20th December - Law News

Edition 4376: 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: HXA (Resp) v Surrey County Council (Appel); YXA (Resp) v Wolverhampton City Council (Appel) - In each of the appeals, is it arguable that the local authority Appellant owed the Respondent (a minor at the relevant times) a common law duty of care to protect them from harm on the basis that the Respondent had assumed responsibility to protect them from such harm? 

Focus of the Day Legal News: The Bar Standards Board (BSB) to press ahead with new powers for interim suspensions where necessary to protection the public or the public interest. Full story - Legal Futures 
 

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

• The Irish government is challenging the British government over its decision to ban all new Troubles-era court cases. The UK's controversial Troubles legacy bill became law in September, despite opposition http://tinyurl.com/4b89prtn
• Tell us: what are your views on UK assisted dying laws? http://tinyurl.com/5n8x6kac
  
• Anti-bullying training “should be compulsory for barristers” - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/3j6m9dh4
  
• Dozens more ballet dancers have described body-shaming and bullying at schools across the UK, following an investigation earlier this year. One ex-Elmhurst Ballet School student says she was shut in a room by staff while having a mental health crisis http://tinyurl.com/379a56ke
• #China rights activist goes on trial for ‘inciting subversion of state power’ http://tinyurl.com/yx6eff2c
  
• France jails former doctor for 24 years over role in 1994 #Rwanda genocide. Sosthene Munyemana is sixth person to be tried and convicted in France over involvement in slaughter of Tutsi minority http://tinyurl.com/yckky76m
  
• Lawyer apologises for saying Michelle Mone was not linked to PPE firm. Jonathan Coad, who represented former Tory peer, says sorry for unwittingly misleading the media http://tinyurl.com/yvwhtjr2

19th December - Law News

Edition 4375: 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: US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas complained privately about his salary to a Republican lawmaker years ago, according to a new report by ProPublica

Focus of the Day Legal News: Judge throws out Kabwe lead-poisoning case against Anglo American mining. South African court dismisses huge class-action lawsuit over toxic legacy of mining at Broken Hill in Zambia between 1925 and 1974. Full story - Guardian Law 
 

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

• A second-hand dealer has won a case to keep the €4.2m proceeds from the sale of a rare African mask he found in an elderly #French couple's attic. He had been brought in to help clear the attic of the couple, who sold him the mask for €150 https://shorturl.at/hks37
  
• High Court: Mirror's legal department knew about hacking for years - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/3fmnn2c3
  
• Homelessness: 'I was raped while sleeping under a pier in Blackpool' https://t.co/xO6xOmHAbu
  
• SDT urges solicitors to be open with clients after suspending partner - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/59f6te3v
• The co-founder of Extinction Rebellion has received a 15-month suspended jail sentence after a marathon legal battle over her breaking a pane of glass. Dr Gail Bradbrook was convicted last month of causing £27,500+ of damage https://tinyurl.com/fs4nn2p8
  
• Two Georgia poll workers have filed lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, days after winning a $148m defamation case. Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss allege that he continued to lie when he repeated false claims mid-trial that "they were engaged in changing votes" https://tinyurl.com/msx6av9e
  
• Israel has "gone beyond self-defence" and lost the moral authority in its war with Hamas, the Tory chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee has said https://tinyurl.com/yr4t7m46