Saturday

14th May - Law News

1601st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap


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Today's video story: Dadaab was meant as a temporary home for Somalis fleeing their country's civil war. Twenty five years later, it's home to 330,000 people - and the third biggest city in Kenya. This week, the Kenyan government announced plans to try and close it down.

Friday

13th May - Law News

1600th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY:  Law firms that charge clients for money laundering due diligence checks are at risk of breaking the rules, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has warned. The SRA said law firms were legally required to carry out client due diligence (CDD) checks under the money laundering regulations. Full story - Legal Futures



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Today's video story: Disillusioned with China’s urban dream, a young man set off on a 15-year walk and rediscovered his family’s ethnic Miao traditions.

Thursday

12th May - Law News

1598th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY:  Boards fear reputational risk and threat of corporate fines, research finds. Business spending on regulatory compliance will continue to rise due to concerns about reputational risk and increasing corporate fines, new research has found. A survey of UK businesses commissioned by Pinsent Masons show that almost three-quarters of the compliance professionals surveyed expect their regulatory spend to increase over the next five years. t. Full story - Solicitors Journal


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Today's video story: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has taken her battle to survive impeachment to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch attempt to stay in office, a day before the Senate is expected to vote to try her for breaking budget laws.Brazil's Attorney General Eduardo Cardozo, the government's top lawyer, asked the Supreme Court to annul impeachment proceedings on Tuesday, his office said.As the prospect grew of Rousseff's removal and a potential end to 13 years of rule by her leftist Workers Party, anti-impeachment protesters blocked roads and burned tyres in the capital Sao Paulo and other cities early on Tuesday. 

Wednesday

11th May - Law News

1597th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY:  British bill of rights could 'unravel' constitution, say peers. House of Lords’ EU justice committee urges ministers to rethink plans to scrap Human Rights Act. Full story - Guardian Law

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Today's video story: Cologne assaults first defendant to appear in court. Hundreds of women filed complaints - saying they were attacked while attending New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne.

Tuesday

10th May - Law News

1596th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Two-thirds of students who pass the £12,500-plus Bar Professional Training Course fail to secure a pupillage, according to new statistics that once again call into question the credibility of the bar’s training regime. Nearly half of pupillages are awarded to women, but the bar regulator says that since more women than men enrol on the BPTC, ‘more work may be required’ to tackle gender bias. White BPTC candidates may also be more successful in securing pupillage than BME candidates, it adds, though ‘more research is needed’. Full story - The Law Society Gazette


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Today's video story: A day in the life of a lawyer - Jeremy brings the camera along for a normal day at work as a lawyer!

Monday

9th May - Law News

1595th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY: The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has revealed a performance update on the next generation of barristers, based on data collected during the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC). Of 4,760 BPTC students between 2012 and 2014, 72% passed the course first time, and 11% of all graduates achieved the highest grade, “Outstanding”. More than a third of UK/EU domiciled graduates enrolled in 2011-2013 have since gained pupillage. Full story - New Law Journal 


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Today's video story: Mo Asumang, daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother, talks to BBC News about her experiences making her new documentary, The Aryans, in which she confronts racists, both in Germany and among the Ku Klux Klan in America.

Sunday

8th May - Law News

1594th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap


Saturday Conversations on Law
Today's video story: Amy Goodman goes inside Ecuador's Embassy in London to speak with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Assange has been living in the embassy for more than two years under political asylum.

Saturday

7th May - Law News

1593rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap



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Saturday's video story: London has elected its first ever muslim mayor, causing the ruling Conservative party to lose control of the capital.Sadiq Khan, the son of a Pakistani bus driver, will now lead the city for the Labour party.