12th August - Law News

Edition 3880: 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: In a news conference at the Justice Department, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the Federal Bureau of Investigation has filed a motion to unseal the search warrant of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. He also spoke out about allegations made against the FBI about the purpose of the search

Focus of the Day Article: Even working class Oxbridge graduates fail to prosper, study into socio economic diversity finds. Law Society president calls for urgent action as social mobility taskforce highlights cultural barriers to career progression for less well off. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law

• University investigates PhD student’s paper on masturbating to comics of ‘young boys': Manchester University launches inquiry into ethical standards after paper details masturbation sessions https://t.co/2jBNoyzZ3k 
• What will happen if drought is declared by UK government? With drought expected to be declared in parts of England on Friday, we look at some key questions https://t.co/7Kc5QsmxTn 
• England: Criminal barristers vote on escalating to ‘uninterrupted strike’ | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3yDgLxuqaC 
• Liz Truss has defended earnings at energy companies amid soaring price rises, saying profits should not be considered "dirty and evil" even though families are facing the biggest fuel poverty in modern history https://t.co/kQp5wZuNfD 
• Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMG35z
  
• New appointments at Lindsays | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HafU7ebyVf 
• Freshfields secures 'largest-ever pro bono costs order' | Law Gazette https://t.co/if0CtjxOOs 
• Taylor Wessing endorses call to boost pension schemes’ investment in Irish start-ups | Irish Legal News https://t.co/O1xH48PG5z 
• US lawyers uphold opposition to non-lawyer ownership of firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/iaJ5bnGtLG
  
• MoJ stands firm as 'uninterrupted' strike looms | Law Gazette https://t.co/iTeVeZmYZq 
• Calls for paedophile John Watt QC to be stripped of rank as Queen’s Counsel | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/93U6VOhVuw 
• Major new report looks at neurotechnology and its implications for law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WH5yddmKWp 
• Lawyers of the future “could face pressure to upgrade brains” - Legal Futures https://t.co/7hrhhAaL09
• Merger activity likely to rise after post lockdown lull | Law Gazette https://t.co/uQkQnzz2PS 
• An Bord Pleanála report now in hands of housing minister | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lKKNesvaM3
  
• Clyde & Co records 24th year of growth but partner profits dip | Law Gazette https://t.co/Tg2HuzPx16
• Conveyancers "have duty to advise clients on climate risk" to properties - Legal Futures https://t.co/qlXvaMQvWA
• Bogus companies scam: about 150,000 addresses had been registered and in some streets, every home had been targeted. The residents have then had to deal with overdrafts, loans, insurance demands and credit card debts https://t.co/IlxnGzWuCO
• Clearance time for LPA applications doubles in five years | Law Gazette https://t.co/VrR706KR2Y 
• Most victims of burglary, robbery and theft in England and Wales are not being given the justice they deserve, the police watchdog says. Her majesty's chief inspector of constabulary calls current low charge rates "unacceptable and unsustainable" https://t.co/YjKucX8W14 
• Gráinne Ní Ghuidhir joins TikTok as lead privacy counsel for Europe | Irish Legal News https://t.co/c8U7bU9fUw 
• Litigants want to know if they’ve won. Judgments should tell them | Law Gazette https://t.co/u8ARL11NDp 
• Solicitor founder of Axiom fund faces jail after fraud conviction - Legal Futures https://t.co/lEOLrXcyrX 
• US: Donald Trump to be questioned under oath over business practices | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Mfnj9y1li2
  
• Activists lose challenge to NSW laws banning secret filming of animal cruelty #Australia https://t.co/jmNuTmAWeI
  
• A quarter of sponsors of Ukrainians as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme do not want to continue the arrangement beyond six months, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found https://t.co/gjGCy4QMdL

11th August - Law News

Edition 3879: 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: As 3D printing becomes increasingly more accessible, authorities are worried about the potential for the technology to be misused by criminals. Jack Nyhof investigates just how easy it is for people to 'print' a lethal weapon in the comfort of their own homes.

