25th November - Law News

Edition 4351: 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:  Released Palestinians recount harsh conditions in Israeli prisons - "We’ve been tortured.” As dozens of Palestinian women and children return home from Israeli prisons as part of a Gaza truce deal between Israel and Hamas, many say they endured incredibly harsh conditions while detained.

 

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 firm made 'serious error' over oppressive private prosecution, finds High Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/t9RmcY5BX6
• Three law firms received £750 fines last week for failing to comply with the SRA’s transparency rules. Breaches included failure to publish information explaining key stages and likely timescales for services | New Law Journal https://t.co/lbmADKKCyw
• Minneapolis ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in the murder of George Floyd, has been stabbed at an Arizona prison, #US media reports say https://tinyurl.com/yytmayvc
  
• Lawyers have welcomed a commitment to update the guideline hourly rates (GHR), review the costs provisions of the Solicitors Act 1974 and uprate the fixed recoverable costs cap | New Law Journal https://t.co/gslvzO84hs
  
• High Court sentences litigant in person to four months' imprisonment for contempt of court in family case | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/vtnm7xtv
• The High Court has handed down a landmark ruling on artificial intelligence (AI), which will allow key aspects of AI to be patented in the UK for the first time | New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/5f3jv66c
• The Justice Committee has launched an inquiry into the Coroner Service to examine changes made since 2021, when the committee last looked at coronial capacity | New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/mwtuayyh