16th May - Law News

Edition 3428: 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: CEO of Associated Press ‘shocked, horrified’ over Israeli attack on Gaza bureau. Building in Gaza housing media outlets destroyed by targeted Israeli military strike. A building that has housed international media offices including Al Jazeera’s in the Gaza Strip was hit by an Israeli air strike that totally demolished the structure.

 

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Martin Minton joins Morton Fraser’s agricultural and rural team - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bFNeeCr6E8
  
• Confidence up as small and medium firms report strong first quarter | Law Gazette https://t.co/otzxuDTW7Z 
• High Court: DPP restrained from prosecuting assault committed by a 17-year-old due to prosecutorial delay - Irish Legal News https://t.co/yCJPjKDpW5
• Thousands of people have marched through central London in support of the Palestinians amid ongoing fighting between Israel and militants in Gaza https://t.co/IIdihp2LZL 
• Showing Little Contrition, David Cameron Faces U.K. Parliament in Lobbying Scandal https://t.co/rpocWGQNMF
  
• Some 60 law firms were forced to close last year because they were unable to obtain professional indemnity insurance (PI) | NLJ https://t.co/T8TKUxouuS
• Man hospitalised after attack inside Criminal Courts of Justice - Irish Legal News https://t.co/5bi3B8h2x2
• Eleven charged after fight breaks out at Luton Airport https://t.co/G66DQMysnW
• A universal basic income scheme is to be trialled in Wales, meaning adults, regardless of their means, will receive a regular sum of money https://t.co/IR5IWmBtLk
• Covid contracts: Home Secretary Priti Patel has been accused of lobbying a fellow minister on behalf of a healthcare firm trying to get a government contract https://t.co/YZBIZVnyPf
• NI: Carson McDowell signs up to Mindful Business Charter - Irish Legal News https://t.co/zSAKWQfsyz
  
• Sir Julian Flaux, Chancellor of the High Court has issued a practice note confirming the process to be followed for witnesses giving evidence remotely from a foreign jurisdiction | NLJ https://t.co/w5AhL103t
• Defence lawyers are to boycott courts on Monday due to a dispute with the Scottish government over legal aid funding - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ky5Uzt0TZ4
• Asylum seekers to be able to open accounts with any retail bank - Irish Legal News https://t.co/f4CDMqnXse
  
• Iranian asylum seeker cleared of Channel smuggling charges https://t.co/gZ0SffvbNa 
• Court cracks down on ‘Traveller injunctions’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/VixLKS7Txj
• ‘Bodies are being eaten by hyenas; girls of eight raped’: inside the Tigray conflict #Ethiopia https://t.co/zpUSa1IJMl 
• Barrister fined for talking to other side’s client at home | Law Gazette https://t.co/dQaslcdBqw 
• Boris Johnson’s county court judgment actually made me feel sorry for him https://t.co/lgUZgeM8QN 
• Views sought on ethnic minority experiences in law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/I4aQAccMw1
• Irish lawyer Aedamar Comiskey elected to lead Linklaters LLP - Irish Legal News https://t.co/9uHJ4Eo4fO 
• The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) has warned that its lawyers are abandoning criminal legal aid work because they no longer see it as a sustainable career path | NLJ https://t.co/80Wrd4X81E 
• Woman to make mortgage payments until 90 after landmark PIA case - Irish Legal News https://t.co/PrH9w47fAx 
• Young Ugandans are being brutally oppressed. They must be allowed a voice https://t.co/09ptybdTi4 
• A woman who allegedly posed as a school student to promote her Instagram account has been charged with trespassing - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lSLIgPI9Gh
  
• Probate boss banned after accepting £20,000 from 92-year-old client | Law Gazette https://t.co/QOZhph8Dmz 
• The last remaining Debenhams are closing their doors on Saturday, more than 240 years after the department store began trading - a tale of incompetent managers, poor recruitment and venture capitalist greed https://t.co/MyrqeoYNIX 
• A 17-year-old from Ivory Coast has shared her incredible story of being rescued after spending three weeks adrift at sea https://t.co/TuBLi6uZEs 
• Pokémon card sales at major #US retailer halted over security fears https://t.co/aPLxJTzNIS 
• NI: Dr Joan Martin appointed as lay member to NIJAC - Irish Legal News https://t.co/5P6grJ7vwz 
• Indian Covid variant: How much faster does it spread? Should a 50% faster spreading rate be taken seriously? https://t.co/ila9qS28eg 
• People eligible for a vaccine in areas where the Indian virus variant is circulating are being urged to get the jab. There had been a "minor increase" in hospital presentations mainly among 35-65 year olds who were unvaccinated in Bolton https://t.co/YfHnLE3hTj
  
• The Bar Council has slammed radical Home Office proposals to reform immigration law as based on ‘thin or non-existent’ evidence | NLJ https://t.co/FWnI4g3UHu 
• Crown court backlog starts to stabilise | Law Gazette https://t.co/A3r9EFYIp7
  
