5th August - Law News

Edition 4239: 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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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

• Students 'locked out' as BPP hit by cyber attack | Law Gazette https://t.co/zKZhSN85vJ
• The imprisoned #Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed a further jail term, at a trial in a remote penal colony. Mr Navalny was found guilty of founding and funding an extremist organisation and activities https://tinyurl.com/ynu8vhsp
  
• Retired judge extracts £50 from HMCTS over probate delays | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/25df68ve
• Firm fails in bid to stop former directors setting up new practice - Legal Futures https://t.co/p5R61Nyet9
  
• New coalition seeks to drive e-conveyancing | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZflSMDNIn7
• Police probe letter threats to migrant barge Bibby Stockholm - The letters, addressed to taxi firms, a security company, the barge management firm and Dorset Council, threaten that "collaborators" will be followed home https://t.co/SXRoBeHHWr
  
• #India’s supreme court suspends Rahul Gandhi’s two-year defamation jail term. Ruling allows leader of Congress party to return to parliament and contest national elections https://t.co/YDrCHzqBvu