18th January - Law News

Edition 4405: 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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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

• Supreme court hears key case that could strangle power of #US federal agencies. Fishing companies seek to overturn ‘Chevron deference’, which calls for judges to defer to government where laws are ambiguous http://tinyurl.com/5dz5saph
  
• CA upholds ruling that solicitor did not condone partner's £16m fraud - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/3c4yprbe
• The inside story of two rape trials: ‘It’s as bad as I’ve ever known it’ http://tinyurl.com/yv4shzh5
• Rishi Sunak has been rebuked by the UK's statistics watchdog over his claim to have cleared the backlog of asylum claims http://tinyurl.com/mw79sxnc
• Peter Sewell, a Fujitsu manager called a Post Office sub-postmaster a "nasty chap" ahead of a legal battle that left him bankrupt, an inquiry has heard http://tinyurl.com/mrxnvwtu
• Firm linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone's husband should face 'fraud probe' - experts http://tinyurl.com/2dya27hz
• #Greece found to have violated Syrian refugee’s right to life by firing on vessel. European court of human rights orders Athens to pay €80,000 to family of Belal Tello, who died after 2014 incident http://tinyurl.com/mw7wucuh