• Europe’s Refugee Crisis: Right-Wing Populism and Mainstream Cooption in Germany and France | Jihan Abdalla https://t.co/Mzpxt7FmgS
  
• Judge Delays Trial for Other Officers Charged in Killing of George Floyd #US https://t.co/G7UkO3bJSq
• Advisory panel to prepare housing market for commonhold | Law Gazette https://t.co/oIteT7ERex 
• ‘Presenteeism is a curse’: Cherie Blair backs flexible working post-pandemic | Law Gazette https://t.co/t9yD7EAh0y 
• SCTS details level 2 court changes - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uoasLIPW7U 
• Denmark has been ordered to pay indemnity costs to more than 90 defendants after losing its claim for recovery of more than £1.5bn lost in an alleged dividend trading fraud | NLJ https://t.co/dJKdSKRnCT 
• NI: Agricultural Wages Board to be scrapped under proposed legislation - Irish Legal News https://t.co/K467dNbMrk 
• Activists and Ex-Spy Said to Have Plotted to Discredit Trump ‘Enemies’ in Government #US https://t.co/0NNomR086K 
• Three in 10 Covid prosecutions wrongly charged | Law Gazette https://t.co/pqKNs6wh2C 
• Being available to work while on holiday sets a bad example | Law Gazette https://t.co/OIvDVS8Sp9
• A senior international judge will deliver this year’s Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Roebuck Lecture as a free-to-attend, virtual event available to all | NLJ https://t.co/AXuBMe3wKJ 
• CMS hosts seminar to support Scottish hospitality sector reopening - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KYKpWfqVOH 
• OFX promotes Cian Duane to partner - Irish Legal News https://t.co/jWzhHV58Lx

15th May - Law News

Edition 3427: 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: "Indian states have demanded that the vaccine strategy should be decentralised, but unfortunately they don't have the infrastructure to handle a decentralised system," says Chandrakumar Bose, senior BJP leader, on Covid vaccination drive.

 

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• NI: Home Office asylum plans will place vulnerable children in 'extreme danger' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Oy5Q1YQOQT 
• Glasgow and Moray will remain under level three Covid restrictions for at least another week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced https://t.co/ecOHf7YWyD 
• Keystone chief cashes in £9.5m of shares | Law Gazette https://t.co/o6qUd3nZUw 
• Clydebank High welcomes Lord Reed - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KqZoPzlIDW 
• PI solicitor turned ‘wilful blind eye’ to suspicious RTA claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/abvrdlREup
• British tourists will be allowed to enter Portugal from next Monday, the Portuguese authorities have announced https://t.co/3iIs6fpwRM 
• The Indian variant could pose "serious disruption" to lockdown easing in England on 21 June, Boris Johnson says https://t.co/XEJUjT0kea
• Malicious Prosecution Scandal: Duff and Phelps sues Lord Advocate for £25m - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/U8TYMGlF7e
  
• Law Societies condemn Chinese sanctions against lawyers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1S0akx5SNl 
• Highland property owner fails to appeal refusal of judicial review petition against ratings authority - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8B6Y3wfesg
• Protections for whistleblowers to be strengthened - Irish Legal News https://t.co/XfngrFFuNF 
• ‘Barbaric’ Home Office condemned over Glasgow immigration raid - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/E4HAKDTr53 
• Lawyers appointed to construction adjudication panel - Irish Legal News https://t.co/EtKzLmYDDA
  
• Both the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Bar Standards Board (BSB) are this year changing their approach to recording the sex and gender identity of those they regulate, it has emerged - Legal Futures https://t.co/097N2d4JHK 
• Buckland urged to retain choice for court-assessed legal aid bills | Law Gazette https://t.co/51ItZQyw4E
• A quarter of small and mid-sized law firms have either downsized their office space this year or expect to shortly, according to Law Society research - Legal Futures https://t.co/Opzkepeqtf 
• Actor Kevin Guthrie has been jailed for three years for sexually assaulting a woman at a flat in Glasgow. The Sunshine on Leith star, 33, had denied the charge and told Glasgow Sheriff Court he had only "helped" the woman after she fell ill https://t.co/tE4Z2LbGv
• People in Wales will be able to travel to a small number of countries without quarantine from Monday - but are being asked not to go. From Monday, Wales will adopt the "traffic-light" system, allowing the resumption of international travel https://t.co/66D9NKs77S 
• Non-solicitors sanctioned by SRA for range of misconduct - Legal Futures https://t.co/Iyw3alsusG 
• SLN Interview: Professor Hector MacQueen - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mCINEb7Tu6 
• Barrister reprimanded for talking to lay opponent without their lawyer - Legal Futures https://t.co/OEkMuDCf0q
  
