9th February - Law News

Edition 4793: 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: Emotional scenes are taking place outside the European Hospital in Gaza’s southern Khan Younis as dozens of prisoners exited buses after being released by Israel. Hussein Alhaj Hassan, a healthcare worker taken by Israeli forces, had a tearful reunion with his mother after spending a year in incarceration. He pulled up his pant legs to reveal large scars he said were the result of beatings while in custody. Meanwhile, Hadeel Shatara, a former Palestinian prisoner, she was in prison in Haifa for 7 months and was released in the first wave of prisoner exchange on January 20. 

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

• Nine lawyers have been appointed King’s Counsel honoris causa, including legal scholar Adrian Zuckerman of Oxford University, editor-in-chief of the Civil Justice Quarterly and a consultant editor of Halsbury’s Laws of England | New Law Journal
• Hundreds of people are taking part in an anti-knife crime march following the fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Harvey Willgoose at a school in Sheffield
• UK demands ability to access Apple users’ encrypted data. Expert says government has ‘lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight’ as it challenges firm’s privacy stance
• A federal judge has blocked Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) from accessing the personal financial data of millions of Americans in Treasury Department records, according to court documents #US
• The Family Justice Council (FJC) has published guidance on neurodiversity for legal practitioners | New Law Journal
• Lawyers have no choice but to embrace AI, Master of the Rolls says in LawtechUK speech: Sir Geoffrey Vos says lawyers can’t advise clients on AI matters if they don’t understand it themselves - The Global Legal Post
• The deadline for submissions to the Civil Justice Council’s (CJC) consultation on litigation funding, including third party funding, has been extended by one month | New Law Journal