1st February - Law News

Edition 3324: 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 French government will shut the state’s borders to all traffic to and from countries outside of the EU as of Sunday, Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced, in an effort to ward off yet another Covid lockdown in France. Speaking in a televised address after meeting with President Emmanuel Macron and senior ministers, Castex said that officials had decided against introducing a new national lockdown in a drastic bid to curb new Covid infections. Instead, tighter border controls are being introduced alongside tougher action against covid rule-breakers. 

 Focus of the Day Article:  High Court dismisses ‘misconceived’ arguments against European arrest warrants. An attempt by five men arrested pursuant to the European arrest warrant to apply for a writ of habeas corpus because the Brexit transition period has ended, has been refused. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The EU says UK-Swedish drug firm AstraZeneca will now supply an additional nine million Covid vaccine doses by March, after days of criticism of the bloc's vaccination programme https://t.co/pKEGmKreIJ
• Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of #Myanmar's governing National League for Democracy (NLD) party, has been arrested, the spokesman for the party said https://t.co/WSpWk2PAYu
• [Book Launch] A Critique of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/rNKhtBoA0k
• Should legal crowdfunding be regulated? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ThxQcIP8U
• Directors warned of ‘falling foul’ of new industrial manslaughter laws #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/yBRvuYBmSQ
• Exclusive research: Law firms say the SQE alone will not be enough - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ZZLQrUO6X
• The Weekly Round-Up: Human Rights vs Unfettered Trade: a Party divided? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/DloYwVKjtK
• Captain Sir Tom Moore has been admitted to hospital with coronavirus, his daughter has said. The 100-year-old, who raised more than £33m for the NHS, was taken to Bedford Hospital https://t.co/xDCRcJa95z
• 5 pupillage application essentials - Legal Cheek https://t.co/YJdYBmZCOv 
• Barcelona FC say they will take "appropriate legal action" against Spanish newspaper El Mundo after it published details of forward Lionel Messi's £492m contract #Spain https://t.co/iOOYDV4pj
• Law Pod UK New Episode: "Historical" Crimes: Ireland's unmarried mothers and their children - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/kDNBDLeY52
• Donald Trump's impeachment defence in disarray as lead lawyers quit - Butch Bowers clashed with Trump over strategy, according to reports, and leaves along with Deborah Barberi and three others #US https://t.co/yh2HjTCxDO
• Just £12,000 of £40m fund for displaced Chagos islanders has been spent - MP representing most of UK’s Chagossians says failure to use compensation money to help those facing hardship is outrageous https://t.co/mymCtIQv7
• Greater Manchester Police investigating abuse aimed at Manchester United players https://t.co/gSme1rSF4C
• Baby boy found dead at Wirral golf course https://t.co/miXUraN5HP
• Covid lockdown easing must happen 'very slowly', adviser says https://t.co/Yegdp0qi7w 
• #Israel to transfer a mere 5,000 covid vaccine doses to Palestinians https://t.co/h3mmzfuMqn
• Revealed: The best law firms for legal tech 2021 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/gcwf9Hu4WB
• “No case to answer” - Stansted 15 convictions quashed by Court of Appeal - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/H3tAymPjJ
• Thousands of #Russians have been taking part in unauthorised protests to demand the release of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny https://t.co/ltAtL1Ejhs
• HS2 underground protest: Activists 'being forced out' of tunnel https://t.co/ainZVFdvj2 
• The #Australian city of Perth has begun a snap five-day lockdown after a security guard working at a quarantine hotel tested positive for coronavirus https://t.co/EHWVlWwwg
• Restrictions forcing couples to cancel weddings during the coronavirus pandemic have highlighted "archaic" marriage laws, a legal body has said https://t.co/5qfAtsvBj1
  
• Morrison & Foerster dishes out ‘appreciation bonuses’ to London lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3KckixpSv
• Digital revolution ‘advancing productivity’ in law firms - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/h0zw0cmiYO 
• Life as a cyber security leader at an international law firm - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ND26ri4109 
• ‘Zero tolerance for criminal activity’, says NAB chief legal counsel #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/RF8Er2vXxN
• What is a continuing nuisance? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/puRvLqtwi
• Virtual student event NEXT WEEK: Wednesday 3 February, from 4pm to 6:30pm, taking place virtually - Secrets to Success Midlands — with Eversheds Sutherland, Pinsent Masons, Shoosmiths and ULaw https://t.co/VppQlmpMYq
• Biden and #US prison reforms – a soft target? Putting a stop to private prison contracts does little to address dire conditions for inmates, especially during a pandemic https://t.co/cd0evQz851
• #US health agency orders travellers wear masks on public transport https://t.co/Iw8DsiaYLN
• Justice Ashis Kumar Chakraborty of Calcutta High Court passes away - He was appointed an additional judge of Calcutta High Court in October 2014 and was made a permanent judge in October 2016 #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/IUgPHHdayu
• Tens of thousands protest against new #French security bill https://t.co/zh0Hi3HtzU
• NI: Tsunami of medical negligence suits looms after Covid-19 - Irish Legal News https://t.co/WHGkoPVCb
• Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC named assistant coroner for Cambridgeshire - Irish Legal News https://t.co/bIP2k2yr4e
• NI: Tughans tops M&A league table for sixth consecutive year - Irish Legal News https://t.co/0xDwM1nT0F

31st January - Law News

Edition 3323: 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: Protests continued in Poland for the third night against a court ruling that makes abortion illegal in almost all cases. Thousands defied coronavirus restrictions to attend rallies in several cities. 

