31st December - Law News

Edition 4387: 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: Thousands of people are flocking to the Sydney Harbour shoreline to secure the best spot for tonight's New Year's Eve fireworks.

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

• New law designates special counsels to prosecute sex crimes in #US military. Military sexual assaults and harassment have increased almost every year since 2006, prompting Congress to pass new legislation http://tinyurl.com/49ycuvkz
  
• Magistrate removed from office after JCIO found she had withheld 'important information' from job application | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/y6b287pz
• BBC likely to redact some of emails it must release over Martin Bashir scandal. Broadcaster expected to use Freedom of Information Act to stop full disclosure, tribunal told http://tinyurl.com/2p9rcz9v
• A rail worker who has saved 29 people from taking their own lives since 2015 has been honoured with an MBE. Rizwan Javed, from east London, works for the MTR Elizabeth line at Ealing Broadway station http://tinyurl.com/y5af8mbp
• Father stuck in Turkey applies for judicial review of Home Office’s handling of his case. Siyabonga Twala, who has a British son, was barred from returning to UK a year ago and remains in limbo in Ankara http://tinyurl.com/5t56k5ff
• A report which found housing asylum seekers on a barge was discriminatory was published by mistake http://tinyurl.com/mujyjv97
• Housing legal aid: new early advice scheme handles 79 claims in first few weeks | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/28mvf3vr