Edition 4010: 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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Focus of the Day Legal Article: Law firms performed strongly in the 2022 Social Mobility Employer Index, occupying more than one third of top 75 positions—including the number one spot. Full story - New Law Journal
Today's Highlighted Video Story: UKSC 2020/0202
This appeal concerns the meaning of a condition that was attached to
the grant of planning permission for a development site in the outskirts
of Swindon. The proposed development included two roads, a "North-South
access road" which ran southward from a new junction with the A420 and
continued to the southern boundary of the site, and an "East-West spine
road" which ran to the eastern boundary of the site from a roundabout on
the North-South access road. Swindon Borough Council’s planning
committee granted outline planning permission for the site subject to a
number of condition:
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
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- About 1,200 members of the military are to cover for striking ambulance drivers and Border Force staff over Christmas, the government has confirmed https://t.co/PjRS8qZqNo
