14th October - Law News

Edition 3944: 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:  US house Committee votes to subpoena Donald Trump as it offers fresh footage of Capitol riot. In its ninth hearing, the panel aired fresh evidence and behind-the-scenes footage, before taking the extraordinary step of voting to hear from Mr Trump. 

 

Focus of the Day Article: A father in a family case who told a district judge to ‘get fucked’ has been found in contempt of court - but spared an immediate prison sentence. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

Saturday Conversations on Law

• January 6 panel votes to issue subpoena for Donald Trump testimony #US https://t.co/UcyIGJ2xN
• Society backs City fund for social welfare lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/ciwF5nVuq
• Afghanistan, South Korea, Venezuela Lose Bids for UN Rights Body https://t.co/QnF0MwSYwM
• Mental health: The impact of SRA investigations | Law Gazette https://t.co/PWZNZTjXSy
• Libya: UN human rights report details violations of migrants’ rights amid ‘assisted return’ programmes | OHCHR https://t.co/V8XIwuErC
• LCJ 'remains concerned' about judicial recruitment | Law Gazette https://t.co/cykaVvMQVI
• £1.8m funding boost for platform that helps solicitors go freelance - Legal Futures https://t.co/S2nFgOp5BL
  
• Trainee retention rate slips at Eversheds | Law Gazette https://t.co/M5b47kl6R
• "Remember India is a secular country": Kerala High Court slams registrars for refusing to register inter-faith marriage | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/JSn80HfcL
• Neath MP Christina Rees has been suspended from Labour following reported allegations of bullying. The politician, who has represented the constituency since 2015, has lost the party whip pending an investigation https://t.co/dzsHa4uO6f
• This is not a drill – it really is time to embrace the transparency rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/VfM28MRp0T
  
• A father in a family case who told a district judge to ‘get fucked’ has been found in contempt of court - but spared an immediate prison sentence | Law Gazette https://t.co/8yK0sVpTx2
• The government has extended two deadlines for the removal of Huawei equipment from the UK's 5G networks. The requirement to remove the Chinese company's products from the network core has been pushed back 11 months, to 31 December 2023 https://t.co/j8UwHtT6GI
  
• Scottish ministers are being forced to change the law on tuition fees for hundreds of students from migrant families after a landmark court case https://t.co/0V9MHbHjte
• Only UK parliament can approve a Scottish independence poll, court told https://t.co/8WwUDnbJBM
• Grand National fraudster struck off as a solicitor - Legal Futures https://t.co/8uyHHgiUMe
• Lawyers held as Iran unrest escalates | Law Gazette https://t.co/tY0G7pQkD
• The mistreatment of patients at Edenfield Centre, a mental health hospital, does warrant a public inquiry, a health minister has said https://t.co/LGwQfv4JXQ
• ‘I love you, and there’s nothing you can do about it’: will jail silence Jeremy Vine’s stalker? https://t.co/ZaGIPTjhMd 
• Time for government to mandate reform of home-buying process - Legal Futures https://t.co/xQEqlQ1SOE 
• Inside the new Met police unit investigating officer abuse claims https://t.co/ks1lLlg5nX 
• Turks and Caicos head said to question UK’s alleged failure to keep residents safe - Diplomatic row breaks out over UK’s alleged delay in helping combat murders and drugs trading https://t.co/lVsJSOMo2v
• UK pensioner accused of wife’s murder in Cyprus seeks manslaughter charge https://t.co/ee8THXBRnT 
• Liz Truss on collision course with Jacob Rees-Mogg over solar power ban - PM wants to prevent panels on 58% of farmland but business secretary says renewables need to be boosted https://t.co/1Apowm0dru
• Office manager barred for selling City firm’s property on eBay | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZLqpeAI7ga 
• First two OIC mixed injuries cases head to Court of Appeal - Legal Futures https://t.co/RBjbXADm9s
  
• Leah Croucher: The quiet teenager who vanished on her way to work https://t.co/OyaCB2jkoY

13th October - Law News

Edition 3943: 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:  DCM (Optical Holdings) Ltd (Appellant) v Commissioners for HMRC (Respondent) (Scotland) - [2022]

