Sunday

5th April - Law News

3022nd 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:  As the number of coronavirus infections keeps rising globally, hospitals are generating huge amounts of medical waste. That is dangerous for the people who collect it - sanitation workers - and the World Health Organization wants governments to ensure they are properly protected.


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  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/vXy4BjY1T0
  • ‘I’ve had to sleep with the entire legal team’: Joe Lycett on making TV's most risk-taking comedy https://t.co/l2BheUZwW7 
  • Hotel quarantine a ‘disaster’ and vulnerable people should be allowed home, doctor says #Australia https://t.co/RkIDQU9loS 
  • UK’s Covid-19 lockdown could crumble as frustration grows, police warn https://t.co/43UAlxFLyX
  • Lady Hale, former president of the Supreme Court, has been named as the patron of The Next 100 Years, a project dedicated to achieving equality for women in law | New Law Journal https://t.co/93jczmuw94
  • Coram Chambers is hosting a series of discussions about topical family law issues, via Zoom | New Law Journal https://t.co/5wfgfgbx
  • Claimant and defendant personal injury lawyers have collaborated to produce a set standard of practice for cases during the COVID-19 crisis | New Law Journal https://t.co/ap7cla7YgZ
  • The impact of COVID-19 on financial provision is likely to be substantial, divorce lawyers say, but classifying it as a Barderevent would require ‘a bold judge’ | New Law Journal https://t.co/DQzdFk1Zr
  • The Court of Appeal is currently considering an important case on a parent’s right to refuse vaccination for their child | New Law Journal https://t.co/qv1nwOQjwE
  • A working group into approaches to child arrangements when parents separate has called for ‘radical change’ in its second report, published this week | New Law Journal https://t.co/lqvb0IembQ 
  • The Bar Council surveyed heads of chambers at 262 sets, with 145 responses to date. The main concerns raised were interruption to court work, inability to generate income and lack of cash flow to pay current costs | New Law Journal https://t.co/aaXVJxtQKI
  • The Law Society and Bar Council have given a mixed reaction to the government’s announcement of extra support for legal aid lawyers | New Law Journal https://t.co/Tgzu4FHPZm 
  • Vital guidance has been issued for members of the public applying for a domestic abuse injunction | New Law Journal https://t.co/yDo0XjXi9K
  • A Trip Through New York City in 1911 https://t.co/KsgGO2Fz2k 
  • The Guardian view on the EU: our nations are self-isolating too https://t.co/zhy15f8IfG 
  • The Guardian view on immunity passports: an idea whose time has not come | Editorial https://t.co/Y7eemxJZa
  • Sanctions are crippling #Iran's fight against coronavirus https://t.co/kMP6x54VH1
  • Fraudsters exploiting Covid-19 fears have scammed £1.6m https://t.co/LikqKr68pf
  • Two people have been killed and at least four others wounded in a knife attack in south-east #France, officials have said https://t.co/4sOFP6iOjp
  • Nurse deaths 'inevitable' from coronavirus https://t.co/v1vqyM13WN
  • Exit Jeremy Corbyn – just as Corbynism has never been more relevant https://t.co/NvLV5zm2L9
  • Up to 4,000 inmates to be temporarily released in England and Wales https://t.co/4qfXeYAdfC 
  • NHS worker quit when she was stopped from wearing face mask https://t.co/LkXESgezzY
  • Hotspot resorts face coronavirus crisis as rich escape to holiday hideaways https://t.co/ftRtbqoyYw
  • Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right:Rising Inequality & the Changing Structure of Political Conflict https://t.co/2uqon8T0je
  • Former director of DPP Keir Starmer elected as new Labour leader https://t.co/QXaCk2Ft9o 
  • Full list of MPs who voted against giving nurses and firefighters 'fair' pay rise https://t.co/DBQw1wHK
  • Nottinghamshire landlady's 'regret' over 'lock-in' defying government guidance https://t.co/vIa5ehCGcU
  • Police face "one of their biggest challenges" of the lockdown this weekend as sunny weather risks drawing crowds to parks and beauty spots https://t.co/F2jFRnZH8Y
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/6VH2UQ1dvs
  • Coronavirus: Coming 5,000 miles to die for the NHS https://t.co/5bcYCVqVzx
  • #US President Donald Trump has said he will not wear a face mask despite new medical guidance advising Americans to do so. https://t.co/BoFwzI8Iim
  • Broadband engineers threatened due to 5G coronavirus conspiracies https://t.co/zpAGTM7XGa 
  • Coronavirus: Heathrow Airport sheltering '200 homeless people' https://t.co/xN5g5XQL1x

Saturday

4th April - Law News

3021st 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:  Ten jawans of the Central Industrial Security Force or CISF India posted at the Mumbai airport have tested positive for coronavirus. The paramilitary force has decided to get all 152 jawans staying together in a camp tested.


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Friday

3rd April - Law News

3020th 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:  Dr. Sanjay Gupta discusses remarks by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in which he claims he recently learned that the coronavirus can be spread by asymptomatic people.


Focus of the Day story: There is a scary element to this in that we are dealing with people’s lives and law firms have had to act quickly to safeguard their employees and clients. But in terms of the financial impact, this feels very different. During the financial crisis law firm leaders were asking themselves whether their firms would survive. Full story - The Global Legal Post
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Thursday

2nd April - Law News

3019th 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:  With all the warnings around COVID-19 keeping shoppers away, many fashion retailers are feeling confused about whether they should bother keeping their doors open. One the one hand, there are few customers around, but on the other, closing the doors for good takes away any chance left of earning an income.


Focus of the Day story: The first trial ever to be conducted entirely by Skype proceeded 'almost without a hitch', the presiding judge said handing down his ruling. Mr Justice Mostyn ruled that treatment should not be withdrawn from a retired NHS worker to allow him to starve to death. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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Wednesday

1st April - Law News

3018th 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:  Scientists may still be learning about the virus that has swept across the world but they do appear to be united on one fact: lockdowns can slow the spread. But Brazil's far-right leader President Jair Bolsonaro has refused to be socially distant. Critics say his behaviour is criminally irresponsible.


Focus of the Day story: A project has gone live enabling the global justice community to share experiences of developing remote alternatives to physical court hearings in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, spearheaded by Professor Richard Susskind. Remote Courts Worldwide is a collaborative project involving the Society for Computers and Law – of which Professor Susskind is present – the UK LawTech Delivery Panel, and Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS). Full story - Legal Futures
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Tuesday

31st March - Law News

3017th 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:  There are now 9,000 patients with coronavirus in hospitals across England. A quarter of doctors are ill or self isolating. The new Nightingale Hospital in east London will begin taking its first 500 patients this week and will soon have room for 4,000. The government’s chief scientific adviser says the number of infections and deaths will continue to rise over the next two to three weeks.


Focus of the Day story: A former supreme court justice has heavily criticised Derbyshire police for stopping people exercising in the Peak District saying that such behaviour risks plunging Britain into a “police state”. Lord Sumption warned that police had no legal power to enforce “ministers’ wishes” and that the public should not be “resigning their liberty” to over-zealous citizens in uniform. Full story - Guardian Law

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