19th July - Law News

Edition 4222: 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:  Jones (Appellant) v Birmingham City Council and another (Respondents) - Whether Part 4 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 is incompatible with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Supreme Court unanimously dismisses the appeal. More information is available on our website: UKSC 2021/0087

 Focus of the Day Legal News:  The Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) will not “deliver a more diverse profession in its current shape”, the founder of a campaign to achieve equality for women in the law has said. Full story - Legal Futures  

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

• After 20 years, here’s why the Post Office scandal is special: the cover-up is happening in plain sight https://shorturl.at/ehrD7
  
• Police in Nevada have confirmed they served a search warrant this week in connection with the unsolved killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. Detectives carried out the search at a home in Henderson, a suburb of Las Vegas #US https://shorturl.at/fhtJ8
  
• Jewish group criticises GB News host over ‘dangerous conspiracy theory’. Beverley Turner tweeted that Covid ‘causes less harm to certain ethnicities – east Asians, and Ashkenazi Jews (Fauci anyone?)’ https://shorturl.at/bfIJQ
• “My career and passion for diversity within law” - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/yckke8uy
  
• Tour de France team consider legal action after fan causes crash #France https://tinyurl.com/3p862ack
  
• Law firm accuses rivals of turning conveyancing into 'combat sport' | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/33zvyj7p
• A toxic culture of sexual assault, harassment, racism and bullying has been alleged by more than 100 current and recent UK staff at outlets of the fast-food chain McDonald's https://shorturl.at/pwzH6
  
• My legal life: Alison Berryman, Biztech Lawyers - Profile | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/24vun325
  

18th July - Law News

Edition 4221: 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: An online public meeting, which took place on 14 June 2023, organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. This public evidence session focused on lawyers and the state - advice, rhetoric, and ethics.

 

 Focus of the Day Legal News:  Scheme to stop people being quizzed by abuser in court failing, lawyers say. Courts in England and Wales unable to attract sufficient numbers of advocates. Full story - Guardian Law  

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

• Alarming rise of women in prison must be addressed, rights summit told. Numbers of jailed women rising far faster than men and their voices must be heard, say rights groups and former prisoners https://shorturl.at/ajmQT
  
• Solicitors win costs battle as Vos pleads for rules to be updated | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/yckru85f
  
• Leaked UK government plan to protect against climate heat ‘very weak’: Document ‘falls far short’ of what is needed to safeguard lives and livelihoods from heat, drought and storms, say experts https://tinyurl.com/ryfmzp2u
• A retired #Australian pilot has been fined for pretending to be a lawyer. Former Qantas pilot Nathaniel Whitehall represented a woman in court for a traffic infringement in 2020 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vBPqDhE3wa
  
• Inner House condemns solicitor’s ‘extraordinary lapse of professional judgement’ | Scottish Legal News https://shorturl.at/xHI89
• Chalk 'reprioritising' justice spending to afford judges' 7% pay rise | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/gxJ79
• Review: The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire | Scottish Legal News https://tinyurl.com/4stvjmd2
  
• Unpaid litigation funder appeals to court to revive divorce dispute | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/ciI45