14th June - Law News

Edition 4187: 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: Climate change has taken an enormous toll on the rainforest in recent years and has repeatedly uprooted families and decimated the incomes of residents who have traditionally relied heavily on agriculture and fishing for their livelihoods. In this film The Guardian will explore how repeated natural disasters and environmental changes to the region have created a highly vulnerable population that is increasingly at risk of participating in or becoming victims of child trafficking.

Focus of the Day Law News/Article: 
The Supreme Court has refused mining giant BHP permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s decision allowing the largest group action ever to go ahead. A three-man panel of Lords Hodge, Burrows and Richards decided that the application did not raise “an arguable point of law”. Full story - Legal Futures 

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

• Online rule committee gears up for work - but where to begin? - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/kmwR1
  
• Find a competitive edge with data-driven legal resource management - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/2p8vrm3s
  
• Home Office expands scheme to pardon those criminalised for gay activity - Women will be able to apply for convictions and cautions under repealed or abolished offences to be wiped https://tinyurl.com/ywdrxhcd
  
• Thousands of Afghan refugees in UK set to be made homeless https://shorturl.at/xAEFR
  
• Two police officers are under investigation for their conduct prior to the death of two boys in an e-bike crash in Cardiff which led to rioting https://shorturl.at/aBSUY
• Outrage at jail sentence for woman who took abortion pills later than UK limit - Mitigation plea signed by medical groups was sent to judge, while BPAS chief executive said sentence was ‘shocking and appalling’ https://tinyurl.com/3awjf3yj
• The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has apologised to the so-called 'Hooded Men' over their treatment under interrogation in 1971. The 14 men were arrested during internment without trial https://shorturl.at/vwFK7
• Sainsbury's and Asda have been told to stop using "unlawful" land agreements to prevent rivals from opening stores near their own shops https://tinyurl.com/mseahwmp