2nd September - Law News

Edition 4633: 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: Some families pay thousands of dollars to store their children’s stem cells with the hope of a healthier future for them. But Sarah Kliff, an investigative health care reporter for The New York Times, explains that the cells are rarely useful and are sometimes contaminated.

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

• Urgent appeal launched to re-home trainees amid US firm's London office closure - Legal Cheek
• The Weekly Round-up: Hate speech in the UK, asylum seekers in Diego Garcia, and Ukraine ratifies ICC Rome Statute - UK Human Rights Blog
• SQE2 pass rate rises again to 79% - Legal Cheek
• LGBTQIA+ couples can open joint bank accounts; name partner as nominee: Central government #India | Bar & Bench
• Why I ditched the office to become a ‘digital nomad’ lawyer - Legal Cheek
• The Public Law-Private Law Divide and Access to Frozen Russian Assets – Conflict of Laws
• Following the recent far-right anti-immigrant and Islamophobic riots, prison population hits record high in England and Wales. Jail sentences handed to participants in recent riots thought to have exacerbated overcrowding