19th December - Law News

Edition 4375: 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: US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas complained privately about his salary to a Republican lawmaker years ago, according to a new report by ProPublica

Focus of the Day Legal News: Judge throws out Kabwe lead-poisoning case against Anglo American mining. South African court dismisses huge class-action lawsuit over toxic legacy of mining at Broken Hill in Zambia between 1925 and 1974. 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

• A second-hand dealer has won a case to keep the €4.2m proceeds from the sale of a rare African mask he found in an elderly #French couple's attic. He had been brought in to help clear the attic of the couple, who sold him the mask for €150 https://shorturl.at/hks37
  
• High Court: Mirror's legal department knew about hacking for years - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/3fmnn2c3
  
• Homelessness: 'I was raped while sleeping under a pier in Blackpool' https://t.co/xO6xOmHAbu
  
• SDT urges solicitors to be open with clients after suspending partner - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/59f6te3v
• The co-founder of Extinction Rebellion has received a 15-month suspended jail sentence after a marathon legal battle over her breaking a pane of glass. Dr Gail Bradbrook was convicted last month of causing £27,500+ of damage https://tinyurl.com/fs4nn2p8
  
• Two Georgia poll workers have filed lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, days after winning a $148m defamation case. Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss allege that he continued to lie when he repeated false claims mid-trial that "they were engaged in changing votes" https://tinyurl.com/msx6av9e
  
• Israel has "gone beyond self-defence" and lost the moral authority in its war with Hamas, the Tory chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee has said https://tinyurl.com/yr4t7m46