1st October - Law News

Edition 4296: 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: Hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees are on the move, affecting countries throughout the Americas. Political repression, economic turmoil and worsening climate issues are among the factors pushing them to risk it all.

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

• UK government keeping files on education critics’ social media activity - An Observer investigation finds DfE tried to cancel conference with ‘unsuitable’ speakers – and experts who criticised state education policy had online posts monitore https://shorturl.at/sHNOP 
  
• Post Office solicitor denies wanting victim's 'head on a spike' | Law Gazette https://shorturl.at/bitu7
• #Rwanda ambassador: Suella Braverman ‘absolutely wrong’ on immigration - The home secretary faces embarrassment after a covert sting operation filmed criticism of UK policy by a top official https://shorturl.at/irzO2
  
• Travel website BookingDOTcom leaves hoteliers thousands of dollars out of pocket https://shorturl.at/dkuFY
  
• Fancy an autumnal walk while raising valuable funds for law charities? | New Law Journal https://shorturl.at/DNUW1
• Police are looking for a child rapist who breached his licence conditions. Stephen Pennington, 35, was jailed in 2009 and imprisoned again in 2022 for breaches of a sexual harm prevention order https://tinyurl.com/2nrah3b3
  
• The Court of Appeal has confirmed the approach the court should take to an application to rescind a decree nisi, in a landmark judgment| New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/5n62jrpd
  

30th September - Law News

Edition 4295: 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 the 10 years since we made Inequality for All, inequality has surged in the US

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

• Corporate fraud rose 16.8% in the year to March 2023, with 1121 incidents reported to Action Fraud, the UK’s reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime | New Law Journal https://t.co/93hYphdpc2
  
• Female #Israeli soldiers are to be banned from serving as high security prison guards after allegations of sex with a Palestinian inmate. Israeli media say a soldier admitted to physical intimacy with a Palestinian freedom fighter https://t.co/Xv6RPGNzQt
  
• Sycamore Gap: Man in his 60s held after Hadrian's Wall tree cut down https://tinyurl.com/2p9294ct
  
• Cafcass has this week activated its prioritisation protocol for the London area following discussions with judges in West London, East London and the Central family courts | New Law Journal https://tinyurl.com/5n7pd9ks
  
• Duane "Keffe D" Davis has been charged with the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. The legendary rapper was shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas #US https://tinyurl.com/m9shwf73
  
• Tory MPs complain to chief whip about Suella Braverman's racist asylum speech https://tinyurl.com/bd3s32b8
  
• Kidnapped and forced to marry their rapist: ending ‘courtship rape’ in #Uganda https://tinyurl.com/5n8wp9ja