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20th September - Law News

1730th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: The hacker group 'Fancy Bears' has leaked its fourth batch of World Anti-Doping Agency drug test results – for some of the world’s top sports stars. The WADA medical data names a number of athletes who were permitted to take banned substances.


Focus of the Day story: Fears that the rewritten SRA Handbook might not continue the ban on law firms cold-calling potential personal injury clients have been allayed by the regulator. The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers spoke out last week after the new draft of the Handbook, published as part of its consultation on a major rewrite of the rules, the current rule which bans solicitors from cold-calling members of the public was omitted. However, a spokesman from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) said: “We have no intention of lifting the ban for solicitors working in personal injury and will make that clear in the final codes.” Full story - Legal Futures



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