Saturday

25th August - Law News

2434th 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 centre responds to the Kerala government's "dog in the manger" jibe on the provision of relief to the state. The point being made is this - if you aren't giving us the Rs 20,000 crore that we seek to rebuild the state, then why are you denying others from providing us this help? This comes on a day when the UAE government - in what some would consider an about turn - says that there is nothing official about its providing Kerala Rs 700 crore in relief, something that had been widely reported. But the Kerala government insists that this offer was indeed made. In the meanwhile, the government has come out with a detailed explantion on how, in addition to Rs 600 crore that it has provided the state, there is another amount of Rs 562.45 crore which is already with the Kerala State Disaster Fund. On the show, we ask: Is the centre doing enough for the rehabilitation of flood affected regions of Kerala?



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Friday

24th August - Law News

2433rd 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: She was never verbally or physically threatened or restrained. But at age 19, Nina Van Harn felt like she couldn’t say no when she was expected to marry a man chosen by her family. And she is not alone in her experience. In a two-year period, it’s estimated that there were 3,000 such forced marriage cases in the United States.
Focus of the Day:
A number of human rights organisations have welcomed the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office’s (IPCO) plans to launch a public consultation on the UK’s policy against involvement in torture, the ‘Consolidated Guidance’.
Full story - Scottish Legal

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Thursday

23rd August - Law News

2432nd 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 Trump administration has used some unusual phrases to defend its positions in the news media. Here is a closer look at a few of these remarks.
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The controversial Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA) has been formally consigned to the history books for barristers -  though oversight regulator the Legal Services Board (LSB) has pledged to keep a watchful eye on advocacy standards. In a notice published at the end of last week the LSB said it had ‘approved in full’ an application by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to remove QASA rules from the BSB handbook. However, noting the BSB’s admission that regulatory intervention was still required to address poor advocacy, the LSB warned that it would hold the regulator to account to ensure that it provides a ’robust and proportionate’ response to quality risks in advocacy.

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Wednesday

22nd August - Law News

2431st 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: This teenage girl has helped bring Minecraft to millions of severely disabled people. Becky Tyler has worked with Special Effect, a UK charity to develop a platform to allow almost anyone to control Microsoft’s block-building game with just their eyes.  Video games are played by billions of people across the world - but for those with severe physical disabilities using a normal console is often impossible. 

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The company charged with digitising the courts is to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) to assist lawyers in understanding complex evidence, its chief techologist has revealed. CaseLines, which is used to create digital bundles in the Crown Courts and civil and family courts, including the Supreme Court, will use the technology to create a ‘mind map’ – a visual way of presenting information said to mirror more closely the non-linear way the human brain handles data.
Full story - Legal Futures

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Tuesday

21st August - Law News

2430th 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 US emergency number has been misused by white people feeling threatened by African Americans who are simply mowing a lawn or leaving an Airbnb. As 911 marks its 50th year in operation, are these nuisance calls a new trend?

Focus of the Day:
Why HMP Birmingham has been brought back under state control. Prison formerly run by G4S is third to have management removed after inspections.
Full story - Guardian Law

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Monday

20th August - Law News

2429th 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: Border fences are generally used to keep people out. But Denmark is building a new border fence - not to keep people out, but to keep its animals in. The idea, though, has already been hijacked by some politicians

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The London launch of Women in the Law UK, taking place on Thursday 20 September 2018 in the Fenchurch Street offices of law firm BLM, will feature a panel of leading female practitioners and gender equality campaigners. Criminal Bar Association chair Angela Rafferty QC, Fawcett Society chief executive Sam Smethers, and the UK’s first non-white High Court Judge, Dame Linda Dobbs, are among the speakers scheduled to take part in the inaugural event, which is the first in a quarterly programme of meetings in London.
Full story - New Law Journal

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Sunday

19th August - Law News

2428th 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 former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has died. He served as the seventh UN secretary-general, from 1997 to 2006 and was the first to rise to the top of the United Nations from within the ranks of organization's staff. He received the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the United Nations.


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Saturday

18th August - Law News

2427th 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 nightmare for a pregnant woman, stuck on the rooftop of her house in flood-hit Kerala, ended when an Indian Navy's chopper reached to rescue her. The woman's water broke when she was rescued. A doctor was first lowered from the chopper to examine her condition before she was airlifted and taken to Sanjivani multi-speciality hospital in Alappuzha district.
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Friday

17th August - Law News

2426th 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 grand jury report says that internal documents from six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania show that more than 300 "predator priests" have been credibly accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 child victims.

Focus of the Day Story:
UK Judicial ombudsman asked to investigate 'barrister bias'. Barrister bias one of six cases brought to the UK judicial appointments commission that the judicial appointments & conduct ombudsman..
Full story - The Global Lgal Post
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