• Reality TV star Stephen Bear has been charged with sharing sexual images. The 31-year-old, of Loughton, Essex, faces allegations of voyeurism, disclosing private, sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress and harassment without violence https://t.co/50U89W0uC5
• The business empire of Liberty Steel owner Sanjeev Gupta is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office over suspected fraudulent trading and money laundering, including its financing arrangements with failed company Greensill Capital UK https://t.co/atB0RDKmml 
• NI: Shoosmiths joins Hydrogen NI as founding member - Irish Legal News https://t.co/2QPPhJoCmm
• #Colombia's Police spent decades fighting left-wing guerrillas and paramilitaries. Now, they’re cracking down on protesters, and igniting a wider demonstration movement in response https://t.co/ZQVGdCKSVx 
• One in four ready to quit family law - survey | Law Gazette https://t.co/6OH13D6l9Y 
• ‘Weak’ US let #Saudis jail more dissidents, says rights group Guardian https://t.co/7sRxMcBTfZ 
• Rioting and mob violence between Arabs and Jews tore through towns and cities across #Israel. Rockets from Gaza and Israeli airstrikes continued to kill civilians https://t.co/OhwLqnu5dw 
• Families call for public inquiry into Scottish Covid-19 care home deaths - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GxIF3rAgAP
  
• Government accused of rushing immigration reforms | Law Gazette https://t.co/hgGyRfvCux 
• Southern Border (of México?): disputed territories, megaprojects and (im) mobilities | Sergio Prieto Díaz https://t.co/LWFjP6VKZS
  
• Is the Facebook Oversight Board an International Human Rights Tribunal? https://t.co/K0KpEghEHy 
• Burness Paull set to lead on energy transition with appointment of Bob Ruddiman - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AfyempPQuL 
• Unite and blogger must pay £1.3m libel case costs to ex-Labour MP. Judge orders union and Stephen Walker to pay up after they were sued by Anna Turley in 2019 https://t.co/5VvPDnNXpJ 
• Top-200 firms agree merger to create £65m a year business | Law Gazette https://t.co/d4ATqIDE8f 
• NI: High Court: Judicial review refused for solicitor who challenged referral to Disciplinary Tribunal for financial irregularities - Irish Legal News https://t.co/iytVL83XId 
• Independence bill question ‘far from settled’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3Yie1ARjAx 
• ‘No legal basis’ for Lugano rebuff, says lord chancellor | Law Gazette https://t.co/ymI4RLXnqA 
• Phil Shiner let his moral crusade cloud his duties as a lawyer | Law Gazette https://t.co/YHI084xUnj 
• Lawyer calls for legal action over UK driving licence block in #France https://t.co/9n4fZ9UHTo 
• Delhi Police action meant to divert attention from core issues: Kalra lawyer #India https://t.co/FTdhk8N51k 
• #Canada must not extradite Diab regardless of coming French court decision: lawyer https://t.co/HiNpgLQhEB 
• National Security and Investment Act 2021 https://t.co/dq2FnWqEg7 
• Sheriff finds post-nuptial agreement between divorcing American ex-NASA employees unenforceable - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Jf5GVp8Ocn 
• Campus free speech law in England ‘likely to have opposite effect’ https://t.co/weJx6mYWof 
• UK legal industry turnover surges to new record - Sector-wide billings rise 30% in March to reach an all-time high of £4.06bn | The Global Legal Post https://t.co/yFagKvKt5h

14th May - Law News

Edition 3426: 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 this episode of Modern Masculinity, journalist Iman Amrani speaks to Chris, who after being diagnosed with schizophrenia spent a long time in the mental health system. They discuss medication, frustration at the system, and the importance of being listened to and heard. Dr Rufus May, a clinical psychologist, speaks about how he worked with Chris and other patients to show compassion and empathy, and how this can help people with mental health issues navigate society

 

  Focus of the Day Article:

Ex-Gibson Dunn Dubai partner struck off for deliberately misleading London's High Court. Peter Gray found to have acted dishonestly in 'ill-tempered and hard fought' Djibouti litigation. Full story - The Global Legal Post

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Brodies advises on hotel deals worth in excess of £1 billion - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Wikud49cnF
  
• Ex-City partner struck off for misleading court and opposing solicitors https://t.co/kAoebjsCZy 
• Medics can use force to take a pregnant woman who has agoraphobia to hospital to give birth, a judge has ruled. The 21-year-old has an "overwhelming" fear of leaving her home, the Court of Protection in London heard https://t.co/LBq6YSebrm
• Councils could have to issue up to 3.5m ID cards for voters under new bill https://t.co/0gXZVRgyz6
• Pinsent Masons rolls out equality law practice in Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3iG0vnfqdI
• An e-fit picture has been released by police as they try to find the mother of a newborn baby boy found in a park. The infant, named George by hospital staff, was found clothed in a blanket on 22 April at The Mounds in Kings Norton, Birmingham https://t.co/zaB4AAilco
• Two men who were being detained in an immigration van which was surrounded by protesters have been released. The move followed a standoff between police officers and protesters in Kenmure Street on Glasgow's southside https://t.co/CEQAMHPIgd 
• The UK's top intelligence agency did not consider a convicted terrorist a risk, an inquest court has heard https://t.co/7VWTgIaZuQ
• Linklaters elects first female senior partner | Law Gazette https://t.co/PQXtixR4rV
  
