among barristers there was widespread satisfaction. Full story - Legal Futures

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Orlando Bloom pictures spark privacy rights debate - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/M244rQbN5H 
• Pakistan: lawyers mourn colleagues killed in bomb blast - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/16khXCwsOE
• Balfour+Manson retain all second year trainees as solicitors - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WvCcZUmlV5
• Gilson Gray bolsters employment team with new partner - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8ehgfY188V 
• Police Scotland budget deficit woes continue - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UiXzbJJTQ3 
• Child welfare expert accused of lying about CV faces hearing - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/otI52oKsmT 
• Star Trek Discovery to feature female lead https://t.co/nMa8wgtKCC
• New York police arrest man trying to climb Trump Tower #US https://t.co/5IJrVR3Sro 
• #CANADA police 'kill suspect in anti-terror operation' https://t.co/ryEVhQvJ9J 
• Is some Olympic commentary sexist? https://t.co/3TiJCmv7wg 
• Mother 'treated like flotsam' by Sunsail after daughter's death https://t.co/TmH4X94v2U 
• #Australia blocks Chinese firm from stake in electricity grid https://t.co/e6ZcSeWTm0 
• Shiner’s secret prosecution is a farce: The human rights lawyer believes in transparency, doesn’t he? | Law Gazette https://t.co/HoO4Ilk7cz 
• Unsecured creditors due 6.48p in pound from Manches pre-pack deal | Law Gazette https://t.co/L8zfDLxPCg 
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/ingnTY2LPW
• Man arrested after running across Madrid airport tarmac to catch flight https://t.co/4rTBc0OlAx 
• Muslim women most disadvantaged, say MPs https://t.co/tuArg0T76S
• Domestic abuse privacy breach: Greater Manchester Police pays victim https://t.co/raqDzNKxa6 
• A lawyer’s most powerful ally: Meet the best PAs in the legal world - The Lawyer https://t.co/q8HM6cupGC 
• People who film police violence are citizen journalists. We stand with them #US https://t.co/gifGzpOs1j 
• Women face abuse at work every day. Don’t look to the left for help https://t.co/Ztgz8HlJnV 
• Snapchat faces backlash over filter that promotes racist stereotypes of Asians https://t.co/INzgGYxPlW 
• Police investigate alleged poisoning of British tennis player at Wimbledon https://t.co/lxIFw3WwG8 Aug 11, 2016
• Right-to-buy reform urged as council leaders fear for social housing https://t.co/w0KOy3UYx9 
• Clinton: Trump hinting at assassination is a 'casual inciting of violence' #US https://t.co/pG5U85rMDA 
• 'This is who I am', says first female MP to wear Māori facial tattoo in NZ parliament #NEWZEALAND https://t.co/8SOFT3MVGw 
• Nuclear espionage charge for #China firm with one-third stake in UK's Hinkley Point https://t.co/plvgut5UxF 
• Sexual harassment at work is getting worse. We need to stamp it out | Laura Bates and Frances O’Grady https://t.co/nLO9jvBELx 
• Press freedom groups call on #BANGLADESH minister to free journalist https://t.co/Gr0aGWmHrJ 
• EU court to hear case of transgender woman refused female pension https://t.co/xnfWz7Oph7 
• New powers launched to cut off illicit mobile phones used in prisons https://t.co/5faayojNne 
• Technology, emotion and the old lady who swallowed a fly - Legal Futures https://t.co/auUAhLBDAX 
• New ABS rules will smooth path for group structures and private equity, says SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/0TJ4SkGvj0
• Discrimination to count as professional misconduct, ABA rules | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/kRZAj9uvLt 
• Led Zeppelin lose bid to recoup legal fees | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/eZ20iRV3ph
• Freshfields and Eversheds make up most Irish applications as numbers spike | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/AnIi8jZFFM 
• Nixon Peabody debuts in Singapore | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/PSHS2rqFsn 
• Eversheds keeps panel appointment crown for Q2 | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/1T5hcgy8OV 
• Mayer Brown pairs demure retention result with NQ pay boost | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/Gyt8OupEmQ 
• London 2012 gold medallist Sophie Hosking - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/qMUUlubWLy 
• New doubts over human rights law reform | Law Gazette https://t.co/hZzrAKEuoW 
