Tuesday

17th October - Law News

Edition 4312: 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: Scotland has some of the highest drug deaths in Europe, a deepening mental health crisis and loses between three and four people a day to suicide. Yet at the same time, services are being stripped back leaving a gap in support that is often filled with volunteers who have a personal experience of addiction. Guardian reporter Danny Lavelle, joined one of those organisations, Fire & Peace, which aims to encourage bonds with nature to help people beat the cycle of addiction, on a trip to the Scottish Highlands. As a natural sceptic of alternative therapies, could he be convinced of the benefits?

Focus of the Day Legal News: Women experiencing domestic abuse will be able to receive up to £1,000 from a new pilot fund to pay for the essentials they need when leaving a relationship with an abusive partner. Full story - Scottish Legal News  

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
  • Less than half of lawyers satisfied with work-life balance, study finds - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Rtfu71q1bJ
  • Low-level offenders could be released early under jail reforms https://shorturl.at/evU13
  • Inns scholarships: £6 million on the table for future barristers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/fPA22AIVz7
  • Trump seeks 'vindication' in UK courts over ex-spy's dossier on alleged Russian sex bribes https://t.co/JJjqdgtGCZ
  • A pupil was stripped of his maths GCSE after a question he found online while revising appeared on his exam paper. Emil Bednarski, who studies at Kensington Aldridge Academy, had asked a teacher for help with the question just before sitting the exam https://shorturl.at/yCY45
  • Law Society installs City lawyer as president  - Legal Cheek https://t.co/USxF0Ielp5
  • Parliament's behaviour watchdog has recommended Conservative MP Peter Bone be suspended for six weeks for bullying and sexual misconduct https://shorturl.at/abI78