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Hooray for Sir Geoffrey's funnel vision | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZB3vEmRzb
• UAE to offer citizenship to 'talented' foreigners https://t.co/PlIeu2xqWJ
• #Japanese woman 'kept mother's body in freezer for 10 years' - Yumi Yoshino, 48, said that she found her mother dead and hid the body 10 years ago because she "didn't want to move out" of the Tokyo home https://t.co/ONw7BNu5dw
• The UK is applying to join a free trade area made up of 11 Asia and Pacific nations, under its post-Brexit plans https://t.co/O0L0aod2bD 
• Panel will 'test and challenge' criminal legal aid recommendations | Law Gazette https://t.co/3y7SItdocg
• #India has suspended mobile internet services in three areas around the capital, Delhi, where farmers are staging a hunger strike in protest at new agriculture laws https://t.co/DqYZwuxILe 
• Covid shielding extended for 130,000 people in Wales https://t.co/LMhf2YLv
• Corbyn bid for pre-action disclosure dismissed as ‘fishing’ by court | Law Gazette https://t.co/t5wcpuaR
• A claim has emerged from Alex Salmond saying a Scottish government adviser spoke of "getting" him in a criminal court case just before its own investigation into harassment claims was deemed unlawful https://t.co/Xj1m1CMmMK
• The Externalization of the EU’s Southern Border in Light of the EU/Libya Framework Agreement. A lawful Alternative or a Neo-Refoulement Strategy? | Paolo Biondi https://t.co/NsikeZ0wZO
• Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of a boy who was killed in a gun and knife attack. Keon Lincoln, 15, was attacked by a group of youths on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, on 21 January https://t.co/aW6pZyKuHJ
  
• One of the UK's biggest financial trading platforms, IG, has stopped any new trades in GameStop and theatre chain AMC when markets open on Monday https://t.co/bR6zWYNQb0
• Law firm chief makes £61m by cashing in half his shares | Law Gazette https://t.co/WvilD9G0Ak 
• Bar misconduct sanctions under review | Law Gazette https://t.co/1pB7hPD0b
• Freshfields vows to cut business travel | Law Gazette https://t.co/0qwgpBn9R
• Lawyers rally round top QC under fire for taking Cayman case | Law Gazette https://t.co/Dp59CRu3w
• 'Full-throated defence': young lawyers try raising public awareness of human rights review | Law Gazette https://t.co/6H8jxsD2y
• Lateral flow testing to be offered at Manchester court for next four weeks | Law Gazette https://t.co/wJSj7kjb
• Health bosses have apologised after some clinically extremely vulnerable children were mistakenly sent letters inviting them for a Covid vaccination https://t.co/4ZPEcs0xD
• A man has been arrested after a racist message was sent to West Bromwich Albion midfielder Romaine Sawyers https://t.co/6HAN7kOZYC
• Pupillage numbers plunge in response to pandemic | Law Gazette https://t.co/TrGYT0Ciqj
• Law Society appoints social mobility ambassadors | NLJ https://t.co/KmdN5Z9YHk
  
• Ten law firms have been sanctioned for breaches of transparency rules since the start of the year, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said | NLJ https://t.co/7IS8KSqQx
• Court rules that detentions after Covid-safe remote mental health evaluations are unlawful https://t.co/ZOXfTYwskI
• UK funeral directors say they might need to ask bereaved families to agree to pay any fines incurred if a service breaches coronavirus restrictions https://t.co/lODnB22W2r
• Arlene Foster has called on Boris Johnson to override part of the Brexit agreement to deal with problems in the movement of goods between GB and NI https://t.co/0L6oxdrIpk
• Legal salaries are likely to remain flat in the UK and Middle East despite the redundancies, market uncertainty and other pandemic-related fallouts of the past year | NLJ https://t.co/nBnVhaKVBm
• High Court dismisses ‘misconceived’ arguments against European arrest warrants - attempt by five men arrested pursuant to the European arrest warrant to apply for a writ of habeas corpus as the Brexit transition period has ended, has been refused. | NLJ https://t.co/gyRuOPb2BI
  
• Obituary: Prof Robert Rennie, much-admired academic and lawyer https://t.co/24kC0vpYQJ
  
