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24th July - Law News

Edition 3862: 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: Protesters in Tunisia say Monday's referendum on constitutional reforms is illegal. The proposed changes would sideline parliament and remove most checks on the president's power. Opposition groups say it's a return to autocracy. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Mother in law: Decision fatigue | Law Gazette https://t.co/D31jrj5IfG 
  • Genocide case against Myanmar over Rohingya atrocities cleared to proceed https://t.co/qu9O0gdIVN
  • DWF bounces back into profit as Bird & Bird posts higher revenues | Law Gazette https://t.co/mlDK3PvS9P
  • Legislating against lying would do more harm than good https://t.co/3a07NyU1i1
  • 'Insufficient lawyers' to cross-examine parties in domestic abuse cases | Law Gazette https://t.co/QQfEXkiFl3 
  • A Chinese man has been executed for murdering his ex-wife by setting her alight while she was livestreaming. The woman, known as Lamu, was a well-known social media personality https://t.co/IIuMG9o2n3
  • A housing group that did not realise one of its residents had been dead for two and a half years has apologised. Sheila Seleoane, 58, was found in her Peckham flat in February and had to be identified by dental records https://t.co/Taz00fCpGx 
  • It should be mandatory for medical expert reports to consider the role of ‘system failures’ as well as individual actions in an adverse patient outcome, the Medical Protection Society (MPS) has urged | NLJ https://t.co/PyaPMmsAFE
  • An independent review is expected to find that there is evidence of institutional racism in Scottish cricket. The investigation was commissioned by SportScotland last year and is due to be published on Monday https://t.co/w8pKDitE20
  • SFO loses appeal over ‘unfair’ sacking of Unaoil case controller | Law Gazette https://t.co/Dob9s4sR6c
  • The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) costs caps should increase, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) has recommended | NLJ https://t.co/QvT2By9QSw
  • Estate agents need “more respect” from conveyancers - Legal Futures https://t.co/juKbGJnBVc 
  • Justice data is already monetised | Law Gazette https://t.co/Tgbj0QYxAO
  • EU launches four more legal cases against UK over Northern Ireland protocol https://t.co/fPKmrWo4nJ
  • Law Commission examines robot planes | Law Gazette https://t.co/HzfYmwjqOQ
  • The extradition from #Serbia of a wanted man accused of one of the biggest burglaries in English legal history was refused. Daniel Vukovic is said to have led a series of burglaries on the luxury homes of three celebrities https://t.co/yGwDjUOZB7
  • Solicitors at incorporated firms should not give personal undertakings - Legal Futures https://t.co/k8jGl0UFos
  • Barristers who deliberately misgender someone on Twitter or send seriously offensive private messages on LinkedIn could potentially face disciplinary proceedings under revised social media guidance drawn | Law Gazette https://t.co/KBN81YXPFw
  • Google has fired one of its engineers who said the company's artificial intelligence system has feelings. Last month, Blake Lemoine went public with his theory that Google's language technology is sentient https://t.co/tXrnnhm80r
  • #Czechs demolish pig farm on Nazi concentration camp for Roma - Historians say 1,309 Roma citizens were interned at Lety in South Bohemia during the war https://t.co/xmrzxuVM9U
  • MoJ considers £5,000 costs cap to protect defendants against SLAPPs - Legal Futures https://t.co/DBRGAfeQ57
  • Barring media from hearing on Prince Philip’s will ‘did not harm public interest’, court hears https://t.co/XFeuFJY4dR
  • Prince Harry’s case against Home Office can proceed, high court judge rules https://t.co/TgQjhNl5N5
  • High Court: Developer’s claim of maintenance and champerty against planning objectors struck out as bound to fail | Irish Legal News https://t.co/R5M3WeP7Bs
  • Law firms and entrepreneurs have backed the launch of an online platform designed to facilitate group actions | NLJ https://t.co/hNSYxPVTOT
  • More NHS claims settling pre-issue but legal costs continue to rise - Legal Futures https://t.co/9DNxIxGIUi
  • Mullany Walsh Maxwells promotes Clodagh O’Hagan to partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/d5dCQzvs79