Monday

9th August - Law News

Edition 3513: 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:
We are hardly even done with the Covid-19 pandemic, but scientists are warning that something far worse is round the corner. We talk about this with Professor Peter Collignon, an Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, and a World Health Organization expert on antibiotic resistance.

  Focus of the Day Article:
Barristers have warned of ‘serious shortcomings’ in Home Office plans to counter state threats. Full story - The New Law Journal


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Get jabbed before coming to the office, US firms tell lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Py49mbZQFK 
  • Language cannot be connected to any religion; Urdu can be taught in areas where there are few Muslims: Allahabad High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/f9Jk3fxM6y 
  • Pinsent Masons keeps 63 of 72 autumn qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/jOYHB76B23 
  • Best tips and tricks to applying for clerkships as a disabled person - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/OshGjvZTqF 
  • Oxford Uni confirms law exams will be online next academic year - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GRkjeBM8Ag 
  • Gibson Dunn hikes London junior lawyer salaries to £145k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Lq4QmGRJ8o
  • Authorising unregistered care and deprivation of liberty - Martin Downs - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/pM4SsslTbj 
  • Over 500 lawyers have signed an open letter rejecting government plans to open courts on evenings and weekends - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vj2swGmvm8 
  • #SaudiArabia is to begin accepting vaccinated foreign visitors to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina as part of the Umrah pilgrimage https://t.co/Xz4UiRX3X5
  • Compulsory Vaccination for Care Home Workers - legislation coming into force in November - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/8qA2Mc3HVG 
  • Why sexism is still a problem at the most ‘gender-equal’ Olympics: Sexualisation, policing of testosterone levels and underrepresentation of women in top sports jobs are just some of the issues https://t.co/UA8WZLV9yf
  • Michael Calvey, an American businessman working in #Russia who had been convicted on embezzlement charges, maintained he was innocent and called the conviction “simply outrageous” after he was given a suspended sentence of five and a half years https://t.co/KNOnjb5Q0y
  • AI in healthcare: a legal and ethical balancing act - Legal Cheek https://t.co/fhLTYrmHu
  • Regulating content on user-to user and search service providers - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/CwFyFO3qHQ
  • Clyde & Co confirms 79% autumn trainee retention score - Legal Cheek https://t.co/wqbMjSmO20
  • Call centre used by UK firms accused of intrusively monitoring home workers. Unions say Teleperformance also asked some staff based overseas to give biometric and medical data https://t.co/gNZQbzsTRy
  • Given the exacerbation of psychological safety concerns in the age of coronavirus, legal professionals have to be more purposeful in the ways they engage and give greater consideration to the long-term - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/LzQJfBjL01
  • Protégé: The reality behind preparing for life as a barrister - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/coqUWtZmLF 
  • Swimmers planning a dip in Wales' rivers have been warned to be wary of sewage and pollution before diving in. Dŵr Cymru's own figures revealed that in 2020, raw sewage was dumped in Wales' rivers more than 100,000 times for almost 900,000 hours https://t.co/Z68CFikxGZ 
  • Environment Secretary George Eustice has defended a controversial decision to put down an alpaca that has tested positive for bovine tuberculosis twice. Geronimo was condemned to death by a High Court judge last month https://t.co/8G3L4OtAeP 
  • Four million people are to be offered flu jabs this year in Scotland's largest-ever winter vaccination programme. The free vaccine has been extended to protect as many lives as possible and avoid additional pressure on the NHS https://t.co/Z7gaT01BJU
  • Fully vaccinated people can now visit #France without quarantining on their return to the UK, after travel rule changes came into force at 04:00 BST https://t.co/9LGdn17KDj
  • The Image of a Western Politician in the #Polish Post-War Public Discourse: The Bruno Kreisky Case | Agnieszka Kisztelińska-Węgrzyńska https://t.co/T4jKP1lHoy
  • Dr Danielle Malek Roosa’s working day starts at 3:00am at the World Bank and finishes in the early afternoon. While the schedule can be “brutal”, she’s doing work she loves and has found the right balance for herself and her family - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/QsJMvbCfZn 
  • What does the future hold for City lawyers? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/v70xC1nMnA
  • Delhi court sentences priest to life imprisonment for raping minors in temple precincts, quotes American poet Maya Angelou | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/e7pfD7W1Az 
  • ‘Empathy and compassion’ can be used to drive client success - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/oF5NuWUda3 
  • Language cannot be connected to any religion; Urdu can be taught in areas where there are few Muslims: Allahabad High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/f9Jk3fxM6y
  • Addleshaw Goddard, Clyde & Co and Osborne Clarke post solid 2021 financials - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ECh8XzGKdJ
  • GCs need to make sure they are out on the front foot and be ready to discuss and advocate D&I strategies in the governance and sustainability context - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/WjtYANaNO1
  • Apply now: The Legal Cheek UK Virtual Law Fair 2021: The fair takes place from 2pm until 5pm on Tuesday 7 September 2021 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/XLAMxxRl8o Aug 08, 2021
  • Grievances on residential accommodation of Judicial officers raised in Bombay High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/LGraRo1oY1

Sunday

8th August - Law News

Edition 3512: 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:
Preparations are under way in the United States for memorial events marking 20 years since the September 11 attacks. Relatives of victims continue to demand answers as to whether the Saudi Arabian government was involved. In the meanwhile, as Taliban forces retake Afghanistan driving out the US installed regime, questions remain over who truly benefitted over two decades of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.