• Travel companies have been warned they must be ready to refund consumers if foreign holidays are cancelled by the coronavirus pandemic this summer https://t.co/t4fLItCC67
• MacRoberts focuses on agile working in Edinburgh office move - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/emtAfYgETE
• A Metropolitan Police officer who pretended to stop and search drug dealers so he could steal their money has been jailed for eight years. Kashif Mahmood seized hundreds of thousands of pounds for an organised crime gang controlled from Dubai https://t.co/BliZj83wxF
  
• Online safety bill: a messy new minefield in the culture wars https://t.co/bkENYUczTX 
• People aged 18 and over in parts of Lancashire are to be offered Covid vaccines due to concerns about levels of the Indian variant of the virus. The jabs are to be offered to people in and around Blackburn and Darwen https://t.co/XvleJOoiIr
• Solicitor turned "wilful blind eye" to highly suspicious PI claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/5N9kohSdfh 
• Cruel, paranoid, failing: inside the Home Office: Something is badly wrong at the heart of one of Britain’s most important ministries. How did it become so broken? https://t.co/jcV6CIx9IAreet. One man is lying under the vehicle, on Kenmure Street in Pollokshields, while hundreds of people sit around the van and stand on the road https://t.co/CEQAMHPIg
• Forensic archaeologists have begun examining a cafe basement in the search for suspected Fred West victim, Mary Bastholm. The 15-year-old, who worked at the cafe in Southgate Street, Gloucester, went missing in the city on 6 January 1968 https://t.co/o7f3dujVtp
• Downing Street has succeeded in getting a county court judgement against Boris Johnson struck out, the BBC understands. The court order was registered against the prime minister over an alleged unpaid debt of £535 https://t.co/0UNzs7JGR
• Housing lawyers warn over tenants' rights reforms | Law Gazette https://t.co/8wCRu3FIP9
• Scottish Water fined for Fife pollution - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lavBtvw8e
• Regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. - Irish Legal News https://t.co/6AfTiiaqTl 
• Court places no limit on defence costs in failed Danish tax claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/zxpJRXnsOw
  
• Adopted people to gain legal right to access birth certificates - Irish Legal News https://t.co/024Tb8EFOI
  
• Boss of listed law firm cashes in nearly £10m worth of shares - Legal Futures https://t.co/xU919bMS3h
• Blanket bans on camping by Gypsies and Travellers ruled illegal at high court https://t.co/uBCUchSmU5
• "Hopelessly complicated" whiplash portal guide slammed - Legal Futures https://t.co/riCyuoP77G
• State agencies and NGOs to gain role in identifying victims of human trafficking - Irish Legal News https://t.co/RRPYMxUyqO
• Small firms increasingly worried by competition from online providers - Legal Futures https://t.co/6vdg5KxGJu
  
• Glasgow School of Law to host Human Rights Act event - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YWOVZBz9UM
• Law firm leadership post-pandemic - a huge opportunity - Legal Futures https://t.co/Q6vLB7Ix89 
• Nokia to score panel firms on diversity progress | Law Gazette https://t.co/8WvOMnPiHn
• Court orders retrial after ‘inexcusable’ judgment delay | Law Gazette https://t.co/yyU5OSZcDI 
• ‘Staggering’ Legal Fees in Boy Scouts Bankruptcy Case #US https://t.co/HiCodCs6ZT 
• Seven charged after mummified body of cult leader found in Colorado home #US https://t.co/Ud4GS44id4
• Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings in UK law https://t.co/A00sYhn0a3 
• Former politician Michelle Mulherin returns to legal practice - Irish Legal News https://t.co/6tFAv9hck0 
• Amazon has won a court battle over €250m (£215m) in taxes it had been ordered to pay Luxembourg. The European Commission had ordered the tech giant to repay the funds as back taxes, alleging that Amazon had been given unfair special treatment https://t.co/Tjr8hnklWb 
• Bill to allow for rescue of small companies without court application to be drafted as priority - Irish Legal News https://t.co/4zYepMVwLo 
• Uyghur imams targeted in #China's Xinjiang crackdown https://t.co/6obTb26JJT 
• What is going on between Israel and the Palestinians? https://t.co/hJ2oE4kla
• Northern delights: Norway solicitors highest paid in Europe | Law Gazette https://t.co/saT5nnRLwh
  
