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03 March 2023 / John Cooper KC
Issue: 8015 / Categories: Features , Media
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Time for a movie night? John Cooper KC runs through the latest legal films in the cinemas & at home

The BFI London Film Festival, held every year in October, has a track record of predicting the films which are going to take the next year by storm. Given that these movies tend to be released about now, it is perhaps time to get your diaries out and plan your viewing schedule.

Till

Till, released in the UK in January 2023, is a film based on the true story of Mamie Till-Bradley, an educator and activist who fought for justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett Till in 1955.

The facts which form the basis of this film are both brutal and harrowing. Emmett, a personable and popular young Black man, was wrongfully accused of going into a shop in Mississippi and harassing a White woman. That night as he slept in his bed, a lynch mob of White men forced their way into

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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