• Baltimore's dual identity explains unrest #US https://t.co/fAyMD4tlNx 
• Ex-priest Philip Temple jailed for child sex abuse https://t.co/b68rf0fmBo 
• Nauru files: widespread condemnation of #Australian government by UN and others https://t.co/eROWp4uc0Z 
• Piltdown review points decisive finger at forger Dawson https://t.co/S4nh7GzbFH 
• Transgender pension case to be examined by EU judges https://t.co/1HFrOOi1aO
• Award for trainee solicitor’s injury to feelings not excessive | Law Gazette https://t.co/FUqap4thcu 
• Appeal: judge went ‘too far’ in applying fundamental dishonesty | Law Gazette https://t.co/xluo36QWxg
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/TCcZfb4mJx
• Brexit cost warning sounded by Institute of Fiscal Studies https://t.co/JDrTOPR4Cu 
• Crisis-hit hospital trust may close Grantham A&E at night https://t.co/e3k1Cg6F8r
• Is this the most toxic job description in public life? https://t.co/W3Kvq2TSJz 
• Volleyball in a hijab: Does this picture show a culture clash? https://t.co/gvp9pchhmO 
• #US election: Anger over Donald Trump gun rights remarks and suggesting guntrotting supporters should stop rival https://t.co/4XWnNdeZRA 
• Half of women 'sexually harassed at work' - TUC survey https://t.co/G0LqufId0W 
• FOREIGN AID MINISTER EMPLOYS COMMS DIRECTOR OF VOTE LEAVE WHO EARLIER OPPOSED DEPARTMENT’S WORK https://t.co/svX6nSMN1O

10th August - Law News

1689th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Indian activist Irom Sharmila has ended her 16-year-long hunger strike against a controversial security law, in order to compete in local elections. Her campaign, described as the world's longest hunger strike, had led to her being detained, and forced fed through a tube in her nose for over a decade. She was held under a law that makes attempting suicide a crime.


Focus of the Day article:  The MP leading a review of racial bias and representation in the criminal justice system says judicial diversity will be one of the key aspects of his final recommendations. David Lammy (pictured) told the Gazette that there is no problem with the supply line of black and minority ethnic (BAME) lawyers in the profession, so he wants to pin down why they do not progress to the bench. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Fairness of BSB's complaints process comes under fire | Legal Futures https://t.co/FAvbv0xO3G 
• Solicitor loses appeal against damages awarded to female LPC student for discrimination | Legal Futures https://t.co/WtCC4GxCwa 
• Lungu receives Mutembo misconduct tribunal report #ZAMBIA https://t.co/VA5qBPqYhO 
• #BANGLADESH War crimes tribunal issues warrants for six Mymensingh men https://t.co/jm2wl3kJtl 
• AIB official sacked over soccer loans gets €138k at tribunal #IRELAND https://t.co/xvEtJRTAdq 
• Milosevic Exonerated By International Tribunal, Media is Silent #SERBIA https://t.co/9FfjNBO5Ev 
• Border patrol still have orders allowing boat turnbacks in foreign waters, tribunal reveals #AUSTRALIA https://t.co/RSnOHdXgEF 
• War crimes allegation lawyer Professor Phil Shiner faces tribunal https://t.co/jqBZH62z8v 
• Dundee FC fan and former employee wins almost £11000 in tribunal https://t.co/OQTSrRYSag 
• Court of Appeal: Circuit Court had no jurisdiction in possession proceedings #IRELAND https://t.co/MVOTYECWl1
• MH17 European Court on Human Rights Green Lights Lawsuit against #Ukraine https://t.co/zUL9SuvVcZ
• Deporting #Taiwanese to China a human rights violation: spokesman https://t.co/r5BpKYSH0M 
• Arab Human Rights Forum: 'International Community Should Halt 'alleged' #Iranian Terrorism' https://t.co/9OgFrj0h3Y
• Bailed #Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Have Yet to Regain Liberty https://t.co/Ju7JlivB7x
• EU Human Rights Groups Warn #TURKEY on Death Penalty https://t.co/n0wLCpZUZp 
• #RUSSIA calls Paralympics ban 'grave human rights abuse' https://t.co/Ct31fpDfTc 
• Conveyancers join call to scrap stamp duty in bid to bolster market https://t.co/9Kw28Me6a1
• Black Kentucky judge suspended after racially tinged remarks #US https://t.co/ZBO0sKER3s
• Irish judge upholds broad rights for the unborn #IRELAND https://t.co/XknPHrsQTM
• Judge makes exception, allows inmate to meet 1-month-old son for first time #US https://t.co/82qA0cnHLa
• #Brazilian Judge Orders Olympics to Allow Stadium Protests https://t.co/Ks1znVs8ta
• Judge denies ex-Democratic Gov. Blagojevich's bid to lighten 14-year sentence #US https://t.co/TnzQpCLd14
