Edition 3207: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.
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Focus of the Day Law Article: President of the Supreme Court, Lord Reed, has said he hopes an ethnic minority justice will be appointed to the UK’s highest court before he retires in six years’ time. He said the lack of diversity on the Supreme Court bench was a situation “which cannot be allowed to become shameful”.ocedure to revise budgets in the event of significant developments in litigation. This must be done ‘promptly’. Full story - Scottish Legal News
Today's Highlighted Video Story: BBC Newsnight investigation claims that Uighur people in the Middle East have been targeted by nations including Saudi Arabia, in apparent cooperation with China’s notorious crackdown on the ethnic minority. Uighur pilgrims and students in Saudi Arabia have been detained and forcibly deported back to China where they are understood to be placed into the county’s notorious ‘re-education’ camps. Besides deportations, activists estimate that hundreds of Uighurs have been pressured by Chinese authorities to return from abroad countries by threats and long imprisonments of family members back home.
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