Wednesday

8th September - Law News

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  

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story:  The parents of a seven-month-old baby who is stranded in Kabul without them say they are losing hope that they will be able to get her to the UK. They say a five month delay in receiving their baby's British passport means their daughter is stuck in Afghanistan with grandparents. The mother and British father say they had no choice but to return to the UK in May to retain the mother's UK visa.

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

Tuesday

7th September - Law News

Edition 3542: 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:  General Counsel for Lyft Kristin Sverchek speaks about why the company is taking steps to protect its drivers against potential lawsuits.


Focus of the Day Story:
The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused to direct that the sole executor of a late South African woman who left part of her estate to charity can donate it to a charity with a similar name to a non-existent one named in the will. Full story - Scottish Legal News
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • #Israeli authorities have launched a manhunt after six brave Palestinian prisoners escaped from one of the country's most secure jails overnight https://t.co/2SZXlfiL2
  • Table service rules over for NI pubs and restaurants - Under the new moves, the number of people allowed indoors at domestic settings will rise from 10 to 15 https://t.co/iJRScXb34G
  • Class action proceedings a border fiasco option - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/L627HDwG1
  • Trainee pay at Clifford Chance hits £55k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/36FZhXQ2Jh
  • ICO fines Glasgow company for making half a million nuisance calls - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ta31Ghmghu 
  • Museums legal threats to Pornhub are an 'exhibition of hypocrisy' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/9cYzPBEVuy
  • Backing for staff facing abuse over masks - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JtiUnXnqL8
  • Central government will strengthen independence of judiciary: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/zG2Csj2DVl 
  • Inner House rules trustee of £1.35m estate cannot leave part of it to charity with similar name to non-existent charity named in will - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/I68SvhlWR0
  • How history’s crimes live on in music - From Maggie May to Ronnie Kray, crooks have long inspired songs, as a new book proves https://t.co/cTYpbkhHee
  • Land Registry moves towards "gamechanger" type of e-signature - Legal Futures https://t.co/aHp53cYkqa
  • DAC Beachcroft records 81% trainee retention score - Legal Cheek https://t.co/4erQC5yw
  • Legal expenses insurance coming to aid of solicitors in whiplash claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/3wh3Z6X63g
  • A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman who fell from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh. Kashif Anwar, 27, made no plea as he appeared in private during a short hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court https://t.co/kKCmEDijZw
  • The rapper Wiley has been charged with assault and burglary after allegedly attacking a man at an east London flat. The Tower Hamlets MC, whose real name is Richard Kylea Cowie Jr, is accused of causing the man a minor injury https://t.co/zeHGD7Eob
  • Dispute resolution pathways priority for newly merged Family Court - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/jx2uUHATTe
