30th May - Law News

Edition 4538: 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: Dr. Samer Attar, an American surgeon from Chicago, shows us the unfathomable brutality of Israel's genocide in Gaza. He was a member of the first delegation of international doctors to embed in the northern part of the territory this spring.

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

• Online portal fault allowed couples to divorce too early - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/wbrj3arm
• Compensation fund levy trebles in wake of Axiom Ince debacle | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/bdh7crvb
• Thames Water urged to ‘get a grip’ on testing water supply after illness outbreak https://tinyurl.com/yv78r88e
• Aspiring top-200 firm opens door to potential merger partners | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/5n6m3e6n
• Data breach exposes details of 25,000 current and former BBC employees. Security incident at pension scheme being taken ‘extremely seriously’, but broadcaster says there is no evidence of a ransomware attack https://tinyurl.com/369d435v
• Families in UK in ‘state of limbo’ due to backlog of visa fee waiver applications. Almost 33,000 submissions to the Home Office for visa fee waivers remain outstanding, the highest number ever recorded https://tinyurl.com/bde6amup
• Hong Kong 47: Who are the democracy activists facing jail? #China https://tinyurl.com/4b67t4hc