Thursday

20th October - Law News

1759th 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: India’s Muslim women mobilise against triple talaq, calling for protection of their divorce rights. Thumbnail: Activists hold placards during a protest against the statements made by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) in its affidavit to the Supreme Court, in Mumbai, India on September 7, 2016.


Focus of the Day story: The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has made a direct plea to government to use next month’s Autumn Statement to make good on the plan announced last year to grant it full independence from the Law Society.  Full story - Legal Futures



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Wednesday

19th October - Law News

1758th 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: The western world is dividing Syrian children according to the political views of their parents, Asma Assad, the Syrian First Lady, said in a rare interview. She said the mainstream media only concentrated on those stories which matched their policy.


Focus of the Day story: Half of global businesses at risk of human rights breach claims. UK government called upon to hold companies criminally accountable for serious abuses, including those committed overseas  Full story - Solicitors Journal


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Tuesday

18th October - Law News

1757th 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: Shortly after the invention of photography, an Italian started the first photography studio in Albania. Now an exhibition of the photographs taken by three generations of photographers has opened in Foam, a museum of photography in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Kim Knoppers is the curator of 'Dynasty Marubi - A hundred years of Albanian studio photography'. She talks about how the photographs bear witness to the country's rich cultural and political history.


Focus of the Day story: Amnesty delivers verdict on LASPO. Report criticises “inherent and systematic failings” of exceptional case funding scheme. The justice system is “increasingly closed to the poorest, most vulnerable and most in need of its protection”, according to a devastating Amnesty International report into the impact of legal aid cuts. Full story - New Law Journal



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Monday

17th October - Law News

1756th 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: The challenges of our unequal world, with girls facing discrimination from the moment of conception through education, health, marriage and employment.


Focus of the Day story: Stalking victims backed in challenge to ‘disturbing’ lenient court sentences
Peer calls for reform after ‘soft justice’ outcry at sentence for Emily Maitlis’s stalker. Full story - Guardian Law


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Sunday

16th October - Law News

1755th 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: Fasting has been an integral part of organized religion in India. Sometimes fasting is undertaken for the betterment of worldly life and at times for renunciation of material comfort. But the 'Lakshman Rekha' was breached when Aradhana Samdhariya - a 13-year-old girl - suffered a fatal heart attack after completing a fast that lasted 68 days. Her death shocked the country, as her funeral procession was turned into a 'shobha yatra' in an attempt by her community to extol her virtues. It was only after the Child Rights Organizations filed a complaint that a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder was registered against the Jain teen's parents.



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Saturday

15th October - Law News

1754th 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’s been five years since the NATO-backed overthrow of Libyan President Colonel Gaddafi and still much of the conversation about the man and the consequences of his killing remain muddied. Was Gaddafi the tyrant he’s portrayed to be by western media? Did the plan to 'install democracy' in Libya succeed?




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