29th December - Law News

Edition 5116 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: Phyliss Rampersad and another (Appellants) v Deo Ramlal and 3 others (Respondents) (Trinidad and Tobago) JCPC/2021/0090

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

• Judge Throws Book At Colorado Funeral Home Director After Admitting to Storing Body in Hearse For Over a Year #US
• The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury has been urged by Tory fascists to scrap plans to spend £100m over the Church of England's historical links to slavery
• Singapore Law Society president-elect steps aside amid controversy over status as government appointee - The Global Legal Post
• Kennedy Center president demands $1m from musician who cancelled Christmas Eve show. Drummer Chuck Redd decided to cancel his yearly Jazz Jam after Donald Trump added his name to the venue #US
• How far right is infiltrating everyday culture: Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’
• Keir Starmer has been criticised by Zionists for welcoming Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to the UK - after historical social media messages emerged showing the campaigner critical of genocidal's #Israel's destruction of Palestine  
• The UK is to impose visa restrictions against people arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo after its government failed to agree to measures allowing the return of illegal migrants and foreign national offenders