• Kentucky judge has gone viral twice in the past two weeks for her displays of compassion in the courtroom #US https://t.co/NyJ1za983I 
• 24 arrests: POS devices legal around the world are illegal in #GREECE https://t.co/a1J2KKUY2t 
• Two men sentenced for part in illegal waste site operation in Worcester https://t.co/XpJDtf2P7E
• RSS condemns attacks on Dalits, calls such acts illegal and inhuman #INDIA https://t.co/tQr7m5B5Ha 
• Ibiza police raid party boats looking for drugs and illegal behaviour #SPAIN https://t.co/0NHOPEUa90 
• Police crackdown on illegal workers, nab suspected head of Beduin trafficking ring #ISRAEL https://t.co/3uySATllzL now ILLEGAL in some parts https://t.co/DTcUkfdtLh 
• Police attacked by teenagers hurling bottles as they shut down illegal party in Clapham https://t.co/UdCzyA21uD 
• Nottingham property law firm Brady Solicitors has continued its growth with the appointment of two lawyers https://t.co/SJs1z6x7w2
• Northwich solicitor on smartphone app that claims to make divorce more amicable https://t.co/UcaakNJep8
• 15 solicitor firms paid over €200k by DPP in 2015 #IRELAND https://t.co/d6iMSy77Og 
• Solicitor sues PSNI chief constable over 'slanderous' comment https://t.co/ukGpoPZDhm 
• Pensioner spends night locked in public toilets after suspected stroke https://t.co/gZEsxfjfa2 
• Ex-SNP leader Alex Salmond took £30,000 grant to help adjust to “non-parliamentary life” — despite continuing as MP https://t.co/F9uUkbrNDO 
• Perth Council has 'legal duty' to pass controversial plan for Almond Valley village, claim developers https://t.co/ZySWYAwcJA
• Emperor's Abdication would pose legal challenges for imperial system #JAPAN https://t.co/fZAsEXRDeZ 
• Justice Ministry confident of launching e-declarations without delays #UKRAINE https://t.co/Ku3vj2wTlc 
• Justice Markandey Katju has gone 'senile': Kirti Azad #INDIA https://t.co/VbgOck4R8u 
• Duterte warns chief justice against 'meddling' in drug war #PHILIPPINES https://t.co/sTCuQzedzl 
• Father of Birmingham riots victim still fighting for justice https://t.co/xjA4Xb2qLc
• Newcastle fisherman Bradley Masterson snared by paedophile hunters Dark Justice https://t.co/TNedxP55Ki
• Justice minister hires academic who thinks Supreme Court erred on assisted dying #CANADA https://t.co/TdxrRMm81b 
• Alabama chief justice will face ethics trial in case over same-sex marriage ruling #US https://t.co/Pku42XG58E 
• Buckle down or face jail, judge warns man accused of New Year party attack https://t.co/qFiTTfBEZp 
• Former #NEWZEALAND barrister labelled disgraceful and dishonourable by watchdog had charges of misconduct dismissed https://t.co/caFMERPxoh 
• Brexit and IP rights in the UK: What next? https://t.co/fZb8pS3UL4
• UK businesses to take more cases to ECJ before EU exit https://t.co/C64yRyIQVa 
• University of Kentucky suing two newspapers to appeal open records and open meetings violations https://t.co/zpwZwXhL3q
• KWM and Memery Crystal advise as Chinese investor acquires West Brom FC - The Lawyer https://t.co/asjngMz0Fg
• Has #Trump gone too far? Trump hints at assassination of Hillary Clinton by gun rights supporters #US https://t.co/RbJNCbpn5g 
• UK is biggest online drug dealing country in Europe https://t.co/v9i30hyVgk 
• Team Shepherd and Wedderburn: bound for glory? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gDipVYhYG2 
• First Eid lunch for Scots lawyers held - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cyJxdAGOCN 
• Scottish ministers to appeal wind farm ruling - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gIf0QZUNre
• Commercial litigation case note: Bailey & another v Angove's PTY Limited - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QfSXTyWPBMScottish Legal News https://t.co/7uD5SHFZ2A 
• SLN Spotlight: Toni Ashby, a partner at Clyde & Co - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QptW1WyWAT
• Police Scotland's mole hunt unlawful, rules IPT - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aoI7T8WS6e
• Judges allow one appeal but refuse another on application of Moorov doctrine of mutual corroboration - Scottish Lega…https://t.co/plBMZbJ5IE
• Very interesting indeed! https://t.co/7V0aueiSCu
• ‘I want death’: Nauru files chronicle despair of asylum seeker children #AUSTRALIA https://t.co/S6uEUjBjGA 
• The lives of asylum seekers in detention detailed in a unique database #AUSTRALIA https://t.co/uWWwcgq6XH 
• Airline passenger runs across tarmac at Madrid airport to catch flight breaching security protocol #SPAIN https://t.co/9v02RFKNDY
• Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint loses £1m tax refund case https://t.co/itQG4PiR0V 
• The Nauru files: 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in #Australian offshore detention https://t.co/AQX8GF23jr
• National press arbitration scheme begins one-year run | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/G2mT0VJ6a1 
• Mischcon de Reya posts perfect retention score for the autumn round | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/xUHPaoIYZW 
• DLA Piper international revenue jumps to £769m | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/hQmtXDkSED 
• Lloyds opens UK legal panel review | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/0qTxmA6eL3
• Judicial diversity top of the agenda for David Lammy | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/6M5bd5YBuL 
• Pakistani lawyers on strike after Quetta attack | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/VyGPc6wJhL 
• 'Disgust' over 'fat & ugly' Fit4Less advert https://t.co/zygU8Cvx4p
• UKIP's Lisa Duffy calls for partial ban on full-face veil https://t.co/7GMhbPKr8L
• #Indian activist ends 16-year hunger strike with a lick of honey https://t.co/BfTK1PxINZ
• Man killed on Gatwick Express train was rail enthusiast, say friends https://t.co/TGhCKqgfOt 
• Norway may block UK return to European Free Trade Association https://t.co/vqw3MLWQJp 
• The kill list: how the #PHILIPPINES’ leader is letting people get away with murder https://t.co/Ilz8nlYTAf 
• Man used as test subject in CIA torture program to ask for Guantánamo release #US https://t.co/G94JzcWM1S 
• Reform the Solicitors Compensation Fund, says lawyer | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/SiqCX58mPG 
• Parents of Americans killed in Benghazi sue Hillary Clinton claiming use of a private email server contributed to death https://t.co/XHydpXdfOu 
• 'Burkini-only day' at French waterpark cancelled #FRANCE https://t.co/5kpHeUyCii 
• Competition law isn’t up to the job | Law Gazette https://t.co/jggYfqyGvk
• 55 lawyers killed in #Pakistan bomb attack | Law Gazette https://t.co/wjOBJ7fIhn
• America’s police on trial: The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement system https://t.co/iUdUWo6REW 
• Legal aid is a national institution like the NHS, so why is it not properly funded? https://t.co/9uaVMICRrw 
• Why the Press Recognition Panel meeting is so crucial for newspapers https://t.co/BpBmMNkxSp 
• Woman dies in Wandsworth Prison drone police pursuit https://t.co/O7Q1UMXfAQ 
• Russell Square stabbings: Zakaria Bulhan trial date set https://t.co/KgK85g7HXO
• Man held after climbing Buckingham Palace fence https://t.co/Q3losaqkDh

9th August - Law News

1688th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Thousands of women and girls are being trafficked to Italy from Nigeria, into a life of forced prostitution. Freeing girls trafficked to Italy for sex: 'You will not be a slave for ever'.


Focus of the Day article:  There’s only one way to fix this child abuse debacle – listen to the victims. This ill-fated inquiry must return to first principles. Record the dreadful narratives of what happened. Then the next steps will be clear. Full story - Guardian Law

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Banking tech revolution ordered by watchdog https://t.co/lM908SiwOM 
• Asad Shah killing: 'Disrespecting Islam' murderer jailed https://t.co/BLXA7G8PbS 
• Police release fraud video to deter false claimants | Law Gazette https://t.co/j4Xn05NYvN 
• Inquiry to ask why BAME lawyers don’t make judiciary | Law Gazette https://t.co/INWE2Gk5y0 
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/eJvYBzw4wS
• Complaints about one rogue chambers plague BSB | Law Gazette https://t.co/AbHqJr3Wdy
• Retailers caught selling e-cigarettes to under-18s https://t.co/I5PLVbQvOb
• Healthcare and Welfare Lawyer vacancies in the Offices of the Official Solicitor and the Public Trustee https://t.co/TWNOrnnETA
• Memorial football match to remember murdered solicitor from Chorley https://t.co/dF50dGltbt
• Solicitor mocked after claiming people DIDN'T EAT so they could pay Labour vote fee https://t.co/oY7Vk90BNL 
• Solicitor says he didn't tell bishop to deny knowledge of paedophile priests #AUSTRALIA https://t.co/QbaQAGKfMr
• Participation of members of the judiciary in businesses 'should not be tolerated' - experts #MALTA https://t.co/kTqxWhZhib 
• Role of Judiciary and Bar in making a just and inclusive Society : Chief Justice TS Thakur #INDIA https://t.co/yUAOm5jYgV
