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 South Korea, K-pop stars have fame, fortune and millions of female fans. But, some led a double life. This film tells the story of the female journalists who took on the task of investigating the secret chat groups where evidence of sexual crimes were being shared by prominent K-pop stars.

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