Thursday

21st September - Law News

Edition 4286: 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: If your tinned tomatoes come from southern Italy, it’s likely that organised crime had a hand in getting them from the farm to the supermarket shelf. The mafia controls much of the region's agribusiness, and it's big business, adding billions of euros to its yearly turnover. So how is the mafia making all this money, when tinned tomatoes are so cheap? Based on original reporting by Tobias Jones and Ayo Awokoya, Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates. 

Focus of the Day Legal News: Commonhold is about giving leaseholders control - not getting away from service charges, a conference on leasehold reform heard today. However scepticism on the benefits of commonhold as an alternative form of home ownership emerged at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum event. 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
  • Anonymous litigant barred from bitcoin costs challenge | Law Gazette https://t.co/zMp3xmLzA5
  • One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts: Frank Hester, who gave Rishi Sunak’s party £5m this summer, is thought to have made huge sums from DHSC deals https://t.co/EwW1QuCAoI
  • MPs urge government action over problems with whiplash portal - Legal Futures https://t.co/x6oYj5e8Oy
  • Tweeting solicitor’s behaviour 'went well beyond bounds of acceptable conduct' | Law Gazette https://t.co/x5QKCrKTbT
  • Inside Tiktok's real-life frenzies - from riots to false murder accusations https://t.co/9SydJ0aVUp
  • The joy of plural pronouns in legal drafting | Law Gazette https://t.co/uzc6KKZj7n
  • Northern Ireland lawyers address European domestic violence conference | Irish Legal News https://t.co/7qDpSBqCGA