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.
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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
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