20th August - Law News

Edition 4254: 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: Africa has lost about 90% of its vultures over the past 50 years. It’s a rapidly growing crisis, and the decline is not down to natural causes. Most of these birds are being poisoned, often unintentionally, by humans. We know the impact that mass vulture death can have on humans, because India suffered the same fate just 20 years ago. Neelam Tailor looks into how humans are accidentally killing millions of vultures, and the deadly impact it has had on people.

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):

• The Ministry of Justice has published a report on the progress of the Law Commission’s recommendations from 2018–2023 | NLJ https://t.co/zI1WrlJc20
  
• #Norway’s far-right mass killer Breivik sues state over prison isolation - Breivik, 44, is serving 21 years in prison for killing 77 people in shootings and a bombing attack in 2011 https://tinyurl.com/4tn6ec9h
  
• All criminal courts can now access the Common Platform, the digital case management platform introduced under the government’s courts modernisation programme | NLJ https://tinyurl.com/54rdvkum
• Families of some of the babies attacked by Lucy Letby have said the inquiry into the case should have powers to compel witnesses to come forward. An independent inquiry was ordered on after the nurse's conviction for the crimes at a hospital in Chester https://t.co/vEfYkKwXTl
  
• Michael Jackson lawsuits alleging sex abuse can be revived, #US appeals court says https://t.co/GgGYg0lu6F
  
• #Indian PM Narendra Modi claims common personal laws will help women, but the proposal is a political weapon to portray Muslims and other religious minorities as regressive https://tinyurl.com/23y4k2sk
  
• Weekly Round-up: Presidential assassination; sewage lawsuit; lefty lawyers - UK Human Rights Blog https://tinyurl.com/yrr4aywd