29th September - Law News

Edition 4680: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.

-------------------------------------------------------------

Today's Highlighted Video Story:  A major civil liberties breach is used to tackle crime - One facial recognition company, Clear View AI, used AI to track down a child abuser in the US. But campaigners have raised concerns about its use as "digital police line-up" as UK police roll out live facial recognition operations.

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

• Solicitor ordered to pay £8,700 costs for late employment tribunal claim withdrawal | Law Gazette
• The assistant or the master: regulating the rise and rise of AI - The Global Legal Post
• Underage marriage is illegal in #SouthSudan yet so commonplace it rarely attracts attention. But the case of Athiak Dau Riak, whose mother says she is only 14, has gone viral, polarising her family and the country
• The Law Commission has outlined a series of potential reforms to co-operatives and community benefit societies, including revised statutory definitions | New Law Journal
• UK supermarkets not doing enough to tackle antibiotic misuse, report says. Findings come amid growing concerns about overuse of medicines in farm animals and rise of superbugs
• IMF appoints only second woman legal head in 80 years as deputy promoted to GC - The Global Legal Post
• Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over glass screen-covered Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which caused no physical damage. Phoebe Plummer, 23, recieves two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incident