15th July - Law News

Edition 4218: 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: Race To Open Jammed Flood Gates As Overflowing Yamuna Halts Delhi, India's capital. Yeas of underinvestment in infrastructure and projects such as moon mission has led to misery for the masses.

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

• SRA happy with standards of law firms handling LPAs and deputyships - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/fyPU5
  
• D-day veteran, 98, put up in hostel after eviction from Dorset home https://shorturl.at/AHO01
• Susskind: AI could crack the problem of unmet legal need - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/hAY46
  
• Transgender women barred from female events as UCI takes 'precautionary measure' https://shorturl.at/adiyZ
  
• Solicitors face tougher sentence for perverting course of justice | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/26s4djft
• Plans to construct a road tunnel near Stonehenge have been approved. The Department for Transport approved the £1.7bn two-mile (3.2km) tunnel from Amesbury to Berwick Down in Wiltshire on Friday https://tinyurl.com/2uuzxrfs
  
• Ex-Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been cleared of raping a woman and attempting to rape another. The 28-year-old was accused of attacking a 24-year-old woman at his £4m mansion in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire https://tinyurl.com/2s3hv586
  
• Judges need double the pay rise MoJ has offered, says review body - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/ycy84j3v
  

14th July - Law News

Edition 4217: 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: McCulloch and others (Appellants) v Forth Valley Health Board (Respondent) (Scotland) - In Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11, the Supreme Court held that a doctor "is under a duty to take reasonable care to ensure that the patient is aware of any material risks involved in any recommended treatment, and of any reasonable alternative or variant treatments." In this appeal, the Supreme Court is asked to decide what test should be applied when assessing whether an alternative treatment is reasonable and requires to be discussed with the patient. More specifically, did the doctor in this case fall below the required standard of reasonable care by failing to make a patient aware of an alternative treatment in a situation where the doctor's opinion was that the alternative treatment was not reasonable and that opinion was supported by a responsible body of medical opinion? It is also asked whether the courts below erred in their approach to the issue of causation.

Focus of the Day Legal News:  Barclays succeeds in major UK Supreme Court bank transfer fraud decision. Banks breathe sigh of relief as apex court hands down bank transfer fraud ruling in their favour. Full story - The Global Legal Post 
 

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

• Quincecare duty: Supreme Court 'closes door' on fraud claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/IAAhRmBH8q
  
• Men and boys charged over clashes Knowsley asylum hotel - BBC News https://t.co/gGe7H6ErWq
  
• 'Second-largest ever' pro bono costs order awarded | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/bEF39
  
• Mentoring scheme aims to help firms retain Black lawyers - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/jmHI8
  
• Common Platform inflexibility 'causing issues', admits government | Law Gazette https://t.co/WBytR2QvCG
  
• An attack by a cow that had recently given birth resulted in the death of a farmer in the south of Scotland, an inquiry has concluded. Derek Roan, 71, had tried to move the 550kg (1,200lbs) Galloway beef cow with her calf back to the main herd https://shorturl.at/awx69
  
• BBC resumes Huw Edwards inquiry as no criminality found by police https://t.co/qHFgoRBvt7
  
• Two 17-year-olds have been sentenced for stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in a case of mistaken identity. Ronan Kanda was murdered close to his home in Wolverhampton after he visited a friend's house to buy a PlayStation controller in June 2022 https://shorturl.at/abGRT