 

Focus of the Day Article: The government needs to step in to mandate reforms that promise to revolutionise the home buying and selling process, stakeholders have argued. The roundtable organised by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) also heard that fees were going up, with a leading lender supporting the trend. Full story - Legal Futures

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Police investigating the murder of 19-year-old Leah Croucher have found human remains at a property where some of her possessions were discovered https://t.co/FNnrXKMxBQ
• A London council has seized more than £200,000 worth of counterfeit goods from sweet and souvenir shops along Oxford Street. Westminster City Council said fake designer watches and unsafe vapes were among the items taken https://t.co/VqY3zD0UjT 
• Law school ABS rebrands to look more like traditional legal practice | Law Gazette https://t.co/QWwcglrToe 
• #US supreme court declines to take up fetal personhood case https://t.co/OCt0fGpjxM 
• ECJ must have no role in Northern Ireland protocol, David Frost says https://t.co/EKD3xxvxDo 
• Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay victims' families $965m in damages after branding 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax #US https://t.co/wZHaIkFFGz
  
• Global firm announces India breakthrough | Law Gazette https://t.co/nYJSFNBEIt 
• British businessman charged over helping Russian oligarch evade US sanctions https://t.co/SxnsdskRIh
  
• Scrap Troubles legacy bill, Belfast actor Ciarán Hinds urges Liz Truss - Hinds says in open letter to PM that proposed laws on unsolved murders would ‘cut off any prospect of justice’ https://t.co/XYafrSUWQm 
• Government tight-lipped on fate of 'no fault' evictions | Law Gazette https://t.co/rSgSqUEXFA 
• SRA earmarks £550,000 for one-off cost-of-living payment to staff - Legal Futures https://t.co/F3WiXEvMbu
• Give legal rights to animals, trees and rivers, say experts - Report for Law Society says framework is essential for future interactions with the environment and biotechnology https://t.co/lluWKzXGQk
• Junior criminal barristers ‘despair’ over pay deal in England and Wales https://t.co/nZhdJxOIU3 
• Solicitor fined £15,000 for error in rent review advice to 115 clients | Law Gazette https://t.co/DlUYrDtLJZ 
• Unregulated in-house specialist partners with magic circle firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/UO2sFaJ5iI
• UK firms using legal muscle to facilitate human rights and climate abuses – report https://t.co/hVt9s7sl6j
  
• Firms cutting office space and bullish about mergers | Law Gazette https://t.co/8gQ2soyhk3
• SRA struggling to keep hold of anti-money laundering staff - Legal Futures https://t.co/9TZNygNDRx 
• Senior high court judge to address issues in ‘parental alienation’ cases - Legitimacy of court-appointed ‘experts’ to come under review after mother loses custody appeal https://t.co/iynceTpolw 
• My legal life: Helen Lamprell OBE, AVEVA - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/o3L7K1FNxX 
• Law and religion round-up – 9th October | Law & Religion UK https://t.co/vCjAGd0nSr 
• More than half of conveyancing firms lack “digital maturity” - Legal Futures https://t.co/ItNDlT5qL5 
• Karnataka High Court holds colleges cannot step into shoes of students and file petitions; imposes costs on 2 dental colleges | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/4CSiGg0MCW
• Refugee families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70% of the proceeds https://t.co/h3uwpJySKH
• Supreme court urged to throw out Scottish independence poll case https://t.co/7l80zfFTc7 
• 'Exemplary' solicitor sees off SRA allegations of AML dishonesty | Law Gazette https://t.co/cMPYqrRBUJ

12th October - Law News

Edition 3942: 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:  Financial penalties from SRA - Learn more about SRA's ongoing consultation - and put your questions to our panel - on the detail of proposed reforms to our approach to issuing financial penalties for law firms and solicitors.

