17th April - Law News

Edition 4860: 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:  Victims of deposed Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's brutal rule still live in fear, seven months after her regime fell. The BBC spoke with half a dozen victims of the Awami League’s program of forced disappearances who said they are still scared because their captors are free, still active members of the country’s military establishment. Now, after anti-government protests forced Hasina out last year, the scale of the clandestine detention centres - and the treatment of those kept inside them for weeks, months and in some cases, years - has started coming to light.

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

• Judge "helped duty solicitor avoid security checks" - Legal Futures
• High Court dismisses costs appeal against international firm Schillings | Law Gazette
• Gender critical campaigners win at UK supreme court over definition of woman. Judges rule that Equality Act definition excludes transgender women holding gender recognition certificates
• 'Corruption in the #India judiciary is a virus that is spreading': In the wake of recovering bundles of currency notes in a fire at Justice Yashwant Varma’s residence, senior advocate and activist Prashant Bhushan speaks
• Judge "helped duty solicitor avoid security checks" - Legal Futures
• Changing how solicitors hold client money - views from the coalface - Legal Futures
• The cutting down of an ancient oak in north London was ordered on health and safety grounds by the pub chain that owns Toby Carvery after it was told the tree was dead. The felled oak was estimated to be about 500 years old