1st December - Law News

Edition 4357: 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:  King Charles III has urged world leaders gathered in Dubai to make the COP28 climate summit a "turning point". In a speech on the second day of the conference, the monarch warned that despite some progress "we remain so dreadfully far off track". He called for "genuine transformational action", a day after the meeting opened with stark warnings on global warming.

Focus of the Day Legal News:  Court of Appeal’s historic ruling on mediation heralds “new era of positive change”. Campaigners have welcomed ruling that ends 20-year precedent preventing courts from ordering mediation. 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

• MoJ identifies where, but not why, OIC cases are being delayed - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/44pdv48j
• Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to sit on the #US Supreme Court, has died aged 93. She died on Friday morning in Phoenix, Arizona due to complications related to dementia and a respiratory illness, a statement by the US Supreme Court said https://t.co/rmJXYW1fgF
  
• "A new era of positive change" - intervenors welcome ADR ruling - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/3c5ux73d
• Hackers are increasing their attacks on BookingDOTcom customers by posting adverts on dark web forums asking for help finding victims. Cyber-criminals are offering up to $2,000 (£1,600) for login details of hotels https://tinyurl.com/2pjpn36p
  
• Some lawyers' conduct poses "significant risk to the rule of law" - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/4knhdmw3
• Rugby players to apply for class action lawsuit in legal case over brain injuries https://tinyurl.com/3ukhckze
• Man charged after woman dies during ‘slapping therapy’ at Wiltshire hotel. Hongchi Xiao accused of manslaughter by gross negligence of Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, who was seeking help for diabetes https://tinyurl.com/ed2aa8n7
  

30th November - Law News

Edition 4356: 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:  Wolverhampton City Council & others(Respondents) v London Gypsies & Travellers & others (Appellants) - Does the court have the power to grant "newcomer injunctions", i.e. injunctions against persons who are unknown and unidentified as at the date of the order, and who have not yet performed, or threatened to perform, the acts which the injunction prohibits? If so, on what basis and subject to what safeguards?

Focus of the Day Legal News: 
The Criminal Bar Association has launched a training programme for counsel prosecuting and defending rape and serious sexual assault (RASSO) cases. 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

• Law Society wins disclosure application against government before legal aid JR challenge | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/3cck6u65
• A Met officer who Tasered a 10-year-old girl twice after she threatened her mother with garden shears cleared of gross misconduct. PC Jonathan Broadhead was accused of using force "which was not necessary, reasonable and proportionate" against her https://tinyurl.com/ycpd3nzj
• Employment tribunal finds solicitor whose emails were ignored did not suffer age discrimination | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2szdjvvk
• Court of Appeal: Judges can order parties to engage in ADR - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/mrbu93mh
  
• The family of a foster mum killed by a boy she was looking after said they had been let down by prosecutors and had not got "meaningful justice". The boy, aged 12 at the time, ran over Marcia Grant, 60, with her own car in Sheffield in April https://tinyurl.com/ypy3n3rr
• What are the Tories’ options for cutting net migration to Britain? People have entered the UK in record numbers since the points-based system came in and ministers want to reverse this https://tinyurl.com/atktz3nt
• NHS ‘unethical’ in recruiting nurses from short-staffed countries. Hiring from ‘red-list’ nations risks destabilising healthcare overseas, warns Royal College of Nursing https://tinyurl.com/y4sarjfm