8th September - Law News

Edition 4639: 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:  Officials in Gaza said more than a dozen Palestinians were killed overnight in Israeli air strikes - as the US government says it hopes a more detailed ceasefire plan is days away. The chief US negotiator on Gaza, who's also the director of the CIA, said the time has come for "hard choices". But far from tensions cooling, recent days have seen a spike of violence in the West Bank with both a 13-year-old girl and an American protester shot dead in separate incidents.

 

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

• What killing of Hindu teen by #India cow vigilantes tells us about Modi 3.0. What happens when vigilantes, emboldened by the BJP, shoot a Hindu teenager dead after a 40km chase, ‘mistaking’ him for a Muslim?
• Grenfell Inquiry should have run ‘in parallel’ with criminal probe, says Michael Mansfield KC | Law Gazette
• A Bill to resentence prisoners still serving imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences has been introduced to the House of Lords | New Law Journal
• First step to AI regulation as government signs Council of Europe Framework Convention | Law Gazette
• The United Nations has called for a "full investigation" into #Israel killing a US-Turkish woman in the occupied West Bank during a protest on Friday
• A multi-million flight delay group action has been grounded by the High Court for a lack of shared interest | New Law Journal
• Leasehold reforms: John Lyon’s Charity challenges massive wealth transfer to ‘non-doms and tax exiles’ | Law Gazette