Saturday

30th July - Law News

Edition 3868: 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: The number of people who have died due to consumption of spurious liquor in Gujarat, India, has crossed 50. Even though Gujarat is a dry state, liquor continues to be sold and purchased surreptitiously - if you have money then alcohol will be delivered at your doorstep.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Infected blood victims set for £400m in compensation https://t.co/ZkFN6vpN7X
  • "Trial by internet" - Judges turn to Wikipedia to aid reasoning - Legal Futures https://t.co/EY44O5qwc
  • Lady Gillian Kerr, the widow of Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, has passed away. Lord Kerr, a former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland who became one of the first justices of the UK Supreme Court, died in 2020 https://t.co/nBH7AZ901T
  • Rebekah Vardy has lost her High Court libel battle with Coleen Rooney in the so-called Wagatha Christie trial https://t.co/N3mAq4lgbA
  • SRA’s £6m undertaking could save indemnity fund | Law Gazette https://t.co/Qs6rpdOYop
  • Helen Dixon to chair expanded Data Protection Commission | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QmWu7mauNY
  • Why crypto really is a new kind of 'thing' | Law Gazette https://t.co/iJRl5DFRoA
  • LSB tells regulators to get moving with ongoing competence reform - Legal Futures https://t.co/vsYs1STWPX
  • Snipped in solidarity: the American men getting vasectomies after Roe – while they can #US https://t.co/Ont95Zg1E7
  • PILA welcomes Emily Cunningham as new legal officer | Irish Legal News https://t.co/mjMKJFxhx7 
  • Top-50 financial results table 2022: updated live | Law Gazette https://t.co/zWWUkMose
  • Frederick Barclay could face jail over failed payments to ex-wife https://t.co/RmcEC3OAnQ
  • Denovo Legal Case Management Software announced as Scottish Legal Awards Finalists | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OXq4d3szPa
  • PILA welcomes Emily Cunningham as new legal officer | Irish Legal News https://t.co/mjMKJFfG8x
  • Union's head of legal receives apology over picket line arrest - Legal Futures https://t.co/B8iGdghJlS
  • Spanish Gypsy groups call for protection after families flee racist mob: Killing of doorman in AndalucĂ­an town triggered rampage in which houses were burned and looted https://t.co/u8dlznfHb2
  • The rise of the legal resource manager – part 1 - Legal Futures https://t.co/1PdwHr0VXx 
  • Ultra conservative #US judge mocks world leaders over abortion ruling - Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the ruling, dismissed criticism from a host of prominent figures, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson https://t.co/pvB2PJsKnL
  • Cleaver Fulton Rankin grows dispute resolution team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/4gTPWEsL1I 
  • Ince halves in value as ‘financial difficulties’ revealed | Law Gazette https://t.co/XKBblaJAnA
  • Archie Battersbee’s parents fail in life support bid at supreme court https://t.co/haiQoEpQUG
  • SRA agrees to keep Solicitors Indemnity Fund alive with £6m undertaking - Legal Futures https://t.co/rM352lnr7C
  • ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial: verdict due in Vardy v Rooney libel case: Judge to release ruling in battle of footballers’ wives over Instagram leak allegation https://t.co/XiLfvpxgx9
  • A "very damaged man" has been jailed for killing his bedbound grandfather in a knife attack, in the first filmed sentencing in England and Wales. Ben Oliver, 25, stabbed his 74-year-old grandfather to death in Mottingham, south London, in January 2021 https://t.co/mBPWvaTDJY
  • Solemn sentencing is no circus as cameras enter English courts https://t.co/Qo3vRONOjX
  • Australian police are baffled after the bodies of two Saudi women, isters Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23 believed to have lain undiscovered for a month, were found in a Sydney apartment https://t.co/e4HmJyjknD