22nd September - Law News

Edition 4287: 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: Rupert Murdoch, the hard-right media mogul, announced he will step down as chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp. His son, Lachlan Murdoch, will become sole chairman of both companies

Focus of the Day Legal News: Law firm leaders need to maintain dialogue with their workers and manage expectations in periods of financial stress. Full story - The Global Legal Post  

 

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

• Legal tech jobs will become more diverse as AI adoption spreads - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/lpER0
• A prisoner who was initially handed a 15-month sentence after being found guilty of attempting to steal a coat and mobile phone has been released 18 years later. Danny Weatherson was just 17 years old when he was jailed https://shorturl.at/oDKL5
• MPs demand answers on delays and backlogs in whiplash portal | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/hLPW8
• Are you interested in becoming a district judge? | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/lnLPZ
• Value of UK class actions up by a third to £106bn - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/adhvR
• Physical and verbal abuse found in Brook House immigration removal centre inquiry https://shorturl.at/CNP02
• ‘Without prejudice’ letter on ADR was ‘plainly not’ | | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/vwE05

21st September - Law News

Edition 4286: 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: If your tinned tomatoes come from southern Italy, it’s likely that organised crime had a hand in getting them from the farm to the supermarket shelf. The mafia controls much of the region's agribusiness, and it's big business, adding billions of euros to its yearly turnover. So how is the mafia making all this money, when tinned tomatoes are so cheap? Based on original reporting by Tobias Jones and Ayo Awokoya, Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates. 

Focus of the Day Legal News: Commonhold is about giving leaseholders control - not getting away from service charges, a conference on leasehold reform heard today. However scepticism on the benefits of commonhold as an alternative form of home ownership emerged at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum event. Full story - The Law Society Gazette  

 

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

• Anonymous litigant barred from bitcoin costs challenge | Law Gazette https://t.co/zMp3xmLzA5
• One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts: Frank Hester, who gave Rishi Sunak’s party £5m this summer, is thought to have made huge sums from DHSC deals https://t.co/EwW1QuCAoI
• MPs urge government action over problems with whiplash portal - Legal Futures https://t.co/x6oYj5e8Oy
• Tweeting solicitor’s behaviour 'went well beyond bounds of acceptable conduct' | Law Gazette https://t.co/x5QKCrKTbT
• Inside Tiktok's real-life frenzies - from riots to false murder accusations https://t.co/9SydJ0aVUp
• The joy of plural pronouns in legal drafting | Law Gazette https://t.co/uzc6KKZj7n
• Northern Ireland lawyers address European domestic violence conference | Irish Legal News https://t.co/7qDpSBqCGA