• Wall Street clearing houses gain access to EU in blow for London - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Kvn9QqcoH
• Court ruling could limit compensation for PPI claims - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yI81RR6LqQ
• Presidents of UK law societies to set out Brexit response - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/so0u6yUrx8
• Unpaid work element of existing community payback orders to be reduced by a third - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aOJSwns7dH
  
• Third night of protests in #Poland after abortion ban takes effect - Thousands join rallies in Warsaw and other cities after delayed ban finally becomes law https://t.co/GduyomYFEW 
• Family wins lawsuit against NHS trust over woman’s decomposed body - Emily Whelan was feared to have been killed but investigation was hampered by state of corpse https://t.co/X8VrkFGRqx 
• ‘The perfect target’: #Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy https://t.co/qpaKqjfRVG
• Napier Barracks: Fire at Covid-hit asylum-seeker site was 'arson' https://t.co/O9yG4hkLek 
• Judge Eugene Regan nominated for further six years on CJEU bench - Irish Legal News https://t.co/d6c2jeggYs
  
• Austrian man leaves 'large amount' to #French village that saved family from Nazis https://t.co/fDvl1kNb72 
• Black Lives Matter foundation wins Swedish human rights prize https://t.co/xi6Vhwt4c7

30th January - Law News

Edition 3322: 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: There is no defence needed for jokes, comedian Kunal Kamra said in his reply to a contempt notice by the India Supreme Court for his criticism of the top court in tweets last year. Mr Kamra, who did not offer an apology in his response, said that "jokes are not reality and do not claim to be so".

 

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Rosenblatt shareholders in line for dividend after ‘resilient’ performance | Law Gazette https://t.co/tkv491lJhe
• Crown Office hands over 'material' to Salmond inquiry https://t.co/7Ypitl1e7U
• EU vaccine export row: Bloc backtracks on controls for NI https://t.co/pvi8P6mZRm
• NI: Podcast explores litigation over hospital waiting lists, border poll, Brexit and legacy issues - Irish Legal News https://t.co/M8JM3SIXQI 
• Proportion of BAME children in UK youth custody at record high https://t.co/jfCe5VrUBV
• Napier Barracks: Fire 'under control' at asylum-seeker site https://t.co/O9yG4hkLe
• A man held for the murders of a job centre adviser and a human resources manager in south-eastern #France is being linked to earlier attacks on HR managers elsewhere https://t.co/32Ujlovll
• The EU is introducing controls on vaccines made in the bloc, including to Northern Ireland, amid a row about delivery shortfalls https://t.co/UisPzj0xKL
• Sligo native Judge Bernard Brennan, who retired from the District Court bench 1999, has passed away #Ireland https://t.co/r8X9EuAiw7
• An anxious profession: charity reports soaring number of calls | Law Gazette https://t.co/70U9PE6iEp
• #Canadian couple who got vaccine meant for Indigenous people may face jail time https://t.co/g1y8nW6H4
• NI: Border citizen to appeal against refusal of leave for Brexit judicial review - Irish Legal News https://t.co/vVUqvMuRpM
• England: Sentencing guidelines for drug offences aim to address ethnic and gender disparities - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HuZb3L8TaP
• SCTS: Covid-19 arrangements in court and tribunal buildings - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jvMuBC1IMH
• Draft budget includes £50m to tackle Covid-19 backlogs in criminal justice - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/w7zEAJCMrz
• Man who sent Scottish Legal Complaints Commission abusive email refused leave to appeal against refusal of complaint - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Jgb1ae1Isw
• Solicitor fined £8,000 over insurance error from 12 years ago | Law Gazette https://t.co/8TQtiPPgB7
• UK BNO visa: Can Hong Kong residents now live in the UK? https://t.co/sRwa0W0Uf5
• The UK's financial regulator has warned it is closely watching trading activity in the wake of frenzied share dealing in GameStop and other companies https://t.co/9IE6xjT1KS
• Protesters who broke into Stansted Airport to stop a plane deporting people to Africa have won an appeal against their convictions. The group, known as the 'Stansted 15', locked themselves together around a Boeing 767 jet in 2017 https://t.co/xGUdmPfybJ
• The European Union has confirmed it is introducing export controls on coronavirus vaccines made in the bloc, amid a row about delivery shortfalls https://t.co/r8VemCIIVx
• EU drugs regulator approves AstraZeneca vaccine https://t.co/vZqzDFVHaZ
• AstraZeneca may have to renegotiate vaccine contracts, say experts https://t.co/awxd9BV0KH 
• A Scottish luxury hotel has been fined half a million pounds over a fire that claimed the lives of two guests. Cameron House has been ordered to pay £500,000 after admitting to breaches of fire safety rules https://t.co/YdX9D9ybsd
• William Shawcross appointed as independent reviewer of Prevent programme - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ly8YlAuuny Belgian company has announced. An international trial looked at giving 'just one dose of the vaccine', which makes it significantly easier to roll out than those requiring two https://t.co/7Hz4BXio6l
• Solicitor can present winding-up petition against "successor" firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/UNOVGtkkE
• Review of sanctions for barristers guilty of sexual misconduct underway - Legal Futures https://t.co/wRpNO5acXL
• Solicitor who retrospectively witnessed signatures is fined £20,000 - Legal Futures https://t.co/5JxNcIvuAq
• Solicitor boss of listed law firm cashes in £61m worth of shares - Legal Futures https://t.co/W3C1FUKEuZ
• Cardiff investigation as body found in street The body of a man, believed to be in his 20s or 30s, was found in Westville Street, Penylan, just before midnight on Thursday https://t.co/Lej5nrbEKP 
• Data shows outbreaks in England's offices in lockdown - BBC News https://t.co/5X3Au0lHge
  
