19th October - Law News

Edition 5045: 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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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

• Lady Simler, justice of the Supreme Court, has been appointed president of the Expert Witness Institute (EWI), replacing Lord Hodge, who is retiring | New Law Journal
• Laurence Fox’s libel claim over racism accusations to go to retrial. Court of appeal rules in former actor’s favour after finding tweets calling him racist did cause harm to his reputation
• Building media relations proficiency into a business driver - The Global Legal Post
• The Bars, Faculty of Advocates and law societies of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have come together to accuse politicians of putting lawyers at risk through their use of ‘irresponsible and dangerous’ language | New Law Journal
• Weapons maker Saab ‘directly linked’ to human rights breach after missile found in South Australian Indigenous area #Australia
• Gen AI adoption more than doubles among US in-house counsel, ACC study shows - The Global Legal Post
• Unclaimed funds left after an opt-out collective action has settled should be given to a justice charity rather than reverting in full to the defendants, lawyers or funders, the Access to Justice Foundation (AJF) has recommended | New Law Journal