22nd April - Law News

Edition 4134: 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 US Supreme Court on Friday temporarily preserved access to a widely used abortion pill, freezing rulings by lower courts that would have banned or severely restricted availability of the drug. Two conservative justices disagreed with the decision in the most significant abortion case to reach the nine-member court since it overturned the constitutional right to the procedure 10 months ago

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 feed):

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The family of Halyna Hutchins, the Rust cinematographer who died on set, say they will sue Alec Baldwin despite his criminal charges being dropped #US https://shorturl.at/ruUZ7
  
• A Plaid Cymru councillor who dubbed two colleagues "outsiders" has been suspended after telling them: "Wales is for Welsh people." Terry Davies was found to have used discriminatory language by Carmarthenshire council's standards committee https://shorturl.at/afVY1
  
• Heath secretary to ask court if next RCN nurses' strike is lawful https://shorturl.at/bfsuM
  
• Second woman claims she was raped by colleagues while working at CBI. Another female employee complained she was stalked by a male colleague in 2018 at the business lobbying group https://shorturl.at/NSUW1
  
• Lords could defeat plan to ignore ECHR small boat rulings, ministers warned. Former head of judiciary says move by UK could amount to ‘symbolic breach of the rule of law’ https://shorturl.at/mvCMN
  
• Associate's misconduct 'had become ingrained', SDT finds | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2r2hhbpu
  
• James Cleverly defies Tory right’s push to leave ECHR - Foreign secretary says UK should not want to club with Belarus and Russia in rejecting European human rights convention https://shorturl.at/agINP
  
• McDonald’s offered Met police cheap burgers and free drinks during XR protests: McDonald’s franchises also granted use of toilets during October 2019 London protests by climate activists https://shorturl.at/ahCNS
  
• An online backlash to the Dalai Lama has rejuvenated a long-running controversy over #Tibetan history and boosted a Chinese government narrative https://shorturl.at/hyE16
  
• Enviromentalist group Just Stop Oil says it will "continue disrupting cultural and sporting events" amid concerns protestors will target the London Marathon on Sunday https://shorturl.at/ehmU7