6th December - Law News

Edition 5093: 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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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

• Think before you meddle, lady chief justice advises constitutional reformers | Law Gazette
• Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide: Analyst claims UK officials deleted alert to threat of genocidal violence by paramilitaries to protect UAE
• Digital property pack wins government data prize - Legal Futures
• High Court rejects BHP's anti suit-injunction to block Pogust Goodhead's '1782 application' in US | Law Gazette
• Probation officers in England and Wales to be given self-defence training after stabbings: Pilot schemes for bodycams, knife arches and metal detectors in probation offices also approved after attacks in Oxford and Preston
• Change in regulator shouldn’t make AML less of a priority - Legal Futures
• Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, after it was decided genocidal #Israel who also allegedly rigged the voting, could compete