Monday

6th June - Law News

Edition 3814: 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 UN and human rights groups have warned authorities in Sri Lanka against using excessive force at largely peaceful protests during a growing economic crisis. For weeks, the police have been accused of heavy-handedness during protests, though authorities say the use of water cannon and tear gas is to restore order as tensions escalate. But the family of a young father who was shot dead by police say they are still fighting for justice.

Focus of the Day Article:  Research into fast-track and multi-track civil claims has revealed a patchwork of bottlenecks and delays across England and Wales. The joint study of 8,500 cases (not including small claims) by Express Solicitors and the Association of Consumer Support Organisations (ACSO), Civil court delays, published last week, exposed ‘significant regional differences’.  Full story - New Law Journal
 

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Celebrations for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee continue for a fourth day, one mosque has opened its doors to the local community. The Baitur Raheem mosque in Cardiff is one of many across the UK hosting an event to commemorate the Queen's 70 years of reign https://t.co/tcQk0vtw98 
  • Depp v Heard: What have we learned? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/gBoy5scPAC
  • School leaders criticise attorney general’s advice on trans pupils - One headteacher accuses Suella Braverman of stoking ‘silly’ anti-woke culture war https://t.co/TB4pgmv0ek
  • What lawyers want from the new Minister for Cyber Security - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/QgouNPZnKI 
  • Lord Chief Justice rallies lawyers as countdown to London Legal Walk begins - Legal Cheek https://t.co/oPQZ1doqPD
  • Delhi HC stays order permitting lawyer's presence during Satyendar Jain's ED questioning #India https://t.co/GmhAKZUCZ5 
  • How to nail a summer vac scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/drAKcA1Ukf 
  • A store manager and owner got into a fight over a sign. Now, a tribunal says the owner must pay $70K #Canada https://t.co/ZEzSh3pJEG 
  • The incredible true story of the only solicitor ever to hang for murder - Legal Cheek https://t.co/MxPIPybTkr
  • The Northern Ireland Legacy Bill: Reconciliation or restriction? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/57kcmz9rL5
  • More than 100 trains were delayed and at least 20 cancelled on the line connecting London and Edinburgh after a trespasser got on the tracks. Services on the East Coast mainline came to a standstill on Saturday https://t.co/cqavScU36p 
  • Criminal law not an attractive long-term career, say 81% of junior lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/xVRcWmbqk9 
  • Criminal law sees a greater prevalence of mental health issues than most other practice areas, requiring many lawyers in this space to be “quasi mental health practitioners” - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/H6C8Nis6ZC
  • HSF confirms SQE maintenance grant of £17,000 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lvw5j7ZnW7 
  • Reflections of an employment lawyer returning to personal injury law - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/UHQEp5E8MW
  • #China's Liang Wenbo has been banned from World Snooker Tour events until 1 August following his conviction for a domestic-related assault. He had been suspended since April, when he was given a 12-month community order by a Sheffield court https://t.co/IUhhdK7UrV 
  • A fire and a huge explosion have killed at least 34 people and injured hundreds more at a storage depot near the city of Chittagong, #Bangladesh. A number of containers containing chemicals exploded at the site in Sitakunda https://t.co/iZcIvUsbl1
  • A man is in a critical condition after being Tasered by police and falling in the River Thames. Police were called to reports of a man armed with a screwdriver and shouting on Chelsea Bridge Road, in Chelsea, just after 09:00 BST on Saturday https://t.co/L5lNs3rwrp
  • The Weekly Round-up: children’s social care, traveller discrimination and Ukraine war crime verdicts - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/bhjv91udHl 
  • How to break into law as a career changer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/nqZw3QAUcV
  • While granting bail to a man accused of committing offences under the Uttar Pradesh Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955, the Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed him to deposit ₹1 lakh in favour of any one registered Gaushala | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/M5aHK5kM9J 
  • 30 Under 30 Awards Finalist Showcase 2022 | Financial services - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/zt79X3g2fP
  • Justice Deepak Gupta appointed as arbitrator in dispute between L&L Partners and heirs of Vijay Sondhi | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/MR5JVKNoul
  • One of the main suspects in the murder of the former Russian spy and Kremlin critic, Alexander Litvinenko, has died of Covid-19. Dmitry Kovtun was one of two men UK authorities say fatally poisoned Mr Litvinenko in London in 2006 https://t.co/yh0sSMpTto

