Edition 3277: LawNewsIndex is a UK based topical legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Focus of the Day Legal Article: Just 18% of claimant personal injury solicitors say their firm has settled on a strategy to deal with next April’s whiplash reforms, a survey has found. Of the 1,241 responses to a Twitter poll by First4Lawyers, 37% said their firms have not decided on their strategy, while 28% admitted that they have not even thought about it yet. One in six (17%) said they were “getting there”. Full story - Legal Futures
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action. In the mid-1990s, they began gathering outside of accused perpetrators’ homes and workplaces to publicly shame them and raise awareness about the government’s systematic and brutal targeting of its people — and how it had gone unpunished. The human rights group HIJOS (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Forgetfulness and Silence) led and labeled this direct-action style of protest “escrache,” or exposure.
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- Advice around celebrating Christmas safely across the UK is expected to be significantly strengthened in the coming days https://t.co/42KjqmYi6A
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tech firms face yearly checks on how they are tackling illegal and
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