12th July - Law News

Edition 4215: 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: The issues are: (1) Does the Quincecare duty have any application in a case where the relevant payment instruction was not issued to the bank by an agent of the bank’s customer? (2) If not, should either (i) the Quincecare duty be extended so as to include the obligations contended for by Mrs Philipp in relation to authorised push payment fraud, or (ii) the law recognise or impose such obligations on a paying bank as incidents of its duty to exercise reasonable skill and care in and about executing an instruction? (3) Should the Court determine issues 1 and/or 2 above on a summary judgment and/or strike-out application?

Focus of the Day Legal News:  Publishing its ‘Progress on the courts and tribunals reform programme’ report last week, the Public Accounts Committee expressed serious concerns that HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has just £120m left of its total £1.3bn budget despite completing only 24 of 44 reform projects. 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

• Ex-Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison after 53 years https://tinyurl.com/y9tsrens
  
• SRA granted civil restraint order against struck-off solicitor - Legal Futures  https://tinyurl.com/3tdp6kyy
  
• Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta claiming AI training infringed copyright - I started work as a prison officer full of optimism, but in a rat-infested jail I saw the ugly, violent reality https://tinyurl.com/4m2dfudc
  
• I started work as a prison officer full of optimism, but in a rat-infested jail I saw the ugly, violent reality https://tinyurl.com/27rbyw8h
  
• Aretha Franklin sons fight over will found under sofa https://t.co/AMrnTNroiX
  
• The Guardian view on rape cases: the government has a long way to go https://tinyurl.com/5463ebwj
  
• Double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya was discriminated against by rules forcing her to lower her testosterone levels in order to compete, the European Court of Human Rights has found https://tinyurl.com/48hwvmdk
  
• Tory rebels offered concessions on asylum legislation - Ministers axe plan obliging Braverman to send thousands of asylum seekers who arrive this summer to Rwanda https://tinyurl.com/msd4s7rh
  
   

11th July - Law News

Edition 4214: 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: In Ukraine, fighting continues along the front lines. Kyiv says Russian missiles struck an aid distribution centre at a school in the Zaporizhia region. Authorities say four people were killed and 13 injured in the attack on Monday morning.

Focus of the Day Legal News:  Judge calls latest stage of Frederick Barclay’s battle with ex-wife a ‘charade’. Businessman’s barrister says money due to be paid to Hiroko Barclay is held up by lenders. 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

• Campaigners say ministers ‘too quick’ to celebrate increased rape convictions https://t.co/SpOe5BOxtE
  
• Former #US national gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was stabbed multiple times in prison on Sunday during a fight with another inmate https://t.co/1eBrYeJtCN
  
• Jurors in the trial of nurse Lucy Letby have retired to consider their verdicts. Ms Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others at Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016 https://shorturl.at/awEHK
  
• Claims made by the mother at the heart of the BBC presenter scandal are "rubbish", a lawyer representing the young person has said. In a letter to the BBC, the lawyer makes claims that throw doubt on the story that has dominated front pages https://t.co/cFDf0nvF3X
  
• A van spotted with several rolls of carpet sticking dangerously out of the front passenger window and the rear doors has been pulled over by police. The driver was stopped in Ashcroft Road, Luton, on Saturday afternoon https://shorturl.at/dfkBG
  
• Thumbs up emoji valid acceptance of contract, says Canadian court - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qEFELgaPYd
  
• There’s no law says a charity can’t hold views you disagree with. Even on gender-identity issues https://t.co/5GGvkbQb1w
  
• ‘Securing an SQE scholarship helped me realise my solicitor dream’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/PBfyIoQRe6