Sunday

5th June - Law News

Edition 3813: 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: At least 49 people have been killed and more than 300 injured after a massive fire swept through a container depot in southeastern Bangladesh, according to senior officials. The fire broke out at a container facility on Saturday night at Sitakunda, 40km (25 miles) from the port city of Chittagong, triggering multiple explosions, officials said.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Review of civil legal aid to report in twelve months #Ireland https://t.co/KzGfv7pKEy
  • Fitting a technology lens on the EU mandatory human rights & environmental due diligence Directive https://t.co/K441vE6dLO 
  • The Law Society has criticised the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA’s) proposals on health and wellbeing at work | NLJ https://t.co/tXmdbV0Nit
  • Secret Service were warned of security risk to Pence day before Capitol attack. Ex-vice-president’s chief of staff warned head of his Secret Service detail that Trump was about to turn on Pence #US https://t.co/FpEOOMnRLJ
  • Clearview AI Draws Another Fine; UK ICO Assesses £7.5 Million for Scraping of Facial Recognition Data https://t.co/RgHZjEHRI
  • Several people have been arrested in #HongKong, reports say, as authorities seek to restrict public commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre https://t.co/QzS1m0qyo1
  • The rapper ex-boyfriend of singer Emeli Sande has been stabbed to death at a Jubilee party. Hypo's real name was Lamar Jackson https://t.co/t9hUefYEZY
  • An Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group (ACA) for Ukraine has been set up by the EU, US and UK to help hold accountable those who commit war crimes during the Russian invasion | NLJ https://t.co/SIXUPs8RK
  • Sealed offers and the assessment of CPO Costs in the Upper Tribunal Firm https://t.co/i9KEWyepxR
  • Pretoria finally helps UN criminal tribunal track down #Rwanda genocide suspect Fulgence Kayishema https://t.co/iSfh0JQw9j
  • The disclosure guidelines have been changed to stop ‘invasive and disproportionate’ requests for victims’ private information during criminal investigations | NLJ https://t.co/4w5UjLIynP
  • European Commission conditionally approves #Poland recovery plan upon judiciary reforms https://t.co/SWxbTPUGIu
  • Students at a Hong Kong university have hid tiny figurines of a "democracy goddess" around campus in the lead-up to Saturday's anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre #China https://t.co/bC20poopkZ
  • The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) protection against costs orders should continue, the Supreme Court has held | NLJ https://t.co/WRsWGGOJGO 
  • Nepali woman’s account of rape prompts wave of protest over laws: Calls grow for repeal of statute of limitations and widening of definition of rape after former model makes allegations on TikTok https://t.co/whEewybaUP
  • Tottenham Hotspur defender Emerson Royal has thanked an off-duty #Brazilian police officer who rescued him from an attempted armed robbery in Sao Paulo https://t.co/LQvDsNiGAI 
  • An entire fishing village is asking for permission from the courts to die. 600 people in a Muslim village. Their reason – harassment from authorities who have prevented them from fishing #India https://t.co/89kQHIK6Cs
  • Ex-Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro has been charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to co-operate with the inquiry into last year's #US Capitol riot. He is the second Trump aide to be arrested after defying a legal summons https://t.co/Bcnx03PGdf
  • Research into fast-track and multi-track civil claims has revealed a patchwork of bottlenecks and delays across England and Wales | NLJ https://t.co/dR2oLc82pC 
  • Mariah Carey being sued for $20m over All I Want for Christmas Is You: Songwriter Andy Stone claims he co-wrote hit in 1989 and has never given permission for it to be used https://t.co/BtCAoaaZdk
  • At least four killed and about 30 injured when a train derailed in #Germany's south-eastern state of Bavaria, police say. The train carrying many students, was heading to Munich when three carriages came off the tracks near Garmisch-Partenkirchen https://t.co/ovgcw4KmWF
  • Samuel Townend QC, of Keating Chambers, has been elected as next year’s Vice Chair of the Bar Council | NLJ https://t.co/vpPHO8LzO0 
  • The Anti-Feminist Energy Fueling the Johnny Depp Misinformation Campaign https://t.co/rMy47ByBG2 
  • Champions League Final: Harrowing accounts of post-match violence spark debate #France https://t.co/pPlIWOUe5C
  • Royal Courts of Justice Statistics Guidance document https://t.co/uyIMstQVJo 
  • A traffic-holding system for lorries planning to cross the English Channel will be lifted after the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The Kent Resilience Forum (KRF) said the move would allow it to resume work relocating a contraflow barrier https://t.co/1uAB3mvBP0
  • Strengthening accountability and justice for serious violations of international law https://t.co/RDleIxObuW 
  • Mediation to help thousands more families avoid costly legal battles https://t.co/DnQ89HtDfE
  • The Orange Order has launched an inquiry into a social media video appearing to show a group of people singing a song mocking the killing of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius https://t.co/yzhkQgpJeW 
  • The handling of academic cheating cases is in urgent need of reform https://t.co/rHyWHu5EE7

