25th February - Law News

Edition 4443: 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: The Biden Administration has called on Israel to stop attacking Palestinian police officers in the Gaza Strip. That's as the Israeli military is destroying infrastructure from the north to the south, including hospitals, schools, roads, communication networks and the water system. It is part of a deepening humanitarian catastrophe - with tens of thousands of people starving and heavy fighting continuing to take lives. What does this mean for the future governance of the strip?

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

• CPS: Quarter of pupil barristers quit after a year - Legal Cheek https://t.co/UER9Z3ubZk
• The deputy prime minister has declined to say whether Lee Anderson's comments were Islamophobic and said the MP would have kept his role had he apologised http://tinyurl.com/499vfxay
  
• Steven Tyler: sexual assault claim against Aerosmith singer dismissed. #US judge says accuser Jeanne Bellino waited too long to sue 75-year-old over allegations of assault in 1975 http://tinyurl.com/297dz6ba
  
• Cyber attacks on UK law firms surge by over a third - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RP8SnFepfD
• Twenty Nightingale courts at nine venues will be extended to ‘help reduce the number of local outstanding cases’, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said | New Law Journal https://t.co/kA3lF4f7iT
• Comedy actor pokes fun at barrister-life with mockumentary - Legal Cheek https://t.co/9faTGoCV3c
• #Australian defence department facing $500,000 WorkCover lawsuit over injury from testing Hawkei vehicle http://tinyurl.com/37u9hnh9