18th June - Law News

Edition 4557: 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: Thailand's Senate has voted overwhelming in favour of a bill legalising same sex marriage in the South-East Asian country. The law will take effect 120 days after its announcement in the Royal Gazette.

 

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

• PLAG "disappointed" by Law Society only postponing TA6 - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/5ykf3njc
• Dr Patricia O’Lynn joins Law Society of Northern Ireland team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/PwM0auUFl4
• Challenge to JAC 'secret soundings' to go ahead - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/8nxkhacd
• Joey Barton has apologised to Jeremy Vine and agreed to pay him £75,000 in damages for making defamatory comments on social media. A High Court judge ruled last month that comments former footballer Barton made about Vine on X were defamatory https://tinyurl.com/2s3ttnhh
  
• The English justice minister, Alex Chalk, is being taken to the court by lawyers who say legal aid fees are so low they cannot provide representation to thousands of people | Irish Legal News https://t.co/yON3Le0VTC
• Will Booker Prize-winner Arundhati Roy face jail for 14-year-old remark? #India's extreme right-wing BJP government headed by Narendra Modi has been using new legislation to silence critics, including activists, journalists and civil society member https://tinyurl.com/yj3k2a8u
• Flamboyant Brooklyn pastor Lamor Whitehead, known as the "Bling bishop" has been sentenced to nine years in prison for schemes that included preying on the bank account of one of his own followers #US https://tinyurl.com/4sax2me9