Friday

2nd November - Law News

2503rd 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: Convicted of killing her four children, Australia's worst female serial killer, Kathleen Folbigg, speaks for the first time, as her legal team fights for a judicial review of her case. A fresh forensic opinion argues natural causes are a plausible explanation for their deaths.


Focus of the Day Article:
 In the past year some of the largest legal ranking and search companies have been acquired by private equity companies. Concern is being expressed in legal circles about whether the confidential information that law firms submit to legal ranking and search companies could be used for new purposes.
Full story - The Global Legal Post

Saturday Conversations on Law
Posted by
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Thursday

1st November - Law News

2502nd 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: Laura Bates founded the Everyday Sexism project in 2012, long before the Me Too movement gained traction. It was a space where women could share their stories of sexual assault and highlight how normalised it had become. She talks to Krishnan about where the feminist movement is post-Me Too, why she reluctantly thinks gender quotas in the workplace are necessary and how we should be talking about sex and harassment in schools.


Focus of the Day Article:
  Prosecutors and police are failing to investigate thousands of cases including fraud, rape and modern slavery efficiently because the required skills and resources are critically low, the outgoing director of public prosecutions has said in a newspaper interview that has sparked widespread anger.
Full story - The Law Society Gazette

Saturday Conversations on Law
Posted by
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Wednesday

31st October - Law News

2501st 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: Rachel Reese from Global Butterflies discusses how to be more inclusive with your application forms and data monitoring.


Focus of the Day Article:
  Only a tiny number of conveyancing firms are committed to innovation, while consumers are pressing for technology that gives them access to information, according to a survey of conveyancers. Separately, a leading property services business claimed conveyancers were “very close” to adopting technology that would bring transparency to the market, for example allowing home-movers to see what stage a transaction had reached.
Full story - Legal Futures

Saturday Conversations on Law
Posted by
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Tuesday

30th October - Law News

2500th 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 99-year-old painter who fought in the Battle of Dunkirk during World War Two is now one of the oldest transgender women in Britain. Louise Jennings, who lives in a rest home in Sheffield, was 26 years old when she fought in the conflict as Robert Jennings. The veteran underwent gender reassignment surgery to become a woman in her early 70s, following the death of her wife in 1989.


Focus of the Day Article:
  Poor healthcare in jails is killing inmates, says NHS watchdog. Almost half England’s jails fail to provide adequate medical care to prisoners, says leaked briefing by Care Quality Commission.
Full story - Guardian Law

Saturday Conversations on Law
Posted by
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Monday

29th October - Law News

2499th 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: Agrochemical giant Monsanto is facing accusations it paid tens of thousands of euros to enlist the support of farmers across Europe - to lobby against a ban on one of its pesticides. Greenpeace also says Monsanto set up fake farmers' groups - to promote the benefits of the product.


Focus of the Day Article:
 LASPO has failed, the Bar Council has declared in a withering assessment of the controversial legislation five years on. The Bar Council submitted evidence this week to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) ahead of the MoJ’s review of LASPO (the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012). LASPO, which came into force in April 2013, slashed legal aid across most areas of civil and family law. The Bar Council has also published the results of a survey of its members into LASPO’s impact.
Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law
Posted by
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sunday

28th October - Law News

2498th 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 war in Afghanistan is forcing people from religious minorities to leave the country. But not everyone can afford to escape persecution and seek a new life abroad. The Afghan government has said that protecting minorities and religious freedoms are part of its duties defined by the Constitution of Afghanistan. However, with the government occupied fighting the country's war, attacks on minority groups have increased.
 


Saturday Conversations on Law
Posted by
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Saturday

27th October - Law News

2497th 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: Taking up Central Bureau of Investigation chief Alok Verma's case against the government for divesting him of his powers and sending him on forced leave, the Supreme Court today said a vigilance inquiry against him would be time-bound and monitored by an ex-judge. The supervision is a "one-time exception felt necessary in the peculiar facts of the case and should not be understood to be casting any reflection on any authority of the government," the court said. M Nageswar Rao, who was asked to stand in as interim CBI chief, cannot take any policy decision, said the judges. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi did not give any ruling on Mr Verma's deputy Rakesh Asthana, who has also challenged his forced leave.
 



Saturday Conversations on Law
Posted by
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)