Edition 3311: 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: Shortly after Dr Martin Luther King Jr led the march on Washington, FBI agents were ordered to start following the famed civil rights leader.
The extent of the surveillance shocked documentary maker Sam Pollard so much he decided to start digging. He managed to uncover FBI documents, sourced secret White House phone calls and found long forgotten footage of King at the peak of his career.
With interviews from King's contemporaries Clarence Jones and Andrew Young, and former FBI agents, MLK/FBI paints a picture which, as Pollard tells the BBC's Alex Stanger, mirrors today's reality.
Focus of the Day Article: The Scottish government’s revised legal aid package has been welcomed by the Law Society of Scotland. Amanda Millar, president of the Law Society said:
“This revised package is one we support as a positive step forward. £20
million of new money is a significant investment in a vital part of our
civil society.
Full story - Scottish Legal News
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- #US Vice President elect Kamala Harris to be sworn in by Justice Sotomayor at inauguration https://t.co/HImo3ilRwW
- Law Society welcomes Scottish government’s revised legal aid package - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2cFb1Nlt3k
- National Audit Office challenges basis of court reforms - Legal Futures https://t.co/FC80fWL8Qr
- The youngest person convicted of a terrorism offence in the UK - who plotted to murder police in Australia on Anzac Day aged 14 - can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled https://t.co/aDYNzI2omw
- Sheku Bayoh death: Two police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements https://t.co/np0mvuH87r
- Hull FC appoint local solicitor to board of directors - Gordon Sewell is a local solicitor and lifelong supporter of the club https://t.co/SzITrqlEkh
- High Court rejects final posthumous appeal against Lockerbie bomber’s conviction - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FTbdkrq7SU
- Obituary: Robin MacCormick, Scottish solicitor, and writer to the Signet https://t.co/q31x5Sfd44
- High Court highlights "implausibility" of multi-hand fraud at City law firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/YmuMFzN5OY
- Four
men have been found guilty of murdering a boy stabbed more than 40
times in a "well-planned execution". Keelan Wilson, 15, was fatally
injured on Langley Road in Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, on 29 May, 2018 https://t.co/hgwGKh3cmq
- For Palestinian filmmakers in #Israel, it’s loyalty or silence Israel’s persecution of actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri reflects its desire to censor stories of the occupation while gloating about being a ‘democracy.’ https://t.co/1q9CA0ViUW
- The Capitol building in Washington DC is on lockdown owing to a security threat, two days before Joe Biden is inaugurated as #US president https://t.co/Ucq3N2gOg9
- Barrister involved in a murder trial has sparked a coronavirus alert in court after calling in sick - The lawyer said they had symptoms of the disease, so the case at Hove Crown Court had to be delayed https://t.co/fQN0ICLrwj
- Scots lawyer gets Covid-19 - the Glasgow Bar Association have raised their concerns with Chief Constable Iain Livingstone and continue to advise their members not to participate in interviews at stations if they do not feel safe https://t.co/aVU2TSCDFi
- The #Pakistani lawyer for the family of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl is facing an uphill legal battle https://t.co/j6PjB4fYK
- A human rights lawyer who handled the case of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists detained in #China had his licence revoked Friday - Lu Siwei -- together with another rights lawyer Ren Quanniu -- was appointed by families of two of the "Hong Kong 12" https://t.co/OeFbIp21tr
- A man too afraid to fly due to the pandemic lived undetected in a secure area of Chicago's international airport for three months, #US prosecutors say. Aditya Singh, 36, was arrested on Saturday after airline staff asked him to produce his identification https://t.co/bnMr723M1y
- The United States and several European governments have demanded the release of opposition politician Alexei Navalny from #Russian detention https://t.co/DzD8hyZyFn
- Change to remote working would raise a range of legal issues, expert says #Ireland https://t.co/C26tIQF0Z
- Jonathan Peter Brooks: Fellow plastic surgeon charged over attacking Graeme Perks, 65 https://t.co/VfmqwALMK7
- Scots church leaders threaten legal action if places of worship cannot reopen https://t.co/aIg0mHGPef
- Legal
action launched against plan to house asylum seekers at Yarl's Wood -
Home Office criticised for plans to accommodate 200 people seeking
asylum at ‘prison-style’ camp https://t.co/OVQKZsBmwZ
- #Malaysia takes WTO legal action against EU over palm biofuel curbs https://t.co/HaTNAdS51X
- Data Flows Continue from the EU to the UK https://t.co/7V6nwKc91Q
- British Airways breach could cost billions in landmark class-action push https://t.co/5my8STEumf
- Initial Reactions to UK Supreme Court’s Ruling on Business Interruption Claims https://t.co/iEJzNU1T
- The man who once shot at Prince Charles with a starting pistol grew up to become a barrister - despite being found guilty of the strange crime. David Kang fired two blanks at the Prince of Wales during an event in Sydney, #Australia in 1994 https://t.co/rWPms5r0UX
- Scotland Yard told to re-examine handling of investigation into struck-off barrister - Police watchdog rules there were mistakes in way Metropolitan Police handled complaint by former client of Alexander Mercouris https://t.co/DW9seZGiZk
- Shed parties and illegal races: UK police crack down on Covid rulebreakers https://t.co/fq8wDSde9y
- Dominic Raab calls QC acting for Hong Kong government 'mercenary' https://t.co/FN5XKJHLVM
- Andrew Williamson obituary - Andrew Williamson, who has died aged 78, took part as a lawyer in several key anti-apartheid trials in South Africa https://t.co/zVrRVHAy4d
- All UK travel corridors which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday https://t.co/Fuy62d1zqo
- #US Divorce lawyer 'stripped naked masturbated at work while sipping beer' https://t.co/wZC0ZLXvOo
- The future of interim relief in discrimination claims - Legal Cheek https://t.co/BkiBwAMZYp
