24th August - Law News

Edition 3892: 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 federal jury found two men guilty of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. Prosecutors say the ring leader behind the plan ordered over $4,000 in explosives from an undercover FBI agent

Focus of the Day Article: The barrister who left his chambers following a storm last year over a tweet about a “stroppy teenager of colour” has had a £3m discrimination claim against the set thrown out for being time-barred. Full story - Legal Futures

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Lawyers for female Afghan judge in 'constant fear' file immigration appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/3ItFyZboWi 
• Student nurse Owami Davies has been found alive and well in Hampshire, the Met Police has confirmed https://t.co/eYYT1NjZZ2 
• No material reform to be undertaken by the UK Government in response to the Taylor Review consultation on employment status https://t.co/6sWTGK67u6 
• City firms to make millions from Covid inquiry contracts | Law Gazette https://t.co/Sox8F8s7W1 
• Apprenticeships for the legal sector - Legal Futures https://t.co/VYadYkBIET 
• Owami Davies: police issued CCTV images showing wrong woman - Met hurriedly apologised and withdrew images that it initially said showed missing woman in a shop https://tinyurl.com/2p9ycbs7
• Foot Anstey plans further growth after posting record revenue | Law Gazette https://t.co/6YqFOf6Hsl
  
• The judge presiding over the trial of former Manchester United player and Wales manager Ryan Giggs has told jurors it "is not a court of morals". Judge Hilary Manley also said the retired player, 48, was not on trial for his infidelity https://t.co/FaBE053nGT
• Sony could face £5bn in legal claims over PlayStation game charges https://t.co/iPHlOBe1vC 
• #Malaysia former Prime Minister Najib Razak has been sent to jail to begin serving a 12-year sentence, after the top court rejected his appeal. The 69-year-old's charges relate to a corruption scandal involving the state-owned wealth fund https://t.co/RTc40f1uXQ
• Human drivers in UK won’t be liable for accidents when vehicle is self-driving https://t.co/1MnEbCo8wr
• A fan who Nick Kyrgios said was "drunk out of her mind" during the Wimbledon final is taking legal action against the Australian tennis player. Anna Palus has now instructed solicitors to bring defamation proceedings against Kyrgios https://t.co/ieRoGkuoI3
• An unfair tax on accessing justice | Law Gazette https://t.co/KNiBBpK22k
• Consumers see online review websites as a helpful tool to find a lawyer, with those needing family law advice particularly likely to shop around, Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) research has found - Legal Futures https://t.co/lWpur1JrcT
• Crikey: small independent news website challenges Lachlan Murdoch to sue it for defamation https://t.co/jEgVhsOLxa
• A nine-year-old girl who died after being shot in Liverpool has been named as Olivia Pratt-Korbel. Olivia was shot at her home in Dovecot after a man being chased by a gunman barged his way inside at about 22:00 BST on Monday https://t.co/lucBWAgbvY
  
• London's domination of commercial claims is shrinking - gradually | Law Gazette https://t.co/jlAzsLeAM
• "Manifestly incompetent" solicitor did not touch probate file for decade - Legal Futures https://t.co/n5qULVIfw7
  
• All out: barristers vote overwhelmingly for full-blown strike | Law Gazette https://t.co/5ZCGOK1Ixt
• A nine-year-old girl has died after being shot in Liverpool. An unknown man was reported to have fired a gun inside a house in the Dovecot area at 22:00 BST on Monday https://t.co/wxyY8lM5UI
  
• It tears barristers like me apart to strike, but the government has left us no choice https://t.co/YgBl9Qnei
• Sunak pledges crackdown on JR "lawfare" and "judicial recidivism" - Legal Futures https://t.co/F6MFJbFP9s 
• PlayStation maker faces £5bn claim over 'excessive and unfair prices' | Law Gazette https://t.co/UedoHj1sk4
  
• Almost half of law firms are now using review websites but there remains strong opposition to price comparison for legal services, a Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) survey has found - Legal Futures https://t.co/hU2iwSKrbP
• Sexual misconduct will not be punished with fines, SRA proposes | Law Gazette https://t.co/Oth4GYV5Xt
  