 

Focus of the Day Article: Lawyers of the future may bill their clients by 'units of attention' monitored by computers directly connected to their brains, a horizon-scanning report by the Law Society suggests. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

Saturday Conversations on Law

• UK must curb influence of European human rights rules, says Braverman https://t.co/ffhoFfepCv
• PEP climbs at Linklaters amid ‘robust’ trading conditions | Law Gazette https://t.co/JgcW3xjcom
• An MP cautioned for assaulting his wife will be allowed to represent his party again at Westminster. Plaid Cymru has returned the whip to Jonathan Edwards https://t.co/3wtnMCvwTB 
• A man has died and three people have been injured in a series of shootings around Skye. Police Scotland were initially called to a report of a 32-year-old woman being injured a property in Tarskavaig https://t.co/1x0FrVAyZo 
• A man accused of being part of a notorious Islamic State group cell which murdered hostages, has been arrested on terror charges in the UK. Aine Davis, of west London, flew into Luton airport after his release from a Turkish jail https://t.co/sNl6RM4Hka
• Man found guilty of murdering his wife four days after their wedding https://t.co/YsXFPFlqso 
• NI High Court: Leave rejected for ‘academic’ judicial review of school closures during Covid-19 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Fzo7sfKztk 
• Criminal bar balloted on 'uninterrupted' strike action | Law Gazette https://t.co/jbsAk4rCl6
• A second-tier football club in #SierraLeone will be allowed to play in promotion play-offs despite still being under investigation for alleged match manipulation in a game which finished 91-1 https://t.co/54wp0tIzJv 
• Clients do not owe solicitors duty of good faith, Court of Appeal rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/FxmUQYdKS5 
• Judges to be disciplined by lay majority panels - Legal Futures https://t.co/Ga6n6b8l50 
• Prepare now for 'internet of brains' - Law Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/PTQEgUs9nS 
• Brother Kevin to retire from Capuchin Day Centre | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KfjOZ3EVNf 
• News focus: A white-collar wave of mesothelioma claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/frQF3vR2ad 
• The Scottish Parliament "plainly" does not have the power to set up an independence referendum, UK government law officers have argued. The Supreme Court is to look at whether MSPs can legislate for a vote without Westminster's backing in October https://t.co/AQVmtm9ddI 
• Supermarkets are not cutting fuel prices by as much as they should do to match the "significant" drop in the cost of wholesale fuel, the RAC has said. The gap between pump prices and wholesale prices was the widest in almost a decade https://t.co/ChschpP2G7
• Olympic stadium owners settle dispute with Allen & Overy | Law Gazette https://t.co/vUtyA15rm4
  
• American Bar Association motion exposes ABS fault line - Legal Futures https://t.co/Gk1desL68b
• Fiona Hurley appointed as CEO of migrant rights centre Nasc | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WHOwTkramc
  
• Former inmates have spoken about being systematically raped and tortured in #Russian prisons. Leaked footage of such abuse was circulated by an insider last year, and now victims have told why it happens and how they are fighting for justice https://t.co/YK9tJueElw 
• Ince tries to drum up another £1.1m through open share offer | Law Gazette https://t.co/MJdkKWRKiO
• Ex-partner fails in challenge to City firm's accounts - Legal Futures https://t.co/b9orreSwId
• Judge Síofra O’Leary leads the field in election for ECtHR presidency | Irish Legal News https://t.co/DesX3aH30m 
• Paedophile John Watt QC guilty of ‘rape and other vile sexual abuse’ of children jailed for 10 years | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1IwH4F2Znk 
• Government urged to end 'legal limbo' for unmarried couples | Law Gazette https://t.co/m3Ch3pYnBO 
• Court of Appeal: No implied duty of good faith in solicitor’s retainer - Legal Futures https://t.co/nQQ7caFuqF
• Ryan Giggs head-butted ex-girlfriend when she tried to leave him, court hears - Kate Greville alleges former Manchester United player attacked her after years of ‘coercive and controlling behaviour’ https://t.co/JiJBCHXh7I 
• Time in context - understanding the time you have and how to accept it - Legal Futures https://t.co/b3dy52P1gI
• Emmett Till: woman whose accusation led to lynching will not be charged - Mississippi grand jury declines to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham over death of Black teenager nearly 70 years ago #US https://t.co/BbKJOKLj8C
• Axiom fund solicitor faces prison after fraud conviction | Law Gazette https://t.co/BgzCYd3GCt 
• Shepherd and Wedderburn appoints Peter Smith to lead property team in Aberdeen | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gSk0B7dFdB
  
