11th May - Law News

Edition 4884: 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: Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd and another

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

• The prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance faces a new unrelated charge, the BBC has been told. Christian Brückner is due in court next week accused of insulting a member of prison staff
• A plane aborted take-off on a Gatwick runway after its co-pilot muddled up his left and right, investigators have found. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the error resulted in the aircraft's brakes catching fire
• RICS: House prices in Scotland rise slowly | Scottish Legal News
• Sycamore Gap vandals guilty of chopping down tree in Northumberland: Daniel Michael Graham, 39, from Carlisle, and Adam Carruthers, 32, from Wigton in Cumbria, were each convicted of two counts of criminal damage
• Newspaper pays class action firm damages for 'client pressure' libel - Legal Futures
• Man who carried out £100,000 garden shed fraud jailed for three years | Scottish Legal News
• Oghenochuko Ojiri, Bargain Hunt expert admits failing to report sales to 'Hezbollah financier': Hezbollah is a Shia Muslim political and military group in Lebanon opposed to Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands. The British government deems the organisation as detrimental to Israel's interests and it is therefore banned.