6th September - Law News

Edition 4637: 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: Every night nameless bodies are brought to Dr. Cristina Cattaneo’s autopsy room. She calls them the ‘Pure Unknown’. These unidentified people often belong to the fringes of society – they could be homeless people, sex workers or runaway teenagers. In recent years, more of them are migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea and washed up on Italian shores. With the growing numbers, no one seems concerned about their right to dignity. But Cristina decides to take her fight for their right to be identified in law to the European parliament.

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

• Labour to unveil plans to abolish hereditary peers in Lords - Abolishing the 92 seats reserved for hereditary peers - who inherit their titles through their families - was one of Labour's general election promises
• Racial profiling is systemic problem in Montreal police, judge rules. Advocates say profiling ‘characterized many arrests’ as judge awards millions in damages in class-action lawsuit
• England: Barristers to have new duty to promote equality, diversion and inclusion | Irish Legal News
• MoJ plan to free up prison spaces set to fail ‘because cells being filled by rioters’. Prison governors’ leader urges ministers to consider further measures to cut jail population or build new cells
• Barristers set for positive duty to advance equality and diversity - Legal Futures
• Greta Thunberg arrested at Gaza war protest in Copenhagen. Climate activist one of six detained by police after students block university building in #Danish capital
• Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died days after being doused in petrol and set on fire by a former boyfriend. The 33-year-old Ugandan marathon runner, who competed in the recent Paris Olympics, had suffered extensive burns