• Best of the blogs - 6 August 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/a142Q1atjS

10th August - Law News

Edition 3878: 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: Donald Trump was on one of his golf courses in New York when he heard news that the FBI had descended on his lavish Florida home. The backlash was instant. The former president instantly blamed the Democratic Party, saying they didn't want him to run for the White House again in 2024. And while Trump's hardcore base were incandescent with anger, his allies in congress threatened retribution against the bureau.

Focus of the Day Article: The High Court has upheld a decision to throw out a negligence claim against a law firm because it was served too late – even though the court had actually lost the claim. Full story - Legal Futures

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Laura McKenna joins McKee Campbell Morrison’s new employment division | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FpotYfxLPh 
• A heavyweight chambers that prides itself on a commitment to diversity and ‘defending human rights’ is in the invidious position of having been found to have bullied a black lesbian barrister | Law Gazette https://t.co/KgO2tbORmV 
• Justice Secretary Dominic Raab is planning to limit the scope of judicial review, according to a leaked document seen by The Guardian | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qeMDL9TZsa
  
• More details of judicial misconduct findings to be published | Law Gazette https://t.co/w7yra7y1II
• After ceasefire, battered Palestinians recall Israeli ‘massacre’ - Many Palestinians were killed just hours before a truce was agreed on between #Israel and Islamic Jihad https://t.co/Xk8hLfzJEG 
• Ex-RAF base Linton-on-Ouse asylum centre plan scrapped https://t.co/D0GuLs0aQW 
• Judge overrides Essex firm's objections to move case to Leeds - Legal Futures https://t.co/ljQqQkp7el
• Family of #US Black man killed by MD police reaches $5m settlement https://t.co/WCiQKfPiUh 
• A support service for unrepresented parties in court forced to launch an urgent appeal after its government funding was pulled has teamed up with universities to keep services running | Law Gazette https://t.co/imqr5sO75G
• Oil industry body to sue Irish government over energy consumption plan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/NsGavTfrjA
• EAT reinstates discrimination claim against law firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/vfawJNnnDY 
• UK’s transport minister proposes death by dangerous cycling offence | Irish Legal News https://t.co/sWAWL3ZC1
• A female solicitor allegedly described by a manager as a ‘ballbreaker’ has been awarded more than £150,000 for the sex discrimination and unfair dismissal she suffered at work | Law Gazette https://t.co/Yn3TlFUDsX
• Judge Síofra O’Leary leads the field in election for ECtHR presidency | Irish Legal News https://t.co/DesX3aYEoW
  
• Claim against law firm lost by court still thrown out for late service - Legal Futures https://t.co/UP0hzMW56e
  
• Paedophile John Watt QC guilty of ‘rape and other vile sexual abuse’ of children jailed for 10 years | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1IwH4F2Znk
• Contributions from solicitors to the practising certificate fee are expected to increase by 10% next year, raising an extra £10.4m in total, it has been confirmed | Law Gazette https://t.co/CZ7ya4vAYP
• Ex-US President Donald Trump has said his Florida home was "raided" by the FBI, and that agents broke open a safe. Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach was "occupied by a large group of FBI agents" https://t.co/RoR1LA4sX
• More details of judicial misconduct findings to be published | Law Gazette https://t.co/w7yra7y1II
• Law Society and SRA to recoup extra £10m from solicitors - Legal Futures https://t.co/UdZfzbaglL 
• DAC Beachcroft’s pre-tax profits slip despite 2% revenue growth | Law Gazette https://t.co/9LwtAyq1t
• Three white men convicted of killing a black jogger have been sentenced for federal hate crimes. Travis McMichael, 36, his father, Gregory, 66, and their neighbour, William Bryan, are already serving life sentences over the murder #US https://t.co/vbuQZ2LoaW
• Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMose1
  
• A child, believed to be a four-year-old girl, has died and three other people are in hospital after a terraced home collapsed following a gas explosion and fire in south London https://t.co/cFU8ktXdSl

9th August - Law News

Edition 3877: 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: All solicitors must maintain competence to carry out their role and must keep their professional knowledge and skills up to date. Here are the steps expect to take.