 

Focus of the Day Article: Former Liberian rebel charged with war crimes awaits Paris trial. Kunti Kamara charged with torture, cannibalism and complicity in crimes against humanity during civil war between 1989 and 1996. Full story - Guardian Law

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Tech firms say laws to protect us from bad AI will limit ‘innovation’. Well, good https://t.co/8nCWNVwHl
• Putin’s war is illegal – and #Russians fleeing the draft may have the right to asylum https://t.co/A6HVeKTshV
• The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been charged in #Germany with unrelated sexual offences https://t.co/uTlcOvj4RY
• Call for urgent victim rights review after sexsomnia rape case https://t.co/h3XSdvTulJ 
• Sanctions: The Prospect of Prosecutions – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/YoCBH94jQg 
• Our objections to assisted dying are based on evidence, not religion https://t.co/UvBQMuagsV 
• The UK's highest court has been urged to resolve the "festering" issue of whether Holyrood can set up a Scottish independence referendum without the agreement of Westminster https://t.co/J0Slnx3dFC
• Black History Month to me is about reflecting on the past, present and the future of Black People in the UK and beyond – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/NyFi7usG4F 
• Long-promised plans to stop landlords in England evicting tenants without giving a reason could be scrapped https://t.co/JhLKRKaVbW
  
• Former pupils win £500,000 over abuse claims at Scottish boarding school: Insurer makes out-of-court settlement for alleged attacks by teachers in the 1990s https://t.co/WZKzTC0RKS
  
• [Section 125 CrPC] Able-bodied husband duty-bound to maintain wife, child even by doing physical labour: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/JfVNJNL9GA 
• Challenge to government’s lateral flow test contracts rejected by high court https://t.co/k0XqI5cdnw 
• State cannot say it won't pay compensation after acquiring private person's land for public work: Gujarat High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/FGwuyosGbB 
• BSB publishes Religion and Belief Toolkit – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/CgyySuxGJV 
• Taylor Wessing launches TC programme in Cambridge - Legal Cheek https://t.co/H5biZzH5Ut 
• Minimum pupillage award from 1 January 2022 announced – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/EBrtB1OKNX
• The future of surrogacy is in the balance. We should be wary of relaxing the rules https://t.co/1SuWRI00rc 
• Bar Council engages Government on legal panels diversity – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/6c6pPXbLgL 
• Voss report is unsatisfyingly hollow and narrow | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y7ly7R1KZB
  
• First witness in Kevin Spacey’s New York trial testifies actor grabbed him: Andrew Holtzman claimed Spacey made sexual advances toward him when working at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1981 #US https://t.co/ZVQJKmLLNq 
• Violent and sexual crimes are among 60 cases wrongfully dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in the past year, the BBC has found https://t.co/h3XSdvTulJ
• Economic Crime Bill may confuse the role of lawyers, says Bar Council – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/DPhxp4KXd2
  
• ‘Force to be reckoned with’: Ketanji Brown Jackson shines in first week: The newest supreme court justice has wasted no time in making her presence felt, earning praise from court observers #US https://t.co/iI7vlqtTZN 
• The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today published its latest annual report and cost transparency metrics. This report covers our activities between April 2021 and March 2022 – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/tszADANt9Q
  
• BSB appoints new lay Board member Gisela Abbam FRSA MBA – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/03ym7VdCSK 
• Former #Liberian rebel charged with war crimes awaits Paris trial: Kunti Kamara charged with torture, cannibalism and complicity in crimes against humanity during civil war between 1989 and 1996 https://t.co/OdpwKdIAQW 
• BSB launches digital comparison tool pilot – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/Iyg2md6IAP 
• UK law firms banned from doing transactional work for Russian clients - Legal Cheek https://t.co/sqVgY2FX1Z
  
• Best of the blogs - 8 October 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/8urNY4bw73
• Crackdowns, lawsuits and intimidation: the threat to freedom of expression from the ruling government in #India https://t.co/WxOMDRcmKo
  
• Not so fantastic case for reining in judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/VNiz8mzc2f 
• Young defendants lack trust in lawyers, Fair Trials reports | Law Gazette https://t.co/eRKdodVR4M 
• Grand National and fireworks fraudster agrees strike-off | Law Gazette https://t.co/epvYoT9cjS 
• Claim worth £3,000 moved after costs rose towards £50,000 | Law Gazette https://t.co/6J4eivfhgF 
• News focus: Justice on the fringes at the Conservative conference | Law Gazette https://t.co/NLJeTEB3rE 
• New 'failure to prevent' offences on the way, former LC predicts | Law Gazette https://t.co/1JHmVZjc32
  
