Friday

20th January - Law News

1851st 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: United States President Donald Trump spoke to the nation for the first time as Commander-in-Chief Friday afternoon moments after taking the oath of office to become the 45th President. Thousands of protesters flocked to downtown Wasington D.C. Friday Jan. 20 to speak out against President Donald Trump.


Focus of the day story:   Why can’t Britain apologise to these victims of rendition? With MI6’s help, Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj was handed over to Muammar Gaddafi and tortured. Yet still our government won’t say sorry. Full story - Guardian Law


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Selected photos of a banner making workshop in Cardiff where an effigy of Trump's bust was created by community artists, followed by the community protest on the 20th January outside Cardiff Castle where the effigy was beaten and trodden on.
Trump bust effigy
Banner for Trump protest

Cardiff protest against Donald Trump's misogyny
Beating of the Trump effigy

Beating of the Trump effigy
Protesting against Trump
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Thursday

19th January - Law News

1850th 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: In one predominantly African-American Mississippi Delta town, folks look back - and forward - on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration.


Focus of the day story:  The government has set the ball rolling on the long-awaited review of its controversial legal aid reforms, the Ministry of Justice has announced. Justice minister Sir Oliver Heald told an all-party parliamentary group meeting in Westminster yesterday evening that the government ’now considers enough time has passed for the reforms to have bedded in for us to begin the review process’. Full story - The Law Society Gazette


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Wednesday

18th January - Law News

1849th 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: More than 3,000 women staged a demonstration today in Sanaa to protest against Saudi Arabia's involvement in the conflict in Yemen. The pro-Houthi women, who packed the Sanaa football stadium, carried banners that urged Yemeni women to “fight for peace”, while chanting for victory and marching carrying machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.


Focus of the day story:  Young lawyers are far from cashing in on law’s gravy train. Solicitors criticised for their pay packets should remember the social and economic contribution they have made Full story - Solicitors Journal


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Tuesday

17th January - Law News

1848th 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: Thirty-three-year-old Ben Franklin from London was diagnosed with Hepatitis C nine months ago. The virus can cause life-threatening liver damage. A new drug which could cure his condition was approved by NHS England last year, but funding is limited to 10,011 people. Ben is now buying a cheaper copy of the drug from Bangladesh, a route which the Hepatitis C Trust estimates as many as 1,000 other patients have taken. NHS England said it was regularly reallocating unused Hepatitis C treatments to places with waiting lists. It also revealed that the number of patients treated will increase.

Focus of the day story: The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has had to increase its provision for general insurance claims by around £45m for the next financial year, because of the failures of Enterprise Insurance and Gable Insurance AG, it has emerged, while it is still paying out for other insurers that used to back solicitors. Full story - Legal Futures


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Monday

16th January - Law News

1847th 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: A bilateral repatriation programme between Pakistan and Afghanistan to move tens of thousands of Pakistani refugees across the border into Pakistan’s Waziristan area came into effect on Monday. The returnees are expected to return to a region mired in violence and braced for a bitter winter.

Focus of the day story: The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has issued a call for evidence on how to tackle corporate crime such as money laundering, fraud and false accounting. Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

15th January - Law News

1846th 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: Pardoned by Barack Obama: how a first-time offender was granted freedom. Barack Obama has issued a record number of pardons, commuting the sentences of more men and women than the past nine presidents combined. 


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