1st February - Law News

Edition 4420: 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: Potanina (Respondent) v Potanin (Appellant). Should the court have granted the wife permission to apply for financial relief pursuant to Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984? By a majority of three to two, the Supreme Court allows the appeal. Lord Leggatt gives the leading judgment, with which Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lady Rose agree. Lord Briggs gives a dissenting judgment, with which Lord Stephens agrees. 

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

• 'Irrational': victory for Law Society in challenge to criminal legal aid fees policy | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/wz9y4kv9
• Former Afghan special forces who served alongside the British but were denied relocation to the UK will have their cases re-examined, the government says http://tinyurl.com/5n9y7vk3
• Firm loses appeal against costs assessment over £54,000 will bill | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/mc36bxkf
• Donald Trump's attempt to bring a case in the UK against a former MI6 officer who compiled a salacious dossier linking him to Russia has failed. Seeking to use data protection laws to sue the company run by Christopher Steele, the High Court said no http://tinyurl.com/2vemduef
• Law firm "let down" client over bid to propound will, master rules - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/3ch43t4n
  
• Probate claim daughter ‘let down’ by her solicitors denied relief from sanctions | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/4zzwmm5d
• Collapsed SSB “faces up to 1,400 negligence claims” - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/mr32whkr