27th January - Law News

Edition 4414: 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

• The Court of Appeal is hearing arguments this week in an important case on government transparency and the redaction of names | New Law Journal http://tinyurl.com/3strdb6x
• The UK has become the latest country to pause funding for the UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA. It comes after the agency announced the sacking of several of its staff over allegations they were involved in the 7 October Hamas attacks http://tinyurl.com/34b68z6h
• Valdo Calocane: what are high-security hospitals and could his sentence be changed? http://tinyurl.com/bddh59vf
• A New York jury has said Donald Trump must pay $83.3m (£65.6m) to E Jean Carroll, a writer he was found to have defamed by denying her allegation of sexual assault. Legal experts say the award is a message to the former #US president to stop smearing her http://tinyurl.com/3rzjpds6
  
• NI Court of Appeal: High Court unduly lenient in sentencing internet-based child sexual offences | Irish Legal News http://tinyurl.com/mhwxnnmj
  
• Solicitor-advocate and leading dispute resolution lawyer Hussein Haeri has been selected for appointment as King’s Counsel (KC) | New Law Journal https://t.co/QiKrBvvsGc
• ‘Dark forces’: how #US corporations turned to courts in fight against unions. Companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Starbucks are using new legal playbook against unions, experts say http://tinyurl.com/ydp9tuyc