Edition 3797: 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: They are young men, teenagers or barely into their twenties, already serving years in prison for serious violent offences, including murder.
But the new governor of HMP Swinfen Hall in Staffordshire is determined they can still change, that the violence which has dominated their lives can end before they go back out into the world. Exclusive access was given to the filmmakers the prison to see its new rehabilitation programme in action and they were able to meet the prisoners trying to face up to the reality of their crimes and a mother, bereaved by knife violence, who's helping them do it
Focus of the Day Article: A law firm owner has been fined by the Solicitors Regulation Authority after repeatedly failing to pay fees owed to a barrister. Ahmed Mohammed Hersi, sole principal of north west London firm Hersi
& Co, did not pay an invoice of £29,000 issued to him for counsel
fees back in 2017, an SRA decision notice states. He then failed to
abide by a county court order made in 2018 to pay these fees, which with
interest had increased to £40,000. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
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