• Police officers who were criticised after being shown on social media dancing at an LGBTQ+ Pride event have been defended by their chief constable https://t.co/plsoAbC0xO
• Why criminal barristers are striking over legal aid funding https://t.co/oFqdrBUAOq
• Criminal barristers in England and Wales vote to go on indefinite strike https://t.co/Jakv9Z7Esp 
• Water companies are facing mounting criticism from environmental campaigners and politicians over sewage being pumped on to British beaches https://t.co/P5KpR1hF7i

23rd August - Law News

Edition 3891: 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: Police in Pakistan have filed terrorism charges against the former Prime Minister Imran Khan - after he gave a speech at the weekend vowing to sue police officers and a female judge, and claiming that a close aide had been tortured after his arrest

Focus of the Day Article: Criminal barristers in England and Wales vote to go on indefinite strike. Ministers accused of overseeing ‘recklessly underfunded’ criminal justice system, with industrial action to step up on 5 September. Full story - Guardian Law

Saturday Conversations on Law

• #US rejects Ukrainian call for blanket ban on visas for Russians https://t.co/BEgPFjOV29
• Trump sues #US government over FBI search of Mar-a-Lago - Ex-president seeks to prevent bureau from reading seized documents until court official weighs in https://t.co/HAPX3LkGa5
• UK intelligence agencies are accused of tipping off Indian authorities about a British national before his abduction and alleged torture by Punjab police. Jagtar Singh Johal was in India in 2017 when his family say he was forced into an unmarked car https://t.co/Y0ZoWgEz0W 
• Justice Revati Mohite Dere recuses from Malegaon Blasts cases after accused highlights her appearance as lawyer for NIA | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/u6Le4o2OGD 
• CMS retains 42 of 48 NQ lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rWidX42Icd 
• What Google v Defteros means for defamation law - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/z3VhnzgpwM 
• Allen & Overy hires co-head of corporate at India relationship firm Trilegal - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/jPy8EhNhFY
• Weil joins firms upping future trainee maintenance grants to £20k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/I5gpVJHW8t 
• Loving your business as a law firm owner - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/77tlwQkMvQ 
• CIFC Asset Management shakes up legal and compliance team with two senior appointments - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/STRl6BHh4S 
• "I will issue rule of contempt, send you to prison:" Full exchange between Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay and Bar President Arunava Ghosh | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/2mkZb2Q1wU
  
• Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been suspended after a video emerged showing a suspect being pinned to the ground and repeatedly beaten #US https://t.co/ADIOgqroah 
• British firms cannot avoid the Wolves of Law Street - Legal Cheek https://t.co/QthR5ApQtT 
• #Pakistan's police have charged the country's former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, under anti-terror laws. Their investigation comes after he accused the police and judiciary of detaining and torturing a close aide https://t.co/dGlA2z37nx 
• Shine Lawyers introduces 9-day fortnight - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/ElyaNPXae3 
• How can we support young LGBTQIA+ legal professionals? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/LSaU8OyhTb 
• Freshfields lawyers to work from office at least three days a week in agile policy tweak - Legal Cheek https://t.co/pqY5gkjL9K
• An innocent accused and a culpable victim? Critique of the Kerala court order granting bail to Civic Chandran | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/70KHbWdpuV 
• Barristers have voted to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in England and Wales from next month. The walkout by members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) will begin on 5 September https://t.co/f6WB6z2ybM 
• Reducing M&A risk with better data - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/GXpTL8Q5Vh 
• From Sidley to security: Meet the City lawyer who kept people safe during the Commonwealth Games - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3P5hb74oZk 
• Watchdog launches inquiry into legal advice charity founded by Lord Harley - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5PAJk5R3mU
  
• Heated exchange of words between judge, lawyer cannot be ground to transfer case: Jammu & Kashmir High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/7BmoMGraNQ 
• UK Supreme Court draws fire over diversity record after two men fill vacancies - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/JpiY8EOQDp
  
• Special Guardianship Orders – Reviewing the Journey so far – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/TgO4lbM5Nw 
• Ban for partner who told trainee to change date on property document - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vr1fXpdWH1 
• US supreme court backs Black voters challenging Georgia election rules #US https://t.co/OimqFAyd1p 
• From crime lord to Michelin award: how a notorious Marseille prison was the making of a top French chef https://t.co/9Tww3x3zAX
  
• Women are facing threats and blackmail from a mob of anonymous strangers after their personal details, intimate photos and videos were shared on the social media platform Reddit https://t.co/WgG4t1Svmm 
• Kobe Bryant's widow has testified that she had panic attacks after learning that photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband and daughter were taken and shared by first responders #US https://t.co/j0o2tv9xIs

22nd August - Law News

Edition 3890: 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: Mexico's former attorney general has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. Jesús Murillo Karam, who led an inquiry into the atrocity, has been charged with forced disappearance, torture and the obstruction of justice.

