10th April - Law News

Edition 3757: 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 funeral has been held for a Palestinian man shot dead during an Israeli raid in Jenin. The raid also injured 13 people. Jenin has long been viewed by Palestinians as a stronghold for resistance and during the Second Intifada, the refugee camp was subjected to one of the largest raids by the Israeli military. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Government leaves open possibility of turning PIAB into quasi-judicial body in future | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zTF7jVXalh 
• Yorkshire solicitor and well-known businesswoman, 67, named as victim of fatal house fire in Brearton https://t.co/s9scdMpUin 
• £400,000 financial remedy costs bill 'woefully excessive' | Law Gazette https://t.co/ElpvyX90NF
• Lawyer of the Month: Rosie Walker | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/tSffj8sNJA 
• Justice Department is reviewing how classified material wound up at Mar-a-Lago #US https://t.co/4hn7MaZgWB
  
• Law Society plans £11 rise in PC fee after years of cuts | Law Gazette https://t.co/cosqRykIMZ 
• Gilson Gray promotes Joe Davies to partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/q8xTGHbDs8 
• Publicly-funded criminal barrister numbers drop by 11% | Law Gazette https://t.co/HBgnXN6DnX
• Compensation fund payments soar to £27m | Law Gazette https://t.co/eziPBrKZbV 
• Supreme Court upholds constitutional validity of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2020 | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/dLyxXAy33T
• Mulholland Law welcomes two new paralegals | Irish Legal News https://t.co/gQkaKuO4Gi
  
• Publicly-funded criminal barrister numbers drop by 11% | Law Gazette https://t.co/HBgnXMP1Zn
  
• NSW lawyer given suspended jail term for working without a practising certificate #Australia https://t.co/W9P6WneNyn
  
• AQP have an expert team dedicated to Executry and Trust affairs | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZV8JcJ33uj 
• Co-op Legal’s profits up 28% as business grows to 600 staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/qpfG3oqi6o
  
• #Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned that if he is ousted from power, he will not recognise an opposition government https://t.co/LJjzJHi6tg 
• Dentons promotes Ciaran O’Boyle to partner in Dublin | Irish Legal News https://t.co/uyolmabXDQ 
• Manoj K Mishra elected President of Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record Association | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/SOaZoaPP60 
• ‘We understand’: Law Society issues guidance on bar action | Law Gazette https://t.co/5K0bVpof27 
• Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘honored’ to become supreme court’s first Black female justice – as it happened #US https://t.co/vulFpokuBL 
• Court of Appeal: Concurrent wrongdoer provisions of Civil Liability Act 1961 do not apply to debt claims | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Sg9pa7mDJA 
• Mother in law: Being mindful | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZdjuGIPOhA
• Two airline passengers accused of "unruly behaviour" have been hit with the largest fines ever proposed by the #US Federal Aviation Administration - penalties on the two flyers accused of violence are part of $2m (£1.5m) in fines levied this year https://t.co/NG6WUb0DGd

9th April - Law News

Edition 3756: 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: India's Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed criticised the Centre's policy of attaching a price tag to booster doses, and questioned where excise duties, GST funds and funds from PM Cares had been allocated.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Ukraine: Evidence of Russian forces extrajudicially executing civilians | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/L393zisUzm 
• #Australian Human Rights Commission’s status at risk over Coalition’s appointment process https://t.co/9NB7aNhR4b
• Activist Lawyer featuring Eoghan O’Sullivan launches | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RZwxmk0CeV
• #Canada joins calls to remove Russia from UN Human Rights Council over ‘heinous’ acts https://t.co/bNMaTvJcud 
  
• Firm owner told client he could not complain to regulator | Law Gazette https://t.co/KH5qC6sRGm 
• A Turkish millionaire's fraud claim have linked a further payment to the Duchess of York. Court documents show lawyers of Nebahat Isbilen have updated who they claim received her assets, in allegations against business adviser Selman Turk https://t.co/pKAiSRRRH4
  
• Ex-tennis star Boris Becker has been found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act relating to his 2017 bankruptcy https://t.co/XLhMQ3MRV
• Will Smith has been banned from the Oscars gala and other Academy events for 10 years after the actor slapped comic Chris Rock at the Oscars https://t.co/KjnZpPF2tZ
• England: SRA conducts spot checks on law firms over Russia connections | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/dCRF4LskVY 
• Solicitor mother of triplets unfairly dismissed by British Gas | Law Gazette https://t.co/0TFzGUfNJ9 
• Personal injury solicitor returned €2,000 in costs to client after LSRA complaint about settlement | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RJ9ijadph1
  
