7th August - Law News

Edition 4241: 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 lawyers of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan are challenging the decision to jail the former leader over the weekend. Mr Khan is currently in prison, sentenced to three years for not declaring money gained by selling state gifts while he was in office, something the former prime minister denies. The current ruling means Mr Khan will be disqualified from standing in upcoming elections.

 Focus of the Day Legal News: A local authority can vary a nuisance abatement notice against noisy premises even where that reduces its restrictions, the High Court has held. 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

• Financial planning for the junior Bar - smart guide to a self-employed junior barrister’s tax obligations | COUNSEL https://t.co/UfxL4BS3zJ
  
• Study reveals law as one of the most jargon-filled professions - Legal Cheek https://t.co/D0Zc9BfxpR
  
• Ian Watkins, singer jailed for sexually abusing children, ‘stabbed in prison’ https://tinyurl.com/mr65tbw9
  
• Tendering for public sector contracts: how to get into your best tendering position before the new procurement system starts in 2024 | COUNSEL https://tinyurl.com/uukzv3n8
  
• The accidental barrister: Late epiphanies and mottos to live by – the ‘backstory’ of Jo Sidhu KC, the barrister who led the Criminal Bar during its most intense period in history | COUNSEL https://tinyurl.com/576a47k7
• Will #India’s future generations forgive its decay into anti-Muslim hatred? Generations to come will have to carry the weight of what Indians did — and did not do — as their nation was torn apart https://tinyurl.com/5fvwyk5b
  
• Government green light for IP Office reform | Law Gazette https://t.co/1Cn6cwEqke
  

6th August - Law News

Edition 4240: 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: Listening to the men in the short Opinion Video above is like encountering visitors from another planet. They are serving life sentences at Angola prison, in rural Louisiana, with little to no hope for release. Many are elderly; they have not seen the outside world, or their families, for decades.

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

• Charlotte Proudman talks about the impact of misogynistic online trolling on female lawyers and asks why this is being allowed to happen in plain sight | COUNSEL https://tinyurl.com/42nsmab4
• A controversial rule which saw living costs deducted from compensation paid to wrongly imprisoned people has been scrapped https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66417103
• ULaw tutor on course to become Law Society president - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zQHbPrInzM
  
• SRA allows convicted and struck off ex-solicitor to work for law firm - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/mrxduy4p
  
• Police plan to charge #US YouTuber Kai Cenat after a video games console giveaway event he organised sparked mayhem in New York. Thousands rampaged through Union Square in anticipation of free PlayStations hurling bottles, stones and tins of paint https://tinyurl.com/5harfrmd
  
• SRA to toughen up on compliance with continuing competence rules - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/2nxfe93c
  
• Women in Texas with serious pregnancy complications will be temporarily exempted from the southern #US state's abortion ban, a judge has ruled. Judge Jessica Mangrum said there was a lack of clarity in the legislation https://tinyurl.com/3zz28v23