Saturday

4th June - Law News

Edition 3812: 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 teenager in Hyderabad who went to a pub for a party was allegedly gang-raped by schoolboys inside a Mercedes car at an upscale part of town last Saturday. The accused are Class 11 and 12 students and belong to "politically influential" families, say the police. An MLA's son is believed to be part of the group, but the police say he may not have been involved in the gang-rape.
 
Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Former Employee Of NFT Marketplace Charged In First Ever Digital Asset Insider Trading Scheme #US https://t.co/vYIl0BZ16t
  • Trial for man accused of raping Brittany Higgins delayed after defendant’s lawyer unable to appear | Australian Capital Territory #Australia https://t.co/nyODVjGMq1
  • DOJ special counsel John Durham, who carried Donald Trump's hopes of showing his Russia scandal to have political roots, failed to convict Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann of lying #US https://t.co/93uMbfSSd
  • Is there need to have so many Additional AGs and Chief Standing Counsel? Allahabad High Court asks State Cabinet | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/c0Bm2d6EG
  • Uefa has apologised to Liverpool and Real Madrid fans caught up in events around the Champions League final and said it must not happen again https://t.co/ZcPPHqF1q9
  • Imperial measures drive will add costs for businesses, Asda boss says https://t.co/uumocCv43p 
  • UK Net Zero Strategy: UK government faces legal challenges over climate plan https://t.co/y5Vbf6gDY
  • Biden tells lawmakers to pass gun control laws. In emotional speech, #US president says it’s time for lawmakers to enact tough laws – including a ban on assault weapons – to curb gun violence https://t.co/bjQHwBNZVB
  • Jury in Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial found "they both lied," legal expert says https://t.co/9mENxSpP7h
  • The impact of pay equity claims in the legal industry and beyond https://t.co/ncausCD9ES 
  • Car tyres produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show: Toxic particles from tyre wear almost 2,000 times worse than from exhausts as weight of cars increases https://t.co/2zuwnDlNlY
  • Leading Perth barrister wants WA to follow Canadian lead in decriminalising drugs #Australia https://t.co/FsfRMBKoqa
  • How a mass shooting changed UK gun laws https://t.co/a6GP9kHa1G
  • Met police profiling children ‘on a large scale’, documents show: force says Project Alpha scours social media to identify offenders and fight serious violence https://t.co/9zrNGxpTi
  • UK Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill – compulsory purchase powers and the best of the rest https://t.co/c9VwXKa4yp
  • After years fighting for the ‘little guy’, #HongKong crackdown forces UK lawyer to flee https://t.co/SjDhNKAIsj
  • #Kuwait has summoned a top US diplomat in protest over tweets from the American embassy supporting LGBT rights, its foreign ministry says. US officials there had posted a rainbow flag and message of solidarity from President Joe Biden for Pride month https://t.co/dyqbgEDrr
  • Sultana Tafadar, the first hijab-wearing criminal barrister, was appointed as counselor to Queen Elizabeth II of England, one of the highest positions a lawyer can hold in England, for those who showed “excellence in advocacy.” https://t.co/G1rPRIwxb9
  • Norfolk Constabulary is being investigated following the death of a man after a police chase, the police watchdog has announced. Officers were pursuing on A47 near Little Fransham, at about 17:00 BST on 23 May when it left the carriageway and overturned https://t.co/DxzdGPtMpW
  • Multi-million euro theft trial of former solicitor Michael Lynn ends in hung jury. The jury was unable to reach a majority verdict after just over 12 hours of deliberations in the wake of the three-and-a-half month trial #Ireland https://t.co/vQaw3EGV9C
  • Anti-extremism Prevent strategy 'failing to engage Muslim communities' - Dame Sara Khan said a "vacuum" of information about its purpose had been left by the government, which was then being filled by Islamists https://t.co/EO81f37xzZ
  • International Criminal Court to open office in Kyiv | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ATw785F1sY
  • Asylum seekers stage hunger strike as UK prepares Rwanda deportation - Seventeen asylum seekers at Brook House detention centre near Gatwick Airport, Sussex, have spoken of an atmosphere of distress and despair among detainees https://t.co/KbF0uQBo78
  • Amber Heard reportedly plans to appeal against Johnny Depp defamation verdict #US https://t.co/KkC4n0IIJS
  • A small number of free tickets to the Wales-Ukraine World Cup play-off final will be given to Ukrainian refugees. The FAW and the Welsh government are in discussions on how many will be made available for Sunday's game https://t.co/J0NtOrezcB
  • High Court ruling brings end to garda court presenter system | Irish Legal News https://t.co/FVJvrEQwl4
  • Author with British citizenship barred from flight home to UK. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi says Ryanair worker in Brussels wrongly took issue with her travel documents https://t.co/PQJIKutuIz
  • Home Office threatens non-white hunger strikers with faster deportation to Rwanda - Letter seen as potential warning to 17 asylum seekers who began protest after being given offshoring date https://t.co/bxlpK5xFR2
  • A firm controlled by JK Rowling has been accused of preventing access to paths on forestry estates in the Scottish Borders. Walkers and mountain-bikers claim that navigating a historical six-mile right-of-way has been hampered by the firm https://t.co/jfby6fzEVJ
  • The #Nigerian government has banned the sale of bushmeat as a precaution to stop the spread of monkeypox. Six cases have been detected in the country this month bringing to 21 the number of confirmed infections this year, the authorities said https://t.co/hDpCn6kfOS

