3rd February - Law News

Edition 4422: 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: Samah Khalid Naji is 18, and along with six other members of her family, is living in the bombed-out remains of their house in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. It was destroyed in October by an Israeli missile strike. The destruction of more than a third of Gaza’s homes as Israel bombards the territory in pursuit of Hamas is leading international legal experts to raise the concept of 'domicide': the mass destruction of dwellings to make the territory uninhabitable

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

• The Legal Services Board (LSB) is partnering with Belfast law firm Carson McDowell to review the regulatory intervention into Axiom Ince | New Law Journal https://t.co/WeBgA317SU
• Verdict in Trump’s New York fraud trial delayed until early to mid-February. Judge Arthur Engoron had aimed to deliver verdict on potential $370m fine in Trump Organization case by end of January #US http://tinyurl.com/49ydd7tu
  
• Criminology lecturer appointed as Northern Ireland independent reviewer of justice and security | Irish Legal News http://tinyurl.com/5d27a7wj
• The courts have been using the wrong procedure for financial claims following a foreign divorce, the Supreme Court has held in a landmark ruling on so-called ‘divorce tourism’ | New Law Journal http://tinyurl.com/ysm5k8mh
• Insurer Zurich claims it is victim of fraud involving Greensill and Sanjeev Gupta. Company draws Greensill Capital founder and Gupta’s Liberty businesses into case at high court in London http://tinyurl.com/4u6nb3jm
  
• The Law Society has won its case in the High Court on criminal legal aid funding | New Law Journal http://tinyurl.com/3wnan2ev
• Remember Brianna Ghey’s name, not her killers’ – and confront the transphobia that dogged her http://tinyurl.com/39ys3dzu