6th August - Law News

Edition 4240: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.

-------------------------------------------------------------

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Listening to the men in the short Opinion Video above is like encountering visitors from another planet. They are serving life sentences at Angola prison, in rural Louisiana, with little to no hope for release. Many are elderly; they have not seen the outside world, or their families, for decades.

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

• Charlotte Proudman talks about the impact of misogynistic online trolling on female lawyers and asks why this is being allowed to happen in plain sight | COUNSEL https://tinyurl.com/42nsmab4
• A controversial rule which saw living costs deducted from compensation paid to wrongly imprisoned people has been scrapped https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66417103
• ULaw tutor on course to become Law Society president - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zQHbPrInzM
  
• SRA allows convicted and struck off ex-solicitor to work for law firm - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/mrxduy4p
  
• Police plan to charge #US YouTuber Kai Cenat after a video games console giveaway event he organised sparked mayhem in New York. Thousands rampaged through Union Square in anticipation of free PlayStations hurling bottles, stones and tins of paint https://tinyurl.com/5harfrmd
  
• SRA to toughen up on compliance with continuing competence rules - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/2nxfe93c
  
• Women in Texas with serious pregnancy complications will be temporarily exempted from the southern #US state's abortion ban, a judge has ruled. Judge Jessica Mangrum said there was a lack of clarity in the legislation https://tinyurl.com/3zz28v23
  

5th August - Law News

Edition 4239: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.

-------------------------------------------------------------

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Insight into the work of the Supreme Court of United Kingdom and our staff

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

• Students 'locked out' as BPP hit by cyber attack | Law Gazette https://t.co/zKZhSN85vJ
• The imprisoned #Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed a further jail term, at a trial in a remote penal colony. Mr Navalny was found guilty of founding and funding an extremist organisation and activities https://tinyurl.com/ynu8vhsp
  
• Retired judge extracts £50 from HMCTS over probate delays | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/25df68ve
• Firm fails in bid to stop former directors setting up new practice - Legal Futures https://t.co/p5R61Nyet9
  
• New coalition seeks to drive e-conveyancing | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZflSMDNIn7
• Police probe letter threats to migrant barge Bibby Stockholm - The letters, addressed to taxi firms, a security company, the barge management firm and Dorset Council, threaten that "collaborators" will be followed home https://t.co/SXRoBeHHWr
  
• #India’s supreme court suspends Rahul Gandhi’s two-year defamation jail term. Ruling allows leader of Congress party to return to parliament and contest national elections https://t.co/YDrCHzqBvu