14th April - Law News

Edition 4126: 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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 Focus of the Day Law News/Article: A new offence of failure to prevent fraud will be created by an amendment to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill tabled by the government today. Under the measure, an organisation where a fraud has been committed must be able to demonstrate that it had 'reasonable measures in place to deter the offending' or be liable to an unlimited fine. Full story The Law Society Gazette

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: An initiative that Bush created 20 years ago that saved 25 million lives. With the anniversary of the Iraq invasion, there’s lots of commentary about his miscalculations and failures, and there should be. But we liberals also have to acknowledge that the most important humanitarian program of modern times wasn’t started by a progressive we admire but by a conservative evangelical whose policies we deplored

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

• Advice sector workers “risked Covid to provide face-to-face support” - Legal Futures shorturl.at/dfjkA
  
• Spain puts flamenco on legal footing | Irish Legal News shorturl.at/ikHQR
  
• Start dates confirmed for fixed costs extension | Law Gazette shorturl.at/rwAO6
  
• Does your firm turn a blind eye to big billers behaving badly? | Law Gazette shorturl.at/mvxD4
  
• Analysis: Banksy beats bad faith challenge in trade mark win | Irish Legal News shorturl.at/fosN5
  
• PC Sharon Beshenivsky: Man appears in court charged with murder shorturl.at/koCDI
• Camra award ban for Essex pub displaying offence causing, golly dolls https://tinyurl.com/33fk5hes
  
• Scotland to launch legal challenge to UK government block on gender reform bill shorturl.at/KOQT7
• Solicitor struck off after 30 years over client money transfers | Law Gazette shorturl.at/coEX5
• Trump sues former lawyer Michael Cohen for $500m #US shorturl.at/lwKQS 

13th April - Law News

Edition 4125: 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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 Focus of the Day Law News/Article: The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) expects to use its proposed new power to demand information from solicitors about economic crime several hundred times a year, it has emerged. Full story Legal Futures

 

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Three years since women marched to reclaim Melbourne's Merri Creek trail following a brutal sexual assault, ongoing harassment is prompting concerns that not enough has changed.

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

• Law Society research highlights solicitor wellbeing woes - Legal Futures shorturl.at/goFU9
  
• Dual discount rate 'piles pressure' on seriously injured - APIL | Law Gazette shorturl.at/eGL03
  
• Etihad Airways’ ‘sustainable aviation’ ads banned in UK - Advertising Standards Authority rules ads misled consumers about the environmental impact of flying shorturl.at/dAFKZ
  
• Elizabeth Holmes to begin 11-year prison sentence at end of month. #US Federal judge denies Theranos founder’s request to remain free while she appeals her conviction of fraud and conspiracy shorturl.at/XYZ89
  
• Law firm to “harness power of ChatGPT” for clinical negligence cases - Legal Futures shorturl.at/nuHQ6
  
• A global scamming network has robbed ordinary investors of more than a billion dollars - a shadowy network of businessmen who appear to be behind it shorturl.at/fxATU