• Ince’s takeover of Arden thrown into doubt | Law Gazette https://t.co/Nle0P4mKto 
• Number of SRA investigations lasting more than a year hits 1,000 - Legal Futures https://t.co/kyoc9RU2Y5
  
• Crypto specialists cautiously welcome regulation plans | Law Gazette https://t.co/cf4iYLRqsT 
• Northern Ireland law centre raises alarm over service provision for disabled children and adults | Irish Legal News https://t.co/z3OQ86hoi4 
• Human rights heavyweights join war crimes hunt | Law Gazette https://t.co/sa4wM2dpl3 
• UK’s freedom of information laws are being undermined, warn journalists https://t.co/4FJrmZqLIy 
• In-house solicitor with triplets was victim of discrimination - Legal Futures https://t.co/aGTVI0zFVs
• Refugee pupils with no school places have lessons in Manchester car parks. Volunteers run makeshift classrooms for ‘hundreds’ of children at hotels facing long waits to get into schools https://t.co/2CTFdThpuX 
• Koci Selamaj, 36, has been jailed at the Old Bailey for life with a minimum term of 36 years for the murder of the primary school teacher Sabina Nessa https://t.co/4Uz3YZ4jFi 
• Flights should be banned in continental Europe and car use banned in city centres to save energy and prevent Vladimir Putin profiting from fossil fuel sales, campaigners have said https://t.co/YU2akgYlB0 
• BBC blocked from naming alleged MI5 informant accused of abusing women - Attorney general wins injunction to stop identification of man after arguing it would damage national security https://t.co/5gRJZAcmS1 
• AG granted injunction over BBC ‘MI5 informant’ story | Law Gazette https://t.co/IU2X6bZw4B 
• HMRC names avoidance scheme promoters for first time | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HMhIz7xf2c
  
• Liberty threatens to sue government over ‘racist’ joint enterprise law - Human rights group argues law unfairly attaches gang motives to black and minority-ethnic young men https://t.co/PRlgUhbuAL 
• How A Human Rights Watch Investigator Searches For War Crimes Evidence In Bucha https://t.co/SSrqxIa1Yc
  
• Ukraine war service trumps litigation, judge rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/leHiRnOqZF 
• Family lawyers “should be asking clients about the menopause” - Legal Futures https://t.co/BfECvpm6Mr
  
• #Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan could face removal from office this weekend, after the country's top court ruled his move to block a no-confidence vote was unconstitutional https://t.co/MW6RJeZBx2 
• #Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has proposed a two-year ban on some foreigners buying homes. The measure comes as the country grapples with some of the worst housing affordability issues in the world https://t.co/amZYUOBzUV 
• Ketanji Brown Jackson makes history as first Black woman confirmed to #US supreme court https://t.co/bzRm15MPt4 
• Why did no-fault divorce take so long? Blame my parents | Law Gazette https://t.co/0tthn4SnXC 
• Akshata Murty’s non-dom status is totally legal – and perfectly toxic for Rishi Sunak https://t.co/TF0KtDpPql 
• Solicitor Clare Burns among new SCSSA board directors | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/q4s9ym3c1A 
• Law firms under pressure to improve safeguards against dirty money | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MdoIhrK6t0 
• Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife pays £30,000 a year to maintain her non-dom status, her spokeswoman has confirmed https://t.co/sAq4ZHuMsV

8th April - Law News

Edition 3755: 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 Bob Brown Foundation has said an issue with a decades-old piece of legislation means the Tasmanian government has been illegally logging forests in the state for years. The government has denied the issue rendered past logging operations "illegal", however Resources Minister Guy Barnett said he intended to introduce legislation that would remove doubt.

