22nd December - Law News

Edition 4378: 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: Dasha Navalnaya, the daughter of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, discusses the disappearance of her father from prison

Focus of the Day Legal News: One of the longest job tenures in public life will come to an end with the announcement that Professor Richard Susskind is to step down as technology adviser to the lord chief justice. The futurologist and author has provided advice to six successive chief justices since his appointment by Lord Bingham in 1998. 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

• Review of SRA's handling of collapsed law firm Axiom Ince to be completed and published by next spring | Law Gazette https://t.co/aG0KQACuBI
  
• Lawyers split over action on wills to address ‘predatory marriages’ - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/3b4btt6m
  
• Solicitors Regulation Authority imposes restrictions on legal secretary who used client ID to get charity funding | Law Gazette https://t.co/4f7hfkZwFd
• The anatomy of Zionist genocide: What are the motivations behind #Israel’s genocidal acts in Gaza, and what is the way forward? http://tinyurl.com/atmw4h9y
  
• Supreme Court judgment finds artificial intelligence is not and never was the inventor behind patent applications | Law Gazette https://t.co/XkvY0gD82Z
• #Australia opener Usman Khawaja has been charged by the International Cricket Council for wearing a black armband in support of civilians in Gaza during the first Test against Pakistan http://tinyurl.com/yhcjmkhr
  
• The wife of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist who was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, has been granted political asylum in the #US http://tinyurl.com/5d2wu96k
  

21st December - Law News

Edition 4377: 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 UN Human Rights Office is calling for an immediate investigation into a ‘possible war crime’ after receiving information about Israeli forces allegedly killing Palestinian men in front of family members in northern Gaza.

Focus of the Day Legal News: One of the longest job tenures in public life will come to an end with the announcement that Professor Richard Susskind is to step down as technology adviser to the lord chief justice. The futurologist and author has provided advice to six successive chief justices since his appointment by Lord Bingham in 1998. 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

• Rudy Giuliani, a longtime associate of Trump, has filed for bankruptcy just days after he was ordered to pay $148m (£116m) in a defamation case: he defamed two Georgia election workers over false claims they tampered with votes #US http://tinyurl.com/epsnmewu
  
• Thai estate agent wins summary judgment in the English courts against 'persons unknown' crypto currency fraudsters | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/556zeack
  
• Student shot more than 15 people dead at Prague university, police say. Police chief says ‘premeditated violent attack’ at Charles University appears to have been inspired by massacres abroad #Czech http://tinyurl.com/msv3jx69
  
• Lawyers must email ahead to enter Old Bailey under new security measures | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/ydhareh8
• Home Office reduces earning threshold hike for family visa. Department announces increase to £29,000 with no timeline given for planned rise to £38,700 http://tinyurl.com/2bj5rpse
• A judge will lift anonymity orders protecting the identities of Brianna Ghey's killers next year. The 16-year-old, who was transgender, was stabbed 28 times in a "ferocious" attack in a park in Cheshire http://tinyurl.com/2h2svb2v
• Central fund "may be needed" to resolve litigation capacity disputes - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/ynn2dzz5