Thursday

31st August - Law News

2075th 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: Could you afford your mortgage if interest rates rise in Australia? 1 in 4 mortgaged households are already in stress, meaning they struggle to cover both loan repayments and living expenses.



Focus of the day story: Judges are entitled to expect assistance from advocates when dealing with lengthy sentencing lists, the Court of Appeal has said in a case highlighting challenges with 'modern' sentencing legislation. In Dean Christopher Maxwell v R, Lord Justice Treacy, said sentencing judges are often burdened with long lists. 'They have a right to expect appropriate assistance from the advocates before them', he insisted in the judgment, published this week. 'It is clear that no such consideration or assistance was given by the advocates in this case, either before the judge came to sentence or indeed after he had sentenced in a flawed manner in a number of respects, or had failed to pass sentence on certain matters at all.'. Full story - The Law Society Gazette


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Wednesday

30th August - Law News

2074th 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: It has been a spectacular collapse of Mumbai as it was hit with rain nine times more than the normal rainfall in the last nine hours. People have been advised to stay indoors as waterlogging cripples the city. The high tide made a bad situation worse and the National Disaster Response has been slow.



Focus of the day story: Online courts and access to justice: Why we should care about being digitally defaulted. Full story - Legal Futures


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Tuesday

29th August - Law News

2073rd 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: Life Inside Bali's infamous Kerobokan prison. To many, Bali’s Kerobokan jail is a place of creepy fascination, a repository of misery in an island playground. But what’s it really like in there? For the first time a TV crew has obtained virtually unrestricted access to all corners of Kerobokan’s men’s prison. 



Focus of the day story: Lawyers have given a cautious welcome to the government’s Brexit position paper calling for a cross-border civil judicial cooperation framework. Under current reciprocal arrangements, a decision made by a court in the UK can be enforced in other EU Member States, enabling citizens to enforce orders made by the civil and family courts on commerce, trade and family matters such as child custody and maintenance. Full story - New Law Journal



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Monday

28th August - Law News

2072nd 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: Police finally arrest white supremacist for firing a gun in Charlottesville 2 weeks ago. Many people are wondering why police in Virginia did nothing when a white supremacist fired his gun towards another man during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville on August 12.

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Sunday

27th August - Law News

2071st 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: Many female doctors in Pakistan drop out of the profession when they start a family. Now there's a new scheme to help them to continue in practice from home using online video clinics - and it's helping poor, remote, communities too.



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Saturday

26th August - Law News

2070th 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: US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin's wife, Louise Linton, apologizes for Instagram rant against commenter. Linton hails from Briton where she was privately educated at some of the most expensive independent schools. Jeanne Moos has the "let them eat cake" debate.



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Friday

25th August - Law News

2069th 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: Philippines outrage grows over children killed in anti-drug raids. Philippine police have told a Senate inquiry that a high school student they killed in an anti-drug raid last week had been involved in narcotics - but they only learned of this after they shot him dead. His death has caused public outrage in the Philippines, with critics accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of turning a blind eye to police abuses. Duterte says his crackdown on drugs will not stop - but has told police to only kill if necessary.


Focus of the day story: A legal profession divided into barristers and solicitors has contributed to the UK's judiciary lagging in diversity, the incoming president of the Supreme Court has suggested. Lady Hale, who takes over from Lord Neuberger in October as head of the highest court in the UK, said traditional assumptions 'about who gets which sort of judicial job' should be abandoned. Hale was called to the bar in 1969. Hale told the Constitutional Law Summer School in Belfast this month that women making up a fifth of the High Court and Court of Appeal, and a sixth of the Supreme Court, was 'not really a cause for celebration' nearly 100 years after the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Thursday

24th August - Law News

2068th 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 Spanish town of Ripoll has found itself at the center of the investigation into last week's terror attacks. Many members of the cell which carried out the twin atrocities killing 15, had grown up together and been radicalized in this small town on the border with France.


Focus of the day story: Lawyers procrastinate for over an hour a day. From chatting, surfing the web and engaging in social media, lawyers are prone to a bout of proscrastination every day. The good news for their bosses - accountants are worse. Full story - The Global Legal Post

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Wednesday

23rd August - Law News

2067th 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: A group of Indian girls who grew up in Mumbai's notorious red-light district, Kamathipura, have brought their stories to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. "Laal Batti Express" (Red-light express) explores the struggles faced by 15 girls - whose mums are sex workers - and how after leaving the red-light area, they have found success in the power of forgiveness.


Focus of the day story: Whether algorithms should have a legal personality, an issue which will likely provoke an intense debate between those who believe in regulation and those who believe that ‘code is law’. Full story - Legal Future

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