Saturday Conversations on Law
  • HMCTS denies plans to bring in weekend trials | Law Gazette https://t.co/yuL06j2F21
  • Two off-duty police officers who stood by as President Donald Trump's backers stormed the #US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January have lost their jobs. Alexander Everett and Caitlin Everett, a married couple from Seattle, were fired https://t.co/qyl8lQanrC
  • A tour operator was liable for breach of contract and under regulations implementing the 1992 Package Travel Directive where a tourist was sexually assaulted by a hotel electrician, the Supreme Court has held | NLJ https://t.co/m6aqMGzGrl
  • Consultation launched on proposed product safety law - Irish Legal News https://t.co/1IQAYFmkg
  • Employers should be mindful of the changing pandemic restrictions and what they mean for office occupancy and health and safety - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JChJsUSfE
  • History was made after three female judges sat as the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) in Swansea Crown Court―the first time the court has sat in Wales comprising all women | NLJ https://t.co/Omj9eOFaEp
  • Ministers have been accused by a Fianna Fáil senator of “politicising” the role of the Attorney General in their response to the controversy over an event at the Merrion Hotel - Irish Legal News https://t.co/jydua8mslg 
  • ‘Rare but real’: Bar works with judges to tackle bullying | Law Gazette https://t.co/C5zDwP4ub5 
  • A lawyer for James P. Spears said in court papers that Mr. Spears loves his daughter Britney Spears and that he is not to blame for some of the actions to which she has objected https://t.co/15adUV9oWR 
  • Intellectual property (IP) officials in South Africa have made history by awarding a patent that names an artificial intelligence (AI) as the inventor | NLJ https://t.co/KOy3i41ScY
  • Regulations to improve cross-border distribution of investment funds signed into law - Irish Legal News https://t.co/tmkKP21T
  • The Disclosure Pilot has been extended until 31 December 2022 to allow the amendments to ‘bed down’, following feedback from lawyers | NLJ https://t.co/eSt3iNAk9l 
  • The Metropolitan Police said they were called to an address in Noel Park Road in Wood Green on Friday evening after concerns about residents' safety. A 61-year-old man was stabbed, a police officer was slashed and a second officer was assaulted https://t.co/ykBKV0Gai
  • Lisa Banes, a film, theater and television actress who appeared in the thriller “Gone Girl,” died on June 14, days after she was struck by a man riding a scooter as she crossed the street in Manhattan #US https://t.co/VjGTMSW99n
  • Apple criticised for system that loftily claims to detect child abuse, but there are major concerns that the technology would be expanded and used by authoritarian governments to spy on its own citizens https://t.co/ynvnIA1XsP
  • Anti-vacc solicitor who died with Covid-19 made ‘terrible mistake’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/fROmOp4I4
  • Menopause at centre of increasing number of UK employment tribunals: Rise in women taking employers to court citing event as proof of unfair dismissal and discrimination https://t.co/UYMQvGIKN3 
  • #Myanmar Ambassador, Who Opposed Coup, Is Target of Assassination Plot - Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said two Myanmar citizens living in New York plotted over the past month to attack and potentially kill the country’s ambassador to the United Nations https://t.co/TCAbbdXbwd
  • How Cuomo went from #MeToo ally to a one-man battle to discredit women - The New York governor’s self-defense follows the playbook of powerful men accused of sexual misconduct – but it’s shocking given his history of advocacy #US https://t.co/AWmglCluTj
  • Barristers have warned of ‘serious shortcomings’ in Home Office plans to counter state threats | NLJ https://t.co/X386Nqh10
  • Amazon Prevails Over Reliance in #India's Supreme Court - The Indian Supreme Court upheld the U.S. company’s effort to stop the sale of supermarkets, in a rare win for foreign businesses there https://t.co/i6jvSbJLrO
  • The pandemic has forced changes to almost every aspect of our lives. In WPH Developments Limited v Young & Gault LLP (in liquidation) 2021 CSIH 39, the Court of Session, however, confirmed one thing which won’t change: the law on prescription https://t.co/OyBwYavqCL
  • The Taliban in #Afghanistan say they have captured a prison in the northern province of Jawzjan and freed all of the prisoners https://t.co/6wF0pp0sC5
  • Discursive construction of an 'anti-immigration Europe' by the right-wing political groups in the European Parliament | Kamber Güler https://t.co/MeX21KPnU
  • Conditions at shelters housing unaccompanied minors apprehended at the border have improved since early spring but are still drawing harsh criticism: Biden Administration Is Still Struggling to Care for Migrant Children #US https://t.co/VygLLUCB9
  • As a child, Theary Seng escaped #Cambodia’s killing fields. After returning there as a human rights advocate, she angered the country’s strongman leader. But she refuses to be driven away again https://t.co/aMkC6eV0cS
  • #Italians Embrace a ‘Green Pass’ to Prove Vaccination on Its First Day - While such measures have prompted protests in France and divided Americans, Italians are enjoying a season of rationality under Prime Minister Mario Draghi https://t.co/Bw7PlveWK6
  • Cuomo Lawyers Hit Back as Aide Who Says He Groped Her Files Complaint - The criminal complaint from the woman, an executive assistant whose name has not been publicized, increases the possibility that Gov. Andrew Cuomo could face charges #US https://t.co/BWgxhU3BQg
  • Counterfeiters who run a sophisticated operation or risk significant harm will receive tougher sentences up to a maximum of ten years or an unlimited fine, under Sentencing Council guidelines | NLJ https://t.co/D8X2G5HEkC 
  • Appeal court upholds fraud conviction over medical agency | Law Gazette https://t.co/TqLxjC9ch4
  • Brown warns court backlog will take years to clear - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1r6QMJlzZx 
  • City firms flash green credentials | Law Gazette https://t.co/3Rd9zJ9RcI
  • Solicitor sent for trial over alleged €268,000 property registration fraud - Irish Legal News https://t.co/HSKfKzEiAg
  • Online dispute resolution should be part of the engine of recovery | Law Gazette https://t.co/0QFXv0PmPU 
  • Appointments at Murray Beith Murray - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wi4v0NzxXR
  • Family members of the victims of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks have called on President Joe Biden to stay away from memorial events unless he declassifies files about the attacks #US https://t.co/YfmyIG42Z1
  • NI: Cleaver Fulton Rankin appoints Kerry McCloy to lead legaltech group - Irish Legal News https://t.co/eANuLawslx
  • Anger as Boris Johnson does not isolate after staffer’s positive Covid test https://t.co/I7g7cGEt3z 
  • Shops accused of failing to publicise recall of food linked to cat deaths https://t.co/RpJsKaXT61

