23rd August - Law News

Edition 4257: 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: More children are in the care system, but accommodation is in short supply - and that means thousands of youngsters are being sent many miles away from their homes, their friends and their schools to start new lives with foster parents or in specialist placements. 

 Focus of the Day Legal News: The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) must explore how its work “can be used to enhance and promote access to justice”, such as by ensuring there are enough social welfare lawyers, the Legal Services Consumer Panel (LSCP) has said. The LSCP said there was “compelling evidence” that the absence of social welfare law topics from the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) was leading to “reduced opportunities for qualification”. Full story - Legal Futures  

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

• The first law centre in North Yorkshire has helped over 700 people since it was set up only a few months ago, the Gazette has learned | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/vn5fwajk
  
• Notes for Thinking about Feminist Foreign Policy from a Decolonial and Communitarian Feminist Perspective https://t.co/TvS0JcEWPn
  
• Government’s record on the administration of justice – maybe the most dismal in memory, given legal aid deserts, long court delays and the other Dickensian horrors with which we are familiar – has received another severe rebuke | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/29fzjufj
• Pubs are calling for more flexible licensing laws during national events, such as Sunday's Women's World Cup final. The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) said the current rules were "far too prescriptive" https://t.co/jDT0KBKUCw
  
• Three-quarters of prison lawyers will quit unless fees increase - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/3db3he7m
• CIC secures lottery funding for child trust fund legal advice pilot - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/sc7727wb
• Eight men suspected of gang-raping an 18-year-old British woman in Majorca were not all known to each other, Spanish police have said. Five French and one Swiss tourist were arrested on suspicion of sexual assault #Spain https://t.co/DR3h5qA5XD