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Issue #2: 8th February 2009
CHARON PODCASTS
Podcast 96: Alexander Learmonth, Chairman, Young Barristers Committee of The Bar Council Podcast 95:Law Girl's quest for pupillage and a career at The Bar Podcast 94: US lawyer Victoria Pynchon on ADR, mediation and settlement in the USA CHARON After a glass collages ***
RSS FEEDS FOR LAW NEWS, BLOGS, LAW REPORTS
A new Netvibes page has been designed to give a snapshot of RSS feeds from all the major broadsheets, leading UK law blogs, law reports and the latest books from Wildy's Bookshop. RSS Pageflake pages are also available for: US Blogs | Canadian Blogs and blogs from Australia, Canada, Ireland and Scotland John Bolch, Family Lore has produced a Netvibes RSS feed page of all the leading Family Law blogs
*** LAW NEWS The Insite Law blog acts as archive for everything posted during each day to Insite Law magazine and full news coverage is available there. In the newswire I draw out the most important legal news stories 1. News from the Profession Legal Week Survey: Law Students - win an iPhone?
Times: Madoff's clients at heart of UK establishment.
Legal Week: India has emerged as the most important emerging market referral country for UK law firms
Clifford Chance set to cut partners in latest ‘magic circle’ shake-up | Times:
(a) News from the Law Society (b) News from The Bar Council CBA and Bar Council responds to Criminal Consultations
Bar Council Welcomes Publication of Legal Services Board's Business Plan (c) The Ministry of Justice Jack Straw has outlined his views on some of the challenges facing the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) over the months and years to come. Inquests into the deaths of service personnel on operations and exercises overseas
*** POLITICO-LEGAL AND CREDIT CRUNCH NEWS Bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland bankers set for millions in bonuses | Times Business:
Madoff victims could reach 3m, say lawyers | Times:
UK 200 Total Redundancies: 2747 | The Lawyer Darling revives option of ‘bad bank’ | Financial Times: Lord Foulkes of Cumnock paid £36,000 to introduce Eversheds’ clients | Times:
*** GENERAL LEGAL NEWS BSB issues warning after student advertises to secure pupillage | Legal Week:
Labour MP first to be sued for "Laziness" | Telegraph:
Evidence of torture ‘buried by ministers’ | Guardian:
Smith faces questions on MI5 torture collusion | Times: MS sufferer Debbie Purdy seeks clarity on husband’s role in suicide | Times: Home Secretary renews control orders legislation - Home Office | Home Office:
Judges: Don’t know the law? It’s understandable | OUT-LAW OPINION:
Forcing out judges at 70 ‘threatens supreme court’ | Times: Lords: rise of CCTV is threat to freedom *** LAW REPORTS FROM ICLR Monday 2nd February
No case summaries reported Tuesday 3rd February No case summaries reported Wednesday 4th February Holmes-Moorhouse v London Borough of Richmond upon Thames [2009] UKHL 7; [2009] WLR (D) 31 HL(E) LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Homeless persons — Priority need — Family court making shared residence order in respect of three children ZT (Kosovo) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] UKHL 6; [2009] WLR (D) 32 HL(E) IMMIGRATION — Asylum — Certification of claim — Refusal of claim as “clearly unfounded” Ratcliffe v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWCA Civ 39; [2009] WLR (D) 33 CA Civ MILITARY LAW — Pension — Marital status — Unmarried surviving female partner of deceased naval officer ostensibly excluded from War Pensions Scheme Thursday 5th February Yearworth and others v North Bristol NHS Trust [2009] EWCA Civ 37; [2009] WLR (D) 34 CA Civ  NEGLIGENCE — Damage to bailed chattel — Semen sample — Patient advised to provide semen sample for storage in hospital facility prior to chemotherapy treatmentTabernacle v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWCA Civ 23; [2009] WLR (D) 35 CA Civ HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to freedom of expression — Interference with — Protest group camping in protected area of Atomic Weapons Establishment for several years R (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (4) [2009] EWHC 152 (Admin); [2009] WLR (D) 36 CA Civ PRACTICE — Judgment — Redaction on grounds of national security — Former UK resident detained by United States at Guantanamo Bay detention facility Friday 6th February Diggins v Condor Marine Crewing Services Ltd; [2009] WLR (D) 37 EAT Employment — Unfair dismissal — Excluded classes — Mariner employed on ship registered abroad Haringey London Borough Council v Department of Children, Schools and Families and another; [2009] WLR (D) 38 CA Civ ADOPTION — Arrangements for adoption — Placement order — Local authority having care of child *** FROM THE BLAWGS... The Insite Law Blog archive has all the blog posts featured in the previous week. Here are a few noteworthy blog posts... (a) United Kingdom The Fat Bigot Opines: Don't take this, it will do you good Capitalists@Work: Treasury Select Committee; Financial Media Circus Charon QC: British Government diagnosed with PAS - Political Asperger Syndrome… Geeklawyer: Courtroom howlers Head of legal Blog: The Mohamed case and the American threats Lords of the Blog from The House of Lords: “Never underestimate the wisdom of the Lords” Binary Law: The declining value of (legal) news Charon QC: Postcard from London (1) | Postcard from London (2) The Lords saga continues… Tipping the Scales in 2009: Journalism and the Judiciary By NATASHA PHILLIPS Author of the Divorce Manual blog | Read article University of York: Empirical research in the undergraduate law curriculum
The Lawyer: Legal profession’s elitism gap gets wider (b) United States and Canada InfamyorPraise: TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (205)
Likelihood of Confusion: Don't be evil, much Adam Smith Esq: Are profits the new growth? Law21.ca: The crossed purposes of legal education
(c) Australia, Scotland, Ireland and other jurisdictions
Australian Gay and Lesbian blog: World's first lesbian PM 101 Reasons to Kill All the Lawyers: #50 They have no Pity Digital Rights Ireland: Three unproven accusations and you’re out - why the Eircom / IRMA deal is bad for internet users
*** SPECIALIST FREE NEWSWIRES While the Insite Law newswire is general in coverage - there are some excellent specialist newswires available free: Family Lore Focus Newsletter | Law Brief Update | Personal Injury | Daniel Barnett's Employment Law Update
I'd be grateful for feedback - particularly in terms of what you would like to see covered in the newswire. If the newswire is not to your taste you can unsubscribe at any time. If you have enjoyed the newswire would you be kind enough to forward it to colleagues/friends and suggest they sign up? Sign-up form for The Insite Law Newswire Mike SP mikesplaw@mac.com
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