Focus of the Day Article:  The Solicitors Regulation Authority has begun spot checks on firms named in parliament as working for Russian oligarch clients. In his report to the SRA board ahead of last week’s meeting, chief executive Paul Philip revealed that the regulator had responded to allegations that lawyers are helping individuals included on the sanctions list to seek a defence. MPs have also alleged that firms are not conducting proper checks on clients, or are threatening litigation in a way designed to stifle public debate. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Law firms under pressure to improve safeguards against dirty money | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MdoIhrK6t0 
• Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife pays £30,000 a year to maintain her non-dom status, her spokeswoman has confirmed https://t.co/sAq4ZHuMsV 
• Belfast firm Edwards & Co welcomes employment partner Niall McMullan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dsIRjteVO4 
• New York's top lawyer has asked a state judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court, for allegedly failing to turn over files for an investigation into his business practices #US https://t.co/p8UB1iM0Z7 
• Philip Lee appoints Gerard Byrne as dispute resolution and litigation partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/OaZ6OKMciO 
• Murgitroyd’s expansion continues with acquisition of Creation IP | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Z0kU8EwmeS 
• British solicitor named as Australian landslide victim | Law Gazette https://t.co/c3wbjmJiC3 
• Dentons promotes three to partner in Scotland | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gtyPaABk7N 
• PI business ready to expand following £13.5m investment | Law Gazette https://t.co/xuzgqZc8hI 
• Law Society warns of six-month gap in implementation of new capacity law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/12j1pban0R 
• Judge finds ‘no justification’ for firm charging £1,100 an hour | Law Gazette https://t.co/61inICYDMk 
• Ban on fur farming comes into effect | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zN5GBWrZ0I 
• Former MP’s barrister apologises for disclosing skeleton | Law Gazette https://t.co/D4mYuRZJkV 
• SRA bans host of unadmitted staff for backdating documents - Legal Futures https://t.co/i8lmvCe7nJ 
• #Australia's government seeks legal power to deport Aboriginal non-citizens https://t.co/A5RzKA1RaI 
• Eversheds makes up 19 UK lawyers to partner | Law Gazette https://t.co/RcPGUddgjA 
• How tech can help firms achieve their post-pandemic goals - Legal Futures https://t.co/nCoq5rb2pr
  
• Co Galway firm appoints Laura King to lead second office | Irish Legal News https://t.co/kvuHLUKFDV 
• Security guards in Qatar working on projects that include some linked to the 2022 World Cup have been subjected to conditions "which amount to forced labour," claims Amnesty https://t.co/2EPO2REtK8 
• SRA starts visiting firms named as acting for Russians | Law Gazette https://t.co/ADMTb4nUug 
• Regulator probes law firms accused in Parliament over oligarch work - Legal Futures https://t.co/7CjpuKGtwE 
• Reed denies political ‘pressure’ over departure from Hong Kong | Law Gazette https://t.co/AyAFuSQnP2 
• No criminal charges will be brought against a Minneapolis police officer who shot dead 22-year-old Amir Locke in an apartment during a "no-knock" raid #US https://t.co/v6BSM2MkRX 
• How minority power brokers command ideology and homophily on the online Gab network of the alt-right – fake news, brokerage and advantage through social capital | Yannick Bowe https://t.co/cXivwzYn74 
• Mason Hayes & Curran: Regulatory issues the greatest challenge to digital transformation in financial services | Irish Legal News https://t.co/kTzhu33lNy
  
• The US has imposed sanctions against #Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle, including his daughters https://t.co/74xO7BbXfg 
• D-Day for family lawyers as no-fault divorce arrives | Law Gazette https://t.co/zUnl9cBRxp 
• Tigray has been the scene of ‘ethnic cleansing’, say human rights groups - Human Rights Watch-Amnesty report accuses #Ethiopian paramilitaries of war crimes and crimes against humanity https://t.co/N7VqEMy5LS
  
• Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, worth nearly 500 million has revealed she has non-domiciled status for UK tax purposes. The status means Ms Murty legally does not have to pay UK tax on income she earns outside Britain https://t.co/EsmCC2Hrfq 
• Personal injury group raises £13.5m to aid international expansion - Legal Futures https://t.co/OB1b8EjR1t 
• #Russian teacher ‘shocked’ as she faces jail over anti-war speech pupils taped https://t.co/36cp3JCCN9 
• Eversheds Sutherland backs launch of new anti-fraud body in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/m9VCmyNO4P

7th April - Law News

Edition 3754: 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: Qualifying work experience explained by the SRA - What is qualifying work experience? (QWE) Join the free webinar to find out and get the facts on: what counts as QWE how someone meets our requirements what confirming QWE involves and who can do it how a candidate records their QWE and what they need to tell the SRA.

