Lawyer news

• The TTIP trade deal will throw equality before the law on the corporate bonfire | George Monbiot

  13-01-2015 21:46
  
  The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a reckless destruction of democratic principles. But we can beat itIf a government proposes to abandon one of the fundamental principles of justice, there had better be a powerful reason. Equality before the law is not ditched lightly. Surely? Well, read this and judge for yourself. The UK government, like that of the US and 13 other EU members, wants to set up a separate judicial system, exclusively for the use of corporations. While the res
  
  Read more

• Grayling secures MPs' backing for JR reforms

  13-01-2015 21:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Late concessions win vote despite opposition from leading Conservative lawyers.
  
  Read more

• MI6 forced to show how it may snoop on privileged lawyer-client exchanges - The Guardian

  13-01-2015 20:57
  
  The Guardian
  MI6 forced to show how it may snoop on privileged lawyer-client exchanges
  The Guardian
  Exchanges between lawyers and their clients enjoy a special protected status under UK law. Following exposure of widespread monitoring by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013, Belhaj's lawyers feared that their exchanges with their clients could ...
  
  Read more

• MI6 forced to show how it may snoop on privileged lawyer-client exchanges

  13-01-2015 20:57
  
  Documents passed to civil liberties group Reprieve reveal intelligence agency’s attempt to show it stays within the lawMI6 has been forced to reveal documents detailing how it may access legally privileged communications between solicitors and their clients, even if the lawyers are suing the government.Policy guidance handed over to the civil liberties organisation Reprieve shows how the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) is attempting to regulate its mass surveillance practices and demonstrate
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Chicago police officer on trial in fatal beanbag gun shooting of veteran, 95

  13-01-2015 20:36
  
  Accused of felony recklessness in subduing a combative veteran in 2013
  Several uniformed officers at courthouse to show support for lawman’s actionsOpening statements began on Tuesday in the trial of a suburban Chicago police officer accused of acting recklessly by fatally shooting a 95-year-old second world war veteran with a beanbag gun at close range in an effort to subdue him.Several uniformed officers turned up at the courthouse in south suburban Markham to show their support for Park For
  
  Read more

• Police can keep us safe without spying on journalists’ sources

  13-01-2015 20:15
  
  Press freedom campaigners, doctors and lawyers are united against draft code on police use of Ripa; the government needs to listenAs the world mourns the attack on press freedom in Paris, it beggars belief that our political leaders should be planning to curb journalists’ ability to protect their sources. And yet, in just seven days, consultation will end on proposals that will allow the police to spy on journalists’ phone records without proper oversight, removing at a swipe historic privil
  
  Read more

• Jews and Muslims for justice and human rights | Letters: Joseph Pearlman, Yiftah Curiel and Nasima Begum

  13-01-2015 20:06
  
  Deborah Maccoby (Letters, 13 January) writes that the Board of Deputies of British Jews contributes to the rise in attacks on Jews because it claims “that the majority of Jews support Israel’s policies”. This is completely opposite to a report written by the Board, quoted on 8 May 2014 in the Jewish News, which notes “that communal surveys have pointed to overwhelming support for the two state solution and opposition to settlement construction”. Not to mention that the president of the
  
  Read more

• Prosecutor says arrest of nine-year-old accused of stealing gum was 'mistake'

  13-01-2015 19:48
  
  Boy was taken to a juvenile detention center and held for three days
  Warrant was authorized after the child twice failed to show up in court
  An Idaho prosecutor said he made a mistake in requesting an arrest warrant for a 9-year-old boy who was held in custody for three days after being accused of stealing a pack of gum.Kootenai County prosecutor Barry McHugh said Monday that his office should have instead sought a child protection investigation that would have led to a more informed decision. C
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Naked weddings? Ministers moot marriage law reform, including nudist ... - RT

  13-01-2015 19:11
  
  RT
  Naked weddings? Ministers moot marriage law reform, including nudist ...
  RT
  A paper published on Monday by Christ Grayling, the justice secretary, revealed that among the groups to have shown an interest in an expanded set of marital laws is British Naturism, which represents the interests of Brits with a penchant for nudity.
  
  en meer »
  
  Read more

• Litigation funder triples investments in 2014

  13-01-2015 17:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Burford also announces the acquisition of London-based judgment enforcement firm Focus Intelligence Ltd.
  
