4th October - Law News

Edition 4685: 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:  Wrongly accused of gun crime, drug dealing, human trafficking, money laundering and even terrorism - homes repeatedly raided, stopped and searched by firearms officers, bank accounts frozen, suspended from work. It sounds like the plot of a dystopian film - but it all happened to Dale Semper, a black bank manager from Enfield. After a seven year fight for justice, the Metropolitan police have settled the civil claim he brought for racial discrimination, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. 

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

• I treat the very sick – and I urge politicians to vote against the deeply worrying assisted dying bill
• Decolonisation: UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - The deal – reached after years of negotiations - will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic move
• SRA finally getting to grips with aged investigations into solicitors - Legal Futures
• A former sub-postmaster serving life in prison for murdering his wife is seeking a fresh appeal of his conviction, arguing the Post Office Inquiry has shed new light on his case. Robin Garbutt was found guilty in 2011 of murdering his wife Diana
• More price transparency and bulk claims rise up SRA agenda - Legal Futures
• #Saudi fitness instructor stabbed in face while jailed over women’s rights posts. Pen used in assault on Manahel al-Otaibi, who has been imprisoned for 11 years for ‘terrorist’ tweets after secret trial
• Elon Musk has been ordered by a #US federal court to answer further questions from lawyers about his takeover of Twitter - now called X - on Thursday. And the financial world has one question: Will he be there?