6th October - Law News

Edition 4301: 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: For the first time in history, the Supreme Court of Brazil has the opportunity to completely decriminalize abortion. Right now, abortion is a serious crime – and Brazilian women risk up to three years in prison for ending their pregnancies. In a new Opinion Video adapted from the feature documentary "Incompatible with Life," Brazilian filmmaker Eliza Capai shares her personal experience and calls on the country to protect its women from dangerous, underground procedures and the threat of incarceration. “Do we want to live in a country whose laws torture its citizens?” she asks. “Or do we want to join our neighbors, like Colombia and Mexico, that faced the reality by decriminalizing abortion?” 

Focus of the Day Legal News: Mercy killings in England and Wales will not always be prosecuted, new guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service states. Cases in which the victim had a clear and informed desire to end their life or in which the suspected killer acted under significant emotional pressure could make prosecution unlikely. Full story - Irish Legal News   

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

• Police and private companies should "immediately stop" the use of facial recognition surveillance, says a group of politicians and privacy campaigners https://t.co/vnkJhATkYU
  
• 'Jade's Law' to strip partner-killers of parental responsibility | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/4w6nks5s
• Holiday pay ruling ‘entitles many UK workers to thousands in unfairly deducted wages’ https://tinyurl.com/3jjrr39x
• SRA fines firm that failed to comply with undertaking - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/5n7b244b
  
• Dorset firm slapped with £45,000 fine for claims failings | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/mrx4kvvk
• 21 people arrested at the King's Coronation will face no further action, the Met Police has said. The Met, who were criticised for their response, claimed arrests were made over public nuisance threats and to prevent a breach of the peace https://tinyurl.com/34akv78c
  
• Crossbow intruder who wanted to 'kill Queen' given nine-year sentence -Jaswant Singh Chail has become the first person in the UK in over 40 years to be jailed for treason https://tinyurl.com/3p2cus6s
  

5th October - Law News

Edition 4300: 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: Officers and civilian employees of the Police Service of Northern Ireland had, since the introduction of the Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (“WTR (NI) 1998”), been paid their basic pay while on annual leave (i.e. without having regard to overtime and certain allowances), whereas the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in relation to article 7 of the Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC had evolved to require that workers be paid their “normal pay” during such leave. This only came to the attention of the Appellants following delivery of the decision in Bear Scotland Ltd v Fulton [2015] ICR (EAT). The Respondents began presenting their complaints for unlawful deductions from pay and underpayments of holiday pay to the Industrial Tribunal in 2015. 

Focus of the Day Legal News: A  High Court judge has dismissed a last-minute attempt to adjourn a trial despite what he acknowledged had been a ‘lazy approach’ to compiling the trial bundle. Mr Justice Constable said the consequences of cancelling a trial due for this week in Innovate Pharmaceuticals Ltd v University of Portsmouth Higher Education Corporation were too severe and it was not justifiable to postpone until spring 2024 at the earliest. 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

• At home clamping down on protest, UK government asks UAE for assurances over free speech at Cop28 summit. Statement at UN human rights council voices ‘disappointment’ after host country refuses to change restrictive laws https://tinyurl.com/4f7u33we
  
• Appeal over payments made to former F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone's solicitor has been dismissed by judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/TnrXlXeDH1
• Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal finds former director of Gowling WLG ‘sexually motivated, controlling and unreasonable’ towards 18-year-old colleague | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2hbbt5za
• Thousands of refugees could be made homeless in UK’s asylum backlog clearance. Red Cross warns 28-day ‘move-on’ process is not enough time for asylum seekers to find new accommodation https://tinyurl.com/nh7j5m53
  
• Market challenges may finally be hitting the seemingly resilient legal sector, according to LexisNexis Gross Legal Product index | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/33yzwakh
• Police have launched a murder inquiry after a man died in a suspected American bully XL attack. Officers received a report that a dog had injured a 54-year-old in Maple Terrace in Shiney Row, near Houghton-le-Spring, at 19:00 BST on Tuesday https://tinyurl.com/289tbzx
  
• High Court rejects appeal from “I like what I see” solicitor - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/wvdmrdsz