15th July - Law News

Edition 4218: 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: Race To Open Jammed Flood Gates As Overflowing Yamuna Halts Delhi, India's capital. Yeas of underinvestment in infrastructure and projects such as moon mission has led to misery for the masses.

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

• SRA happy with standards of law firms handling LPAs and deputyships - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/fyPU5
  
• D-day veteran, 98, put up in hostel after eviction from Dorset home https://shorturl.at/AHO01
• Susskind: AI could crack the problem of unmet legal need - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/hAY46
  
• Transgender women barred from female events as UCI takes 'precautionary measure' https://shorturl.at/adiyZ
  
• Solicitors face tougher sentence for perverting course of justice | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/26s4djft
• Plans to construct a road tunnel near Stonehenge have been approved. The Department for Transport approved the £1.7bn two-mile (3.2km) tunnel from Amesbury to Berwick Down in Wiltshire on Friday https://tinyurl.com/2uuzxrfs
  
• Ex-Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been cleared of raping a woman and attempting to rape another. The 28-year-old was accused of attacking a 24-year-old woman at his £4m mansion in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire https://tinyurl.com/2s3hv586
  
• Judges need double the pay rise MoJ has offered, says review body - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/ycy84j3v