7th December - Law News

Edition 4363: 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: Disability Inclusion: Making reasonable adjustments in recruitment and onboarding

Focus of the Day Legal News:  A three-day libel trial over a Twitter spat involving two law lecturers has opened in London. James Wilson, a law lecturer and non-practising solicitor, told the court he ‘never believed for a moment’ his claim would ‘end up in a High Court trial’. Full story - The Law Society Gazette 

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 government's decision not to introduce a Hillsborough Law is an "absolute insult", the sister of one of the disaster victims has said. Campaigners had called for legislation to introduce a legal "duty of candour" on public authorities https://tinyurl.com/4jvyrrsk
• #Denmark's parliament has banned the "inappropriate treatment" of religious texts - with a bill widely known in the country as the Quran law. Offenders now face a fine or up to two years in jail after a 94-77 vote https://t.co/g062Zoi1PN
  
• Solicitors' court battle to resume after former firm owner wins appeal - Legal Futures https://shorturl.at/suEH1
• Venice gondola capsizes after tourists refuse to sit down and stop taking selfies #Italy https://shorturl.at/gSV57
  
• Trans inmates with history of violence against women to be mostly kept out of female Scottish jails https://shorturl.at/kvCD9
• War crimes law: often cited, often ignored | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/22npappk
• Robert Jenrick resigns as immigration minister, saying the government's emergency Rwanda legislation "does not go far enough". He said "stronger protections" were needed to end "the merry-go-round of legal challenges which risk paralysing the scheme" https://shorturl.at/rDJNV