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31st July - Law News

Edition 3869: 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: Undocumented migrants are once again at the centre of a political tussle in Italy. The interior ministry says more than 39,000 asylum seekers have arrived by boat this year, 10,000 more than the same period in 2021. Far-right politicians have seized on the situation ahead of the snap polls in September. Could this issue influence the vote's outcome? 

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • SDT rejects restoration plea 21 years after strike off - Legal Futures https://t.co/yCTYgKBYa
  • Grubby and dated? Why ‘Wagatha Christie’ may be last libel case of its kind https://t.co/HEt5jou6TS
  • Scottish business sentiment still in the black despite growing pressures | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ow93MnS8n
  • Barrister compliance with transparency rules increases sharply - Legal Futures https://t.co/H0W3sGlsP
  • Fred Mackintosh QC calls to English bar | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Pbfd3MqwDn
  • Court of Appeal warns of "perverse incentives" from litigation funding - Legal Futures https://t.co/PGwayamDu8
  • New category of personal property proposed for crypto law | Law Gazette https://t.co/s5ywkADlcz 
  • Courts are to be given greater powers to dismiss strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs), which are brought to stifle free speech by intimidating campaigners and journalists | NLJ https://t.co/S1j4CkdiND
  • Solicitors face fresh competence checks | Law Gazette https://t.co/QhQPABrQHS
  • Rebekah Vardy loses ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case against Coleen Rooney https://t.co/2aDYWM6SmS
  • The Law Commission has unveiled draft reforms to the law on digital assets such as crypto-tokens and cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) | NLJ https://t.co/FWQShSftO1
  • Withers and Freeths latest to award ‘cost of living’ payments | Law Gazette https://t.co/CLUFesqXWm
  • Carbon Law Partners’ employment law specialist, Matthew Huggett (pictured) has taken over as the 59th President of CILEX (the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives), succeeding Caroline Jepson | NLJ https://t.co/w0YmCUkfqg
  • Supreme Court judge says online courts will come to Ireland faster than many believe | Irish Legal News https://t.co/qzOWtXJfi7
  • Blood scandal victims need quick payouts - lawyer https://t.co/160OZ5JgaK
  • Wikipedia articles influencing decision-making of Irish judges | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hz7oPnal8I 
  • Wayne Couzens loses appeal against whole-life sentence https://t.co/2gOpHTY2mD 
  • One of the most talked about celebrity disputes has now come to an end. Rebekah Vardy has lost her defamation case against Coleen Rooney - the so-called Wagatha Christie libel trial https://t.co/Mc21E2JVbS 
  • A judge has found the Tory ruled council that owned Grenfell Tower is liable for the deaths of five residents who died in the fire. The judgement came in the High Court on Thursday https://t.co/1JPOpaTOuP 
  • The formidable legal Twitterati has come under the watchful eye of regulators concerned about the reputation of the profession | NLJ https://t.co/XlKg5DMl7a
  • Lord Trimble obituaries | Irish Legal News https://t.co/5MmXLvGNyk Lord Trimble obituaries | Irish Legal News https://t.co/5MmXLvGNyk 
  • A nine-year-old girl who died after being stabbed in a Lincolnshire street has been named by police. Lilia Valutyte was found on Fountain Lane in Boston on Thursday https://t.co/TDEL5VBetE 
  • Old Bailey sentencing remarks broadcast on TV for the first time | Law Gazette https://t.co/gtxXNudf8w