11th July - Law News

Edition 4580: 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:  Was the majority of the Court of Appeal wrong to find that the collateral warranty in this case was a "construction contract" for the purposes of section 104(1) of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996? The Supreme Court unanimously allows the appeal.

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

• Manchester Ship Canal and the right to sue over untreated sewage discharges | Law Gazette
• What is a bill? Costs lawyers urge regime reform - Legal Futures
• Law Commission seeks views on ‘disorganised and incoherent’ contempt law | Law Gazette
• The victim of an assault by an #Irish soldier has said his dismissal from the armed forces would be the "bare minimum" outcome. Cathal Crotty, 22, received a suspended sentence in June for violently attacking 24-year-old Natasha O’Brien in a Limerick
• Ministry of Defence drops defences in hearing-loss case brought by Hugh James Solicitors | Law Gazette
• A proposed average 21% hike in bills in England and Wales won't be enough to address problems including sewage leaks, Tory privatised water firms have claimed
• ‘All threats to the sea come from humans’: how lawyers are gearing up to fight for the oceans