3rd October - Law News

2473rd 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 Kavanaugh hearings and #MeToo movement are shaping conversations high school students are having about sex. As part of the BBC's Ask America project we talked to teenagers involved in Change the Talk, a Los Angeles programme bringing peer-to-peer sexual violence education into high schools.

 

Focus of the Day Article:

Reports of sexual harassment at the Bar are not turning into formal complaints to barristers’ regulator, new figures have shown. The Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) annual enforcement report said it received just eight complaints about sexual harassment in the year to 31 March 2018, compared to none at all the previous year.

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