2nd January - Law News

Edition 4389: 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: A Palestinian petrol station attendant was kicked and stepped on by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. He says this sort of mistreatment happens on an almost daily basis

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

• #Spanish World Cup-winning footballer Jenni Hermoso has testified to a Madrid court that a kiss from former football federation president Luis Rubiales was "not consensual" http://tinyurl.com/3ewy25vc
  
• Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream? Movement is growing to give legal rights and political representation to nonhuman animals, species and places http://tinyurl.com/y8fe5fyb
• The sister of a 16-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed on New Year's Eve has said their family are "devastated". Harry Pitman, from Haringey, was stabbed in Primrose Hill, north London, at about 23:40 GMT on Sunday http://tinyurl.com/5n6dfbvk
  
• Why assisted dying should remain illegal http://tinyurl.com/3e6rv4u4
• If you think jails are too soft and full of hardened criminals, read this and think again http://tinyurl.com/bdcmepxu
• #Israel's Supreme Court has struck down a controversial judicial reform that triggered nationwide protests last year against the Netanyahu government. The change would have limited the power of the Supreme Court in overturning unconstitutional laws http://tinyurl.com/mrxrnn43
  
• The body overseeing school inspections must listen to the criticism it has received following the suicide of head teacher Ruth Perry, its new chief says http://tinyurl.com/mt4xt8us