21st February - Law News

Edition 4439: 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: In the matter of an application by RM (two linked appeals)(UKSC 2022/0144; UKSC 2022/0145) - [2024] - Whether the Review Tribunal (the Tribunal) was entitled to conclude that RM's mental disorder continues to be of a nature or degree warranting his continued detention in hospital for medical treatment (i.e. whether the test for discharge from a Restriction Order under Article 78 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (the Order) is met).

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

• Veterans minister Johnny Mercer has told a public inquiry he heard "horrific" accounts from former members of Afghan special forces of the SAS killing unarmed detainees and children http://tinyurl.com/yc7x9uk6
  
• PI firm based in Wigan went into administration after doctor and barrister creditors stopped writing off debts | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/42c87tat
  
• Nottingham attacks: Valdo Calocane’s ‘unduly lenient’ sentence to be reviewed. Families of three people stabbed to death welcome review into Calocane’s indefinite hospital order http://tinyurl.com/7ukbr7ff
• Palestinian minister accuses Israel of ‘colonialism and apartheid’ at ICJ. Riyad al-Maliki presents SFO director Nick Ephgrave sets out his most urgent priorities | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/mvjw3tck
• Number of cyber breaches at law firms up by 36% in a year - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/3t6246bd
• The Scottish Parliament Rural Affairs & Islands Committee hosted 40 land managers and community representatives from across Scotland to help inform its scrutiny of the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill | Scottish Legal News http://tinyurl.com/yc6yrzek
  
• Third time lucky? CILEX members demand vote on plan to switch regulator to the SRA | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/44v7pvtc