27th April - Law News

Edition 4505: 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: Israeli forces have arrested more than eight thousand Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the war on Gaza. Those who've been released, talk about ill-treatment, lack of food, and medical negligence in prisons. 

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

• UK policy denying visas to children of care workers faces legal challenge: Action by organisation supporting migrants argues new rules are discriminatory https://tinyurl.com/mr3r7mmy
  
• Senior judiciary “inadequately resourced to deliver leadership” - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/2nba8ck3
  
• Police raid ‘20 football stadiums’ worth of alleged fake goods warehouses. Arrests as Chinese authorities working with UK police and international trademark agencies seize millions of parcels bound for customers worldwide https://tinyurl.com/5n6pshub
  
• Almost a third of adults with a legal issue in the past four years did not have it adequately resolved, research by the Law Society and Legal Services Board (LSB) has found | New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/3nhn5v2y
  
• GMB launches legal action against ‘out of control’ Amazon at Coventry warehouse. Employment tribunal sought over claims firm tried to induce workers to leave union in long-running row https://tinyurl.com/4jkmcs6t
  
• A group of 134 litigants can use a single claim form, the Court of Appeal has confirmed in a landmark judgment | New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/4bwzst5e
  
• The Guardian view on indeterminate sentences: the legacy of a bad law lingers on https://tinyurl.com/5656wb9b