30th October - Law News

Edition 5056: 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

• HMRC cuts child benefit for 23,500 families based on incomplete travel data. UK tax agency apologises after flagging people as having emigrated, often when they return via different routes
• The ECHR: legal and political fault lines | Law Gazette
• Pioneering AI law firm untroubled by impact of Mazur - Legal Futures
• Joiner who installed wonky plasterboard walls in kitchen ordered to pay homeowner £20k in remedial costs | Scottish Legal News
• #Bangladesh expats win means to vote – could they sway the next election? They have had the right to vote for some time, but no system was established to allow them to take part in elections
• Belfast event hears of ‘grave and unprecedented challenge’ to International Criminal Court | Irish Legal News
• Why Riek Machar’s trial brings ‘existentially high’ stakes for #SouthSudan. Some see the first vice president’s trial as a provocation that has set the country on a path to war