18th March - Law News

Edition 4465: 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 WhatsApp group helped save more than 50 Malawian women trafficked to Oman to work in slave-like conditions. It is estimated there are around two million female domestic workers in the Gulf Arab states.

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

• Donald Trump cannot find a private company to guarantee the $464m (£365m) he has been ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud case. He must either pay the full amount in cash or secure a bond in order to continue his appeal #US https://t.co/5IJA6ootvr
  
• Community order for disbarred barrister over antisemitic blog posts - Legal Futures https://t.co/HbeHaV12nt
• When dawn broke last Monday morning, signalling the beginning of Ramadan, it brought a cruel irony for the people of Gaza. Gazans had already endured five months of war. Virtually the entire population was already dependent on food aid to survive https://t.co/gMsaXxBVQH
• Access to justice: for the few but not for you | Law Gazette https://t.co/aj2G0iUwK6
• Former Lord Chief cautions against regulation of litigation funding - Legal Futures n-of-litigation-funding https://tinyurl.com/php4andc
  
• A man has been arrested after two people were shot with crossbow bolts in linked attacks. In the first incident, at 19:44 GMT on 4 March, a 44-year-old woman was hit in the head as she crossed Club Row in Shoreditch, east London https://t.co/XrOcqjXa9Y
• Probate delays putting law firms in clients' firing line - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/mw3b2hft