5th April - Law News

Edition 5213 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: Sharp Corp Ltd (Respondent) v Viterra BV (previously known as Glencore Agriculture BV) (Appellant) Case ID: UKSC/2023/0029

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

• Call for return of family legal aid as cases rise | New Law Journal
• The niece and grand-niece of the deceased commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Gen Qasem Soleimani, have been arrested, the #US State Department has said
• A teaching union has warned that a "masculinity crisis is brewing" in UK schools after almost a quarter of female teachers it surveyed reported that they have been subject to misogynistic abuse from a pupil in the last year
• The age at which millions of people can claim their state pension is starting to rise to 67 from Monday, when the monthly payments also go up. The current state pension age is 66 but this will increase in stages over the next two years until it reaches 67
• The leaders of 23 Democratic-run #US states have sued to block new mail-in voting restrictions that were issued in an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump earlier this week
• ‘Young people want to come together’: experts respond to mass teen meet-ups in Clapham. Academics and youth workers say cuts to services and lack of public space help explain recent unrest in south London
• Architect of the Easter Rising, hanged as a traitor: for Roger Casement, a pardon still seems far away