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29th August - Law News

Edition 3533: 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: Chile’s oldest and largest Indigenous rebel group, CAM, has officially declared war on all capitalist groups in the south-central region. The unprecedented move comes as a Constitutional Convention is rewriting Chile’s constitution to include some Indigenous demands.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Justice Breyer on Retirement and the Role of Politics at the #US Supreme Court https://t.co/HHr7AMZEdf
  • Abuse survivors to receive six-figure pay-out after data breach | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QwojVSNUnD
  • Harper Macleod partners accredited as construction law specialists - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/TYuZjbP620 
  • Sexual crimes reported to police at six-year high - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/EH07InI4GW 
  • Solicitor charged with contaminating supermarket food with blood | Law Gazette https://t.co/aIs8QVSHLm
  • Addleshaw Goddard becomes Lawscot Foundation sponsor - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7OkGPKL3c
  • Human rights crucial as ever as Northern Ireland navigates Covid and Brexit | Irish Legal News https://t.co/zmyXvvQfqz
  • Temporary operating hours: ‘the straw that will break the camel’s back’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/lQJ0OSGyis 
  • Law Society calls for Afghan bar president to receive UK support - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/tUnUro34D
  • ‘We were punch bags’: #NorthKorean prison beatings may be form of torture, says UN https://t.co/cXnBCvKyD2
  • A second man has been arrested after a Manchester City footballer was charged with rape and sexual assault. Benjamin Mendy is accused of four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault at his home in Cheshire https://t.co/vnbZf0pMue
  • Austin Police Officer Is Charged With Murder in a Second On-Duty Killing #US https://t.co/TcVaQ4sy
  • The US intelligence community has been unable to determine the origins of Covid-19, and is split on whether it leaked from a lab or developed in nature, according to a new report https://t.co/0F0fFiGmx
  • MoJ cleared of age discrimination for turning down candidate over 55 | Law Gazette https://t.co/iA2GNUegff 
  • Manchester Oncologist Professor Justin Stebbing Suspended After Ignoring Colleagues' Dissenting Views, Tribunal Hears https://t.co/fpOWLUQTt
  • Man with 34 previous convictions wins sentencing appeal after assaulting friend and ex-partner - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aR3P3zo0V
  • Calls Grow to Discipline Doctors Spreading Virus Misinformation #US https://t.co/Do0OmeFVZg
  • Robert F Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan recommended for parole #US https://t.co/5syEmoUZ57 
  • The government has announced plans to ban single-use plastic cutlery, plates and polystyrene cups in England as part of what it calls a "war on plastic" https://t.co/MVKrp7X3rn
  • In focus: Should City firms cut ties with fossil fuel giants? | Law Gazette https://t.co/VaPSCv00nK 
  • Extradition proceedings brought in Scotland against former Catalan government minister Clara PonsatĂ­ have been dropped - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8mVhHl0GBq
  • Insurer’s sudden withdrawal from PII market ‘possibly another casualty of Brexit’ | Irish Legal News https://t.co/CWvVXfufM
  • Three SYLA events planned for September - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aM9FalIRPx
  • Marguerite Bolger SC to lead Sláintecare talks with hospital consultants | Irish Legal News https://t.co/n3cDiUOiK
  • Tax lawyer Jonathan Bremner QC joins Axiom Advocates - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jEc0Dx8QJX
  • Ian Bailey lawyer rejects proposal for fresh trial in France | Irish Legal News https://t.co/LvhbN4WqLB
  • Sydney gang rapist Mohammed Skaf set to be released on parole #Australia https://t.co/z4oIGT4PSa 
  • UK to depart from GDPR in data law shake-up - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zWFs3Gs27O