13th April - Law News

Edition 4125: 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: The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) expects to use its proposed new power to demand information from solicitors about economic crime several hundred times a year, it has emerged. Full story Legal Futures

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Three years since women marched to reclaim Melbourne's Merri Creek trail following a brutal sexual assault, ongoing harassment is prompting concerns that not enough has changed.

A selection of important developments in the world of law and justice (for a comprehensive look at the news and events, please visit @theLawMap Twitter feed):

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Law Society research highlights solicitor wellbeing woes - Legal Futures shorturl.at/goFU9
  
• Dual discount rate 'piles pressure' on seriously injured - APIL | Law Gazette shorturl.at/eGL03
  
• Etihad Airways’ ‘sustainable aviation’ ads banned in UK - Advertising Standards Authority rules ads misled consumers about the environmental impact of flying shorturl.at/dAFKZ
  
• Elizabeth Holmes to begin 11-year prison sentence at end of month. #US Federal judge denies Theranos founder’s request to remain free while she appeals her conviction of fraud and conspiracy shorturl.at/XYZ89
  
• Law firm to “harness power of ChatGPT” for clinical negligence cases - Legal Futures shorturl.at/nuHQ6
  
• A global scamming network has robbed ordinary investors of more than a billion dollars - a shadowy network of businessmen who appear to be behind it shorturl.at/fxATU