8th November - Law News

Edition 3969: 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: I was in prison and saw how power can corrupt officers. Ruth Wyner recalls the inhumanity of incarceration, while John Coffin and GD Stewart and discuss the need for accountability and justice. Full story - Guardian Law

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: The Egyptian setting for COP27 is a far cry from last year's conference in Glasgow, and so is the mood - a looming global recession, rampant inflation and war in Europe pushing climate down the agenda at perhaps the worst possible time. Hope is threatening to turn into acrimony on the issue of whether rich countries should pay for the devastation already being caused.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Dads on Duty are a team of fathers who patrol Southwood High School in Shreveport, Louisiana. They got together after more than 20 students had been arrested for fighting #US https://t.co/mVZZaGqaPO
  
• The Magic Circle is 'being attacked from all angles' by US and Big Four competitors - Legal Cheek https://t.co/yBxHdwTgLN
• 'Do what you enjoy and makes you fulfilled, and don’t be afraid to move on or switch path' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/61jXkm0rMG 
• The state of prisons, examined from inside and outside https://t.co/a7iknt3bUy
• Wannabe barristers have until Friday to apply for Inns scholarships - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RupFTMe5vr
• Rees-Mogg’s plans to axe all EU laws will cripple Whitehall, says leading Brexiter https://t.co/saiaD2zqG2
• Asylum seekers 'forced to sleep on cardboard' at Manston immigration centre - Twenty-nine-year-old Samuel says conditions at Manston were grim, with dirty toilets, cold meals and showers, and people having to search for cardboard to bed down on https://t.co/ORgQRqDiSz
  
• 'Lawfare' among six new words added to Collins Dictionary - Legal Cheek https://t.co/wHncOa2yKp 
• Court cannot cancel bail for violation of conditions without issuing notice, hearing accused: Kerala High Court Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/5s9nKEKSFl 
• 5 things we learned about life at a global law firm - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Ez1Wyhg0Ci 
• All legal proceedings deemed stayed when moratorium under Section 96 IBC kicks in: Delhi High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/T51sMWc9xl
• Grant Shapps has said the Manston asylum processing site was "tipping into becoming an unofficial detention centre" when he briefly served as home secretary last month replacing Braverman https://t.co/qYeFMkG7g4
  
• Law Society launches new junior solicitor support network with JLD becoming ‘fully independent’ from Chancery Lane - Legal Cheek https://t.co/KHGJFdRtx1
  
• Kerala High Court quashes case against lawyer accused of raping another lawyer on false promise of marriage | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/LsAo8jwRat 
• How lawyers help their clients through economic uncertainty - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Cgey7u4qkp 
• Ex-Freshfields partner appointed Court of Appeal judge - Legal Cheek https://t.co/gTdoLZg0Ms 
• Sri Lanka Cricket have suspended Danushka Gunathilaka after he was charged with raping a woman in Sydney. Gunathilaka, 31, has been charged with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent while at the T20 World Cup in #Australia https://t.co/yPJXNwVJRQ 
• A climate change protester has climbed an overhead gantry forcing it to be closed between junctions 6 and 7 in Surrey, police said. Activists are staging protests between junctions 8-9, 13-12 southbound and 13-14 https://t.co/USnWRvipnd 
• Elon Musk says Twitter users engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying it as a parody account will be permanently suspended https://t.co/lM4OJkSdic
• Diversity milestones in law and politics - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ZTkw2u0k3a 
• Junior lawyers became 'meme-splainers' for partners working on Musk's Twitter takeover - Legal Cheek https://t.co/B7BdKqEfqv 
• 10 inspirational Black lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Vq69NOg190

7th November - Law News

Edition 3968: 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 decline of local newspapers has resulted in court proceedings being less visible to the public, and digital media has so far failed to fill the gap, a parliamentary committee has warned. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Young voters turned out in big numbers for the US presidential contest in 2020. But will they be as motivated to cast their ballots in the midterm elections on 8 November? From TikTok influencers to 20-something candidates, Gen Z is already focused on getting young people to the polls.

Saturday Conversations on Law

• A former Magic Circle lawyer makes the case for legal life in the South - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Ax1FMaPKqN
• New powers for forensic science regulator by end of March | Law Gazette https://t.co/JROnEi5tZ2 
• Macfarlanes teams up with Brunel Law School to launch scholarship 'equivalent to the award of a training contract’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/F9vw1S4WR1
  
• Land Registry sets 'truth test' to tackle delays | Law Gazette https://t.co/JvQIcfkbJd
• A free conference on the growing importance of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in the civil justice system will take place on 2 December 2022 | NLJ https://t.co/Y17N81pIMi
  
