21st September - Law News

Edition 4286: 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: If your tinned tomatoes come from southern Italy, it’s likely that organised crime had a hand in getting them from the farm to the supermarket shelf. The mafia controls much of the region's agribusiness, and it's big business, adding billions of euros to its yearly turnover. So how is the mafia making all this money, when tinned tomatoes are so cheap? Based on original reporting by Tobias Jones and Ayo Awokoya, Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates. 

Focus of the Day Legal News: Commonhold is about giving leaseholders control - not getting away from service charges, a conference on leasehold reform heard today. However scepticism on the benefits of commonhold as an alternative form of home ownership emerged at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum event. 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

• Anonymous litigant barred from bitcoin costs challenge | Law Gazette https://t.co/zMp3xmLzA5
• One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts: Frank Hester, who gave Rishi Sunak’s party £5m this summer, is thought to have made huge sums from DHSC deals https://t.co/EwW1QuCAoI
• MPs urge government action over problems with whiplash portal - Legal Futures https://t.co/x6oYj5e8Oy
• Tweeting solicitor’s behaviour 'went well beyond bounds of acceptable conduct' | Law Gazette https://t.co/x5QKCrKTbT
• Inside Tiktok's real-life frenzies - from riots to false murder accusations https://t.co/9SydJ0aVUp
• The joy of plural pronouns in legal drafting | Law Gazette https://t.co/uzc6KKZj7n
• Northern Ireland lawyers address European domestic violence conference | Irish Legal News https://t.co/7qDpSBqCGA
  

20th September - Law News

Edition 4285: 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: On Wednesday 13 September 2023 Nick Vineall KC, Chair of the Bar, set out a view of the future of the Bar - followed by a conversation chaired by Fiona Rutherford, Chief Executive of JUSTICE.

Focus of the Day Legal News: One in five judgments by the senior courts and tribunals of England and Wales are not being published, the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting in England and Wales (ICLR) has found. It said the “main problem” was the failure by judges to send their judgments to The National Archives (TNA) for publication, a problem “most noticeable” in the High Court. 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

• CA allows funder to challenge financial remedy consent order - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/tJU24
• Torture, rape, killings: An #Indian state's brutal conflict https://shorturl.at/oqxGR
  
• News focus: Upfront property information - a jungle of words | Law Gazette https://t.co/4YnT93xbsN
• NI High Court: Complaints sent to Law Society of Northern Ireland were not defamatory | Irish Legal News https://t.co/E3E4EdiSvn
• The purging of the Labour socialists by Keir Starmer: Diane Abbott attacks Labour investigation as 'fraudulent' https://shorturl.at/lnwJS
  
• 'No one will believe you': child in care encouraged to plead guilty | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/pEOT9
• Litigation funder pays libel damages to celebrity couple - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/uvMT0