  Read more

• Litigation funder triples investments

  13-01-2015 17:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Burford also announces the acquisition of London-based judgment enforcement firm Focus Intelligence.
  
  Read more

• Nigel Farage And Fox News' Sean Hannity Agree 'Sharia Law' Has Come To ... - Huffington Post UK

  13-01-2015 17:16
  
  International Business Times UK
  Nigel Farage And Fox News' Sean Hannity Agree 'Sharia Law' Has Come To ...
  Huffington Post UK
  After so-called expert Steve Emerson told Fox News that Birmingham was "totally Muslim", the broadcaster decided to calm the resulting storm by inviting on Nigel Farage to set the record straight on how "Sharia law" was being applied in UK "ghettos.".
  Nigel Farage tells Fox News there are no-go zones for non-Muslims in FranceThe
  
  Read more

• New York lawyer with a heroin habit, Jesse Smith, 'bludgeoned to death after ... - Daily Mail

  13-01-2015 16:44
  
  Daily Mail
  New York lawyer with a heroin habit, Jesse Smith, 'bludgeoned to death after ...
  Daily Mail
  A New York lawyer was beaten to death with a hammer on Monday over what police say was a fight about drugs. Jesse Smith, 29, was found badly bludgeoned inside his Queens apartment on 21st St. near Astoria Blvd. about 3.30pm after police were called ...
  
  en meer »
  
  Read more

• Liam Gallagher's lawyer states Oasis rocker has 'always accepted' US love child - Express.co.uk

  13-01-2015 16:24
  
  Express.co.uk
  Liam Gallagher's lawyer states Oasis rocker has 'always accepted' US love child
  Express.co.uk
  The New York Post have reported the British star was signed off by doctor for being 'anxious and depressed'. Liam's lawyer Raoul Felder told MailOnline: "We believed that the case was resolved on an extremely generous basis to the lady until we got to ...
  Liam Gallagher fined $5k for missing child support hearing in New YorkManchester Evening News
  Liam Gallagh
  
  Read more

• Afghan interpreters win right to challenge UK resettlement restrictions

  13-01-2015 15:53
  
  Government must answer claims it failed to comply with equality law before offering programme to injured men, says appeal courtAfghan interpreters who were injured while working with British forces have won the right to argue before the high court a decision to restrict the numbers coming to Britain was discriminatory and unlawful.An appeal court ruled on Tuesday that the government must respond to claims it failed to consider equality issues before offering Afghan interpreters a resettlement sc
  
  Read more

• Plans to restrict judicial review face further concessions

  13-01-2015 15:00
  
  Justice secretary backs down to avoid third Lords defeat over bill which would make it harder to challenge government decisionsThe justice secretary has been forced to back down over plans to restrict judicial review in order to avoid a third successive defeat in the House of Lords.Chris Grayling has tabled three significant concessions to the criminal justice and courts bill, allowing judges to use their discretion in deciding whether challenges to government decisions can go ahead if they are
  
  Read more

• Let’s up the ante on disability hate crime | Peter Lewis

  13-01-2015 15:00
  
  The Crown Prosecution Service has a new disability hate crime action plan to ensure we correctly identify and deal with these toxic crimes that can be easily missedWe are lucky to live in a safe, just and tolerant country and the public rely on prosecutors, law enforcement and the criminal justice system to help keep it that way. That is a fundamental element of our role, and never more so than when we’re tackling hate crime.Hate crimes are toxic. They ruin lives, create fear and undermine peo
  
  Read more

• Partnership creates ‘law degree with apprenticeship’

  13-01-2015 13:36 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The four-year ‘law in practice’ degree combines three years of legal education with a year-long placement at Reed Smith.
  
  Read more

• Lord’s Resistance Army commander to be tried by ICC in The Hague

  13-01-2015 13:28
  
  Dominic Ongwen, who surrendered last week in the Central African Republic, is wanted for crimes against humanityA senior Lord’s Resistance Army commander who surrendered last week to the US military in the Central African Republic will be handed over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for trial, a Ugandan army spokesman said on Tuesday.The LRA first rose up against Uganda in the late 1980s, gaining a reputation for massacres and mutilating victims. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Gemma O'Doherty wins another apology from Irish Independent

  13-01-2015 13:26
  
  Her defamation action against INM and Stephen Rae is settledGemma O’Doherty, a journalist who sued the Irish Independent for defamation after being fired by the paper and labelled “a rogue reporter”, has won a grovelling apology and damages from the publishers and the paper’s editor-in-chief.Although the final terms of the settlement were not revealed at Dublin’s high court today, the apology to her by Independent News & Media (INM) and its editor-in-chief, Stephen Rae, was read ou
  
