Tuesday

14th March - Law News

Edition 4094: 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: Illegal migration bill is ‘cruelty without purpose’, says Archbishop of York. Jewish leaders join Stephen Cottrell in urging government not to penalise ‘world’s most vulnerable’ as charities and businesses voice horror in open letter. Full story Guardian Law

Today's Highlighted Video Story: On appeal from: [2022] EWCA Civ 1564 - The Respondent VIP Communications was a company specialising in commercial multi–user gateways (“COMUGs”), a system which enables phone calls and text messages from landlines to be routed directly on to mobile networks. The Appellant is concerned that COMUGs give rise to national security and public safety concerns. This is because the COMUG system means that information identifying the caller is not conveyed to the network making identification almost impossible.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Double partner appointment at Taylor Wessing Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/upOxRPbjhQ 
  • Law Society agenda encompasses LPA and Mental Health Act reform | Law Gazette https://t.co/FK3WpCbbsT 
  • Solicitor apprenticeship expert and SRA education chief to join top lawfluencers at LegalEdCon 2023 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PE6Jy2UoAG 
  • Teneu Legal appoints South Africa-qualified solicitor Sahar Davachi | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/IyPy07pdFR 
  • Bombay High Court orders probe after BJP's Kirit Somaiya procures order copy in case to which he was not party | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/7LVZqNhPGf 
  • Mother in Law: How to network | Law Gazette https://t.co/SJDdwFkoEb 
  • Delhi High Court condemns 'item dance' organised at Patiala House Court for Holi Milan; seeks report from District Judge | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/mWNdjSxNxI
  • A senior government official has claimed that residents’ associations are routinely counting the dead among opponents to housing developments | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QFisHrpNdN 
  • Legal Twitter reveals its craziest law firm merch - Legal Cheek https://t.co/KpDTmpDJ5P 
  • Solicitors must shape the future of the justice system or risk being left behind | Law Gazette https://t.co/0PHSfsQDOZ
  • City grad recruiters slam academic's claim that law firm diversity schemes are just for show - Legal Cheek https://t.co/xnHqAC97Sh 
  • Silicon Valley Bank: Money in failed #US bank is safe - US government https://t.co/Xp0MRsQ9Xy 
  • The mother of Caroline Flack has said she rejects an apology given by the Metropolitan Police about how her daughter's case was handled. The TV star was facing prosecution for assaulting her boyfriend when she killed herself in February 2020 https://t.co/s15iD9PVxe 
  • Olivia McCann joins Respond as director of legal services and compliance | Irish Legal News https://t.co/TE0QhO2rvY 
  • UK government poised to block Scottish bottle recycling scheme - SNP request for trade exemption set to be rejected in latest clash after gender recognition row https://t.co/BKgJbV4WeT 
  • The wife of ‘Sir Stanley’ couldn’t stomach his abuse and nor should the rest of us - Boris Johnson’s plan to bestow an honour on his father is a blow to those seeking to protect women from domestic violence https://t.co/ROjRp2bFQM
  • Gary Lineker to return to Match of the Day as BBC announces social media review. The Tory led corporation hierarchy has faced criticism of its overt support of the government's extremist policies https://t.co/PtaClVpIaB 
  • Female City law firm leaders share words of wisdom on International Women's Day - Legal Cheek https://t.co/bmP6VwWUxq 
  • Paralegal was unaware she was conducting unlawful litigation | Law Gazette https://t.co/L1TAiRpin3 
  • How Uzbek president’s daughter Gulnara Karimova built a £200m property empire - she used UK companies to buy homes and a jet with funds obtained through bribery and corruption, the Freedom For Eurasia study says https://t.co/IP3AfOpRoO 
  • HSBC has swooped into buy the UK arm of collapsed US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), bringing relief to UK tech firms who warned they could go bust without help https://t.co/V1L2WaStoI
  • Legal Notes by Arvind Datar: Same word, same section, different meaning | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/JhaqaudGG8 
  • CMS and Fieldfisher reveal spring trainee retention scores - Legal Cheek https://t.co/eL2QSDf5nA 
  • Amy Fordyce joins Stronachs LLP | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ScqYtFYu0U 
  • Dundee’s Ellengowan regeneration opened by family of Thorntons’ Jack Robertson | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Re6qa3MBeT 
  • Law firms sustain pandemic profits rise – but WFH hurting productivity | Law Gazette https://t.co/THCftudbCq 
  • Talks between the BBC and Gary Lineker are said to be "moving in the right direction" after a second day of scheduling disruption. BBC News understands there are hopes of a resolution soon but not all issues are "fully resolved" at this stage https://t.co/hvxTBht1MU 
  • TLT appoints renewable energy development expert David Miller as Belfast partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/qAEHvN8kPv 
  • Fury in #Germany as Hamburg shooting brings ‘lax’ gun laws into focus - Gunman was given a firearms permit despite several psychological red flags https://t.co/uFpYHguiln 
  • Clan Childlaw promotes Katy Nisbet | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xdd7UoKcGg

