31st March - Law News

Edition 4843: 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:  Rescue efforts continue following a strong earthquake in Myanmar as the death toll climbs. An ongoing civil war and shortages of heavy machinery have hampered recovery.

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

• Aspiring solicitor barred after accessing case study and model answers before Macfarlanes assessment day - Legal Cheek
• Kenyan man who spent decade on death row sues London police for role in wrongful conviction. New emails reveal ‘panic’ inside the Home Office at the case of Ali Kololo, who was wrongly imprisoned for the 2011 murder of British tourist David Tebbutt
• The Weekly Round Up: Criminal Bar in crisis, Turkish democracy under threat, Israel-Gaza ceasefire collapses, asylum seekers unlawfully accommodated - UK Human Rights Blog
• A case to determine whether millions of motorists are in line for compensation will be heard by the UK's most senior judges this week
• Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk. At least 20 officers forced their way into property and police said some present were planning direct action in London
• Judicial watchdog issues formal warning to magistrate for suggesting he would punish youth offenders by cutting off parts of their anatomy - Legal Cheek
• Law Pod new episode: Animals as Legal Subjects - UK Human Rights Blog