25th December - Law News

Edition 4381: 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: More than a hundred people have been killed during Israeli air strikes, in one of the deadliest nights of the eleven week old conflict between Israel and Hamas

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

• Police in Sri Lanka say they have arrested almost 15,000 people during a week-long drive against drug traffickers across the country. They say the operation led to the seizure of almost 440kg of various types of narcotics, including heroin https://t.co/07ixHdQy1q
• ‘No, that’s fascism’: the librarian who defied #Russia’s purge of LGBTQ+ books http://tinyurl.com/cpwdv3n8
  
• #Israel's needless killing of innocent Palestinian has led to Christmas celebrations have been cancelled this year, and the thousands of tourists and pilgrims who would normally fill Manger Square are nowhere to be found http://tinyurl.com/2kpmx8h9
  
• ‘Britain gave me safety, now as a doctor I can give back’: the charity helping refugees requalify to practise in the UK http://tinyurl.com/ym6kcuet
• Sara Sharif: UK and Pakistan courts tussle over siblings' future http://tinyurl.com/3xuxj2p5
• Home Secretary James Cleverly apologises for 'ironic joke' about spiking wife's drink  http://tinyurl.com/yehvdrx5
  
• ‘What is it about life that’s sacred?’: Harriet Walter backs change in law on assisted dying http://tinyurl.com/mr2vjzx5