24th July - Law News

Edition 3862: 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: Protesters in Tunisia say Monday's referendum on constitutional reforms is illegal. The proposed changes would sideline parliament and remove most checks on the president's power. Opposition groups say it's a return to autocracy. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Mother in law: Decision fatigue | Law Gazette https://t.co/D31jrj5IfG 
• Genocide case against Myanmar over Rohingya atrocities cleared to proceed https://t.co/qu9O0gdIVN
• DWF bounces back into profit as Bird & Bird posts higher revenues | Law Gazette https://t.co/mlDK3PvS9P
• Legislating against lying would do more harm than good https://t.co/3a07NyU1i1
  
• 'Insufficient lawyers' to cross-examine parties in domestic abuse cases | Law Gazette https://t.co/QQfEXkiFl3 
• A Chinese man has been executed for murdering his ex-wife by setting her alight while she was livestreaming. The woman, known as Lamu, was a well-known social media personality https://t.co/IIuMG9o2n3
• A housing group that did not realise one of its residents had been dead for two and a half years has apologised. Sheila Seleoane, 58, was found in her Peckham flat in February and had to be identified by dental records https://t.co/Taz00fCpGx 
• It should be mandatory for medical expert reports to consider the role of ‘system failures’ as well as individual actions in an adverse patient outcome, the Medical Protection Society (MPS) has urged | NLJ https://t.co/PyaPMmsAFE
• An independent review is expected to find that there is evidence of institutional racism in Scottish cricket. The investigation was commissioned by SportScotland last year and is due to be published on Monday https://t.co/w8pKDitE20
• SFO loses appeal over ‘unfair’ sacking of Unaoil case controller | Law Gazette https://t.co/Dob9s4sR6c
• The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) costs caps should increase, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) has recommended | NLJ https://t.co/QvT2By9QSw
• Estate agents need “more respect” from conveyancers - Legal Futures https://t.co/juKbGJnBVc 
• Justice data is already monetised | Law Gazette https://t.co/Tgbj0QYxAO
• EU launches four more legal cases against UK over Northern Ireland protocol https://t.co/fPKmrWo4nJ
• Law Commission examines robot planes | Law Gazette https://t.co/HzfYmwjqOQ
• The extradition from #Serbia of a wanted man accused of one of the biggest burglaries in English legal history was refused. Daniel Vukovic is said to have led a series of burglaries on the luxury homes of three celebrities https://t.co/yGwDjUOZB7
• Solicitors at incorporated firms should not give personal undertakings - Legal Futures https://t.co/k8jGl0UFos
• Barristers who deliberately misgender someone on Twitter or send seriously offensive private messages on LinkedIn could potentially face disciplinary proceedings under revised social media guidance drawn | Law Gazette https://t.co/KBN81YXPFw
• Google has fired one of its engineers who said the company's artificial intelligence system has feelings. Last month, Blake Lemoine went public with his theory that Google's language technology is sentient https://t.co/tXrnnhm80r
• #Czechs demolish pig farm on Nazi concentration camp for Roma - Historians say 1,309 Roma citizens were interned at Lety in South Bohemia during the war https://t.co/xmrzxuVM9U
• MoJ considers £5,000 costs cap to protect defendants against SLAPPs - Legal Futures https://t.co/DBRGAfeQ57
  
• Barring media from hearing on Prince Philip’s will ‘did not harm public interest’, court hears https://t.co/XFeuFJY4dR
  
• Prince Harry’s case against Home Office can proceed, high court judge rules https://t.co/TgQjhNl5N5
• High Court: Developer’s claim of maintenance and champerty against planning objectors struck out as bound to fail | Irish Legal News https://t.co/R5M3WeP7Bs
  
• Law firms and entrepreneurs have backed the launch of an online platform designed to facilitate group actions | NLJ https://t.co/hNSYxPVTOT
  
• More NHS claims settling pre-issue but legal costs continue to rise - Legal Futures https://t.co/9DNxIxGIUi
• Mullany Walsh Maxwells promotes Clodagh O’Hagan to partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/d5dCQzvs79

23rd July - Law News

Edition 3861: 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: Four railway employees have been arrested in connection with the gangrape of a 30-year-old woman on a platform at New Delhi railway station, police said. Police said all the four accused are employees of the Railways' Electrical Department. The gangrape, police said, took place inside a train lighting hut on the platform late on Thursday night. While two of the accused allegedly raped the woman, the others stood guard outside

