Wednesday

7th November - Law News

2508th 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 the Prime Minster tries to deliver a Brexit deal that works for the country as whole, we reveal what the British people think of the likely deal on offer. Channel 4 commissioned the largest independent survey of attitudes across the whole of the UK conducted since the referendum, asking 20,000 people drawn from every UK constituency for their views, and put the results to politicians and those who stand to gain, or lose, most from the outcome; all before a live studio audience.


Focus of the Day Article:
UK reform efforts start to tackle online abuse. Reform of the criminal law needed to protect victims from online abuse, which is now commonplace, says the UK Law Commission.
Full story - The Global Legal Post

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Tuesday

6th November - Law News

2507th 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: In Kenya's south-eastern Tana River region, baby girls in the Oromo community are engaged on the day they are born. Parents of the children say the tradition ensures the girl's future is secure, and that it builds strong relationships between families and communities.


Focus of the Day Article:
If the police can’t tackle ‘minor’ crimes, how long before we take it upon ourselves? As private security firms proliferate there’s a danger we’ll lose the rule of law
Full story - Guardian Law

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Monday

5th November - Law News

2506th 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: Over 5,000 Palestinians are imprisoned in Israel with more than 500 serving life sentences for terror-related offences. They are often forbidden from having any kind of physical contact with their family. This has led the wives of some prisoners concerned about their bloodline to resort to radical methods.



Focus of the Day Article:
Austerity was used as an excuse to ‘over-cut’ the justice budget, the Bar Council has implied, in a report that reveals the shattering consequences of a decade of disinvestment in legal aid.
The report, Justice in the age of austerity, by Professor Martin Chalkley, was launched at a Justice Week event, just days after the Chancellor of the Exchequer cut Ministry of Justice (MoJ) funding by £300m to £6bn per year in his Autumn Budget.
Full story - New Law Journal

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Sunday

4th November - Law News

2505th 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: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, accused of running one of the world's biggest illegal drug business, will go on trial in the United States on Monday. Born into poverty in the mountains of Sinaloa, El Chapo headed the powerful drug cartel for years, amassing a fortune and overseeing an illicit empire with links around the globe.

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Saturday

3rd November - Law News

2504th 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: In 2012, Hyderabad based Azhar Maqsusi started an initiative of distributing food to underprivileged people in nearby areas. The founder of 'Hunger Has No Religion' now feeds around 1,200 people every day through his program that has been expanded to other cities across the country. In a chat with Shekhar Gupta on Walk The Talk, the young activist throws light on the inspiration behind his journey and his future plans to take the mission ahead. This good Samaritan, who started working at the young age of 12, aims to continue working towards tackling hunger. He extensively uses social media platforms to connect with like-minded people and get support for his mission.



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Friday

2nd November - Law News

2503rd 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: Convicted of killing her four children, Australia's worst female serial killer, Kathleen Folbigg, speaks for the first time, as her legal team fights for a judicial review of her case. A fresh forensic opinion argues natural causes are a plausible explanation for their deaths.


Focus of the Day Article:
 In the past year some of the largest legal ranking and search companies have been acquired by private equity companies. Concern is being expressed in legal circles about whether the confidential information that law firms submit to legal ranking and search companies could be used for new purposes.
Full story - The Global Legal Post

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Thursday

1st November - Law News

2502nd 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: Laura Bates founded the Everyday Sexism project in 2012, long before the Me Too movement gained traction. It was a space where women could share their stories of sexual assault and highlight how normalised it had become. She talks to Krishnan about where the feminist movement is post-Me Too, why she reluctantly thinks gender quotas in the workplace are necessary and how we should be talking about sex and harassment in schools.


Focus of the Day Article:
  Prosecutors and police are failing to investigate thousands of cases including fraud, rape and modern slavery efficiently because the required skills and resources are critically low, the outgoing director of public prosecutions has said in a newspaper interview that has sparked widespread anger.
Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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