14th August - Law News

Edition 4248: 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: US FBI agents have joined officials in Ecuador investigating the killing of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. Arrests have already been made after Villavicencio was shot entering a car after a rally in the country's capital last week. Over the weekend, a notorious gang leader, Jose Adolfo Macias, known as "Fito", was arrested for allegedly making death threats towards Villavicencio before he was killed.

 Focus of the Day Legal News: The Lord Chancellor and Home Secretary this week announced the launch of a ‘dedicated taskforce’ as part of ‘a clampdown on crooked lawyers who coach illegal immigrants to lie’. Full story - New Law Journal  

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: Shutting Daily Mail sting firms was not due to political pressure - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/ybr2stw8 
  
• Chancery Lane reveals legal heroes shortlist | Law Gazette https://t.co/5gCM2d0LHG
• Nine people have been injured, two of them seriously, after a car crashed into campers and a tent at a campsite. A Ford Fiesta left the road at Newgale, Pembrokeshire, and photos showed a cordon erected around a collapsed tent https://tinyurl.com/4v8v7pke
• Data theft: Police officers and staff not informed for month https://tinyurl.com/2s2btb52
  
• Research reveals the best and worst UK cities to open a law firm - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Izzwa5ipHA
• Bibby Stockholm evacuation shows 'startling incompetence' https://tinyurl.com/wtzhtkee
• Will ‘Blackout Fridays’ catch on in the City? - Legal Cheek https://t.co/lQOg1AxJnp
  

13th August - Law News

Edition 4247: 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: What makes a fascist more dangerous than simple authoritarianism? From former president Donald Trump in the US, the rhetoric of the present federal government party in India, Hungary and other European nations, fascist thoughts has been on the political ascendency in the last decade, and this is their scary vision -  Rejecting democracy for a strongman - Stoking rage against cultural elites - Nationalism based on “superior” race - Glorifying strength and warriors - Disdain of women and LGBTQ+ people

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

• Government attacks on lawyers degrading, say former Tory law officers. Dominic Grieve and Edward Garnier denounce ‘lefty lawyer’ rhetoric as dossier target fears abuse will turn physical https://tinyurl.com/sudsbp5h
  
• The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) unlawfully failed to provide blind and visually impaired people with accessible communications about their benefits, the High Court has held | NLJ https://tinyurl.com/556z3xpe
• Application to intervene successful in legal challenge to GRR Bill | Scottish Legal News https://tinyurl.com/ms55cacs
• All criminal courts can now access the Common Platform, the digital case management platform introduced under the government’s courts modernisation programme | NLJ https://tinyurl.com/54rdvkum
  
• ‘A force of nature’ – Stephenson Harwood mourns death of veteran litigator - The Global Legal Post https://tinyurl.com/2r57td53
• The Ministry of Justice has published a report on the progress of the Law Commission’s recommendations from 2018–2023 | NLJ https://tinyurl.com/w5kztj9c
• US returns huge haul of stolen artefacts to Italy https://tinyurl.com/2upmkccu