23rd March - Law News

Edition 4104: 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: An “inflationary” 9.6% increase in the Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO) budget for 2023-24, to £16.8m, has been approved by the Legal Services Board (LSB). Full story Legal Futures

 

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Saturday Conversations on Law

• A man held after a pensioner was set alight as he left a Birmingham mosque has been arrested over a similar attack in west London last month https://t.co/OkRGJGrGhJ 
• LSB kicks reserved activities review into long grass | Law Gazette https://t.co/chj0xxheB
• MPs back Rishi Sunak's new Brexit Northern Ireland deal https://t.co/M557HZ4tYi 
• Arrest warrant for Putin only exposes the cowardice of the ICC https://t.co/ZQ7uWj6qn2
• SFO's largest forfeiture as court seizes more than $7 million | Law Gazette https://t.co/bTjf6Fbsv7
• Culture Club will pay former drummer Jon Moss £1.75m to end a legal battle after he claimed they "expelled" him. Mr Moss had been due to take his ex-bandmates to court in a dispute over the group's earnings next week https://t.co/xDCqImrnCh 
• Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan will remain in custody in #Romania for a fourth consecutive month, a court has ruled, and are being investigated on allegations of rape, people trafficking and forming an organised crime group https://t.co/zUBjIki4LJ 
• Nicola Sturgeon has issued a "sincere, heartfelt and unreserved" apology to people affected by the practice of forced adoption. Thousands of unmarried women in Scotland were forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s https://t.co/PRiUDxAFSc 
• Trust business launches ABS for own and other law firms' work - Legal Futures https://t.co/OjEw21aD05
• Tax silk faces CoA fight over film scheme negligence claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/SoOq3pC7pr 
• National Conveyancing Week: Panel managers 'slowing conveyancers down' | Law Gazette https://t.co/CY4jmogPvP
  
• Stopping the dumping of sewage into rivers and the sea will require huge infrastructure spending and will probably push up water bills, according to a new House of Lords report https://t.co/z94XvIA6nx 
• Reserved activities set to stay as they are for now - Legal Futures https://t.co/ECBiACCRIS 
• Top defendant firm backed by private equity reports huge profit rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/u9o81qWh8h 
• Humza Yousaf seems to backtrack over fight with UK government on gender recognition bill https://t.co/OEUbzdYwdE
• Consultation begins on unifying Welsh tribunal system | Law Gazette https://t.co/5oIi8WBIp8 
• #Ugandan MPs pass bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality https://t.co/bUFHuZp4QI
• Met Police: Where next for the rotten to the core force after Casey review? https://t.co/KMBa3vaZcy 
• Ofsted responsible for the death of Ruth Perry? The dam has burst on strength of feeling https://t.co/LnCekxi8if
  
• Ross Nicol joins Addleshaw Goddard | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5TsS5dMIcd
  
• Gwyneth Paltrow in court as ski crash trial starts #US https://t.co/ANoh7u5D2W 
• President Vladimir Putin has said #Russia would be "forced to react" if the UK sent shells made with depleted uranium to Ukraine. He accused the West of deploying weapons with a "nuclear component" https://t.co/phbWBB6qPC
• Counter-terror police are involved in an investigation into a man being set alight as he walked home from a mosque. A man has been held on suspicion of attempted murder after the attack in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on Monday https://t.co/lHKU387Cwc 
• Boris Johnson has accepted he misled Parliament over Covid rule-breaking parties in Downing Street, but denied he did it on purpose https://t.co/ohRDF5JU7x
• Sadiq Khan switches on London’s first Ramadan lights in Piccadilly Circus https://t.co/9yKZkT9Zra 
• Gibson Kerr adds two solicitors to personal law department | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/eroILzpIyl