9th December - Law News

Edition 5096: 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:  Hayward v Zurich Insurance Company plc UKSC/2015/0099

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

• SRA will take "sympathetic" approach to pre-Mazur breaches - Legal Futures
• Solicitor twice cautioned for cocaine possession has conditions on practice lifted | Law Gazette
• ‘A move towards an authoritarian state’: what those with trial experience think of removing juries. David Lammy plans to cut the number of jury trials in England and Wales. A defendant, a victim, a barrister, a KC, a judge and a juror have concerns
• Why historic law firm Wright Hassall went into administration: Failed mergers, falling revenue and partner losses | Law Gazette
• Forcing UK banks to support credit unions would help keep loan sharks at bay
• Senior male barrister disbarred for sexually harassing newly-qualified junior - Legal Cheek
• A #SouthKorea court has sentenced a woman who blackmailed football star Son Heung-min to four years in prison. The woman in her 20s and her accomplice, a man in his 40s, were found guilty of blackmailing the former Tottenham captain