Wednesday

26th October - Law News

1766th 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 Philippine government says it i winning the war on drugs, which has seen 3,500 people killed so far. It says communities are safer now, but the war is taking its toll on many areas of society, including the prison system.


Focus of the Day story:  Max Mosley-funded press regulator would be 'attack on free speech'. If Impress is recognised, publishers risk exposure to potentially huge legal costs even if acquitted, argue UK publishers. Full story - Guardian Law


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Tuesday

25th October - Law News

1765th 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: An undercover BBC investigation has discovered Syrian refugee children making clothes for British shoppers. Panorama investigated factories in Turkey, and found children had been working on clothes for Marks and Spencer and the online retailer ASOS. The brands say they do not tolerate exploitation or child labour.


Focus of the Day story: Solicitors’ professional indemnity insurers paid out around £2bn due to negligence claims in the 10 years to 2014, startling new figures released yesterday by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) revealed. Having collated statistics from most of the insurers currently active in the market, the regulator said around 142,000 claims were made in that decade, although as that figure includes block claims, the number of individual cases of negligence was “much higher”. One in five claims led to a payment. Full story - Legal Futures



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Monday

24th October - Law News

1764th 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: Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb the world's highest peak, has died at age 77, according to Japanese media reports.


Focus of the Day story: "Good character" citizenship requirement incompatible with ECHR. A man who moved to the UK from Jamaica as a four year-old, became involved in serious crime as a teenager and was convicted of manslaughter at the age of 23, has won a legal challenge against deportation. Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

23rd October - Law News

1763rd 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: Should Celebrities Be Held Criminally Liable For Endorsements? Last year, an Indian government testing laboratory found 'excess' lead in Maggi - one of the most popular brands of instant noodles. The brand ambassadors of the product, actors Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and Preity Zinta were not only flayed on social media but a case was filed against them in a local court in Uttar Pradesh. The case rested on the logic that celebrities should be held accountable for any product they endorse, since the celebrities, have a mass following and have the ability to sway people. The discourse on making celebrities accountable for misleading adverts was given a shot in the arm when the Parliamentary Standing Committee made recommendations on making celebrities accountable. Based on which, the Indian government has prepared a draft Bill proposing criminal liabilities on celebrities featuring in misleading advertisements.




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Saturday

22nd October - Law News

1761st 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: There are 755 refugees on Nauru and 128 of them are children. Both the Nauruan and Australian governments say they want the refugees moved on from Nauru, but they have been unable to reach agreements on where else they could be sent. While that stalemate continues, many of these children are struggling to hang on to hope.




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Friday

21st October - Law News

1760th 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: Our obsession with 'good immigrants' breeds intolerance. Society sets the bar so high to become a ‘good immigrant’, argues writer Nikesh Shukla, that normal immigrants are demonised. He says non-Brits in the public eye have a simple path to good-immigrant status – as long as they play within the rules. But immigrants should be held to to the same standards as everybody else.


 Focus of the Day story: An influential group of MPs has criticised the Ministry of Justice for failing to translate its goodwill for magistrates into any meaningful strategy to support them. In a report published today, the House of Commons justice committee says the magistracy faces a range of ‘unresolved issues’ relating to its role and workload, and serious problems with recruitment and training, which should be urgently addressed. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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