17th November - Law News

Edition 4343: 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:  Canada Square Operations Ltd (Appellant) v Potter (Respondent) - The Limitation Act 1980 sets out the time limits (or limitation periods) for bringing different kinds of legal claims. Section 32(1)(b) postpones the commencement of the ordinary limitation period where any fact relevant to the claimant's right of action has been "deliberately concealed" from them by the defendant. Section 32(2) provides that, for the purposes of section 32(1), "deliberate commission of a breach of duty in circumstances in which it is unlikely to be discovered for some time amounts to deliberate concealment of the facts involved in that breach of duty."

Focus of the Day Legal News: 
SRA defends oversight of Axiom Ince and promises review of ‘accumulator firm’ supervision. Regulator says it uncovered ‘sophisticated’ suspected dishonesty including ‘falsified bank statements and letters’. 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

• Litigation funders criticise government's plan to amend Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill to deal with PACCAR judgment | Law Gazette https://t.co/BqDtYJnLS0
• Peers and MPs pledge to block Sunak’s Rwanda plan as Braverman labels it ‘magical thinking’ https://t.co/2QXdKaka7y
• Junior lawyers want employers to let them refuse work for ethical reasons - report | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2s4kbdp8
• Sixty women at MoD complain of widespread ‘toxic’ and ‘hostile’ behaviour https://tinyurl.com/458xf5uc
  
• Eighteen law firms win High Court fight against rival firm over group litigation order | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/spnu82nr
• New initiative leads to early resolution of 130 cases at Glasgow Sheriff Court in three days | Scottish Legal News https://tinyurl.com/3sr9ky6e
• Eight former and current Met Police officers are being investigated for gross misconduct regarding failings in the case of serial killer Stephen Port. Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor were all murdered between 2014 & 2015 https://tinyurl.com/3jzedr2b
  

16th November - Law News

Edition 4342: 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:  R (on the application AAA (Syria) and others) (Respondents/Cross Appellants) v SSHD (Appellant) - These appeals arise out of claims brought by individual asylum seekers ("the claimants") who travelled to the UK in small boats (or, in one case, by lorry). The Home Secretary declared the claimants' claims for asylum to be inadmissible, intending that they should be removed to Rwanda where their asylum claims would be decided by the Rwandan authorities. Her decisions were made in accordance with the Migration and Economic Development Partnership ("MEDP") between the UK and Rwanda, recorded in a Memorandum of Understanding and a series of diplomatic "Notes Verbales".

Focus of the Day Legal News:  A law firm has been told to ensure all future advertisements feature genuine testimonials after misleading claims were made in two TikTok posts. 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

• Green contracts initiative shifts focus to adoption - Legal Futures https://t.co/GPGbENIOgZ
• A police force has said it failed a woman who was stabbed to death by a former colleague who had stalked her. Derbyshire Police has apologised to the family of Gracie Spinks, after a jury at her inquest concluded she was unlawfully killed https://tinyurl.com/mr476yaj
• Solicitor struck off for lying to friend about training contract offer - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/yppzw6wb
• 'Dynamite' evidence was hidden from us, says ex-Post Office lawyer in public inquiry | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2uz5r8hs
  
• A #Russian anti-war activist has been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for replacing supermarket pricing labels with anti-war messages. Sasha Skochilenko, 33, an artist from St Petersburg, has been in detention since April last year https://tinyurl.com/3ysujkwe
  
• Law Society says government should focus on clearing backlog after Rwanda Supreme Court judgment | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/4s2ke24r
• Home Secretary James Cleverly has defended emergency fascistic laws to revive plans to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda, as a former Supreme Court justice said the measures would be extraordinary https://tinyurl.com/y2amdcm3