Focus of the Day Article:  Mid-tier London law firms are “rubbing their hands with glee” at an influx of new oligarch clients turned away by the big City firms, a leading media lawyer has claimed.. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• How could Vladimir Putin be prosecuted for war crimes? #Russia https://t.co/jlxy4DfMH6
  
• A security guard at the British embassy in Berlin suspected of spying for Russia has been extradited to appear in court charged with nine offences under the Official Secrets Act https://t.co/wk56Zskth8 
• Graham Dwyer succeeds in EU challenge to Irish data retention law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/pNKgwK8qk9
  
• The pandemic has not reset the culture in law | Law Gazette https://t.co/uPAAovMpIu 
• Lawscot Foundation: Applications open for ‘less-advantaged’ aspiring Scottish solicitors | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LMkCD2vWoG 
• It’s totally OK to break laws in England – just ask the MPs who make them https://t.co/mYGC8yeagk
  
• International firm rebuked over insufficient checks on mass group action | Law Gazette https://t.co/dl0Cn7pilC
  
• Client suing law firm ordered to pay security for costs - Legal Futures https://t.co/oBGWRQVSqn 
• Allen & Overy narrows gender pay gap | Law Gazette https://t.co/LfTisUzySs 
• Victims of #Brazil’s Mariana dam disaster seek compensation through UK courts https://t.co/M56qiQ9zkC
  
• Family judge sorry after ‘everything went wrong’ in contact dispute | Law Gazette https://t.co/TMCKZ9bz6l 
• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he does not believe transgender women should compete in female sporting events - a view he conceded may be "controversial" https://t.co/UUliXuNeGp 
• Electric vehicle charging points in a council's car parks have been hacked to show a porn website on their screens. Isle of Wight Council has three charge points in Quay Road, Ryde, Cross Street, Cowes and Moa Place, Freshwater https://t.co/eRXRagFwPJ
• Tributes have been paid to a British lawyer who died in a landslide with his nine-year-old son while hiking in Australia's Blue Mountains. Mehraab Nazir, 49, died with his son at the scene https://t.co/4albldQH7G 
• Mid-tier law firms “rubbing hands with glee” at new oligarch clients - Legal Futures https://t.co/qXZVOoq1qT 
• The most far-reaching change in divorce laws in decades has come into force - ending the need for separating couples to blame one of themselves. The launch of no-fault divorces for England and Wales comes after years of campaigning by family lawyers https://t.co/y1ei4axuhh 
• Entrepreneur appealing contempt finding in £200,000 dispute with Farrer & Co | Law Gazette https://t.co/7goV4Q1iIg 
• SRA rebukes leading class action firm over conduct of struck-out claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/TBnVNGuYBR
  
• A judge ruled that Ed Sheeran had not plagiarised the 2015 song Oh Why by Sami Chokri, a grime artist who performs under the name Sami Switch, had claimed the "Oh I" hook in Sheeran's track was "strikingly similar" to an "Oh why" refrain in his own track https://t.co/cvf6eQFIcZ 
• Bakers top-paid partner drew £4.3m last year | Law Gazette https://t.co/lZN6cfEsCJ 
• A former P&O Ferries chef is suing the company and its chief executive, claiming unfair dismissal, racial discrimination and harassment. John Lansdown is the only seafarer to take legal action after 800 staff were sacked without notice last month https://t.co/B4VZ1lno8C 
• #Sudan militia leader denies war crimes at landmark ICC Darfur trial - Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman is accused of 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity https://t.co/hoVHs1Njg3
  
• Lawmakers in Oklahoma passed a bill that would impose a near-total ban on abortions in the state. The bill would criminalise performing an abortion in almost all cases, except where it could "save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency" #US https://t.co/rUDc6TCp3R 
• Ince Group granted injunction after ransomware attack - Legal Futures https://t.co/tdOGL8CsWn 
• Most in-house lawyers want to work from home | Law Gazette https://t.co/RTBIc99Y0x 
• Scotland’s prison population rate remains above European average | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GXoM1kjCjt 
• Law Society of Northern Ireland challenges new ministers to deliver on access to justice | Irish Legal News https://t.co/wJqLG7h2YG 
• Global grandees join call for Ukraine war crimes tribunal | Law Gazette https://t.co/VvijDRWnZ1 
• ECJ rules in favour of Irish murderer Graham Dwyer in phone data dispute #Ireland https://t.co/Zn9QTNHfoI
  
• Laura Falls made partner at Addleshaw Goddard in Edinburgh | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Pld2n5V0OI
  
• There’s no such thing as ‘no-fault’ divorce – the phrase they’re looking for is ‘everybody’s fault’ https://t.co/mUUdmHkLFl

6th April - Law News

Edition 3753: 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 the Ukraine invasion, hundreds of people found themselves stranded in Calais as they tried to navigate the UK visa process. It put a spotlight on the city where many young refugees have been living outside all winter in harsh conditions, while NGOs struggled to provide the most basic services. The UK has given millions of pounds to France to try to prevent border crossings but people continue to attempt to get to Britain.  Meanwhile, the residents of Calais complain of an increasingly militarised city. 