  • INXS lead guitarist’s loss of finger in boat incident like ‘sticking a knife in a toaster’, court hears - Tim Farriss, who is suing for negligence over a 2015 accident claims he wasn’t properly warned about the equipment on the boat #Australia https://t.co/69P572ovx
  • Order uploaded on High Court website has same authenticity, applicability as certified copy: Karnataka High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/70ZMrq5oEZ
  • Partner duped by bogus solicitor and clients into paying away sale proceeds - Legal Futures https://t.co/5U7ASe4hxy
  • Staff accuse Byron burger chain over changes to service charge: Company denies waiting staff claim that service pay is about to be redistributed to kitchen staff and managers https://t.co/kZ8dgXNIda
  • Reports of sex abuse between children double in two years https://t.co/CmZvmyPxlR
  • Bar exams: BSB stats reveal widely differing pass rates among providers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/UeCbJvQ8g9
  • A defence minister has apologised after mistakenly saying a veteran took their own life over the events in Afghanistan. James Heappey said he felt "sick to the bottom of my stomach" after learning a soldier who served had taken their own life https://t.co/gkcemjKe6Z 
  • The UK government is expected to announce further delays to some Irish Sea border checks this week. The checks are a requirement of the NI Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019 https://t.co/8u0C7fAKM0
  • I love Jane Austen but I’m not sure her novels can save neo-Nazis https://t.co/yGy7RDK0I
  • Professional misconduct finding handed down to new solicitor - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/XLax6EBzF
  • With a dynamic Law Minister, we hope Collegium recommendations for High Courts will be cleared rapidly as was done for SC: CJI NV Ramana | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/ZBdiFjdeCN
  • I Was Sexually Harassed at the Pentagon. Here's What Happened Next #US https://t.co/4oDG5Yf0lS
  • How the Texas Anti-Abortion Movement Helped Enact a Near-Complete Ban #US https://t.co/cGO2TyuV
  • This paper highlights a distinct understanding of an Indigenous vision of world, as compared to Western world views | Navaneeta Majumder https://t.co/53KInRsvr3
  • Taliban accused of killing pregnant police officer #Afghanistan https://t.co/rj840fWNuz
  • Nothing of significance has been found during the latest search for clues to the suspected murder of Claudia Lawrence, police have confirmed https://t.co/9qZSiznMNz
  • Unpacking interdisciplinary legal practices - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/4aym2EQKaB 
  • NHS gender identity clinic whistleblower wins damages: Child safeguarding expert awarded £20,000 after bringing claim against Tavistock and Portman trust https://t.co/gbwTtrvkzh
  • LPC students unhappy about return to in-person exams - Legal Cheek https://t.co/1pqNPas8gU 
  • Insights into City law through Instagram - Legal Cheek https://t.co/15tgwcsAmk 
  • How #Sweden arrested suspected Iranian war criminal Hamid Nouri https://t.co/873VRWFaF0 
  • A major operation to influence public opinion saw comments posted on Western media articles in support of Russian interests, according to new research https://t.co/57jkW8xWCM
  • 'I'm thinking of taking a gap year after qualifying as a solicitor. Is this career suicide?' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Yunpe8oXo6
  • RT @Rachael_Swindon: EXCLUSIVE: Tory law change would let donors bankroll party from tax havens for life https://t.co/gOQleNrUVx