Saturday Conversations on Law

• #US supreme court rules against Biden in key immigration case https://t.co/iNl7qlL8hn
• A #Brazilian court has charged three men with the murder last month of British journalist Dom Phillips and a local indigenous expert, Bruno Pereira https://t.co/YWtsg8tZjE
• A #US jury has found Donald Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress over his refusal to co-operate with the congressional committee probing the events leading up to the Capitol riot https://t.co/qBDOdudYSm
• Profits and PEP up at Eversheds | Law Gazette https://t.co/3QVIabjRCC
• Ex-Minneapolis officer given two and a half years over George Floyd killing - Thomas Lane convicted of violating Floyd’s civil rights as Derek Chauvin, convicted of murder, pinned Floyd’s neck with his knee #US https://t.co/T8fnPLlpm8
• Partner profits surge at 200-year-old Ashurst | Law Gazette https://t.co/C7lOjK8Ufx
• More rape cases reaching court in England and Wales after years of decline - Police referred 14% more cases to CPS in 2021-22 than in previous year, and more suspects were charged https://t.co/rovyBppMoP
• Solicitors warned on corporate undertakings risks | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZJy01SHV90
• Solicitor who considered herself “beyond regulation” is struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/8sTIQQVgeE
• Serious Fraud Office chief found to have made errors over major corruption trial https://t.co/rBb027Jwcx
• LAA reveals recruitment and retention struggles | Law Gazette https://t.co/7pGweE7Gg7
• A #Kenyan court has found three policemen and a civilian guilty of the murder of a human rights lawyer and two other people in June 2016. The bodies of Willie Kimani, his client and a taxi driver were found after they had been dumped in a river https://t.co/Cu1SRDzWAw
• Regulator threatens legal action over CILEX talks with SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/WTwoo65Ihi
• RDJ expands employment team with senior associate Sinead Morgan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/e6bh3DpIyt
• NHS claims bill still rising despite new resolution approach | Law Gazette https://t.co/Qm9B20IqWb
• Ex-policeman Thomas Lane jailed for two-and-a-half years for violating the civil rights of George Floyd, whose 2020 Minneapolis death led to protests. He was one of the officers who tried to arrest Mr Floyd, was sentenced following a conviction in February https://t.co/p30oktVc9b
• Legal Ombudsman on track to halve backlog by March 2023 - Legal Futures https://t.co/rooPjccuG
• A #PuertoRico judge has lifted a restraining order taken out against Ricky Martin by a family member who had claimed the singer harassed him https://t.co/UZphig5AXl
• Law student Danielle DerGarabedian takes reins of UCD College Tribune | Irish Legal News https://t.co/717Je4BFMP
• Serious farce: SFO slammed over Unaoil case as third conviction quashed | Law Gazette https://t.co/oWr8Mf6bsp
• Public uncomfortable with tech firms’ use of court data - Legal Futures https://t.co/2liMagRQDp
• UK: MPs call for principle of EU law’s supremacy to be scrapped | Irish Legal News https://t.co/LQXOPqDlEZ
• SQE fiasco: candidates 'waiting more than five hours' before exam cancelled | Law Gazette https://t.co/y6TC1t8PcD
• Ten weeks to go – looking ahead to PII renewal - Legal Futures https://t.co/uSXoaFl7wv
• Guildford pub bomb inquest: Device could have been planted by a 'courting couple' https://t.co/Rhfg55VQ1X
• International firm's 'oversight delayed trial by two years' | Law Gazette https://t.co/9JxtAPqK7e
• Starmer's Labour must come clean on sexual harassment claims a lawyer representing two female former Labour employees who made complaints https://t.co/vIEPZdGzGj
• Crypto exchange becomes first VASP registered with Central Bank | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dfWVld5Dhy
• Military raids #SriLanka protest camps, leaders arrested - Protesters say some ‘brutally assaulted’ after soldiers descend on Colombo sites in early hours of Friday morning https://t.co/M9vMP1cnPZ 
• Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has become the first person to formally ask for a public Parole Board hearing after rules were changed https://t.co/lKOxQFsGrJ 
• British drugs policy is punitive and contradictory. And now it’ll go backwards https://t.co/FqzpayfZtI

22nd July - Law News

Edition 3860: 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: China's radio and television regulator warned that the media industry must adhere to Chinese values and should not follow a Western aesthetic. The move comes after both Chinese and Western brands have been criticised for ignoring China's beauty standards and accused of depicting women as "ugly.