Focus of the Day Article:  Members of the Glasgow Bar Association (GBA) will no longer accept court appointments in cases where accused persons are not allowed to represent themselves after 90 per cent of member firms voted in favour of action, the body has announced. Full story - Scottish Legal News

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Best of the blogs - 2 April 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/RHfNTQAsCx
• Ben Roberts-Smith and patrol let down by ‘weak leadership’ in SAS, court hears #Australia https://t.co/YD9ibE1Z1g
• Regulator bans secretary who stole client’s medal collections | Law Gazette https://t.co/Z4n0uwYz7I
• Scottish government told to listen to lawyers’ concerns over remote hearings | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OOulzEzd6H
• SDT "does not have power" to revoke s43 orders made by SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/9aB3OqDoxJ 
• A man from Plymouth has pleaded guilty to the murder of Bobbi-Anne McLeod. Musician Cody Ackland, 24, from Southway, admitted the killing during a hearing at the city's crown court https://t.co/QZXiX4N4w1 
• Macleod & MacCallum announces promotions for homegrown solicitors | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gLBM9ujsyf 
• Cardi B has won an injunction forcing a YouTuber to delete and never repost defamatory videos about her. It comes a few months after the rapper won a £2m lawsuit against Latasha Kebe, known online as Tasha K https://t.co/y05uqGTFFL 
• A satellite image of Bucha in Ukraine appears to show bodies lying in the street nearly two weeks before the #Russians left the town https://t.co/juxAkWTOcT
• 'I acted for an oligarch' | Law Gazette https://t.co/rDB3wTqCt
• Barristers mount second legal aid protest at Criminal Courts of Justice | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bzJy6PFOIR
• Bar set to scrap student aptitude test | Law Gazette https://t.co/Swyr5E8h1
• Delaying new law ‘gives green light to rogue employers’, says TUC - With employment bill unlikely to make Queen’s speech, P&O Ferries-type scandals will happen again, says Frances O’Grady https://t.co/0DoRTdOiS
• Court of Appeal hears bid to revive £5bn Brazil group claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/eZR79WPLW
• Four in 10 pupils have experienced or witnessed bullying at the Bar - Legal Futures https://t.co/UTW9T2xLx
• Pre-action libel letters need ‘more regulation’, peers told | Law Gazette https://t.co/VfeWbZgclT 
• Class action firm allowed to terminate retainer, leaving 183 LiPs behind - Legal Futures https://t.co/SklfJa5Bh
• My legal life: Jo Evans, Lewis Silkin - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y47Zhzlrqj
• Warwickshire merger creates 70-strong firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/RoXIiCg6Kk 
• US President Joe Biden has called for #Russian President Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes as evidence emerges of atrocities allegedly committed by Russian forces in Ukraine https://t.co/59Gjo76h8E 
• Two "stolen" notebooks written by Charles Darwin have been mysteriously returned to Cambridge University, 22 years after they were last seen https://t.co/ZHPY6PEBN4
  
• Priti Patel’s immigration bill suffers multiple defeats in Lords - Peers find fault with many aspects of nationality and borders bill, in particular proposal to divide refugees into classes https://t.co/VteDJUyg53 
• Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission launches new strategic plan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Kh7uW8s82E
• Tech gives lawyers “opportunity to develop” emotional intelligence - Legal Futures https://t.co/yhLCx7V9qk
  
• Services such as bathrooms & domestic abuse refuges can be single sex in certain circumstances, in new guidance. However, the guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission says such services should be open to trans people where possible https://t.co/k6Vi2lPlDM
  
