27th October - Law News

Edition 5053: 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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A selection of important developments in the world of law and justice (for a comprehensive look at the news and events, please visit @theLawMap Twitter/X feed):

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Government plotting 'tax raid' on wealthy law firm partners - Legal Cheek
• Top commercial lawyers to debate merits of cost shifting - The Global Legal Post
• AI beats lawyers at legal research, study finds  - Legal Cheek
• Two suspects have been arrested over the theft of precious crown jewels from Paris's Louvre museum, #French media say. The Paris prosecutor's office said one of the men had been taken into custody as he was preparing to take a flight
• London litigation market defies volatility as partner moves surge - The Global Legal Post
• Sanitary pads in Pakistan carry up to 40 percent taxes. In a poor country, that amounts to punishing women, say critics – simply for being women. Mahnoor Omer is trying to get the government to scrap that ‘period tax’
• Health Secretary Wes Streeting has criticised Reform MP Sarah Pochin for "racist" language after she complained about adverts being "full of black people, full of Asian people"