3rd April - Law News

Edition 4846: 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:  Video has emerged of three government-funded security guards kicking and stomping on an Aboriginal man on a Darwin footpath. The Northern Territory is the only jurisdiction that funds private security guards to conduct so-called "quasi-policing" on public streets. Despite an expert review calling for the system to be scrapped – the government has doubled down on the program, with critics now calling for federal intervention. And a warning this story includes confronting video of the attack.

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

• A woman who was groomed by a predatory police officer has received an apology from the Metropolitan Police after the force blamed her and spread false information about her mental health instead of investigating him
• SRA investigation into Prigozhin lawyers was "supine" - Legal Futures
• Tribunal fines solicitor of 50 years who tried to claim ‘undertaking’ should be explicitly stated | Law Gazette
• Legal regulators have "key role" in improving access to justice - Legal Futures
• Forcing the abandonment of new commonsense, evidence-based guidelines is a new low for a party that once prided itself on justice reform: Labour’s populist pantomime over sentencing rules plays into the hands of the right
• Frontline regulators urged to tackle access to justice crisis in England & Wales | Law Gazette
• NHS trust apologises as man’s tumour death investigated for manslaughter: Richard Harris, 71, died last July after series of errors at troubled Royal Sussex County hospital in Brighton