Saturday

7th August - Law News

Edition 3511: 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:
Treating wife's body as something owing to the husband and committing sexual act against her will is marital rape, the Kerala High Court has said. The observation came while the court dismissed two appeals filed by a man challenging the decision of a family court granting divorce. A bench of the High Court, comprising Justice A Muhamed Mustaque and Justice Kauser Edappagath, said marriage and divorce must be under the secular law and time has come to recast the marriage law of the country.


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • New podcast to explore unsolved murder - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Zum71A4rq8 
  • Dr Eimear Spain reappointed to Psychologists Registration Board - Irish Legal News https://t.co/wax0KnijWR 
  • US: Lawyers pardoned for waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cHcvqgEOXp 
  • NI: Barrister welcome plan for modernisation of civil and family justice system - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ouFBTinrgY
  • Dependency victory for relatives of deceased businessman | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y7m3sVtXDT 
  • An anaesthetist who poisoned his partner in a series of botched exorcism ceremonies is facing jail. Hossam Metwally, 61, performed a "dangerous perversion" of the Islamic Ruqya ritual on Kelly Wilson at the couple's home in Grimbsy https://t.co/CUeB7AJQ
  • Snickers #Spain pulls TV advert after homophobia accusations https://t.co/Jf7aYxHXbe
  • Long Covid – lessons for local government employers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MMoFQZSaoD 
  • Brian Collins joins Nasc legal service - Irish Legal News https://t.co/xnrtN1mv8A
  • Downing Street has refused to grant a stay of execution to an alpaca that faces the prospect of being killed after twice testing positive for bovine tuberculosis https://t.co/0XXjqPDuM
  • If the government cared about free speech, it would reform the London libel industry - Recent action against a book about Putin shows what can happen when journalism collides with the English legal system https://t.co/FkkoBVxGhV
  • Domestic abuse rehabilitation scheme for heterosexual couples only - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HgKR6MD1PB
  • Clarity for Crown court over trade mark offences | Law Gazette https://t.co/av43KsDEv
  • Govanhill Law Centre future in doubt as Scottish government refuses funding - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/f80njtJim
  • Parking fines could be increased to as much as £120 under Scottish government proposals - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/itS8M2Yt8e
  • Airdrie sheriff finds liferent interest should be included in divorcing couple’s matrimonial property - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Hw86B3sQRw
  • Doireann O'Mahony joins Normanton Chambers - Irish Legal News https://t.co/YcnI8PnJj1
  • Brighton toddler death: Mother Verphy Kudi jailed for leaving toddler alone for days https://t.co/h0fB3SrKou
  • BigLaw business model “not sustainable”, says Mayson - Legal Futures https://t.co/QsERbNnWul 
  • ‘Protecting our people’: US firms insist on staff vaccination | Law Gazette https://t.co/RoHreUQEw
  • Bar Council and judiciary to take action on bullying from the bench - Legal Futures https://t.co/zDKJ5krMtS 
  • Solicitor General apologises for delays into Katie Allan inquiry - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gmD3cPDjvI 
  • Major study proposes ODR to handle small business debt cases - Legal Futures https://t.co/JskNZPr3Cr
  • NI: Joint action plan aims to resolve parental issues outside of court - Irish Legal News https://t.co/BVyD8tY9u5
  • The football-loving lawyer Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan, moving the goalposts for girls’ rights in #Kenya – podcast https://t.co/3sS1MUXNir
  • ‘A violation’: football star recounts having to strip during match to prove she was female - Tabitha Chawinga, a #Malawi international who plays in China, has called for greater safeguards against abuse in her home country https://t.co/myVQnaVZ3j 
  • News network CNN has sacked three employees for going into an office without having been vaccinated against Covid. It is legal in the #US for firms to require employees to be vaccinated https://t.co/D3Bngcsea
  • DAS medical report fraudster loses appeal against conviction - Legal Futures https://t.co/An85K4FhkC
  • Positive discrimination: the case for legal reform | Law Gazette https://t.co/PxRATkwsiu
  • Groundbreaking research shows that extremist attackers are often united in their violent misogyny, whatever their ideology: What do many terrorists have in common? They abuse women https://t.co/IUWAF2azvm 
