18th July - Law News

Edition 4221: 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: An online public meeting, which took place on 14 June 2023, organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. This public evidence session focused on lawyers and the state - advice, rhetoric, and ethics.

 

 Focus of the Day Legal News:  Scheme to stop people being quizzed by abuser in court failing, lawyers say. Courts in England and Wales unable to attract sufficient numbers of advocates. Full story - Guardian Law  

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

• Alarming rise of women in prison must be addressed, rights summit told. Numbers of jailed women rising far faster than men and their voices must be heard, say rights groups and former prisoners https://shorturl.at/ajmQT
  
• Solicitors win costs battle as Vos pleads for rules to be updated | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/yckru85f
  
• Leaked UK government plan to protect against climate heat ‘very weak’: Document ‘falls far short’ of what is needed to safeguard lives and livelihoods from heat, drought and storms, say experts https://tinyurl.com/ryfmzp2u
• A retired #Australian pilot has been fined for pretending to be a lawyer. Former Qantas pilot Nathaniel Whitehall represented a woman in court for a traffic infringement in 2020 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vBPqDhE3wa
  
• Inner House condemns solicitor’s ‘extraordinary lapse of professional judgement’ | Scottish Legal News https://shorturl.at/xHI89
• Chalk 'reprioritising' justice spending to afford judges' 7% pay rise | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/gxJ79
• Review: The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire | Scottish Legal News https://tinyurl.com/4stvjmd2
  
• Unpaid litigation funder appeals to court to revive divorce dispute | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/ciI45