15th June - Law News

Edition 4554: 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: Health workers unable to rescue people in Rafah due to Israeli war

 

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

• Green Party manifesto promises £11bn investment in justice | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/5bbrcxyh
  
• UK retailers have launched a class action for £1bn damages against Amazon at the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) | New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/74tbbfhp
• Associate prosecutors centrepiece of justice proposals in Labour Party manifesto | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/mtzft576
• ‘Recent and repeated public attacks on the legal profession, as well as judges’ by politicians undermine trust in the justice system, Bar Council chair Sam Townend KC has warned | New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/twt4b2es
  
• Backlogs spiral across justice system, latest HMCTS figures show | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/t3ma83fh
• Courts in the community proposed by Plaid Cymru manifesto | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/5n6ux8ta
• Public services including the courts and prisons are performing worse than at the start of the 2019 Parliament and ‘substantially worse’ than in 2010, according to a report by the Institute for Government (IfG) | New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/3vbzvv29