20th July - Law News

Edition 4589: 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:  Bangladesh on Friday announced the imposition of a curfew and the deployment of military forces after police failed to quell days of deadly unrest that has spread throughout the country. This week's clashes between student demonstrators and police have killed at least 105 people, according to an AFP count of victims reported by hospitals, and pose a momentous challenge to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's autocratic government after 15 years in office

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

• Post Office misled us ahead of litigation, says former government minister Kelly Tolhurst | Law Gazette
• Newborn baby made homeless by Home Office in frenzy to clear asylum backlog. Department ordered to reconsider cases of father with baby and a mother with two children
• Firm’s disciplinary process 'conducted with aim of dismissing' solicitor over Facebook account, ET finds | Law Gazette
• #Bangladesh student protests: Why is the government facing public anger? - Street protests are not new to this South Asian nation of 170 million, but the intensity of the demonstrations of the past week has been described as the worst in living memory
• Planning and employment law reform took top billing in the King’s Speech, among an ambitious agenda of more than 35 bills | New Law Journal
• Adidas drops supermodel Bella Hadid, who is half Palestinian, from an advertising campaign for retro shoes referencing the 1972 Munich Olympics. #Israel, found guilty by ICJ of illegally occupying Palestinian lands, had criticised the choice of Hadid
• Sandra Hemme freed after 43 years in prison for murder she didn’t commit - There was no evidence that linked her to the crime other than a confession she gave under heavy sedation in a psychiatric hospital #US