Focus of the Day Article: UK’s part-year workers entitled to full paid annual leave, court rules. Workers such as teachers on term-time contracts may be able to claim back pay after supreme court judgment. Full story - Guardian Law

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Ombudsman confident of huge improvements within 18 months | Law Gazette https://t.co/fORwkp4aMi
• Judge acted unlawfully over hearing on Prince Philip’s will, court told https://t.co/IGWUO3SAux
• ‘We will sue you’ - civil war breaks out at CILEX | Law Gazette https://t.co/ho0jp1eTGe
  
• The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has announced that the new caveat portal will go live next Monday, 25 July | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FiGmZ5Prq7 
• Public wary of big tech's use of courts data | Law Gazette https://t.co/a8OXVsfOKE
  
• UK’s part-year workers entitled to full paid annual leave, court rules https://t.co/MnCEkqrfUU 
• Mishcon and RPC post double-digit revenue growth | Law Gazette https://t.co/FIOuHCumcM
  
• No sanction for solicitor who threatened firm over complaint - Legal Futures https://t.co/hxx3bajfWE 
• Government snubs review body with 3% pay rise for judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/4uXqtSBsVL
  
• Man who cut his terminally ill wife's throat in a suicide pact has been cleared of her murder. Graham Mansfield, 73, said he slit his wife Dyanne's throat at their home in Hale, Greater Manchester, in March 2021 in an "act of love" https://t.co/zY7TEkLNHc
  
• BBC to pay damages to former royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke - Alexandra Pettifer, known as Tiggy, was given an apology at the High Court over unfounded allegations she had an affair with Prince Charles and an abortion https://t.co/F3Nqe6PkZK
  
• Be careful when ex-clients seek 'one-off' advice, CA warns solicitors - Legal Futures https://t.co/5cKhU3m3dd
• Withers wins negligence appeal over ‘super-prime’ development | Law Gazette https://t.co/U5Rhks8LJV
  
• Why the long wait for recognition of humanist weddings in England? https://t.co/RnbkOyNYQ4 
• Legal aid increase SI is laid - at last | Law Gazette https://t.co/5pOJRYlzui
  
• CILEX begins talks over transferring regulation of members to SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/BrUHhzX9w7
  
• Alleged fraudster can spend frozen assets on legal fees, Supreme Court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/37vU9C4lHJ 
• English courts get new powers to dismiss Slapp cases against reporters https://t.co/jAsSZsBuCo 
• Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMG35z
  
• England: Crackdown on corrupt elites abusing UK legal system to silence critics | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VjySwquPdV
• Government to tackle SLAPPs with early dismissal and costs cap | Law Gazette https://t.co/TJ0QlS26b3
• Research highlights ethnic minority attainment gap on Bar course - Legal Futures https://t.co/kt1BZicaVS 
• Clifford Chance increases partner pay to more than £2m | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XV4DHgeOhA
  
• ‘All views are my own’ won’t save you | Law Gazette https://t.co/U6Ba4vcrn0

21st July - Law News

Edition 3859: 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: Judgments have been given this morning by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the following cases: [1] Harpur Trust (Appellant) v Brazel (Respondent) - [2022] UKSC 2019/0209 On appeal from: [2019] EWCA Civ 1402 This appeal concerns the calculation of annual leave and holiday pay entitlements for workers who work for varying hours during only certain weeks of the year but have a contract throughout that year (“part-year workers”). More information is available on our website: UKSC 2019/0209

Focus of the Day Article: Prison lawyers have decided to boycott the next meeting of a Parole Board stakeholder forum over the government’s refusal to increase legal aid fees for prison law work. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Supreme Court to proceed with latest independence case | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QoPfdt9ElT
• Lynda Greenwood inquest opening held into death of solicitor in Yorkshire house fire https://t.co/kxjbgV0AG
• SDT makes no order over solicitor’s ‘angry’ email | Law Gazette https://t.co/fs6a7AYVWh
  
