Tuesday

21st May - Law News

2701st 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: Nanita Sohel is a first-time voter in India's northern state of Punjab. In the last phase of the general election on 19 May, she says she will vote for the party that can guarantee good jobs for graduates.



Focus of the Day Article:
UK property register 'needed urgently' to stop money laundering. MPs and peers say plans for register of foreign-owned property should not be delayed.
Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

20th May - Law News

2700th 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 so-called ‘10 commandments of immigration,’ a set of vague rules for migrants tabled by an anti-immigration politician in Lower Austria, has provoked heated debate.



Focus of the Day Article:
Bullying and sexual harassment are rife in the legal profession, a major International Bar Association (IBA) report has revealed. The report, Us Too? Bullying and Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession, published this week, found that one in two women, and one in three men, working as lawyers has been affected by workplace bullying, and one in three women has been sexually harassed at work.
Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

19th May - Law News

2699th 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: Homes come in all sorts of shapes and sizes - including some on stilts, perched precariously over a lake in Benin. The African fishing community on the edge of Lake Nokoue has managed to preserve its lifestyle and traditions for more than two centuries.




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Saturday

18th May - Law News

2698th 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: Under fire from her own party, the far-right BJP's Pragya Thakur has apologised for her controversial statement that Mahatma Gandhi's killer Nathuram Godse is a "patriot" after it sparked a political storm. The BJP candidate from Bhopal stopped short of an apology twice but appeared to give in after pressure from the BJP ahead of the final round of voting on Sunday.




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Friday

17th May - Law News

2697th 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: Bob Hawke, Australia's 23rd prime minister and former Labor Party leader, has died at the age of 89. A great conciliator, Mr Hawke's achievements as prime minister included modernising the economy and integrating it into the global community, establishing Medicare, and championing environmental issues.


Focus of the Day Article:
Bullying and sexual harassment rife among lawyers, global survey finds as IBA chief exhorts practitioners to “be of good character,” while UK and government workers singled out. With the UK Mental Health Awareness Week in full swing, reality bit into the campaign with a survey revealing levels of bullying in the UK are above the international average.
Full story - The Global Legal Post

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Thursday

16th May - Law News

2696th 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: Alabama Senate passed a near-total abortion ban, posing a challenge to the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade. Senator Bobby Singleton (D-AL) tells CNN why he voted against the bill.


Focus of the Day Article:
Sexual harassment and bullying is rife in the legal profession - and government legal workplaces are worse offenders than law firms, the largest international survey of the phenomenon reveals today. 'US Too?', a global study led by the International Bar Association (IBA), found that a third of women lawyers have been sexually harassed at work, while half of women and a third of men have faced bullying. UK respondents reported higher rates of sexual harassment and bullying than many other European countries, including France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Some 7,000 legal professionals from 135 countries responded to the IBA's survey.
Full story -The Law Society Gazette

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