Monday

6th September - Law News

Edition 3541: 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:  Some domestic flights have resumed at Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai International Airport, whereas international flights departing from the airport are still currently unavailable. The Taliban took control of the airport on Wednesday following the final departure of US personnel and their allies.


Focus of the Day Story:  Remote hearings have an unseen psychological impact on court users, a report has found. The report, ‘The psychological impact of remote hearings’, by consulting firm Berkeley Research Group (BRG), is based on interviews with expert witnesses, lawyers and psychologists in jurisdictions around the world. Full story - New Law Journal
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • The boom in companies offering cryptocurrency loans and high-yield deposit accounts is disrupting the banking industry and leaving regulators scrambling to catch up https://t.co/oXv7Xvhf4E
  • The Corporate Counsel Show: From corporate to creative - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Ax432dj146
  • Bar aptitude test ‘not effective filter’ of weak wannabe barristers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/XylzVsvRF3
  • Madhya Pradesh High Court stays RBI circular on appointment of MD/CEOs of Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/U0iSb2zXCX
  • Why is in-house life so popular? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/TSd1l3tsc2
  • Freshfields matches Clifford Chance on trainee pay - Legal Cheek https://t.co/WU4RJpx0y5
  • Person accused of non-bailable offence but not required in custody during probe is entitled to bail: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/norqOlpxZo
  • The Boutique Lawyer Show: Combatting adversarial attitudes - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/EKLDbmDaEU
  • Solicitor accused of injecting blood into supermarket food previously worked for A&O, Milbank and HSF - Legal Cheek https://t.co/kPRbYsceGT
  • [Bidar Sedition] Issue of interrogation of students by Police officers in uniform forwarded to DGP, IG: State informs Karnataka High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Vdyz5wARva 
  • How #Australian law firms can overcome the challenges of cloud migration - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/sDqsdVRxXD
  • The Weekly Round-Up: Police Taser use, GDPR and the basic right to protest - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/CipWMBoZrP
  • We expect 50% of women representation but have only achieved 11% in Supreme Court: CJI NV Ramana | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/bNMKXk9MiZ 
  • More can be done to support women’s workplace rights - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/9W8JbhWEu
  • 'I studied law in jail - now I want to change the system' #US https://t.co/j1ovpxqmKY
  • A former aide, Michael Fawcett, has temporarily stepped down from his role as chief executive of The Prince's Foundation amid allegations that he used his influence to help secure an honour for a major donor https://t.co/rgabKVDxt
  • Social care: Plans for reform in England likely this week - sources - But the prime minister is facing pressure from his own MPs not to increase National Insurance to pay for it - an idea that is being considered https://t.co/kocpIdiZG2
  • Is an expert report prepared for the purposes of an inquest covered by litigation privilege? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/LzgL0983KO
  • The populist political logic and Alexey Navalny’s political discourse | Ivan Nokhrin https://t.co/25EDi9sNZU
  • Taliban Fighters Crush a Women’s Protest Amid Flickers of Resistance #Afghanistan https://t.co/xM1nHeD5dz
  • EU Ends Legal Battle With AstraZeneca https://t.co/QRyRjDXIrk
  • Victoria to make public display of Nazi symbols illegal - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/Pt0KRbeVwH
  • Chris Parsons has led an incredible legal career, across multiple countries for one of the world’s biggest law firms. However, he believes that the best thing he has ever done is go public about his debilitating mental health issues - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Lyvlz8Gwo8
  • 7 answers to common SQE questions - Legal Cheek https://t.co/0Z13HSZjWp
  • Misconceptions and lessons about workplace vaccine mandates - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/0mpHdeXnxj
  • CMS becomes second highest training contract provider with 95 places - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cIjs6X5kwZ
  • Bike crashes through driver's windscreen on M9 at West Lothian https://t.co/zn7uLEMkq1
  • SQE officially comes into force: New solicitor training regime will eventually replace the LPC - Legal Cheek https://t.co/O0eRqWqkyL 

