3rd August - Law News

Edition 4603: 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 man accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of his accomplices, have agreed to plead guilty. Editor of EA WorldView, Professor Scott Lucas, tells The World part of their plea deal will be explaining why they carried out a "mass murder that changed the 21st century".

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

• Solicitor rebuked after client's appeal not submitted - Legal Futures
• Police in British capital clash with far-right protesters following false claims shared by extremists that the suspect in knife attack in northwest England was a Muslim and asylum-seeker
• Violent Southport protests reveal new tactics of the far-right: In addition, the protests appeared to draw people misled by the misinformation that the attack was linked to illegal immigration, propagated by leading far-right politicians
• Senior police officer Tolo Munro fired for ‘punching two women’. He had formally advocated tackling violence against women
• #Venezuelans fear for relatives after mass arrests - Mr Maduro claimed victory, which was instantly disputed by the opposition who say they have evidence from electronic voting machines that they, not the government, won
• Lauryn Goodman v Kyle Walker: judge lifts anonymity in family court judgment | Law Gazette
• A woman who says she was raped in 2017 has described the criminal justice system as "absolutely broken" after a series of problems and errors allowed the accused man to allegedly start stalking her