• #AUSTRALIA's youth justice scandal stirs race controversy https://t.co/B8b8GkgPxZ 
• SC ruling on Lodha panel unconstitutional, says Katju #INDIA https://t.co/LEhnywOTew
• Rooftop stand-off at Sydney's Cobham Juvenile Justice Centre lasts for nine hours #AUSTRALIA https://t.co/f4BCCkDy4l 
• Justice minister hires adviser who thinks Supreme Court erred on assisted dying #CANADA https://t.co/K7RfN8ARio
• Labor calls for reversal of community legal aid cuts in wake of NT youth justice scandal #AUSTRALIA https://t.co/arnTDgLZtf
• Creative product packaging hands woman a legal problem #INDONESIA https://t.co/Dy1JxPviFg 
• Scuttled Home Purchases, Legal Risks Mount From Vancouver Tax #CANADA https://t.co/kfa6gJO7Tx
• Asylum seekers: #Australia's silence over 'on-water matters' faces legal test https://t.co/wcsIJxnAhy 
• Kesha thanks fans for support at first concert since dropping legal action https://t.co/JeSqvYQ1H1 
• Lloyds bank faces legal challenge over female staff pensions https://t.co/YG8SBj8tqc 
• UK faces Human Rights challenge to state’s bulk hacking abroad https://t.co/jfLOMoq1FB 
• London Grants UK Police New Powers to Fight Modern Slavery at Sea https://t.co/0AbERr41Sq 
• The latest example of the power of the EU to promote equality law reform #MOLDOVA https://t.co/1lwjAAl0eH 
• New guidance on legal proceedings issued by Charity Commission https://t.co/pdkBMchvUP 
• The Lawyer Awards 2016: The highlights - The Lawyer https://t.co/NAJUmhDhOg
• Gowling WLG delays pay reviews following Brexit - The Lawyer https://t.co/KN80Q6RbGY 
• Lloyds Bank hit with pensions claim by thousands of female staff - The Lawyer https://t.co/KM5TplJF3A 
• Olswang turnover drops 11 per cent as merger hunt continues - The Lawyer https://t.co/mchKxk70Q5 
• Tribunal clears two solicitors of unwittingly enabling mortgage fraud | Legal Futures https://t.co/9mivbbLvKd 
• Franz Kafka literary legal battle ends as #ISRAEL's high court rules in favor of library https://t.co/blsg5uPEHz 
• #French girl, 16, charged with allegedly supporting Islamic State https://t.co/BxubgUGwT6 
• Police will be required to report officer-involved deaths under new #US system https://t.co/gorSoSqYfo 
• Trump's economic plan: no 'death tax', less business tax, and fewer regulations #US https://t.co/ZhVFSbb8Wl 
• £1.3bn troubled families scheme has had 'no discernible impact' https://t.co/eHJv7fhq5Z 
• Top police officers' allowances and perks boost basic pay by 21% https://t.co/eGZG6ecx1Z 
• Brexit will increase intolerance outside our football grounds, says Lord Ouseley https://t.co/v86huHk70D 
• Why the romance of Brexit bloomed in Philip Larkin’s industrial suburbia | Amit Chaudhuri https://t.co/CgQqrHmkfu 
• Trump's national security nightmare: now even the neocons are freaking out #US https://t.co/v2Mug71f1S
• Beko tumble dryer model 'behind 20 fires' https://t.co/NWsE4k8jOO
• Jeremy Corbyn consolidates grip on Labour with high court and NEC successes https://t.co/cIGmsqQXPL
• Police Scotland told to pay journalist £10,000 over illegal intercepts https://t.co/hzeghxyxnY
• #Chinese tourist who lost wallet in #Germany ends up in refugee shelter https://t.co/nrA1gGEnBh 
• UK copyright law - repealing section 52 | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/qCGYohjhSU 
• The road to recovery | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/1VVmjd8WVH 
• Fried Frank alum named new Burford Capital managing director | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/M3fNPWaGAF 
• ABA policymakers to tackle diversity challenges at upcoming annual meeting | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/JTkny4434W
• Surge of CJEU tax cases anticipated in wake of Brexit vote | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/YjaVmnQpIS 
• Turnover plummets 11 per cent at Olswang | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/uFj6BcnWo2 
• Suicide bomber targets lawyers in Pakistan hospital attack | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/sEI7b2bwZ3 
• Devastated families face eviction after Britain’s richest MP Richard Benyon buys housing estate and hikes up rent https://t.co/RCoydMOhHz 
• Tesla car drives owner to hospital after he suffers pulmonary embolism #US https://t.co/4NqIjy0euO 
• Stephen Lawrence inquiry: CCTV witness plea over racist murder https://t.co/uja1eGpeYm
• Girl, 14, raped outside Barrhead supermarket https://t.co/L30yum74eH 
