29th March - Law News

Edition 4476: 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: The women breaking through the silence of the asylum experience

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

• ‘Famine is setting in’: UN court orders #Israel to unblock Gaza food aid: Judges issue unanimous decision and say Palestinians are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance https://tinyurl.com/5es5fx9d
  
• Bar Council issues warning over Garrick Club membership - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/4atx4yz9
• Assisted dying: what are the laws in UK and what changes are proposed? https://t.co/a31bVVsFwY
• MPs urge SRA to speed up investigation into SSB collapse - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/4hyvm8m7
• Clubs such as Garrick can create bias in selecting judges, Bar Council warns - Membership of exclusive clubs can be ‘unfair advantage’ for some lawyers seeking to move into judiciary, says barristers’ body https://t.co/dpgD5Q5oYc
• Demand for the legal ombudsman surges as almost half of firms fail to deal with initial complaints | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2p93kpvk
• Transgender judge seeks leave to intervene in UK court case over legal definition of ‘woman’. Victoria McCloud wants leave to join litigation in supreme court appeal brought by For Women Scotland https://tinyurl.com/59ksn3y9