Edition 3209: 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: The Bar Council has urged all Government Legal Department barristers to respond to a call for evidence around judicial review, saying it is important to provide a ‘broad range of perspectives from as many parts of government as possible’. The Independent Review of Administrative Law is seeking feedback from government departments over whether judicial review strikes the right balance between enabling citizens to challenge the lawfulness of government action and allowing the executive and local authorities to carry on the business of government. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Around the world, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children as young as 10 with mental health conditions are being chained to trees, locked in sheds and even sometimes in cages for years at a time. Human Rights Watch Senior Disability Researcher Kriti Sharma tells The World how the practice of shackling is still used in around 60 countries.
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