Thursday

16th April - Law News

1207th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY: A judge has stressed the importance of having lawyers in family court proceedings to prevent emotional self-represented litigants behaving in ways they might regret.  Publishing details of a reserved judgment in relation to a case concerning a care order, Her Honour Judge Hammerton (pictured) said the absence of legal aid funding had ’undoubtedly’ placed the father at a disadvantage. Full story - The Law Society Gazette




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Wednesday

15th April - Law News

1206th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY: The Law Society has extended its consumer campaign promoting solicitors until the end of October this year, after an increase in traffic to the society’s ‘Find a Solicitor’ website of 18.5% in the first four months. Mike Browne, interim head of communications at Chancery Lane, said visits to the website had increased by almost 300,000 since the campaign was launched on 1 September last year. In a report for this week’s meeting of the society’s membership board, he said 961 law firms had ordered the consumer campaign pack to use locally. Full story - Legal Futures





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Tuesday

14th April - Law News

1205th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Tony Angel: “The legal profession is about to go through a quite phenomenal change”. Brought in to guide DLA Piper through a major strategic shake-up, Tony Angel was never going to win everyone’s favour, but what do the facts say about his legacy? Full story - The Lawyer






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Monday

13th April - Law News

1204th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY: The Supreme Court has quashed Westminster Council’s decision to house a mother of five 50 miles away from her family. The landmark ruling means all local authorities will need to urgently review their policies and publish fresh guidance, according to Hodge, Jones & Allen (HJA), who acted for the mother. HJA said local authorities should have a policy for procuring sufficient units of temporary accommodation to meet anticipated demand, and a publicly available policy for allocating units to individual homeless households. Full story - New Law Journal





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Sunday

12th April - Law News

1203rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

Our last Saturday Law Interview featured Dr. Steven Vaughan, a former city solicitor and now a legal academic with expertise on the laws regarding the regulation of nanotechnology as well as the standard and quality of legal advice offered by corporate law firms: 'Regulating nanotechnology & the quality of corporate legal advice'.




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Saturday

11th April - Law News

1202nd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

Our last Saturday Law Interview featured Dr. Steven Vaughan, a former city solicitor and now a legal academic with expertise on the laws regarding the regulation of nanotechnology as well as the standard and quality of legal advice offered by corporate law firms: 'Regulating nanotechnology & the quality of corporate legal advice'.





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Friday

10th April - Law News

1201st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY: verage practice income and profit per equity partner in medium-sized firms rose strongly in 2014, according to an annual health check published today. Figures from the Law Management Section’s 2014 Financial Benchmarking Survey are unanimously positive and point to firms having a strong year, the Law Society said. 

Financial stability is also improving. The Society said that there has been ‘a dramatic rise in the percentage of practices operating profitably and within their overdraft limit’. Full story - The Law Society Gazette





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