15th August - Law News

Edition 4249: 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: Former United States President Donald Trump has been hit with a fourth set of criminal charges by a grand jury in Georgia, which issued an indictment accusing him of efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat candidate and winner Joe Biden.

 Focus of the Day Legal News: Government attacks on lawyers degrading, say former Tory law officers. Dominic Grieve and Edward Garnier denounce ‘lefty lawyer’ rhetoric as dossier target fears abuse will turn physical. Full story - Guardian Law  

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

• Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi: The nearest abortion clinic – in Chicago – was too far away and too expensive for her mother to provide her with the procedure #US https://tinyurl.com/2vrvhb2d
  
• PSNI data breach: Details of NI police in hands of dissident republicans https://shorturl.at/rCGU4
  
• #Italy's far-right ruling party has been ordered to pay damages to a same-sex couple for using a photo of them with their newborn son without their consent in an anti-surrogacy campaign https://shorturl.at/tBNO6
  
• Lakhimpur case: Life in jail for #India sisters' rape and hanging - India's 80 million Dalit women, a community that is at the bottom of India's deeply discriminatory caste hierarchy https://shorturl.at/dOW27
  
• Chalk pledges £220m to modernise court buildings | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/hEV36
  
• Afghanistan refugees being let down by UK, says think tank https://shorturl.at/empJ3
  
• A crucial new law that aims to protect the personal data of Indians will dilute another landmark legislation that brought much-needed transparency into government functioning #India https://shorturl.at/akqUW