Friday

3rd June - Law News

Edition 3811: 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: Afghanistan's opium trade is facing fresh scrutiny, amid renewed Taliban efforts to stop the drug's cultivation. Money is not the only thing drying up for farmers, with an ongoing drought pushing the sector towards collapse.

Focus of the Day Article: Law firm mergers: the cultural iceberg below the surface. If people buy off people, then it’s the individuals mergers bring together that will ultimately make them a success or failure. Full story - The Global Legal Post
 
Saturday Conversations on Law

  • McKenna & Co welcomes new trainee Méabh Flynn | Irish Legal News https://t.co/wf2dfqi3uu
  • GLD 'committed to levelling up' as it seeks 50 London lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/hr5Dp8wyMN
  • Lord Reed to become patron of Aberdeen Law Project | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WRQcE7dHx
  • Time is running out to help save the criminal justice system | Law Gazette https://t.co/N5LErzY6AI
  • A new organisation to represent the interests of Scottish conveyancers has been proposed | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HCiVL7RGtF
  • First electronically signed property deal goes through | Law Gazette https://t.co/Vph8GqufGB 
  • Depp-Heard trial: Why Johnny Depp lost in the UK but won in the US https://t.co/jVdF6bYNSo 
  • Mother of woman who died after implant procedure labels body modifier ‘a monster’ in court #Australia https://t.co/TW9x09Nb1n 
  • Travel companies asked for special immigration visas for overseas workers at a meeting with Grant Shapps on Wednesday, which has been refused, more disruptions expected as a result https://t.co/d2OAaJyqBo 
  • Australian sitcom actor Robert Hughes will be freed from jail and deported to the UK after serving a sentence for child sexual abuse - In 2014 he was convicted of a string of child sexual offences - which he denied - against girls in the 1980s and 1990s https://t.co/bmgQ1HZdzf
  • The Driving and Vehicles Standards Agency (DVSA) says it is cracking down on companies reselling driving tests to learners for profit. An investigation found that some learner drivers had paid more than £200 - more than double the standard fee https://t.co/GmIjGpHnYO
  • Solicitor who did not understand her firm's accounts suspended - Legal Futures https://t.co/RHr3HBL5Bl 
  • Hogan Lovells finalises Moscow office spin-off | Law Gazette https://t.co/yZ6lu0trr7
  • New Law Society president Murray Etherington vows to protect legal aid | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0QJIaEpIxw
  • Turkey will be known as #Türkiye at the UN from now on, after it agreed to a formal request from Ankara. Several international bodies will be asked to make the name change as part of a rebranding campaign launched by the Turkish president late last year https://t.co/auSKfKldgy 
  • Training courses seek to develop in-house skills | Law Gazette https://t.co/4y43tBQD5c
  • MedCo looks to shift balance between tier 1 and 2 MROs - Legal Futures https://t.co/oap9OElicl
  • #French police officers investigated over use of teargas against Liverpool fans https://t.co/cfKN3xWF4W