Sunday

5th September - Law News

Edition 3540: 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:  Everyday life for people in Sri Lanka has become a major challenge. Essentials like food, medicine and fuel are much more expensive -- and that's if they're even available. The pandemic and a recession are being blamed. And a dramatic fall in the value of Sri Lankan rupee, is making things worse.


Saturday Conversations on Law

Saturday

4th September - Law News

Edition 3539: 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:  A court in Delhi in India has came down heavily on the Delhi Police for its probe into a 2020 riots case, saying that its failure to conduct a proper investigation will "torment" the sentinels of democracy when history will look back at the worst communal riots in the national capital since partition.

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Glasgow man sentenced to 80 hours of unpaid work for fly-tipping - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/IMkuSuQmDe
  • PI claim to proceed despite tribunal settlement | Law Gazette https://t.co/wKM5eZ0R
  • Bill to ratify European Stability Mechanism reforms published | Irish Legal News https://t.co/57AdFyI2v
  • Birmingham dancing thief's 'fancy footwork' caught on camera https://t.co/aqgJfc8qQc
  • A racist, a judge and a clear case of white privilege - shocked by the sentence handed out to a man convicted for extremist activity https://t.co/0LI0VfeXhw
  • Anti-vaccine protesters try to storm London offices of medical regulator - Police stop attempt to invade MHRA headquarters as hundreds gather in Canary Wharf https://t.co/mZtoTFNud
  • One out of 125 embassy guards promised help to leave Afghanistan made it to UK https://t.co/ioXZ3pf9vg
  • Record €225m GDPR fine imposed on WhatsApp | Irish Legal News https://t.co/vqlRG7ZUZw 
  • A prominent booster of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon has accepted a plea deal in federal court for his involvement in the US Capitol riots. Jacob Anthony Chansley was one of the thousands of Trump supporters who attempted to circumvent democracy https://t.co/M0FeaERZMD
  • Inger Stojberg, #Danish Official, Faces Impeachment Trial Over Migration Policy https://t.co/urlOZLff1v
  • Talks ongoing for securing evacuation of at-risk Afghan judge | Law Gazette https://t.co/NvfYLS5wuB
  • Texas now has abortion ‘bounty hunters’: read Sonia Sotomayor’s scathing legal dissent #US https://t.co/Pk4Qu2kGB
  • Advocate Jon Kiddie of Terra Firma Chambers explores the use of the Scots language in Scots law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HYJxX4lwGk
  • Special investigator continues to examine alleged #Australian soldiers' war crimes in Afghanistan, despite media reports https://t.co/g8zlMn1NZG
  • Holyrood committee backs pardons for 4,000 executed for witchcraft - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YnAXhOHmic
  • London firms combine forces to create 'mid-market powerhouse' | Law Gazette https://t.co/cq00uv1wwf 
  • Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Dame Siobhan Keegan , sworn into office | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zmYT1Fn7m1 
  • UK now expects compliance with children’s privacy design code https://t.co/w0ETqmBAJ
  • Law firm M&A activity focused on non-legal services - Legal Futures https://t.co/DScKqSopun 
  • Vaccine passports to be required at nightclubs and music festivals - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LBDw7gFkFh
  • Yemen: Barrister asks ICC to open 'war crimes' investigation | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ws1WsDpDBR
  • Big Four "cornering the market for legal solutions, not advice" - Legal Futures https://t.co/dTJpelprM
  • Solicitors suspended for role in quick-sale property scheme - Legal Futures https://t.co/CIqpEzhj7k
  • Murgitroyd grows in Ireland with acquisition of Hanna Moore + Curley - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xs0bdkvpG9 
  • Fifa is investigating racial abuse aimed at England players during Thursday's 4-0 win over Hungary in a World Cup qualifier in Budapest. Far-right activism has been common in #Hungary in recent years https://t.co/7xu8eHqgC
  • US President Joe Biden has launched a "whole-of-government" response to oppose a new law in Texas that bans most abortions. He called the Supreme Court's decision not to block the law an "unprecedented assault" on women's rights #US https://t.co/Ln1TonPWY
  • A former BBC reporter who claims she was sexually assaulted while working undercover to expose abuse in the fashion industry has given a statement to French police https://t.co/KkRwm1KkL
  • Complicity in mass loss of life? Extinction Rebellion takes on City lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/KRKriA2Pe
  • Pet abduction to be made new criminal offence in England https://t.co/mgxd7RmPu0
  • Police in #NewZealand shot and killed a "violent extremist" after he stabbed and wounded at least six people in an Auckland supermarket https://t.co/3i0EivoME
  • Lawyer of the Month: Pádraig Ó Muirigh | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0uNXBkFhGF 
  • DLA Piper appointed as provider of legal services to COP26 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/87N9BoYwtP
  • Blackadders promotes six NQs and recruits eight trainees - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/q1XOvrBguu 
  • Finance lawyer Kathleen Garrett joins Reed Smith in London | Irish Legal News https://t.co/pgwxKkKVn
  • An Islamic State (IS) group suspect from the UK has pleaded guilty in a US court to charges of conspiring to murder four American hostages. Alexanda Kotey is accused of belonging to an IS cell dubbed "The Beatles" https://t.co/Ob8J45BXRo
  • Outer House judge rules children of dual citizens acquired habitual residence in Scotland despite contract agreeing they would not - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SUjUDbOsbJ
  • NI Court of Appeal: Application for Brexit judicial review ‘substantially out of time’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Fd7f7qIHN9
  • Douglas Bruce joins Fraser Irvine Sheriff Officers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/b1SnqdBMiN

Friday

3rd September - Law News

Edition 3538: 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: After a year of being told it was not an option to live with the virus, Victorians now have to wrap their heads around being told they'll be doing just that. So far there's little detail about how that will work in practice and when harsh restrictions will be eased.