• Troubled Families report 'suppressed' https://t.co/cY6W3gL2ur 
• Land Registry claims progress towards digital mortgage | Law Gazette https://t.co/YGNJ5fWo2d 
• Immediate decline in business confidence after Brexit vote - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DQldnYRxgw
• Entrepreneurial Spark signs three-year deal with legal Eagles Harper Macleod - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Y6n0q3GDYD 
• TLT secures 'pop-up' licenses for traders during Edinburgh Festival - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jhouJUYiYI
• Weightmans announces turnover of £95.1m - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uj3B0zbneP 
• Blog: New banking regime aims to ensure managers are responsible - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kOazFL9OpP 
• Inverness Sheriff Court has paid tribute to Golspie procurator fiscal Alasdair MacDonald, who has passed away at the…https://t.co/kuoWnimEAp 
• The sudden death of Frank Gallagher of Mackinnon Advocates - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/L4i371qmZK 
• Only 22 people pass through anti-sectarianism scheme - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/b5NeZXK1pu 
• Sheriff Principal Bowen calls for statutory offence of pitch invasion - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qxhJvQp4IP 
• Sacked nurse unable to challenge decision by judicial review, judge rules - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iLOA21gBAg 
• Would you pick fruit and veg for very low pay brexit voter? No? We have a problem https://t.co/zBDANu8HoP
• A UK centre for legal innovation? | Law Gazette https://t.co/HcEAae0B0M 
• SRA denied £46k costs after failed fraud charge | Law Gazette https://t.co/OeRHYgDKdV 
• Profits steady at Olswang despite 10% turnover drop | Law Gazette https://t.co/9AYI1BMIRr

8th August - Law News

1687th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Julian Assange Special: Do Wikileaks have the email that'll put Clinton in Prison?


Focus of the Day article: “Lawyerless” justice could encourage two-tier justice system. Lord Justice Briggs’s plans to modernise and digitise the civil courts structure have received a mixed reception from lawyers. Bar Chairman Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC says that moves towards introducing online courts with minimum assistance by lawyers could lead a two-tier justice system. Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The divorce lawyer's guide to staying married forever https://t.co/1aBGagBNFY
• New York City lawyer arrested for robbing Connecticut bank - she provided note to teller demanding money #US https://t.co/tGiGu2GWKP 
• Ex-journalist, lawyer, aspiring politician: Meet Jignesh Mevani, face of the Gujarat Dalit agitation #INDIA https://t.co/Kl68Eg8jgM
• Lawyer in Blue Jeans talks about sueing over rush hour #US https://t.co/936dUqGfJi 
• Lawyer who focused on molest victim's breast fined by disciplinary tribunal in another case #SINGAPORE https://t.co/I74eT7DGok 
• Government may move Supreme Court against tribunal's verdict #INDIA https://t.co/1qsRChWAFj 
• Election Commission of Pakistan has appointed the judges of Lahore High Court (LHC) as tribunal judges #PAKISTAN https://t.co/1FIySbyvQA
• No takers for Army tribunal jobs in #INDIA, seen as paper tiger with no powers to issue contempt https://t.co/3ILLJgrOgS 
• #CHINA asks Singapore to respect its position on South China Sea tribunal ruling https://t.co/FqiwbtkQBA
• Sports lawyer Dr Emir Crowne thinks it's time for sportsmen in the Caribbean a “greater access to justice” #JAMAICA https://t.co/4nLYr5TeuE 
• #PHILIPPINES fishermen cast hopes on talks as Beijing defies tribunal https://t.co/2c4cvHSluo 
• Tribunal orders AIB to pay €138,384 to sacked manager #IRELAND https://t.co/16g8eNitQ5
• The secret life of one lazy trade union employee tarnishing other hardworkers: I do little https://t.co/NpydeE8fc5 
• #China says former penal colony #Australia is 'on fringes of civilisation' after swimmer Mack Horton attacks Sun Yanghttps://lnkd.in/d98UGG2 
• Trafficking of #Nigerian women into prostitution in Europe 'at crisis level' https://t.co/oBXl0XJKZP 
• #PAKISTAN hospital bomb attack kills dozens in Quetta https://t.co/ElPWj02MK4
• Android bug fear in 900 million phones https://t.co/shNHba5ShK 
• Labour members win leadership vote case https://t.co/cZNbXw7qkK 
• US kicks wider adoption of ABSs into long grass | Law Gazette https://t.co/pmgTmROkJs 
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/e6OGxM9GtD
