10th November - Law News

Edition 4336: 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)

Focus of the Day Legal News: Legal profession welcomes bill set to underscore London as leading arbitration hub. Bill implementing reform to Arbitration Act 1996 praised by arbitration professionals, but Bar Council hits back over underfunding of court system. 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

• With bursting jails and Europe’s longest sentences, the last thing the UK needs is more rightwing ‘reforms’ https://tinyurl.com/vu9ffh2v
• Barrister has suspension halved in High Court sanctions appeal | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/myswy495
• Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has refused to back Suella Braverman's claims about police bias, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces calls to sack her. Mr Hunt said the home secretary's comments in a Times article "are not words that I myself would have used" https://tinyurl.com/2tcztuxw
  
• CILEX members declare 'no confidence' in representative body after requesting SGM on SRA takeover | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/3xux682f
  
• Expert witnesses and costs lawyers join pro bono support scheme - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/4v9mhe5p
• Prosecutor suspended after 'pursuing romantic interest' in defendant | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/5ddynes2
  
• Judicial Appointments Commission 'regarded as a joke', solicitor candidate tells employment tribunal | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/bdan59aw
  

9th November - Law News

Edition 4335: 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:  Gabriel Popoviciu ("Popoviciu") was convicted in Romania of two offences - accessory to aggravated abuse of power, and bribery – and was sentenced to 7 years' imprisonment.

Focus of the Day Legal News:A Court of Appeal hearing opening today will decide on whether a claim over Japanese knotweed should be stayed until parties have engaged with a form of alternative dispute resolution. The Law Society is among the bodies intervening in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, which has been described as ‘raising an extremely important issue relating to access to justice’. 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

• Judge halves suspension of barrister who misled Court of Appeal - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/449yxkj3
• A Palestinian doctor Dr Maisara Al Rayyes who graduated from a prestigious UK Foreign Office scholarship scheme is feared to have been killed by #Israel along with most of his family in an air strike in Gaza, colleagues say https://tinyurl.com/yc3ykuks
  
• Legal chiefs urge criminal legal aid solicitors to keep the faith | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/bde35x7r
  
• Rishi Sunak did not clear Home Secretary Suella Braverman's article attacking the Metropolitan Police for its handling of pro-Palestinian protests https://tinyurl.com/5arca8e8
  
• Former Deloitte solicitor charged with sexual misconduct over alleged kiss at office party | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2edcnwx3
• City solicitor chief: AI poses risk to legal careers - but not quite yet - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/48and923
  
• The government has ordered an independent inquiry into a migrant mass drowning in the English Channel. At least 27 people including a pregnant woman and three children died when a boat sank in 2021 https://tinyurl.com/bdhewvfd