26th October - Law News

Edition 4321: 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: Commissioners for HMRC (Appellant) v Vermilion Holdings Ltd (Respondent) (Scotland) - Taxing Statute interpretation

Focus of the Day Legal News: Generative AI like ChatGPT could revolutionise the way that lawyers deal with costs, rendering detailed assessment largely unnecessary, a High Court judge suggested last week. But Mrs Justice Joanna Smith told costs lawyers that their skills would still be needed in this technology enabled world. 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

• Majority of law firms still failing to follow price transparency rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/KL6fLEEeTH
• Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has expressed disbelief that masked men appeared in the public gallery of a Belfast court during a murder trial over the killing of Eamon Fox and Gary Convie in 1994 on Monday https://tinyurl.com/4suye2zx
• Government rules out setting up specialist court to deal with landlord-tenant disputes as proposed legislation progresses through parliament | Law Gazette https://t.co/Le0pnLqATG
  
• Labour's Rachel Reeves has denied claims of plagiarism, after it emerged passages of her new book were lifted from sources including Wikipedia. The FT reported the shadow chancellor's book included reproduced material without acknowledgment https://tinyurl.com/3ebjyahp
  
• Law firms increasingly screening clients against ESG values - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/mvc6kv2s
• Judge to address adult safeguarding conference | Irish Legal News https://t.co/gNtdTcEDdT
  
• A schoolboy who was stabbed to death by a friend was unlawfully killed, a fresh inquest has concluded. Yousef Makki, 17, died after suffering a stab wound to the heart in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, in 2019 https://tinyurl.com/fvxp429j
  

25th October - Law News

Edition 4320: 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: In Iceland tens of thousands of women, including the prime minister, have gone on a 24-hour strike over gender inequality in the country. Shops and schools across the small Nordic nation were either closed or operated on limited hours as female staff walked off the job to highlight the gender pay gap and protest against gender-based violence. More than a quarter of the country's population of 390,000 attended a rally in the capital of Reykjavik in support of the cause

Focus of the Day Legal News: Whistleblowing charity finds 'widespread lack of awareness of law' and how to raise environmental concerns. 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

• SRA makes pitch to be sole AML supervisor for UK legal sector - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/itKT0
• Year Three evaluation of SRA transparency regime shows only 42% of law firms fully complying | Law Gazette https://t.co/ucUtS6jlDN
• Court refers lawyers to regulators over misconduct in $11bn arbitration - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/ijuLU
  
• Justice committee announces inquiry on pre-recorded cross-examination | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/jAK15
  
• The Home Office has been accused of wasting millions buying an immigration detention site at more than double the price it was bought for a year before https://shorturl.at/nIT16
• Woman raped by ex-partner left traumatised by English family courts. Complainant forced to give evidence for second time as case reheard https://shorturl.at/cjtzO
• Former head of employment at London City firm said fear of reprisals kept him from speaking out when racist term was used by former chief executive at IPO celebratory dinner | Law Gazette https://t.co/1gfVLjUgSE