• Dispute not over: Law Society issues fresh warning on 'fair deal' for solicitors | Law Gazette https://t.co/7dMzrWrr3B 
• TLT picks BPP to put trainees through the SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FlDz5Pkd2V
  
• The UK has imposed sanctions on Iran's morality police and other top security figures, in response to the country's violent crackdown on protesters https://t.co/32Y7kC530x 
• The public inquiry into the IT failings that led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of Post Office branch managers starts hearing evidence from other key witnesses this week https://t.co/xzQArG41Ki 
• Kerala High Court initiates contempt case against film maker Baiju Kottarakkara for remarks against trial judge in actress assault case | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/ycCigh7oy6
  
• Diversity and inclusion efforts count towards billable hours, Linklaters tells lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Ocjl2CpFOP 
• SRA accuses Khan of 'procedural game-playing' | Law Gazette https://t.co/38d8BA3BFO 
• Old Firm: The match verdict on philosophical belief - Legal Cheek https://t.co/EVqzrF42u8
  
• UK plastic surgeons have released new guidelines to try to make Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) procedures safer for vulnerable people who desire a bigger bottom https://t.co/2wx3sYQwg4
  
• Ban for ex-Skadden secretary who used firm’s air miles to book 80 flights - Legal Cheek https://t.co/YmSyyvbFr5
  
• Is there a drinking culture at legal events? | Law Gazette https://t.co/g8Y2WtBlyq 
• Allegation of rape on false promise to marry won't stand if woman continued relationship after knowing of man's marriage: Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/ndmoxMXHob 
• Harvey Weinstein will go on trial on Monday in a Los Angeles court, where he is facing 11 further charges of abuse #US https://t.co/Ti5QvMG65X 
• Ex-Jones Day partner fined £25k over ‘burn it’ order - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lGnjmxcBXG 
• [Juvenile Justice Act] Extracting confession from child during preliminary assessment unconstitutional: Delhi High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/qOKSUzQUN1
  
• Criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted to end their long-running strike action after the government offered a new pay deal https://t.co/HHK0vTCBhs
  
• ‘Troubling difference’ in SQE pass rates between white and black candidates - Legal Cheek https://t.co/viDVz7TRga
• Barnstaple duty scheme to be covered by remaining legal aid provider | Law Gazette https://t.co/dQsn7GJWuh
• City firms pledge to broaden pro bono culture | Law Gazette https://t.co/jvXrgsUN25 
• Court of Appeal hears second fee claw-back challenge | Law Gazette https://t.co/vOLtwrgdij 
• Imposter syndrome hits lawyers hardest, survey finds - Legal Cheek https://t.co/y5692AqT3m 
• Khan loses bid for fresh tribunal hearing | Law Gazette https://t.co/kSxIuCwgGX
• Pay, stress and poor work-life balance among top reasons why lawyers are quitting - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tQ0SvrFS9c 
• Beijing and Taipei have spoken out after Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said #Taiwan should become a special administrative zone of China https://t.co/6htGjB1g6i
  
• Security services in Bahrain supported by the UK have been accused of "serious and persistent" human rights abuses. A Human Rights Watch report alleges people have been tortured at Bahrain's interior ministry https://t.co/XWBEGaPuIl

11th October - Law News

Edition 3941: 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 his new book, “Hold the Line,” former DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone details his conversations with GOP leaders after the insurrection at the US Capitol

Focus of the Day Article: ‘Engage with the training – someday it may save your job’: top tips for partners to avoid sexual misconduct risk. Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Getting to the ‘heart’ of #Australia’s moral rights in employment law - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/cIflUimQ3l 
• Travers retains 18 of 20 NQ lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5jvuLbqjrj 
• How one US law firm is thriving in London - Legal Cheek https://t.co/g2v5LCm7Hg 
• 10 years on from hospitalisation for anxiety and depression - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/44VZGXVzbU
  
