Friday

14th February - Law News

2969th 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:  In the 24 hours after Brexit, the Guardian visited members of the Polish community in Plymouth, an area that voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU in 2016. Margaret, who works full time in a children's home and runs a Polish school at the weekends, says she feels confusion and despair – but also defiance. About 3.6 million EU citizens live in the UK, and Poland is the most common country of origin for foreign nationals. Polish is the second most widely spoken language in Britain, according to the last census.


Focus of the Day article: Family lawyers of the future may have to grapple with complex ethical questions concerning parental disputes where a child’s genetic makeup is manipulated at conception to produce socially desirable characteristics, a family judge has predictedn. Full story - New Law Journal

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Thursday

13th February - Law News

2968th 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:  Georgetown University is one of the country’s top-ranked schools and has a roughly $1.6 billion endowment. But in 1838, the university was facing financial ruin. So the Jesuit priests, who ran Georgetown, sold 272 enslaved people to three plantations in Louisiana for $115,000 — or the equivalent of about $3.3 million in today’s dollars to keep their doors open. That’s how the ancestors of DaVita Robinson, Valerie White, Maxine Crump — all descendants of the 272 and featured in the Video Op-Ed above — ended up in Louisiana. And now, they may become the first people in the history of the United States to receive reparations for slavery.


Focus of the Day article: The UK legal industry generated revenues of £37.1bn in 2019, up 4.8% on 2018 – an all-time record, according to data released today by the Office for National Statistics. Legal services growth was ahead of the service industry as a whole, which grew by 3.5% to a turnover of £2.3tn. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Wednesday

12th February - Law News

2969th 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:  An Aboriginal man who spent 500 days in immigration detention was released today after the High Court found Aboriginal people held a special status and were exempt from immigration laws, after it considered the cases of two convicted criminals whom the Government wanted to deport.


Focus of the Day article: A body that identifies gaps in the regulatory landscape on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and advises individual regulators is needed as the technology develops, the government has been told. The recommendation of the Committee on Standards in Public Life comes as legal regulators begin to address questions around the use of AI. Full story - Legal Futures

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Tuesday

11th February - Law News

2968th 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:  So called Islamic State may no longer control territory in Syria or Iraq but the group has survived and is now beginning to wage its bloody attacks once again across the world. A journalist has tracked down IS fighters after the fall of the Caliphate It took years of fighting and an international effort to defeat the Islamic State group, but its caliphate and leader are now gone.


Focus of the Day article: 'Gagging orders' should not be used to stop whistleblowers – Acas. Conciliation service’s advice warns employers against misuse of gagging orders. Full story - Guardian Law

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Monday

10th February - Law News

2967th 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:  European waste in landfills across Portugal is provoking a massive public outcry.


Focus of the Day article: Lawyers and members of the public are being invited to make their views known on the layout, ease of use and style of the Judicial Office’s judiciary.uk website

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Sunday

9th February - Law News

2966th 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:  Thai security forces have stormed a shopping centre to help hundreds of people escape a hostage situation. A soldier had shot and killed at least 20 people before holding others in the shopping centre in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima, also known as Korat, about 220km (135 miles) northeast of the capital, Bangkok. Witnesses say the shooter has an assault rifle.



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Saturday

8th February - Law News

2965th 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:  "The international pressure will remain on India and we need to see what is happening in the country, Kashmir is only the beginning. The J&K leaders were working in the frame of the constitution and they have been detained," says Congress's Salman Soz.



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