11th August - Law News

Edition 4245: 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: The US Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Purdue Pharma from going forward with bankruptcy proceedings, which the Biden administration has called an “unprecedented” arrangement that would ultimately offer the Sackler family broad protection from opioid-related civil claims. In agreeing to pause the settlement, the court also said it would take up the case and hear arguments this December.

 Focus of the Day Legal News: What the recent KF Global Brands case says about the requirements for a successful design right infringement claim. Full story - The Global Legal Post 

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

• Asylum work unaffordable at current rates, practitioners warn | Law Gazette https://t.co/cnnQgFppkA
  
• Fines for solicitor who misused client account and COFA who let him - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/27axjskm
  
• Hybrid working lawyers taking on extra admin tasks, poll finds | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2bfke9y3
• Tory technology secretary has defended a controversial section of the Online Safety Bill which would force messaging apps to access the content of private messages https://tinyurl.com/fc65cr4a
  
• Failed legal aid firm owes bank £5m, administrators reveal | Law Gazette https://t.co/0ZLWLSMI0p
• Leeds police have received a complaint after a woman said her autistic daughter was arrested for saying a female officer "looked like her lesbian nana" https://t.co/TB0pymZkCT
• Google and Universal Music working on licensing voices for AI-generated songs https://t.co/OUdXzgZo99