1st January - Law News

Edition 4754: 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: Namibia, a country with a deep and painful history of colonization. During my visit, I stayed on a massive 43,000-hectare farm owned by a single German family which purchased the land from descendants of German settlers, who stole the land from the Herero and Nama people. This stark inequality left me outraged and compelled me to dive deeper into Namibia’s colonial past

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

• Enabling genocide? Former Biden officials reflect on the president’s legacy
• Kate Beckinsale says she has been ‘assaulted’ and ‘felt up’ on film sets. The actor has posted a video describing her bad experiences in the industry, in response to Blake Lively, who also alleges mistreatment on a movie set
• 2024 was a year of anti-Palestinian censorship and active art rebellion. For 12 months, artists and art workers across the world stood up in solidarity with Palestine and in defiance of repression
• NYT ‘investigates’ genocide, uncovers nothing but ‘loosened standards’: apparently, Israel never intended to ‘erase the Gaza Strip from the face of Earth’ – it simply ‘weakened its [nonexistent] system of safeguards meant to protect civilians’
• Trinidad and Tobago has declared a state of emergency as gang violence in the Caribbean nation continues to escalate. President Christine Carla Kangaloo issued the declaration on the advice of Prime Minister Keith Rowley
• A coroner has issued a warning about the dangers of baby slings after a six-week-old boy died during "hands-free" breastfeeding. James Alderman was being breastfed within a baby carrier worn by his mother as she moved around their London home
• Five people have been charged in connection with the death of One Direction singer Liam Payne in #Argentina, local media report. The 31-year-old star died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires