31st October - Law News

Edition 4692: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.

-------------------------------------------------------------

Today's Highlighted Video Story:  An Australian jury has been told a woman created multiple personalities as a survival tactic as a result of alleged abuse by her father in the New South Wales Hunter Valley. 

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

• Supreme Court: No prohibition of sexual abuse trial on basis of disclosure | Irish Legal News
• ‘Carved on bodies and souls’: survivor tells of #Russia’s use of male sexual torture in Ukraine. Oleksii Sivak has set up a support group for others who have suffered widespread but unspoken abuse
• SRA "should have done more" to prevent Axiom Ince, says LSB report - Legal Futures
• Loophole exempts 355 landowners in England from inheritance tax, data shows. Chancellor urged to cancel tax break that uses scheme to register land as heritage asset and worth at least £68m
• In depth: Court interpreters down tools again as Labour persists with outsourcing | Law Gazette
• FA apologises to female Muslim footballer over tracksuit bottoms ban. Iqra Ismail, who does not wear shorts for religious reasons, was prevented from entering field of play during game
• London law firm Rylands Garth adds 50 new cases to rugby head injury claim despite SRA probe | Law Gazette