• Court of Appeal: Plaintiff ordered to pay differential costs and appeal costs after damages were reduced by court - Irish Legal News https://t.co/XJlRJVcIvO
  
• Cross-party MPs aim to force government to rectify rights breaches - Stella Creasy and David Davis leading attempt to protect at-risk women and extend bereavement benefits to unmarried parents https://t.co/6xlnqvlFt9
• Queen’s speech: bill to raise judicial retirement age | Law Gazette https://t.co/lYefYzT8ZW
• In Rebuke to N.R.A., Federal Judge Dismisses Bankruptcy Case #US https://t.co/QM25MYx8Ob 
• Met officer stole drugs money in fake police raids, court hears | https://t.co/OlFmheY96M
• A defendant in a criminal case has been sharply rebuked by a #US judge after logging into a remote court hearing with the offensive name “Buttf*cker 3000” - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KbvoTuI2Bc 
• Infections, deaths and breakdowns that began in big #Indian cities a few weeks ago are rapidly advancing into rural areas, unleashing deep fear in places with little medical safety net https://t.co/rAMzM98Na4
• Police hunt man who tried to frame person for Westminster terror attack - Gerald Banyard found guilty of perverting course of justice over attack by Khalid Masood in 2017 https://t.co/GcYMJSe3E6 
• Republican senators criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention policies and funding at a hearing on Tuesday. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci had a particularly fiery exchange with Senator Rand Paul #US https://t.co/0QrkwAsbmD 
• Are billable hours the elephant in the room for wellbeing? | Law Gazette https://t.co/u82K9uHFjI 
• Climate activists bring legal challenge over UK oil and gas strategy https://t.co/eKqNVFVH51 
• Benjamin Bestgen, the author of our jurisprudential primer series, reflects on a year of his articles – from their inception in far-flung New Zealand to their conclusion in besieged Jersey - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7q5IXPsf8U

13th May - Law News

Edition 3425: 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: Women's safety get federal budget funding boost in Australia, but some say it's not enough. The budget includes billions of dollars for measures amid at improving women's safety and economic security, but will the money go far enough?

 

  Focus of the Day Article:

The Home Office appears to be stepping on the Ministry of Justice’s toes by consulting on extending fixed recoverable costs in immigration judicial reviews, public law specialists have suggested. Priti Patel’s department says it is rarely able to recover costs in immigration-related JRs and wants them to fall under the scope of fixed recoverable costs, which would specify the amount that the winning party can recover. The proposal appears in the Home Office’s New Plan for Immigration consultation, which largely ran at the same time the Ministry of Justice was consulting on proposed JR reforms. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The #Irish parliament has heard how Facebook moderators viewed graphic content up to eight hours a day. Law firm Foxglove and the Communication Workers Union, representing moderators, called for better psychological support and freedom to speak out https://t.co/WqOFLx566x 
• High Court: Extradition application to Poland refused on the basis of abuse of process by authorities - Irish Legal News https://t.co/RUHICKU9WB
  
• Motherwell commercial landlord fails to establish continuation of lease by tacit relocation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1ecyBTCxYS
  
• Session Cases At 200: Strang v McIntosh 1 S 1 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/p603YYR2Tp
  
• OECD calls for stronger inheritance tax regime to address inequality - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BKTeVeUGCi
  
• Nokia to score panel firms quarterly on equality, inclusion and diversity - Legal Futures https://t.co/GJu8Qh0M17 
• Commercial court to return to in-person trials – except on Fridays | Law Gazette https://t.co/bVr2bQyPMt 
• Two transgender women in #Cameroon have been sentenced to five years in jail for contravening homosexuality laws. Their lawyers say they were found guilty of "attempting homosexuality" as well as outraging public decency and problems with their ID cards https://t.co/CWTlGEDIzj
  
• Bolton has one of the highest instances of the Indian variant in the UK and is seeing a particularly sharp rise in cases among unvaccinated under-25s https://t.co/XvAV9d16xl 
• Why law? Legal expertise is invaluable across a wide range of industries. There is no shortage of places to study law in Ireland https://t.co/KGif3Mpzlm
• CILEX lawyers turning away from criminal work, government warned - Legal Futures https://t.co/o1pCpljNLp
  
• Former diplomat Craig Murray has been jailed for eight months after failing to protect the identities of complainers in the Alex Salmond trial - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HpFlqY4NGg 
• PM 'apologises for events in Ballymurphy' in 1971 https://t.co/QIj36Eo9l
• Scottish government treats criminal lawyers with contempt again - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hFR4PgjhMJ
  
