18th May - Law News

Edition 4526: 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 Story: In its latest appeal, South Africa has called on the UN's top court for urgent measures to order a halt on Israel's assault on Rafah. Israel says its operation aimed at targeting the last stronghold of Hamas in Rafah. South Africa calls it a 'genocidal act'. The International Court of Justice has ordered some provisional measures earlier. But Israel has largely ignored them. So can the ICJ enforce its orders?

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 feed):

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Into Britain’s angry pulpit steps Rev Vennells, who ran the Post Office – to explain why it sent honest people to jail https://tinyurl.com/5xvuxef2
• David DePape, who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband, sentenced to 30 years. DePape, a rightwing conspiracy theorist, broke into the Pelosis’ San Francisco home in 2022 and hit Paul Pelosi with a hammer #US https://tinyurl.com/3kbmj2ut
  
• Drug, alcohol and DNA testing laboratory AlphaBiolabs has made a £500 donation to North West charity Child Concern as part of its Giving Back campaign | New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/y23bwn9t
  
• Unpaid carers must repay more than £250 million after many were unknowingly overpaid their allowance, new figures show. The government is seeking to recover money from more than 134,000 carers https://tinyurl.com/4f5fh394
  
• British MPs are attacking abortion rights. We can’t follow the same path as the US https://tinyurl.com/mu5wyrvv
• Lawyers spoke out in frustration this week at Operation Early Dawn, a short-term government measure to relieve overcrowding in prisons by delaying court appearances of suspects | New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/mu2hs5x8
  
• South Africa’s ICJ genocide case aimed at defending Hamas, #Israel claims after killing 30,000 innocent Palestinians. Israel complains of ‘obscene exploitation’ of genocide convention and asks judges to throw out bid to halt Rafah offensive https://tinyurl.com/m8xpjphc