• Pinsents’ plush pad lands role in BBC banking drama Industry - Legal Cheek https://t.co/YLCcXmXsMW 
• Human rights expert Michael Becker joins Trinity School of Law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Wr47HjuIDa
  
• Majority of Holyrood committee supports gender recognition proposals | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FbverSibGt
• Lack of Web Scraping Regulations Hurts Progress – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/HCWt6HfltU 
• Solicitor engaged in ‘pathological’ litigation handed civil restraint order | Law Gazette https://t.co/xJiSH7Kxns
• Lawyer of the Month: Hamish Lean | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/b81R2wK3D9
  
• Court of Appeal concludes in AG referral of jury acquittal of Colston 4 that ECHR rights were not engaged where damage to property was criminal - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/a5TjaZlJyM
• Probe launched after someone claiming to be a law student tells internet they cheated on exam - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lAmb5vQGMf 
• "Government control over the flow of information: Lord Sumption speaks out against the Online Safety Bill in latest episode of Law Pod UK - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/uKklbJ22SS 
• Alastair Gray promoted to Head of Scotland at rradar | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/T4pBeMJTsW 
• The Weekly Round-up: Contempt of Parliament, ECHR no defence for criminal damage, and online safety - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/86zmy9tA2W
• Election Commission freezes Shiv Sena name, symbol; can't be used by Thackeray and Shinde camps for now | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/LMlTAJiPHD
• Police in The Gambia have started an investigation into the deaths of 66 children, which have been linked to four brands of #Indian imported cough syrup https://t.co/KxGbnrFlzR

10th October - Law News

Edition 3940: 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:  Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Ireland's prime minister, has said the nation is in mourning after a petrol station explosion killed 10 people. The blast in County Donegal happened in the village of Creeslough on Friday afternoon. The victims - four men, three women, a teenage boy and girl and a younger girl - were from the village or surrounding areas, said Gardaí (Irish police).

Focus of the Day Article: City solicitor Raymond McKeeve has been given a £25,000 fine and ordered to pay £610,000 costs but escaped prison after allegedly telling a client to ‘burn’ evidence. Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law

• More than 1,300 football hooligans with banning orders in England and Wales are being told to hand in their passports to stop them going to the World Cup https://t.co/gREfnN9cBl
• Matheson: Business leaders feel they need to do more to prepare for cyber incidents | Irish Legal News https://t.co/j2HIIACfbQ 
• LawTech Talks: How technology helps women lawyers succeed - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/EnoqIC6pQl
  
• High Court endorses Abu Dhabi forum for solicitor's divorce | Law Gazette https://t.co/splad5BvhH
• Anderson Strathern has been named as a supplier on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) legal services framework for the first time | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WG2yEfraVS
• Wales to 'declutter' statute book | Law Gazette https://t.co/fQWidhxBYj
• Allan McDougall Solicitors has announced the promotion of Gordon Milligan to partner | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NFUwi9G20k
  
• Tributes have been paid to the 10 victims of a huge explosion at a petrol station in the Republic of Ireland. The blast happened in the County Donegal village of Creeslough on Friday https://t.co/3H1RJVyg2I
  
• #Iran's state-run broadcaster was apparently hacked on air Saturday, with a news bulletin interrupted by a protest against the country's leader. A mask appeared on the screen, followed by an image of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with flames around him https://t.co/yTgYsmp2Am 
• High Court: Dublin court had jurisdiction in divorce case because solicitor husband acted in superior courts | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VieInEaMTJ 
• ByrneWallace chief appointed to Ibec national council | Irish Legal News https://t.co/IBUxN4LyGW 
• Legal Cheek’s October UK Virtual Law Fair is THIS TUESDAY - Legal Cheek https://t.co/6XU77iAPqz
• Addleshaw Goddard has attracted a new partner to its dispute resolution team in Scotland with the addition of Claire Thornber, who joins from Weightmans Solicitors | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WwHPl9DJT0
• My life as a crypto disputes lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8e2nKG8DFI 
• Full video: The SQE — what we’ve learned so far - Legal Cheek https://t.co/5A5oHDDyfo