20th September - Law News

Edition 4285: 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: On Wednesday 13 September 2023 Nick Vineall KC, Chair of the Bar, set out a view of the future of the Bar - followed by a conversation chaired by Fiona Rutherford, Chief Executive of JUSTICE.

Focus of the Day Legal News: One in five judgments by the senior courts and tribunals of England and Wales are not being published, the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting in England and Wales (ICLR) has found. It said the “main problem” was the failure by judges to send their judgments to The National Archives (TNA) for publication, a problem “most noticeable” in the High Court. Full story - Legal Futures  

 

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

• CA allows funder to challenge financial remedy consent order - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/tJU24
• Torture, rape, killings: An #Indian state's brutal conflict https://shorturl.at/oqxGR
  
• News focus: Upfront property information - a jungle of words | Law Gazette https://t.co/4YnT93xbsN
• NI High Court: Complaints sent to Law Society of Northern Ireland were not defamatory | Irish Legal News https://t.co/E3E4EdiSvn
• The purging of the Labour socialists by Keir Starmer: Diane Abbott attacks Labour investigation as 'fraudulent' https://shorturl.at/lnwJS
  
• 'No one will believe you': child in care encouraged to plead guilty | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/pEOT9
• Litigation funder pays libel damages to celebrity couple - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/uvMT0
  

19th September - Law News

Edition 4284: 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: India on Tuesday denied Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations of "potential" Indian security services' links to the killing of a Sikh rights activist and expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in retaliation to Ottawa's expulsion of an Indian official over the case, in fresh strains to the bilateral ties. Indian media that is increasingly the voice of its hard-right ultra conservative BJP government condemn the accusation

Focus of the Day Legal News: A public inquiry into a migrant removal centre found a toxic culture with detainees forcibly moved while naked and some subjected to unnecessary pain. It found migrants at Brook House, near Gatwick Airport, were subjected to degrading treatment and to racist and derogatory language by staff. Full story - BBC News  

 

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

• Charity warns Alex Chalk to act over legal aid for immigration and asylum. Lord chancellor failing to carry out duty on provision of services in England and Wales, says Public Law Project https://shorturl.at/gAQS7
• Second court forced to close over RAAC safety fears | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/swIV3
• Marilyn Manson fined for blowing nose on concert photographer https://t.co/AusNqq7X7r
• #Danish artist told to court repay museum €67,000 after turning in blank canvasses https://shorturl.at/ptxF6
  
• Clients ordered to pay costs assigned by firm to non-lawyer - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/hqtIP
  
• Research: Legal sector workers amongst happiest in UK - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3dwY7CZQpu
• Post Office workers who have had wrongful convictions for theft and false accounting overturned are to be offered £600,000 each in compensation, the government has said https://shorturl.at/hjpQ8