• EasyJet and Tui will begin offering holidays to countries classified as amber, despite government advice remaining not to travel for leisure https://t.co/Dp5XmNza5k
• Prominent Banbridge solicitor Arthur J. Downey has passed away. A graduate of Queen’s University Belfast, Mr Downey qualified as a solicitor in 1978 and founded Arthur J. Downey Solicitors in 1981 - Irish Legal News https://t.co/bh5vWlc5Ne
• A barrister suing her chambers and Stonewall has told counsel for the LGBT charity to “reflect on her ethics” after the latter engaged with her on Twitter - Legal Futures https://t.co/OmXDzr4V3o 
• Solicitor who deliberately misled High Court struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/nc9YRaVbE7 
• Twenty-nine charged in connection with sexual exploitation and rape of a girl over a seven-year period. The offences are said to have taken place in and around Calderdale and Bradford between 2003 and 2010 when the victim was aged between 13 and 20 https://t.co/wplipFHBUX 
• Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader convicted of genocide during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, is to serve the rest of his life sentence in a British jail https://t.co/J0FHqzW144 
• Downing Street is seeking to cancel a county court judgment against Prime Minister Boris Johnson that cites an unpaid bill of £535 https://t.co/7wLeZX2iiU 
• Hogan Lovells mourns London partner | Law Gazette https://t.co/dvRpe48hOP
  
• 49% of Conveyancers surveyed have seen colleagues leave the profession in the last 6 months https://t.co/ktRFvh8KDi 
• Barrister-led PI firm joins forces with national solicitors practice | Law Gazette https://t.co/g74zLFEk0b 
• A New Mandatory UK Foreign Direct Investment Regime Gets Royal Assent: The Five Key Things You Need to Know https://t.co/Os4sGOsYDa 
• England and Wales: Government considering national repository of written judgments - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lJchkYHKWu 
• The Post Office scandal – part 2 https://t.co/nYhDcQYz4N
  
• NI: Quigg Golden directors become Edwards & Co partners in new strategic partnership - Irish Legal News https://t.co/GjUyukkMAQ
• Court of Appeal sheds further light on copyright law in relation to hyperlinking https://t.co/a8RMHxPTo4 
• Sebastian Hon, a Constitutional lawyer and Senior Advocate of #Nigeria, (SAN) says that the realization of financial independence of the judiciary lies solely with the Federal Government and not on any state https://t.co/LndG22vExT 
• An aspiring solicitor sacked at the start of the pandemic was unfairly dismissed because she had complained about unpaid wages, a tribunal has ruled | Law Gazette https://t.co/lEcthK3Yh8
  
• EU to launch new legal action against AstraZeneca over vaccine deliveries https://t.co/GbBTOQTxVq
  
• Landlords vs retailers: What the New Look legal case means for future of CVAs https://t.co/kxm4M25NML 
• Barristers unite behind anti-bullying badge | Law Gazette https://t.co/XIbUch75Hl
  
• New Supreme Court Justice Cheon Dae-yeop has stressed the need for members of the judiciary, including himself, to return to the basics of serving society #SouthKorea https://t.co/uKxzNLI2Rj 
• Police officers have gone on strike over a shortage of trousers. Officers in El Puerto de Santa Maria in the south of #Spain say they should have received new service trousers in 2016 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VItNweONwL 
• EU citizens applying for settled status face legal limbo due to backlog https://t.co/Xj0o4IvBtH 
• The Law Society of Northern Ireland has urged Home Secretary Priti Patel to rethink plans to restrict asylum claims from people entering the UK illegally - Irish Legal News https://t.co/cIKJ01v27C
• Sheikh Jarrah: A Legal Background - a brief summary of the facts and chronology of the legal dispute over the Jerusalem neighborhood #Palestine https://t.co/NiajVVQI4I
• Insurers say 6% of RTA claims result from 'cash for crash' scams | Law Gazette https://t.co/adJQFE4Zhn 
• #DRC judiciary request immunity lifted on Ex-PM who served under Kabila https://t.co/UFNelI6zkx 
• Sinead Dooley promoted to tax director at Cahill Taxation Services - Irish Legal News https://t.co/2mtrD8hvpI 
• Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps - Almost 20 million users could be eligible for compensation, with £1.5bn damages sought https://t.co/UMrSeUjGFx 
• The Home Office appears to be stepping on the Ministry of Justice’s toes by consulting on extending fixed recoverable costs in immigration judicial reviews, public law specialists have suggested | Law Gazette https://t.co/FWDqSDs7jT 
• Believe in judiciary, will get clean chit in Narada scam probe #India https://t.co/UzP2OZMt5e 
• Bonus addition to the jurisprudential primer series, Kapil Summan discusses the debate around the ‘not proven’ verdict and the views of its supporters and detractors - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fnP4llHKcg 
• A disbarred American lawyer who spent more than two decades battling Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest attempted on Monday to fend off criminal contempt charges stemming from a lawsuit against him by the energy company #US https://t.co/44qauiYX6j 
• NI: BLM announces raft of promotions and appointments in Belfast - Irish Legal News https://t.co/kwx37jGg6Y 
• Discovery of bootlace could clear Lin Russell murder convict, barrister says https://t.co/8AsB9fEUyW 
• Ousted #Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to attend her next court hearing in person, her chief lawyer said https://t.co/A4738p3xNp 
• Queen’s speech: JR bill to 'restore the balance of power' | Law Gazette https://t.co/S2d7UCBRhi 
• American lawyer causes stir by buying Princess Diana's bike for $80k for white supremacy exhibition #US https://t.co/cS5f12uvwE
  
