Monday

14th August - Law News

2058th 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 Guardian investigates the causes behind the murder of Tristan Voorspuy, a former British army officer shot on his ranch by armed nomadic herders in March. For months, Kenya’s central county of Laikipia has become the epicentre​ of a bloody conflict between pastoralists from the north and farmers whose land they have invaded. A severe drought aggravated by climate change is partly to blame, but so is political manoeuvering ahead of last week's general elections.

Focus of the day story: All employment law claims reliant on the Supreme Court’s ruling that employment tribunal fees are unlawful have been stayed. In R (on the application of Unison) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51, at the end of July, the Supreme Court held that charging claimants fees for bringing claims to the employment tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal, is unlawful. Full story: New Law Journal

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Sunday

13th August - Law News

2057th 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 car Crashed into Counter-Protesters of Charlottesville White Nationalist March. The governor of Virginia declared a state of emergency in Charlottesville on Saturday as white nationalists, neo-nazi, and white supremacist marchers clashed with anti-racism and anti-fascist counter-protesters for the second day in a row over a plan to remove the statue of a Confederate general from a city park.


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Saturday

12th August - Law News

2056th 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: About 700,000 eggs from Dutch farms in contamination scare have been distributed to UK, up from estimated 21,000. As the Dutch egg contamination scandal rumbles on, we ask how safe are the country's 10 billion eggs?


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Friday

11th August - Law News

2055th 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: Former New Hampshire Republican Sen. Gordon Humphrey tells CNN's Jake Tapper that President Trump is delusional and said Congress should strongly consider if the president is fit to serve.


Focus of the day story: Part-time judges are the latest professional group to become exercised by the prospect of out-of-hours courts, after they were asked to volunteer for extra shifts during the pilot phase. The Association of Fee-Paid Judges (AFPJ) is surveying its 270 members on the plans. Around three-quarters are understood to be solicitors. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Thursday

10th August - Law News

2054th 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: At least six French soldiers were injured, three of them seriously, when they were hit by a vehicle in a Paris suburb, the French armed forces said. The suspect was arrested hours after the incident on a motorway in northern France.


Focus of the day story: The turnover of personal injury claims management companies (CMCs) has continued to tumble over the past year, falling 41% in just two years to £182m, according to the Ministry of Justice, which also highlighted how CMCs that offer damages-based agreements are struggling to comply with the law. Full story - Legal Futures

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Wednesday

9th August - Law News

2053rd 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 man has been found guilty of trying to smuggle a pipe bomb on to a plane at Manchester Airport. The "crude improvised explosive device" was found in Nadeem Muhammad's carry-on luggage as he went through security on 30 January. Prosecutors said the 43-year-old from Bury intended to detonate the device on a Ryanair flight to Bergamo, Italy.

Focus of the day story: Bar Council and Law Society lack confidence in flexible courts. Bar “unhappy” about engaging with shift-sitting experiment unless its concerns are properly evaluated. Full story - Solicitors Journal

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Tuesday

8th August - Law News

2052nd 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: Krishan Kumar Khanna grew up just outside Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city. After a childhood he remembers fondly, his life changed dramatically in August 1947. As Britain left the Indian subcontinent, colonial planners hastily split it into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Khanna was forced to join one of the largest migrations in human history, as sectarian violence erupted and millions fled in both directions to save their lives. He has dreamed of going back ever since and, after trying for several years, Khanna finally obtained a visa to return to Pakistan. Despite deep tensions, he's determined to show that people in the neighbouring nations still have much more in common than that which divides them.


Focus of the day story:  Increase in female magistrates could mask decline in diversity. Over half of JPs are women but chair of magistrates’ body fears less well-off and minorities are underrepresented on bench. Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

7th August - Law News

2051st 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: Rania Mustafa Ali, 20, filmed her journey from the ruins of Kobane in Syria to Austria. Her footage shows what many refugees face on their perilous journey to Europe. Rania is cheated by smugglers, teargassed and beaten at the Macedonian border. She risks drowning in the Mediterranean, travelling in a boat meant to hold 15 people but stuffed with 52. Those with disabilities are carried across raging rivers and muddy fields in their wheelchairs.

Focus of the day story: The Supreme Court’s high-profile decision that employment tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal fees are illegal is ‘a masterpiece of judicial analysis of the constitutional right of access to justice’. Full story - New Law Journal


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