 

Focus of the Day Article: We do not usually cover first-instance employment tribunal judgments on this blog, but two cases handed down in the last three weeks – Forstater v. CGD Europe and Bailey v. Stonewall Equality Ltd and Garden Court Chambers – have attracted so much attention that we feel an exception must be made. Both cases involved women with ‘gender critical’ beliefs who faced hostility in their workplaces after expressing them. Both succeeded in their claims of direct discrimination and victimisation on grounds of belief under the Equality Act 2010. Although neither of the cases sets a binding precedent for other courts or tribunals, they contain interesting legal analysis and comment about the importance of freedom of expression and freedom of belief in the context of work which is of wider significance. Full story - UK HUman Rights Blog

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Kaplan confirms refunds following SQE cancellations - Legal Cheek https://t.co/IXPwRWAR5P
  
• Judge Uttam Anand Murder: Jharkhand court sentences both convicts to life imprisonment | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/pDRMIxHV35 
• Non­-fulfilment of Section 313 CrPC may cause grave prejudice to accused; solemn duty of court to consider defence: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/XC64Dw0pNQ 
• Slaughters rounds off Magic Circle retention season with 98% autumn score - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ciDa1nGKPx 
• Anger as Serious Fraud Office head says she’s proud of ‘revolving door’ between regulator and law firms https://t.co/jAzA7jbxeC
  
• The Supreme Court's Justice UU Lalit: Spotlight this week | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/S2QkK4mNox
  
• How to create a cyber security strategy for your law firm A Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/4vQiygVyUD 
• House of Zana boutique owner wins trademark row with Zara https://t.co/lLuIqYQFck 
• US firm salaries 'almost 50% above' Magic Circle rivals thanks to favourable exchange rates - Legal Cheek https://t.co/wbvxnqLVUB
• Top barristers' chambers raises pupillage award by over 40% to £100,000 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2qwWL4hf08
• The Weekly Round-up: industrial action laws, prioritising menopause, and Crown Court cameras - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/z01akqjNbX 
• Ugandan officials have banned a prominent LGBT rights group in a major setback for the community there. Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug) has been ordered to shut down with "immediate effect" for not registering properly with authorities https://t.co/6moC6gvn16
  
• Progress is certainly being made towards parity in #Australia’s legal profession, Chief Justice Susan Kiefel says, but political appointments to the bench and the demands of family life can also act as hurdles | Lawyer's Weekly https://t.co/FwWGWzUOxM
  
• Jailed ex-City lawyer banned from the legal profession - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qvhSsWCsQA 
• People responsible for sexual harassment in the street can - and will be - charged, new guidance to prosecutors states. The CPS suggests even one-off incidents of "cat-calling" could be classed as offences under existing public order laws https://t.co/MvOQ05FLVS
  
• Discrimination and Freedom of Belief in the Sex and Gender Debate - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/g16Dvb9lP2 
• After 12 years at Aditya Birla Group Ashok Gupta, Group General Counsel moves on to start Counsel practice; Deepak Acharya to take over | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/KCpQjMzWAI 
• Leaked report suggests Dominic Raab trying to curb judges’ powers: Deputy prime minister has been accused of wanting ‘a world in which the government is above the law’ https://t.co/NbaTSb2jEw 
• A&O retains 36 of 44 autumn qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ykqk1zGvHa
• Trespassers demand right to roam minister’s 12,000-acre estate - Campaigners visit Berkshire estate belonging to Richard Benyon, minister in charge of access to nature https://t.co/keZnmT9RZ7 
• Vardy 0 - 1 Rooney: Wagatha Christie solved at last - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/aNSjy2KUhT 
• Serious consequences for not paying energy bills, warn UK charities - Don’t Pay group reportedly has 80,000 pledges to refuse payments from 1 October when price cap rises https://t.co/iEbz9e7nfS 
• NDA candidate Senior Advocate Jagdeep Dhankar is new Vice President of India | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/OSR5S3uVO9

