Tuesday

26th September - Law News

2101st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term, but it's a hollow victory given the pummelling she and her former coalition partners received. and the success of the right-wing, nationalist Alternative for Germany party. The AfD, which promised to fight "an invasion of foreigners", seems to have capitalised on a backlash over Mrs Merkel's decision to open Germany's borders to over a million migrants and refugees in 2015. It all leaves a tense political backdrop and Mrs Merkel with a headache as she tries to cobble together a new ruling coalition.


Focus of the day story: The Lord Chancellor, David Lidington, has unexpectedly rejected the Legal Services Board’s (LSB) recommendation that chartered accountants should be able to handle litigation, advocacy and legal instruments in taxation work. Full story - Legal Futures

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Monday

25th September - Law News

2100th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: It is estimated that in India, a woman dies every two hours because of unsafe abortions. Just 10 per cent of the estimated 70 lakh abortions that happen in India every year are said to be documented; the rest are assumed to take place in shady clinics, often run by quacks. In a landmark ruling in September, the Supreme Court of India allowed a 13-year-old rape victim in Mumbai to terminate her 31-week pregnancy. Yet the same court in July ruled that a 10-year-old raped child, should not be allowed to abort at 28 weeks. On We The People we ask: Why did the families of these children have to go to the court for a private decision? And, is it time for the 46-year-old Indian abortion law to be amended?


Focus of the day story: The Bach Commission has urged political parties of all hues to back a new Right to Justice Act that would guarantee minimum standards on access to justice. In its final report, published last week, the commission, chaired by former Justice minister Lord Willy Bach, warned the poorest in society are being failed by a two-tier system, with thousands effectively cut off from legal advice and representation. Full story - New Law Journal

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Sunday

24th September - Law News

2099th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Four people in Catalonia's capital city, Barcelona, tell us what it means to be Catalan - and why some people there want independence from Spain.



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Saturday

23rd September - Law News

2098th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: It seems that White Helmets organization is hailed as heroes in the West, and the latter one provides millions of dollars to so-called saviors. However, Aleppo residents claim that White Helmets care only about money and saving rebels, but not the civilians. In fact, they are not autonomous, and cannot make their own decisions – these are made by other powerful people.



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Friday

22nd September - Law News

2097th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Two years ago, the European Union asked member states to accept refugees seeking asylum in Italy and Greece, in order to alleviate the pressure on those countries. That relocation scheme will now end on Friday. It was a test of European solidarity. But a total of only around 30,000 people were actually relocated, which is less than a fifth of the number the EU had hoped.


Focus of the day story:  A judge has rejected the argument that defendants in a civil claim over tax advice were under any duty to flag up a service error by their opposite number.  The claimant in Higgins & Ors v ERC Accountants & Business Advisers Ltd had failed to validly serve their case as they had not served the claim form. Amongst arguments about whether the claim form had in fact been served previously, the claimant’s solicitors, from national firm TLT LLP, suggested the defendants were ‘taking advantage’ of any mistake they might have made. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Thursday

21st September - Law News

2096th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues. 
 

Today's video story: Stanislav Petrov, who averted possible nuclear war, dies at 77. Ex-Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov had reported a possible 1983 US missile launch as a false alarm.


Focus of the day story:  SME law firms are investing their marketing budgets in old-style strategies they know are often ineffective, rather than explore new technologies that are already taking hold in other sectors, according to research being launched at this week's PI Futures conference in Liverpool. The white paper by leading marketing collective First4Lawyers also suggests that most decisions about where to invest marketing are made by senior management or the board without the marketing department’s input. In any case, it found, very few firms take the time to properly track the effectiveness of their marketing activity. Full story - Legal Futures

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Wednesday

20th September - Law News

2095th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: A transport strike over tax increases on fuel, alcohol and cigarettes has shut down most of Haiti. The government says the money raised will be used to improve public services. But with more than half the population living under the poverty line, Haitians say they can't afford it.


Focus of the day story:  Charity laws ‘inefficient and unduly complex’. Technicalities causing a drag on the smooth operation of charities ‘like barnacles on a boat’. Full story - Solicitors Journal

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