25th April - Law News

Edition 4137: 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 project to build a digital settlement prototype that speeds up payments in conveyancing by linking banks, conveyancers and HM Land Registry has ended successfully, according to the Bank of England innovation body that ran it. Full story - New Law Journal

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: The  descendants of some of the country's biggest slave owners have launched a joint appeal for the Government to apologise - and atone for Britain's role in slavery - including a programme of restorative justice. The signatories include the current Earl of Harewood.

 

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

• CPS includes ‘love-bombing’ in guidance on abusive partners prosecution https://tinyurl.com/3jbmk555
  
• What was corporate law like in the 1980s? - Legal Cheek https://shorturl.at/bJNS5
  
• #Spanish firm wrong to fire electrician for drinking alcohol during working day, court rules https://shorturl.at/nuEO1
  
• The Confusing Press Release on Foreign Law Firms | Bar & Bench #India https://shorturl.at/xFL08
  
• Climate change ‘valid’ reason for law firms to reject clients, says Law Society - Legal Cheek https://shorturl.at/gnAPX
  
• The UK's biggest business group has admitted it hired "culturally toxic" staff and failed to fire people who sexually harassed female colleagues
  CBI hired 'toxic' staff and failed to sack offenders https://shorturl.at/jDZ18
  
• Lawyers twice as likely to work on days off, research finds - Legal Cheek https://shorturl.at/vCMNY
  
• Wagatha Christie play faces plot twist after Rebekah Vardy trademark move - Producers of West End show Vardy v Rooney say surprise legal move to trademark a pun will be referred to in script https://shorturl.at/dqsy0
  
• ‘I am sick of my non-law friends asking me for free legal advice’ - Legal Cheek https://shorturl.at/cDY02
  
• #India Supreme Court imposes ₹25k costs on petitioner who alleged mistrial in Mahatma Gandhi assassination case | Bar & Bench https://tinyurl.com/5d4ufjp2