4th July - Law News

Edition 4207: 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: Crowds have gathered outside town halls across France, joining calls for calm after six nights of riots, sparked by the fatal shooting of a Paris teenager by police. By today, the violence appeared to be easing off - police made less than 50 arrests, in sharp contrast to seven hundred the previous night.

Focus of the Day Legal News:  ‘A cautionary tale’: colleges in US states with affirmative action bans report racial disparities Data from Universities of California and Michigan show how the bans have adversely affected Black and Indigenous student enrollment. Full story - Guardian Law 

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

• Forging a career as a City lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/AMcUbfL2gh
  
• A pro-democracy campaigner who fled Hong Kong has told the BBC his life has become more dangerous because of a bounty offered for his arrest. Nathan Law, who lives in the UK, is among eight exiled activists wanted by the territory's police https://t.co/o34GeUjWzr
• Lord Clinton-Davis obituary - Labour MP, minister and European commissioner with a special focus on the environment and water pollution https://shorturl.at/puPR1
  
• Ex-Debenhams staff still waiting for tribunal to sort redundancy claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/PURFaLmVTR
  
• 8 top law firms make 'gender equality' power list - Legal Cheek https://t.co/OFZsM0RoyP
• Interest on costs due on date of original £38m order, judge finds | Law Gazette https://t.co/npyeS5mZZf
  
• Home Office criticised over failure to tighten shotgun laws after Plymouth shooting https://shorturl.at/AHTUW
• Ofcom to investigate episode of Jacob Rees-Mogg's GB News show covering a breaking news story about a civil trial verdict involving Donald Trump. The regulator received 40 complaints https://t.co/R1SodidyJe
  

3rd July - Law News

Edition 4206: 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: Teenage pregnancy is a big issue worldwide, including in Ghana. More than 100,000 girls there drop out of school every year to have a baby. But a government programme to encourage pregnant girls and young mothers to continue their education is showing results.

Focus of the Day Legal News:  A financial claim in divorce cannot proceed if one spouse dies, the Supreme Court has held - The court unanimously dismissed the appeal in Unger & anor (in substitution for Hasan) v Ul-Hasan (deceased) & anor [2023] UKSC 22. Full story - New Law Journal 

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

• Social media apps will have to shield children from dangerous stunts - Changes to the online safety bill will order platforms such as TikTok to protect young users from harm or injury https://t.co/fBZ0MziEPj
  
• The Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) has proposed a 12% rise in its budget, which is mainly funded through solicitors’ practising certificate fees collected in October | NLJ https://shorturl.at/HIN34
• World law school rankings: Top 20 spots for Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL, King’s and Edinburgh - Legal Cheek https://t.co/9tztCpVUFY
  
• UK high court to look at legal battle over WhatsApp evidence for Covid inquiry https://shorturl.at/ampZ7
• Does digitisation work? We asked our court users - Legal Futures https://t.co/lIIh7KsYZy
• Permission has been granted for a legal challenge against the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for failing to raise solicitors’ criminal defence rates by the minimum 15% recommended by Lord Bellamy’s independent review on criminal legal aid | NLJ https://t.co/kGJT4zd8sE
  
• Much still to do, but little money left: MPs savage court modernisation - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/qswF0
• The Countess of Wemyss, Amanda Fielding has lost her appeal against an art dealer over a painting sold for £1.15m that later re-sold for £8m more | NLJ https://t.co/Iu5JOBeC0K