Edition 3936: 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: Judgment has been given this morning by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the following case:
BTI 2014 LLC (Appellant) v Sequana SA and others (Respondents) - [2022] UKSC 25
On appeal from: [2019] EWCA Civ 112
Sequana’s subsidiary was liable to indemnify BAT for costs arising from the clean-up of a polluted river. The directors of the subsidiary resolved that it should pay a substantial dividend to Sequana, without – BAT says – leaving enough money in the subsidiary to pay for the clean-up costs.
Focus of the Day Article: The government has quietly revealed that it will embark on a major review
of civil legal aid – but the chief executive of a practitioner group
warns it could be too little, too late to prevent the sector shrinking
further. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- An advert- and tracker-free search engine launches in the UK, France and Germany on Thursday. Neeva has 600,000 users in the US, where it launched last year https://t.co/r6mSum02pu
- Scottish ministers have rejected calls to confirm whether King Charles III asked for changes to a Scottish rent freeze bill that could affect tenancies on his Highland estate https://t.co/r0xhMvjtA3
- Belsner-type claims ‘ridiculous’ and driven by costs chasers, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ly0cHg5eIA
- King Charles allowed to vet proposed Scottish rent freeze law https://t.co/UIlcVkzxXo
- Convicted ‘swindler and cheat’ denied return to solicitor profession | Law Gazette https://t.co/0dOFO4kVix
- Primark will reintroduce women-only fitting rooms after concerns were raised about combined changing spaces. It follows an incident in Cambridge where a woman claimed two men walked in on her in a changing room https://t.co/ho4Pr1Xt2f
- A primary school targeted by racist abuse online after a visit by the first minister will not quit social media, its head teacher has vowed. Police continue to investigate the comments directed at pupils of St Albert's in Pollokshields, Glasgow https://t.co/cJdPHtx4WS
- Big law firms failing to provide "modern digital experience" - Legal Futures https://t.co/GtBGtUNgbs
- The
Guardian view on digital dangers: after Molly Russell, MPs must act on
Instagram and Pinterest, who led the teenager down a self-destructive
path https://t.co/mTcL9po7Mk
- Civil legal aid review in the pipeline, agency reveals | Law Gazette https://t.co/5CUkD8N7Pj
- Ex-solicitor labelled “disgrace to profession” refused return to practice - Legal Futures https://t.co/mhjollHzpo
- Angelina Jolie alleges physical abuse by Brad Pitt in countersuit https://t.co/xoSFwhKf5C
- Braverman to renew attacks on ‘abuse’ of asylum rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/if12fDOyaI
- Compulsory mediation – an opportunity for small claims triage? - Legal Futures https://t.co/nMiCILpDut
- Jade
McCrossen-Nethercott's rape case was dropped by the Crown Prosecution
Service (CPS) because of claims she had an episode of a rare sleep
condition called "sexsomnia" https://t.co/ASX5OAF00n
- #Dutch
town falsely linked to satanic paedophiles loses Twitter court case -
Judge rules Twitter has ‘done enough’ to remove defamatory tweets about
Bodegraven Reeuwijk https://t.co/DCxCrSCSqv
- Pinsents faces negligence claim for fielding ‘too junior' staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/Zt0NyTezfK
- Shortage of solicitors a “real risk” to Northern Ireland - Legal Futures https://t.co/yJrePvO0M5
- Legal secretary barred for abuse of City firm’s air miles | Law Gazette https://t.co/0u5RTPF163
- Teen held in hospital for months due to lack of secure children’s home place - Case at family court highlights lack of facilities in England for very vulnerable youngsters https://t.co/WbrguEgf4g
- Police chiefs in England and Wales have pledged to send an officer to every single burgled home https://t.co/k8oO25McDN
- Magistrates' expenses system 'not fit for purpose' | Law Gazette https://t.co/PxjMzs0hdy
- Government to launch review of civil legal aid sustainability - Legal Futures https://t.co/4JGhy7wWvo
- Mother in Law: Older and wiser – but still learning on the job | Law Gazette https://t.co/KzyUhi4HqK
- Trump asks supreme court to reverse ruling on classified Mar-a-Lago files #US https://t.co/zjgJkkODqw
- Vardy to pay Rooney £800,000 now and cover 90% of her costs | Law Gazette https://t.co/7q2Qz59WlR
- Rees-Mogg seeking to evade scrutiny of new fracking projects, email shows: Note setting out business secretary’s views looks for ways to accelerate schemes, including streamlining HSE requirements https://t.co/NLJ44HCKIP
