Sunday

19th February - Law News

Edition 4072: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.

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Today's Highlighted Video Story: The search is underway to find a successor for Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. She announced her resignation on Wednesday after more than eight years on the job. The Scottish National Party is meeting to discuss the rules for a leadership contest to replace her. So, where does her resignation leave Scotland's separatist movement? 
 

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Journalist who exposed plot to kill Alexei Navalny claims family banned from Baftas n https://t.co/R8e16Qxus
  • Divorce work in 2023 - from fluctuating assets to open justice - Legal Futures https://t.co/DFGa8DECW7
  • Northern Ireland firm Turley Legal expands into real estate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/85KC0njsFa
  • How MI5 caught UK embassy spy David Smith selling secrets to Russia https://t.co/Qhajrkmdh2 
  • Environmental organisations, community groups, land owners and farmers will be eligible to apply for a share of £1.8 million funding to help grow their nature projects | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/okJDxgfl2x
  • #US ranking on abuse of power index hurt by inequality and violence - Country came near median of 163 countries on Index of Impunity, higher than Hungary and Singapore https://t.co/72s4qCyvh1
  • Lord Duthie installed as chair of Scottish Land Court | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UEl3enyDwn
  • Judge inappropriately interrupted cross-examination, CA rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/UmV10p7JtQ
  • Sunak facing threat of Tory rebellion over Northern Ireland protocol plans https://t.co/rHN6vlt7RR
  • Independent TV network #Iran International is suspending its operations in the UK because of threats against its London-based journalists https://t.co/aAWY5tu6lT
  • Brian McConnachie KC found guilty of professional misconduct over WhatsApp messages | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nRLPrOE1Ha 
  • Controversial influencer Andrew Tate has threatened legal action against at least one of the women making rape and human trafficking claims against him https://t.co/lPUS9eTjaE
  • Police release of Nicola Bulley’s personal details ‘as sexist as it comes’ https://t.co/DZWlzYLJkh 
  • Huge scope for smaller law firms to improve ESG - Legal Futures https://t.co/myRjbUx0dZ
  • A Bulgarian journalist claims he has been "banned" from attending Sunday's Bafta Film Awards ceremony in London because he is a "security risk". Christo Grozev features in a Bafta-nominated film about the poisoning of Kremlin-critic Alexei Navalny https://t.co/ozHWW70R0N 
  • Rules for disclosing in-camera evidence creating barrier to judicial conduct complaints | Irish Legal News https://t.co/duJ4lhzULR
  • Labour explores plan to make clean air a human right with new legislation. Shadow justice secretary Steve Reed will criticise ministers’ attempts to repeal Human Rights Act https://t.co/OWY5r7prGC
  • #Spain approves self-declaration gender recognition law | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ASC3HVXBf
  • Mississippi mass shooting: Man kills ex-wife and five others #US https://t.co/XRShL2HkJH
  • Footballer Christian Atsu has been found dead under the rubble of his home almost two weeks after the #Turkey earthquake, his agent has confirmed. The Ghana international, 31, had spells with Premier League sides https://t.co/JtbfqVZy6m
  • High Court rejects "pugnacious" ex-solicitor's strike-off appeal - Legal Futures https://t.co/UhD325qDow
  • Ian Baum had good reason to bring his HIV case against Gareth Thomas - The former rugby player’s ex-partner was not just ‘unlucky’ to become HIV-positive, says solicitor Matthew Jury https://t.co/WQ5STuJfKK
  • PSNI stop and search ‘disproportionately targeting’ minority communities | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ZqxWTPXfd
  • ‘I had to get out of there’: an #Australian survivor of homosexuality ‘cures’ tells her story https://t.co/I2DiJSURIE
  • Katie Price has published a letter from the Met Police telling her officers are facing misconduct proceedings over alleged involvement in a WhatsApp group that targeted her disabled son Harvey https://t.co/02FUjoHeC3
  • Paralegal awarded £30k over pregnancy discrimination and low pay - Legal Futures https://t.co/fo06vPtGAL 
  • Asylum seekers ‘living in fear’ as more UK anti-migrant protests planned by fascists - Tensions mount at Dunstable meeting as Hope Not Hate flags five far-right affiliated demonstrations planned this weekend https://t.co/2JQwfFD4cj
  • Asylum plan for another Pontins site scrapped - Local authorities in East Sussex said the Home Office was not taking forward the idea of converting the resort in Camber Sands into asylum accommodation https://t.co/qGesmcvS0O
  • Body of missing Nathan Cole found in north London canal, say police https://t.co/3v2uGoDVhr