• UK's top bosses received 10% pay rise in 2015 as average salary hit £5.5m https://t.co/M5YF5XlzoH 
• Marco Rubio: women with Zika should not be allowed abortions #US https://t.co/z6X9bEilyG 
• Passenger dies in incident on Gatwick Express train https://t.co/L8tvDe2fZZ
• American Nazi Party leader sees 'a real opportunity' with a Trump presidency #US https://t.co/fqiJvh87Dt 
• Fine for solicitor who accepted £400,000 in loans from clients | Legal Futures: https://t.co/2jw1DAvamp 
• Law firm caught up in dubious US oil wells sales | Legal Futures: https://t.co/4CZ6LPPEYz 
• Are solicitors obliged to question ethics of clients' conduct? Leading academic suggests they may be | Legal Futures https://t.co/LNHSGFxopn
• The shocking story of #ISRAEL's disappeared babies https://t.co/Dv3qJEJGCt 
• The personal journey of a filmmaker caught in the crossfire of the battle for Tasmania's ancient #AUSTRALIA forests https://t.co/qEl2ktIbVf
• Solicitor’s first boxing match aged 63 | Law Gazette https://t.co/wcJ1KnS9Rv
• Massive rise in drone-related crime reports amid paedophile fears https://t.co/q8yzVd6hSX 
• Footage shows Met Police holding off gang during arrest in Tower Hamlets https://t.co/g65km5yS3O 
• #Brazil’s Olympics money would have been better spent on indigenous communities https://t.co/4wEbDdn50r
• UK fraud office starts Airbus inquiry https://t.co/QkReRnvtAz
• Man in coma after Kitts Green 'road rage punch' https://t.co/x2rziF054B
• You can now apply for a government loan to fund your LPC - Legal Cheek https://t.co/wP1GKMRx99
• TV camera records Old Bailey hearing in English legal history first - Legal Cheek https://t.co/4iDaHtFJMD 
• Rise of the barista: 20% of employed law graduates work in retail, bars or catering - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tAxMU2fCS8
• Top judge scolded for ‘shocking and disgraceful’ behaviour ‘mentally unfit’ to face disciplinary inquiry - Legal Che…https://t.co/nS7ovXvSTT
• Turkish government storms top law firm as another abandons practice in North Korea - Legal Cheek https://t.co/QX4u5DqehB
• 25 Bedford Row barrister ACQUITTED of sex assault in chambers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5L1wNVeJ21
• Solicitor Disciplinary Tribunal confirms Alan Blacker has applied for re-hearing - Legal Cheek https://t.co/flGjdt1yt6 
• How I landed a mini-pupilage speaking to a fishmonger at Sainsbury’s - barrister Tunde Okewale - Legal Cheek https://t.co/HaqpvVF2v8 
• Birmingham City University law student graduates and gets married on the same day - Legal Cheek https://t.co/TBLTQ288Hl 
• 6 ways to distract law firms from disappointing first-year results - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Ri3n7wsggf 
• Barrister excluded from UKIP leadership contest after filing 17 minutes late - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8tw3qzmtsb 
• We spoke to Professor Richard Susskind and Nigel Pascoe QC about online courts - Legal Cheek https://t.co/fWemM5IupQ
• Hogan Lovells keeps 24 out of 30 qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/wmv22AmNXu 
• Here's my CV - will I get a training contract? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Erk6OdCnhv 
• Judge puts bizarre ‘woof justice’ note on his windscreen because he wasn’t allowed to take his dog into the pub - Le…https://t.co/hmESE4mwsP 
• Fieldfisher IT worker sentenced to a year in prison for sexually assaulting paralegal at Christmas party - Legal Che…https://t.co/GkYKxm7VuS 
• Solicitor who was ordered to pay £20,000 after he ‘proposed marriage’ to paralegal during job interview LOSES appeal…https://t.co/rDy0K8OcXq 
• Freshfields hangs on to 95% of its autumn qualifiers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qJ1j5vqWbV 
• Addleshaw Goddard and Gowling WLG freeze pay as confusion reigns at BLP - Legal Cheek https://t.co/M1xqgXFXFd 
• Corporate lawyer, 27, on £72,000 a year saves just £600 a month - Legal Cheek https://t.co/72NCxkD2B8 
• Simmons & Simmons slashes London lawyer headcount - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5Nf4IDQ6s5 
• Red Cross Built Exactly 6 Homes For Haiti With Nearly Half A Billion Dollars In Donations https://t.co/XBlilz0Te1
• Why has Black Lives Matter come to the UK? Your questions answered https://t.co/lyb4V8yEYH 
• #Kenyan anti-doping agency to investigate new bribery allegations https://t.co/8hQCpoANtg

7th August - Law News

1685th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.


