26th July - Law News

Edition 4229: 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: Hendi Suhartono was part of a plot to detonate four book bombs and blow up a church in Indonesia. He spent seven years in prison after going through a deradicalisation process. After Hendi was released from prison, he received support to open a kindergarten. Hendi meets a friend from his past, Pepi Fernando, and they discuss what led to his radicalisation, the time in prison, his subsequent deradicalisation and how he is devoted to his community

  Focus of the Day Legal News: The Law Society is pushing for more changes to the building safety provisions in the UK Finance Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook after one was made last week. 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

• Suella Braverman broke law by denying asylum seekers £3 a week, judge rules - Home secretary’s cruel withholding of payments for healthy food for children and pregnant women found to be unlawful https://tinyurl.com/964d74ad
• Retired judge takes helm of legal aid board | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2s47cvhr
• Vladimir Putin signs law banning gender changes in #Russia - Legislation outlaws medical interventions ‘aimed at changing the sex of a person’ and altering gender details in public records https://tinyurl.com/2m56r6v5
  
• Competition watchdog sets its sights on will-writers | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/3f78pwwu
  
• A court in Brussels has found six men guilty of terrorist murder, more than seven years after suicide bomb attacks killed 32 people at the city's airport and a metro station in March 2016 #Belgium https://tinyurl.com/ybd8n7j9
  
• Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis charged with "orchestrating a brazen insider trader scheme", US attorney Damian Williams has said. The British billionaire is accused of using inside information to "shower gifts on his friends & lovers" https://tinyurl.com/4b2jfrpu
• Swansea dad jailed for taking son's points before fatal crash - Dewi George, 44, pretended to have been driving the car at the time of the speeding offence - despite actually being at his place of work https://tinyurl.com/jevsn6sr
  

25th July - Law News

Edition 4228: 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: A valedictory was held for The Right Hon Lord Kitchin as a Supreme Court Justice on 25 July 2023, ahead of his retirement in September 2023. Lord Kitchin was appointed to the Supreme Court in October 2018 and during this time has made an enormous contribution to the Court's work through his judgments. The ceremony included remarks by President of The Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Reed of Allermuir, Lord Reed. Further remarks were made by Iain Purvis KC and Daniel Alexander KC Lord Kitchin also spoke, reflecting on his judicial career and time at the Supreme Court and thanking his family and his colleagues for their support throughout his career.

  Focus of the Day Legal News: Post Office scandal demands a reset of our justice system. 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

• Lawyer in the news: Zareenah Rasool, Baker McKenzie - Profile | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/tCIZ4
• Former Boris Johnson aide joins Lords as youngest ever life peer - Charlotte Owen, 30, has faced criticism over lack of experience after being nominated by former PM https://shorturl.at/flU17
• MoJ increasing new fixed costs to reflect high rate of inflation - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/2zk7mz7s
• Legal aid JR to be heard in run-up to Christmas | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/58hn8dkk
  
• "Debt help" social media posts are aggressively targeting people in financial trouble. The posts claim to help end money worries but charities warn some companies are misleading people who are struggling https://shorturl.at/gwFS8
• Privilege used to 'cloak wrongdoing', Dechert trial hears | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/jkuE3
• Getting your priorities right: how SME law firms can achieve long-term success - Legal Futures https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/blog/getting-your-priorities-right-how-sme-law-firms-can-achieve-long-term-success