21st December - Law News

Edition 4377: 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: The UN Human Rights Office is calling for an immediate investigation into a ‘possible war crime’ after receiving information about Israeli forces allegedly killing Palestinian men in front of family members in northern Gaza.

Focus of the Day Legal News: One of the longest job tenures in public life will come to an end with the announcement that Professor Richard Susskind is to step down as technology adviser to the lord chief justice. The futurologist and author has provided advice to six successive chief justices since his appointment by Lord Bingham in 1998. Full story - The Law Society 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

• Rudy Giuliani, a longtime associate of Trump, has filed for bankruptcy just days after he was ordered to pay $148m (£116m) in a defamation case: he defamed two Georgia election workers over false claims they tampered with votes #US http://tinyurl.com/epsnmewu
  
• Thai estate agent wins summary judgment in the English courts against 'persons unknown' crypto currency fraudsters | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/556zeack
  
• Student shot more than 15 people dead at Prague university, police say. Police chief says ‘premeditated violent attack’ at Charles University appears to have been inspired by massacres abroad #Czech http://tinyurl.com/msv3jx69
  
• Lawyers must email ahead to enter Old Bailey under new security measures | Law Gazette http://tinyurl.com/ydhareh8
• Home Office reduces earning threshold hike for family visa. Department announces increase to £29,000 with no timeline given for planned rise to £38,700 http://tinyurl.com/2bj5rpse
• A judge will lift anonymity orders protecting the identities of Brianna Ghey's killers next year. The 16-year-old, who was transgender, was stabbed 28 times in a "ferocious" attack in a park in Cheshire http://tinyurl.com/2h2svb2v
• Central fund "may be needed" to resolve litigation capacity disputes - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/ynn2dzz5
  

20th December - Law News

Edition 4376: 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: HXA (Resp) v Surrey County Council (Appel); YXA (Resp) v Wolverhampton City Council (Appel) - In each of the appeals, is it arguable that the local authority Appellant owed the Respondent (a minor at the relevant times) a common law duty of care to protect them from harm on the basis that the Respondent had assumed responsibility to protect them from such harm? 

Focus of the Day Legal News: The Bar Standards Board (BSB) to press ahead with new powers for interim suspensions where necessary to protection the public or the public interest. Full story - Legal Futures 
 

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 Irish government is challenging the British government over its decision to ban all new Troubles-era court cases. The UK's controversial Troubles legacy bill became law in September, despite opposition http://tinyurl.com/4b89prtn
• Tell us: what are your views on UK assisted dying laws? http://tinyurl.com/5n8x6kac
  
• Anti-bullying training “should be compulsory for barristers” - Legal Futures http://tinyurl.com/3j6m9dh4
  
• Dozens more ballet dancers have described body-shaming and bullying at schools across the UK, following an investigation earlier this year. One ex-Elmhurst Ballet School student says she was shut in a room by staff while having a mental health crisis http://tinyurl.com/379a56ke
• #China rights activist goes on trial for ‘inciting subversion of state power’ http://tinyurl.com/yx6eff2c
  
• France jails former doctor for 24 years over role in 1994 #Rwanda genocide. Sosthene Munyemana is sixth person to be tried and convicted in France over involvement in slaughter of Tutsi minority http://tinyurl.com/yckky76m
  
• Lawyer apologises for saying Michelle Mone was not linked to PPE firm. Jonathan Coad, who represented former Tory peer, says sorry for unwittingly misleading the media http://tinyurl.com/yvwhtjr2