• Lawyers encouraged to participate in Pro Bono Week | Law Gazette https://t.co/UMbn7Oefdt 
• Black and blind bar grad speaks of smashing ‘triple-glazed glass ceiling’ to pursue barrister dream - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JGmkXsQ0lP
• Solicitor takes over firm to continue late mother's legacy | Law Gazette https://t.co/YumJU4Int0 
• A clampdown on the practice of greenwashing investment products has been proposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) | NLJ https://t.co/vsKZYHe29N
• Quantuma’s expands forensic accounting team with new director | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mpgidAVvW
• Totally lacking in knightly manners, Sir Gavin Williamson's expletive-laden text messages to a colleague were "not acceptable", a key ally of the prime minister has said. The messages threatened ex-chief whip Wendy Morton https://t.co/LGd6qceof
• An extra bank holiday will take place across the UK to mark the coronation of King Charles III next year. It will fall on Monday, 8 May 2023, two days after the ceremony at Westminster Abbey, the government said https://t.co/8lqT9pCc7
• Finding the right law firm for you - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cY7Ud88uPp
• Russia sanctions force adjournment of three-week trial | Law Gazette https://t.co/kbDxL869u3 
• Further civil costs reforms may be required, following the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Belsner v CAM Legal Services [2022] EWCA Civ 1387 | NLJ https://t.co/ij5YBpob3p
• Lawyers welcome progress on High Court’s new planning and environment division | Irish Legal News https://t.co/8NdtmDrLW
• Revealed: Law firms' average start work and finish times 2023 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ybe4k6RM
• Minister slams ‘anti-British’ lawyers for thwarting Rwanda plan | Law Gazette https://t.co/FCzFnh0uK6
• Clifford Chance launches Polish TC programme for UK law grads - Legal Cheek https://t.co/eSrFaqXvAW
• Magic Circle v US firms: A moot point - Legal Cheek https://t.co/OzKcTuhvO
• Meet 70+ leading law firms at the final Virtual Law Fair of 2022 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8Zkf4Fb4Sc
• SRA conduct rules intrude into private life | Law Gazette https://t.co/ukSChMQHS
• One of Wales' only ethic minority head teachers has told of the racism she has experienced in her career in a bid to bring about change. Reena Patel said she was called racist names by children when working as a supply teacher in Wales https://t.co/HMfvGNIchP
• Twitter has confirmed plans to allow users to buy blue-tick verified status. In an update for Apple devices, the company said the feature would be open to users in certain countries who sign up to its Twitter Blue service for $7.99 (£7) per month https://t.co/yJJVtb0W4Y
• Acceptance of PIAB assessments ‘approaching pre-guidelines levels’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2kZNmrwrNs

6th November - Law News

Edition 3967: 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: With more than a million people expected to come to Qatar's FIFA World Cup, preparations for managing them are underway. A three-day festival is taking place in Lusail City, where the final will be held, to see how it will cope. Friday night was South Asia Night.  

Saturday Conversations on Law

• SDT lifts restriction on solicitor holding management position in firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/hox5D9aK3q 
• Thousands join London protest calling for general election and demanding resignation from home secretary Suella Braverman https://t.co/lhDN5kr1mB
  
• Women barristers earn one third less than their male colleagues, Bar Council analysis has found| NLJ https://t.co/ssCkLjtQyZ
• A&L Goodbody appoints Amy Martin to pro bono team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EBEz4v3Lp4
  
• Supreme Court will not hear appeal on professional tribunal members' pay - Legal Futures https://t.co/aPW2ZRLhr7 
• The decline of local newspapers has resulted in court proceedings being less visible to the public, and digital media has so far failed to fill the gap, a parliamentary committee has warned | NLJ https://t.co/bdyhiGOOzg
  
• The Law Society has called on the government to prioritise reform of the Mental Health Act, after official statistics revealed Black British people continue to be disproportionately detained and compulsorily treated | NLJ https://t.co/DKmOuhRKqp 
• Scottish Legal Complaints Commission welcomes new board members | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0k3CMRLvKU 
• Lawyers should "actively advise" clients on their environmental impact - Legal Futures https://t.co/sQkcKD3gPC 
• High Court: Verdict of unlawful killing will be open to jury in Stardust inquest | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JQY3HvxJ8Q 
• A #US judge has ruled that an independent monitor should be appointed to oversee the Trump Organization’s finances to “ensure there is no further fraud or illegality” pending the outcome of a $250 million lawsuit | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3H1Qk1l7PD
  