• 'Imaginary capital': legal aid change removes £100,000 mortgage cap | Law Gazette https://t.co/VJhy5HnwyM
• DEPORTED: The Right to Asylum at EU's External Border of Italy and Libya | Rutvica Andrijasevic https://t.co/mBbwoeoqRR
• UN court rejects UK claim to #Chagos Islands in favour of Mauritius - UK urged to end ‘unlawful occupation’ of major strategic asset in Indian Ocean https://t.co/rUe0eHtECU 
• GameStop: Meet the amateur traders fighting Wall Street https://t.co/sRswQYZHO9
• AstraZeneca contract must be published, says European Commission chief https://t.co/2idCxahpgd
• Pitfalls looming for property owners as new tax rules come into effect - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lyd4zxDJfo
• Safety fears remain after Covid-hit court reopens within a day | Law Gazette https://t.co/k0t9zn9tna
• Extremists Emboldened by Capitol Attack Pose Rising Threat, Homeland Security Says #US https://t.co/MkHxH9hV9
• Presidents of UK law societies to set out Brexit response - Irish Legal News https://t.co/n3zbhFNnQL
  
• 'What are we to do?': Lammy defends seven-juror proposal | Law Gazette https://t.co/Uyuo0QfnYn
  
• Mandy Laurie of Burness Paull explores whether employers can force employees to receive the Covid-19 vaccine https://t.co/ARYx3wCZzU
• RSPCA plans to stop taking animal abusers to court privately - Charity says it will still investigate cases but responsibility for serious offences should sit with CPS https://t.co/gh6yfO10wG 
• Master of the Rolls to create 'online funnel' for civil claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/tAy01K7dZC
• Dentons to host virtual Burns Supper - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1wodpJCAJL
  
• The leader of the Catholic Church in #Ireland has said he would support a public inquiry into what happened at mother and baby homes across NI https://t.co/wfEIsPxtfu
  
• Special UK visa for #HongKong residents from Sunday https://t.co/q0XldObu1q
• Self-harm among female prisoners in England and Wales at record high - Official figures show steep rise during pandemic in number of incidents involving women https://t.co/xp1I6U7Nfd

29th January - Law News

Edition 3321: 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 Philippines has filed a diplomatic protest over China's passing of a law allowing its coastguard to open fire on foreign vessels. Beijing passed the legislation last week to use "all necessary means" to prevent foreign threats, including destroying structures built by other countries on Chinese-claimed reefs. Raji Pillai Rajagopalan, an expert in defence and the South China Sea from the Observer Research Foundation, tells The World there's little recourse nations can take, which could lead to military conflict.

 Focus of the Day Article: CPS denies major change in rape charging policy despite falling rates.Court of appeal told a shift in focus from a merits-based approach was not a ‘volte-face’. The Crown Prosecution Service has denied making major changes to its approach to charging rape, at a landmark legal hearing at the court of appeal. Full story - Guardian Law

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• U.K. Privacy Regulator Clarifies How U.K. Firms May Respond to SEC Document and Records Requests https://t.co/G2XE7nKx09
• The new Biden administration has said the US government's decision to refuse an extradition request for Harry Dunn's alleged killer was "final" https://t.co/F278GrBTMj
• Brexit Grace Period for Free Flow of Personal Data in EU-UK https://t.co/6UGqenIMXz
• Fines increase during third national lockdown - More than 42,000 fines were issued in England and Wales between 27 March and 17 January, up from 32,000 in late December - though not all were issued in the last month https://t.co/Mt8NhStPC8
• A man said he felt degraded after being detained in a police car when challenged on his way to work by an officer citing Covid legislation https://t.co/xXDhEb8CUG 
• Covid-19 vaccine Novavax - of which the British government has ordered 60 million doses - proves 89.3% effective in large-scale UK trials https://t.co/A4IlV9va7H 
• Business Immunity from COVID-19 Liability https://t.co/5EgHoEnhqI
  
• Demand for LawCare up nine per cent amid Covid impact - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bZmDZtOcKy
  