  • The Law Society of Northern Ireland has issued a warning about a scammer calling himself “Andy Williams” or “Andrew Williams”. | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dw0hD6LTA
  • Fixed-fee family law information service aims to “fill knowledge gap” - Legal Futures https://t.co/nPSwzX03BZ
  • The former head of #Colombia's once-powerful Cali drugs cartel has died in prison in the United States. At one point, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela controlled the vast majority of the world's cocaine trade and was an arch-nemesis of Pablo Escobar https://t.co/VBKQbg3Rk6 
  • "Missguided is my little treat," said Beth Harvey who orders about once a month. But when her latest fashion parcel didn't arrive she joined a queue of customers left chasing their orders and refunds https://t.co/rSa7R1jYyG
  • Former City partner and ex-AG in jubilee birthday honours | Law Gazette https://t.co/gQlCynhw1e 
  • What will Johnny Depp’s legal victory mean for his and Amber Heard’s careers? https://t.co/5XPHjQYyM2
  • Five years after the Grenfell fire in which 72 people died, the government has banned the specific type of cladding which allowed the blaze to spread so rapidly https://t.co/ParcnRU3g9
  • Lawyers "underestimate public appetite" for using technology - Legal Futures https://t.co/fUSqPaPbOE
  • My advice to the new Cressida Dick: police violent men, not the women they abuse https://t.co/6xnH2nMacG 
  • Teenage gunman accused of shooting 10 people dead in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, last month has been charged with domestic terrorism. Prosecutors allege 18-year-old Payton Gendron, who earlier pleaded not guilty, was motivated by racial hatred #US https://t.co/ruMUvRuovj
  • Ethics watchdog says PM has failed to allay fears he is above the rules: Jonathan Evans rows in behind Lord Geidt with critical statement on Boris Johnson’s changes to code https://t.co/qUxsXfger3
  • No future in criminal defence, juniors tell Law Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZD47000rbh 
  • Sarah Everard vigil: Met to prosecute six over alleged Covid rule breaches https://t.co/MzbsmnVsqo 
  • Walsall mayor suspended from Tory party over racist WhatsApp post: Rose Martin has claimed someone hacked her account and posted offending image https://t.co/jbjWUwdbXY

Thursday

2nd June - Law News

Edition 3810: 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've been reporting on the experiences of the Britons who chose to volunteer in the war in Ukraine. Pro-Russian media has targeted these foreigners, with one site publishing a list of hundreds of names they claim are "mercenaries" fighting for the Ukrainians. 
 
Focus of the Day Article: The criminal bar could escalate action over legal aid fees in three weeks’ time as pressure mounts on the government to rethink its £135m reform package. Since 11 April, hundreds of barristers have adopted a policy of ‘no returns’ – refusing to cover cases returned by the original barrister due to a diary clash – in response to the government’s refusal to increase their fees by 25%. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
 
Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Worthingtons Solicitors grows Belfast and Newtownards offices | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ijtp0Qwq08
  • Opinion: Litigation funding and the Post Office scandal | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/smgqlAwxoq 
  • Irish Legal News reporter shortlisted for Justice Media Award | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Zh5wvtUefl
  • Time is running out to help save the criminal justice system | Law Gazette https://t.co/N5LErzGvc8 
  • A jury has found both Amber Heard and Johnny Depp liable for defamation in their lawsuits against each other #US https://t.co/fS5iRWxrf
  • Aberdein Considine celebrates 40th anniversary with community fundraising initiative | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CYilPXIeT
  • Jury finds against Amber Heard's defamation case, Depp awarded $15 million in damages https://t.co/XGuKTPA4op
  • Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been charged with another count of rape. The 27-year-old is now accused of eight counts of rape, one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted rape after a new complainant came forward https://t.co/hojBUkKMSc 
  • Inside Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's legal battle https://t.co/jbmnIynS1z
  • Gráinne Mellon shortlisted for Legal Aid Barrister of the Year award | Irish Legal News https://t.co/doyMXWJQHZ
  • New legal aid means test thresholds will be out of date immediately | Law Gazette https://t.co/NauY7SGidR
  • A year of the OIC - how do we judge success? - Legal Futures https://t.co/VMMY5hFjex
  • Stop treating rape complainants as suspects, data watchdog tells police | Law Gazette https://t.co/oQKEhlq1Vz
  • Commercial Court could face wave of ‘sanctions-related claims’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/9UKFZIx4em
  • For the next three months, Germans will be able to travel the country for just €9 (£7.50; $9.50) a month in a drive to tackle the soaring cost of living. All local and regional transport on trains, buses and metro is included https://t.co/L5YKzxgIkU 
  • West Ham United defender Kurt Zouma has been ordered to carry out 180 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to kicking and slapping his cat. The 27-year-old has also been banned from keeping cats for five years https://t.co/UHC0WrUQ5m
  • Ten teenagers have been found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old man in a group attack. Jack Woodley suffered a single fatal stab wound while being punched, kicked and stamped upon in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, in October https://t.co/rPETorBHg0
  • Lord chancellor must ‘rein in’ cabinet on rule of law – LCJ | Law Gazette https://t.co/VjOYoAt8u1 
  • Appeal judges reject challenge to litigation funder assignment - Legal Futures https://t.co/nuNj9wSFRw
  • Ukraine jails two #Russian soldiers for shelling villages https://t.co/DvQGMBJkm6
  • Claimant jailed for contempt over £4m NHS fraud | Law Gazette https://t.co/b946r0Ng3r
  • Driving tests are being bulk booked and resold for profit, as a chronic backlog means learners are otherwise waiting months for a test date https://t.co/ZcNveeqGD7 
  • Government to keep lawyers out of Russia services ban - Legal Futures https://t.co/QUuZARNann
  • UK to partially ratify domestic abuse convention after 10-year delay - Britain to abide by Istanbul convention but reserves key article and is accused of failing to protect migrant women https://t.co/gAD3mkSVtN
  • Mills Selig promotes Rebecca Logan to senior associate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Cn5PCT2vkc 
  • Priti Patel’s own officials warned her about easing stop and search conditions - Home Office assessment found lifting restrictions may lead to more BAME people being stopped https://t.co/X9QTcXZwHP
  • First year of RTA portal was great for insurers: what next? | Law Gazette https://t.co/j422SmfCyO 
  • Senior judges back push to move High Court cases to the regions - Legal Futures https://t.co/fg3FwfSSjX 
  • First flight taking non-white Channel migrants to Rwanda set for 14 June https://t.co/RlDS8YSNQv
  • Mass civil legal action to seek compensation for #Ukrainian war victims https://t.co/CIimXWTOtG
  • Richard Grogan & Associates promotes Natasha Hand to senior associate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/wbuCfalKYW
  • PI claims leaving some clients worse off, Legal Ombudsman warns - Legal Futures https://t.co/CvuLso7teF 
  • Ciara Dowd: Proposed amendments in the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2022 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MZxbxLfbUL
  • Paris politician apologises over Champions League stadium chaos - Pierre Rabadan, the Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of Sports, Olympic and Paralympic Games made the comments during an interview #France https://t.co/VXHnQI937I
  • Labour leader Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner have received police questionnaires as part of an inquiry into alleged Covid rule-breaking. Both attended a gathering in Durham on 30 April last year, at which Starmer drank beer and ate curry https://t.co/L8MG7t0Z4B

Wednesday

1st June - Law News

Edition 3809: 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: SRA seminar - We would like to hear from the legal profession on the shared challenges and opportunities we all face in the year ahead, and how these should be reflected as we plan our work for the year ahead. In addition to discussing our core activity protecting the public and delivering effective regulation, we would welcome your thoughts on areas such as: how people use technology, how we can all work together to further support the development and use of technology and innovation, what further changes could be made to improve the accessibility of legal services for consumers the regulation of anti money laundering activities within the legal sector.

