Tuesday

23rd April - Law News

2673rd 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: About 190 million people in Indonesia will be eligible to cast their votes on 17 April, in what is being called one of the most complicated single-day elections in history. For illiterate communities in remote areas of the vast archipelago it is a daunting task. The BBC travelled to hear the aspirations of Dayak Meratus tribes in remote Borneo ahead of the poll.


 

Focus of the Day Article:
Barristers, solicitors and paralegals urged to join single trade union. Top lawyers including Michael Mansfield say move would help all ranks of the profession.
Full story - Guardian Law

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Monday

22nd April - Law News

2672nd 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.

Wishing a peaceful, just and happy Easter break to all our friends and followers! 
Today's Video Focus: Sri Lankan authorities have taken seven suspects into custody, who they believe may be connected with a series of bombings on Easter Sunday. Three police officers were reportedly killed in the raid. The law enforcement deaths happened when they stormed a safehouse in Dematagoda, an area outside Colombo where the eighth explosion happened, a defense official said. A total of seven people were taken into custody in connection with the bombings.


 


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Sunday

21st April - Law News

2671st 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.

Wishing a peaceful, just and happy Easter break to all our friends and followers! 
Today's Video Focus: The planet is facing a crisis. Temperatures continue to rise, bringing extreme weather, exacerbating food shortages, and leading to the extinction of some species. Scientists have repeatedly warned that the effects of climate change are becoming irreversible. What will it take for politicians and the public to tackle climate change and implement policies that bring actual solutions? And what role does the world economic structure play in perpetuating the crisis?


 


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Saturday

20th April - Law News

2670th 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.

Wishing a peaceful, just and happy Easter break to all our friends and followers! 
Today's Video Focus: A new report shows how 50 lakh jobs were lost after Indian government's demonetisation and worryingly, how fewer people are out there looking for work. With the government insisting jobs have been created, what's the truth? Have the last five years generated jobs, or destroyed them?


 


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Friday

19th April - Law News

2669th 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.

Wishing a peaceful, just and happy Easter break to all our friends and followers!
Today's Video Focus: As more Australian politicians and media organisations sign up to the Chinese social media mega-app WeChat, questions are being raised about its new place within Australia's democracy. There are concerns politicians using WeChat may have to self-censor their comments, avoiding criticism of China and dodging other topics Beijing finds sensitive. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten both use WeChat to communicate with Chinese-Australian voters, while several media organisations including the ABC, SBS and The Australian also have accounts. But the news stories posted on WeChat aren't always the same ones making headlines in Australia, and at least one Australian media organisation has had its stories censored by platform moderators.


 


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Thursday

18th April - Law News

2668th 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: People-smuggling across the Channel. Migrants attacking women in dark alleys. All designed to fuel fears about immigration - perhaps the defining issue of the EU referendum. Tonight, this programme reveals disturbing new evidence of fakery - produced for Arron Banks's Leave.EU - and pumped out on social media in the run up to the vote in 2016. And at the heart of it, a secretive security company owned by Mr Banks.


 

Focus of the Day Article:
The chancellor of the High Court has made clear all existing cases must be subject to new disclosure procedures – contradicting the standard reference manual on litigation. In a case dealing with preliminary issues in the ownership dispute UTB LLC v Sheffield United Ltd & Ors, Sir Geoffrey Vos said the White Book, published earlier this year, had made a mistake in stating when procedures apply.
Full story -The Law Society Gazette

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Wednesday

17th April - Law News

2667th 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: Attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are vowing to fight his possible extradition to the United States following his arrest in London, when British police forcibly removed Assange from the Ecuadorean Embassy, where he had taken asylum for almost seven years. On Thursday night, Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman spoke to Noam Chomsky about Assange's arrest, WikiLeaks and American power.


 

Focus of the Day Article:
A barrister’s non-contractual fees are property for the purposes of insolvency law and vest in his trustee in bankruptcy, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Overturning the High Court, Lord Justice Newey said the expectation of payment when fees were viewed as an honorarium was “not founded on mere hope or morality but reflects the unique nature of non-contractual barristers’ fees”.
Full story -Legal Futures

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Tuesday

16th April - Law News

2666th 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: Kemi and Mojo are two women who want to take back control of their bodies after their sexuality was stolen from them. They've joined one of the "UK's first plus-size dance classes" to build their confidence and learn to love themselves as they are. Both women have waived their right to anonymity to talk about their experiences of being raped in the hope of encouraging others to speak out.


 

Focus of the Day Article:
UN urges France to act on 'dire' living conditions of refugees. Special rapporteur for housing says plight of hundreds of migrants breaches their human rights.
Full story - New Law Journal


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