31st December - Law News

Edition 5118 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: Kwok Kin Kwok (Respondent) v Yao Juan (Appellant) (British Virgin Islands) JCPC/2020/0010

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

• Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?
• A Vietnamese-American astronaut has opened up about her depression after she received a "tsunami of harassment" following the first all-female space trip since 1963 earlier this year
• Tyler Perry faces second sexual assault lawsuit for $77m. Latest suit claims the billionaire film-maker subjected actor Mario Rodriguez to repeated unwanted sexual advances #US
• The Cabinet Office has blamed an "administrative error" for mistakenly sharing official papers referring to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
• Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first. Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’
• What growing up in war does to a child's brain - and their future
• ‘Why should we pay these criminals?’: the hidden world of ransomware negotiations. Cybersecurity experts reveal what they do for high-profile clients targeted by hackers such as Scattered Spider