12th September - Law News

Edition 4643: 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:  Thirty years ago, in the Indian state of Bihar, a group of village midwives confessed on camera that they routinely took the lives of newborn baby girls.

 

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

• MPs renew call for review of ‘unjustifiably vague’ joint enterprise law. Early day motion expresses alarm at data showing black people are disproportionately prosecuted under legislation
• Following a competitive recruitment exercise earlier this year, the Scottish Council of Law Reporting has announced the appointment of advocates to the law reporting panel for Session Cases | Scottish Legal News
• FCA charges alleged operator of multiple crypto ATMs in first prosecution of unregistered crypto asset | Law Gazette
• #Pacificislands submit court proposal for recognition of ecocide as a crime. Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa want international criminal court to class environmental destruction as crime alongside genocide
• Vaginal mesh victims should not be “forced down adversarial route” - Legal Futures
• We examined anti-protest laws across the west. Britain stood out, and not in a good way
• England's 11 million renters are set to get more security as Labour introduces a new bill to ban "no-fault" eviction