28th September - Law News

Edition 4293: 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: Serious questions have been raised in Thailand about corruption in the police force after a police officer was murdered at a dinner party three weeks ago. What followed was a subsequent cover-up by officers who watched their colleague die. ABC's southeast Asia correspondent Lauren Day tells The World the story has exposed deep distrust in the police. 

Focus of the Day Legal News: Legal firms have been put at greater risk of breaching sanctions regulations by a lack of expertise in the private sector and at the Treasury’s dedicated watchdog, a conference heard today. Dentons partner Roger Matthews said sanctions expertise in businesses vulnerable to a breach, such as ’law firms and banks’, is ‘in the foothills’ of what is needed to ensure compliance, after the war in Ukraine ‘turbo-charged’ the sanctions regime. Full story - Th 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

• Slow recovery or the new normal? What’s next for the PI market - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/24s7fysz
• What will the bar look like in 2043? | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2p8uws2e
• Legal staff win tokens in law firm’s blockchain incentive scheme - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/ynsbrk2z
• The SFO in-tray: Five key challenges for the new director | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/ta5zzvp3
• UN rebukes Suella Braverman over her attack on refugee convention. UNHCR defends 1951 convention after UK home secretary’s speech on ‘uncontrolled and illegal migration’ https://tinyurl.com/3p4ebysn
• Lord Carloway reaffirms opposition to legal regulation bill | Scottish Legal News https://tinyurl.com/2jzd65k6
• US soldier Travis King, who fled to #NorthKorea in July, is in American custody after being expelled by Pyongyang, officials say. According to US media reports, Pte King was transferred into US custody in China https://tinyurl.com/mr33z6c7
  

27th September - Law News

Edition 4292: 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: Wellbeing is important for everyone at the Bar. In this video, leaders from across the Bar explore some of the issues and challenges the profession faces, as well as potential solutions and ways to get help if you need it.

Focus of the Day Legal News: Law firms often adopt diversity initiatives “because they are fashionable, not because they work”, an academic and diversity specialist has argued. 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

• Smirking Suella trashes 70 years of human rights in 30 minutes - Time to ditch the UN convention, said Braverman, we’d all been far too nice to people fleeing persecution https://shorturl.at/uFMT0
• Protestors vow to repeat juror campaign outside court | Law Gazette https://t.co/6jrUF8LW5i
• Donald Trump "repeatedly" misrepresented his wealth - by up to $3.6bn (£3bn) - to banks and insurers, a New York judge has ruled. The decision resolves a key claim made by New York's attorney general in her civil lawsuit against the former president #US https://t.co/ImRcMNMLfg
• Immigrant, pop star ... and supreme court judge who will decide fate of #Israel’s justice system https://shorturl.at/KMQZ3
  
• Home Secretary Suella Braverman is facing criticism after she said the international asylum system was no longer fit for purpose. She said fearing discrimination for being gay or a woman should not be enough to qualify for refugee protection https://t.co/pXHOJQDmvy
• David Walliams has filed a High Court case against the production company that makes ITV's Britain's Got Talent. The action against FremantleMedia is listed as dealing with data protection. No other details have been given https://t.co/9YRkG4XHt4
• Fixed costs reforms threaten small firms, concedes government | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/jqEJ5