Sunday

13th May - Law News

2331st 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: Several thousand people are out protesting in the capital of the south Caucasus country of Georgia, following overnight anti-drugs raids on two clubs. The Georgian Interior Ministry says 8 suspected dealers were arrested. But the demonstrators say officers used excessive force and that their operation was a 'deliberate provocation'. The protesters are now calling for both the Prime Minister and the Interior Minister to quit.


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Saturday

12th May - Law News

2330th 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: Himanshu Roy, a senior Mumbai police officer involved in many high-profile investigations, allegedly committed suicide at his home on Friday. A former chief of the Anti-Terror Squad of Maharashtra, Himanshu Roy was an Additional Director General of Police.


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Friday

11th May - Law News

2329th 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 British prime minister has apologised to a man who was illegally kidnapped by British spies and sent to be tortured by Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan security services. Abdul-Hakim Belhaj was suspected of having links to al-Qaeda in the early 2000s and was a victim of rendition as part of the US "war on terror", which was backed by the UK. His lawyers had to fight for years before the British authorities finally accepted his story.


Focus of the Day Story: A judge has described an unrepresented defendant cross-examining witnesses 'almost like committing the offence all over again' in a leaked internal Ministry of Justice report. The 36-page report, Unrepresented Defendants: Perceived effects on the Crown court in England and indicative volumes in magistrates' courts, was obtained by media outlet BuzzFeed and published this week - after BuzzFeed was given a six-page summary report by the ministry under Freedom of Information (FoI) laws. BuzzFeed said today that it is one of three parties that have reported the ministry to the Information Commissioner. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Thursday

10th May - Law News

2327th 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: As talks with North Korea approach, the new national security adviser, John Bolton, has long pushed for regime change in another country with nuclear ambitions: Iran. One of his chosen replacements is the dissident group Mujahedeen Khalq, known as M.E.K.


Focus of the Day Story: Government defeats bid to annul legal aid reform as MPs call for more support for criminal Bar. Full story - Legal Futures

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Wednesday

9th May - Law News

2326th 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: A meeting between a Trump campaign official and an Australian diplomat in a London wine bar spiralled into a sprawling FBI investigation, looking at possible links between the Trump Presidential Campaign and the Russian government.


Focus of the Day Story: Miscarriage of justice victims unfairly denied compensation, court told. UK supreme court hears claim on behalf of two men jailed for 24 years for crimes they did not do. Full story - Guardian Law

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Tuesday

8th May - Law News

2325th 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: At the group's annual convention in Dallas, Lois Beckett speaks to ordinary NRA members in the wake of unprecedented pushback from teenage mass shootings survivors, and hears that the Parkland students 'need to do a little research before they jump into things they don't know much about'


Focus of the Day Story: Peers review dispute resolution & enforcement post-Brexit. A Lords’ committee led by Helena Kennedy QC has issued a stark warning on the consequences of leaving the EU without effective replacement dispute resolution systems in place. Full story - New Law Journal

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Monday

7th May - Law News

2324th 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: Thousands of those caught up in the Philippines war on drugs end up in Manila City Jail where they often spend years waiting for their day in court. Dennis Garcia, accused of two counts of robbery, has spent 16 years waiting for his trial. He tells the BBC's Howard Johnson what life inside the jail is like.



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Sunday

6th May - Law News

2323rd 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 armed group has for six decades for a homeland in northern Spain and southwest France. ETA has waged a campaign of violence killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands more. The separatist group whose name stands for 'Basque Homeland and Freedom' had wanted an independent state in parts of Spain and France. ETA now says it's dissolving its organisation and ending its violent campaign. International negotiators have hailed its announcement and called for dialogue. The group issued an apology last month to the victims, saying it took 'direct responsibility'. But Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says ETA's crimes will not go unpunished. What will this move mean for other separatist movements in Europe?



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