Focus of the Day Article: The High Court has transferred another case from London to Leeds at the same time as senior judges emphasised that the location of the lawyers is not a trump card in determining venue. Full story - Legal Futures
 
Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Universities have called for an urgent resolution to a row about UK access to a major EU research programme. Universities UK, which represents 140 institutions, fears ministers could be about to abandon the Horizon scheme https://t.co/TOxWnzwjTr
  • Met police blocked from fresh challenge to Sarah Everard vigil ruling - Reclaim These Streets organisers said court decision was ‘vindication’https://t.co/miz29oM595 
  • Lawyer in the news: ​David Robinson, Kennedys - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/D0NBFrPC7D 
  • James Hamilton appointed as chair of new white collar crime body | Irish Legal News https://t.co/qb9cIoHHAj 
  • Judge Susan Walker to become president of Employment Tribunals (Scotland) | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/IKX4X0L9AP
  • Windrush pro bono scheme relaunched to reach more victims | Law Gazette https://t.co/EMzjAayDgK
  • Laila Kennedy elected president of the Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QJfvNczn7Z 
  • Lawtech initiative 'created a sense of urgency' | Law Gazette https://t.co/B7GFIfcz5G 
  • Helen Kidd joins Lindsays as a partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vmvQnoS4lc
  • Lavelle Partners promotes property lawyer Greg Flanagan to partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/eHWGxgvGhb
  • "It felt as though I was the one being investigated," a woman who took a rape complaint to the police has said. Sarah Jenkin said police asked for consent to access all her medical and social records, and her mobile phone https://t.co/eBOfm6tZfM 
  • Legal aid action could escalate in three weeks' time | Law Gazette https://t.co/OjEZFpuI3s 
  • Gender Recognition Reform Bill ‘risks becoming bad law’ | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1sHFvh6YwY 
  • Research: Family law market grows as number of firms falls - Legal Futures https://t.co/fBs3Ag8ZG2 
  • Murray Etherington becomes president of the Law Society of Scotland | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mWwzXWwh9F
  • Emails should be courteous, not explosive | Law Gazette https://t.co/EuUyrvy0R1
  • Tribunal strikes off solicitor jailed for property fraud - Legal Futures https://t.co/RChDiuQUIi 
  • King’s Inns triumphs in ICC Moot Court Competition | Irish Legal News https://t.co/x0A2LeRU6C 
  • How can we defend clients when we cannot defend ourselves? | Law Gazette https://t.co/eUJkRs7mUF 
  • #Canada should introduce a total ban on the buying and selling of all handguns, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said. His government is proposing a new law that would freeze private ownership of all short-barrelled firearms https://t.co/6GUdrJxEuk 
  • Stella Creasy's bourgeois feminism - Criminalising catcalling won't stop men hitting their wives https://t.co/YbrjJEMpfk 
  • Court refuses judicial review of SRA and LAA over control order - Legal Futures https://t.co/K4FWeDKIgR
  • Scots back proposals to make misogyny a hate crime | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bQL9NKeHW7 
  • Father and son found guilty of murder in Suffolk vigilante attack: David and Edward King stabbed Neil Charles to death after he was allegedly seen trying to steal from the older man’s car https://t.co/cYuGwwVjgf 
  • BLM appointed to Hastings Direct legal panel | Irish Legal News https://t.co/gYwM5sNald
  • Leading PI specialist moves into commercial litigation - Legal Futures https://t.co/G3ReZCfGvK 
  • Britain: Employment tribunals citing menopause rise 44 per cent year on year | Irish Legal News https://t.co/mHWHQzJ8qS 
  • Best of the blogs - 28 May 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/mG4RmsWGsA 
  • Boris Johnson accused of abusing ministerial code so rule-breakers can avoid sack https://t.co/TVj02qFwrk 
  • Van Morrison takes legal action against Northern Ireland health department and minister over Covid article https://t.co/2ZueHfASwY 
  • Uefa has commissioned an independent report into the scenes outside the ground that delayed Saturday's Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid https://t.co/oJ9EZ8YZj4

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31st May - Law News

Edition 3808: 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: France's interior minister has defended police actions at the Champions League final saying they prevented deaths from happening. Riot officers fired pepper spray and tear gas at some Liverpool fans who were trying to get into the ground for the match on Saturday night. The minister blamed "industrial scale" ticket fraud amongst Liverpool fans for causing chaos at the Stade de France. But a Downing Street spokesman described the scenes as "deeply upsetting" and called for an investigation.

