3rd December - Law News

Edition 5090: 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:  R (on the application of Ingenious Media Holdings plc and another) v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs UKSC/2015/0082

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

• More than a quarter of police forces in England and Wales have not implemented basic policies for investigating sexual offences, a report has found, four years after the rape and murder of Sarah Everard
• SRA hands out £550k in AML fines in three months - Legal Futures
• Families of some of those killed in the Hillsborough disaster fear they may once again be denied full accountability when the long-delayed report into police conduct surrounding the stadium crush is published later
• Council lawyers set up professional body for monitoring officers | Law Gazette
• What does Netanyahu want to be pardoned for and is it possible? The #Israeli prime minister is facing corruption charges that could see him sentenced to up to 10 years in prison
• Justice Secretary David Lammy has said 12 prisoners have been accidentally released in the past three weeks, two of whom are still at large. It comes on top of the 91 prisoners who were freed by mistake between April and October in England and Wales
• Paralegals or partners? 'Mazur' exposes a legal costs system completely at odds with reality - and the courts have to catch up | Law Gazette