• Queen’s speech: The profession reacts | Law Gazette https://t.co/5ogW5rUaRn 
• #Senegal’s revolutionary icon Omar Blondin Diop deserves justice - Forty-eight years ago, Omar Blondin Diop died in prison under suspicious circumstances. Justice is yet to be served https://t.co/bexjjDVl6g 
• Lisa Broderick elected to DAC Beachcroft LLP Group Board - Irish Legal News https://t.co/dxNbCf8vp3 
• Seeking justice and supporting victims of Daesh atrocities - Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the Security Council briefing on UNITAD https://t.co/hdmObvLSyp 
• #Israel-Gaza violence: Palestinian death toll rises to 38 as UN envoy warns over escalation https://t.co/b3ChrahGOl 
• Shepherd and Wedderburn awarded top Investors in People accreditations - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BpTfqBW9HQ 
• Gaza officials say 20 people were killed in brutal #Israeli airstrikes. The escalation followed clashes between the police and Palestinian protesters at Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem https://t.co/IbVv5Du9Ja 
• 3 pieces of advice on implementing legal software in a legal department | The Lawyer https://t.co/gyK5xhtaAW 
• At least 19 prisoners and a number of staff at Mountjoy Prison have contracted Covid-19 in the biggest outbreak in the #Irish prison system to date - Irish Legal News https://t.co/3U1zDODmn5

12th May - Law News

Edition 3424: 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: Israeli police have clashed with Palestinians in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, as well as other locations, for several weeks. One of the main sources of unrest has been the possible eviction of several Palestinian families from their homes in this neighborhood.

 

  Focus of the Day Article:

A project encouraging barristers to be ‘active bystanders’ – speaking out and standing against abusive, bullying and belittling behaviour – has been launched under the name ‘All Rise’. The four barristers behind it have designed and produced a pin badge that barristers can wear as a symbol of allyship and a sign to others that the wearer will use whatever power they have in a given situation to stand against unacceptable behaviour and act in support of those in need. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• ByrneWallace to sponsor Dublin Climate Dialogues - Irish Legal News https://t.co/YwixyzMDxo
  
• Man banned from driving after falling asleep at the wheel loses appeal by stated case against conviction - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/tcX9Z7Lh1T
• No, lawyers are not like hitmen | Law Gazette https://t.co/hH409tctuy
• The Tenant Farming Commissioner has issued a new guide covering general statutory compliance on agricultural holdings - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QWLhkmmley
• Police are searching for a body at a cafe in Gloucester linked to a girl feared to have been murdered by serial killer Fred West. Mary Bastholm, 15, went missing on 6 January 1968 and has not been found https://t.co/GOwOLJJOpX 
• A former English National Ballet principal dancer has been found guilty of sexually assaulting his students. Yat-Sen Chang attacked girls and women at the English National Ballet and Young Dancers Academy in London between December 2009 and March 2016 https://t.co/DktbstlBhr 
• Michael Walker will be the next chief executive of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Gr4ctZjA9E
  
• Staff at Balfour and Manson took on a range of challenges focused on the number 100 to kick off their fundraising push for their new 2021-2022 charity partners Heath In Mind and AberNecessities - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FeZGtUOJBS
• Paralegal was unfairly dismissed over unpaid wages complaint - Legal Futures https://t.co/hrOGekUj9e 
• Personal injury reform – a pain in the neck? | Law Gazette https://t.co/4L0zxt6rLc
  
• A recent Scottish court decision underlines the high bar applicants will have to clear before they can ask a court to re-open the decision of an arbitrator https://t.co/qja3keg23o
• Solicitors' community interest company to donate all profits to charity - Legal Futures https://t.co/tjV0QL54jy 
• Dublin-based Hayes Solicitors LLP has announced the promotion of four new partners - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Q63pjzsgKy 
• UK immigration plans risk breaching international duties, UN body warns https://t.co/HhQ6aQh5jK
• Texts published by the Treasury Committee reveal the extent of David Cameron's lobbying for the now-collapsed firm Greensill Capital https://t.co/fPwfwFf0Ph 
• Government considers plans to create national hub for court judgments | Law Gazette https://t.co/ka7LS4y8Xz
  