• See you in court! The return of sex-packed legal drama The Split https://t.co/rPve32DpB2
• Government 'cools on JR reforms' after Lords defeats | Law Gazette https://t.co/t4UXo45Yg4 
• Eversheds Sutherland promotes nine in Dublin and Belfast | Irish Legal News https://t.co/AnqEbZCqcB 
• New questions raised over Prince Andrew’s award to Selman Turk - Concerns were aired over Pitch@Palace contest win for banker linked to over £1m of payments to Duke of York https://t.co/bxaeUDjFtX
• UK politicians request visa scheme for Ukrainian students and academics - In a letter to Priti Patel, the cross-party group calls for temporary places where those displaced can study and carry out research https://t.co/mIytuTWEDe 
• A five-year-old boy was treated like a prisoner in the days before his death, a murder trial has heard. Logan Mwangi was made to face the wall as his step-father John Cole put food in his room, jurors at Cardiff Crown Court were told https://t.co/QYF01fe1cH 
• A time to reconsider VAT on legal services | Law Gazette https://t.co/IZkNaqNcVq 
• Police have arrested one suspect in connection with a shooting in the centre of Sacramento, California's capital, on Sunday, that left six dead. Dandre Martin, 26, has been charged with assault and illegal firearm possession, police said on Monday https://t.co/2otJXUN85l

5th April - Law News

Edition 3752: 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: Day and another (Appellants) v The Governor of the Cayman Islands and another (Respondents)

Focus of the Day Article:  Gas from Mozambique in difficult times for energy: breach of the Paris Agreement? Full story - UK Human Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• “Very sorry state of affairs:” Supreme Court on arbitral award pending for 30+ years | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/VlfNLg9HvB 
• Clyde & Co and BLM agree to combine - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FpGe5utG7Y
  
• Merely being highest bidder in auction will not confer any legal right: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/g6qjbnTFeu
• First speakers announced for LegalEdCon 2022 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ebe6UgopSS 
• The government's former head of ethics has apologised after receiving a fine from the police for attending a party in the Cabinet Office during lockdown. Helen MacNamara was reported to have gone to a leaving do for a fellow civil servant on 18 June 2020 https://t.co/wdG6ckgrBx
  
• More than 100 organisations have pulled out of the UK's first ever global LGBT+ conference over the hardline Conservative government's stance on conversion therapy https://t.co/kn9MPws0lS 
• Construction is an integral cog in the machine of #Australian society. Work as a construction lawyer remains exciting and “intellectually stimulating”, say two BigLaw partners - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/tSn5tlYbB2 
• Barrister sanctioned over tweet about Muslims wins appeal - Legal Cheek https://t.co/yVbxY1sivW 
• Medha Patkar moves Bombay High Court highlighting non-functional Police Complaints Authority in Maharashtra | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/ipvSBnMQWg 
• Freshfields narrows gender pay gap for third year - Legal Cheek https://t.co/uMP0yau3Ha 
• Whilst more briefs are going to women barristers than before, there are still shortfalls – including and especially pay – that need to be addressed - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/5oyiIz0fBg
• Regional rises: who has increased so far? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Uw5mk1CVcS 
• What makes a good dealmaker? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/1hgmmP0ZZS 
• How qualifying as a solicitor is changing for the better with the SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/g8xxmNlVqC 
• National online provider LawCPD has launched a new “state-of-the-art” learning suite, which it said would create richer learning experiences for lawyers across #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/ny6cCUEm7l
• The legal requirement to wear face coverings in places of worship and while attending marriage and funeral services in Scotland has ended. About one in 12 people had Covid last week and the number in hospital with the virus was at a record high https://t.co/BcFHl1uoKw
• #Pakistan's supreme court is expected to decide the fate of embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan, following a day of political turmoil. Mr Khan has faced an attempt to oust him from office in recent days https://t.co/ZE7Y8zMSH9
• A Met Police officer has been charged with sexually assaulting a colleague while on duty. PC Joseph Demir was charged on 9 March with sexual assault, which is said to have happened on 10 March, 2020, the force said https://t.co/DUhZCQZ3M
• Ukraine crisis: Law students and lawyers look to tackle immigration challenges using lawtech - Legal Cheek https://t.co/acxEJjjx6v
• As the firm celebrates its 140th anniversary, the managing partner of Sparke Helmore, appointed last month, shared his priorities for the firm for 2022 - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/iBElyrERt
• Can't permit parties to take benefit of court order later set aside by higher court: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/fxGU8CjA3h
  
• Police have issued fines to some people who attended an event in Downing Street on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral. The gathering on 16 April 2021 was a leaving party for the former No 10 director of communications James Slack https://t.co/DUhZCQZ3MS 
• Family law barrister cleared of misconduct over Meghan Markle baby tweet - Legal Cheek https://t.co/riQSvSw05S
• HFW takes team from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/gQwGkAMTxL 
• ‘I returned a changed man’: Prince Andrew deletes Falklands war post - Duke of York wrote about his experience in the conflict in a post on his ex-wife’s Instagram account that was quickly deleted https://t.co/anbHuueoUU
  
• Flexi-lawyer service launches in-house focused SQE pathway - Legal Cheek https://t.co/jWcb7uJE8w 
• Top UK judges quit Hong Kong - Legal Cheek https://t.co/LXxAaHUEKA

4th April - Law News

Edition 3751: 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: Sisters Alex and Chyann were repeatedly raped by their father as children. After their case was rejected three times by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), they found they had one last avenue to try to get justice.

