Edition 3439: 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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Today's Highlighted Video Story:
Australian writer Yang Hengjun says his health is deteriorating and has accused China of "taking revenge" against him in a defiant message released the day before his long-awaited trial in Beijing.
Focus of the Day Article:
A serial litigant in person has lost his latest claim in the High Court with a judge concluding he had ‘played the system’. In Nicholson v Hardy deputy ICC Judge Barnett ruled that there were no grounds for Mark Hardy’s claim for compensation against a liquidator handling the affairs of a company where he was a creditor. The judgment stated that Hardy owed a six-figure sum in adverse costs orders for other cases but had paid nothing towards them. Full
story - The Law Society Gazette |
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