27th July - Law News

Edition 4230: 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: R (on the application of PACCAR Inc & others) v Competition Appeal Tribunal & others UKSC 2021/0078 - The issue arises in the context of applications to bring collective proceedings for breaches of competition law. By a decision dated 19 July 2016, the European Commission found that five major European truck manufacturing groups, including DAF, infringed competition law

  Focus of the Day Legal News: The Solicitors Regulation Authority has vowed to prosecute any solicitor or law firm found to be exploiting the immigration system to help clients win asylum when the case does not merit it. The regulator was responding to the publication of a Daily Mail article alleging that lawyers had advised an undercover reporter to lie to secure UK residence. Full story - The Law Society Gazette  

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

•  £28m confiscation order against former solicitor to Nigeria official | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/472me66u
• Ameland rescue: Crew jump off ship ablaze with cargo of 3,000 cars https://tinyurl.com/5h2vxn6j
• CMA launches investigation into unregulated legal services - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/2p8nuj8d
• Government to introduce compulsory mediation for small claims - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/39cu7bt5
  
• ‘There’s no other option but to fight’: #Iranian women defiant as ‘morality police’ return https://tinyurl.com/pjwpm3er
  
• Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey wept in court as he was cleared of all charges in his sexual assault trial in London. Jurors at Southwark Crown Court returned not guilty verdicts for nine sexual offence charges relating to four men between 2001 and 2013 https://tinyurl.com/yuhz98f5
• Trade groups demand Ofgem tackle energy brokers ‘ripping off’ small firms - Regulator urged to expose the hidden commission fees middlemen charge that inflate company bills https://tinyurl.com/tszd86xd

26th July - Law News

Edition 4229: 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: Hendi Suhartono was part of a plot to detonate four book bombs and blow up a church in Indonesia. He spent seven years in prison after going through a deradicalisation process. After Hendi was released from prison, he received support to open a kindergarten. Hendi meets a friend from his past, Pepi Fernando, and they discuss what led to his radicalisation, the time in prison, his subsequent deradicalisation and how he is devoted to his community

  Focus of the Day Legal News: The Law Society is pushing for more changes to the building safety provisions in the UK Finance Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook after one was made last week. 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

• Suella Braverman broke law by denying asylum seekers £3 a week, judge rules - Home secretary’s cruel withholding of payments for healthy food for children and pregnant women found to be unlawful https://tinyurl.com/964d74ad
• Retired judge takes helm of legal aid board | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2s47cvhr
• Vladimir Putin signs law banning gender changes in #Russia - Legislation outlaws medical interventions ‘aimed at changing the sex of a person’ and altering gender details in public records https://tinyurl.com/2m56r6v5
  
• Competition watchdog sets its sights on will-writers | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/3f78pwwu
  
• A court in Brussels has found six men guilty of terrorist murder, more than seven years after suicide bomb attacks killed 32 people at the city's airport and a metro station in March 2016 #Belgium https://tinyurl.com/ybd8n7j9
  
• Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis charged with "orchestrating a brazen insider trader scheme", US attorney Damian Williams has said. The British billionaire is accused of using inside information to "shower gifts on his friends & lovers" https://tinyurl.com/4b2jfrpu
• Swansea dad jailed for taking son's points before fatal crash - Dewi George, 44, pretended to have been driving the car at the time of the speeding offence - despite actually being at his place of work https://tinyurl.com/jevsn6sr