24th December - Law News

Edition 4380: 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: Across Australia there are hundreds of unidentified human remains and families that don't know what happened to their loved ones. As police continue to look at these cold cases, hoping one day they'll be solved, a new DNA matching technique is offering potentially game-changing results. Earlier this year, a lab in Canberra helped solve a 40-year-old South Australian cold case, and deliver answers to a New South Wales family.

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

• Two former health secretaries join calls for new law on assisted dying https://t.co/PgYjPPKqb8
• Sculptor sues Swedish glassmaker for €1m in test of EU ‘bestseller clause’ http://tinyurl.com/3zc95hve
  
• Russia bans anti-war candidate from challenging Putin http://tinyurl.com/ys2nkycc
• A woman has appeared in court after being charged with the murder of her baby daughter in Leeds. Five-month-old Evelyn was found in a serious condition in Woodhouse Moor park on Wednesday evening and was later pronounced dead in hospital http://tinyurl.com/4w7hka8m
• #Czech Republic mourns victims of Prague university mass shooting http://tinyurl.com/ywef3e7d
  
• Why can’t we allow our loved ones to die with dignity? http://tinyurl.com/4p3yxmmw
  
• 2023 was the year governments looked at the climate crisis – and decided to persecute the activists http://tinyurl.com/47jhr95v