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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Sunday

6th August - Law News

2050th 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: Qatar's industries relied heavily on imports, most of which used to come from its blockading neighbours. While the crisis is affecting businesses, it has also created opportunities for self-reliance.


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Saturday

5th August - Law News

2049th 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 say Venezuela is heading for civil war as tensions build ahead of Sunday's controversial vote to rewrite the constitution. Money and food are short in the country, and it has been witnessed that people picking through rubbish to survive.



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Friday

4th August - Law News

2048th 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: Slavery is illegal in every corner of the world, yet an estimated 21 million people are enslaved globally. To put that number in perspective, there are more slaves in contemporary society than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade. How is this possible? And would you even recognise a modern slave if you saw one in the street?


Focus of the day story: The proportion of UK litigants using the commercial courts continued to fall last year, according to an annual analysis published today. According to the English Commercial Court report, compiled for the fifth year by communications consultancy Portland, 121 cases were brought by UK litigants in 2016-17, amounting to 28% of the total. That was down from 144 in 2015-16. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Thursday

3rd August - Law News

2047th 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 man suspected of a fatal knife attack in Hamburg on Friday could have been deported years ago if the authorities hadn't failed to act. That's according to German media, which claims Berlin missed a deadline to return him to Norway, the country where he first applied for asylum.


Focus of the day story:  The resident judge at Blackfriars Crown Court, one of the six courts due to take part in a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) pilot on extended court hours, has attempted to calm lawyers’ anger over the move. Judge Hillen said the impact on those with caring responsibilities would be specifically monitored, adding: “Those who devised the system wish to test it. No one is being asked to make it work, but no one should be engaged in making in not work. Full story - Legal Futures

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Wednesday

2nd August - Law News

2046th 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: Abandoned zoo animals from Syria’s Aleppo province find refuge in Turkey . Animals have increasingly also become victims of the war in Syria that has killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and displaced millions of others.


Focus of the day story:  Lord Justice Jackson scales back fixed costs proposals. One-size-fits-all cost proposal gives way to “a more segregated approach”. Full story - Solicitors Journal

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Tuesday

1st August - Law News

2045th 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: Luis Almagro, head of the Organization of American States, says Venezuela's controversial election on Sunday was a "fraud" that "cannot fool anybody."


Focus of the day story:  Why did 10 migrants die in this truck in Texas? Their deaths, after being crammed into an uncooled trailer amid scorching summer heat, expose the callousness of smuggling along the US-Mexico border. Full story - Guardian Law

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