 
 Focus of the Day Article: Boies Schiller’s London-based deputy chair steps down citing Covid-19 US travel restriction. Natasha Harrison says running US firm from overseas over extended period is impractical. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Retired solicitor banned for taking £275k from client’s estate | Law Gazette https://t.co/rEYrMb1IbG 
  • Bartys raises over £55,000 through charity will writing scheme - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Qym3do9Yq1
  • Trevor Sterling: 'I want to see the second black senior partner now' | Law Gazette https://t.co/chmpYCwoq
  • The #US Federal Aviation Administration has grounded Virgin Galactic flights as it investigates how Sir Richard Branson's recent space flight drifted off course during its climb skyward https://t.co/tbAcHByKLT
  • Limited liability – not all it is cracked up to be, Pt II - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/voaNmgMMQA
  • Employment lawyer urges caution over ‘workation’ policies - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/EABSKbNcoa
  • Lawyer of the Month: Stephen McGowan - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kCqLw0nUHK 
  • Huge delays persist in taking civil court claims to trial - Legal Futures https://t.co/pHFwylCVY2 
  • Irish lawyer Genevieve Poirier joins LALIVE in London | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jYYyDaCTg
  • A ground-breaking code to create "a better internet for children" comes into force in the UK on Thursday. Critics say it leaves many digital businesses unsure what to do - but big firms including TikTok and YouTube have already made changes https://t.co/P3euDvVoYl
  • The Attorney General has been asked to review a sentence given to a right-wing extremist for a terrorism offence. Ben John was handed the 24-month sentence, suspended for two years, at Leicester Crown Court on Tuesday https://t.co/cO1kZ0fNnp
  • Law firms “must turn diversity aspirations into reality” - Legal Futures https://t.co/lmxVrpnNBX 
  • SLCC consults on ‘digital and paperless’ rules - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KgE2xnDqhi 
  • Eight #US states to accept driver's licence on iPhones https://t.co/NaaRrc8qp
  • Religious groups in UK failing children over sex abuse, report says - Evidence examined from 38 groups, including sects from Christianity, Orthodox Judaism and Islam https://t.co/z4KiLfWraH 
  • Solicitor who “considered herself to be the client” is struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/j9FZCHyTMT
  • Edinburgh sheriff orders council to hand over report into abuse to whistleblower employee - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lrjvXX0CzX
  • Legal profession ushers in Solicitors Qualifying Exam | Law Gazette https://t.co/Um9ZWvwOao 
  • How #NewZealand’s Māori are reclaiming land with occupations https://t.co/JK60zC7wcb
  • Texas abortion providers ask supreme court to halt unprecedented abortion law #US https://t.co/v6Jw2UmfmQ
  • Dublin City Council pays out €33.5m to settle personal injury claims | Irish Legal News https://t.co/p9d082anT0
  • A neo-Nazi terrorist has been ordered to read classic novels in lieu of a prison sentence. Judge Timothy Spencer QC told 21-year-old Ben John to swap his extremist literature for the works of Jane Austen and William Shakespeare - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8CJmHWHRIj
  • Elation greeted Dontae Sharpe as he walked out of prison a free man, 26 years after being wrongly convicted of murder. But proving his innocence was only the first step down a long road https://t.co/o56I35ojA0
  • Purdue Pharma Is Dissolved and Sacklers Pay $4.5 Billion to Settle Opioid Claims - The ruling in bankruptcy court caps a long legal battle over the fate of a company accused of fueling the opioid epidemic and the family that owns it #US https://t.co/HNFHbaK12h
  • #US Supreme Court Does Not Act on Texas' Near-Total Abortion Ban https://t.co/3aVu34wpWR 
  • ‘Lawyers, as members of the legal profession and public citizens having special responsibility for the quality of justice, to devote at least 20 hours each year to efforts that advance and promote diversity' | Law Gazette https://t.co/HDUksCOEpG
  • Outer House rejects three of four contentions in payment fraud action by business banking customer - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/m3HXEsixiN
  • Yemen: Barrister asks ICC to open 'war crimes' investigation | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ws1WsDpDBR
  • What the SNP-Green deal could mean for the natural environment - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6HUBHC3yhq
  • MoJ pushes on with court fee increases despite majority opposition | Law Gazette https://t.co/qO1MSPTjm
  • Former solicitor rises to Court of Appeal bench | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y2V6T1zIGt
  • Matthew Howse: Landowners’ litigation over 4G masts on the rise in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/LgiAStUlaU 
  • Policing review recommends closer north-south collaboration | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bBUqYnpvuy 
  • Taylor Wessing formally opens its doors in Dublin | Irish Legal News https://t.co/q9cfnlnBGA 
  • Tribunal rules student wrongly believed she was employed by firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/XAxyDIFHZ0 
  • Travellers from the UK to Portugal will not need to be fully vaccinated to avoid quarantine, the country's tourist board has said https://t.co/VW0nlEWXAZ

Thursday

2nd September - Law News

Edition 3537: 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 1915 the president, Woodrow Wilson, screened the movie Birth of a Nation at the White House – a film that depicts Black men as brutal people who desire white women. Meanwhile white supremacist groups were writing school curriculums and news media were painting Black men as animalistic beings who attacked white women. This set the scene for a week of racial violence targeting Black Americans in 1919, during which two American cities were left in chaos. In Chicago it started with a Black man drowning after white people throw stones at him at a beach for infringing on their space. It led to a confrontation between Black and white citizens, and escalated into white mobs going into Black communities to burn down homes and kill Black people. In Washington DC it started with a minor argument that turned into rape allegations against two Black men, which prompted white mobs to attack Black people in restaurants, trolleys and in their communities. Dozens of Black people were killed during these riots, and few were held accountable.
 
