17th July - Law News

Edition 4220: 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: All of the plastic that has ever been created still exists in some form. Some companies have created products that will break down in certain conditions. Others have produced enzymes that do the work for us.

 

Focus of the Day Legal News:  Annual official statistics on judicial diversity in England and Wales covering the current judiciary, judicial appointments and legal professionss. Full story - UK Gov website  

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

• Supporting non-binary people in the legal industry |  Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/en9fwsxm
  
• Ditch the equality pledges and provide more mentoring, flexitime and maternity support, say women lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GFGw9zlj8u
  
• Meet the future trainee solicitor hoping to make law firms more Muslim-friendly - Legal Cheek https://tinyurl.com/2cnv9b52
• Jeremy Vine agrees deal with Twitter user who falsely named him as accused BBC star - Radio 2 presenter says he has received apology and man has also agreed to make donation to charity https://tinyurl.com/28t8ud7j
  
• #Iranian police are resuming controversial patrols to ensure women obey dress codes and cover their hair in public, state media reports. The "morality police" will return to the streets to enforce Iran's hijab laws https://tinyurl.com/39u46wzx
  
• Scottish ministers have ‘duty’ to protect seabed from harmful fishing, says court - Licensing for scallop dredging and trawling must comply with National Marine Plan after judicial review by Open Seas charity https://tinyurl.com/3hpjpydz
• High Court: Irish courts place MAC Interiors into examinership despite company being registered in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://tinyurl.com/kc83t4ba
  
• Banks do not owe a Quincecare duty to individual customers, the Supreme Court has held unanimously in Barclays Bank UK v Philipp [2023] UKSC 25 | NLJ https://t.co/l92qPuR2Hm
  

16th July - Law News

Edition 4219: 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: Garment workers and trade unions in Bangladesh are demanding better pay in line with the rising cost of living and high inflation. This comes at a tense time for the industry, after a union leader was killed last month while protesting for unpaid wages. The country is the second largest exporter of ready-made clothes in the world, employing mostly women.

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

• Mentoring and coaching are effective, but external diversity pledges are less so when it comes to tearing down barriers to women’s progress at work, according to the latest research from the Next 100 Years project | NLJ https://t.co/dE3GZlJVIM
  
• MoJ to increase judges' pay by twice the amount it offered - Legal Futures https://t.co/dt2dxs8KmE
• Sexual violence is junta’s ‘modus operandi’, #Myanmar activist tells UN https://t.co/UPBPEiw1Jn
  
• Huw Edwards would face ‘big obstacle’ in suing Sun, says Cliff Richard lawyer https://t.co/29eBU6mTtG
  
• A murder investigation is under way after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed following a birthday party in north-west London. Police and London Ambulance Service were called to Granville Road, Kilburn, at 23:22 BST on Friday https://t.co/ccV0ibDjty
• The wife and carer of a disabled man who they enslaved and left in squalid conditions have been jailed. Sarah Somerset-How and her lover George Webb left Tom Somerset-How bedbound and malnourished in his home in Chichester https://t.co/pi4D6osWd9
• The Guardian view on migration: this bill is proof of the government’s failure | Editorial https://shorturl.at/cfBS8
  
• Andy Coulson advising Huw Edwards’s family on crisis management - Ex-News of the World editor takes on old News UK colleagues over Sun’s allegations against suspended BBC presenter https://t.co/wFbAD737rw