8th August - Law News

Edition 3876: 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: It is 50 years since Uganda's former-dictator Idi Amin expelled thousands of members of the Asian community from the country, after accusing them of disloyalty. They were given just three months to leave, or face being placed in concentration camps. About 27,000 people left their homes for the UK, many of them were British passport holders. Those settling in Leicester, England, have become part of the fabric of the city.

 

Focus of the Day Article: Some 32 law firms including Magic Circle firm Linklaters have signed up to a major new diversity data collection exercise. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Fieldfisher launches training contracts in Belfast - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cMrH2aTszp 
• ‘A historic wrong’: Government set to announce compensation for victims of contaminated blood scandal https://t.co/Y68Dk4skQq 
• ByrneWallace names three new senior associates and five new associates | Irish Legal News https://t.co/p0wMxJOwJF
  
• Home Office contractor gives children hotel food containing worms: Family accommodated in a Midlands hotel were sick after eating meal provided by Serco https://t.co/tGCJ8r7cn3
  
• Birmingham lawyers share their secrets to success - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5Yk1ldAVyT 
• British farmers face paying for border checkpoints in EU after Brexit halts exports https://t.co/VX6wWK1mDw 
• The greatest lawyers from medieval and ancient history - Legal Cheek https://t.co/oFcT9W0FZm 
• Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto https://t.co/k09CtTiYRQ 
• '£250 goodwill payment' for SQE students affected by exam 'IT issue' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3UE1xIIQXB
  
• Mother in law: Roe v Wade - Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England | Law Gazette https://t.co/44AD2mDp3F 
• Festival-goers at the National Eisteddfod were surprised to see letters from its sign missing on Saturday morning https://t.co/0RayaPAj82 
• Met denies racism after black man ‘choked’ in illegal stop and search https://t.co/YucLTR9FEv 
• A London museum says it has agreed to return to Nigeria artefacts looted in the 19th Century from the Kingdom of Benin. The Horniman Museum said ownership of 72 objects would be transferred to the Nigerian government https://t.co/uCLdW5UM48
• The future is driverless - Legal Cheek https://t.co/c8Oo7LSnVF
• ‘Unduly lenient’ powers to be reviewed | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZkDCySxCh8 
• City lawyer in criminal contempt for ‘spontaneous act of colossal stupidity’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7MISUZRPP9 
• Lady Chief Justice features in latest Legal History Project podcast | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EmOG9UGsyN 
• NRF boosts NQ lawyer pay by 11% to £105k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rLogPnENgg 
• Hourly rates for magic circle partners reach £1,500, analysis finds | Law Gazette https://t.co/7nhpoMbUNF
  
• Law Society recommends 4% salary increase for rookie solicitors - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FYsdsKZZ9B 
• The opportunities awaiting aspiring lawyers in Leeds - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vkJ2BvXrIU
  
• NI universities pledge not to use NDAs in sexual harassment cases | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ehmc0utmPu 
• I made a name for myself with ‘sex-positive’ comedy. Then I was raped on a night out. Would my openness be used against me? https://t.co/wREIGhoNCT 
• Meet all the leading law firms at our first virtual law fair of the new graduate recruitment year! - Legal Cheek https://t.co/9DHuH6gIqI

7th August - Law News

Edition 3875: 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: Fears of a full-scale conflict between Israel and Palestinian armed groups are growing after a wave of Israeli air strikes on Gaza. At least 11 people have been killed, including an Islamic Jihad commander. Palestinian fighters have launched a barrage of rockets towards Israel, but Hamas has stayed on the side lines so far

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Costs in lower-value clin neg cases ‘far exceed damages’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/e8ckUuHQGG 
• A project to turn Arbroath courthouse into a £2 million community hub has passed another milestone | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iND9JR2l70
  