  • A confidential sexual harassment reporting line is to be introduced for female guests in quarantine hotels. The move by the Department for Health and Social Care comes after another woman reported being harassed by a male security guard https://t.co/aILjlhgJlC
  • Governor Cuomo relied on a shrinking cadre of trusted advisers to guide strategy over sexual harassment allegations and to hit back at the women who accused him #US https://t.co/XihI4lUHaK
  • Biden, in a Push to Phase Out Gas Cars, Tightens Pollution Rules #US https://t.co/WhEBxn8hD6 
  • Cyclist who ignored warning sign and collided with car loses personal injury appeal - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sHH2eUDLDH
  • Outcry over plan to deport Jamaican nationals who came to UK as children - Move comes despite Home Office ‘agreement’ not to remove those who arrived in Britain under age of 12 https://t.co/5zxx2hDpJd
  • #Australia borders: Citizens living overseas could be 'trapped' if they return https://t.co/0kmvdt1vYi
  • 100-Year-Old Alleged Former Nazi Will Stand Trial on Charges of Involvement of the Deaths of Nearly 3,500 Jews #Germany https://t.co/xrqLqoVNn
  • A #Chinese state media interview with an Olympic gold medallist Gong Lijiao asking when she would get married and have children, has sparked backlash online https://t.co/6aEIJ5P9nx
  • The government has defended the UK's climate conference president Alok Sharma after criticism over his international travels - without quarantine https://t.co/1mKZlXbnBF
  • NI: Court of Appeal: Department of Communities successfully appeals 'terminally ill' benefits case - Irish Legal News https://t.co/3gag3r6yvW
  • Vaccine passports look inevitable, so what rights do New Zealanders have? #NewZealand https://t.co/MzMYW03goa
  • Lawyers pledge to boycott extended court hours | Law Gazette https://t.co/kRT1HMsTof
  • Are landmark laws failing those tricked out of their homes by landlords? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ssn55cyaQW
  • Cop26 president Alok Sharma flew to 30 countries in 7 months. Minister responsible for climate conference travelled mainly during winter and spring and did not isolate https://t.co/VESKkH6lLw
  • Covid ping causes collapse of murder trial | Law Gazette https://t.co/enyOTUw60
  • Most of Wales' remaining Covid rules will be scrapped from Saturday. Rules on the numbers that can meet indoors will end - nightclubs will be able to reopen, and social distancing laws for workplaces will be axed https://t.co/ajfgeczQbo
  • Prison service urged to develop transgender policy - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Oo70y3cHcP 
  • Apple to scan iPhones for child sex abuse images https://t.co/qwNEpW1dMr
  • FRC fines KPMG £13 million in Silentnight case - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ML1lhicWh0 
  • NI: JMK Solicitors raises £13,000 for children's cancer charity - Irish Legal News https://t.co/RMzydADzVR
  • #Turkish influencer Merve Taskin prosecuted 'for photos at Amsterdam sex museum' https://t.co/ybdhtHVYsz
  • Covid: Live events to be protected by government insurance scheme - It will begin next month with a £750m budget to cover cancellation costs if events are legally unable to happen due to government Covid restrictions https://t.co/4W6kRMArEA
  • #Pakistan has deployed paramilitary troops in a town in the country’s eastern Punjab province a day after a Muslim mob attacked and badly damaged a Hindu temple https://t.co/h3pJZvNIH8 
  • As #Thailand’s COVID cases soar government takes critics to court https://t.co/0xxbUIHi7Z
  • Private equity firm makes first UK law firm acquisition - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/ue5WPejrOt
  • BCLP adds Korean real estate veteran from Mayer Brown to head up Korea practice - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/xbTGKcic33

Friday

6th August - Law News

Edition 3510: 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:
Santana is a skilled photographer and never imagined she would become one of the 20 per cent of Australians who have experienced homelessness. Last year, Santana (not her real name) spent three months sleeping and living on the streets on the Gold Coast and now lives in crisis accommodation in Brisbane. Founder of domestic violence and homelessness charity 4 Voices, Jo Westh, said it hit people from all walks of life, with the current housing crisis leaving more people than ever struggling to keep up.

  Focus of the Day Article:
Leading cannabis lawyer joins regulatory and compliance specialist Simplifya. Katrina Skinner moves back in-house to help tackle booming sector’s ‘incredibly complex’ legal issues. Full story - The Global Legal Post


