31st July - Law News

Edition 4234: 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: Why the Pupillage Fair is such an important event to help aspiring barristers make intelligent choices about their futures.

  Focus of the Day Legal News: An overhaul of the criminal appeals process is on the cards, after the Law Commission launched a major review into potential reform. Full story - New Law Journal 

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

• Quartet of top City law firms announce muted financial results - Legal Cheek https://tinyurl.com/2ysjcdbx
• Conveyancing: Law Society lobbies for changes to building safety legislation | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/j4xuah57
• The Guardian view on rap and drill music: a song should not land the young in jail | Editorial https://tinyurl.com/5n7k7jxd
• The Secret Diary of Charlotte Owen, aged 30¼: ‘I’m a Barbie girl, and a baroness.’ - The former Boris Johnson aide has taken her seat as the youngest life peer in British history https://tinyurl.com/2p93a4zk
  
• #Denmark is considering banning protests involving burning the Quran or other religious texts over security and diplomatic concerns https://tinyurl.com/369s3uez
  
• Covid, the Cabinet and a tussle over disclosure: R (Cabinet Office) v The Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry - UK Human Rights Blog https://tinyurl.com/djmrvxw3
• A midwife who told a patient that terrorists could contaminate milk formula to "kill the babies" has been struck off. Anna Semenenko made the remark when trying to persuade a patient to breastfeed https://tinyurl.com/2f6rev8s