17th November - Law News

Edition 3978: 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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Focus of the Day Article: Solicitors Regulation Authority plans to link new fining powers to firms’ and individuals’ income will lead to penalties that are neither fair nor reliable, the Law Society said. The regulator unveiled proposals in August to raise the maximum fine it can impose on firms to 5% of its turnover. The SRA also wants to take the means of solicitors into account when setting a fine and has created a table of bands for punishments that can be issued. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Americans Amanda Eid and Josh Zurawski share their terrifying experience after being denied an abortion due to Texas' strict anti-abortion laws

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Ex-Ince chief back in law after buying firm out of administration | Law Gazette https://t.co/YunztZIHXy
• NHS trust warns staff about solicitors 'coercing' vulnerable patients | Law Gazette https://t.co/tYaUAC7i2a 
• Brentford striker Ivan Toney has been charged by the Football Association with 232 alleged breaches of betting rules. The alleged breaches took place between 25 February 2017 and 23 January 2021 https://t.co/Cj3jrxJC24 
• Belsner: CoA orders £155,000 costs within two weeks | Law Gazette https://t.co/tQzAVnA3AA
  
• #Vietnam Using Jail to 'Silence' Human Rights Journalist, Lawyer Kurtulus Bastimar Says https://t.co/QQ9C5CNvMf 
• Solicitors "coercing" hospital patients into signing legal papers - Legal Futures https://t.co/M2ojAQL87B 
• Alex Salmond's lawyer Gordon Jackson KC hit with five-month suspension after naming accusers on train https://t.co/dHh6eN6HtY
• KPMG pays £5m to settle Quindell audit claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/aHWHk58jYV
• Lawyer for group bankrolling Jewish terrorists running coalition talks for Ben Gvir #Israel https://t.co/Pn8vgZVaI2
• Struck-off solicitor may face civil restraint order after 'misconceived' appeal fails | Law Gazette https://t.co/Hr74LXFFGK
• The UK should be ashamed of ‘joint enterprise’ convictions. America has put us on notice https://t.co/yOmiuiJSLt
  
• Legal aid: Firm paid £1,387 less than psychologist it instructed | Law Gazette https://t.co/k9sLacryzE
  
• #Iran issues first death sentence over protests: Unnamed person faces execution for alleged arson as part of crackdown on unrest triggered by death of Mahsa Amini https://t.co/ZwMMtdjK1x 
• "Honorable" solicitor and practice manager fined for misusing legal aid cash - Legal Futures https://t.co/D0lqr9tWUK
• UCL academics criticise use of agency workers to replace striking security staff https://t.co/PTtaCGNiX5
• SRA plans for income-linked fines 'excessive and unjustified' | Law Gazette https://t.co/XsB0hCg0NQ
• Identity of those instructing solicitors not protected by litigation privilege - Legal Futures https://t.co/hopwdD0Cdu 
• Made(dot)com customers given 25 November delivery deadline https://t.co/SSs6DxrOi5

16th November - Law News

Edition 3977: 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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Focus of the Day Article: Regulatory certainty is the key to the UK’s success in a future global legal market dominated by technology, but access to justice and the rule of law should also be built in. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: California's Central Valley grows a large portion of America's food – and that requires a huge amount of water. But the region is experiencing a drought and drying up the surface water that farms rely on. So farms are now pumping water from underground. There's a problem, though: it's drying up the wells in vulnerable communities that have long relied on underground water

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Bookkeeper banned over ‘dishonest’ £93,000 transfers | Law Gazette https://t.co/WqhD83LlWR
  
• Solicitor's "blind spot" led to vulnerable client being defrauded - Legal Futures https://t.co/IZSERWHA6e 
• Court thwarts 'fishing expedition' by Checkmylegalfees | Law Gazette https://t.co/rpbeQoA4pA
• Awaab Ishak: Mould in Rochdale flat caused boy's death, coroner rules https://t.co/DZGXiqV3yo
• Leggatt: Witness demeanour as guide to truth "like spinning a coin" - Legal Futures https://t.co/ZmJQWpeU9h
  
• Solicitors to update MPs on legal aid crisis | Law Gazette https://t.co/sAz7CYQD2z 
• Claim reprieved from strike-out despite 'lamentable' conduct of case | Law Gazette https://t.co/F8HPR7vvKa
• UK lawtech competitive lead "not what it was" - Legal Futures https://t.co/0AENduJip8 
• Two more law firm mergers as sector consolidates | Law Gazette https://t.co/yejP5JZeq1
  
• London’s Commercial Court : Under threat, or concern about nothing? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/BOsh5J2Nnh 
• Crowds of residents in southern #China's industrial metropolis Guangzhou have escaped a compulsory lockdown and clashed with police, as anger at strict coronavirus curbs boiled over https://t.co/4dNaWwxxzG
  
• Complaints to SRA can constitute acts of stalking, Court of Appeal rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/cHZJVRL9Gv 
• 50 years in law: Reflections from one of our longest-serving female lawyers - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Nt6C2d4GTp
• My legal life: Smridhi Gulati, Dechert - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/fIEKEK5GA4
  
