Friday

19th July - Law News

2760th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: Apartment owners in buildings around the country have been alarmed by recent cases of structural flaws in high rise buildings. After the emergency evacuation of two Sydney apartment blocks with dangerous cracking, 7.30 highlighted similar cases around the country. Now, Victorian taxpayers will have to fork out hundreds of millions of dollars to replace flammable cladding on more than 500 towers. Building ministers from around the country will meet tomorrow to discussion how to restore confidence in the construction sector.


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TBarristers are increasingly training as mediators and attending mediations on behalf of clients as advocates. Many clients are requesting barrister mediators, as they are perceived to be more knowledgeable about legal principles and authoritative. So there are a lot of opportunities for barristers to train as mediators and now the recommendations of the Civil Justice Council ADR working group are likely to result in increased mediation in the Court system'.


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Thursday

18th July - Law News

2759th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: Retired us Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died at the age of 99.  Here is a look back at his life.


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The government has pledged to remove the stigma of convictions and help ex-offenders get jobs - but has been urged to do more to help black, asian and minority ethnic individuals who face 'double discrimination'.


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Wednesday

17th July - Law News

2758th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: They're the biggest party in the European Parliament - and this month Nigel Farage's Brexit Party MEPs arrived in Strasbourg to take up their seats along with all their colleagues. One of the new batch is Alexandra Phillips - who now represents almost a million voters in the South East of England. Phillips used to be the head of Press for UKIP. But we wanted to ask her about her involvement with the controversial political data company, Cambridge Analytica.


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The Legal Services Consumer Panel has criticised legal regulators’ continuing “resistance” to publishing complaints data about the lawyers they oversee. It has also warned the Bar Standards Board (BSB) that it will not drop its concerns about the limited price transparency requirements it has imposed on barristers, and plans to draw them to the attention of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Full story - Legal Futures


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Tuesday

16th July - Law News

2757th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: On April 12, 2019, hundreds of people packed into the Old South Church in Boston to hear the world-renowned dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky speak. In this hour-long special, we air an excerpt of Chomsky’s speech and his on-stage interview


Focus of the Day Article:
Home Office lied to EU states so it could deport slavery victims, say whistleblowers. Legal experts condemn ‘disgraceful and illegal manipulation of system’.
Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

15th July - Law News

2756th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: Riot police and anti-government protesters faced off during BastilleDay celebrations in Paris. Dozens of people were arrested, with calls for president Emmanuel Macron to resign again being chanted out loud.


Focus of the Day Article:
Nearly a third of judges in the courts and 46% of tribunal judges are women, according to the 2019 judicial diversity statistics. Women also make up 23% of judges in the Court of Appeal and 27% in the High Court as well as more than half the non-legal members of tribunals. The figures, released this week, are correct as at 1 April 2019.
Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

14th July - Law News

2755th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: A team of forensic scientists in Argentina is helping to bring peace to families who lost their loved ones in the so-called "Dirty War". That was a period in the 1970s and '80s when government death squads hunted down and killed political opponents. The work to identify those who disappeared is ongoing and scientists are lending the skills they developed to other conflict areas across the globe.




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