20th January - Law News

Edition 4407: 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: The UK capital's ultra-low emission zone charges the drivers of more polluting road vehicles every time they enter the city. But since the Ulez was extended to the whole of London by the city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, the backlash has become increasingly ferocious. Self-styled ‘blade runners’, most of whom are climate change deniers, are waging a campaign to cut down Ulez cameras, activists wearing inflatable dinosaur outfits track and block mobile vans and protesters regularly turn out to drive anger against the mayor and expansion of the scheme. While many protesters hold legitimate concerns about the Ulez expansion, the Guardian’s Richard Sprenger discovers that conspiracy theories are never far from the surface. 

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

• Norfolk Police has referred itself to the independent watchdog, saying it did not respond to a 999 call from a house where a family was later found dead. An emergency call was made from a man in a house in Costessey, near Norwich, at 6 am on Friday http://tinyurl.com/4uszt9b4
• Stephen Denyer, Law Society's director of strategic relationships and former Allen & Overy regional managing partner, dies at 68 | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/2p9zv3nh
• 18-year-old who killed herself in prison should not have been there, say campaigners. Mother of Annelise Sanderson says daughter, who had mental health issues, was ‘just another number’ to authorities http://tinyurl.com/5h2uwuhw
• Bar calls for parliament to review private prosecution powers | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/yc3uxhdy
  
• The government has stopped routinely suspending benefit claims flagged by its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered fraud detector, it has emerged. DWP uses the technology to identify potentially suspicious claims for Universal Credit (UC) http://tinyurl.com/25tty479
• Three #French police officers have been given suspended jail sentences for assaulting a black man with a baton in a north-west Paris suburb. One officer received a 12-month suspended sentence and the other two received three-month sentences http://tinyurl.com/35ue7mvn
  
• A grand jury in New Mexico has charged Alec Baldwin with a fresh count of involuntary manslaughter over a fatal movie set shooting in October 2021. Previous charges were dropped last April, just two weeks before a criminal trial against was due to begin http://tinyurl.com/2zscs3k7