21st March - Law News

Edition 4833: 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:  R (Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ltd) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Govt - Hearing date: 20 November 2019. Session: Morning session [Session 1 of 2]. Judgment date: 29 April 2020. Neutral citation: [2020] UKSC 16

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

• A Norwegian man has filed a complaint after ChatGPT falsely told him he had killed two of his sons and been jailed for 21 years. Arve Hjalmar Holmen has contacted the Norwegian Data Protection Authority and demanded the chatbot's maker, OpenAI, is fined
• City solicitor suspended from practice for stalking conviction - Legal Futures
• Supreme Court: Sentencing court cannot reserve power to review its own sentence | Irish Legal News
• Top family firm “would be prejudiced” by split trial in negligence claim
• Non-violent protesters should not have to disavow motives at trial, study says. Academics say UK defendants should be able to explain reasons for their actions and not have to express remorse
• A British bomb disposal expert has been injured in an unprovoked #Israeli attack on a UN facility in the Gaza Strip, the charity he works for has said
• Bar of Northern Ireland pick Dementia NI as 2025 charity partner | Irish Legal News