• Climate crisis and emergency legal advice in the spotlight as Pro Bono Week begins - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ZzV3RxT1Ow
• The eye-popping $56bn pay package that Tesla granted boss Elon Musk in 2018 is being contested in a #US court. A shareholder has asked a US judge to rescind the award https://t.co/vicw4hJdof 
• The O’Connors’ law firm leaders survey - the results are in - Legal Futures https://t.co/LRvQDNXTir 
• Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada has ordered #Afghan judges to impose punishments for certain crimes that may include public amputations and stoning https://t.co/DMvDIQCvC5
• Will more lawyers join Mastodon? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/IopJFfdDae
  
• Belsner: CoA orders £155,000 costs within two weeks | Law Gazette https://t.co/tQzAVnREZa 
• Can the UK-France crackdown on Channel smugglers work? https://t.co/QtnjNKfBUo 
• Russian forces committed more than 400 war crimes in Kherson, says Zelenskiy – video https://t.co/5yfpcVZmfW
• A law fresher's advice to future freshers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7Qoj4RKRjF

15th November - Law News

Edition 3976: 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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Focus of the Day Article: ‘Unqualified experts’ should not have role in child welfare cases, court told. Mother’s appeal raises questions over how family courts in England and Wales deal with policy and regulation of psychological ‘experts in alienation’. Full story - Guardian Law

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: The UK has agreed to pay another £8 million a year to France as part of a deal to tackle the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats. Scores more people were picked up by a Border Force vessel today as they tried to cross- official figures suggest more than 40,000 migrants have made the journey so far this year. Rishi Sunak said he's "confident" the number of crossings could be brought down although he admitted there was no single fix.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Reed Smith launches 'SQE academy' in UAE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/kzVXsBmehq
  
• The legal profession isn’t innovative enough - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/tDTMxnyzxb
• Hacking victim retains anonymity in 'persons unknown' action | Law Gazette https://t.co/lgUOtVmUr1 
• Judges to be trained on avoiding 'inappropriate behaviour', says Lord Chief Justice - Legal Cheek https://t.co/NEGpanQ5Dk 
• Given the pace of change in work, health, and safety — not just legislatively, but also due to sociocultural and economic shifts in the wake of the pandemic — leaders in law must be well on top of how best to manage their teams - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/lNvO6XPXmA
  
• How I helped my law firm list on the London Stock Exchange - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Ak68GAQW3j
  
• Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has told a court Benjamin Mendy was "a really good boy" and he did not know what the player did in his spare time https://t.co/BfkJPfY2RP 
• ‘Flexibility is not cost-free’, partners warn junior lawyers - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/2784qqVSXu 
• Lavelle Partners opens new office in Galway | Irish Legal News https://t.co/q4At6UiQaK 
• Simpson Thacher boosts NQ lawyer rates in London to £170k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/VutsyFMC8h 
• Delhi High Court grants interim bail to accused for arranging daughter's LLB course fees | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/OdGAyW8ODJ
  
• 10 TikToks every law student can relate to - Legal Cheek https://t.co/YjIle0V0fU
• Over £18bn in Russian assets frozen by UK sanctions | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KYL6PvDqun
  
• 23 new SCs named in Victoria - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/AO6pqfdXpn
  
• Maura Derivan becomes Law Society’s 152nd president | Irish Legal News https://t.co/11qGYgP6tw

14th November - Law News

Edition 3975: 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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Focus of the Day Article: The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill could have a devastating impact on legal certainty in the UK, lawyers have warned. Under the Bill, currently at committee stage, all retained EU law would be repealed on 31 December 2023, unless incorporated into UK domestic law. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Hundreds of thousands of photographs from the Holocaust are being scanned with the help of an algorithm to identify the people in them. Software engineer Daniel Platt’s programme, From Numbers to Names, uses facial recognition technology to gives probabilities of facial matches from different photos. One search managed to identify Holocaust survivor Blanche Fixler in a photo she had never seen before, taken in France, which was on display at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. “To give somebody a name, you are restoring someone’s own dignity to them, some comfort to their family. It is a form of memorial to the entire Jewish community,” said Scott Miller, exhibit curator of the museum. There are hundreds of thousands of people murdered by the Nazis, for which there are pictures, but no names.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A man who spent £25,000 on a fake airport sign in mid Wales is bringing the joke to an end after 20 years. For the past two decades, a billboard for Llandegley International has been a landmark near the Powys village https://t.co/Q3pTghScrq 
• A call for evidence on the operation, risks and benefits of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the wider blockchain has been launched by the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee | NLJ https://t.co/dEtQfmXr31
  
