Edition 3732: 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: There's no denying that electric vehicles are what most of us will be driving in the near-future. Countries around the world have pledged to phase out the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles over the next few decades, in an effort to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. But with lingering questions over the mining of rare metals, battery manufacturing and electricity consumption, there are still a few unanswered questions.
Focus of the Day Article: Any convention that former judges should not advise clients after
they retire from the bench has come to an end, the ex-president of the
Supreme Court has suggested. The news came with a call from a leading legal ethicist for “more careful public consideration” of whether this should happen. Full story - Legal Futures
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- "Every prisoner is the same; she is not a VIP:" Delhi Court refuses special treatment to Chitra Ramkrishna in jail | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Hb1UBjztqE
- Government plans let ‘dodgy umbrella companies off the hook’, warns TUC https://t.co/ff0OfqMK3A
- #Russia says it has imposed sanctions on US President Joe Biden and 12 other US officials. The list includes Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, press secretary Jen Psaki and other members of the administration https://t.co/13RJYFcgwA
- The federal court today unanimously decided Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley does not have a duty of care to protect young people from the harms of climate change #Australia https://t.co/mQUj6RrC5B
- A black schoolgirl was strip-searched by police after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The "traumatic" search by Metropolitan Police officers took place without another adult present at the girl's secondary school in Hackney in 2020 https://t.co/ijhUueA9Jc
- 94% in favour: bar prepares for action over legal aid reform | Law Gazette https://t.co/noyHZj0v0A
- Burges Salmon advises Inverleith LLP on majority stake in Farmison & Co | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xgY30bK948
- City of London: no longer open to all? | Law Gazette https://t.co/QtkbJn5Nq6
- Neuberger: Convention that ex-judges cannot give legal advice is over - Legal Futures https://t.co/VhYiHjqGDQ
- The UK has announced 370 more sanctions, with Russia's former president one of those targeted, in its latest response to the war in Ukraine https://t.co/ZFI7fXQXKc
- Local government report says SEND Tribunal losses are 'anyone’s fault but ours' | Law Gazette https://t.co/HIsgX5P7l
- British-Iranian
detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had her UK passport returned,
her MP has said. She has been detained in Iran for more than five years
on spying charges after being arrested there in 2016 while taking her
daughter to see her family https://t.co/iHjhytUEhF
- Scotland's rules on face coverings in shops and on public transport will remain in place until April due to a rise in cases of Covid-19 https://t.co/yLEXByhCcs
- Glasgow-based Ukrainian lawyer calls on UK to drop barriers for refugees | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/D4RufQgO47
- Owner fined after rogue employee diverted £25,000 to himself | Law Gazette https://t.co/1C6dWkmkn8
- Claims in a post-pandemic world - a long way from recovery? - Legal Futures https://t.co/HOVWZAhgJH
- Court of Appeal declines to ‘develop’ common law of champerty | Law Gazette https://t.co/9JwzIgGktO
- Property listing rules "will encourage earlier lawyer involvement" - Legal Futures https://t.co/GiqZIKPgOI
- 'We're not ignoring problems': ombudsman hits back at PCS | Law Gazette https://t.co/oww6y3CbNh
- Russell Jones & Walker returns - kind of - as S&G exits crime - Legal Futures https://t.co/mF8YOkT0SZ
- Dentons decides to leave Russia | Law Gazette https://t.co/nOs5jzZ9TR
- Lawyer of the Month: John Scott QC | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ubqLfXDx7E
- Criminal barristers vote for industrial action over legal aid funding https://t.co/tNn4f41u4F
- Tens of millions of people across #China face Covid lockdown, including the entire Jilin province and technology hub Shenzhen https://t.co/NonjZ8ywnK
- Northern Ireland to strengthen criminal justice response to modern slavery | Irish Legal News https://t.co/FdyZrmT1RN
- CA upholds ban on solicitor taking assignment of client's action - Legal Futures https://t.co/Dy4EloG2i4
- DLA Piper to manage pro bono support for Ukrainians | Law Gazette https://t.co/gcjQ3pWZcj
- US firm Armstrong Teasdale lands in Dublin | Irish Legal News https://t.co/scxACouSHP
- Julian Assange denied permission to appeal against US extradition https://t.co/yiIG4H0pN2
- City solicitor appears on charge of 'tipping off' client about SFO probe | Law Gazette https://t.co/gdHN3Hq1WV
- Appointments hat-trick at RSB Lindsays in Dundee | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/he5uEdYOwc
- Geraldine Hanna appointed as Northern Ireland’s victims of crime commissioner designate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/A0p0rU61rr
- Best of the blogs - 12 March 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/Pv6YkUzKgs
- Roman Abramovich spotted at Israeli airport following UK sanctions https://t.co/tVK0mvpZoH
- A woman holding an anti-war sign ran onto the set of a #Russian evening news programme on the state-controlled Channel 1 on Monday evening https://t.co/meuDlTiZPv