 Focus of the Day Article: More families will benefit from publicly funded family mediation following a fresh cash injection by the government. A further £800,000 has been allocated to a voucher scheme launched five months ago with £1m of initial funding. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Joseph Bowie joins Esson & Aberdein as COO - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MKnoprVOAa
  • NI urology inquiry chaired by Christine Smith QC to be set up next week | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EJnaDD9uBD
  • Are your Barristers’ Chambers Secure and GDPR Compliant? Is your printer a major GDPR security risk? – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/qsY3ZKH3JS
  • Sustainability crisis deepens as solicitors quit emergency court scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/VsvvoFo1Lj
  • Civil society groups to benefit from €410,000 all-island community fund | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RJ7YHipNhy
  • MoJ: “Strong justification” for increasing 129 court fees - Legal Futures https://t.co/LrgTqcPsBL 
  • The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 – transformational legislation or a missed opportunity? – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/u0e6F8fx1
  • City firm’s innovation trainee to develop “tangible deliverable product” - Legal Futures https://t.co/hR11cyRLa
  • Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy will remain in custody ahead of a potential trial on rape charges after a bail application was refused https://t.co/MLyFzLR8
  • More cash for family mediation | Law Gazette https://t.co/CmcyzwKE6
  • Ofcom clears ITV over Piers Morgan's Meghan comments on Good Morning Britain https://t.co/tGC27UwU
  • Northern Ireland’s legacy pension scheme for victims of the Troubles has opened for applications | Irish Legal News https://t.co/6smISiXKUN
  • Solicitor who stole £275,000 from client's estate struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/qc4ki3WjQP
  • The government is "not confident" that it knows how many people eligible to come to the UK remain in Afghanistan, Dominic Raab says https://t.co/PMKEnN57P5
  • Vaccine passports are to be required for entry to nightclubs and many large events in Scotland from later this month, Nicola Sturgeon has said https://t.co/VffzVxrF8
  • Double child killer Colin Pitchfork has been released from prison, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed https://t.co/F3gwXRUSb
  • Wetherspoon, with an ardent brexit supporting founder, is runing low on beer amid driver shortage https://t.co/BLeOqRNk
  • Vulnerable people put at risk by digital lasting powers of attorney – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/ZgWQOdJU9
  • Lawyers urge UK government to help stranded Afghan judge | Law Gazette https://t.co/1zdXwbQU57
  • New eco-petrol baffles a quarter of motorists https://t.co/rjcLDyefQu
  • Outer House rejects three of four contentions in payment fraud action by business banking customer - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/m3HXEsixiN
  • Texas passes law banning abortion after six weeks #US https://t.co/I1V5BoXE6o
  • Collective Competition Claim against Govia Thameslink for overcharging rail passengers – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/eQqoFvB2jt
  • ‘Brilliant mind and big heart’: Tributes pour in for barrister | Law Gazette https://t.co/Lcqy4lcsIy 
  • Nizar Banat’s death highlights brutality of #Palestinian Authority https://t.co/ojbG4L7Di1
  • FOR A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF CORRUPTION AS A CULTURAL FACT, AND ITS INFLUENCE IN SOCIETY | Fernando M Forattini https://t.co/684L8JiadU
  • BSB publishes new research on consumers’ expectations and experience of working with barristers – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/VuRQA8PPMm 
  • Afghans who worked for the British military and UK government will be able to move to the UK permanently, the Home Office has announced https://t.co/EAwX89Ikmo 
  • Bar Council, Bar Human Rights Committee and Law Society urge UK Government to offer asylum to female judges and other legal professionals in Afghanistan – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/59ngvVEg7T

Wednesday

1st September - Law News

Edition 3536: 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: A short film, made for Justice Week 2020, about the power of the law to protect our rivers, our air and our planet. Brought to you by The Bar Council and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx)
 
 Focus of the Day Article: There is a link between greater diversity and higher law firm profits, research has found. It said partners at the most diverse top 200 US law firms earn $260,000 more than those at the least diverse. Full story - Legal Futures

