Edition 4006: 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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Focus of the Day Article: The government has backed a private members bill that will allow lasting
powers of attorney to be made completely online. The Lasting Power of
Attorney Bill, which brings forward government proposals to modernise the process, completed its second reading last Friday.. Full story -
The Law Society Gazette
Today's Highlighted Video Story: UKSC 2020/0202
This appeal concerns the meaning of a condition that was attached to
the grant of planning permission for a development site in the outskirts
of Swindon. The proposed development included two roads, a "North-South
access road" which ran southward from a new junction with the A420 and
continued to the southern boundary of the site, and an "East-West spine
road" which ran to the eastern boundary of the site from a roundabout on
the North-South access road. Swindon Borough Council’s planning
committee granted outline planning permission for the site subject to a
number of conditions
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