Saturday

18th February - Law News

Edition 4071: 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 covert team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media have been exposed in a new Guardian investigation

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • US litigation funding capital commitments jump by 16% to $3.2bn - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/Ph06402MOE
  • Top government lawyers get 16% rise amid staff exodus fears | Law Gazette https://t.co/EQBFHBdjFS 
  • BSB leaves door open to reaccreditation of barristers - Legal Futures https://t.co/FJjU5Actfb
  • Mentors and mentees wanted: Judicial Reverse Mentoring Scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/ceRPCbjGxY
  • Joint enterprise prosecutions to be monitored for racial bias - CPS agrees, following legal challenge, to record age and race data after studies show young men and black boys suffer most https://t.co/NNQlpYAubb
  • Allen & Overy integrates ChatGPT-style chatbot to boost legal work - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/pbTDwDAIRM
  • #India claim to have uncovered irregularities in the BBC's accounting books after searches at the broadcaster's offices. A recent BBC documentary unravelled PM Modi's role during Gujrat riots https://t.co/ZHLVGgDlE
  • Thousands of part-time judges could lose billions in pension benefits | Law Gazette https://t.co/xzel1E2a2
  • Ask me anything - Allen & Overy adopts ChatGPT-style legal AI tool - Legal Futures https://t.co/CbDPwQkB6
  • A spy at Berlin's British embassy, who sold secrets to Russia has been jailed for 13 years and two months. David Smith, 58, tried to damage Britain's interests by passing on details of the embassy and its staff  https://t.co/aOMkqXFN3t
  • Drake and 21 Savage have settled a lawsuit after using a fake Vogue cover to promote their 2022 album, Her Loss #US https://t.co/OsUTLOJSG
  • Five former Memphis police officers charged with murder over the death of Tyre Nichols have pleaded not guilty. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith were involved in the arrest of Mr Nichols #US https://t.co/dL0rl7qhb2
  • Report sheds light on the law firms getting the most patent work in the US - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/nLA9bI1iRo
  • The death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes is nearing 44,000: Alarm over ‘nobody’s children’ https://t.co/WOzKTMuPBK
  • Solicitors in UK warned not to act as ‘hired guns’ to silence critics of super-rich https://t.co/zQomMQBi9H
  • EPO extends deadlines for proceedings following earthquakes in Turkey and Syria - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/xYNFSFxmLf
  • Sewage leaks are causing hospitals a host of problems as the backlog in repairs and maintenance grows. Hospitals in England reported patients slipping on sewage, staff becoming ill, and leaks in A&E departments, cancer wards and maternity units https://t.co/Pe4B6tRFgx
  • Big Four increasing share of legal market | Law Gazette https://t.co/PytaLwpeXt
  • New funder for public interest cases which “clarify the law” - Legal Futures https://t.co/i8uVEKSlW3
  • A man has admitted attacking Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale following the north London derby at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last month: Joseph Watts, 35, from Dalston, Hackney, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court https://t.co/VYtYFtOywq 
  • Juries deserve the truth on climate protests https://t.co/EeHHQwTrae
  • 'The plagues will fall on you': Solicitor who sent 'inappropriate' emails struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZQHX6raIuK 
  • Lucy Letby: Murder-accused nurse breaks down at trial https://t.co/O5UKliEHjI
  • Almost half of US lawyers see no rate increases in 2022, Wolters Kluwer report shows - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/agve68SOh
  • Charter aims to “shift the dial” on female barristers’ earnings - Legal Futures https://t.co/mIcL1VXFko 
  • The home secretary has raised concerns with Lancashire Police after they revealed personal information about missing mother Nicola Bulley https://t.co/0AMGJT9P8b 
  • Rishi Sunak visits Northern Ireland with protocol deal imminent https://t.co/rbp75Jzoi4

