10th April - Law News

Edition 5218 LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.

Today's Highlighted Video: Eco-Sud and two others (Respondents) v Minister of Environment, Solid Waste and Climate Change and another (Appellants) (Mauritius) Case ID: JCPC/2023/0070

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

• Judge: Unqualified agency advocates "risk undermining legal system" - Legal Futures
• More than 20,000 students have been told they were given maintenance loans and grants in error and now face demands to pay the money back. The students, who are all studying weekend courses, received letters from the Student Loans Company
• Ben Roberts-Smith: Why decorated soldier's war crime case is so historic for #Australia
• Magistrate who shouted at colleague sanctioned | Law Gazette
• Motor finance – the FCA is more worried about banks than consumers - Legal Futures
• SRA bars employee from roles at firms following drug convictions | Law Gazette