6th August - Law News

Edition 4240: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.

-------------------------------------------------------------

Today's Highlighted Video Story: Listening to the men in the short Opinion Video above is like encountering visitors from another planet. They are serving life sentences at Angola prison, in rural Louisiana, with little to no hope for release. Many are elderly; they have not seen the outside world, or their families, for decades.

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

• Charlotte Proudman talks about the impact of misogynistic online trolling on female lawyers and asks why this is being allowed to happen in plain sight | COUNSEL https://tinyurl.com/42nsmab4
• A controversial rule which saw living costs deducted from compensation paid to wrongly imprisoned people has been scrapped https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66417103
• ULaw tutor on course to become Law Society president - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zQHbPrInzM
  
• SRA allows convicted and struck off ex-solicitor to work for law firm - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/mrxduy4p
  
• Police plan to charge #US YouTuber Kai Cenat after a video games console giveaway event he organised sparked mayhem in New York. Thousands rampaged through Union Square in anticipation of free PlayStations hurling bottles, stones and tins of paint https://tinyurl.com/5harfrmd
  
• SRA to toughen up on compliance with continuing competence rules - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/2nxfe93c
  
• Women in Texas with serious pregnancy complications will be temporarily exempted from the southern #US state's abortion ban, a judge has ruled. Judge Jessica Mangrum said there was a lack of clarity in the legislation https://tinyurl.com/3zz28v23