Friday

14th October - Law News

1753rd 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: Things just got real for Donald Trump. After recordings surfaced of Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women, and numerous women have come forth describing past encounters where Trump groped them, Michelle Obama took to the campaign trail to call out the Republican nominee for President of the United States on his disgusting behavior.


Focus of the Day story: South-west law centre was forced to turn away up to 4,000 people needing legal advice or support last year, according to a report by Amnesty International on the impact of the government’s legal aid reforms. Clare Carter (pictured), director of Avon and Bristol Law Centre, told the human rights group that the cases the centre was taking ‘are just the tip of the iceberg’. She said: ’Demand is high and resources are low, so now we only take the people who are the most destitute, who face the most barriers. Ethically that is incredibly difficult for staff here, to think this person hasn’t quite reached rock bottom so we turn them away.’ Full story - The Law Society Gazette



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Thursday

13th October - Law News

1752nd 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: Hong Kong's new parliament has opened to chaotic scenes after newly-elected pro-democracy politicians mocked the swearing-in process and ripped up their oaths.


Focus of the Day story: Lord Sumption, the outspoken Supreme Court justice, has said he regrets the “growing tendency of would-be lawyers to devote themselves to the study of law from the age of eighteen”. Instead he said that “in an ideal world” law should only be offered as a second degree and “the study of a different subject at a formative time of one’s life” was “personally enriching”. Full story - Legal Futures


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Wednesday

12th October - Law News

1751stEdition: 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: One girl under the age of 15 is married every seven seconds, says charity Save the Children. But what impact does getting married so young have on girls?


Focus of the Day story: Lawyers and clients disagree over whether ‘excellent’ value for money is offered as the pressure mounts on firms to lower costs and introduce more fixed fees, a survey has revealed. While 30 per cent of lawyers said they offered ‘excellent’ value for money, just 8 per cent of clients agreed, according to LexisNexis’s latest research on the profession. Full story - Solicitors Journal



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Tuesday

11th October - Law News

1750th 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: 'What living in terror really means': the thin line between war and peace in Aleppo. The city of Aleppo has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the course of the Syrian war, and the battles continue unabated.


Focus of the Day story: There is a belief that locking young people up will solve the problem of violence on our streets, but that hasn’t worked and it’s not a deterrent. We understand consequences when we have time to think rationally and logically. However, when you’re young, hot-headed, and lashing out, you’re not thinking rationally and logically. Full story - Guardian Law



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Monday

10th October - Law News

1749th 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: One in three teenage girls in England and Wales suffers from anxiety, according to a survey of 14-year-olds for the Department for Education. Orli, a 17-year-old girl from north London, talks to her friends about her anxiety, how she plans to beat it and stop the stigma surrounding it.


Focus of the Day story: There is no legal representative for either party in one third (34%) of private law cases in the family court, Ministry of Justice statistics for the period April to June 2016 have revealed. Full story - New Law Journal



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