Edition 3875: 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: Fears of a full-scale conflict between Israel and Palestinian armed groups are growing after a wave of Israeli air strikes on Gaza. At least 11 people have been killed, including an Islamic Jihad commander. Palestinian fighters have launched a barrage of rockets towards Israel, but Hamas has stayed on the side lines so far
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Costs in lower-value clin neg cases ‘far exceed damages’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/e8ckUuHQGG
- A project to turn Arbroath courthouse into a £2 million community hub has passed another milestone | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iND9JR2l70
- A booming jobs market has sent City salaries soaring, recruiters report | NLJ https://t.co/0JFLFs0vHR
- SLN Interview: Murray Etherington on the fight ahead | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0V1dgUN98R
- Client money theft – how bad is the problem? - Legal Futures https://t.co/wCpEU2VQHQ
- Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck to review claims they stole incarcerated man’s poem https://t.co/RkAS6eMc2e
- A competition and patent trial between two disputing toymakers has been postponed until October 2024 after the defendants told the court three weeks before that they’d missed about 84,000 documents during disclosure | NLJ https://t.co/Ea07kiVCzb
- Six people have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man at a holiday park. Emergency services were called to the Parkdean Resort, in Camber Sands, East Sussex https://t.co/cSHWk8IyoZ
- Ex-BBC DJ Alex Belfield found guilty of stalking Jeremy Vine and three others https://t.co/gO0smPS8sD
- CMA orders break-up of property search giant - Legal Futures https://t.co/NKkyJGguc2
- Legal history was made at the Old Bailey in the case of Ben Oliver, where the judge’s sentencing remarks were filmed for TV for the first time | NLJ https://t.co/F9mYe5WCQf
- The general scheme of legislation which will ban anti-abortion protests from taking place within 100 metres of healthcare providers has been published | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zP51uFyyvD
- Paraplegic shooting suspect can avoid trial and end his life, Spanish court says #Spain https://t.co/RzqLMa3T35
- Cyclists
who kill pedestrians could face tougher sentences under a planned new
law for England, Scotland and Wales. The move proposed by Transport
Secretary Grant Shapps will close a loophole which means they can only
currently be jailed for two years https://t.co/lhaetEYaRP
- Simpson Millar exits most of private client in profitability push - Legal Futures https://t.co/panapc9W0E
- A woman, 20, has become the third member of a British family to die from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in #Bangladesh. Samira Islam, from Cardiff, died at about 08:30 BST on Friday, after being found unconscious on 26 July https://t.co/fZHjjMWi8v
- #US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $49.3m (£41m) in damages after falsely claiming a 2012 school shooting was a hoax. A jury ruled the radio host must pay $45.2m in punitive damages, in addition to $4.1m in compensatory damages https://t.co/JkRlXZGXRK
- Archie Battersbee's family devastated as legal routes exhausted - he has not regained consciousness since being found at his home in Southend, Essex, in April https://t.co/9hBxS5Tfg5
- The 2022 edition of the Chancery Guide is now in force and available to view | NLJ https://t.co/HVzmjKLdnw
- Criminal appeals review: Raab’s only legacy? | Law Gazette https://t.co/pNjkY0dPWw
- New conveyancing ABS using chatbot to cut transaction times - Legal Futures https://t.co/nDcN8c7hN5
- The
Bar Council has accused the Legal Services Board (LSB) of
‘overstepping’ and branded its competence statement ‘a solution in
search of a problem’ | NLJ https://t.co/tLFcvmgGLw
- Soophia Khan struck off by SDT for dishonesty | Law Gazette https://t.co/O8JKsxJVDW
- MPs' watchdog takes on barristers too as new BSB chair - Legal Futures https://t.co/0zs1e40Zey
- Criminal
defence specialist Richard Atkinson has won the Law Society of England
and Wales 2022 election for deputy vice president of the solicitor
profession | Law Gazette https://t.co/KG1xlT3WLd
- Some 32 law firms including Magic Circle firm Linklaters have signed up to a major new diversity data collection exercise | NLJ https://t.co/wnUbS81Ls7
