30th November - Law News

Edition 4356: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.

-------------------------------------------------------------

Today's Highlighted Video Story:  Wolverhampton City Council & others(Respondents) v London Gypsies & Travellers & others (Appellants) - Does the court have the power to grant "newcomer injunctions", i.e. injunctions against persons who are unknown and unidentified as at the date of the order, and who have not yet performed, or threatened to perform, the acts which the injunction prohibits? If so, on what basis and subject to what safeguards?

Focus of the Day Legal News: 
The Criminal Bar Association has launched a training programme for counsel prosecuting and defending rape and serious sexual assault (RASSO) cases. 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

• Law Society wins disclosure application against government before legal aid JR challenge | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/3cck6u65
• A Met officer who Tasered a 10-year-old girl twice after she threatened her mother with garden shears cleared of gross misconduct. PC Jonathan Broadhead was accused of using force "which was not necessary, reasonable and proportionate" against her https://tinyurl.com/ycpd3nzj
• Employment tribunal finds solicitor whose emails were ignored did not suffer age discrimination | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2szdjvvk
• Court of Appeal: Judges can order parties to engage in ADR - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/mrbu93mh
  
• The family of a foster mum killed by a boy she was looking after said they had been let down by prosecutors and had not got "meaningful justice". The boy, aged 12 at the time, ran over Marcia Grant, 60, with her own car in Sheffield in April https://tinyurl.com/ypy3n3rr
• What are the Tories’ options for cutting net migration to Britain? People have entered the UK in record numbers since the points-based system came in and ministers want to reverse this https://tinyurl.com/atktz3nt
• NHS ‘unethical’ in recruiting nurses from short-staffed countries. Hiring from ‘red-list’ nations risks destabilising healthcare overseas, warns Royal College of Nursing https://tinyurl.com/y4sarjfm
  

29th November - Law News

Edition 4355: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.

-------------------------------------------------------------

Today's Highlighted Video Story:  R (on the application of Imam) (Respondent) v London Borough of Croydon (Appellant) - When should a court make a mandatory order against a local housing authority to enforce a duty owed to a homeless individual under s193(2) of the Housing Act 1996 (the "1996 Act")? In particular, should the court take account of either: (a) budgetary constraints imposed on the housing authority; or (b) the availability of housing under a non-secured tenancy under Part VII of the 1996 Act (as opposed to a secured tenancy under Part VI of the 1996 Act). The Supreme Court unanimously dismisses the appeal. 

Focus of the Day Legal News: 
A veteran barrister who used a German accent during proceedings before magistrates and raised his hand to the bench in a Nazi salute, has been reprimanded by a Bar disciplinary tribunal. Full story - Legal Futures 

 

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

• International Criminal Court judges ‘cautious’ about using impact of mental health | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gfBjRsqMLk
• Costs lawyers "bullish" about impact of fixed costs extension - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/mr289waj
• Number of conveyancing solicitors slumps as market contracts - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/yckhfhj6
• Legal Services Board eyes 14% increase in budget - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/5ddwef2c
  
• Over 1,800 offenders to have indefinite jail sentences terminated, says MoJ - Imprisonment for public protection sentences will now have an end date under changes in England and Wales https://tinyurl.com/bdz75822
• "Shamelessness" of SLAPPs has grown but still no disciplinary action - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/4896dadz
• More than 200 years after they were stolen from their country's most sacred landmark and shipped unceremoniously to the UK, the Elgin Marbles still scream injustice for the vast majority of Greeks https://t.co/MbHPSBTPsX