• The firebombing of an immigration processing centre was motivated by extreme right-wing terrorist ideology, police have said. Andrew Leak, 66, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, threw up to three incendiary devices https://t.co/YuyFETA9GJ 
• Clyde & Co calls for greater diversity and inclusion in Northern Ireland law firms | Irish Legal News https://t.co/LH5ULxbIUp 
• Professional services MDP in process of buying law firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/5TBpvVhQOh 
• Detainees armed with various weaponry caused a disturbance at a London immigration removal centre during a power outage. No one was injured during the incident at the Harmondsworth detention centre in West London, the Home Office claims https://t.co/MufjXumJK6 
• An Bord Pleanála chairperson to retire early on personal grounds | Irish Legal News https://t.co/5Pzjbup4Fu 
• Northern Ireland’s compensation increase for bereaved relatives ‘is not enough’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0Ash41BYn8
  
• Eric Allison: warm, polite and tireless - Andrew Neilson of the Howard League for Penal Reform remembers a sympathetic campaigner and journalist https://t.co/M2loIhD2nM 
• Nick Kyrgios has settled a legal case with a spectator he accused of being "drunk out of her mind" during the Wimbledon final https://t.co/TBjoSHCE7b
  
• Convicted murderers and drug dealers who have recently left prison in #Russia face being conscripted to fight in Ukraine under a change to the law https://t.co/K1xw8eDbgG

5th November - Law News

Edition 3966: 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 thick layer of haze covered the Delhi on Friday. The National Capital continued to reel under 'severe' air quality with Air Quality Index (AQI) at 472 currently. Climate change is a major issue facing India, and sustainability remains a word paid lip-service by the ruling political machinery.  

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Junior lawyers won’t have to ‘turn in’ bullying workmates | Law Gazette https://t.co/JmEDDG4ryY
• Philip: SRA will make full use of unlimited fining power for economic crime - Legal Futures https://t.co/QfKjF5Lajl 
• William Tyrrell’s former foster mother knows where he is, NSW detective tells court #Australia https://t.co/F6Dpz8dN4C
• Lead-generation company acquired to boost PI business | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZaRM2aiRr9 
• Council bosses have said they were not consulted or notified by the Home Office about the arrival of 55 migrants to a hotel at a seaside resort. North Devon Council said the hotel in Ilfracombe was an "unsuitable location" for them due to its remoteness https://t.co/mWT6k3cg5E
• Barney Ross elected Clerk of Faculty | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gCRytgUgq7
• Woman claiming to be Christ warned to stop using court time | Law Gazette https://t.co/TseVIoDzH
• LeO seeks 9.6% budget rise equivalent to £7.20 per solicitor - Legal Futures https://t.co/hj8XabzjNO
• Automating IP checks will require legislation | Law Gazette https://t.co/4wC8vlWTSd
• KOD Lyons promotes Katie Dowling to associate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SrEMkjJiyO
  
• 'Hillsborough Law' on the agenda of new parliamentary group | Law Gazette https://t.co/bqcii1hTLS
• Cat MacLean to join BTO’s dispute resolution team | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gf6Y1Kv4NI
• US legal profession ‘still opposed to ABS-style reform’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/n4flAejkZt
  
• PE firm adds digital marketing business to law firm acquisitions - Legal Futures https://t.co/jJxfeQ3vaL 
• Minister says 'bit of a cheek’ for asylum-seekers to complain about conditions - Chris Philp’s comments come as government faces pressure to fix ‘chaos’ at Manston immigration centre https://t.co/BsL02J2uo
• SFO secures record penalty in Glencore bribery case | Law Gazette https://t.co/PSnT6dxWiQ
• South West Ambulance has the longest waits in the country for people to get through to the operator. It takes almost a minute on average for ambulance control to answer 999 calls compared with just five seconds for the West Midlands service https://t.co/If0z9Cv96k
• Evidence of Albanian drug gangs using the migrant camps of northern France as a recruitment ground, offering to pay the passage of those prepared to work in the UK drugs industry on arrival https://t.co/PKLOxoLJbq
• Les Allamby appointed to NI Policing Board | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KGrFA6LYY5
  
• Metamorph director leaves as new winding-up petition emerges | Law Gazette https://t.co/Hgs0iUIHZx
• UCD academic supporting judicial training in Ukraine | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Lt3FQLqyGf
• SRA rows back on requiring junior staff to challenge bad behaviour at work - Legal Futures https://t.co/T7Tkxaaprg
• A farewell to 'fax it up' | Law Gazette https://t.co/Hx67yP9FFw
  
• Just when refugees thought Manston couldn’t get any worse, here comes Leaky Sue https://t.co/oz0WGuSaFu
  
• Andrew Blain re-elected managing partner of Shepherd and Wedderburn | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/dQug1fFNeE
• Protecting the rights of lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/tY33aTLp0o 
• Carson McDowell secures apology from Unite the Union | Irish Legal News https://t.co/XtQvvLAVoT
• The #French parliament was brought to a halt after a far-right MP Grégoire de Fournas, a member of National Rally (RN) shouted "They should go back to Africa" as a black colleague talked about immigration https://t.co/6S6pF6RwA3 
• Abject failure of Scotland’s FOI regime highlighted by irritated public | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/353A0GGT3L 
• 128 scholars ask UN not to adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism: Leading scholars in anti-Semitism said IHRA definition has been ‘hijacked’ to protect Israel from international criticism https://t.co/zoKme91r7Z

