4th December - Law News

Edition 4360: 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:  Skippers who navigate dangerously or under the influence of drugs and alcohol in Western Australia will face hefty fines and jail time, as new figures showed on-water incidents claimed 57 lives in the past seven years.

Focus of the Day Legal News:  Courts can order parties to engage in mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, the Court of Appeal has clarified. Full story - New Law Journal 

 

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

• Court of Appeal gives judges green light to order parties into mediation - The Global Legal Post https://t.co/IT4SsRyspt
• Four people, including two children, have been killed & three others injured following a stabbing in Queens, New York. Police called to the Far Rockaway neighbourhood in the early hours of Sunday found the victims in a home that had been set on fire #US https://t.co/x1grEqUS9s
  
• SQE2: Pass rate climbs slightly to 79% - Legal Cheek https://t.co/I7fkA7otSd
• A man has died and two others, including a British man, have been injured in a knife and hammer attack on a street in central Paris. The attack occurred near the Eiffel Tower shortly before 21:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Saturday #France https://tinyurl.com/45n474mu
  
• Axiom Ince: Regulator rules out immediate one-off levy on solicitors as claims hit £33 million  - Legal Cheek https://tinyurl.com/y5ua9zap
• A&O remains tight-lipped over hacker ransom - Legal Cheek https://t.co/yilkpVLOp2
• A #US prison inmate has been charged with attempted murder after stabbing Derek Chauvin, the ex-police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd https://t.co/ZJfcq5hizi
  

3rd December - Law News

Edition 4359: 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:  Truce negotiations between Israel and Hamas, which is a designated terrorist organisation in the UK, have reached a "dead end" according to Israel's intelligence agency. Israel has resumed its indiscriminate killing in Gaza.

 

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

• The Weekly Round-up: Gaza reprieve, Covid-19 Inquiry continues, and oil-spill litigation in the Niger Delta - UK Human Rights Blog https://shorturl.at/agI36
• Magistrate given formal warning after researching defendant online   - Legal Cheek https://t.co/sZ69zSEwow
• Senior Post Office lawyer Jarnail Singh was congratulated on conviction, Horizon inquiry hears | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/frtBO
• The Ministry of Justice faces multi-million-pound cuts, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) analysis of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement | New Law Journal https://t.co/BPndQYxi9q
  
• Criminal Bar Association chief welcomes IPP sentence reform | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/CS029
• Local authorities have a duty to provide accommodation within a reasonable period of time rather than immediately, the Supreme Court has held in a unanimous landmark judgment | New Law Journal https://t.co/7CwmPopsRO
• Ministry of Justice investigating causes of 385,000 backlog of whiplash cases in Official Injury Claim portal | Law Gazette https://t.co/N58etrMRBL