Focus of the Day Article:  The Home Office is launching a ‘scale-up’ visa route next week to help businesses recruit highly skilled employees. The two-year visa, available from 22 August, is aimed at ‘scale-ups’―young, fast-growing, innovation-driven companies, as opposed to ‘start-ups’, which are recently established companies with potential to grow. To qualify, scale-ups should have a turnover or growth rate of more than 20% for the past three years and have at least ten employees at the start of the three-year period. Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Latham and Sayenko Kharenko take lead roles on Ukraine's $20bn debt restructuring - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/JN4ZQyywuV 
• Baroness Hale spotted at Edinburgh Fringe - Legal Cheek https://t.co/dkbuYFElJn 
• Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Yogender Yadav acquitted in a 2013 criminal defamation case | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/meG5hfB2kL
• Being a female lawyer in regional #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/9x5LFfFXZO
• BARBRI expands diversity funding project with legal aid and commercial law partnerships - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rWCIoGSmTX
• Reed Smith advises Aristata Capital on formation of Soros-backed impact litigation fund - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/FZOAYqLdM
• Boxer Tyson Fury has called on the government to introduce stronger punishments for knife crime after his cousin was killed in a stabbing. The heavyweight champion said on social media "RIP Rico Burton", who was "stabbed in the neck" overnight https://t.co/sixpjnoQNK 
• Squire Patton Boggs hires trademark specialist from Marks & Clerk to boost IP practice - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/JiclxVSTm
• Lord Lloyd-Jones re-joins the Supreme Court... seven months after retiring - Legal Cheek https://t.co/jpwQXdyA2j
• Singapore will repeal a law that bans gay sex, effectively making it legal to be homosexual in the city-state. The decision, announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on national TV, comes after years of fierce debate https://t.co/zFrSGDX3v
• Victorian Parliament passes ‘historic’ treaty legislation - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/JDMkTSsNK4
• Banana split: artists set for court battle over who first taped fruit to the wall - Judge rules that Joe Morford has no ‘copyright in bananas or duct tape’ but can take Maurizio Cattelan to court over Comedian piece https://t.co/0fpe46KJHM
• What’s new in the Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill, 2022? | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/7g2Mz1jDU
• 'How enforceable are work from home policies?' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/G5iGinPDyz 
• Kathryn Stone OBE appointed as the new Chair of the Bar Standards Board – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/zsJ5ykGXax
• Bombay High Court to constitute special bench to take up issue of potholes on roads | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/8Km7uy6QkI 
• Police officers had contact with student nurse Owami Davies on the day she was reported missing by her family, it has emerged, she was last seen in Croydon on 7 July https://t.co/887Mzc3xP8 
• Seeking justice for the Chagossians - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zNMHTogEi0
• “It's all still possible.” Law Awards Finalist Shares Her Unconventional Career Journey. - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/3i2THlbj0S
• Punjab appoints 5 lawyers as Additional Advocates General in Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/juBMJnlqr4
• Burges Salmon targets 50% emissions cut by 2030 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/1mnZchZkhD 
• What makes an award-winning wellness advocate? - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/AMLZzgRshf 
• A wise strategy for a LIP to seek some form of professional assistance. And options for a first port of call include the paralegal sector – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/nnq76eIsjL 
• Virtual student event NEXT WEEK: Kicking off your legal career with the SQE — with Reed Smith, Accutrainee and The College of Legal Practice - Legal Cheek https://t.co/AmnMZxJG0S 
• An exam board has apologised after some BTec students did not receive their results as expected last Thursday, throwing university places into doubt https://t.co/ILHB8dFQpw 
• Kirkland hires second London investment funds partner in as many days - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/r2wYrTf89h
  
• LSB competence statement ‘a solution in search of a problem’, says Bar Council – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/sOyDMJEXOq
• Aspiring lawyer with child exploitation convictions refused admission - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/ae11g7o0Os