4th November - Law News

Edition 3965: 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:  A proposed rise in legal aid fees is a step in the right direction, but further action is urgently needed to resolve the long-term crisis in the sector, the Law Society of Scotland has said. Full story - Scottish Legal News

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Daniel Lavelle is a journalist who spent some of his teenage years in the care system. He is also somewhat of an anomaly. Statistics show one in four people who leave care in the UK end up homeless. They are also likely to end up in a prison. In a special Guardian video Lavelle reflects on his experiences, and meets others who've been through the system to find out what is going wrong for some of the country's most vulnerable children. He also talks to those who've made it out the other side 'damaged but not broken'

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Removing the ‘A’ from ALSPs - Legal Futures https://t.co/dqBgI8ZnWC
• Eight in 10 rape charges tried by UK military courts end without conviction - Only 11 out of 53 charges of rape heard by service justice system in past three years led to guilty charges https://t.co/ZXvvjz2MFz
• Solicitor fined over convictions for assault and drink driving | Law Gazette https://t.co/rkXzphFQ2l
• UK subsidiary of mining giant Glencore ordered to pay more than £275m for bribing officials in African countries to get access to oil. It paid $26m through agents and employees to officials of crude oil firms in Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast https://t.co/EEaoFnay3a 
• Knights partner fined after assault and drink-drive convictions - Legal Futures https://t.co/Jft3wmndO0
• Mining giant Glencore flew cash bribes to Africa via private jet, UK court hears - Corruption at FTSE 100 firm described as endemic at sentence hearing https://t.co/syVI9TFYJV 
• 'Resourcing' required to achieve 53,000 backlog target, DPP tells MPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/xnS5TPxX94 
• A child and a teenager have been sexually assaulted at a hotel used to house asylum seekers in London https://t.co/vgqPyARt1M 
• Home secretary Suella Braverman facing legal action over Manston children safety https://t.co/GppOr0BYlt 
• Diversity Lab certifies more than 40 in-house teams for D&I efforts - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/v6iRaKyEwl 
• ‘Freedom-killing monster’: illegal rave crackdown in #Italy draws criticism https://t.co/cwFLlNoiqM 
• Ministry of Justice "reinforced negative race stereotypes" with advert - Legal Futures https://t.co/JRevrC2mUP 
• #Egyptian regime criticized as climate activist arrested in run-up to Cop27 - Concern over country’s human rights record after Indian Ajit Rajagopal arrested on walk to raise awareness about climate crisis https://t.co/moOFvharFF 
• Former City partner appointed to Court of Appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/hKCx2EkqtT 
• #Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan, has been shot and wounded in the leg in an attack on his protest march in the eastern city of Wazirabad https://t.co/iESRUdffEk
  
• Perkins Coie acquires New York start-up advisory boutique Kluk Farber Law - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/v70sGjTyWd 
• PI firm bought out after profits more than halve in a year | Law Gazette https://t.co/Fvq26m7yns 
• SRA fines overhaul “of grave concern” to solicitors - Legal Futures https://t.co/A9uUMR3mCJ 
• You should all understand crypto, lawyers told | Law Gazette https://t.co/qBAovRcIcU 
• Singer Mariah Carey is no longer being sued for copyright infringement over her hit song All I Want for Christmas is You, after country singer Andy Stone dropped his legal action. He sued claiming he co-wrote a song with the same name five years earlier https://t.co/l8wOMrMjmB 
• Call to end use of gagging orders to silence victims of police misogyny - Chief constables most to blame for crises sapping legitimacy of policing, says Police Federation leader https://t.co/jGRm3FOnKI 
• Eric Allison, Guardian’s prison correspondent, dies at 79 - Former inmate, who claimed to be only man to escape from Strangeways, joined paper at 60 and worked to expose cruelty of prison system https://t.co/AWa9TmAWWq 
• Large PI firm sold in latest post-reform consolidation move - Legal Futures https://t.co/23XAfHldVc
• Senior arbitration talent departs Matrix Chambers for 3 Verulam Buildings in London - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/HkUOJys8Yr 
• Prison officer job ad banned over ‘negative racial stereotype’ - ASA rules that UK Facebook ad showing white officer with black prisoner showed an ‘imbalanced power dynamic’ https://t.co/FUDJDHoce8 
• The UK should stop discriminating against Albanians to excuse "policy failures", the country's PM has said. Edi Rama said "rhetoric" blaming his citizens for the UK's crime and border problems ignored the facts https://t.co/C5VorsP5RM