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Adrian Hutcheon makes firm commitment to family business - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vEnD4ljbI0
  • A family-run farm has won a legal battle against the multimillion-pound makers of plant milk, Oatly, which accused it of trademark infringement. Oatly brought legal action against Glebe Farm Foods, in Cambridgeshire https://t.co/3FaCK4DBkP
  • Crown court clogged by low value fraud cases | Law Gazette https://t.co/mdF3A1XlsC
  • Glasgow Caledonian University launches law prize - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VJXOFkkhAJ
  • Bar refuses to back down on sexual misconduct sanctions | Law Gazette https://t.co/MYLGjvWjt6
  • NI: Alyson Kilpatrick to head Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission - Irish Legal News https://t.co/DUDdovvq82
  • Burness Paull partners with The Robertson Trust to provide legal pathway for students - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uu7nglLIdp
  • A suspected boss of #Italy's powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia clan, which controls much of Europe's cocaine trade, has been arrested in Spain https://t.co/edan6SnYsX
  • Governing the automation of public decision-making - Legal Futures https://t.co/TVQ3VkLLjg 
  • Academics call for probe into Post Office lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/oVA49EeQXS
  • Family lawyers need to replace billing targets with new business model - Legal Futures https://t.co/U7gaDdz5EM
  • Legal experts criticise lack of transparency in Covid-19 law-making - Irish Legal News https://t.co/1GWwKGqUHm
  • Scottish firms ‘named and shamed’ for breaking minimum wage law https://t.co/2c3aUVVgW9 
  • Firefighter unfairly dismissed from his union job after speaking at a pro-Brexit rally in Westminster, an employment tribunal has found. Paul Embery was also barred from being a Fire Brigades Union official for two years after appearing at a Brexit rally https://t.co/twhmq6FGHU 
  • New national facility for families affected by drug use - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/igkSjRgfwk
  • Solicitor, 61, who blamed 'wokeism' when hauled before governing body for telling Muslim colleague woman to go back to Afghanistan and saying 'Belgians made the Congo civil' at lawyers' function is struck off https://t.co/fBIpIfovmz
  • A third Extinction Rebellion protester has had their conviction quashed at the Old Bailey in as many days. Amelia Halls, 23, was told she should not have been given a criminal record for peacefully obstructing a road during a 2019 demonstration https://t.co/9yoxsvSO8c
  • Equity investor begins legal assault with first acquisition | Law Gazette https://t.co/xFgqjCdvAj 
  • Appeal judges reject “binary” approach to negligence claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/E8EBxaIdD0 
  • First prison inspections since Covid-19 warn of 'complacency' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/FLIyXKlW7u 
  • Alta Fixsler: European court says UK hospital can withdraw life support ECHR rejects appeal from parents of girl who suffered severe brain injury at birth https://t.co/YAevHtIkk4 
  • Toxic cat food fear as UK vets struggle with mysterious illness - As cases of blood condition pancytopenia persist, investigators suggest food fungi could be to blame https://t.co/K3zydc4UAm
  • Vaccines to be required for open travel ‘for evermore’, says Shapps. Minister suggests quarantine rules for some arrivals in England will remain in place into autumn https://t.co/kH61QrqIAx
  • Partners and staff at listed law firm cash in £14m worth of shares - Legal Futures https://t.co/EFbsp3eBwS
  • At least 482 migrants crossed the English Channel in 21 small boats on Wednesday, the Home Office has said, setting a new record for a single day https://t.co/uOKSTBcVyh
  • Steven Barrett's pet cat Freyja seemed healthy just over a week ago, but after going downhill rapidly, she died on Tuesday. Steven fears that her death is linked to dry cat food he had been feeding her without knowing it had been recalled https://t.co/zTATV6VRx2
  • £21 million funding to support equality and human rights over three years - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/drVA0JFH4j
  • Three in four Britons back assisted dying for terminally ill – poll https://t.co/TvbSI6zsLB
  • Solicitors should offer clients more choice than single barrister - Legal Futures https://t.co/HaKlIUqJc
