17th August - Law News

Edition 4251: 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: A 23 year Australian old man has been sentenced to more than three years jail for causing the death of a Perth teenager who fell from a moving car in a laneway at the rear of his family's northern suburbs home.

 Focus of the Day Legal News: The High Court has overturned a judge’s finding of fundamental dishonesty, after ruling that the reasons were not properly explained. His Honour Judge Khan, sitting at Burnley County Court, had said in his judgment it was ‘axiomatic’ that the personal injury claimant’s dishonesty over a head injury had been fundamental. Full story - The Law Society Gazette  

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

• PSNI data breach: Man arrested in investigation into linked criminality https://tinyurl.com/ycd9xu7n
• Solicitor struck off for taking loan from client and trying to conceal it - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/y2uahmfz
  
• The British Museum in London has sacked a member of staff and police are investigating after treasures were reported "missing, stolen or damaged" https://tinyurl.com/mphcjavz
• Widower of jailed Post Office worker loses appeal in wake of Horizon scandal https://tinyurl.com/2p8jwn9h
• Water companies are playing dirty over sewage. That’s why 20 million of us are taking them to court https://tinyurl.com/5eu3b4dy
  
• Claimant who lied about minor injury not fundamentally dishonest - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/4ckyj2z4
  
• Police and CPS had key DNA evidence 16 years before Andrew Malkinson cleared of rape https://tinyurl.com/ycy8mexn