13th March - Law News

Edition 4460: 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: A lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a US appeals court to overturn the British socialite's conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. Investigative reporter Barry Levine tells The World's Beverley O'Connor that Maxwell's lawyers "are putting all their chips" on a 2007 non-prosecution agreement signed by Epstein

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

• SRA investigating why SSB Law clients facing huge legal bills for cavity wall claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/M0VptNUSDI
• Ministers to quash convictions of hundreds of post office operators https://tinyurl.com/y8f7hfua
• Revised litigation funding agreements piling up at Court of Appeal - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/3t2p5bxr
• UK home care workers cannot work as visa regime tightened, says employer. Grosvenor says it is prevented from making 3,000 visits a week as it pays migrant workers to sit at home because permits not renewed https://tinyurl.com/78tcytff
• Education charity calls on volunteers for legal lessons campaign | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/3etpxzud
  
• UK to pay failed asylum seekers to move to Rwanda under new scheme https://t.co/tZUUnyowUU
• Solicitors Regulation Authority unveils guidance for in-house lawyers | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/3zv9r9v2