26th January - Law News

Edition 4413: 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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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

• Proportion of married people in England and Wales falls below 50% for first time. ONS figures, which include civil partnerships, spark calls for changes in laws for cohabiting couples http://tinyurl.com/ykxt8tp6
• Axiom Ince review to investigate regulation of ‘accumulator firms’ - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/2d74td2j
• BSB keeps its powder dry over Post Office barristers - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/2z9jfmrn
• Nearly 65,000 #US rape victims could not get an abortion in their state, analysis shows. Researchers estimated likely number of rape-related pregnancies in 14 states with near-total abortion bans since Dobbs ruling http://tinyurl.com/mu5nz8kx
  
• Alabama has executed convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas, the first time the method of capital punishment has been used in the #US http://tinyurl.com/8n98zmzz
• Rwanda flights: Britain reminded of obligation to obey ECHR orders. Ignoring urgent orders to halt flights would break international law, says head of European human rights court http://tinyurl.com/ftveuvn6
• #French court annuls large part of country’s new immigration law. Constitutional council says about half of articles in new law go against constitution and must be scrapped http://tinyurl.com/2479pfvx