25th August - Law News

Edition 4259: 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: What is the Supreme Court? Why was it established in 2009? And what issues does it hear about? This introductory film is primarily aimed at GSCE/Standard Grade students and explores the role and the workings of the Supreme Court, the only court with UK-wide jurisdiction and the highest court in the land. This video is just one of a range of learning resources on our website designed to aid teaching in the classroom about the law, as well as to complement educational visits to the Court. If you are a teacher or student interested in such a visit, please see the education page on our website for further information.

 Focus of the Day Legal News: UK’s SFO calls time on ENRC and Rio Tinto probes. Fraud watchdog closes decade-long investigation into Kazakh miner ENRC citing “insufficient admissible evidence to prosecute”. 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

• Nearly half of CPS letters to complainants 'inadequate' | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/47suwsda
  
• Victim’s partner urges no parole for Wiltshire killer unless body found https://tinyurl.com/2y4sch5r
  
• More than 1,000 chase 25 places at firm’s paralegal academy | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/bdfkvs82
• A man who murdered his wife has refused to reveal where her remains are. Glyn Razzell, 64, from Somerset, is serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife Linda, who vanished on the way to work in Swindon in 2002 https://tinyurl.com/yc85c2yh
  
• Relatives of the father of Sara Sharif, whose death in the UK sparked an international manhunt, cannot be detained in #Pakistan by police for questioning on his whereabouts. The decision was made at the Lahore high court, Rawalpindi bench https://tinyurl.com/n7muzbv5
  
• CJC presses ahead with radical reform plans for pre-action protocols - Legal Futures  https://tinyurl.com/yhrumr27
  
• The number of people in the UK waiting for a decision on their asylum claims has risen to a record high, latest Home Office figures show. More than 175,000 people were waiting for a decision at the end of June 2023 - up 44% from last year https://tinyurl.com/4pzc4pjx