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31st December - Law News

1831st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Wishing a very happy new year to all our readers! May the season of goodwill bring you peace, justice and happiness.

Today's video story: How political changes in UK & US might impact Europe in 2017. The European Union has faced a series of tough challenges in 2016, with Brexit, the rise of nationalist parties and the continuing migrant crisis.



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Friday

30th December - Law News

1831st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Wishing a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all our readers! May the season of religiosity and goodwill bring peace, justice and equality for all.

Today's video story: Teen inmate Dylan Voller read a personal statement to the NT youth detention royal commission, Australia, saying the justice system as a whole was the problem.



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Thursday

29th December - Law News

1830th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Wishing a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all our readers! May the season of religiosity and goodwill bring peace, justice and equality for all.

Today's video story: NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill announces a change in the department's beard and head covering policies.



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Wednesday

28th December - Law News

1829th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Wishing a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all our readers! May the season of religiosity and goodwill bring peace, justice and equality for all.

Today's video story: Now, Punishment For Possessing Old Indian Notes? Is Notes Ban Pain Going Away Anytime Soon? We are just two days away from the government's deadline to deposit old 500 and 1000-rupee notes in our banks. The Prime Minister had said in his November 8th address that if for some reason people couldn't do that, they had time till March 31st to deposit the money at RBI counters. But today his government has cleared an ordinance that will make it a criminal offence to possess more than 10 old notes. Meanwhile, we still don't know if bank withdrawal limits will be eased after Friday. Though reports say banks simply don't have the cash and want the limits to continue indefinitely.
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Tuesday

27th December - Law News

1828th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Wishing a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all our readers! May the season of religiosity and goodwill bring peace, justice and equality for all.

Today's video story: The President of Nigeria promised to defeat Boko Haram before 2017. With the new year just a few days away, Muhammadu Buhari says he's delivered. Army commanders announced fighters have been forced from all their strongholds. It isn't the first time the government has claimed to defeat Boko Haram. Fighters who are waging war against what they consider western influence - and trying to impose their version of Islam - still control large parts of the rural north east. Boko Haram fighters who have fled Nigeria have reportedly regrouped in neighbouring countries. What does that mean for Nigeria and its neighbours?


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Monday

26th December - Law News

1827th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Wishing a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all our readers! May the season of religiosity and goodwill bring peace, justice and equality for all.

Today's video story: Search and recovery teams continued to work in the Russian Black Sea territory, on Monday, one day after a Russian military plane crashed over the sea, while carrying 92 people including Alexandrov Ensemble military band.


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Sunday

25th December - Law News

1826th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Wishing a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all our readers! May the season of religiosity and goodwill bring peace, justice and equality for all.

Today's video story: Three-year-old Fatima has been given a chance at a new beginning after being offered life-changing surgery in Germany. She is a victim of the Syrian war.


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Saturday

24th December - Law News

1825th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Wishing a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all our readers! May the season of religiosity and goodwill bring peace, justice and equality for all.

Today's video story: UN resolution on ending Israeli settlements. Diana Buttu is a former legal adviser to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Speaking to Al Jazeera from Haifa, she said the resolution will not have any major effect on calls for a two-state solution.


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Friday

23rd December - Law News

1824th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Wishing a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all our readers! May the season of religiosity and goodwill bring peace, justice and equality for all.

Today's video story: The attack in Berlin comes less than a month after a 12-year-old boy attempted to detonate a bomb at another Christmas market in western Germany. His case has added to fears that youngsters are now being recruited by terrorists to carry out attacks in Europe.


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Thursday

22nd December - Law News

1823rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: The United Nations says more than twenty people have been killed in protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that are demanding President Joseph Kabila step down.


Focus of the day story: Limitations on the interception of legally privileged information have been backed by Europe’s highest court today, in a case brought by two MPs and joined by the Law Society. In a judgment handed down in Secretary of State for the Home Department v Watson and Others the Court of Justice of the European Union said the law justified only targeted interception of 'traffic' and location data in order to combat serious crime, not general collection of data, which could include privileged communications. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Wednesday

21st December - Law News

1822nd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Justin Trudeau interview on climate change, the economy and Canada's future.


Focus of the day story: More than half of claimant personal injury practices will be forced to shut down or look for alternative work if the government’s proposed whiplash reforms go ahead unopposed, a new survey has revealed. A survey of 71 firms was conducted by First4Lawyers in the wake of last month’s announcement that the Ministry of Justice is considering an increase in the small claims limit to £5,000 and a removal of general damages for ‘minor’ soft-tissue injury claims. Full story - Solicitors Journal

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