4th October - Law News

Edition 4299: 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: An obscure religious movement, believed to be promoting an imminent end-of-the-world ideology, has been accused of engaging in sexual violence and forced marriage of its own members, including children. The Socorro Bayanihan Services, which was originally a civic organisation, has morphed into a quasi-religious group that is also allegedly involved in extorting money from its members, as well as the drug trade in the town of Socorro, an island in Mindanao. The organisation, now known as Omega de Salonera, has at least 3,500 members, including 1,580 children. They are reportedly sequestered in a heavily guarded mountain enclave. In recent weeks, at least eight children managed to escape from the mountain community and provided harrowing first-person testimonies to the authorities in Socorro town. Former members of the religious movement say they believed its leader was Jesus reincarnated. 

 

Focus of the Day Legal News: MPs have raised concerns about a possible conflict of interest that the incoming local government ombudsman may have with another new role as chair of the Law Society’s management board. 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

• Fixed recoverable costs: Questions must be answered | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/bsDI5
  
• Judge issues gag order after Trump’s comments on court clerk in civil trial #US https://shorturl.at/lpSZ7
  
• JR challenge over LAA's 'overly restrictive' approach to legal aid billing dismissed by High Court | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/fkpF1
• Former social worker alleges she was dismissed over menopause symptoms https://shorturl.at/DOWX5
  
• Dame Sue Carr has been sworn in as the 98th head of the judiciary - taking the title of lady chief justice of England and Wales | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/uyCRT
• The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has, for the first time, published rules of engagement for civilian hackers involved in conflicts. The war watchdog warns unprecedented numbers of people are joining patriotic cyber-gangs https://tinyurl.com/zthdja88
  
• SRA shuts down law firm Axiom Ince through an intervention after directors were suspended | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/sctw7ya9
  

3rd October - Law News

Edition 4298: 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 world is witnessing an epochal shift, according to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis: from the now-dead capitalism, to “technofeudalism”. In his latest book, the former Greek politician - who in 2015, at the height of the Greek debt crisis, was catapulted from academic obscurity to Minister of Finance - argues that insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies in the wake of the financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic have ended up supercharging big tech's hold over every aspect of the economy. And capitalism's twin pillars - markets and profit - have been replaced with big tech's platforms and rents; while we, the “cloud serfs”, increase these companies’ power with every online click and scroll

Focus of the Day Legal News: Dame Sue Carr has been sworn in as the lady chief justice of England and Wales. She was sworn in at a ceremony held today at the Royal Courts of Justice, where she took the judicial oath. Full story - Scottish Legal 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

• Transgender people may be banned from single-sex hospital wards under plans to restore "common sense" in the NHS, the health secretary says. Speaking at the Tory conference, Steve Barclay announced a consultation on strengthening the protections for women https://tinyurl.com/bpana6cm
  
• All Onewheel electric skateboards sold worldwide will be recalled after four people died while riding them. US watchdog the Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled all 300,000 devices sold in the US, citing a risk of crashes causing serious injuries https://tinyurl.com/tzn9pvhm
• 'A prison officer will get killed': Staff warn of chaos and violence inside flagship super prison https://tinyurl.com/56fz9pht
• "Shocking and abhorrent" conduct - SDT explains Bretherton strike-off - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/3s98n29m
  
• Sunak fails to hand WhatsApp messages from time as chancellor to Covid inquiry https://tinyurl.com/43kuecyu
• Class action specialists secure biggest ever law firm financing deal - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/bpap5njp
  
• People jailed for killing their partner will lose parental rights, Tories to announce. Justice secretary to tell conference he will introduce ‘Jade’s law’ later this year to protect families from jailed abusers https://tinyurl.com/48vmy7sc