• SCTS accused of ‘paying lip service’ to Covid-19 guidelines after court outbreaks - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yadky79QUQ
• Inner House dismisses consumer protection appeal by man who was fitted with defective hip replacement - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/pdrr16SVhx
• Barrister Daryl Williams QC 'humbled' by #Australia Day honour https://t.co/6SrbonPXyj
• Sanctions urged against Russian figures in English football https://t.co/9W5XZbx2b
• The UAE, Burundi and Rwanda have been added to the "red list" of countries from where travel to the UK is banned https://t.co/QuoOJvM6Up
• The prime minister and Public Health England have both defended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, after #Germany recommended that it should only be given to people aged under 65 https://t.co/hcRTFij7tm
• Commercial firm launches “in-house barristers’ chambers” https://t.co/qEF8u0jEQo
  
• Homeless man broke into Cork pub in order to go to prison #Ireland https://t.co/Av3Zmx0UzB 
• Amateur investors are responding with outrage after trading platforms curbed buying of shares in the #US games firm GameStop and other companies https://t.co/m3TV1NuTa
• Two men who organised a mass snowball fight during the latest coronavirus lockdown have each been fined £10,000. Hundreds descended on Hyde Park in Leeds when heavy snowfall carpeted the city https://t.co/dM1k0icJE2
• Register tax advice work now or face SRA enforcement, law firms warned https://t.co/qcK6Ctj2sn
• Planning to miss UK 0.7% aid spend target is ‘unlawful,’ says former solicitor general https://t.co/f2OEs7zLEk
• Tribunal's rationale for abortion ruling published #Poland https://t.co/EbealpKU2D
• One in three police officers in England and Wales has been threatened by someone they believed had Covid-19, a survey suggests https://t.co/pNOMGdMoOh
• Worker unfairly dismissed for complaining about boss on Facebook, tribunal rules https://t.co/ugDfFu0qVt
• The government has withdrawn a social media advert urging people to "Stay Home. Save Lives" after it was criticised for stereotyping women https://t.co/n7JSswhWEF
• Rita Ora's team offered a restaurant £5,000 to break lockdown rules for her 30th birthday, according to police https://t.co/U5VcPGninp
• CPS denies major change in rape charging policy despite falling rates: Court of appeal told a shift in focus from a merits-based approach was not a ‘volte-face’ https://t.co/FkQU9N5CKM
  
• Review sites: one rant could be fatal | Law Gazette https://t.co/HIR5XVkMDO
• Sentencing guidelines to highlight disparity between BAME and white offenders | Law Gazette https://t.co/YVSXcNiMX
• Remote hearings must be public Queen’s Bench guide stresses | Law Gazette https://t.co/R4hrZqPku
• A disqualified driver who reportedly went shopping in a second-hand ambulance with the emergency lights flashing has been arrested, it arrived at the Asda store in Harpurhey on Wednesday, Greater Manchester Police said https://t.co/g8TZH1vbdi 
• Conservative MP under fire after claims he spread "dangerous misinformation" about coronavirus: Sir Desmond Swayne told an anti-lockdown group that statistics on the virus "appear to have been manipulated" https://t.co/QdcT62FBlv
• Parliament to debate call to extend SDLT holiday extension - Legal Futures https://t.co/AWEggGkY
• Lack of data leaves courts "flying blind" on impact of Covid, MPs told - Legal Futures https://t.co/rmAy3x2xUw
• Calls to LawCare about anxiety more than double - Legal Futures https://t.co/bA7Ssd1nkK
• Barrister who smacked pupil on bottom "thought she was consenting" - Legal Futures https://t.co/L6wyEJKJPD
• Europe as a Global Actor: Externalization of the EU Asylum and Migration Policies following the Arab Spring Uprisings | Berfin Nur Osso https://t.co/ODP2jhTuGA
• ULaw seeks funding injection by selling stake | Law Gazette https://t.co/AxXCUFbnYf 
• Government defends rent arrears change to evictions ban | Law Gazette https://t.co/yrUKqNafkU 
• Press privacy case heads for Supreme Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/JZFb5Wzsa8
• Cool response to Labour's seven-juror scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/U1AKFlqQI5
• Inquiry judge right to issue media ban, Court of Session hears https://t.co/YkzcBhXuIY
• England: Labour calls for jury size reduction - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KG3WLAkFYI 
• Dave Penman: Conspiracy theories have no place in Salmond commentary - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aMn7wOSuzl
• Black people over the age of 80 were half as likely as their white peers to have been vaccinated against Covid by 13 January, a large study suggests https://t.co/PTw2p2rXle
• Covid: Lockdown rule-breakers flee Cwmbran salon in police raid https://t.co/QbXlnXe0P0
  
• Clarity on Salmond inquiry - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9HPXoXewAV
• NI: Rights watchdog settles with Northern Ireland Office over election address disclosure - Irish Legal News https://t.co/GE5bZGNQEa
• Navalny protests: #Russia threatens TikTok with fines over protest posts https://t.co/B2UGKyleLb
  