• The latest injunction against HS2 protestors bans nearly everyone anywhere on 170 mile route - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/NHw8oGweny 
• Arthur Cox to sponsor Belfast’s Pegasus Hockey Club | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lYu7mH4HTj 
• PI groups join as test cases lined up for Court of Appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/vJBJVZ9oeF 
• A police officer has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was found injured in a hotel. Concerns were reported over the woman's welfare at a hotel on Brook Street in Manchester city centre on Thursday, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said https://t.co/AEO7RBZJPO 
• The Legal Services Board (LSB) has set out its proposed regulatory performance framework, due to take effect on 1 January 2023 | NLJ https://t.co/Vttr362oCY 
• Solicitor with 'complete blind spot' for client care suspended | Law Gazette https://t.co/2GK7H4Xexs 
• Delhi High Court upholds dismissal of Police Head Constable caught taking money from passengers at airport | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/mVXoeDejN4 
• The Weekly Round-up: Migrant tagging, pandemic education rights, and Mental Health Act reform - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/q9bJENyTSe 
• Squires to set up shop in WeWork before relocating to new London HQ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FuOIDDZy2B 
• Justice reform 'needs more data' - lawtech experts | Law Gazette https://t.co/OvHU0LL9oo 
• Suspended part-time sheriff loses challenges against Scottish Ministers’ decision to stop funding his legal representation | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1lRPnl4F2O
  
• Baker McKenzie fees face criticism from High Court judge for contributing to 'disproportionate' costs - Legal Cheek https://t.co/4OZRguvxaR
  
• A Royal Air Force officer who was involved in a cycling accident while stationed in Cyprus cannot sue for injuries in England, the Court of Appeal has held | NLJ https://t.co/OfsVec1G89 
• Derogatory, contemptuous observations against Karnataka HC: Supreme Court issues contempt notice to petitioner, AoR | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/W5JcYo6LMV 
• The small boats storm and the unlawful seizure of mobile phones - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/yM4QtomQIX 
• Mother in law: Letting things go - Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England | Law Gazette https://t.co/RGozxVnvBd
  
• Dominic Raab faces questions over aggressive behaviour claims https://t.co/7oubpVkPY8 
• Best of the blogs - 12 November 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/eTq4VoUQ1d
• Qld lawyer charged over alleged laundering of $4.5m - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/j88S5Ctx80 
• [Plea for guidelines on seizure of digital devices] Supreme Court imposes ₹25,000 costs on Central government for not filing response | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/bUihIMmqsA
  
• Ultra-conservative gala welcomes supreme court justices who ended Roe v Wade - Opinion author Samuel Alito gets long ovation at anniversary dinner for Federalist Society #US https://t.co/uVyIl7IamH 
• An Iranian man who lived in a Paris airport for 18 years has died. Caught in a diplomatic limbo, Mehran Karimi Nasseri made a small area of Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport his home in 1988 #France https://t.co/ZK9RODSGRU 
• UK and French coastguards ‘passed buck’ as 27 people drowned in Channel - Crucial hours wasted debating who should rescue dinghy carrying 34 passengers, ITV documentary reveals https://t.co/c2lUAuSYu4 
• Trade mark owners who are not using their mark may need to do more than simply filing and refiling in order to hang onto their rights, following Lidl Great Britain Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1433 | NLJ https://t.co/b8dgDQVS5i

13th November - Law News

Edition 3974: 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: Gold is one of Sudan’s key sources of revenue. But along the banks of the Sudanese Nile, residents are saying the toxic waste from mining operations is ruining their harvests and killing their livestock.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Could 'unbundling' help prevent the access to justice gap widening? | Law Gazette https://t.co/sfkjMeuee7 
• Regulators made 163 visits to law firms in connection with suspected anti-money laundering breaches last year, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has reported | NLJ https://t.co/yK2zm02WSp 
• #Canadian law society allows listed DWF to overcome ban on buying firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/xOfVWXSC1D
• MoJ makes late U-turn on how to extend fixed costs | Law Gazette https://t.co/ETreN7Cpl6 
• The cost-of-living crisis provided a focus for this year’s Pro Bono Week, with lawyers attending a wide range of events | NLJ https://t.co/nEe12v7S2z
  
• ‘He spent years fighting for the voiceless’: memories of prisons correspondent Eric Allison https://t.co/SUU3ZyXxg0
  
• Family court backlog climbs to 110,000 | Law Gazette https://t.co/jUCWtXaxej 
• Court of Appeal expedites hearing of whiplash mixed claim test cases - Legal Futures https://t.co/DcFULDls6a 
• Major reforms to the system for recovering the proceeds of crime have been set out by the Law Commission | NLJ https://t.co/45eltltwGF
• Court hearing adjourned after firm faced six-week wait to see prisoner | Law Gazette https://t.co/AkJY769AF2
• Criminal solicitor fined £40k for pro bono work in family dispute - Legal Futures https://t.co/PudsVIF3m5
• The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill could have a devastating impact on legal certainty in the UK, lawyers have warned | NLJ https://t.co/OB2OEqJPQh
• Bereaved parents' childcare petition to be debated by MPs https://t.co/nQsr79J0G3 
• A close-up view of judicial diversity https://t.co/OUdQhNZ24Y