2nd June - Law News

Edition 4175: 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: Airline ticketing fees. Concert fees. Bank overdraft fees. Fees for everything. Corporations call them “convenience fees” or “service fees.” Probably because they “conveniently” “serve” to pad their bottom lines, costing Americans at least $29 billion per year.

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

• Donald Trump hush-money trial date set for March 2024 https://shorturl.at/fhsG2
  
• Law Commission calls for tighter rules on use of personal records in rape trials https://tinyurl.com/yc34fust
  
• Conveyancers “refusing to handle high-rise transactions” - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/eDEGT
  
• E Jean Carroll files for new damages after Trump’s CNN town hall remarks #US https://shorturl.at/gDU27
• Court papers show how killer parents won back their baby https://shorturl.at/jnoO2
  
• TikToker admits stalking footballers Mason Mount and Billy Gilmour - Orla Melissa Sloan, 21, bombarded Chelsea's Mason Mount, 24, with messages in a four-month stalking campaign after their relationship ended https://shorturl.at/cekzB
  
• Strike-off for solicitor who deleted SRA emails to co-owner wife - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/bkpuC
  
• A doctor with a key role in reforming a controversial gender identity clinic for children has been recorded questioning the need for change https://shorturl.at/ampzA
  
• Most foreign students on non-research courses to lose right to bring family to UK https://shorturl.at/envyE
• Rishi Sunak decides not to order inquiry into Suella Braverman speeding row - The home secretary was caught speeding last year https://shorturl.at/nrEIW