• A booming jobs market has sent City salaries soaring, recruiters report | NLJ https://t.co/0JFLFs0vHR 
• SLN Interview: Murray Etherington on the fight ahead | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0V1dgUN98R
  
• Client money theft – how bad is the problem? - Legal Futures https://t.co/wCpEU2VQHQ
• Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck to review claims they stole incarcerated man’s poem https://t.co/RkAS6eMc2e
  
• A competition and patent trial between two disputing toymakers has been postponed until October 2024 after the defendants told the court three weeks before that they’d missed about 84,000 documents during disclosure | NLJ https://t.co/Ea07kiVCzb 
• Six people have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man at a holiday park. Emergency services were called to the Parkdean Resort, in Camber Sands, East Sussex https://t.co/cSHWk8IyoZ
• Ex-BBC DJ Alex Belfield found guilty of stalking Jeremy Vine and three others https://t.co/gO0smPS8sD
  
• CMA orders break-up of property search giant - Legal Futures https://t.co/NKkyJGguc2
• Legal history was made at the Old Bailey in the case of Ben Oliver, where the judge’s sentencing remarks were filmed for TV for the first time | NLJ https://t.co/F9mYe5WCQf 
• The general scheme of legislation which will ban anti-abortion protests from taking place within 100 metres of healthcare providers has been published | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zP51uFyyvD 
• Paraplegic shooting suspect can avoid trial and end his life, Spanish court says #Spain https://t.co/RzqLMa3T35
• Cyclists who kill pedestrians could face tougher sentences under a planned new law for England, Scotland and Wales. The move proposed by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will close a loophole which means they can only currently be jailed for two years https://t.co/lhaetEYaRP
  
• Simpson Millar exits most of private client in profitability push - Legal Futures https://t.co/panapc9W0E
  
• A woman, 20, has become the third member of a British family to die from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in #Bangladesh. Samira Islam, from Cardiff, died at about 08:30 BST on Friday, after being found unconscious on 26 July https://t.co/fZHjjMWi8v 
• #US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $49.3m (£41m) in damages after falsely claiming a 2012 school shooting was a hoax. A jury ruled the radio host must pay $45.2m in punitive damages, in addition to $4.1m in compensatory damages https://t.co/JkRlXZGXRK 
• Archie Battersbee's family devastated as legal routes exhausted - he has not regained consciousness since being found at his home in Southend, Essex, in April https://t.co/9hBxS5Tfg5
• The 2022 edition of the Chancery Guide is now in force and available to view | NLJ https://t.co/HVzmjKLdnw
  
• Criminal appeals review: Raab’s only legacy? | Law Gazette https://t.co/pNjkY0dPWw 
• New conveyancing ABS using chatbot to cut transaction times - Legal Futures https://t.co/nDcN8c7hN5
  
• The Bar Council has accused the Legal Services Board (LSB) of ‘overstepping’ and branded its competence statement ‘a solution in search of a problem’ | NLJ https://t.co/tLFcvmgGLw
  
• Soophia Khan struck off by SDT for dishonesty | Law Gazette https://t.co/O8JKsxJVDW 
• MPs' watchdog takes on barristers too as new BSB chair - Legal Futures https://t.co/0zs1e40Zey 
• Criminal defence specialist Richard Atkinson has won the Law Society of England and Wales 2022 election for deputy vice president of the solicitor profession | Law Gazette https://t.co/KG1xlT3WLd
  
• Some 32 law firms including Magic Circle firm Linklaters have signed up to a major new diversity data collection exercise | NLJ https://t.co/wnUbS81Ls7