• #German Lübcke trial: Far-right defendant faces killing verdict https://t.co/V2NjBpqbrI
• A child-oriented approach to data processing - Irish Legal News https://t.co/4apl5DsSNr
• Jagtar Singh Johal, a Scottish man has been held in an #Indian jail without conviction for three years has told and tortured to sign a blank confession https://t.co/7M5Xj7yrRT

28th January - Law News

Edition 3320: 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: In a country where indigenous people are increasingly displaced and journalists are killed at an alarming rate, a courageous new voice has emerged: Lupita, a Tzotzil-Maya woman​ ​at the forefront of a Mexican indigenous movement. Twenty years after Lupita lost her family in the Acteal massacre in southern Mexico, she has become a spokesperson for her people​ and for a new generation of Mayan activists. She balances the demands of motherhood with her high-stakes efforts to re-educate and restore justice to the world,

 Focus of the Day Article: The alarmingly high number of women and children supported by domestic abuse charities ‘barely scratches the surface’, the Court of Appeal has been told on the last day of a groundbreaking case that is expected to result in fresh guidance being issued to family judges. Over the course of three days last week, Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family division, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Holroyde heard four linked appeals related to family proceedings involving the welfare of children. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Man who held judge up with fake pistol and hoax bomb jailed for six years - Irish Legal News https://t.co/sRu6n8Fiq
• Progress in Irish prisons at risk of being reversed - Irish Legal News https://t.co/lg7TAbJGD
• Footage shows officer 'rammed' off motorbike in Oldbury - A banned driver in a stolen car who drove into a police officer on his motorbike has been detained for three years at a young offender's institute https://t.co/MCxi2QXPJ
• The Legacy Of The ‘Forgotten’ Holocaust: ‘Anti-Roma Racism Is Still Acceptable’ https://t.co/CpHO9ze4
• Scottish mountain hares gain greater legal protection - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/z338UMG0
• Miller Hendry announces trio of promotions in Perth and Dundee - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Bj4exnPGN
• Tenant of burned down storage unit at former turkey farm fails to establish damages claim - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/p7PDqrMNG
• New legal advice clinic offers support to children and young people in care - Irish Legal News https://t.co/bphFat8vb
• LeO "needs external help" to speed up complaints handling - Legal Futures https://t.co/fu44IqHw8
• “Inept” solicitor transferred money in breach of court order - Legal Futures https://t.co/eQ48dXE6v
• Supreme Court to consider costs orders against regulators - Legal Futures https://t.co/ALIJojRyvd 
• ABS offers “litigation concession” inside law firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/vKVbGMuuY9 
• Supreme Court: Hospital can withhold life-sustaining treatment for critically-injured boy against wishes of parents - Irish Legal News https://t.co/PldkHYaBsH
• Philippa Day: Authorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were cut, made 28 errors in managing her case, a coroner has found https://t.co/Zo1VjnXzN
• Litigation funding does not drive families apart | Law Gazette https://t.co/H0mqpEjdz6
• The Wildlife Trusts is to take legal action against the UK government over its decision to allow a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU https://t.co/gihR8MrCLB
• Thousands have been refused funding to self-isolate. No wonder Covid is rampant https://t.co/8AFrlQTo29
• Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was an FBI informant - Extremist leader repeatedly worked undercover for investigators after his arrest in 2012, former prosecutor and court files reveal #US https://t.co/DkT2wtMtP
• Hospital incursions by Covid deniers putting lives at risk, say health leaders https://t.co/07WVfkzUH
• Here are five ways the government could have avoided 100,000 Covid deaths https://t.co/GPmrrCrDQi
  
• Garry Kasparov urges UK to impose sanctions on oligarchs close to Putin #Russia https://t.co/zWQWjWDc1W
• Facebook apologises for Plymouth Hoe 'error' https://t.co/NJruhhAf5
• Retention rates high at magic circle firms | Law Gazette https://t.co/u6lA6Rwwcq
• 16-year-old boy sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told "we don't want your coronavirus in our country". Jonathan Mok was beaten up on Oxford Street last February by a group of boys in an "unprovoked attack" https://t.co/avUAjn6p2s
• People wishing to travel out of the UK will first be required to declare their reason for travel and prove it is essential, the home secretary has said https://t.co/w6BLIVLA5D
• Director threatened to expose opposition witness as benefit cheat | Law Gazette https://t.co/VR2t6WJVN2
• Department store law? Firms given chance to host litigation concessions | Law Gazette https://t.co/2r85o7rM5t
• 'Exempt from disclosure': MoD refuses to reveal public law review submission | Law Gazette https://t.co/bTlREucZ8T
• BORDERS, (IR-)REGULARITY, & ASYLUM: a study of the external dimensions of European approaches to asylum seekers and their irregularity | Julianna Nielsen https://t.co/UibwJ2IEzD
• The limit on a single payment using contactless technology could rise to £100 - more than double the current limit https://t.co/HKTPmmNHYY
• Euston tunnel protesters: HS2 begins eviction https://t.co/MnLvG4418W
• Wrexham vaccine plant evacuated over suspicious package https://t.co/WUJhUgF4ap
• AstraZeneca-EU row escalates over vaccine shortage https://t.co/w2wctQpzt5
• "A legacy of poor decisions" by the UK before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said https://t.co/3Yo8gn1wl3
  
