25th August - Law News

Edition 4625: 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: Israel says it has prevented a major attack by launching a pre-emptive strike on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Despot Benjamin Netanyahu said thousands of rockets had been destroyed before they could be launched. Hezbollah's leader Sheikh Nasrallah said the group's operation had been completed as planned, in revenge for the killing of a Hezbollah commander last month. 

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/X feed):

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Investment fraudsters stealing huge sums from public: There are “staggering amounts” of money being stolen via investment fraud in Ireland, according to gardaí | Irish Legal News
• Law firm employee barred from profession after nightclub assault on colleagues - Legal Cheek
• The International Criminal Court should adopt ‘joint criminal enterprise’ as a mode of criminal liability in the ICC Statute to punish masterminds of mass atrocities, experts have said | Irish Legal News
• Black freedom has never been on the #US ballot. Every four years we are told ‘change is coming’ and then made to wait for it, again and again
• Kirstie Allsopp reported to social services for allowing son, 15, to travel abroad. TV presenter says she was contacted by social worker who said child protection concerns had been raised
• A landmark report into problems faced by women in the Malayalam-language film industry has revealed the deep rot in one of #India’s most popular film hubs. The findings of the three-member panel are pretty damning
• A 26-year-old man has given himself up and confessed to a mass knife attack at a street festival in #Germany, police said on Sunday