13th December - Law News

Edition 4369: 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: New pictures from a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza show bodies piled up following an Israeli attack. Witnesses say a number of people, including women, children and babies, were killed execution-style by Israeli forces while they were sheltering inside the school.

Focus of the Day Legal News:  The average time from issue to trial on the small claims track hit an all-time high in the last quarter, with litigants having to wait an average of 55.6 weeks. This is three weeks longer than the previous quarter, which itself was a record figure, and 3.5 weeks longer than the same quarter in 2022, according to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). 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

• Police have released CCTV footage showing the last known movements of a missing woman. Gaynor Lord, 55, was reported missing in Norwich after failing to return home from work on Friday afternoon https://t.co/EO4pUp8C4h
• Birss: Data standards can deliver “transformative” civil justice change - Legal Futures https://t.co/cjsBnUcTR0
• A man who posed as a model agent to persuade children and young women to send him sexually explicit images before threatening to share them online has been jailed for two years. Matthew McMahon will spend a further three years on licence https://t.co/x1ORdwKFjZ
• Thames Water is facing a "seminal moment", its chairman has said, during an intense grilling by MPs on the firm's financial performance. Senior management admitted the company did not have enough money to pay off a £190m loan due in April next year https://t.co/aoubbC8nT9
• Campaigners say the death of an asylum seeker on the Bibby Stockholm is "not a surprise" and are calling for all migrants on board to be taken off. The man took his own life on the barge in Dorset where hundreds of men are housed https://t.co/bK89oEgGNF
• PI firms diversifying after failing to make a go of whiplash claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/PnGT2pHjtu
• Proposed constitutional changes risk introducing new ‘harmful stereotypes’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ixmgIcOk61
  

12th December - Law News

Edition 4368: 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: Making the most of your Pupillage Gateway webinar, October 2023

Focus of the Day Legal News:  An explosive court transcript shows why excessive secrecy in the UK’s family courts must be fought. A judge’s outburst, unusually made public, reflects what many fear: that lack of transparency can permit abuses of power. Full story - Guardian Law 

 

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

• Calls grow for Bibby Stockholm barge to close after apparent suicide of resident. Vessel is cramped, a fire risk and unsuitable accommodation for people suffering trauma, say charities http://tinyurl.com/huya2rsy
• Time for small claims to reach trial hits all-time high - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/yvnxj8zv
• Former Tory peer Michelle Mone facing criminal bribery allegation. Mone and husband, Douglas Barrowman, under investigation by NCA over involvement with PPE Medpro http://tinyurl.com/8f267ej7
• ‘Unprecedented’ billion pound ‘Dieselgate’ litigation needs active case management | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/bdzz765w
• Relief for Rishi Sunak as Rwanda bill passes first vote in Commons. Bill passes with a majority of 44 but prime minister faces further peril in the new year http://tinyurl.com/2hbt9eru
• CAT "wrong" to identify ban on defendants contacting claimants directly - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/2e88skav
• Party in a tax appeal presents nine previous rulings to support her case - all of which turned out to be ‘hallucinated’ by AI | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/yzsm2z7h