• Former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium buys Rs 85-crore Delhi Bungalow #India https://t.co/WNajL5outX
• Axiom solicitor made money ‘hand over fist’ while investors ‘lost everything’, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/x229OccXb3
• Fine for partner who failed to detail work on client files - Legal Futures https://t.co/uxf3WLCXwt 
• Firm to pay £35,000 to paralegal sacked after surgery | Law Gazette https://t.co/e8D0Mm8dua
• Want to get wed in a forest or a field? A makeover of marriage laws could be love at first sight https://t.co/Pmvds1a6B
• Law reform could bring in weddings on the beach | Law Gazette https://t.co/JkDLgz7Evx
• Why I am suing the #Australian government over my hotel detention after being brought from Manus Island - Mostafa Azimitabar https://t.co/3vamgAUbrr
• Apple settles US butterfly-keyboard legal action for $50m. The keyboards were prone to dust and debris related sticky key issues https://t.co/PGZGzc8NO
• The European Commission has urged countries across the bloc to cut their gas use by 15% from August to March amid fears Russia could halt supplies https://t.co/FJZH9PpEW
• Stamp duty holiday sparks 85% surge in Land Registry complaints - Legal Futures https://t.co/wasGwIyn0
• Clients shopping around and more satisfied than ever - official | Law Gazette https://t.co/8IwL3kxvw
• Your sand in marriage: plans to relax wedding rules in England and Wales https://t.co/sEFfwU43um
• Prison lawyers to boycott forum as legal aid dispute escalates | Law Gazette https://t.co/4ecYXNcKpT
• Class action firm scores “largest ever” £100m funding deal - Legal Futures https://t.co/FNxtCQASdj
• Off to see the members: bar takes legal aid fight to parliament | Law Gazette https://t.co/mkiAF8OJmk
• A Samsung ad criticised for showing a woman running alone at 02:00 has been cleared by the advertising watchdog. People complained that the smart watch campaign was irresponsible for encouraging unsafe behaviour https://t.co/wey91TKQ3e
• The Tories are upping their attack on our democracy, under cover of the leadership contest https://t.co/f7YVk4b45
• Legal execs seek SRA regulation switch | Law Gazette https://t.co/7nJdGNUbVm
• Consumers increasingly shopping around for lawyers, panel finds - Legal Futures https://t.co/86xUkXHxe1
• Empire, the common law and the ECHR | Law Gazette https://t.co/jkEdvkOkjP Jul 20, 2022
• Clifford Chance’s record results push PEP above £2m | Law Gazette https://t.co/ySXQj7e1R
• A video showing a student being harassed by a man on a Cardiff street has been watched more than two million times https://t.co/bnFCiapKY7
  
• Medical students in England will have to pass mandatory training to diagnose and treat female health conditions under plans to improve women's health https://t.co/mKS7yUmKFg

20th July - Law News

Edition 3858: 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: Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has severely hit workers in the island’s biggest export industry - tea. The industry, which normally brings in more than $1bn per year, employs some two million people, but production levels have dropped. Farmers said they are struggling for fuel to transport goods and are still reeling from the government’s decision to ban chemical fertiliser last year, which has since been reversed.

Focus of the Day Article: HM Land Registry (HMLR) was hit by a surge of 85% in complaints over the past year in the wake of the property boom sparked by the stamp duty holiday, its annual report has revealed. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A #US judge has ordered that Twitter's lawsuit against Elon Musk go to trial in October, a blow to the world's richest man who had asked for a delay https://t.co/r3FD19KqwZ
• A rise in exotic pet ownership means snakebite injuries are becoming more common in the UK, doctors are warning. In the last 11 years medics have seen and treated 300 victims https://t.co/JiDrcBPv7
• XR protesters smash windows of News UK over coverage of Britain’s heatwave - Activists target London HQ of Rupert Murdoch’s media company after UK weather treated as upbeat story https://t.co/Bt3lNwvo8R
  
