Friday

31st May - Law News

2711st 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 Focus: The US Justice Department has charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with receiving and publishing classified information, including the names of confidential sources for American armed forces. The case presents immediate questions about media freedom, including whether the Justice Department is charging Assange for actions — such as soliciting and publishing classified information — that journalists take as a matter of course.





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A competition offering grants of £50,000 for technology-based approaches to making legal services more accessible will be announced by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and a government-backed technology foundation today. The Legal Access Challenge has recei

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Thursday

30th May - Law News

2710th 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 Focus: Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, argues that world leaders are weak, shortsighted and mediocre, and no longer willing or able to defend human rights. It used to be that human rights abuses were called out and many were stopped. Violators had something to fear. But today, the silence of those public officials is astounding. Probable genocide in Myanmar, imprisonment of journalists in Egypt and their murder in Turkey, authoritarian-minded leaders elected in Brazil, Hungary, India, Russia, Italy and Austria, oppression in China, Cambodia, Venezuela, children separated from their parents and locked up right here in Trump’s America. That's without mentioning North Korea. The worst human rights offenders are able to act with complete impunity.





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The very best technology allows staff simply to get on with their job. It works away in the background and we don’t even notice it’s there. There are, in fact, probably many instances where everyday processes are taking advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) and we don’t even realise.
In the near future, we anticipate machine learning will start to be used in the conveyancing process too. It will be used to check documents and recognise images with the aim of speeding up the overall workflow.
Full story - Legal Futures

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Wednesday

29th May - Law News

2709th 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 Focus: Could a beligerent approach to foreign policy make for a safer world? Many think Trump a buffoon and a threat to world peace. But with ISIS weakened, and signs of progress in North Korea, perhaps his supporters can point to some initial successes. Is the beat way of pursuing peace to prepare for war? Or has Trump in fact made the world more precarious than ever?





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New thinking on prison sentencing needed. A different approach is required, where punishment is not seen as an inevitable escalator of severity.
Full story - Guardian Law

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Tuesday

28th May - Law News

2708th 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 Focus: It is estimated that 80% of the Yazidi women rescued from the dying days of the so-called Islamic State have had children with their jihadi captors. They were kidnapped from the the Yazidi community five years ago, but are not allowed to return until they abandon their children born during IS-captivity.




Focus of the Day Article:
Sir Rupert Jackson―architect of the 2013 civil costs reforms―has proposed radical ideas to transform clinical negligence. The retired Lord Justice of Appeal gave the keynote speech at the Medico-Legal Conference 2019 in London last week, on the subject of ‘Medical errors: sanctions and compensation―is there another way?’. ‘The legal system does not adopt a coherent approach to medical cases in the same way that it does to family cases or other specialist cases,’ Sir Rupert said.  
Full story - New Law Journal

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Monday

27th May - Law News

2707th 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 Focus: Police blocked streets and used tear gas against #YellowVests protesters in #Paris on Saturday. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the capital for the 28th consecutive weekend. The numbers of protesters increased again after dwindling for a couple of weeks. The large rally in Paris on Saturday comes just ahead of #France's vote in the European parliamentary elections.




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Sunday

26th May - Law News

2706th 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 Focus: Kenya's government is bringing in a new biometric ID card for all citizens above the age of six. Officials say it will make the country safer, and improve access to public services. But others fear the move could be risky and infringe on people's privacy.




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Saturday

25th May - Law News

2705th 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 Focus: One of the concerns emerging out of the huge mandate of the BJP is whether it will challenge the already strained idea of India as a secular state. At the BJP headquarters, giving his victory speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that this election has unmasked those who claim to be secular. On this show, we look at whether the political consensus around the idea of secularism ended.




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