• Schools in England will not be able to open after the half-term break next month but could begin to return from 8 March, the prime minister has said https://t.co/ae11uJrzY
• Barrister suspended for unwanted 'sexual touching' | Law Gazette https://t.co/9lm4Sqpfrr
• Magistrates' courts to be sprayed with ‘antiviral mist’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/svWUi6zKZ3
• #France: Landmark court case seeks compensation for Vietnamese victim of Agent Orange - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BF54lIdJJ2
• #US: Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani faces $1.3bn lawsuit over election claims - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BNwEZiao39
• England: Magistrates’ retirement age to be raised to 75 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/URoY5hb808
• Stirling Law School partners with Ashurst - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SjuiHpD2tN
• HMRC waives late tax return penalties until end of February - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gVYCq1uAV
• Clyde & Co welcomes 300 to virtual Burns Night - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/U4U1ns6FXS
• UK Covid hotel quarantine system to target travellers from high-risk areas - Priti Patel to announce plans in House of Commons after ministers reject blanket policy https://t.co/2UpYE27B1
• CPS accused of 'systemic illegality' in charging rape cases. Changes in policy since 2016 have led to an overly risk-averse approach, court of appeal hears https://t.co/Qz1NIDrSG
• Four in ten Irish businesses did not update cookie policies last year - Irish Legal News https://t.co/bK743PMQm
• Man held up judge and lawyer in terrifiying siege - Irish Legal News https://t.co/MxReVQu3IL 
• Goldman Sachs' chief executive David Solomon will get a $10m (£7.3m) pay cut for the bank's involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal https://t.co/10wsrPDwz7
• The rise in mediation and remote mediations during Covid-19 restrictions - Irish Legal News https://t.co/j2JhjmXfjm
• Insurers defend covering ransomware payments https://t.co/uyir0t1dIP
• FLAC Traveller Legal Service wins maximum payout for woman discriminated against by hotel - Irish Legal News https://t.co/qsyPkiDzXV
• Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the "gravest crisis" in the justice system since World War Two https://t.co/ksjXASdrBs
  
• Victims lose average of £45,000 in investment scams https://t.co/B48ayAciqY

27th January - Law News

Edition 3319: 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: Many of the journalists who reported on the truth of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, are now being targeted by Beijing - something China has denied.

 Focus of the Day Article: Shadow Lord Chancellor David Lammy yesterday condemned the barrister at the centre of a racism row over his comments about the Equality Act “empowering the stroppy teenager of colour”. Mr Lammy said: “What a pathetic response from a barrister. No one should be discriminated against because of their race, or because their hair is different. You shame the Bar and undermine your profession.”. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Supreme Court issues 'very significant' ruling on right of parents and children - Irish Legal News https://t.co/cgXHs82YP
• Best of the blogs - 23 January 2021 | Law Gazette https://t.co/oZi3qdn1
• YouTube extends ban on Trump amid concerns about further violence - After review, platform continues indefinite suspension that prevents the former #US president from posting https://t.co/J9s2AioFIp
• Lawyer in the news: Robert Pocknell, Keystone Law - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/yTD1rm1zg
• UK government backs birth control for grey squirrels https://t.co/YlMnT3lU0O
• My legal life: Wendy Lloyd-Goodwin, 360 Law Group - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/ajNsthtQnx
  
• This is no time to review reserved activities | Law Gazette https://t.co/vuQ4rELwn
• London’s lead in litigation 'still under threat' | Law Gazette https://t.co/GdafCzFQq7
• Gay dating app Grindr fined £8.6m in #Norway over sharing personal information - Fine from by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority is 10% of Grindr’s global annual revenue https://t.co/gHhBpSatVB
• Madrid feminist mural saved from removal attempt by far right: Artwork celebrating pioneering women saved after city councillors step in to stop Vox party motion #Spain https://t.co/qazu7QCHlC
• #Ireland is repeating its mother and baby home scandal with its asylum system https://t.co/04OHt40DT
• #Iran says it has arrested a US-Iranian dual national facing spying charges who attempted to leave the country. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili did not identify the man, but said he "had been free on bail https://t.co/p5ag87drD
• Changes were made to rape prosecution policy that led to a "shocking" fall in offences before courts in England and Wales, the Court of Appeal has heard https://t.co/Y68tMUCNn
• Covid-19: Met Police officers in haircut lockdown breach - Two officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said https://t.co/z71myusDV
• More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls? https://t.co/ItK1ajpHZ
• People campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp https://t.co/Hgo587BAhE
• New ID card will allow solicitors to bypass security queues | Law Gazette https://t.co/chThwlJU5
• SRA on rack over costs again as scrutiny builds | Law Gazette https://t.co/0mVxw6aKwU
• Rape victims' battles with CPS: 'I don’t have words for how betrayed I feel' - Four women describe their traumatic interactions with the Crown Prosecution Service https://t.co/2YEbtKDap
• #Canadian mogul fined after getting Covid vaccine meant for Indigenous residents https://t.co/ePQ0E3eSEG
• EU citizens offered financial incentives to leave UK - European nationals added to voluntary returns scheme, which can include flights and up to £2,000 for resettlement https://t.co/8QVeHeNpax
  
