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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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