28th August - Law News

Edition 4262: 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: Pupils will be banned from wearing abayas - loose-fitting full-length robes worn by some Muslim women - in France's state-run schools, the education minister has said. The rule will be applied as soon as the new school year starts on 4 September. France has a strict ban on religious signs in state schools and government buildings, arguing that they violate secular laws.

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

• The cultural life and times of the barrister, mother, wife and creative who left the Bar to pursue a career as a theatre-maker and actor | COUNSEL https://tinyurl.com/2p8vhsum
• Should there be a statutory public inquiry into the murders and attempted murders by Lucy Letby? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/zgU0gllSf4
  
• Rating assessment of a barristers’ chambers | COUNSEL https://tinyurl.com/59kccmkp
• Don't expect favours from the court, judge tells LiPs | Law Gazette https://tinyurl.com/2r6tvtuv
  
• What makes a responsible chambers? | COUNSEL https://tinyurl.com/rvr2bfa2
• Writing a constitution for the UK | COUNSEL https://tinyurl.com/4fh4w3h9
• Taliban ban women from visiting popular national park #Afghanistan https://tinyurl.com/5f8c8wep
  

27th August - Law News

Edition 4261: 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: It has been six years since the military crackdown in Myanmar killed thousands of Rohingya and forced nearly a million to flee. Most of them now live in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh, where surging violence by armed groups and criminal gangs is making them feel increasingly insecure. They are demanding justice and asking to be repatriated with full civil rights.

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

• Death by driving guideline finalised | Scottish Legal News https://tinyurl.com/294tn7xj
• Researchers looking for South Asian women who were fed radioactive chapatis in the 1960s as part of a study looking at iron absorption, Taiwo Owatemi MP said she was "deeply concerned" about the study in Coventry funded by the Medical Research Council https://t.co/2KW7ADwbte
  
• Lizzo settled dancers’ pay dispute months before sexual harassment claim #US https://tinyurl.com/yhue5d9x
  
• Number of pending asylum decisions reaches record high | Scottish Legal News https://tinyurl.com/36my5rfr
  
• Opening the Indian legal market – in Just a Minute | COUNSEL https://tinyurl.com/yc6re6kd
• Was Lucy Letby an unlikely serial killer? To most people, yes – but not psychologists https://tinyurl.com/yc2m9rmr
• Case review chief was in Montenegro during Andrew Malkinson revelations - Helen Pitcher leads the commission that twice failed to refer Malkinson back to the court of appeal https://tinyurl.com/3997syb4