23rd January - Law News

Edition 4410: 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: Race in the workplace: What is the ethnicity stay gap

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

• Prison lawyers reveal shocking struggles to see their clients | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/2rsbr3rf
• Abortion prosecutions are never in the public interest, says royal college. New guidance to say health staff should not report women suspected of illegally ending pregnancies to police http://tinyurl.com/5duu8t4m
• Wasted costs against lay representative acting according to client's instructions refused | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/bdctrjhd
• Sorry from the professional imaginarium - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/4afnj7ks
• Prosecutors have accepted a plea of manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility from the man who stabbed three people in Nottingham. Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates died after being attacked on 13 June http://tinyurl.com/ye2ykttw
• Amazon fined for 'excessive' surveillance of workers http://tinyurl.com/4sfa3zpp
• House of Commons justice select committee chair Sir Bob Neill MP appointed honorary KC | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/5b2nmnm3