Wednesday

22nd March - Law News

1911th 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: Full statement from Metropolitan Police on the unfolding events in Westminster this afternoon... LATEST: four dead, 12 injured, as many as 3 police officers also injured, woman pulled alive from River Thames, PM to chair emergency COBRA meeting.


Focus of the day story: Extradition is where the law and politics collide. Nowhere else is the issue of other countries’ human rights examined more closely. While extradition has many similarities to immigration matters, there are two important differences: first, extradition is dealt with in public, and second, all individuals facing extradition are of course alleged or convicted criminals. Full story - Solicitors Journal

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Tuesday

21st March - Law News

1911th 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: How do the largest community of British migrants living in Spain feel about Brexit? So many of them have voted for brexit and complain of foreigners in the UK without thinking of themselves as foreigner in Spain. When article 50 is triggered, the UK will begin negotiating its exit from the European Union – and expats rights to healthcare, pensions and their British citizenship all hang in the balance. Britons living in Orihuela Costa, Alicante – ‘effectively a British enclave’ – give their views.


Focus of the day story: The government’s personal injury reforms will boost insurers’ profits by up to £700m a year, an economics consultancy has predicted ahead of today’s second reading of the Prisons and Courts Bill. Capital Economics (CE) also said there were reasons other than fraud which led to rising insurance premiums, and that the argument motor accident rates have fallen while claims have risen may be misleading. Full story - Legal Futures

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Monday

20th March - Law News

1910th 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: Protesters have gathered in Paris to rally against police brutality. The march comes a few weeks after a wave of violent protests, sparked by the alleged rape of a black man by police during a routine ID check on February 2, 2017.



Focus of the day story: The current reciprocal rules for enforcing civil justice across the EU cannot be replicated by the Great Repeal Bill, a committee of Peers has found. In a report published this week, “Brexit: justice for families, individuals and businesses?”, the House of Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee gave a dire warning about access to justice across the EU for families and businesses post-Brexit. Full story - New Law Journal



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Sunday

19th March - Law News

1909th 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: Eyewitnesses speak about the Paris-Orly airport attack where a man was shot dead after he tried to grab a soldier's gun. The man, named as "Ziyed B", was killed by security forces in France after attacking a patrol in the airport's south terminal. Earlier on Saturday 18 March he had been involved in a shooting and then a carjacking in the Paris area. Prosecutors have opened an anti-terror investigation. Ziyed B had been reported as radicalised in the past, and was on a police watch-list.


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Saturday

18th March - Law News

1908th 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 new report by the Argentine Catholic University says 1.5 million people in Argentina have fallen into poverty since Maurico Macri took office. Activists say more resources are needed to assist those struggling to survive.


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Friday

17th March - Law News

1907th 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: India is a vast and complex country with many languages. The ongoing demonstrations by farmers from Tamil Nadu at Jantar Mantar in Delhi in an attempt to bring their drought woes to the attention of the Centre.  How does one raise her/his voice to be able to get the attention of those who don't understand the language? The farmers from Tamil Nadu do not know any language other than their native Tamil language. However, they are under the compulsion to highlight their concerns to the media and government in the capital where only Hindi and English are understood by most people.


Focus of the day story:  Tax credit ‘rape clause’ becomes law without parliamentary vote. The controversial move, which requires woman who had third child as result of rape to verify her position, added to existing act. Full story - Guardian Law

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Thursday

16th March - Law News

1906th 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: On the sixth anniversary of the start of the uprising in Syria, much attention is focused on the city of Raqqa, the de-facto capital of the "caliphate" proclaimed by so-called Islamic State. Thousands of civilians are fleeing the surrounding area ahead of an assault by US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters that is widely expected to start in the coming weeks.


Focus of the day story:  Methods that allow members of the public and lay clients to instruct barristers directly without turning to a solicitor first are working well, the barristers’ regulator has claimed. In a review of its public and licensed access schemes published today, the Bar Standards Board said the schemes are an important way to access legal services. The review also found most public access barristers to be providing 'a valuable service' to their clients. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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