• Daniel Winfree selected to be first Alaska-born chief justice of state Supreme Court #US https://t.co/6r6rOFj7yd
• Firm merges clinical negligence team with barrister-led ABS - Legal Futures https://t.co/4N26pUDnDd 
• Barristers urged to be "active bystanders" in fight against harassment - Legal Futures https://t.co/ND8ehn6Fed 
• 'Nation of animal lovers': lord chancellor takes on pet thieves | Law Gazette https://t.co/yFl4rSZzHi 
• 10 killed in west Belfast almost 50 years ago in the wake of an Army operation were "entirely innocent", an inquest has found. The inquest, which began in November 2018, examined the deaths in and around the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast in August 1971 https://t.co/cdAguWU6ed
  
• #SouthSudan's chief justice is overstepping his bounds: why it matters for the rule of law https://t.co/ivuW9m7m7C
  
• Queen's Speech: Government unveils post-Covid recovery plan https://t.co/7hpD39uW4W
  
• Sean Orman has been jailed for life after being found guilty of the murder of Bradley Welsh and attempted murder of David McMillan at the High Court in Edinburgh - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gVbAXxhqsh
• Miscarriages of justice are the potent tip of Post Office scandal https://t.co/0TxYTV5HnU 
• Mental Health Act reform: what must be done | Law Gazette https://t.co/GwV9iRoifv
  
• A prisoner was left without clean underwear for 11 weeks – according to his lawyer, who took to social media to highlight the concern. The man was said to have been taken to HMP Wandsworth last October in the clothes he was arrested in https://t.co/tqsPJrxRPP 
• IP firm Secerna LLP hires Dermot Roche to lead new Dublin office - Irish Legal News https://t.co/L5iNXy9sFh 
• Irish solicitor facing prison for €120k welfare fraud says he fears gangland criminals will kill him in jail https://t.co/Ew2JnUzI3o 
• Mafia victim becomes first judge beatified in history of Catholic Church - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nZgEmW86aY 
• #Israeli Court Delays Expulsion of Palestinian Families in East Jerusalem - The threat to evict six families from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah had become a rallying cry for Palestinians https://t.co/ZXgCwdmKQn 
• London violence: Hundreds arrested during weapons crackdown https://t.co/p8ZgOWGJO0
  
• Car insurance: 170,000 claims linked to 'crash for cash' gangs https://t.co/bUwYToofTe 
• NHS app ready to become vaccine passport next week https://t.co/EVnrfPHBJv
• Heathrow contempt barrister: leak was 'reasonable and proportionate' | Law Gazette https://t.co/nnASl3z4hT
  
• Companies behind digital currencies are rushing to hire well-connected lobbyists, lawyers and consultants as the battle over how to regulate them intensifies #US https://t.co/PzVpdjaRc5
  
• My legal life: Zillur Rahman, Rahman Lowe Solicitors - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/MsHjScC84s
  
• ‘We thank your government for our full pockets’ – Calais smugglers speak: As the UK pours millions into security measures, migrants say the gangs who control the Channel just get more powerful https://t.co/ciQqWWJcmH
• Lawyer in the news: Matthew Jury, McCue & Partners - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/VVqWlaV0wx
• The Post Office scandal – part 1 https://t.co/MehmcU6JH9
  
• ECtHR: Irregularities in appointment of Polish judges denied right to ‘tribunal established in law’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9gH5RSW6Wi 
• Monzo bank to offer employees paid leave after pregnancy loss https://t.co/H92KhlLbTM
  
• Heathrow barrister fined £5,000 for Supreme Court contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/dIMIaoyiJf 
• Environment lawyer fined £5k for contempt in Heathrow case. Tim Crosland had claimed he had no choice but to protest against ‘deep immorality’ of backing third runway https://t.co/p83NamjNnn
• Call for papers for events on judicial training and judicial conduct - Irish Legal News https://t.co/XFtSIvfIPU
• Legal and medical experts appointed to national research ethics committees - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Aftugn9ZNl 
• John Sturrock QC: Delivering a net zero carbon civil justice system, the civil justice system also has its part to play in tackling the climate emergency - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qIFx2OwkjO
• Firms swept up as consolidators splash the cash | Law Gazette https://t.co/WT3t4JnzpO
• A fresh Police and Crime Commissioner election will be held after a disbarred candidate won. Conservative candidate Jonathon Seed gained 100,003 first and second preference votes in the Swindon and Wiltshire election https://t.co/vErcNZuygQ 
• Julia James: Man charged with murder of PCSO https://t.co/xgcXg6nnOK 
• Pfizer vaccine authorised by #US FDA for adolescents https://t.co/Iq7u4BpeDc 
• High Court: Cork City Council 'exploited and endorsed' unlawful legal costs system in Circuit Court for years - Irish Legal News https://t.co/0936TCEMTq 
• ‘Slow to change’ lawyers must embrace online dispute revolution, says Vos | Law Gazette https://t.co/7eB9rhTVEf