7th February - Law News

Edition 4791: 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: The US president has used a national day devoted to girls and women in sport to declare events, and places like changing rooms, should be separated by sex - not gender. Loughlin Patrick reports Mr Trump is tightening the strings attached to public funding for sports, as his government pursues policy changes around transgender people in 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

• Law Society and Bar Council attack LSB’s “huge” budget hike - Legal Futures
• Lord Justice Coulson says costs section 70 of Solicitors Act is 'astonishingly old-fashioned' | Law Gazette
• Late financier Evelyn de Rothschild accused of abuse during banking career: Several women claim City grandee exploited his position to harass or sexually assault them in the 1990s
• Law firms switch indemnity insurers in “more plentiful” market - Legal Futures
• The UK government will lay legislation today that confirms a new national living wage of £12.21, and a new national minimum wage of £10 per hour from April | Scottish Legal News
• The government has decided to demolish Grenfell Tower, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner told a meeting with bereaved relatives and survivors
• Former European Court of Human Rights president Dr Síofra O’Leary has joined UCD Sutherland School of Law as adjunct full professor | Irish Legal News