10th June - Law News

Edition 4183: 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 Story: A Indian man was slapped on the face and hit with slippers in public for allegedly harassing a college student in Karnataka's Udipi district on Friday. Video of the incident shot from the scene showed the man requesting the locals to let him go as the girl hit him on his head and face with her slippers. He makes no attempts to retort and continues to face the assault as villagers watch on. 

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 feed):

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Puberty blockers will only be prescribed to children attending gender identity services as part of clinical research, NHS England has announced, children's gender services said there were "gaps in evidence" around the drugs https://shorturl.at/jwQ25
  
• #French media have lauded a young "hero with a backpack" for his attempts to thwart a knife attack in Annecy which left four children seriously injured. Henri, 24, was filmed chasing the suspect and swinging his bag at him https://shorturl.at/agsGO
  
• Boris Johnson is to step down as an MP with immediate effect after receiving the Partygate report. That report by the MP-led Privileges Committee looked into whether he misled Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street https://shorturl.at/gktT6
  
• n defence of partnership – London firm moves to full equity - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/epCGH
  
• The publisher of the Mirror newspapers has made a court apology to the former Coronation Street actor Nikki Sanderson after admitting using private investigators to get stories about her https://shorturl.at/loAR9
  
• Trainee conveyancer "used skills" in school place fraud - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/fsNXZ
  
• A boy who died after being followed by police on his e-bike and then colliding with an ambulance has been named locally as 15-year-old Saul Cookson https://shorturl.at/doIQV
  
• Supreme Court backs Jack Daniel's in dog toy row #US https://shorturl.at/iDRW0
  
• Solicitor handed record SRA fine for accounts rules breaches - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/cNOVX
• Labour shadow minister Bambos Charalambous suspended over complaint - Mr Charalambous is a solicitor and worked for Hackney Council in their housing legal team before becoming an MP in 2017 https://shorturl.at/aABOT
  
• Tesco could be breaking law on Clubcard pricing, says Which? https://shorturl.at/ajtIS
  

9th June - Law News

Edition 4182: 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 Law News/Article: 

A  claimant who offered to beat her own Part 36 offer by just 7p should face costs penalties because that offer was not genuine, a county court has ruled. District Judge Griffith, sitting in the Birmingham County Court in Gohil v Advantage Insurance Company Limited, agreed the claimant had made a ‘tactical step’ rather than offer to settle at 99.999% of the full value. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: HIV clinics in Uganda that cater to the LGBT community are warning that fewer and fewer patients are visiting. They say they're fearful after the country passed some of the harshest anti-LGBT laws in the world in March. As Tom Canetti reports, it's not just the patients that are worried - clinic donors also disappearing.

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 feed):

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Claim against law firm lost by court can proceed, appeal judges rule - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/mFMNW
  
• Agreement brings Indian market opening a step closer | | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/DIMR3
  
• Every home burglary scene now attended by officers, say police chiefs https://shorturl.at/hkoCQ
  
• Pandemic experience has given lawyers more confidence in tech - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/IPQ48
  
• Agreement brings Indian market opening a step closer | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/pvX29 
  
• “Partnership is dying” as law firms need greater agility - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/vnbs8vrn
  
• Race for new technology slowing among firms, LSB finds | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/bnyIL
  
• Solicitor failed to tell clients their claims had been struck out - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/aegQT
  
• Women who are groped on trains in East Asia face the further threat of their assault being filmed and uploaded for sale online. A year-long investigation had gone undercover to unmask the men cashing in on sexual violence https://shorturl.at/hmszS
• LGBT+: Metropolitan Police chief apologises to Peter Tatchell over past failings https://shorturl.at/oJK19
  
• Retired solicitor lambasted for 'snoring' during evidence | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/gsZ57