• Rape victims speak out ahead of legal challenge to CPS policy: Court of appeal hearing comes amid record low in rape prosecutions in England and Wales https://t.co/TYJOkZIRtf
• Thousands of farmers protesting at hard-right BJP government's agriculture reforms have fought through police barricades and tear gas to enter Delhi's historic Red Fort complex #India https://t.co/e5DtkEw9
• Chambers condemns barrister's 'stroppy teenager of colour' tweet | Law Gazette https://t.co/zCrlzObrE
• The voices of survivors of mother-and-baby homes in NI will be heard "loudly and clearly" with a new independent investigation, Arlene Foster has said https://t.co/mXqGyDFiPV
• Scottish government advisers recommend full devolution of equality legislation and policy - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/H8oEOHiKzT
• Andrew Diamond appointed chairman of ESPC - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7GnRtrhQ0w 
• Glasgow murderer who killed man with machete outside pub loses appeal against conviction - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mMixWwDPrE
• Are we putting court users in harm’s way? | Law Gazette https://t.co/6qaVUMVGKx
• Solicitor banned for part in legal aid translation fee fraud | Law Gazette https://t.co/GxFdUhKCsT 
• City firms publish toolkit on tackling racism | Law Gazette https://t.co/avgfYNB7d
• Oldham school to withdraw places for lockdown-breach pupils - Yew Tree Community School in Oldham said several children had admitted visiting friends, neighbours and family contrary to Covid-19 lockdown rules https://t.co/UvgWDvMX7
• Off-shoring and Out-sourcing the Borders of Europe: Libya and EU Border Work in the Mediterranean | Luiza Bialasiewicz https://t.co/MFWRbyL4s
• CoA reserves judgment in groundbreaking domestic abuse case | Law Gazette https://t.co/CFn0ptApC8
  
• Everything has changed. Nothing has changed - Legal Futures https://t.co/1mmgrK7keO
• Competition hots up to become standard software for in-house teams - Legal Futures https://t.co/V0Fx5OmYY
• Lammy wades in over barrister's "shameful" tweet - Legal Futures https://t.co/MSoFnPst3v
• Legal executive threatened witness in holiday sickness case - Legal Futures https://t.co/MUa726fS7C
• Poor white teenagers in England's former industrial towns and those living on the coast are among the least likely to go to university, warns the watchdog for fair access https://t.co/jmI8IwFA
• Co-op and Morrisons see queues over payments outage https://t.co/PO4ljpOs3
• City veteran Tony Guise struck off over dishonest transfers | Law Gazette https://t.co/H7oDmuV1EQ
• Distinguished advocates to share career advice with law students - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vYqUVEvJGC
• Jodi Gordon, partner at Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland) LLP, comments on the development of remote hearings during the Covid-19 pandemic - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/86tru6a13
• DLA Piper Scotland to relaunch gender balance network - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LzLAz1NSrE
• Salmond inquiry reflects poorly on Scotland’s democratic traditions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Urh932wI4L
• KPMG: Scottish insolvencies remain low as support measures offer short-term lifeline - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/eV9syAXqgD
• ESPC reveals top-selling areas in Edinburgh, Lothians, Fife and Borders in 2020 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mS4rc9Q734
• Legal academic Professor Jonathan Fitchen has passed away just a week following his promotion to personal chair at the University of Aberdeen https://t.co/S4Hiu7oI4
• Shoosmiths has paid tribute to its former head of real estate Steve Dougherty, who passed away last week at the age of 59 following a battle with cancer https://t.co/RGgIgU7XM
• Terrorism watchdog to open inquiry into radicalisation in prison: Prison officers have suffered a ‘steady drumbeat’ of attacks by terrorists, says Jonathan Hall QC https://t.co/tvrsB5ZJa
• Riot police in the #Netherlands have again clashed with protesters defying a curfew, following a weekend of unrest. More than 150 people were arrested https://t.co/oh36YZu28u
• Police have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA veteran in Londonderry https://t.co/UvfM3ySLEK
• Brexit parcel price shock: 'I had to pay £30 for a gift' https://t.co/SxARribCu
• The EU has warned it will tighten rules on exports of Covid vaccines, amid a row with AstraZeneca over a cut in planned supplies to the 27-member bloc https://t.co/iKwCj8YeKO
• Grief, anger and a curfew as #Pakistani activist Karima Baloch buried: Family of women’s rights advocate, found dead in Canadian lake, call for police to reopen investigation https://t.co/8BG7h53IZH