Edition 4096: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Focus of the Day Law News/Article: The High Court has told a claimant making sweeping criticisms of the defence’s expert witness that the best forum for testing the evidence is at trial. Mr Dexter Dias KC, sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court, dismissed the claimant’s application in Fawcett & Ors v TUI UK Ltd to exclude the expert’s evidence ahead of an imminent personal injury trial. Full
story The Law Society Gazette
Today's Highlighted Video Story: A few clips of Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault discussing justice, power, and the notion of human nature in their famous 1971 debate. This is a version of an upload from the previous channel. The translation is my own, although I referenced the published text (which by the way was edited by Foucault prior to publication, which is why there are various differences between the published transcript and the actual recording). The audio has also been improved. The debate was about human nature and took place in November 1971 at the Eindhoven University of Technology, in the Nederlands, as part of the “International Philosophers Project” initiated by the Dutch Broadcasting Foundation and arranged by the Dutch philosopher Fons Elders, who was also the moderator.
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