  • ‘Pingdemic’: Criminal bar calls for self-isolation exemption | Law Gazette https://t.co/pxrSSco7nv
  • I saw what sparked the Tottenham riots – 10 years on, it could happen again - A decade after the killing of Mark Duggan, it’s clear the police have failed to learn vital lessons about excessive force https://t.co/GRrp2LZFUQ
  • Tips to Help you Become a Successful Lawyer https://t.co/OmkKiiD8NY
  • NI: Law Society appoints Alison Grundle as head of member services - Irish Legal News https://t.co/E3aAyqoHe1
  • Infrastructure Bill Recognizes Climate Change Is a Crisis #US https://t.co/9UkH3K0uvA
  • NI: Van Morrison withdraws challenge to Covid-19 ban on live music - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ilhnYuO4y9 
  • John Lewis named in government list of firms that paid below minimum wage. More than 190 companies fined for owing a total of £2.1m to 34,000 workers in 2011-18, as part of crackdown https://t.co/o8nTe2eTnx
  • McCann FitzGerald appoints new group leaders amid growing headcount - Irish Legal News https://t.co/qshZwt4rjr
  • 'Fascist' Britain First target Bute House and Holyrood amid anger over tour https://t.co/fFSgiC03eR
  • Two adults and a teenager have been charged after a five-year-old boy was found dead in a river. Logan Mwangi, also known as Logan Williamson, was found in the River Ogmore near Pandy Park, Aberkenfig https://t.co/cmOb9YuChq
  • Political Persuasive Strategies in the 11th #Iranian Presidential Campaign: A Critical Discourse Analysis | Muhammad Nasser Vaezi https://t.co/5UVmlWbKtR
  • Police have arrested 11 people as they continue a hate crimes investigation into social media messages sent after the Euro 2020 final https://t.co/F4Qay7AYtz 
  • Six-year ban for couple after spending £2.4m before liquidation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/J5TTCf5CY
  • No room on the press bench | Law Gazette https://t.co/vJrTEIEvC5
  • #Mexico sues US gun manufacturers over arms trafficking https://t.co/39fYFUrMUg
  • NI: Pro bono costs orders identified as priority area for modernisation of civil and family justice - Irish Legal News https://t.co/KYUWkzmcIv
  • HR expert who lost her claim she was dismissed by Sellafield because she reported bullying allegations says she fears the case will deter would-be whistleblowers https://t.co/ofhf5O3yKI 
  • NI: Court of Appeal overturns finding that 'six-month rule' for terminally ill benefit claimants is unlawful - Irish Legal News https://t.co/7bLAHWJNZA 
  • ‘Serious concerns’ over strategy and conduct of Post Office lawyers during High Court case - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UKv5aUulV0 
  • Judicial and parliamentary workers in Delta State can now heave a sigh of relief as Governor Ifeanyi Okowa assented to the bills that will grant them financial autonomy #Nigeria https://t.co/3nAx8q9cAR
  • Maynooth appoints Dr Joe Garrihy as assistant professor in criminology - Irish Legal News https://t.co/D4HDKKxoJW 
  • Data breaches reported to ICO drop 20 per cent due to Covid - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LFRtVjoPH5
  • Who Is Abimbola Johnson? The Barrister Will Fight Racism In UK Police Force https://t.co/49s9KjVBjp
  • A sprawling network of more than 350 fake social media profiles is pushing pro-China narratives and attempting to discredit those seen as opponents of China's government, according to a new study https://t.co/dsIrYjA2vZ
  • Government accused of 'burying' conversion therapy report https://t.co/iMWr5yBJ3I
  • The UK National Security and Investment Act: Who, What, Where, When, Why? https://t.co/Ru80Ek4gPP
  • Bill to lower number of tribunals introduced in Lok Sabha #India https://t.co/5ksjin9pmY
  • How can the industry help reduce the number of aborted transactions? https://t.co/CaCL4ypTA9 
  • Appointment of ‘Junior Junior’ Counsel to the Advocate General for Scotland https://t.co/rL624jthIx
  • #Poland’s PM wants accord with EU on law and judiciary https://t.co/Fm8nCeTiDp
  • Employers Faced With Tribunal Claims For Telling Employees To Return To Work https://t.co/3H8HVpOGv8 
  • #France will not be on England's amber-plus list from 04:00 BST on Sunday, meaning fully vaccinated arrivals will no longer have to quarantine https://t.co/182ImSoRcN
  • Legal experts criticise lack of transparency in Covid-19 law-making - Irish Legal News https://t.co/1GWwKG9jPO

