25th August - Law News

Edition 4259: 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 is the Supreme Court? Why was it established in 2009? And what issues does it hear about? This introductory film is primarily aimed at GSCE/Standard Grade students and explores the role and the workings of the Supreme Court, the only court with UK-wide jurisdiction and the highest court in the land. This video is just one of a range of learning resources on our website designed to aid teaching in the classroom about the law, as well as to complement educational visits to the Court. If you are a teacher or student interested in such a visit, please see the education page on our website for further information.

 Focus of the Day Legal News: UK’s SFO calls time on ENRC and Rio Tinto probes. Fraud watchdog closes decade-long investigation into Kazakh miner ENRC citing “insufficient admissible evidence to prosecute”. Full story - The Global Legal Post  

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

• Nearly half of CPS letters to complainants 'inadequate' | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/47suwsda
  
• Victim’s partner urges no parole for Wiltshire killer unless body found https://tinyurl.com/2y4sch5r
  
• More than 1,000 chase 25 places at firm’s paralegal academy | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/bdfkvs82
• A man who murdered his wife has refused to reveal where her remains are. Glyn Razzell, 64, from Somerset, is serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife Linda, who vanished on the way to work in Swindon in 2002 https://tinyurl.com/yc85c2yh
  
• Relatives of the father of Sara Sharif, whose death in the UK sparked an international manhunt, cannot be detained in #Pakistan by police for questioning on his whereabouts. The decision was made at the Lahore high court, Rawalpindi bench https://tinyurl.com/n7muzbv5
  
• CJC presses ahead with radical reform plans for pre-action protocols - Legal Futures  https://tinyurl.com/yhrumr27
  
• The number of people in the UK waiting for a decision on their asylum claims has risen to a record high, latest Home Office figures show. More than 175,000 people were waiting for a decision at the end of June 2023 - up 44% from last year https://tinyurl.com/4pzc4pjx
  

24th August - Law News

Edition 4258: 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: The man who defied Vladimir Putin and led a failed mutiny in Russia has reportedly been killed in a plane crash. Yevgeny Prigozhin was the boss of the Wagner Mercenary group, who's fierce tactics were feared on the battlefront in Ukraine, as well as Syria and parts of Africa. Isabella Currie from La Trobe University says Prigozhin had made a lot of enemies and that his death doesn’t come as a surprise.

 Focus of the Day Legal News: The government’s record on the administration of justice – maybe the most dismal in memory, given legal aid deserts, long court delays and the other Dickensian horrors with which we are familiar – has received another severe rebuke, this time from an unexpected and embarrassing quarter: a court in Germany. Full story - The Law Society Gazette  

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

• Human rights group backs Manchester men who say racism led to murder convictions - Three black men jailed under joint enterprise law, which is often based on ‘dubious evidence’ of gang membership, says Liberty https://tinyurl.com/yhpwxfnc
  
• Pre-action protocols should be designed for LiPs, council concludes | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/ycxpucnm
  
• Rishi Sunak inadvertently failed to declare childcare interest, rules MPs watchdog https://tinyurl.com/mtx3aadk
• Warning over scam SRA email which 'may' contain malware | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/ayyjd6mj
  
• Nearly 500 employment equality complaints were received by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in the first half of 2023, with disability, gender and race making up the bulk of complaints | Irish Legal News https://tinyurl.com/mwpfbpb2
• County court should have adjourned trial after defendant got Covid - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/35hn4x75
• A Lucy Letby inquiry must answer this: why was she seen as a victim, not a killer? https://tinyurl.com/3emk7v6s