10th June - Law News

Edition 4183: 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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Today's Highlighted Video Story: A Indian man was slapped on the face and hit with slippers in public for allegedly harassing a college student in Karnataka's Udipi district on Friday. Video of the incident shot from the scene showed the man requesting the locals to let him go as the girl hit him on his head and face with her slippers. He makes no attempts to retort and continues to face the assault as villagers watch on. 

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

• Puberty blockers will only be prescribed to children attending gender identity services as part of clinical research, NHS England has announced, children's gender services said there were "gaps in evidence" around the drugs https://shorturl.at/jwQ25
  
• #French media have lauded a young "hero with a backpack" for his attempts to thwart a knife attack in Annecy which left four children seriously injured. Henri, 24, was filmed chasing the suspect and swinging his bag at him https://shorturl.at/agsGO
  
• Boris Johnson is to step down as an MP with immediate effect after receiving the Partygate report. That report by the MP-led Privileges Committee looked into whether he misled Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street https://shorturl.at/gktT6
  
• n defence of partnership – London firm moves to full equity - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/epCGH
  
• The publisher of the Mirror newspapers has made a court apology to the former Coronation Street actor Nikki Sanderson after admitting using private investigators to get stories about her https://shorturl.at/loAR9
  
• Trainee conveyancer "used skills" in school place fraud - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/fsNXZ
  
• A boy who died after being followed by police on his e-bike and then colliding with an ambulance has been named locally as 15-year-old Saul Cookson https://shorturl.at/doIQV
  
• Supreme Court backs Jack Daniel's in dog toy row #US https://shorturl.at/iDRW0
  
• Solicitor handed record SRA fine for accounts rules breaches - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/cNOVX
• Labour shadow minister Bambos Charalambous suspended over complaint - Mr Charalambous is a solicitor and worked for Hackney Council in their housing legal team before becoming an MP in 2017 https://shorturl.at/aABOT
  
• Tesco could be breaking law on Clubcard pricing, says Which? https://shorturl.at/ajtIS