20th December - Law News

Edition 4376: 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: HXA (Resp) v Surrey County Council (Appel); YXA (Resp) v Wolverhampton City Council (Appel) - In each of the appeals, is it arguable that the local authority Appellant owed the Respondent (a minor at the relevant times) a common law duty of care to protect them from harm on the basis that the Respondent had assumed responsibility to protect them from such harm? 

Focus of the Day Legal News: The Bar Standards Board (BSB) to press ahead with new powers for interim suspensions where necessary to protection the public or the public interest. Full story - Legal Futures 
 

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 Irish government is challenging the British government over its decision to ban all new Troubles-era court cases. The UK's controversial Troubles legacy bill became law in September, despite opposition http://tinyurl.com/4b89prtn
• Tell us: what are your views on UK assisted dying laws? http://tinyurl.com/5n8x6kac
  
• Anti-bullying training “should be compulsory for barristers” - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/3j6m9dh4
  
• Dozens more ballet dancers have described body-shaming and bullying at schools across the UK, following an investigation earlier this year. One ex-Elmhurst Ballet School student says she was shut in a room by staff while having a mental health crisis http://tinyurl.com/379a56ke
• #China rights activist goes on trial for ‘inciting subversion of state power’ http://tinyurl.com/yx6eff2c
  
• France jails former doctor for 24 years over role in 1994 #Rwanda genocide. Sosthene Munyemana is sixth person to be tried and convicted in France over involvement in slaughter of Tutsi minority http://tinyurl.com/yckky76m
  
• Lawyer apologises for saying Michelle Mone was not linked to PPE firm. Jonathan Coad, who represented former Tory peer, says sorry for unwittingly misleading the media http://tinyurl.com/yvwhtjr2