Focus of the Day Article:  Lawyers have been warned to give realistic time estimates for cases at the Commercial Court or risk them being relisted with consequent costs implications. In a Practice Note published this week, Mrs Justice Cockerill, Judge in charge of the Commercial Court, raised concerns about inadequate time estimates, particularly in longer applications and trials, and their effect on the conduct of hearings in the Commercial Court. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Given the capacity to work on both commercial and humanitarian matters, migration lawyers can build diversified practices that those in other areas of law may not get exposed to, says one award-winning practitioner - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/mMdWDaMSAj
  
• 'A new Wild West': Lords urge better oversight of AI in justice - Legal Cheek https://t.co/al7eGDFTA2 
• Guantanamo inmate by the #US sent to Algeria after almost 20 years https://t.co/nIPgv8ZDHU
  
• Legal Lightbulbs: Is law firm market differentiation a unicorn? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/bTvx35XPa9
• Future magic circle trainee pens 10,000 word dissertation inspired by Clueless - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5j5u0FQIEt
• Tory MP David Warburton admitted to hospital after sexual harassment claims https://t.co/186or6yeLg
• French court plays tapes of Bataclan killings at survivor’s request https://t.co/VUL55Zr6Bj 
• Why #Australia is such a big part of this global firm’s growth strategy - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/iPnfOsF8t0
• How being Insta-savvy can help you secure a training contract - Legal Cheek https://t.co/IEL2LtoNTm
  
• At least six people have been killed and 10 injured in a shooting in the centre of Sacramento, police in California's state capital say #US https://t.co/SAcPkve1s8 
• Gas from Mozambique in difficult times for energy: breach of the Paris Agreement? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/kEahBfht6D
• Judiciary Watch: Five Indian High Courts with high judicial vacancies | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/sjMWI8apCO
• BSB ditches bar aptitude test - Legal Cheek https://t.co/216ukckHti 
• Up to 40 cars and vans have been damaged in a spate of arson attacks near Bristol on Sunday. Police said they were first called to a car fire in Stoke Gifford in the early hours, with others later attacked in Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Patchway https://t.co/BvECS6BM7W 
• Maksim Iovenko, 31-year-old was shot dead by #Russian forces that were positioned at the roadside. His wife Ksenia, who was in the car, was also killed while trying to escape western Kyiv in March https://t.co/ZCecFhmH8u 
• Bengaluru court orders registration of case against BS Yediyurappa | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/0qZAxjf1Bu 
• What makes an award-winning barrister? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/jgZnHtdwvb 
• How students can stand out in today’s legal market - Legal Cheek https://t.co/z9TNcXPxIc
• #Pakistan PM Imran Khan seeks fresh poll amid move to remove him - Parliament's deputy speaker refused to hold a vote on the motion which the PM was expected to lose. The no confidence motion may make it constitutionally illegal to dissolve parliament https://t.co/to6YnEZhbU
• London-based port operator accused over Abramovich $600m superyacht https://t.co/NuB1HQLXft 
• Gujarat High Court refuses child custody to father despite allegations against wife's character, her extramarital affairs | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/ZXxdkkEpNg
• Law students get deadline extension to watch basketball game after submitting spoof written submissions - Legal Cheek https://t.co/VGOtIHnkRF
  
• Tories suspend David Warburton amid claims over sexual harassment and drug use https://t.co/qk8arJalzW
• Ukrainian refugee with Royal College of Music scholarship in visa limbo - Two weeks ago the Homes for Ukraine scheme was launched to allow British families to sponsor Ukrainian refugees to live with them https://t.co/3RQVnuONFJ 
• Freshfields sets down marker for magic circle rivals as it boosts NQ lawyer pay to £125k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Ckt8lDyexw