21st August - Law News

Edition 3889: 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 world’s biggest oil and gas companies have posted record profits in the past quarter, while consumers have been struggling with high energy bills. So what’s going on? 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Afghan female judge fleeing Taliban appeals after Home Office refuses UK entry https://t.co/ASIOwhLMQq
  
• London-based Bishop & Sewell has become the latest law firm to launched an ESG (environmental, social and governance) advisory group to assist the firm and its clients | NLJ https://t.co/oYTiBTW7sS
• ‘Wagatha Christie’ costs could take years to determine | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/myQwaVfUsA
• Mother in law: How the pandemic changed us | Law Gazette https://t.co/itmtL721ub
• Gillespie Macandrew reports £15m turnover after double-digit growth | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ac0QGlu0NZ
• Tweeting barrister's £3m claim against former chambers thrown out - Legal Futures https://t.co/nPKtBinz4
• Talented people from lower socio-economic backgrounds continue to face major obstacles to career progression at senior levels in the UK financial and professional services, research shows | NLJ https://t.co/utGFwIGa3n
• Legal Aid Agency rota demonstrates duty solicitor decline | Law Gazette https://t.co/zZO0B1j4lS 
• Professor Laurent Pech appointed Dean at UCD Sutherland School of Law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/HOLs0QLoUQ
• Actor Stephen Tompkinson is due to appear in court charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm. The CPS said the 56-year-old, well-known as the eponymous detective in ITV crime series DCI Banks, appeared before magistrates in Newcastle https://t.co/xxv3ixM8DC
  
• Restorative justice charity has public funding suspended | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jyaGpstz7n
• LawtechUK to turn focus on access to justice and SME law firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/cU6mbXMtxw 
• Clerk grateful after colleagues spotted his stroke at work | Law Gazette https://t.co/wZnaiSOfeJ 
• P.A. Duffy & Co appoints Sean Kelly as finance and marketing manager | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lArAhOH7y0
• The in-house legal team at telecoms giant Vodafone UK has pioneered a ‘Greener Litigation’ initiative aimed at encouraging corporate counsel to reduce the environmental impact of litigation | NLJ https://t.co/B1VlQ2t5a
• A man has been charged after a six-year-old girl was abducted and sexually assaulted in Greater Manchester. Officers said the girl was reunited with her family shortly after the assault in Tameside on Thursday https://t.co/iIzepMLokm
  
• P&O Ferries will not face criminal action over the way it fired nearly 800 employees earlier this year, the Insolvency Service has said https://t.co/igBXkkfL84 
• SRA contradicts Blacker's claim that it paid him libel damages - Legal Futures https://t.co/NDyq0BPlEM 
• Two pilots fell asleep at 37,000ft (11,000m), missing an airport runway before waking to safely land the plane, an aviation publication says. Air traffic tried to contact them after they overshot the point of descent into #Ethiopia's Addis Ababa airport https://t.co/V6B5wBBJM
• The Home Office is launching a ‘scale-up’ visa route next week to help businesses recruit highly skilled employees | NLJ https://t.co/ep9P6qJ6a
• Football fans and festival goers are among those facing fresh travel disruption on Saturday, as more than 45,000 rail workers take part in a further strike over pay and conditions https://t.co/QU942TPyEL
• South coast’s island of free legal help closes its doors | Law Gazette https://t.co/b845rR56mT 
• British judge rules dissident can sue #Saudi Arabia for Pegasus hacking - Ghanem Almasarir’s victory opens way for other hacking victims in UK to bring cases against foreign governments https://t.co/P2cZGpJoQX 
• Solicitor fined for “inadvertent” use of client account as banking facility - Legal Futures https://t.co/hHjmrc7O91
• England: ‘Anti-woke’ barrister loses employment tribunal claim | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/u6gAaGKOHh 
• Liz Truss personally supported cuts to NHS and doctors’ pay https://t.co/uwNXQEchYp 
• Tribunal throws out £3m claim from tweeting barrister Holbrook | Law Gazette https://t.co/DR5DgYnN3A 
• NI Coroner’s Court: ‘Frightened’ army soldier shot and killed devoted mother in her own garden | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WSwiP7VqZB

20th August - Law News

Edition 3888: 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, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena ordered the transfer of 12 IAS officers following the raids on Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia over allegations of corruption in the liquor policy

