28th November - Law News

Edition 5085: 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:  AB v Her Majesty’s Advocate (Scotland) UKSC/2016/0083

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

• Apprenticeship funding cut "will not reduce" availability of skills - Legal Futures
• Social media companies and the #Australian government should be using their resources to remove predators and harmful content from platforms rather than banning under-16s, teenagers challenging the law have said
• Labour’s plan to slash jury trials at odds with past Starmer calls to expand them. PM once advocated for all criminal cases to be heard before juries even those at magistrates court level, it has emerged
• Forgotten consumers treated as ‘collateral damage’ after Mazur ruling, Legal Services Panel Chair says | Law Gazette
• Japanese beer giant Asahi revealed on Thursday that a massive cyber-attack in September has potentially leaked the personal information of more than 1.5 million beer-guzzlers
• The #US has suspended processing all immigration requests from Afghans, after an Afghan man was identified as the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard soldiers near the White House
• Hearing abandoned as father issues ‘honour-based killing’ threats, judge highlights family court pressures | Law Gazette