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Staff ownership can drive Scottish economic recovery - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XAixA34vE
  • International travellers to be allowed to use private sector Covid tests - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ufNAOciP9
  • Virginia governor pardons 7 Black men executed in 1951 for rape of a white woman - Governor Ralph Northam said the men, tried by all-white juries, were not given due process at a time when only Black men received death sentences for rape in Virginia #US https://t.co/lKrasmbGBQ
  • MacAskill calls for Police Scotland to end Sri Lankan training - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DSPFmxitW
  • Ministers struggle to find people to interview Paul Dacre for Ofcom job: Second attempt to make former Daily Mail editor chair of media regulator hits stumbling block https://t.co/TeWZSMfVbO 
  • John Lydon: court decision on Danny Boyle film ‘so destructive’ for Sex Pistols - Punk frontman, who lost case against bandmates over use of music in TV series, says he fears band’s legacy may be ‘watered down’ https://t.co/l8QFO0i2C6
  • The crisis of citizenship and the rise of cultural rights | Yves Guermond https://t.co/rbGVb3TEHy 
  • People can self-identify as male or female in Scottish census, says guidance: Answer to sex question can differ from birth certificate, without need for gender recognition certificate, says NRS https://t.co/1G4ujMkazD
  • No 10 to press on with plans for Covid vaccine passports in England - PM’s spokesperson rejects suggestion ministers could back away from proposals for clubs and large venues https://t.co/oqsV8vgXfG
  • Months after England’s last lockdown, why are courts still pursuing Covid breaches? This law and order approach to public health has overwhelmed the courts – and hit vulnerable people hardest https://t.co/DjKB3vVozD
  • @caoilfhionnanna Always thought her book 'We need to talk about Kevin' was vastly overrated and her appearances in BBC review arts programmes in days gone by were facile. Aug 31, 2021
  • A Michigan #US couple have been ordered to pay over £22,000 to their son after they binned his massive porn collection - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CA6i20jBEc
  • Texas abortion providers ask supreme court to halt unprecedented abortion law #US https://t.co/v6Jw2UDQeo
  • Burness Paull profits soar by 39% in spite of pandemic challenges - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HMcbUFaSSj
  • PC Harper's widow vows to continue push for law change - Lissie Harper is demanding life sentences for people who kill emergency workers https://t.co/kBHB4nWLt7
  • Oil and gas lawyer Bruce McLeod joins Pinsent Masons as partner - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6cJRChIMe
  • Data breach ruling "could stem" tide of claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/nPJOzYDZjd
  • Theranos scandal: Who is Elizabeth Holmes and why is she on trial? https://t.co/uVEBWWCFZv 
  • An alpaca at the centre of a legal fight after twice testing positive for bovine tuberculosis has been led away by Defra officials. Police officers accompanied Defra staff, dressed in overalls, goggles and masks as they entered Helen Macdonald's farm https://t.co/xZVilZwZN6 
  • CJEU rules prohibitions on religious clothing in workplaces may not constitute direct discrimination - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qBenZtvpJA
  • Judge warns over 'risk-free' litigation under DBA backed by insurance - Legal Futures https://t.co/D6HCRFJ5Bx 
  • #Afghan Family Says U.S. Missile Killed 10, Including 7 Children https://t.co/LA1eavgPXB 
  • Foreign secretary Dominic Raab rejects US claims that the UK was indirectly responsible for the suicide attacks at Kabul airport last week by insisting that the Abbey Gate entry point to be kept open to allow British nationals to enter the airport https://t.co/JXEsZmqSQQ 
  • Inheritance tax bills rise in Edinburgh as house prices increase - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VFNPOGsewg 
  • Ex-attorney general Cox earning £468,000 a year as law firm consultant | Law Gazette https://t.co/5clqEZWgKg

Tuesday

31st August - Law News

Edition 3535: 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: When the Ever Given became stuck in the Suez canal in March 2021, people woke up to the sheer size of these megaships. But these vessels, which now dominate container shipping, have been quietly ballooning in size for more than 50 years, and even doubling in capacity every few years since the turn of the millennium. The bigger they have grown, the more problems they have caused for consumers and producers, problems that extend much further than getting stuck

