13th January - Law News

Edition 4766: 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: A Palestinian film's been shortlisted at the Academy Awards - in the best international feature category. 'From Ground Zero' is showing in cinemas across the US.

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

• Commercial and corporate fee earners in London with more than eight years’ experience are valued at £566 per hour, following an uplift to the solicitors’ guideline hourly rates | New Law Journal
• Liverpool law firm High Street Solicitors collapse leaves unsecured creditors £9.5m out of pocket, administrators confirm | Law Gazette
• Probation: 'Too few staff, with too little experience, managing too many offenders'
• The High Court has swooped to the rescue of 79 ex-couples, following a colossal computer error that threatened to render their divorce orders void | New Law Journal
• 'My father should die in prison" - daughter of Dominique Pelicot in exclusive interview #France
• A former tattooist who left a woman "looking like a gargoyle" after giving her botched face fillers had been posing as a doctor at his aesthetics clinic
• California police launch stings and arrests under new tough-on-crime measure. People held in jail for shoplifting and drug possession after voters shift right with Prop 36: ‘Officers are jubilant’ #US