Monday

22nd August - Law News

1701st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Human Rights & Social Justice.

Today's video story: Suspect slips cuffs, ejected from police car. After being arrested, Logan Younger was ejected from a police cruiser when it crashed on the way to a detention center.

Focus of the day: Government plans to introduce tax avoidance scheme penalties for professional advisers have been roundly criticised by lawyers and accountants. Under the plans set out in a discussion document published this week “enablers” of tax avoidance could have to pay a fine of up to 100% of the tax the scheme’s user underpaid. Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

21st August - Law News

1700th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Human Rights & Social Justice.

Today's video story: Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts claims NASA has corrupted data, there is no empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming and the climate models are wrong.Professor Brian Cox explains climate science to denier Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts.


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Saturday

20th August - Law News

1699th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: CDC: Pregnant women should avoid travel to Miami-Dade County. "The risk (of contracting Zika) is still low, but the result is catastrophic," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden tells CNN'.





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Friday

19th August - Law News

1698th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: The forgotten police bombing of a Philadelphia pro-black group. On 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police bombed the Move compound, killing 11 people, including five children, and destroying an entire neighborhood. The countercultural group lived communally and had a history of violent encounters with police.


Focus of the day article: Government proposals to clamp down on tax avoidance by targeting advisers with sanctions if HMRC successfully challenges a scheme further blur the line between evasion and avoidance, and “threaten the rule of law”, according to a prominent tax lawyer. Anti-avoidance proposals were contained in an HMRC discussion document, Strengthening tax avoidance sanctions and deterrents, has now been published. Full story -Legal Futures



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Thursday

18th August - Law News

1697th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Anjem Choudary, a prominent radical Islamist preacher, has been convicted at the Old Bailey in London of supporting Islamic State. He has a long history of controversial media appearances, repeatedly failing to condemn terrorist atrocities. He now faces up to 10 years in prison.


Focus of the day article: Fraud convictions remain low despite rise in SFO-compelled interviews. A rise in the number of witnesses interviewed by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) failed to lead to more convictions last year, the latest statistics has revealed. In 2015, 177 witnesses were compelled to attend interviews - a 37 per cent increase on the 129 interviews completed the year before, according to RPC. Full story - Solicitors Journal



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Wednesday

17th August - Law News

1696th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Two years ago, the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram abducted 276 school girls from the northern town of Chibok. In that time, only one girl has escaped. She is in the care of the government in the capital, Abuja. Her mother spoke exclusively to the BBC about what her daughter's life was like under the militant group.


Focus of the day article: The High Court has ruled that a contract claim against retailer Sports Direct should be stayed until the claimant has paid the correct court fee. Lifestyles Equities and Lifestyle Licensing had paid a £480 fee after making a claim alleging registered trademark infringement and/or inducement of breach of contract. Full story - The Law Society Gazette



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Tuesday

16th August - Law News

1695th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Ibtihaj Muhammad, U.S. fencer and the first American athlete to wear a hijab while competing in the Olympics, talks about the importance of race and religion.


Focus of the day article:  Police to hire law firms to tackle cyber criminals in radical pilot project. Private firms will use civil courts to seize fraud suspects’ assets, prompting concerns over profit motive. Full story - Guardian Law



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Monday

15th August - Law News

1694th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: ‘All too common scene’: Palestinian home built by EU demolished by Israeli bulldozers. This video has been released by the BTSELEM human-rights group - apparently showing a Palestinian home built with European Union aid money, being demolished by an Israeli bulldozer.


Focus of the day article: More than half (52%) of women, and nearly two-thirds (63%) of women aged 18-24 years old, say they have experienced sexual harassment at work, according to figures released by the TUC this week. The survey, Still just a bit of banter?, which is part of a joint report with the Everyday Sexism Project, also found that around four out of five (79%) women who said they experienced sexual harassment at work did not tell their employer about what was happening. Full story - New Law Journal


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