Thursday

5th August - Law News

Edition 3509: 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:
Solicitors Regulation Authority webinar on 'Restricting fees in financial mis-selling work'

  Focus of the Day Article:
An employment judge has dismissed claims that a lawyer was repeatedly harassed and discriminated against, warning that courts should not ‘impose legal liability to every unfortunate phrase’. An in-house legal counsel accused pharmaceutical company PSI CRO of discrimination because of sex and age, sexual harassment, harassment related to age and/or sexual orientation and victimisation, after losing her job in 2017. Full story - The Law Society Gazette


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Richard Douglas-Home: OTS recommendations for the simplification of CGT - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/EeXzXTx7RD
  • Dr Brian Hunt: President’s concerns about legislative process are not new - Irish Legal News https://t.co/AL0mn9YN3
  • Thompsons Solicitors establishes financial misselling unit - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/R1GWUhU2u9
  • Stonehenge tunnel plans continue despite high court ruling - Highways England says it is proceeding with £1.7bn scheme after judge declared it unlawful https://t.co/u6hnI4jSHN
  • Discrimination based on your name alone is a stubborn reality in Britain today - Until society confronts institutional and cultural racism, such inequalities will be immune to changes in the law https://t.co/BHCwev5JnI
  • High-value alleged fraud in Scotland reaches more than £2.5m in first half of the year - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0Z27Ot5E7E
  • An Old Bailey judge has asked prosecutors if they stand by convictions of Extinction Rebellion protesters after a second successful appeal in two days. Judge Mark Dennis QC demanded the review after a protester won his appeal against obstructing a road https://t.co/9vzpRvUYC
  • Footballer Jamie Vardy's phone can be inspected as part of a libel battle between his wife and Coleen Rooney, a judge has ruled. Rebekah Vardy is suing Rooney for libel after Rooney claimed fake stories had been leaked to newspapers by Vardy's Instagram https://t.co/4q5LUnlLYN
  • Veteran charity runner robbed at knifepoint near Burton upon Trent - Phil Hammond, from Leeds, was stopped by a man in Barton-under-Needwood, near Burton upon Trent, on Monday evening, Staffordshire Police said https://t.co/UIxaNJj4K8
  • Guideline hourly rates: an assessment | Law Gazette https://t.co/XqjQ9ktO6N
  • Scottish government opens £6.7 million support fund for legal aid firms - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/X0OOZcw0T
  • TLT’s Stephen McGowan publishes new book on Scottish alcohol licensing law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YXcyihV2m2
  • ‘Evasive and prevaricative’ perjuress mother who ‘relished all of the attention’ held in contempt of court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/a7XuH2gS69
  • Law Society adds to criticism of PM over ‘left-wing’ lawyers remarks - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zI2JFJqT0K
  • RT @SteveMartinToGo: What’s happening? Banjo! https://t.co/Vfy1ss1VMk
  • Customers of doorstep lender Provident Financial can claim compensation for mis-sold loans after the High Court backed a partial repayment scheme. The company has set aside £50m to meet claims from borrowers who were sold unaffordable loans https://t.co/luvgOx4BFR
  • A footballer took his own life and had cocaine in his system when he was found dead in a hotel room, an inquest heard. Yeovil Town captain Lee Collins, 32, was discovered by the club's assistant manager Terry Skiverton on 31 March https://t.co/rz5joEPV5
  • SDT warns solicitors about their personal lives | Law Gazette https://t.co/xCSWtEUyS
  • Partner who lied to SRA and indemnity insurer is struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/DUV43Yl9tF
  • BHSM welcomes Rachel Nangle to commercial real estate team - Irish Legal News https://t.co/wPa3YR7DtN
  • Government promises “integrated online dispute resolution” - Legal Futures https://t.co/9NIdvLGaQW
  • Lawyer of the Month: David Cobb - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/IGwxFYvz0
  • "A scandal within a scandal": Call to investigate Post Office lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/U3j75cHNJt 
  • Government has seen no evidence to connect barrister pay cuts with recruitment issues - Irish Legal News https://t.co/agWRqGklZT
  • Amazon Faces Wider Fight Over Labor Practices: A second union vote may be held at an Alabama warehouse, and new tactics by the Teamsters and other groups aim to pressure Amazon across the #US https://t.co/6MbyHz1hxw
  • New consolidator enters market with plans to build £100m firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/l3CL3LrOZ
  • MP Maria Miller wants a parliamentary debate on whether digitally generated nude images need to be banned. It comes as another service which allows users to undress women in photos, using Artificial intelligence (AI), spreads rapidly on social media https://t.co/0Qm09yAC8N 
  • Judge warns of 'hypersensitivity' in lawyer's harassment claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y4BqfOlJGR
  • SEMLA and NatWest Group to hold diversity event - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ksb3yDm7Y
  • Addleshaw Goddard sees profits of £136m - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Enxm0f8dDt
  • #Iraq Reclaims 17,000 Looted Artifacts, Its Biggest-Ever Repatriation https://t.co/RiodEZ8Mgx 
  • Head of judges' body backs call for 17 more High Court judges - Irish Legal News https://t.co/GIPctQf1UT
  • Are plans to change the Official Secrets Act a threat to journalism? https://t.co/wVnjyojXss 
  • Amazon slapped with €746m fine over alleged GDPR breaches - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JUMEWPI1Bm
  • Penal policy report to be published in the autumn - Irish Legal News https://t.co/dSJQrxu9rb 
  • Investigators said they corroborated the claims of 11 women who accused New York governor Cuomo of inappropriate behavior, from suggestive comments to instances of groping #US https://t.co/s11AR9yQxM
  • Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art https://t.co/39GJY2LSMw 
  • Met police seek judicial review over senior black officer’s reinstatement - Force insists it was correct to sack decorated black female officer who was sent unsolicited child abuse video https://t.co/LaUb07p616
  • Paradise Birmingham: DLA Piper office goes fully flexible | Law Gazette https://t.co/NqBbwmgKAW 
  • A Panama-flagged ship has been hijacked by armed men in the Gulf of Oman and ordered to sail to Iran, Lloyds List Maritime Intelligence has confirmed. The bitumen tanker MV Asphalt Princess is heading into the congested approach to the Strait of Hormuz https://t.co/xXACvtJj44 
  • Define to Defeat: Perceptions of Sexual Harassment. Subtitle: If we only define “Sexual Harassment” in the way we have until now, we will never be able to defeat it. | Paula Koller https://t.co/JN6fAGHSR
  • Ban on ticket touting comes into effect - Irish Legal News https://t.co/WUQgXngef
  • Partner promotion and senior hire for Anderson Strathern - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yCl23o4JW
  • Profits rise to £614m at DLA Piper - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8XvNvBMYbi
  • Matheson appoints Niamh Counihan as pro bono partner - Irish Legal News https://t.co/HCIPxRGWCB
  • NI: Lewis Silkin joins forces with Belfast-based Jones Cassidy Brett - Irish Legal News https://t.co/4hzyflbIL
  • DLA Piper to move to larger Dublin premises - Irish Legal News https://t.co/bLv1eVDXNt
  • EU citizens seeking settled status being detained and threatened - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1CDKrW4ivN
  • FBI used pictures of staff for undercover sex crime stings #US https://t.co/0BWwoOSFh7
  • Seven men have been found guilty of murdering a student who was shot dead in a feud between two tyre firm owners. Aya Hachem, 19, was mistakenly killed in the botched drive-by shooting in Blackburn on 17 May last year https://t.co/BHsIHq6Ze9
  • Helensburgh castle residents fail to challenge ejection decree obtained by trustee in sequestration - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/eQ9K15e2k
  • Officer dies after being stabbed outside Pentagon, officials say #US https://t.co/JrBRNhV3gR 
  • Former monk sentenced for historical sexual offences against children - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BNioRlZSSk

 

Wednesday

4th August - Law News

Edition 3508: 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 Bar Council's annual International Rule of Law Lecture encourages awareness of the importance of the rule of law to all. This year’s speaker, Judge Kimberly Prost (elected as Judge of the International Criminal Court in 2018) gives a keynote speech on Advancing the Rule of Law on the international stage.

