8th January - Law News

Edition 4396: 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: Federal officials examining the horrifying midflight blowout of a section of an Alaska Airlines aircraft’s fuselage said the lost piece has been found – a key element in the investigation of what happened during the plane’s “explosive decompression.” Complicating the investigation is the loss of critical cockpit audio recordings because of a device setting

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

• Controversial influencer Andrew Tate has won an appeal in a Romanian court as he seeks the return of assets which have been seized by authorities http://tinyurl.com/yush8beu
• Solicitor and former Eversheds senior partner announced as chair of the pensions ombudsman | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/5hynyn9t
• Post Office scandal: What the Horizon saga is all about http://tinyurl.com/2bxzrz3a
• Alaska Airlines placed restrictions on the Boeing plane involved in a dramatic mid-air blowout after pressurisation warnings in the days before Friday's incident, investigators say #US http://tinyurl.com/47d3kh47
  
• Apple has begun making payments in a long-running class action lawsuit over claims it deliberately slowed down certain iPhones in the #US. Complainants will receive a cut of a $500m (£394m) settlement which works out to around $92 per claim http://tinyurl.com/ymd44bna
  
• International Bar Association condemns Iran after 707 executions in 2023 | Law Gazette https://t.co/T7bALFLIQ8
• Ex-Mirror Group lawyer Marcus Partington probed by SRA over phone hacking knowledge after Prince Harry ruling | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/yb27x2h6