13th July - Law News

Edition 4216: 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: Across the world extreme weather is causing destruction and loss of life from floods in India and Japan to heatwaves in the US and Spain

Focus of the Day Legal News:  The number of solicitor judges edged up slightly in 2022-23, according to judicial diversity statistics published today – but the proportion of solicitors on the bench remains well below where it stood almost a decade ago. 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

• Does it count as sexual harassment if an assault lasts less than 10 seconds? Outrage in Italy after judge's shocking action in #Italy https://shorturl.at/GMPS2
  
• Solicitor apologises to MP over 'lynched' LinkedIn post |  Law Gazette https://t.co/ClgjKbVTao
  
• Nadine Dorries has been referred to the Conservative chief whip by the UK's top civil servant over claims she sent "forceful" messages to officials https://shorturl.at/fixO2
  
• The #US supreme court has hijacked American democracy https://t.co/iBbyX0dAha
  
• So you're not using legal tech. Why? - Legal Futures https://t.co/TIwLLFU5nH
  
• Huw Edwards is in hospital with "serious mental health issues", his wife says, as she named him as the BBC presenter at the centre of allegations https://t.co/tBsVYlpj7p
  
• Digital mentoring scheme to boost Black representation in the law |  Law Gazette https://t.co/oUiDL4iUVG
  
• Dip in proportion of consumers shopping around for legal services - Legal Futures https://t.co/C6eAduJxHS
  

12th July - Law News

Edition 4215: 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 issues are: (1) Does the Quincecare duty have any application in a case where the relevant payment instruction was not issued to the bank by an agent of the bank’s customer? (2) If not, should either (i) the Quincecare duty be extended so as to include the obligations contended for by Mrs Philipp in relation to authorised push payment fraud, or (ii) the law recognise or impose such obligations on a paying bank as incidents of its duty to exercise reasonable skill and care in and about executing an instruction? (3) Should the Court determine issues 1 and/or 2 above on a summary judgment and/or strike-out application?

Focus of the Day Legal News:  Publishing its ‘Progress on the courts and tribunals reform programme’ report last week, the Public Accounts Committee expressed serious concerns that HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has just £120m left of its total £1.3bn budget despite completing only 24 of 44 reform projects. Full story - New Law Journal 
 

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

• Ex-Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison after 53 years https://tinyurl.com/y9tsrens
  
• SRA granted civil restraint order against struck-off solicitor - Legal Futures  https://tinyurl.com/3tdp6kyy
  
• Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta claiming AI training infringed copyright - I started work as a prison officer full of optimism, but in a rat-infested jail I saw the ugly, violent reality https://tinyurl.com/4m2dfudc
  
• I started work as a prison officer full of optimism, but in a rat-infested jail I saw the ugly, violent reality https://tinyurl.com/27rbyw8h
  
• Aretha Franklin sons fight over will found under sofa https://t.co/AMrnTNroiX
  
• The Guardian view on rape cases: the government has a long way to go https://tinyurl.com/5463ebwj
  
• Double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya was discriminated against by rules forcing her to lower her testosterone levels in order to compete, the European Court of Human Rights has found https://tinyurl.com/48hwvmdk
  
• Tory rebels offered concessions on asylum legislation - Ministers axe plan obliging Braverman to send thousands of asylum seekers who arrive this summer to Rwanda https://tinyurl.com/msd4s7rh