  Focus of the Day Article:
A standard non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for use when beginning negotiations over corporate transactions has gone live with the aim of having 1,000 organisations commit to its use. The next step will be to create provisions that make it suitable specifically for merger and acquisition activity. Full story - Legal Futures


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Julian Assange: peering through the murk | Law Gazette https://t.co/zQ18h7nBW
  • Val McDermid and thousands of authors have called on the UK Government to rethink a copyright law change that would have a “devastating” impact on writers https://t.co/kKYNdznMsC
  • Two drug dealers who were caught after their car got stuck in a supermarket trolley bay have been jailed. Asim Akram and Ibrar Hussain were trying to evade police as they crashed at Morrison's in Banbury on 18 May https://t.co/mgKwuZ7xSv
  • My legal life: Rachel O’Connor, Michelmores - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/iUkjte16g
  • High Court judge blocks case seeking judicial review of 5G rollout due to lack of evidence, after backers raised more than £160,000 on crowdfunding platform https://t.co/7586oK02mA
  • Midlands firm embarks on recruitment drive after 'incredible year' | Law Gazette https://t.co/i69JVOKpnj 
  • Robyn Williams: Met Police takes legal action over officer's reinstatement https://t.co/qG75y7FmJh 
  • A sweat-inducing pompous relic or a status symbol that brings order and ceremony? Whichever way you slice it, wigs in Victorian courts appear to be near extinction #Australia https://t.co/oJPayzRECs
  • Setting the standards for lawtech | Law Gazette https://t.co/3VGVpYDlGE
  • A nightmare to practise as barrister for the overseas trainee? https://t.co/cPFxI6Xh59
  • A rapist has been jailed for 11 years after his daughter - who was conceived in the attack - provided DNA. Carvel Bennett, 74, was found guilty of raping a 13-year-old in Birmingham in the 1970s, leaving her pregnant https://t.co/ZumlIR7tUW
  • Panasonic GC ups the ante on compliance | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ldpp4b5FeC 
  • Almost all of Scotland's remaining Covid-19 restrictions are to end from 9 August. Social distancing will be dropped in most settings, meaning more capacity in pubs and restaurants and larger crowds at sporting events and concerts https://t.co/qkFjqEUHAD
  • Biden Administration Pushes States to Prevent Eviction Crisis #US https://t.co/w2UvRmhxkL 
  • It has been 200 days since the publication of the report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. Bethany Home survivor Derek Leinster doesn’t know how many more days he has left to wait for a semblance of justice #Ireland https://t.co/Xrays5nCr9 
  • Black barrister to lead independent police oversight board: Scrutiny board headed by Abimbola Johnson among initiatives that show police accept they need to change https://t.co/YcQ5m3TiSF 
  • Costs judge concerned by 'exceptionally large' rise in firm's hourly rates | Law Gazette https://t.co/lbsXOzzsaP
  • Volume litigation business targets 30,000 new cases a year - Legal Futures https://t.co/byzV2pqCUX
  • #NewZealand's Human Rights Commission launches investigation into country's housing crisis https://t.co/NrqFDU5LZ7
  • Solicitor agrees to leave profession over property sale irregularities - Legal Futures https://t.co/YsjuSiVY3K 
  • Coalition of lawyers announces ‘universally standardised’ NDA | Law Gazette https://t.co/EDyMPX8Xb9
  • Drug deaths in England and Wales highest since 1993 https://t.co/bZWY3YLD3
  • #US Health insurers could do more to encourage vaccination, including letting the unvaccinated foot their bills https://t.co/jqIXtcxUgS
  • #Haitians Investigating President’s Death, Under Threat, Go Into Hiding https://t.co/Kg0tad7diC 
  • Standardised NDA goes live with plan to develop further 'modules' - Legal Futures https://t.co/vX35iLCuQx
  • Daughter of 13-year-old mother raped in 1970s wins justice at last: Daisy, 45, overcame years of police inaction after persuading her mother to testify against Carvel Bennett https://t.co/vKGbFpchkx 
  • Assessing partner profits – changes afoot - Legal Futures https://t.co/PPZxLkLH4A
  • Work where you want, Womble Bond Dickinson tells staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/WdP9U3VsHq 
  • The north Wales seaside town of Rhyl is one of the most violent and deprived areas in England and Wales. The number of serious offences went up every year for four years until the first coronavirus lockdown https://t.co/KnrW7BA6wh
  • A proposal to create an "amber watchlist" of countries at risk of moving to red in the travel traffic light system has been abandoned https://t.co/31jNQJLtiw 
  • Gangs are using e-scooters to sneak on to UK farms and steal high-value GPS technology, an insurer has said. Similar gangs operate in cities as well utilising covid mask requirement to remain anonymous https://t.co/6DymbMTgfg 
  • The head of a group helping people flee #Belarus has been found dead near his home in neighbouring Ukraine. Vitaly Shishov's body was found hanged in a park in Kyiv, a day after he failed to return from a jog. Police have opened a murder inquiry https://t.co/IwlAlwpFfc 
  • Tetraplegic pupil was no publicity stunt, tribunal rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/5tzY7tvVOc
  • Hourly rates rebuff for non-London commercial firms | Law Gazette https://t.co/bGAvCcsKsa 
  • Best of the blogs - 31 July 2021 | Law Gazette https://t.co/DA82pDLNS1