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Gillespie Macandrew reports £15m turnover after double-digit growth | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ac0QGlu0NZ
• Police abuse stop and search powers to target protesters, suggests data https://t.co/PVasmSiWWo 
• Claimants call for review of stagnant fixed costs | Law Gazette https://t.co/8PQqqtYjbk
• ABS to keep staff “invested” through different kinds of shares - Legal Futures https://t.co/KkBmTwcugU
• Munro & Noble welcomes newest solicitor Elaine Gamba | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZfzhcqLUGe
• Andrew Tate banned from Facebook and Instagram - The former kickboxer rose to fame in 2016 when he was removed from TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to depict him attacking a woman https://t.co/L06UwkSepF
  
• Agricultural law specialists Petra Grunenberg and Ellen Eunson join Shepherd and Wedderburn | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uXKSzvDk4W
• An IS group militant from the UK sentenced to life in prison by a #US court for his involvement with a terror cell. El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, was convicted in April of hostage-taking, conspiracy to murder US citizens & supporting a terrorist organisation https://t.co/7qUlmzSmgc
• Detained Hong Kong activists to plead guilty under #China-style law https://t.co/7KVn69geyi 
• Wayne Couzens to be charged with two further offences of exposure - CPS authorises decision following referral of evidence by Met police against killer of Sarah Everard https://t.co/Ex7g5B4jy8 
• Apple has released an update to fix security flaws on its iPhone, iPad and Mac devices, which it says hackers may have "actively exploited". The tech company said the new software "provides important security updates and is recommended for all users" https://t.co/JcbQ6cUDY6 
• Water firms in England and Wales lost 1tn litres via leaky pipes in 2021 https://t.co/Wt1wyIE3Zy 
• Election law a growing area - and good for democracy, say experts - Legal Futures https://t.co/gWCrXUqZyU
  
• Hamilton Mullan celebrates five years and expand their training programme | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mpVKlCM8Tl
• Scottish judge urged to follow Irish colleagues in resigning from Dubai finance court | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0r6kLwoqm5
• The Tory government has said it will expand its role in Labour-run Liverpool City Council to cover financial decisions, governance and recruitment, after expensive errors by the authority https://t.co/ix3Wdqnegi
• Partner who told trainee to change dates of deed is struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/SDacElscLM
  
• A 90-year-old woman waited 40 hours for an ambulance after a serious fall. Stephen Syms said his mother, from Cornwall, fell on Sunday evening and an ambulance arrived on Tuesday afternoon https://t.co/oldhFfKgzh
  
• Legal aid lawyers working longer under online immigration regime | Law Gazette https://t.co/khTmpIGECh 
• A man has been charged with the murder of a grandfather stabbed while riding a mobility scooter in west London. Thomas O'Halloran, 87, died at the scene on Cayton Road, Greenford, after being attacked https://t.co/m6tH7h1YXR
• CV fraudster must repay some wages, Supreme Court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/0p16d428Dn 
• Three men have been charged over the prison killing of infamous Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. The 89-year-old Bulger was discovered unresponsive in October 2018 at a maximum-security facility in West Virginia #US https://t.co/iA98lU97ob 
• Clinical negligence leader sees results from "fast and fair" approach - Legal Futures https://t.co/qddNErwGVE
• A drought has been officially declared in parts of Wales after an extended period of dry weather and low rainfall caused water levels to plummet https://t.co/OE3KX4fwWo 
• I have spent 25 years treating serious sexual offenders – this is what I’ve learned https://t.co/f6JUkBZYt2
• Diversity concerns as Supreme Court reappoints old guard | Law Gazette https://t.co/EnyQmgrXUV 
• Stalked TV presenter Isla Traquair condemns handling of offencehttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/18/stalked-tv-presenter-isla-traquair-condemns-handling-of-offence
• The Post Office, smoke and mirrors – and it’s all just got a bit worse - Legal Futures https://t.co/GfVubMnCvH 
• Deirdre-Ann Barr appointed as chair of Irish Blood Transfusion Service | Irish Legal News https://t.co/5ButSPbHoI
• NI Court of Appeal: Repossession order upheld with court ‘surprised this argument was made by a qualified barrister’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/6yKBVZc4uH 
• Government dealt partial blow in bid to keep Rwanda documents secret | Law Gazette https://t.co/3XywiHsZ1N 
• Retired Irish barrister Bill Shipsey, a former chair of Amnesty International Ireland, pens an open letter to former senator Lord Glennie over his controversial role on the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) courts | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0YZGrmuj9v 
• Parents have been warned to be "extra vigilant with their children" after a six-year-old girl was abducted and sexually assaulted in Greater Manchester, with police appealing for help to find a man seen on CCTV images https://t.co/UuOAQxLAQR