  Read more

• Archbishop criticises proposed changes to Northern Ireland's abortion law - Catholic Herald Online

  13-01-2015 13:04
  Catholic Herald Online
  Archbishop criticises proposed changes to Northern Ireland's abortion law
  Catholic Herald Online
  Archbishop Eamon Martin, primate of All-Ireland, has criticised proposed changes to Northern Ireland's abortion law. A paper published by Northern Ireland's Department of Justice has suggested changes which would allow abortions in the case of lethal ...
  
  en meer »
  
  Read more

• Feltham young offenders’ home ‘rife with gang violence’

  13-01-2015 10:23
  
  Report by prison inspectors finds scores of street affiliations means officers are constantly trying to keep violent boys apartInmates at a jail for teenagers represent 48 different gangs, inspectors have discovered, fuelling a “constant juggling” by prison officers to keep the boys apart.There were high levels of “unpredictable and reckless” violence among the 240 boys, aged 15 – 18, at Feltham young offenders’ institution, a significant amount of which was gang-related, Her Majesty
  
  Read more

• Northern Ireland ban on recognising gay marriage faces legal challenge - The Guardian

  13-01-2015 07:30
  
  The Guardian
  Northern Ireland ban on recognising gay marriage faces legal challenge
  The Guardian
  Once a couple is lawfully married in the UK, we contend that their relationship cannot be reclassified as a civil partnership without their consent, which is exactly what the law currently does. The legislation says to lawfully married people that they ...
  Gay couple in legal bid to have marriage declared lawful in NIIrish Times
  Northern Ireland's Ban On Same-Sex Marriage Challenged In CourtBuzz
  
  Read more

• Northern Ireland ban on recognising gay marriage faces legal challenge

  13-01-2015 07:30
  
  Gay couple who were married in England but live in region are seeking equal status for their marriage
  A ban on recognising gay marriage in law in Northern Ireland is to be challenged in Belfast high court later this week.A gay couple who were married in England but now live in the region are taking legal action on Thursday morning aimed at getting equal status for their marriage. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• David Cameron pledges anti-terror law for internet after Paris attacks - The Guardian

  13-01-2015 07:13
  
  The Guardian
  David Cameron pledges anti-terror law for internet after Paris attacks
  The Guardian
  Anderson told Radio 4 that the emergency legislation addressed some of the elements in the so-called snooper's charter because it allowed some data powers to extend beyond the UK. He added that the counter-terrorism and security bill, which is about to ...
  David Cameron pledges to extend UK data surveillance law following Paris ...International Business Times UK
  After Paris: Cameron meets t
  
  Read more

• Clegg condemns 'snooping law' plan - Belfast Telegraph

  13-01-2015 03:58
  
  Belfast Telegraph
  Clegg condemns 'snooping law' plan
  Belfast Telegraph
  It is Belfast Telegraph policy to close comments on court cases, tribunals and active legal investigations. We may also close comments on articles which are being targeted for abuse. Problems with commenting? [email protected].
  
  en meer »
  
  Read more

• Ten Democratic senators vote with Republicans for Keystone XL pipeline

  13-01-2015 01:46
  
  Motion passed by 63 votes to 32 as Obama administration continues to oppose bill because of climate change issuesTen Democratic senators have voted with Republicans to allow the progress of a bill to extend the Keystone oil pipeline, placing more political pressure on the White House to reconsider its proposed veto of the legislation.The procedural motion was passed by 63 votes to 32, comfortably clearing the three-fifths majority needed to avoid a filibuster and falling just short of the two-th
  
  Read more

• Switching tack, prosecutors seek to ban James Risen from testifying in CIA trial

  13-01-2015 00:48
  
  Prosecutors had tried to force New York Times journalist to reveal if Jeffrey Sterling, whose trials starts on Tuesday, passed on secrets about Iran operation After pushing for years to get testimony from a recalcitrant New York Times reporter in a CIA leak case, prosecutors launched an unsuccessful last-minute attempt on Monday to bar journalist James Risen from testifying at all.Federal prosecutors filed a motion on Monday saying that neither prosecutors nor the defense should be permitted to
  
  Read more

Follow @Lawyer_UKnws on Twitter!