8th January - Law News

Edition 4761: 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: For children in parts of India, such as West Bengal, playing outside can be deadly. A new BBC investigation has revealed that hundreds of children in West Bengal have been maimed, wounded or killed by home-made bombs they mistook for toys. But why are these lethal devices being made? Why are the children so often the victims? 

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

• Victims "clearly want action" and do not need a new national inquiry into grooming gangs, the woman who led a seven-year probe into child sexual abuse has said
• Barrister refused permission to appeal in ongoing dispute with Liberal Democrats | Law Gazette
• Legal aid cuts deny parents their human rights, says ex-supreme court president: David Neuberger believes lack of access to state-funded lawyers for family disputes is ‘wrong in principle’
• Blacker fails in challenge to Inner Temple's membership refusal - Legal Futures
• Open Justice board asks justice secretary for judicial reviews to be livestreamed | Law Gazette
• Prisoner who took MoJ to court says he remains in isolation 20 months later. Kevan Thakrar still awaits judgment after case alleging unlawful solitary confinement was heard in April 2023
• #Danish king changes coat of arms amid row with Trump over Greenland. Design shows intent to keep control of Faroe Islands and Greenland – which Trump says he would like the US to buy