Edition 3430: 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: A decade after being granted asylum in Sweden, 19-year-old Tousin Chiza is representing his adopted country at the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam next week. Tousin - or Tusse, as he's known in Sweden - was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He fled to a refugee camp in Uganda aged five with his aunt, siblings and cousins, and lived there for three years until moving to Sweden aged eight. "It's a huge honour for me," he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. "It's like the biggest thank you I can give.".
Focus of the Day Article:
A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ordered that the young child of a Canadian citizen be returned to Quebec to live with her after an application was made for his return under the Hague Convention on Child Abduction. The mother, ML, petitioned the court for an order after the father, JH, an Englishman living in Aberdeen, refused to return their child to her by an agreed return date. The child had been living with his father temporarily under the terms of a signed agreement since September 2020. Full story - Scottish Legal News
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
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- Outer House judge orders that child of Canadian and Englishman resident in Scotland be returned to Canada - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jMYIwcWaG5
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- A new emergency alert text system will be trialled this summer before being rolled out across the UK https://t.co/wFRWaOKy1R
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- Plaintiff firm Slater and Gordon is investigating the possibility of commencing a class action on behalf of women who have been sold ineffective add-on therapies while undergoing IVF treatment - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/rpVdTSUlrs
- Police apologize after wrongly arresting B.C.’s first Black Supreme Court Justice – Campbell River Mirror #Canada https://t.co/zdKEenBKKB
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- Staff at Newport-based legal practice Convey Law have raised £10,000 in memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore to celebrate what would have been his 101st birthday https://t.co/AjJBeDcoiO