Monday

13th March - Law News

Edition 4093: 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: Lawyers have lambasted both the government’s Illegal Migration Bill and the surrounding rhetoric about ‘lefty lawyers’. Full story New Law Journal

Today's Highlighted Video Story: The BBC's director general Tim Davie who has had strong Conservative party links and is a government favoured appointee said, it had been a "difficult day" for the corporation after a Match of the Day staff walk-out led to the programme going ahead with no commentary and without pundits. Presenters and commentators walked out in support of Gary Lineker, who was suspended from the show after taking to Twitter to criticise the UK government's extremist asylum policy.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Chancery Lane unveils 21st Century Justice project | Law Gazette https://t.co/nZsL2T7EcO 
  • Power under Section 319 CrPC to summon additional accused should be exercised only when strong evidence exists: Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/6FFjHHHFYO
  • Apprenticeship specialist creates new pathway for part-qualified aspiring solicitors - Legal Cheek https://t.co/L7RtiaTUwH
  • Czernuszka v King: A new precedent for rugby injury claims? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7Rm84KE6ld 
  • SQE added to routes for becoming a government lawyer | Law Gazette https://t.co/qMBLNQS8mu 
  • Bar course provider pass rates vary from 93% to just 22%, new report shows - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FaXWjIjiuR 
  • Number of right-wing extremist prisoners on the rise | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gqs5PgqhTi 
  • Government to meet tech firms following collapse of Silicon Valley Bank UK - Industry leaders expected to call for state intervention to avoid failure of hundreds of UK firms https://t.co/mv2TtBcqoT 
  • PI specialist Fletchers expands TC offering with Leeds office launch - Legal Cheek https://t.co/THjwWiUK6B
  • Pay dispute between government and judges rumbles on | Law Gazette https://t.co/33i8DoMOW3 
  • Delhi High Court allows Bharat Bachao collective's seminar on fascism | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/riJ83Igp0D 
  • 'I have my first pupillage interview. Any advice?' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/KIuPQwNPt1
  • Bar on transgender, gay persons from blood donation due to higher HIV, Hepatitis prevalence among them: Central government to Supreme Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/XqtbrBYbR7 
  • Afghan girls may be blocked from taking GCSEs as families moved from London - ‘Barbaric’ to take away exam chance after all teenage refugees have overcome, headteacher says https://t.co/vLdLB3Noxb 
  • Magistrates' sentencing powers scaled back | Law Gazette https://t.co/XzEZGSfTFS 
  • Over a third of lawyers missed out on pay boosts last year - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mvgyqH9ZT9 
  • One of the main leaders of the #US Capitol riots emigrated from Serbia soon after the 2020 election. The extremist and his wife continue to encourage political violence https://t.co/adYqlQrEeg 
  • Belfast solicitor Alphonsus Maginness has been appointed to the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) for a four-year term | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RFjdd4Iqa9 
  • ‘A training contract is like a marriage - you need to find the right one’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/1dn8pwprCG 
  • Revealed: child refugees will be detained or deported under small boats plan - Senior Tories condemn ‘sickening’ plans which would allow unaccompanied minors to be held, in U-turn on past legislation n https://t.co/1DO5EclD7m
  • Sexting solicitor says he didn't see power imbalance with 18-year-old | Law Gazette https://t.co/CDzRVRHHdA
  • Gender pay gap bot targets law firms (again!) - Legal Cheek https://t.co/TvdjmXv4px 
  • #French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to enshrine the right to abortion in the country’s constitution | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zruAUgKtLC
  • Email typo causes lawyer to have a complete nightmare on live TV - Legal Cheek https://t.co/B0uW0XGq9H 
  • Soophia Khan sentenced to 12 months in prison for contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/MkpKPPVkzl 
  • Equality law failures around Northern Ireland’s high street voucher scheme | Irish Legal News https://t.co/EOX0FeFfmh 
  • Lineker row threatens to topple BBC chiefs and hit Tory asylum plans - Broadcaster forced to slash TV coverage, while BBC's chair and director general face calls to resign over crisis https://t.co/n7XcC2N3XY 
  • A man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after a woman was stabbed outside a leisure centre in Cheltenham on Thursday night and was taken to hospital where she is now said to be in a stable condition https://t.co/7GIub3OTVW