Focus of the Day Article: UK PM Boris Johnson accused of abusing ministerial code so rule-breakers can avoid sack. Former member of government’s ethics watchdog urges Conservative MPs to challenge PM’s revisions. Full story - Guardian Law
 
Saturday Conversations on Law

  • No 10 refuses to deny social event at Boris Johnson’s flat not investigated by Gray https://t.co/kYsdTlcSo5 
  • Home Office cancels Border Force contract with P&O Ferries after mass sackings - Agreement to provide contingency travel services terminated over layoffs of nearly 800 seafarers https://t.co/Pqw1p55jMr 
  • UK investigators told to stop mass collection of personal data in rape cases - Information commissioner says indiscriminate gathering of details is undermining trust in justice system https://t.co/f2hGD9c2Vt 
  • City pay war: Clifford Chance responds with improved £125k NQ lawyer rate - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2SDSY7obrZ 
  • Uttarakhand forms panel headed by retired judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai to implement Uniform Civil Code | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/nSQCyKrLKe
  • BPP, King’s, Southbank and Westminster among law schools recognised for pro bono work - Legal Cheek https://t.co/q9s7mHZDGN
  • A man disguised as an elderly woman in a wheelchair has thrown cake at the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting at the Louvre in Paris #France https://t.co/zZUAI84Yjs 
  • A lawyer for Windrush victims says the Tory government must publish a report which suggests institutional racism at Priti Patel's Home Office caused the scandal https://t.co/YwIoVEcrYU 
  • LawTech Talks: Are you running your firm, or is your firm running you? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/2lcA7ycS4X
  • Regulator's fining powers set to increase 1000% to £25k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GRxEdD2n61 
  • Workforce strategy: Why businesses should invest in this area now - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/m7abrhHENz 
  • The burden of litigation of luxury, direct appeals to Supreme Court and some recent reprieve | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/mrChNrRH1k 
  • DAC Beachcroft to offer pupillages for first time - Legal Cheek https://t.co/hN5BwDV5y5
  • How quadriplegia provided lawyer-turned-doctor Dinesh Palipana the chance to leave the world a better place - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/3rA0D28fBp 
  • Hogan Lovells joins raft of firms upping LPC maintenance grants by 25% - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Pw0W1NmVTB 
  • A statue of Margaret Thatcher erected in her home town vandalised two weeks after a man was fined for throwing eggs at it. The £300,000 sculpture in Grantham was daubed with red paint and a hammer and sickle was painted on the fence protecting it https://t.co/UlA7R9AepE
  • Man cleared to seek compensation for 16 years in prison before conviction for murder of son overturned #Ireland https://t.co/GxthPrqk88
  • UN’s Bachelet says #China trip not for a probe, faces criticism - Rights bodies criticise the rights chief for failing to hold the Chinese government accountable for rights abuse against Uighur Muslims https://t.co/EAH2ZSG8Wo
  • ‘Slavery, rape, torture’: #Libya threatened by foreign fighters https://t.co/dHm9jT7Ax7 
  • A woman who felt forced to track down her stolen car - leading to her being threatened by a man with a crowbar. A man with disabilities who says police failings led to him being targeted by a gang, and repeatedly burgled https://t.co/L0u7DjIMsw
  • SRA rebuke for former City partner who put his arm around trainee in strip club - Legal Cheek https://t.co/0yRHd5ct3G 
  • Is it time for #Australia to legislate on menstrual leave? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/ysy2ATx4Z3
  • Some shooting estates in England burn deep peat moorland in protected areas despite a government ban, say the RSPB and Greenpeace. England's deep peat soils support rare ecosystems and store huge amounts of carbon https://t.co/SC04Ahg4dI
  • Delhi High Court imposes ₹25 lakh costs on website for infringing trademark of legendary film 'Sholay' | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/drGuC2Mdob
  • Medical leaders in the UK have launched a fresh call for buffer zones to be set up around abortion clinics to prevent aggressive pro-life activists targeting patients and staff https://t.co/1Oh1A1n25C
  • Graduates from the world's top universities will be able to apply to come to the UK under a new visa scheme. The government says the "high potential individual" route, which opens on Monday, will attract the "brightest and best" early in their careers https://t.co/4gHTvAsxsd 
  • Top City firms help establish Black British civil rights group - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mC0yPmYxXr
  • Taylor Appelbaum Discusses The Copyright Implications and Issues with NFTs - A Lawyer’s Perspective | Lawyer Herald https://t.co/vMpnG2dpef
  • A&O to help fund disadvantaged students through Queen’s University Belfast - Legal Cheek https://t.co/HU2zt6tgX3
  • Tesla boss Elon Musk wants to launch a ‘hardcore litigation department’ filled with ‘streetfighter' lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Ctvd3S0XcQ 
  • Reed Smith counts 'sustainability hours' towards billing targets - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zR7bCQbnGE