14th December - Law News

Edition 4370: 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: A scandal involving the co-founder of the conservative group Moms for Liberty, Bridget Ziegler, who was asked to resign from her position on the Sarasota County School Board in Florida, US

Focus of the Day Legal News:  Campaigners lobbying against what they call a ‘predatory claims culture’ have called for tighter regulation of the term ‘no win, no fee’ in advertisements. A report by a group called Fair Civil Justice (FCJ) said that consumers are increasingly exposed to ‘widespread and targeted’ advertisements from claimant firms. Such advertisements, it is suggested, consistently understate and fail to highlight the risks of litigation, while overstating the potential benefits. 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

• SRA admits it has “a long way to go” on diversity - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/gikJL
• Europe has made a great leap forward in regulating AI. Now the rest of the world must step up https://shorturl.at/mnGS6
• Post Office investigator dismissed victims as ‘crooks’, Horizon scandal inquiry hears | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/mADU1
• Law firm launches legal recruitment business for in-house teams - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/aqwyP
• Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal halves Solicitors Regulation Authority's costs in solicitor's withdrawn application to terminate suspension | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/fgyTZ
• Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology’. Equalities minister has written to Museum of London over a study that examined plague victims’ ethnicities http://tinyurl.com/bbuam56s
• Ministry of Justice to relocate 50 roles to Wrexham under government's Places for Growth programme | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/3bn8vjcr
  

13th December - Law News

Edition 4369: 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: New pictures from a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza show bodies piled up following an Israeli attack. Witnesses say a number of people, including women, children and babies, were killed execution-style by Israeli forces while they were sheltering inside the school.

Focus of the Day Legal News:  The average time from issue to trial on the small claims track hit an all-time high in the last quarter, with litigants having to wait an average of 55.6 weeks. This is three weeks longer than the previous quarter, which itself was a record figure, and 3.5 weeks longer than the same quarter in 2022, according to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). 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

• Police have released CCTV footage showing the last known movements of a missing woman. Gaynor Lord, 55, was reported missing in Norwich after failing to return home from work on Friday afternoon https://t.co/EO4pUp8C4h
• Birss: Data standards can deliver “transformative” civil justice change - Legal Futures https://t.co/cjsBnUcTR0
• A man who posed as a model agent to persuade children and young women to send him sexually explicit images before threatening to share them online has been jailed for two years. Matthew McMahon will spend a further three years on licence https://t.co/x1ORdwKFjZ
• Thames Water is facing a "seminal moment", its chairman has said, during an intense grilling by MPs on the firm's financial performance. Senior management admitted the company did not have enough money to pay off a £190m loan due in April next year https://t.co/aoubbC8nT9
• Campaigners say the death of an asylum seeker on the Bibby Stockholm is "not a surprise" and are calling for all migrants on board to be taken off. The man took his own life on the barge in Dorset where hundreds of men are housed https://t.co/bK89oEgGNF
• PI firms diversifying after failing to make a go of whiplash claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/PnGT2pHjtu
• Proposed constitutional changes risk introducing new ‘harmful stereotypes’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ixmgIcOk61