Edition 4111: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily 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 Law News/Article: A lack of information on low level offending could hamstring the prime minister's Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan, the authors of a study on data and statistical gaps in the criminal justice system of England and Wales warn today. The effectiveness of sanctions against anti-social behaviour and the use of the so-called 'community trigger' are among the areas where no national data is collected despite repeated requests from MPs and others, according to the study by the Centre for Public Data. Full
story The Law Society Gazette
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Months after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, I began filming the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (known as the Gunners) in Baghdad. The unit was housed in a bombed-out palace on the banks of the Tigris that they named Gunner Palace.
Rather than just making a movie about the men, I suggested that we make a film together — an offer that the soldiers quickly embraced. They told the story of the war as only they could: They played guitar, spat out rhymes and played to the camera. But behind all their bravado and posturing, they were just kids who desperately wanted the world to understand the war through their eyes.