Thursday

21st November - Law News

2886th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus:  Rana Foroohar is a business columnist for the Financial Times, analyst for CNN and author. Her most recent book, ‘Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech’, addresses the question, how did the tech industry get to dominate our world so completely? Rana talks to Krishnan about the darker side of digital technology, why tech firms are the new banks and what can be done to stop the tech world getting out of control.

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: A retired senior judge has evoked Hitler in a furious riposte to a former Law Society president over the Supreme Court’s decision in the prorogation of parliament casy. Full story: The Law Society Gazette
 

Wednesday

20th November - Law News

2885th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus:  An interview with Austin Ramzy, one of the New York Times' reporters who worked on a story based on more than 400 pages of leaked sensitive Chinese Communist Party documents that link President Xi Jinping to the country's mass detention centers in the far western region of Xinjiang.

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: Blockchain and smart contracts were given a major boost towards becoming a standard method for securely storing and transferring cryptoassets yesterday, when the expert panel charged with giving the technology legal certainty declared they should be treated in principal as property. Full story: Legal Futures
 

Tuesday

19th November - Law News

2884th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus:  Operation Northmoor was set up in 2014 to examine allegations of executions by British Special Forces. It had linked dozens of suspicious killings on night raids. One of those included three children and a 20-year-old man who were killed by a British soldier in 2012 in the village of Loy Bagh in Afghanistan. British detectives have now told Panorama that Special Forces tried to cover-up what happened to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes.

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: War crimes claims against UK troops need ICC scrutiny, says Labour. Ministers urged to answer allegation that they stifled war crimes investigations. Full story: Guardian Law

Monday

18th November - Law News

2883rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus:  US anti-war activist has been threatened with arrest. Medea Benjamin was accused of assaulting a member of congress during a protest in Washington DC.

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: Nearly 60% of expert witnesses believe judges should have powers to permanently disqualify experts who don’t understand their role. Full story: New Law Journal

Sunday

17th November - Law News

2882nd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus:  Bosnia says it is struggling to cope with the influx of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty and taking the new Balkan route to Europe. No running water or electricity. Portable toilets that are rotting. Flimsy, leaking tents. And rubbish everywhere. Built on an old landfill site, next to a minefield, migrants at the Vucjak camp say it’s a nightmare. Conditions are appalling…and about to get even worse, with the onset of the Balkan winter. Fifty-thousand people have arrived in Bosnia Herzegovina in two years.

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Saturday

16th November - Law News

2881st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus:  While the Supreme Court has allowed women of all ages to continue visiting the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala, the Kerala government today clarified that activists hoping to make a statement by taking up the pilgrimage will not be given police protection. "This is not a place for activism. This is not a place for activists like Trupti Desai to show their strength. We won't take them in. Let them go get a court order," said Kerala Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran.

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Friday

15th November - Law News

2880th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus:  A male student opened fire at a Southern California high school, killing a 16-year-old girl and another student, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told reporters.

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: Fifty-one law firms were recognized for having 50 percent or more women in their 2019 US-based new partner class. The firms, recognised as “tipping the scales,” were identified through the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance’s New Partner Report, a compilation of public data and self-reported sources released each year for the past eight years. Full story: The Global Legal Post

Thursday

14th November - Law News

2879th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus:  Today's court decision is only a partial win for the 78-year-old former adviser to the Pope. The Australian High Court did not formally grant Pell special leave to appeal against his conviction, it simply agreed to hear (in front of the full court bench) arguments for and against his conviction.

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: The Legal Services Board has listed concerns about the quality, cost and diversity impact of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam, suggesting there is still a long way to go before the assessment is approved. Full story: The Law Society Gazette