Tuesday

20th March - Law News

2276th 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 Focus: Cambridge Analytica claims to use data 'to change audience behaviour'. But now a whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, has come forward to expose the company's practices. Wylie describes how its CEO, Alexander Nix, attracted support from then-Breitbart editor, Steve Bannon, and investment from billionaire Robert Mercer before obtaining help from Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan to harvest tens of millions of Facebook profiles.

Focus of the Day story: Barrister blows whistle on 'broken legal system brought to its knees by cuts'. Damning book by ‘secret barrister’ tells of courts plagued by daily errors leaving them unfit for purpose. Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

19th March - Law News

2275th 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 Focus: Outgoing Rep. Trey Gowdy bristled at President Donald Trump's attorney John Dowd's calling for the Justice Department to end Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

Focus of the Day story: Domestic abuse perpetrators could be electronically tagged or forced to attend programmes to address their attitudes under new Domestic Abuse Protection Orders. Breaching an order would be a criminal offence. Where abuse involves or affects a child, this would be counted as an aggravating factor during sentencing. A Domestic Abuse Commissioner would be appointed to hold the government to account. Full story - New Law Journal



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Sunday

18th March - Law News

2275th 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 Focus: Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has returned to Australia with a new exhibit on the plight of refugees, and says Australia has to be “very careful” in how it deals with an unstoppable China and its political influence in this country.


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Saturday

17th March - Law News

2274th 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 Focus: Is death of Egyptian teen in the UK a hate crime? The Egyptian government is calling for a full investigation into the death of 18-year-old Mariam Moustafa three weeks after she was attacked in the city of Nottingham.

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Friday

16th March - Law News

2273rd 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 Focus: In an exclusive interview, Union Tourism Minister KJ Alphons says that India has a certain culture and he doesn't expect the foreigners to walk in bikinis in cities. Foreign tourists must respect Indian tradition, he said.



Focus of the Day story: In the first case where a disclosure exercise using predictive coding was tested at full trial in England, law firm BLP has achieved a successful outcome for its client, BCA. Predictive coding is the use of keyword search, filtering and sampling to automate portions of an e-discovery document review, with the aim being to reduce the number of irrelevant and non-responsive documents that need to be reviewed manually. BLP said it was particularly effective in a case such as Brown v BCA, which contained broad allegations of unfair prejudice and bad faith. These issues did not allow the formulation of a sensible set of key words for a traditional disclosure review. Instead, the computer was able to “learn” from the sample reviews performed by senior BLP lawyers in order to “educate” it. Full story - The Global Legal Post


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Thursday

15th March - Law News

2272nd 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 Focus: Militias Are Burning Villages in Congo. Satellite images that show how lakeshore villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been destroyed in recent attacks, forcing 140,000 people to flee their homes.



Focus of the Day story: Heads of chambers have said the government’s revamped advocates graduated fee scheme (AGFS) will have a ‘catastrophic’ impact on their budgets and on individual barristers’ careers. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) said that the latest legal aid reform, under which criminal advocates’ pay will be based on the seriousness and complexity of the work rather than the number of pages in a case, was constructed against the backdrop of a 40% fee cut. Full story - The Law Society Gazette


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Wednesday

14th March - Law News

2271st 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 Focus: Nikolai Glushkov, a Russian émigré who the UK refused to extradite to Russia on fraud charges died in his home in London, his Russian lawyer Andrei Borovkov told the Echo Moscow radio station.



Focus of the Day story: The government’s insistence on pressing ahead with a ban on cold-calling by claims management companies (CMCs) that many argue does not go far enough will be put to the test today. MPs will consider the changes made during the committee stage of the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill and various further amendments put forward by the Labour opposition. Full story - Legal Futures


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