30th April - Law News

Edition 4508: 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: Why ‘no win, no fee’ solicitors are taking on councils over social housing. Council tenants in England whose homes are plagued by leaking roofs, subsidence, damp and mould are turning to legal firms for help. We’ve been investigating these disrepair claims. There’s 4 million estimated social homes in England. They’re getting old - many of built in the mid 20th century - and as councils struggle to keep up with repairs, ‘no-claims’ solicitors have been getting involved. Freedom of Information data obtained by Channel 4 News from 50 English Councils, shows since 2020, nearly 17 thousand legal claims have been made by social tenants, through solicitors, against their council because of the conditions they’re living in.

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

• Jurors in the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon have retired to consider their verdicts. Ms Marten, 36, and Mr Gordon, 49, both deny the manslaughter by gross negligence of their newborn daughter Victoria https://tinyurl.com/mrybjwwx
  
• WhatsApp scam: More than 100 arrested in #Spain for 'son in trouble' fraud - Police said those arrested were part of a criminal group that fraudulently received nearly a million euros in total through the scam https://tinyurl.com/3nzyxn9s
  
• Court of Appeal backs couple whose North West Passage cruise was curtailed because of ice | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/5n74tnrd
  
• US finds #Israeli units committed human rights abuses before Gaza war. State department says five units mostly from IDF but including at least one police unit responsible for gross violations in West Bank https://tinyurl.com/27e496yc
  
• Probate manager jailed after stealing £634k from two law firms - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/3htc2964
  
• Firm leading mefloquine claims against the Ministry of Defence dismisses speculation about bankruptcy | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/mrytfdeu
• How RIBA is decolonising its HQ. The Royal Institute of British Architects has been taking stock of the disturbingly imperial decoration of its palatial home – with a new show telling a larger, more unsettling story https://tinyurl.com/3nmht82b