Edition 3543: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
Focus of the Day Story: The High Court has granted summary judgment in favour of a law firm and its senior partner and dismissed a £2.7m negligence claim. Mr Justice Henshaw ruled that the first element of the claim by businessman Matthew Williams against Cornish firm Merricks Solicitors and Richard Merrick was time-barred and the second element had no real prospect of success. Full story - Legal Futures
Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Should City firms cut the polluters loose? | Law Gazette https://t.co/HO5fZWpZk
- Age discrimination payout ‘a warning’ for employers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YfHJ2Q7ov
- Rebuke for solicitor who shared offensive Facebook posts | Law Gazette https://t.co/KPiwL3Vtn7
- High Court: Costs awarded against applicant for ‘utterly inappropriate and completely unnecessary’ interim injunction | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MVmKCEkGO1
- ‘Staying on’ in the EU | Law Gazette https://t.co/wFifFd7iHP
- Multi-party litigation ‘should form part’ of anti-racism action plan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jR5BcFsY3S
- A man who didn't mind the gap between the train and platform while getting off a London Underground service was not seen by two drivers, a report has found https://t.co/mBZ9TWhyyb
- The Scottish government is to resume making the case for independence - with the goal of holding a referendum by the end of 2023 https://t.co/jgIefiUMVv
- Going
back on Tory election manifesto declaration, Boris Johnson outlines new
1.25% health and social care tax to pay for reforms https://t.co/VPtiIajNP9
- Judicial independence under threat – in the EU | Law Gazette https://t.co/bxhRi2W9VX
- Series on Brexit statutory instruments published - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JA7CLpdUHh
- My legal life: Dr Michelle Chen, gunnercooke - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/Lbsg4ixDfs
- Criminal case completions rise by 83 per cent in Scottish courts - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yJtyUHSOa2
- Former CPS solicitor rebuked for offensive Facebook posts - Legal Futures https://t.co/SW50g3ZiuD
- Ince boss enjoys one-off £500,000 'incentive' | Law Gazette https://t.co/4ujr0bCjsK
- Pioneering ABS wants to be "national local government leader" - Legal Futures https://t.co/Og1est8ied
- Is sub judice substandard? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/incChA88y3
- Police Scotland has admitted that failures in its call handling system "materially contributed" to a young woman's death following a car crash on the M9 six years ago https://t.co/xjel9ggUJ
- High Court dismisses £2.7m law firm negligence claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/lZjiuvITiw
- ‘Overstretched and under-resourced’: tax tribunals under pressure | Law Gazette https://t.co/yockMYMaFF
- Ministry of Justice to press ahead with fixed costs expansion - Legal Futures https://t.co/qbVtbyolz
- Not every lease of land is an agricultural lease - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wiOf6LBhnf
- #Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree aimed at restricting the powers of social media companies to remove far-right accounts and content https://t.co/CryTwLw4Z6
- #Palestinian
Authority Indicts 14 Security Force Members in Activist’s Death - The
family of Nizar Banat, who was known for his fierce online criticism,
say more senior Palestinian officials should also face consequences
after he was beaten to death https://t.co/qqN5pTWtkO
- The
#US Justice Department says it will protect clinics that perform
abortions in Texas, a state with a near-total ban on voluntary pregnancy
terminations https://t.co/1K5axDv9Vp
- Financial results: Big firms saw big gains despite pandemic - but why? | Law Gazette https://t.co/ovvPB9BezE
- Covid year saw surge in enquiries to Shared Parenting Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DiB4jbRI2
- A&L Goodbody welcomes seven associates in Belfast | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lOwwbJ9Lpl
- Afghan lawyers’ plea to UK: save us from clutches of the Taliban | Law Gazette https://t.co/QkNWG7Izqb
- Kennedys appoints first-ever legal directors in Dublin and Belfast | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VsGcukwNoP
- Biden under pressure as NGO says flights from Afghanistan blocked #US https://t.co/LReXCU90Ms
- Lawyers co-ordinate effort to help Afghans desperate to escape | Law Gazette https://t.co/8Cjt9y3476
- GP staff facing abuse from patients over cancelled blood tests https://t.co/4y7oMCR9lk
- The
families of those killed in the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in
2014 have begun to testify at the trial of four suspects https://t.co/HVJ8OwjK2f
- More global aid goes to fossil fuel projects than tackling dirty air – study https://t.co/7aQr18ACIc