Friday

17th February - Law News

Edition 4070: 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 Law News/Article: Making mental health a global priority in the legal profession. Full story Barrister Magazine
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Michigan State University assistant professor Marco Díaz-Muñoz tells CNN's Miguel Marquez about seeing the gunman who killed three students and critically wounded five others

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • National conveyancer set to grant share options to staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/hOkgsKjZ3E
  • Widow left out of husband’s will after 66-year marriage wins half of £1m estate - High court judge rules ‘reasonable provision’ was not made for 83-year-old, ‘left with next to nothing’ https://t.co/yokiQyQZJ0
  • To transparency and beyond! - Legal Futures https://t.co/Xoi2rxTdVs
  • Bar tells LSB to rethink 'wrong-headed' business plan | Law Gazette https://t.co/rhIr40DW0Q
  • Buffalo shooting: Relative lunges at gunman before sentencing #US https://t.co/l6bFWQXp21 
  • Running indemnity fund won’t require a levy - or more staff, SRA chief says | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y75x5B026o
  • SRA finalises rules for successor to Solicitors Indemnity Fund - Legal Futures https://t.co/TtlbnyGDj3 
  • US fintech chases Islamic wills market with law firm acquisition | Law Gazette https://t.co/XrIlPUzyJ0
  • Solicitor struck off for practising without firm’s knowledge | Law Gazette https://t.co/1RERqK48A
  • Allahabad High Court quashes case against Salman Khurshid for quoting Shahenshah movie dialogue in response to CM Yogi Adityanath | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/UqnhTi92Ri
  • Solicitor used friend’s identity to obtain prescription drugs - Legal Futures https://t.co/DnPX2HUeW
  • SRA confirms new fining powers | Law Gazette https://t.co/MBfPrh1ubG 
  • Bombay High Court orders probe agencies not to disclose identity of rape victims even in chargesheet | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/FV9n3E0ErM
  • A boy and girl, both aged 15, have appeared in court charged with murdering 16-year-old Brianna Ghey. The transgender schoolgirl was found with fatal stab wounds on a path in Linear Park in Culcheth, Cheshire https://t.co/NXcLZJJyQN 
  • SRA to keep many disciplinary decisions online for longer - Legal Futures https://t.co/SBuSP9Yh7b 
  • Digital securities “can be accommodated” within existing English law - Legal Futures https://t.co/Fx3n6D9i5r
  • British Gas owner Centrica has posted huge profits after energy prices soared last year. Centrica's full-year profits hit £3.3bn for 2022, more than triple the £948m it made the year before https://t.co/pEsYlYB56X
  • #Chagos islanders must get full reparations for forced exile, says NGO - Human Rights Watch also demands trial for ‘appalling colonial crime’ of expulsion – and continuing ill treatment – of Chagossiansn https://t.co/yHhABHnqt
  • 'Get on board Hague 19 ASAP,' Law Society tells government | Law Gazette https://t.co/I7SVTU87Em 
  • ‘All we have had is losses’: Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80m ransom demand - ‘Under no circumstances will we pay that absurd amount,’ delivery firm says, telling hackers it is not the booming company they think https://t.co/8KlgHvpRBy
  • Tehran summons lawyer Sotoudeh's husband to prison | Law Gazette https://t.co/mvDcfd87N8 
  • Magic circle firm rolls out 'gamechanger' ChatGPT-type platform | Law Gazette https://t.co/iCzm5h2Nh1
  • Judge rejects Trump DNA offer in E Jean Carroll rape defamation case - Lewis Kaplan says Trump has missed his chance to provide DNA sample to rebut allegations first made by Carroll in 2019 book #US https://t.co/mArK1vEZgL 
  • A 15-year-old boy has been detained for at least 14 years for stabbing a man to death outside an Asda store. Ian Kirwan, 53, was attacked at the supermarket in Redditch on 8 March after telling a group of boys https://t.co/JKBDp0KrUr