Tuesday

27th March - Law News

2283rd 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: China is the world's biggest polluter, consuming more coal than the rest of the world combined. It is now taking global leadership in combating climate change and has pledged to drastically cut its use of fossil fuels.



Focus of the Day Story: Vulnerable people won't get a fair hearing without support in court. A lack of funding means intermediaries can help only a fraction of those in need through the criminal justice system. Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

26th March - Law News

2282nd 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: Mass school shootings typically reignite the US gun control debate until the topic gradually fizzles out. That paradigm changed after Parkland, Florida. Here's why.



Focus of the Day Story: Lawyers strike back on whiplash Bill. Government has prioritised premiums over compassion, solicitors argue. Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

25th March - Law News

2281st 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: The number of visas issued to foreign students by the US fell sharply last year amid stricter immigration rules. According to reports, in the year ended September 30, 2017, the state department issued 393,573 student visas-F1 visas. It's 17% below the previous year and 40% below the 2015 peak. And just on Monday, the Trump administration announced it was stopping the processing of H1-B premium visas that affect a large number of skilled Indian IT officials.




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Saturday

24th March - Law News

2280th 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: Three people were killed and 16 others injured in an attack by a lone gunman in southern France, French President Emmanuel Macron has said, calling the act ‘Islamic terrorism.’




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Friday

23rd March - Law News

2279th 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: Kylie Morris speaks to the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman Adam Schiff, one of the leading figures investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. I began by asking him about those comments from Alexander Nix that sounded so dismissive of their efforts to discover what Cambridge Analytica had been doing and how his committee didn't have jurisdiction over his activities.



Focus of the Day story: Lawyers, Legal Language and Fact-finding Hearings under Part IV of the Children Act 1989 -  what lessons can be learned from the Court of Appeal's judgment in R (Children) [2018] EWCA Civ 198. Full story - Family Law Week


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Thursday

22nd March - Law News

2278th 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: A BBC investigation has revealed that Rohingya girls as young as 13, who fled Myanmar in the past 6 months, are being trafficked into prostitution in Bangladesh. The undercover team filmed traffickers openly offering the girls for sex in Cox's Bazar, the town nearest to the refugee camps, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims now live.



Focus of the Day story: Families living below the poverty line are being denied vital legal help, according to research commissioned by the Law Society and published today. Chancery Lane is urging the Ministry of Justice to restore the means test to 2010 'real terms' levels. According to today's report by Loughborough University, Priced out of justice? Means testing legal aid and making ends meet, at the maximum level of disposable income at which legal aid is allowed, households have too little income to reach a minimum standard of living before footing any legal bills. Typically, they have disposable incomes 10% to 30% too low to afford a minimum budget. Families below the disposable income limit, while eligible for legal aid, are required to contribute to legal costs, unless their income is extremely low. Full story - The Law Society Gazette


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Wednesday

21st March - Law News

2277th 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: One of the American soldiers ambushed by militants in Niger was wearing a helmet camera – an analysis of the footage to understand what happened.



Focus of the Day story: Justice Secretary David Gauke today finally published the Civil Liability Bill, which the government said “offered hope” of lower insurance premiums to millions of motorists by reducing the “unacceptably high number of whiplash claims”. The bill, first announced in last June’s Queen’s Speech, also contains changes to the way the personal injury discount rate is calculated. The plan is to introduce the whiplash changes in April 2019. Full story - Legal Futures


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