21st October - Law News

Edition 4316: 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: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told the international conference in Cairo that Palestinians will not accept being transferred outside the Gaza Strip, despite relentless bombardment from the Israeli army. “We will never accept relocation, we will remain on our land whatever the challenges,” Abbas said before calling for sustained aid to be allowed into the besieged enclave. “We also oppose the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank and Jerusalem,” he added.

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 government will legislate to create a presumption that sentences of less than 12 months should be suspended, the Lord Chancellor, Alex Chalk has told MPs | New Law Journal https://t.co/E61NTY805F
• Staff shortages forcing England’s prisons into emergency ‘red’ measures. One prison has reported using ‘absolute last resort’ regime for inmates on 15 occasions this year https://t.co/yXRtBr8v27
  
• A New York judge has threatened Donald Trump with jail for a "blatant violation" of a gag order in his civil fraud trial. Judge Arthur Engoron said in court that Trump had failed to remove a social media post mocking a clerk at the court #US https://t.co/pLefXTayTh
  
• Family Division president calls for Family Drug and Alcohol (FDAC) schemes in every court | Law Gazette https://t.co/lYWcpddO1O
  
• Solicitors told to brace for "radical" rise in compensation fund costs - Legal Futures https://t.co/mhzO9L1B95
• EU raises security concerns as it reveals five Caribbean states have sold 88,000 ‘golden passports’. European Commission says it will revise rules on visa-free travel after scale of trade in citizenship exposed https://shorturl.at/ksvAQ
• A #Czech parish priest has apologised to heathen children after stomping on pagan Halloween pumpkins near his church. Father Jaromir Smejkal destroyed the carved pumpkins on two successive days in a park in Kurdejov https://shorturl.at/jntNO