Today's video story: England's riots five years on: 'It was off the scale'. On 4 August 2011 Mark Duggan was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, north London, sparking the largest civil unrest the UK has seen for a generation. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• With Goddard gone, this inquiry needs strong leader | Law Gazette https://t.co/LZcnkT0XyZ 
• Backlash against BBC's 'intrusive' new TV licence spy vans https://t.co/SJTtONX1Vl 
• Two-year-old girl thought to be at risk of FGM returned to UK https://t.co/DkexvrUWpv
• Bernie Ecclestone reveals gang who kidnapped his mother-in-law threatened to cut her head off https://t.co/iscMEp5qpz
• Hamas prisoners end hunger strike in deal with #ISRAEL https://t.co/1d8UJc73EW 
• Planned 'burkini pool day' stirs debate in #FRANCE https://t.co/T21OhfD46Y 
• #GREECE: the fishermen of Lesbos saving refugee lives https://t.co/0y4MLmLpC8 
• Deaths and detentions in #ETHIOPIA as protests flare https://t.co/ifAS5QV8XA 
• Chicago police 'possibly violated' policy in shooting: Officers who fatally shot 18-year-old Paul O'Neal #US https://t.co/eR4ndJbeGF
• Rodrigo Duterte: 'I don't care about human rights', accusing #PHILIPPINES government officials including judges https://t.co/GgiSBhYhlP 
• Brazilian 'butt-lift' surgeon dies after Rio torch relay #BRAZIL https://t.co/tntVOhy7wD
• Rodrigo Duterte links 150 judges and politicians to drugs trade #PHILIPPINES https://t.co/n4lOqHeNey 
• Nuclear safety fears grow as #France snubs UK watchdog https://t.co/51j44nr8PM 
• The Glorious Twelfth? Conservationists turn their fire on Scotland’s landowners https://t.co/Z7gt8FTsH5 
• Britain is hastening the extinction of the African elephant | Jonathan Baillie https://t.co/3VjULsozF2 
• An unpopular press is all too easy to censor: and not just by Erdoğan #TURKEY https://t.co/0HpNiBX8m0 
• #SOUTHAFRICA has broken the post-colonial narrative. It’s a thrilling turning point | Justice Malala https://t.co/sN1wGsU6BT 
• Briton's family baffled by arrest in #Kenya over 100kg cocaine haul https://t.co/UgXKm1l2xS 
• Labour criticises reported plan to lift ban on new grammar schools https://t.co/Esu2Qoj1Sa 
• UK government 'abandoned and betrayed' six former soldiers jailed in India https://t.co/k8VItMbl6U 
• Flatmates of gay Syrian refugee beheaded in #TURKEY fear they will be next https://t.co/IjKxdgTcxe 
• Lord Janner's family seek to remove him from child abuse inquiry https://t.co/3QLH4scavY
• Former deputy PM Nick Clegg has told the BBC that Michael Gove was behind the Sun's "Queen Backs Brexit" story https://t.co/lZiSXS3MUx
• #THAILAND referendum: Military-written constitution 'approved' by people https://t.co/9P4y660JGA 
• Nathan Wood search: Body found in River Dart https://t.co/SUlPCK8NgM Aug 07, 2016
• Oscar Pistorius treated in hospital after 'slipping in cell' #SOUTHAFRICA https://t.co/NPHm6ucj6K 
• The Round-up: Counter-Extremism Bill – Counter-Productive? | UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/u6CnEFzU9a 
• Scottish Government’s Named Persons scheme incompatible with Article 8 https://t.co/OYMxXnupsP 
• The breaking down of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the UK’s responsibility https://t.co/XVqYZOFI53 
• What lies do to claims – the Supreme Court | UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/QjB3BtQFKv 
• The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/uaZvUOubnG
• #Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri 'executed' https://t.co/NY8HD7jAEA
• All #Russian athletes to be banned from Paralympic Games in Rio https://t.co/ROXwmbnIgh 
• Viewpoint - Working women: Vertical ambition or glass cliff? https://t.co/mx1uDFw1MZ 
• Protest and vigil mark fifth anniversary of Mark Duggan death https://t.co/TngwiOfWCU 
• #BELGIUM police attacked with machete in Charleroi https://t.co/stPS8Ckh0i