2nd April - Law News

Edition 4114: 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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Saturday Conversations on Law

• #Brazil may sue VW amid claims firm used ‘slave labour’ under military rule - Prosecutors seek compensation for workers kept on cattle ranch owned by German carmaker during dictatorship from 1973 to 1987 https://t.co/kb3v5ef0rZ
• Outdated restrictions have gone. Outdated thinking? Not so much - Legal Futures https://t.co/dmeYGutt78
• The Department for Business and Trade has launched a major review of whistleblowing laws | NLJ https://t.co/ECyHKaKg6
• A decade of cuts to legal aid – a valiant sector struggling for survival | Law Gazette https://t.co/xnHpQIrQrz
• The UK legal services market was worth £43.9bn in 2022, up 6.3% on 2021, with similar growth predicted for 2023, according to research by IRN Legal Reports | NLJ https://t.co/76pd8rTIgz
  
• Non-lawyers banned for taking money and forging signatures - Legal Futures https://t.co/njX7giMtTo 
• A former solicitor who enlisted litigants with hopeless cases to pursue a campaign over alleged corruption in the justice system has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZiGMDl6Ucs
  
• The Auriol Grey case exposes Britain’s obsession with prison https://t.co/BPWocvxWZ5 
• A claimant can ‘attend’ a hearing even if they are absent, the Court of Appeal has held | NLJ https://t.co/g6wNFl7cKR
• BSB "assessing" self-reports from barristers over cab-rank rule defiance - Legal Futures https://t.co/aow0OX78LK
• The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is to prioritise complaints made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) where there is significant public interest | NLJ https://t.co/yDxmqS5iXv 
• Remote hearings have 'no wider impacts' on outcomes: official | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y8gW1n6SyN
• Sunderland footballer Jack Diamond charged with rape and sexual assault https://t.co/bTUh1s66kE 
• Only 47% of members of the public with experience of the criminal justice system say their confidence in the system improved as a result | NLJ https://t.co/UetA70rsvQ 
• Remote hearings have "no impact" on outcomes of Crown Court cases - Legal Futures https://t.co/eA7cbFuRfO 
• Solicitor who misled clients 'to avoid a can of worms' struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/165NB0XXxY 
• Family lawyers have queried the value of compulsory mediation, following government proposals to make it a prerequisite to the family courts | NLJ https://t.co/T21DoZ0v6z
  
• Oscar Pistorius denied parole over killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp - Former Paralympic and Olympic star was automatically eligible for parole consideration after serving half his sentence https://t.co/Rp4qz7kjKP 
• SRA acknowledges need to speed up investigations into solicitors - Legal Futures https://t.co/9FHc2TLjiJ
  
• Water companies released raw sewage into rivers and seas in England for more than 1.75 million hours last year. There were an average of 825 sewage spills into waterways per day, the data shows - down 19% on the previous year https://t.co/jrbnF6ohXQ 
• Chris Packham crowdfunds to sue hunting publisher for ‘hate terrorism’ https://t.co/g3BMhMyqrx 
• Police officer jailed for pulling down woman’s top and photographing her - Paul Hinchcliffe, 46, imprisoned for eight months for sexual assault during night out https://t.co/saLipGrzMU 
• Britain grants Tamil asylum seekers rescued at sea ‘safe-country’ move https://t.co/nb9E7tOt2U