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24th April - Law News

Edition 3771: 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: Israeli raids in the north of the occupied West Bank have intensified in recent weeks, after two gunmen from Jenin killed eight Israelis in separate attacks. Hundreds of fighters live in the Jenin refugee camp, which has become a stronghold for resistance against the Israeli occupation.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • ‘The courtroom is not fit for purpose’: the hard truths behind sexual assault drama Prima Facie https://t.co/KCfD2dOudc
  • Exchange Chambers helping to shape new national strategy on ABI – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/91l0J9eYNy 
  • In Focus: Law firm profits leapt 40% in the pandemic - annual benchmarking survey | Law Gazette https://t.co/QI1w0Zi7TJ 
  • Legislation to ban combustible cladding introduced | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/v83lerxsjy
  • Two men and a woman have been stabbed and at least 10 other people injured in a town centre. Officers were called at about 08:00 BST to reports of people being assaulted in Bedworth, Warwickshire, on Coventry Road and Gilbert Close https://t.co/c2mhx0nhxO 
  • Analysis of the whole life order imposed upon Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/u9fKGYaEAd 
  • Law enforcement agencies probing suspected financial crimes have the right to additional time when necessary to properly investigate, a Scottish court has ruled | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Yka3FXftA5
  • Bundles guidance 'highlights litigant-in-person struggles' | Law Gazette https://t.co/4gMqmlhmgC 
  • What does the future hold for criminal lawyers? – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/ESwIgAzrhX 
  • Ireland to make five-year multi-entry visas more widely available | Irish Legal News https://t.co/TDpaghZULB 
  • LAA declines to disclose back-up advocacy numbers for 'no returns' | Law Gazette https://t.co/u46hB9FLtg 
  • The International Law Framework – Establishing Violence Against Women and Girls as a Human Rights Abuse – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/zAscrIn1IH 
  • ‘Silence guarantees nothing will change’: film-makers challenge the anti-abortion movement https://t.co/WpyTKOPeXq
  • Admin hearings outside London in person from next week | Law Gazette https://t.co/eElCtJGNoU 
  • A Russian oligarch's charity, which donated to a private hospital used by the Queen and the Royal Family, has had its bank accounts frozen. The Charity Commission has launched an inquiry into charities connected to Viateschlav Kantor https://t.co/7D5apMkTTm
  • A woman has told how she has to live in a home with bare floors due to a policy which demands social housing tenants rip up carpets and floorboards when they move out https://t.co/1FRjlp381P 
  • Criminal Legal Aid: Review calls for new measures to secure sustainability of criminal defence sector – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/JNGMPvOEYQ 
  • Essay competition in memory of Lord Kerr invites submissions | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kdIGDR75GH
  • Five-year-old Fazlur Rahman has a stage four tumour in his neck and Afghan doctors are battling to prolong his young life with chemotherapy. He lies in an overcrowded and under-resourced cancer ward in Kabul's Jamhuriat hospital #Afghanistan https://t.co/n88Rx6KKnq 
  • A pill to help treat an overactive bladder - which affects millions of women - could soon be available to buy in the UK without prescription. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) wants women and doctors to submit their views https://t.co/4lLvWVzgL8
  • A year since wrongful convictions of subpostmasters were first overturned, most say they are no closer to agreeing a financial compensation settlement. They were wrongly accused of theft and false accounting by the Post Office due to faulty software https://t.co/UwTswome2S
  • Legal Platforms: An opportunity for the Bar – The Barrister Magazine https://t.co/yEgARV0ek5 
  • Priti Patel accused of misleading parliament over refugee pushbacks: Court ruling reveals unpublished parts of policy saying tactic would not be used against asylum seekers https://t.co/CXG9VPWhQV 
  • Gang member who helped arrange murder of Dutch journalist jailed for life | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0mhMO41Ba3
  • Upbeat Irwin Mitchell announces expansion | Law Gazette https://t.co/Gtqwc4Bb8t
  • #SouthKorea’s highest court overturns military convictions of two gay soldiers https://t.co/xyx8KwAxYY 
  • Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a controversial bill dissolving Walt Disney World's self-governing status in the state. The move is seen as retribution for Disney's opposition to the state's so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill #US https://t.co/tEKy03RO4O 
  • UK to require judicial authorisation before interception of journalists’ material | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0z3eKemFYP
  • Court of Appeal rules in favour of journalist who had phone seized by gardaĆ­ in 2018 #Ireland https://t.co/u8s1Sb4iZT
  • UK reportedly drafting bill to unilaterally scrap Northern Ireland Protocol | Irish Legal News https://t.co/TkiDipSO1G 
  • Johnson leadership doubts resurface amid report of fresh Partygate fine at event he attended https://t.co/qtWVhxeq4x