6th July - Law News

Edition 4575: 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: Can The Manchester Ship Canal Company Limited (“MSCC”) bring a private law claim in nuisance and/or trespass against United Utilities Water Limited (“UU”) in respect of unauthorised discharges of untreated foul water by UU into the canal? The Supreme Court unanimously allows the Canal Company's appeal.

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

• The National Crime Agency (NCA) erred in law by not investigating whether cotton imports from Xinjiang, China were the products of forced labour, the Court of Appeal has held | New Law Journal
• Why Starmer hired key boss as prisons minister - James Timpson, of the Timpson Group, which provides key cutting and shoe repair services, has made a name for himself hiring hundreds of former prisoners
• A first-tier tribunal judge conducted the procedure of an appeal with ‘substantial unfairness such that the outcome cannot stand’, the Court of Appeal has held | New Law Journal
• Keir Starmer confirms Rwanda plan 'dead' on day one as PM - The Labour leader said he would end the "gimmick" of deporting migrants arriving in the UK illegally to Rwanda, which was established by the previous Conservative government
• ‘We are not criminals’: #Philippines considers making divorce legal. The staunchly Catholic Southeast Asian nation is the only place other than the Vatican where divorce is banned
• The Law Society has hit out at Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) proposals to raise the Compensation Fund levy by 200% for individuals (from £30 to £90) and by 233% for firms (from £660 to £2,220) | New Law Journal
• #Sudan’s army chief says many countries ‘turn a blind eye’ to RSF crimes. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan tells Al Jazeera many countries remain silent over alleged RSF crimes in Sudan’s civil war