23rd June - Law News

Edition 4562: 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: Amid the controversy in India surrounding the NEET UG exams, the union government has ordered a CBI probe into the matter and has also suspended the chief of the National Testing Agency. As the re-examination process takes place for the NEET-UG exams the NEET PG exams have been postponed until a later date. Several students and their family members staged a protest at Jantar Mantar 

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

• Commercial bar mentorship scheme opens with record number of chambers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/bRyYnBROEC
• Solicitor with north east law firm sacked weeks after telling boss she was pregnant | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/5n8nj7ff
• 450 Palestinian schoolchildren killed by Israel ahead of high school exams. As of June 17, the Israeli war has resulted in complete destruction of 110 schools and universities, with reports indicating that over 10,000 students have lost their lives https://tinyurl.com/37nnr935
• Former Team GB athlete swaps Taekwondo for a training contract - Legal Cheek https://tinyurl.com/ycxemy3x
  
• #Israel shuts down detention centre where Palestinians faced horrific abuse. But rights groups say Netanyahu government is trying to evade accountability and obscure evidence of systemic abuse https://tinyurl.com/tkt3bxds
  
• Sanctions regime ineffective, review by International Legal Forum concludes | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/yh5xx5h8
• The Weekly Round-Up: UK’s wrongful imprisonment compensation scheme is legal and campaigners call for oversight of inquiries https://tinyurl.com/2d7nrccs