6th August - Law News

Edition 3874: 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: "New fashion has started. Demoralise the investigating agencies, demoralise the country if the judgment is not in favour. Supreme Court has declared that the ED has the power to investigate people, conduct searches and even arrest citizens under the stringent provisions of PMLA," Ashwani Dubey, Supreme Court advocate, said.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• #Ukraine ‘endangers civilians’ with army bases in residential areas, says Amnesty https://t.co/TdM5eN8HS7
• Consultation seeks views on ‘live links’ in Northern Ireland courts | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SzHVV4uQfK 
• A judge has ordered Kevin Spacey to pay House of Cards producers $31m (£25.5m) for the costs involved in removing him from the series following sexual misconduct allegations #US https://t.co/m5sUB0sNDJ 
• The rise of the legal resource manager – part 2 - Legal Futures https://t.co/4pPcZhh5Ew 
• Leading firm closes departments and puts 100 jobs at risk | Law Gazette https://t.co/SsdExJEqsJ 
• A retired teacher fighting extradition from South Africa has admitted abusing schoolboys in Edinburgh, according to court documents seen: broadcaster Nicky Campbell is one of a number of former pupils who have made allegations https://t.co/x0ZJAXi6JF
• Greenwich shooting: Man airlifted to hospital after armed police incident - Firearms officers responded to multiple 999 reports of a man with a firearm in Creek Road, Greenwich, at about 14:30 BST https://t.co/Vahi2dG3sI
• A man who stabbed a burglar to death after seeing him breaking into his home via a video doorbell has been jailed. Jordan Brophy, 31, and three others targeted the home of Karl Townsend in Halewood on 29 October 2021 while he and his family were out https://t.co/OcZWZyzTUB 
• Lawyers seek end to mixed injury damages roadblock | Law Gazette https://t.co/ciVXsvp14W 
• Profits at Addleshaw Goddard reach £155m | Irish Legal News https://t.co/q5KzgKaURx 
• SRA to reinstate annual fee for 60,000 non-practising solicitors - Legal Futures https://t.co/yfxr9pO30P
• OIC mixed claims: 14 months on and still no nearer the Court of Appeal - Legal Futures https://t.co/jkR04EZVO
• Northern Ireland solicitors reject ‘retrograde’ UK human rights plan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/H4hvuEWrUZ
• £250 goodwill payouts for SQE fiasco | Law Gazette https://t.co/0TBx3me5Xp
  
• Solicitor found in criminal contempt for "act of colossal stupidity" - Legal Futures https://t.co/qCdvVikH5k
  
• The family of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee cannot move him to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment, a High Court judge has ruled https://t.co/oGA6Z7asod
• Companies will be prosecuted if they continue to advertise a prescription-only hay-fever drug on social media, the UK government says. Kenalog is a steroid injection that the NHS stopped offering years ago because of the risk of serious side effects https://t.co/1MeHj7YZSY 
• Four Vietnamese nationals who are believed to have been in a mill when it caught fire have been named by police. Officers began searching Bismark House Mill in Oldham after human remains were found by demolition workers https://t.co/V7Ve7YsxGs
• Sheriff finds death of Orkney Council employee run over by tipper lorry during roadworks to have been avoidable | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/PoaFEpB1mP
• Magistrates' court caseload down 20% in two years | Law Gazette https://t.co/G9nGPCMsrM
• Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $4.1m (£3.3m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax #US https://t.co/rTij0jzEG6
  
• Afghanistan refugees: Hotels and hopelessness, but opportunity too, in UK https://t.co/QmzYCMGQQD 
• SRA eyes in-house alternative to Solicitors Indemnity Fund after u-turn - Legal Futures https://t.co/auxqPmlgOG
• 'We must make sure everyone learns lessons from this' | Law Gazette https://t.co/57vdoEDxBH 
• Quarter of lockdown fines issues in most deprived areas | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1R9Hrsfjvr 
• City firm eschews one-off boost in favour of ‘sustained’ salary rises | Law Gazette https://t.co/96okGlqeTN 
• Keir Starmer found to have breached MPs’ code of conduct over register of interests https://t.co/Y5vgDJGXxh 
• Khan faces strike off after dishonesty allegations found proven | Law Gazette https://t.co/Chf4T2poub
• An independent inquiry led by a barrister is to be launched by the BBC into what it knew about the conduct of former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood. The corporation previously acknowledged six complaints about bullying and sexual misconduct, which the DJ denies https://t.co/NOxFEiZmly 
• ‘Erasing our existence’: #Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill blamed for rise in attacks https://t.co/29Vxysqgak