19th August - Law News

Edition 3887: 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 growing calls for an inquiry into former Australia prime minister Scott Morrison's secret portfolios

Focus of the Day Article: UK Supreme Court draws fire over diversity record after two men fill vacancies. Campaigners express disappointment as appointments reduce tally of women judges to just one. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Liz Truss called for patients to be charged for GP visits, 2009 paper reveals https://t.co/rrdXY40OnC
• Housing referendum would be based on ‘gross untruth’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RttyBgjAiT
• The NHS Covid Pass is working again, NHS Digital has said, after an earlier fault left some travellers struggling to board flights https://t.co/K1DV6DxNIA 
• Solicitor banned for telling trainee to change date on form | Law Gazette https://t.co/TQS9WLMtfe
• Partner rebuked for telling clients they could share court Zoom link | Law Gazette https://t.co/i47zmEczoU
  
• City warns of 'digital protectionism' | Law Gazette https://t.co/wYi0Avn7Jq 
• Foreign Office official raised ‘stark’ criticisms of Rwanda plan, court hears https://t.co/X47MPjPtpp
• Protestor 'convicted behind closed doors' plans to sue Metropolitan Police | Law Gazette https://t.co/0dQg7uCEfG
• Frozen personal injury fixed costs need “immediate review” - Legal Futures https://t.co/clxI5n4Mfp
• No conspiracy behind incorrectly telling alleged Melbourne BLM protest organisers their charges were dropped, court hears #Australia https://t.co/h6biEOQrhK 
• Government defends medical student number cap - Medicine is one of a handful of courses where numbers are limited by the government, because the cost is heavily subsidised https://t.co/LYkesCOUGu
  
• Bodies of Saudi asylum seeker sisters found dead in Sydney repatriated to country they fled - Asra and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli had sought protection in #Australia before their ‘suspicious’ deaths https://t.co/xh6xgqhJEx 
• Ex-justice minister criticises lawyers over modern slavery claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/3er9mHnvyk
• Independent MP Margaret Ferrier pleads guilty to exposing public to Covid https://t.co/mnVeqtlg9r
• City partner rebuked for trial livestreaming breach - Legal Futures https://t.co/a7LAhhx5BY
  
• 'End foolish and misguided strike', law firm chief tells criminal bar | Law Gazette https://t.co/PchOiBTDUZ
  
• R. Kelly has a "dark" and "hidden" side that the public rarely saw during his career, prosecutors said at the opening of his second federal trial https://t.co/LLXYaTFalD
• Solicitor caught on CCTV giving cash to clients at police station - Legal Futures https://t.co/gFB55s7NvT
• US: Rudy Giuliani now under criminal investigation over election claims | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RznVhFAfS8
• Three children's homes have closed and two more rated "inadequate" following an investigation into a firm making huge profits - Calcot Services for Children does not accept the BBC's allegations and says profits were not excessive https://t.co/0BdK6sH3gW 
• Watchdog launches probe into Blacker's legal advice charity - Legal Futures https://t.co/YeP2YxYKMd
  
• 2018 Masters champion Reed Patrick Reed has filed a $750m defamation lawsuit against American television network The Golf Channel and its commentator Brandel Chamblee alleging "calculated, malicious, false and reckless attacks" causing major damage https://t.co/3ldcc9bXdT 
• Ryan Giggs has denied headbutting his girlfriend, claimed she kicked him in the head, and cried in court as he described a night in a police cell as "the worst experience of my life" https://t.co/lfCkzf88pA 
• Samantha Arnold joins Fragomen’s Irish immigration practice | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2SyOvIHCUZ 
• Detectives investigating the murder of a grandfather stabbed while riding a mobility scooter have released images of a man seen running from the scene armed with a knife https://t.co/Pl0rbhnh36 
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• Hostages freed by the Islamic State terror cell, known as The Beatles, gave vital evidence to identify their captors, say police. The hostages told British police the men had boasted of being arrested at a London demonstration years earlier https://t.co/cXk2sIz2hl