9th November - Law News

Edition 4701: 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:  The Greek and Turkish foreign ministers are meeting in Athens on Friday, to decide how to draw maritime boundaries in the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. The issue has brought the two countries close to war five times in as many decades. But the continental shelf is not the only issue at stake at the talks.

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

• French court ‘wholly responsible’ for 20-year delay in arresting Welsh man | Law Gazette
• New Orleans archdiocese agrees to release secret files on clergy accused of child sexual abuse. Move follows church’s 2020 bankruptcy filing, hundreds of allegations and a standoff with survivors #US
• Act now on ‘failure to prevent’ offence under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, GCs warned | Law Gazette
• #Germany has passed a resolution to restrict public funding to critics of Israel under the guise of fighting antisemitism
• Law firm launches consultancy to help investors enter legal market - Legal Futures
• Women in law: Former Labour minister Harriet Harman honoured with lifetime achievement award | Law Gazette
• French minister scraps holy site visit after #Israeli police arrest gendarmes. France summons Israeli ambassador over incident at Eleona domain in Jerusalem which is under French control