2nd February - Law News

Edition 4421: 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

• High Court judgment finds Noel Redding Estate Limited and Mitch Mitchell Estate Limited have a ‘more than arguable case’ against Sony Music | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/5d96esx6
• Criminal legal aid “coming apart at the seams”, High Court says - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/3d5yuatx
• Criminal legal aid: 'Data limitations' narrow scope of consultation on police station fees | Law Gazette https://t.co/3BG8n9vqmD
• SRA to investigate regulating CILEX paralegals and students - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/3yps2bt7
• Solicitors Regulation Authority signals that it is still keen to take control of CILEX | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/2exjhusn
  
• Home Office asks for emergency £2.6bn after asylum seeker hotels overspend. Select committee chair has questioned why cost of housing asylum seekers was not included in department’s original estimates http://tinyurl.com/7pdvn5sd
• A step forward: UK to join the 2019 Hague Convention - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/3zzu2cu7