18th February - Law News

Edition 4802: 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: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX. Hearing date: 16 December 2019 Session: Morning session [Session 1 of 3] Judgment date: 1 April 2020 Neutral citation: [2020] UKSC 14

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/X feed):

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Proudman: BSB actions have had a "chilling effect" on me - Legal Futures
• Nurse in transgender doctor row faces disciplinary hearing : Sandie Peggie claims she was subjected to unlawful harassment by being made to share a changing room at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, with Dr Beth Upton
• Suspended barrister warns over "innocent conversations about hobbies" - Legal Futures
• UK Special Forces command rejected resettlement applications from more than 2,000 Afghan commandos who had shown credible evidence of service in units that fought alongside the SAS and SBS, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed for the first time
• Trump appeals to Supreme Court over firing of #US agency boss - He has filed an emergency appeal to the country's highest court to rule on whether he can fire Hampton Dellinger, head of the US Office of Special Counsel
• 'Kneejerk and disruptive': Joint v law societies say client account plans show SRA doesn't understand legal profession | Law Gazette
• A man has described how criminals pretending to be bailiffs almost tricked him into paying thousands of pounds to settle a fictitious debt as part of an elaborate scam