14th October - Law News

Edition 4675: 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:  Environmental groups say illegal sand mining is taking a damaging toll in South Africa. But for many, it's a crucial source of income in a country where one third of the population is unemployed. And global appetite for sand is keeping miners busy. 

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

• Pupillage numbers rise sharply, regulator reports - Legal Cheek
• The Weekly Round-up: UK cedes Chagos sovereignty, vote on assisted dying, and gender apartheid in Afghanistan - UK Human Rights Blog
• A man has described how he helped expose "seismic" rape and sexual assault allegations about Mohamed Al Fayed after his fiancee told him she was a victim. Keaton Stone spent years speaking to women around the world, gathering a "damning" dossier
• Paterson v UK: Parliament and Human Rights in Strasbourg - UK Human Rights Blog
• Over 370 million girls and women globally subjected to rape or sexual assault as children – UNICEF
• The Authors Guild launches partnership to ensure authors in ‘driver’s seat’ in AI licensing - The Global Legal Post
• Family lawyers group Resolution has called for more support for victims of domestic abuse seeking to resolve their finances on divorce | New Law Journal