Edition 4041: 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 Law News/Article: A police station representative who answered more than a dozen calls from a prisoner’s unauthorised mobile phone has been barred from the profession. Suzanne Hughes, an employee of Birmingham firm Harringtons Legal LLP, had attended a client’s police station in June 2019 after his arrest. The client, who had requested that the firm represent him, was then remanded in prison until October 2019. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Australia's RACGP is calling for tighter regulations on vaping and has offered ‘cautious support’ for establishing product registration, in line with other medicines.
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