2nd September - Law News

Edition 4267: 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: Is 1984 Becoming a Reality? - George Orwell's Warning to the World

 

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

• GCs call for role to be set out in corporate governance code - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/3myupdk7
• PI firm had no contact with clients referred by claims farmer | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/y9mawprd
• RSPB v the Tories: six environmental promises - lies or otherwise? https://tinyurl.com/y599p6ja
• SRA hit with £75,000 costs bill for 'speculative' prosecution | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/44xhab9t
• Texas law aims to punish prosecutors who refuse to pursue abortion cases. New law says prosecutors who adopt policy of refusing to go after people for violating abortion bans constitutes ‘official misconduct’ #US https://tinyurl.com/2sp2wxxc
  
• Man with Traveller heritage compensated after Conservative club refused to host christening party. Man brought discrimination claim after Park Conservative club in Cardiff said Irish Travellers were banned https://tinyurl.com/3fvnzccd
• Theresa May says she regrets using term ‘hostile environment’. Memoir blames Windrush scandal on Home Office staff and previous governments including Clement Attlee’s https://tinyurl.com/5cajweuw