21st April - Law News

Edition 4499: 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 man who set himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is happening has been identified. NYPD say the man has been identified as Maxwell Azzarello, from St Augustine, Florida. They say Azzarello arrived in New York a few days ago, and the pamphlets he threw before the incident were "conspiracy based". He is alive, but in a critical condition. Police believe Azzarello was motivated by conspiracies, and was not targeting any people or any particular groups.

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

• A Bill to reverse PACCAR has reached the second reading stage in the House of Lords | New Law Journal https://t.co/qfxoyryOF3
• Students who had TCs cancelled among those hit by Kaplan SQE blunder - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JJvnXTUzZQ
  
• Personal injury lawyers have warned against introducing a dual or multiple personal injury discount rate—the rate used to calculate damages in serious, life-changing injury cases | New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/b7fftksk
  
• Victimise people who raise a voice in Britain? Then destroy their families? Not in my name https://tinyurl.com/yphuujud
• The criminal cases backlog has grown again, the latest government figures show | New Law Journal  https://t.co/K3ktirurR7
  
• Saving us from ourselves: how Britain is learning to accept the nanny state. Despite detractors, the tobacco bill shows the public will support policies that would once have been thought draconian https://tinyurl.com/mpk9759
• The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Kaplan SQE have apologised after 175 candidates were wrongly told they had failed the first part of their solicitor qualifying exam (SQE1), which they sat in January | NLJ https://tinyurl.com/mr3r923s