7th January - Law News

Edition 4395: 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: It is exactly three years since Donald Trump's supporters attacked the US Capitol, trying to stop Congress certifying Joe Biden's election victory. Now the Supreme Court says it will decide whether the former president can be removed from this year's ballot for trying to overturn that result. Both men are ramping up their re-election campaigns. Biden with a speech in Pennsylvania denouncing his predecessor as a threat to American democracy, and Trump telling a rally in Iowa that the US under Biden is a "failing nation".

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

• No investigation into Prince Andrew - Met Police https://shorturl.at/xCNW2
• Should men who murder women be entitled to the privilege of parole? This question around the early release of inmates, albeit under certain conditions, has been raised in #SouthAfrica following the freeing on parole of Oscar Pistorius http://tinyurl.com/2p8pyx69
  
• Professor Evelyn Collins to chair NI Parades Commission | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YT4uAdUXdq
• Hundreds block off Westminster Bridge in call for Gaza ceasefire. Protesters also call for UK to stop arms sales to Israel and end to Israeli occupation of Palestine http://tinyurl.com/yh89pzz6
• #Ukraine has condemned a decree signed by President Putin making it possible to confer Russian citizenship on Ukrainian children moved to Russia https://t.co/0mrgmghN8y
  
• Serving Met Police officer in court charged with rape http://tinyurl.com/4yxse97u
• FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout on Alaska Airlines jet http://tinyurl.com/3nxm6s6k