• Axiom solicitor made money ‘hand over fist’ while investors ‘lost everything’, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/x229ObVlM
• Volumes 1–4 of Legal Leaders Case Study Compendium feat. Nestlé, Oracle, Telefónica and many more | Irish Legal News https://t.co/1rPCU9S0ub
• £187m of Windsor family wealth hidden in secret royal wills https://t.co/yCVl56ohhp
• South Asian Heritage Month: why it matters | Law Gazette https://t.co/QYLQreXfRj
• BSB board members call for “radical thinking” on backlog - Legal Futures https://t.co/vHR6KmxtJH
• Anti-Corbyn Labour officials covertly diverted election funds away from winnable seats, Forde report finds https://t.co/sxpZQi9Rzr
• Apple has been hit with a lawsuit in the US over Apple Pay. The tech giant is being accused of using its market power in the mobile phone industry to fend off competition from other payment card issuers #US https://t.co/zGnbiPwDHE
• Forensic inquiry to examine UK rape case after man’s 17 years in jail - DNA links another man to the crime in Greater Manchester for which Andrew Malkinson was jailed https://t.co/wx6DF7nkT
• CJC forum brainstorms costs reform | Law Gazette https://t.co/1xr4ogeyFN Jul 19, 2022
• Bar Council and Law Society unhappy with LSB's oversight reforms - Legal Futures https://t.co/JQ5om1jpU
• Ángel Bello Cortés promoted to partner at Fragomen | Irish Legal News https://t.co/V118DA4oM6
• Artificial intelligence rules to require human liability | Law Gazette https://t.co/ogTyawNfEb
• A domestic abuse charity has spoken to ITV about "misogynistic and controlling behaviour" on Love Island. Women's Aid said it was forced to act after being tagged in so many social posts about the show by viewers https://t.co/KhmkfApLl
• ESG key to expanding litigation funding market, says report - Legal Futures https://t.co/kJ9t4eYpBU
• Lindsays lawyers share expertise with emerging game creators | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ewrs1fylrA
• Bar protest goes to parliament as five-day walkout begins | Law Gazette https://t.co/GTrQ87eSOt 
• Court orders UK government to explain how net zero policies will reach targets - Green activists brought challenge, arguing climate change strategy did not spell out how carbon emissions cuts would be achieved https://t.co/TB6tZSreTd
• CLC warns on shutdowns after conveyancer abandons 15,000 files - Legal Futures https://t.co/ufXlBl4CsH
  
• Why did MI5 name Christine Lee as an 'agent of influence'? https://t.co/1YbqCzBRd6
• More than 2,000 tourists have been stranded in a #Chinese coastal city after a surge in coronavirus cases. Officials in Beihai locked down urban areas and ordered the mass testing of its 1.9m residents over the weekend https://t.co/zDfyimBz0T
• SDT blocks solicitor from returning 21 years after strike-off | Law Gazette https://t.co/x1dkVT5k11
• Julie Faverie joins aircraft lessor TrueNoord as legal counsel | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jh8iplwaXE
  
• Deborah Miller: Dorothy the turkey, veganism and the Equality Act | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/p0iYwnFEek 
• Medical expert witnesses ‘should not scapegoat doctors’ | Doctors | The Guardian - Ben Roberts-Smith was targeted after being awarded Victoria Cross, his barrister tells court #Australia https://t.co/h64GT7l9ee https://t.co/6wcf1jAqFX 
• Shoosmiths hands out £1,000 cost of living payment | Law Gazette https://t.co/DhyGa7K8Cq 
• How law firms can overcome the top five operational challenges - Legal Futures https://t.co/v4CdqgJG4l
  
• NI Court of Appeal: Man who sawed off partner’s head fails appeal alleging ineffective counsel | Irish Legal News https://t.co/mUjxDTNhkg
  
• Analysis: Service of proceedings via NFT on the blockchain — the future? | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ce9b2cifUh 
• Best of the blogs - 16 July 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/J2pBmBzTgh

19th July - Law News

Edition 3857: 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 report into the fatal school shooting in Uvalde in Texas has found there were “multiple systemic failures” in the police response Nineteen students and two teachers were killed in the attack at Robb Elementary school - and although almost 400 police officers were at the scene - the report says they put their own safety ahead of the lives of children and staff, waiting more than an hour before the decision was taken to confront the gunman. 