 Focus of the Day Article: In 2009 the EU embarked on a roadmap for strengthening procedural rights of suspects and accused persons in criminal proceedings. An instrument of this kind had been attempted before but was too ambitious – not least as the UK blocked it. But Sweden was determined as part of its six-month EU Presidency to get a step-by-step approach agreed. The safeguards were seen as an important response to the mutual recognition project that produced the European arrest warrant, investigation order, supervision order, instrument on transfer of prisoners and various others. The UK in fact concluded that these were necessary law enforcement measures in 2014 when it exercised the Protocol 36 to the Lisbon Treaty option to depart from police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, and then opted back into 35. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • The Corporate Counsel Show: Accepting healthy conflict - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/MeMtjp2E0A
  • Moray & Agnew to donate to UNICEF for every employee who gets vaccine - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/bhM7r6BqFe 
  • The European Union recommended a pause on all non-essential travel from the US as Covid-19 cases surge https://t.co/dzICm16qJm 
  • Laws on media coverage of sexual offences: Time for a rethink? | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/RyQ415QFNB 
  • Pivoting when one-third of your fee earners are taking maternity leave - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/1fQpJygxH0 
  • Supreme Court to commence physical hearing with hybrid option from September 1, issues SOP | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/jp89m4hBoj 
  • UK councils urged to offer housing and support to fleeing Afghans https://t.co/UYSV0xeYV4 
  • The role of a legal representative in place of a deceased employer | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/ffaAcbB2lv 
  • A new law aimed at making school uniforms cheaper in England and Wales will not be in place in time for the start of this school year https://t.co/AnblPjOrHC
  • #Australia’s merger laws are ‘failing to protect competition’ - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/4X8jdnFCdt
  • UK republicans take heart from royals’ recent travails https://t.co/EMkEyAGJii 
  • Majority of Northern Irish voters want vote on staying in UK https://t.co/cMlcpBZZwv
  • The Sun pays damages to Ben Stokes over family tragedy story - Tabloid apologises to cricketer and his mother and says 2019 article should not have been published https://t.co/QLRxu2vlWb 
  • Kidnapped, raped and wed against their will: #Kyrgyz women’s fight against a brutal tradition https://t.co/B2FgkGlI7f
  • Head of #Australia PM’s department halts inquiry around Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation https://t.co/dAGBPLDlZ5
  • Online gamers under the age of 18 will only be allowed to play for an hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays, #China's video game regulator has said https://t.co/NWZMTXXuPB 
  • The Weekly Round-Up: Afghanistan, disability equality, and unregulated accommodation - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/M59EPAnsdy 
  • Calcutta High Court declines to interfere in dispute over WB Bar Council letter to remove Acting CJ | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/4EqXg8wcwC 
  • Armed gang members in #Brazil have taken a number of people hostage during their getaway following a bank robbery in the city of Araçatuba. Footage recorded by locals shows getaway vehicles with people tied to their roofs and hoods https://t.co/n40I2mZc7W 
  • The Guardian view on official secrets: plans that undermine democracy | Editorial https://t.co/1MYmYetUos
  • Why the new policing bill threatens our right to protest - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ZMdK60wZtf 
  • An Uber driver from Hampshire and a shopkeeper from north London were among those who died in the Kabul attack. Mohammad Niazi and Musa Popal were killed after blasts shook the #Afghan capital on Thursday https://t.co/mUcomDG4wx 
  • Workers in England and Wales are being fobbed off with a "stingy" number of bank holidays, say trades unions. They get eight public holidays a year, which is four fewer than the EU average and half the number in Japan https://t.co/IqV0oNPkOP
  • People travelling to the UK from Canada and Denmark will not need to isolate as the UK's latest Covid travel rules have come into force https://t.co/flo3Z6I7BW
  • Safeguards for suspects and accused persons in criminal proceedings in the EU - Jodie Blackstock - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/ouxeepwgDD
  • End-of-life choices are being limited by insurance companies https://t.co/LWV4nFYyAg
  • 10 things students should know about the SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vp1wZ7KuNf 
  • Extinction Rebellion activists glued to Science Museum site in Shell protest https://t.co/VLGclqAmz6 
  • Spate of attacks across UK sparks fear among LGBTQ+ community https://t.co/hNT0PHShkr 
  • EAGLEGATE Lawyers welcomes BigLaw associate - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/6UNlplBuVj