4th August - Law News

Edition 4604: 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: Admitting a mistake can be very hard. But how would it feel if the mistake helped put a man on death row? That’s the burden the Rev. Brian Wharton has been carrying for more than two decades. He played a crucial role in the prosecution of Robert Roberson, who was found guilty in 2003 of killing his 2-year-old daughter and sentenced to death.

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

• Young People, Past Failures, Change, and New Hope | BARRISTER MAGAZINE
• Bangladesh bans Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party after deadly student protests. PM Sheikh Hasina blames the Jamaat-e-Islami, its student wing and other associate bodies for inciting violence during the protests over a quota system
• Far-right thugs clashed with police as they gathered in Sunderland for a planned demonstration linked to the Southport knife attack. Stones and beer cans were thrown at police in riot gear outside a mosque in the city
• Three-way regulator co-operation leads to barrister being disbarred - Legal Futures
• Who are the Druze? A look at the community following a deadly attack. The Arab ethnoreligious community was at the centre of Saturday’s attack in the #Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
• #US DOJ files lawsuit against TikTok, ByteDance for failing on child privacy. The US alleges that for years millions of American children under 13 have been using TikTok and the site ‘has been collecting and retaining’ their data
• Face of British army recruitment drive wins payout for racist and sexist abuse. Kerry-Ann Knight hoped to pave way for Black women but was instead subjected to 12 years of abuse