8th November - Law News

Edition 5065: 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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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

• Regulators should have access to centralised data on law firms - Legal Futures
• McDonald's will bring in new sexual harassment training for managers in strengthened measures agreed with the equality watchdog to protect its staff from abuse: workers as young as 17, were being groped and harassed
• Legal ombudsman seeks views on 12.1% budget boost to handle 'unprecedented' level of complaints | Law Gazette
• Mistakenly released prisoner Billy Smith turns himself in. Smith, 35, was released in error from Wandsworth prison on same day he was jailed for fraud
• Employee ownership “a way of saying we are not for sale” - Legal Futures
• Qatar-linked intelligence operation targeted ICC prosecutor’s alleged victim: Woman who accused Karim Khan of misconduct was subject of covert operation involving two British private intelligence firms
• Two people have been arrested on suspicion of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control after a nine-month-old baby boy was killed in an attack by an XL bully in south-east Wales