21st June - Law News

Edition 4560: 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: R (on the application of Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group) App v Surrey CC and others Resp - The issue is: Under Directive 2011/92 EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017, was it unlawful for the Council not to require the environmental impact assessment for a project of crude oil extraction for commercial purposes to include an assessment of the impacts of downstream greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the eventual use of the refined products of the extracted oil?

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

• Women's justice charity unveils training programme for defence lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/pDyKQeFo7t
• The government has admitted misleading Parliament in its response to a BBC report about former Afghan special forces being denied entry to the UK https://tinyurl.com/3epeaj92
• New TA6 form “a business opportunity” for conveyancers - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/28e4sbez
• When it comes to Israel-Palestine, true naivety is believing in endless war. It is not naive to know that the only route to justice and equality is peace https://tinyurl.com/2ydcrsz9
  
• Gallery: London Legal Walk 2024 | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2n69znaa
• Solicitor fired after announcing pregnancy awarded £26k damages - Legal Futures https://tinyurl.com/5n6n3a85
• Farage said Andrew Tate was ‘important voice’ for men in podcast interview. Reform UK leader has also argued against diversity quotas and said people on benefits were ‘too stupid’ to work in appearances over past year https://tinyurl.com/yybru4yj