3rd October - Law News

Edition 4684: 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:  In the midst of a historic housing crisis, a tip came into the AJ I-Unit that a high-ranking politician from Bangladesh might be one the largest private landlords in the UK. The team set about chasing down the information; what’s true, what's not and how this story helped explain why millions of regular people can’t afford to buy.

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

• London law firm takes stake in esports talent management agency - Legal Futures
• Tribunal member issued with formal warning over comment to court worker with 'element of race discrimination' | Law Gazette
• Conservative Party Conference: former justice secretary says Crown court should hear only most serious cases | Law Gazette
• Julian Assange says he ‘chose freedom over unrealisable justice’. WikiLeaks founder says he pleaded ‘guilty to journalism’ in deal for his release and calls for protection of press freedom
• A surgeon at a crisis-hit NHS trust used a Swiss Army penknife to open up the chest of a patient because he claimed he could not find a sterile scalpel. University Hospitals Sussex has said the operation was an emergency
• Nearly 500 law firms sanctioned for transparency failures - Legal Future
• The standard of education received by children in young offender institutions in England is in rapid decline, according to a report. The review by Ofsted and HMIP found some children having only half an hour per day out of their cells