Edition 3493: 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:
The Bar Council of England and Wales - Meeting of the Bar Council – 10 July 2021
The Bar Council of England and Wales - Meeting of the Bar Council – 10 July 2021
Focus of the Day Article:
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge against the two-child limit on the individual element of child tax credit payments. In a unanimous judgment delivered by Lord Reed, the Court held that the provision imposing the limit was not contrary to the appellants’ Convention rights. The Court found that the rule was potentially indirectly discriminatory against women, as well as children living in households with more than two children. However, any such discrimination could be validly justified and was considered to be proportionate on the basis of ‘protecting the economic well-being of the country’. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog |
| Saturday Conversations on Law |
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- Numerous jurisdictions around #Australia have recently passed sweeping reforms to defamation law, which could have a substantial impact on major cases in the future, and arguably could have altered the circumstances of recent trials - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/TOWBXPF1Dn
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- Political extremism, conflict identities and the search for ontological security in contemporary established democracies | Ben Rich https://t.co/N945ZQkW5N
- Too soon to celebrate a win for female lawyers in #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/QWnWTbwaq9
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Guantánamo prosecutors’ use of information from a brutal interrogation
had troubled Biden administration lawyers and was a source of tension
with the chief prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, who will retire soon #US https://t.co/z4quxAWg4O
- Constitution
the North Star against which State action is judged, irrespective of
govt's electoral legitimacy: Justice DY Chandrachud | Bar & Bench
#India https://t.co/fuIXu12Dmp
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theories about SouthKorea’s turbulent past have spread online. Now the
government is pushing criminal penalties to crack down on misinformation
https://t.co/8GhhUaFHsn
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Liberals, ex-prosecutors assemble legal team to launch private criminal
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