7th October - Law News

Edition 4688: 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:  Have you ever considered what really lies in store for someone who’s been deported? First time director Cherno Jagne, has written, produced and starred in “The Backway” – a film that centres the experience of an economic migrant who was illegally smuggled out of the Gambia, and then deported back “home” from the UK just a couple years later. The fear, the shame, and disappointment. Set against the many reasons why they might have left in the first place – to seek a better life in the global North. We’ve been speaking to the man behind the film.

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

• Super regulator rubber-stamps 200% hike in compensation fund contributions for solicitors  - Legal Cheek
• The Global South’s poor should not be subsidising the IMF. The IMF is needlessly making the polycrisis we are facing even worse by forcing its most indebted borrowers to pay extra fees in the form of surcharges
• The right-wing BJP Indian government has opposed petitions in the top court that seek criminalisation of marital rape, saying it would be "excessively harsh"
• Both buy-in from partners and financial investment are required if diversity, equality and inclusiveness (DEI) initiatives are to make a material difference at law firms, research has shown | New Law Journal
• In the #US, rats could soon have better birth-control access than women
• Training contract, apprenticeship, self-fund SQE or paralegal – which route into the profession should I take? - Legal Cheek
• Judge Joan Donoghue has been appointed vice president of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) | New Law Journal