Focus of the Day Article: Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal has rejected 12 separate grounds of appeal by a murderer who claimed his counsel were dishonest, lacking integrity, and encouraged him to perjure himself. Full story - Irish Legal News

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMG35z
• Ben Roberts-Smith was targeted after being awarded Victoria Cross, his barrister tells court #Australia https://t.co/h64GT7l9ee
• Clifford Chance joins firms handing cost of living bonuses to trainees and staff - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2mLqlpez8D
• Party autonomy, independence from governmental controls the guiding principles of IAMC: Registrar Tariq Khan | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/UDwenPr2l1
• Unpacking reforms to cyber and critical infrastructure - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Th0FsBLRqs
• Bye bye, BCAT: Bar aptitude test to be ditched this month - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PbwCnTUofb
  
• Drone to search wreckage after aircraft carrying ‘dangerous’ cargo crashes in #Greece https://t.co/SR8i15MbTy
• Unmarried women pregnant from consensual sex cannot terminate pregnancy older than 20 weeks: Delhi High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/7W4OZc6kiL 
• Jeremy Hartwell from the second series of Netflix show Love Is Blind is suing the streaming service over alleged breaches of labour laws alleging producers encouraged the cast to drink alcohol, while limiting access to food & water and underpaying them https://t.co/QMHMHEfL
• Bakers boosts NQ lawyer salaries to £110,000 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/T9udfgURmg
• Bombay High Court denies bail to 23-year-old accused of murdering girlfriend at New Year's eve party | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/1tN28VTqZF
• 'Pay criminal barristers properly', says PM hopeful Nadhim Zahawi - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zZRogleZK
• A ban on heading by players in matches at under-12 level is to be trialled by the Football Association https://t.co/snzsTtyccN
• You’re not taking the dog! How pet custody battles turned nasty https://t.co/p014Ne9BUd
• Rowdy sheets under Police Standing Orders, home visits, collecting personal info infringe privacy: Andhra Pradesh High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/giESwjvrGs
• A letter to the Law Society of England and Wales and the Bar Council, from the UK-based National Cyber Security Centre, has warned the legal professional body about “the role of solicitors paying off cyber black mailers” - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/LyIiv56CvQ
• Willkie increases LPC and GDL maintenance grants by a quarter - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mgo8u873qa
• The father of a sex-assault victim is backing barristers' strike action, even though it could add to the court delays. The fourth week of the action, over pay, will last for five days, adding to trial delays in England and Wales https://t.co/WB15X21FOp
  
• #Ukraine president Zelensky suspends security chief and top prosecutor - A total of 651 collaboration and treason cases had been opened against law enforcement officials, he added https://t.co/HuyGdBzN46
• Crypto: The good, the bad and the ugly - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/07LsgMeY2p
• X marks the spot: Treasure law reforms in England and Wales - Legal Cheek https://t.co/i6Z8xu1vw6
• Tool to assess jailed terrorists before release criticised as unreliable and prejudicial to Muslims #Australia https://t.co/yWLgO69NpM
• NIRF Rankings 2022: Symbiosis Pune joins NLSIU, NLU Delhi in top three Indian law schools | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/cj1w0wTcn
• Linklaters decides against upping NQ lawyer pay - for now - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JmN7qB6E75
• A union has called for a legal limit on how hot it can be in a workplace ahead of a red warning for extreme heat. The GMB union said workers should not have to contend with temperatures any higher than 25C https://t.co/hWLNKp4LBj
  
• Police in #Iran arrested several at protests against the near disappearance of what was once the world's second largest salt lake. Lake Urmia was the main began shrinking in 1995 due to extreme drought, agriculture & dam building https://t.co/i3Z5TSGR6Z 
• Highlights from The Legal Cheek-ULaw Summer 2022 Virtual Vacation Scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/n531PQIL0b
• Every lawyer owes a duty to the institution; don’t be a silent spectator: Madhya Pradesh's criminal law doyen Anil Khare | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/UGvHetnVJS

18th July - Law News

Edition 3856: 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: On creating inclusive workplaces for trans and non-binary people - Lesbian, gay, bi, trans and non-binary inclusion by the SRA. 

Focus of the Day Article: The Crown Court backlog has reduced by a mere 111 cases, from 58,386 in April 2022 to 58,275 in May 2022, the latest Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures show. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Has the Magic Circle lost its magic? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/6kOHL0hvIf
  
• ‘ESG is now BAU’, says BigLaw firm’s report: A new report from a global law firm details leading concerns for #Australian business leaders at this critical juncture, as well as their headline ESG priorities - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/b0tZqpJoG
• Freshfields ups financial support for SQE trainees to £20,000 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/YVEXdqnrZC
• Full video: How the SQE can help create a more diverse legal profession - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ky2peirFLM 
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