13th October - Law News

Edition 4674: 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:  Nader Durgham is a journalist based in Beirut. He says Israeli strikes on the centre of the city came as a shock to the residents and Beirut is becoming less safe.

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/X feed):

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Law Commission seeks views on disabled children's social care law | Law Gazette
• A gang has been convicted after trying to smuggle cocaine with a street value of about £200m into the UK inside a shipment of bananas from South America
• Forty new allegations from 40 different people that include sexual assault and rape against former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed have been made to the Metropolitan Police. The new allegations cover a period between 1979 and 2013
• BSB calls in external law firm to help with cross-qualifying lawyers - Legal Futures
• Labour’s employment rights bill: what key changes will it bring? Improvements to workers’ rights to include day-one universal sick pay and an end to zero-hours contracts and fire and rehire
• CMA targets seven unregulated wills and divorce providers - Legal Futures
• Firm entitled to 75% of its costs after fighting off professional negligence claim | Law Gazette