Tuesday

16th August - Law News

1695th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Ibtihaj Muhammad, U.S. fencer and the first American athlete to wear a hijab while competing in the Olympics, talks about the importance of race and religion.


Focus of the day article:  Police to hire law firms to tackle cyber criminals in radical pilot project. Private firms will use civil courts to seize fraud suspects’ assets, prompting concerns over profit motive. Full story - Guardian Law



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Monday

15th August - Law News

1694th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: ‘All too common scene’: Palestinian home built by EU demolished by Israeli bulldozers. This video has been released by the BTSELEM human-rights group - apparently showing a Palestinian home built with European Union aid money, being demolished by an Israeli bulldozer.


Focus of the day article: More than half (52%) of women, and nearly two-thirds (63%) of women aged 18-24 years old, say they have experienced sexual harassment at work, according to figures released by the TUC this week. The survey, Still just a bit of banter?, which is part of a joint report with the Everyday Sexism Project, also found that around four out of five (79%) women who said they experienced sexual harassment at work did not tell their employer about what was happening. Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

14th August - Law News

1693rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Disturbing images of children killed in a presumed airstrike on a religious school in Saada, Yemen have filled the media. Various sources put the child death count at 8 to 50, scores are said to have been injured.





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Saturday

13th August - Law News

1692nd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: The children of Nauru: 'What’s the point of surviving at sea if you die in here? Australia is obliged to offer protection to refugees. Instead, many are processed at a detention centre on the remote, independent island of Nauru, 3,000km from Australia. 




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Friday

12th August - Law News

1691st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Some 100,000 people have now joined paramilitary organisations in Poland. Others - so called "preppers" - are learning how to survive a possible invasion. Now the Polish government hopes these "pro-defence" groups will form the backbone of a new reserve force to help the professional army.


Focus of the Day article:  Legal aid not designed to fund 'spurious cases' against our 'brave armed forces,' says Lord Chancellor. The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has terminated its contract with Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) over the human rights firm's involvement in the £31m Al-Sweady inquiry. The Birmingham-based outfit, run by Phil Shiner, will no longer receive state money for ongoing legal cases after the LAA said it had 'breached its contractual requirements'. Full story - Solicitors Journal




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Thursday

11th August - Law News

1690th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: The UN is demanding that Ethiopia allow international observers into parts of the country after a weekend of deadly protests. It wants to investigate allegations of excessive force used across the Oromia and Amhara regions. At least 90 demonstrators were killed during the wave of anti-government protests.


Focus of the Day article:  Two barristers from the same chambers have between them accounted for more than one in ten of the four hundred plus new complaints made against their branch of the profession in 2015/16. The revelation came amid a crisis of public confidence in the fairness and openness of the barrister’ complaints process. Invited to agree that the process was open and fair, nearly 70% of complainants said it was not. However, among barristers there was widespread satisfaction. Full story - Legal Futures



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