15th December - Law News

Edition 5102: 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:  Bailey and another v Angove's PTY Limited UKSC/2014/0106

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

• 8 things law school doesn’t teach you (but every junior lawyer learns fast) - Legal Cheek
• Asylum seekers aren't responsible for a violent crime epidemic in the UK. As Reform & far-right claims spread suggesting men from certain backgrounds have a propensity to commit certain crimes, here’s why the statistics fail to provide the full picture
• R (Bhupinder Iffat Rizvi) v HM Assistant Coroner for South London and others [2025] EWHC 3014 (Admin) - UK Human Rights Blog
• A person of interest has been detained in connection with a #US shooting at Brown University that left two people dead, police said. Nine others were injured when a gunman opened fire at the university in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday
• A brief beginner's guide to the SQE - Legal Cheek
• Violence against women and girls is a "national emergency", the home secretary has said, as she announced plans to set up specialist rape and sexual offence investigation teams in every police force in England and Wales by 2029
• Housing, AI and geopolitics among top concerns for Irish businesses | Irish Legal News