13th December - Law News

Edition 4369: 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: New pictures from a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza show bodies piled up following an Israeli attack. Witnesses say a number of people, including women, children and babies, were killed execution-style by Israeli forces while they were sheltering inside the school.

Focus of the Day Legal News:  The average time from issue to trial on the small claims track hit an all-time high in the last quarter, with litigants having to wait an average of 55.6 weeks. This is three weeks longer than the previous quarter, which itself was a record figure, and 3.5 weeks longer than the same quarter in 2022, according to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). 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

• Police have released CCTV footage showing the last known movements of a missing woman. Gaynor Lord, 55, was reported missing in Norwich after failing to return home from work on Friday afternoon https://t.co/EO4pUp8C4h
• Birss: Data standards can deliver “transformative” civil justice change - Legal Futures https://t.co/cjsBnUcTR0
• A man who posed as a model agent to persuade children and young women to send him sexually explicit images before threatening to share them online has been jailed for two years. Matthew McMahon will spend a further three years on licence https://t.co/x1ORdwKFjZ
• Thames Water is facing a "seminal moment", its chairman has said, during an intense grilling by MPs on the firm's financial performance. Senior management admitted the company did not have enough money to pay off a £190m loan due in April next year https://t.co/aoubbC8nT9
• Campaigners say the death of an asylum seeker on the Bibby Stockholm is "not a surprise" and are calling for all migrants on board to be taken off. The man took his own life on the barge in Dorset where hundreds of men are housed https://t.co/bK89oEgGNF
• PI firms diversifying after failing to make a go of whiplash claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/PnGT2pHjtu
• Proposed constitutional changes risk introducing new ‘harmful stereotypes’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ixmgIcOk61