3rd April - Law News

Edition 3750: 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: Yemen's warring sides have agreed to a two-month truce, which can be extended. The UN Envoy for Yemen says the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels will stop all offensive actions inside the country and across its borders. Saudi Arabia and its allies have been fighting to support the government against the Houthis since early 2015. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Donald Reid retires from Mitchells Roberton after 49 years in law | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QXLcYdut1
• The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has issued guidance on the impact of the family court’s approach to costs of the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 | NLJ https://t.co/KJxzygHGYD
  
• Smart legal contracts "need the power of the human mind" - Legal Futures https://t.co/F8uO5NGEGz
• Supreme Court issues circular on physical hearing; Virtual hearing option provided on miscellaneous days | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/zc8sTGzpZv
  
• Turkish man claims her payment to Prince Andrew was falsely described as a wedding gift for his daughter Princess Beatrice. Nehebat Isbilen is claiming at the High Court in London that her business adviser Selman Turk "dishonestly misappropriated" £38m https://t.co/5zTNUuU5YZ 
• More than 80 arrested as climate change protesters continued to block oil terminals. Activists from Just Stop Oil said they had obstructed access to a tanker park and revealed an underground network of tunnels at two oil terminals in Essex https://t.co/vHVgp26aZH
• Conservative MP David Warburton has been suspended from the parliamentary party pending an investigation into allegations about his conduct https://t.co/ykWJV6yeh
• The Home Secretary unlawfully seized more than 2000 mobile phones from asylum seekers and extracted vast amounts of data, the High Court has held | NLJ https://t.co/1tmg8QuNtb
• #French court plays tapes of Bataclan killings at survivor’s request https://t.co/VUL55Zr6Bj
  
• BSB scraps student aptitude test despite Bar Council opposition - Legal Futures https://t.co/ptrVayYclB
• The Sentencing Council has proposed its first set of guidelines for the offences of perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation | NLJ https://t.co/sXaenqgtm0
  
• High Court: Garda Commissioner acted unlawfully by seeking to dismiss member after Appeal Board previously rejected dismissal | Irish Legal News https://t.co/md2V4fNy6v
• Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson named in legal case over £750,000 ‘scam’ https://t.co/2oifI69dW
• Care and supervision cases are taking five weeks longer on average and 77% fail to meet the 26-week limit, according to the latest figures from the family court | NLJ https://t.co/X5WamTwGUM 
• London-based port operator accused over Abramovich $600m superyacht | Roman Abramovich | The Guardian https://t.co/NuB1HR3yE3
• Saoirse Brady appointed as executive director of Irish Penal Reform Trust | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dtX6g8Eqhq
• A team of Amazon workers has forced the technology giant to recognise a trade union in the #US for the first time. Workers at a New York warehouse voted 55% in favour of joining the Amazon Labor Union https://t.co/eJGQoQoVNR
• People living in some of England's poorest households and those who rent could miss out on the government's £150 council tax rebate https://t.co/vxYVlISW2M
• #US judge has upheld Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction, denying her bid for a new trial. Maxwell, 60, had complained that one of the jurors falsely stated before the trial that he had never been sexually abused https://t.co/HxefCsGokd
• The Duke and Duchess of York have been named in a court case in which a Turkish millionaire is claiming £38m has been "dishonestly misappropriated" by a business adviser https://t.co/nlJk4ep6mq
  
• Lawyers have been warned to give realistic time estimates for cases at the Commercial Court or risk them being relisted with consequent costs implications | NLJ https://t.co/BtLZ3olPzG
• Collective redress lawyers join forces amid calls for reform - Legal Futures https://t.co/jbwCVjplYz 
• Ireland to make €150,000 contribution to ICC prosecutor | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RE118Xdqx5
• The £1bn UK class action against banks for Forex rigging (FX Claim) cannot proceed on an opt-out basis, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has ruled by a 2-1 majority| NLJ https://t.co/kNCLdQYc8
• Motorhomes, car engines and gambling - now group sets up ABS - Legal Futures https://t.co/FzEtL2VtrG
• "Interest of litigants paramount:" Bombay High Court rejects plea challenging approval to establish court in Wai | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Rg8SPc5l8R
• Diversity of thought – why you need to think about it - Legal Futures https://t.co/HdUe0qZcAY 
• Burges Salmon advises on biomass deals | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OXL0Izj8QF
  
• Covid experts call for return of free tests as UK cases hit new high https://t.co/Zn8UizAXxG 
• P&O Ferries faces a probe into the controversial no-notice sackings of nearly 800 members of staff. The Insolvency Service has launched criminal and civil investigations into the circumstances around the redundancies https://t.co/XamHV2IqpN