Friday

12th August - Law News

1691st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Some 100,000 people have now joined paramilitary organisations in Poland. Others - so called "preppers" - are learning how to survive a possible invasion. Now the Polish government hopes these "pro-defence" groups will form the backbone of a new reserve force to help the professional army.


Focus of the Day article:  Legal aid not designed to fund 'spurious cases' against our 'brave armed forces,' says Lord Chancellor. The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has terminated its contract with Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) over the human rights firm's involvement in the £31m Al-Sweady inquiry. The Birmingham-based outfit, run by Phil Shiner, will no longer receive state money for ongoing legal cases after the LAA said it had 'breached its contractual requirements'. Full story - Solicitors Journal




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Thursday

11th August - Law News

1690th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: The UN is demanding that Ethiopia allow international observers into parts of the country after a weekend of deadly protests. It wants to investigate allegations of excessive force used across the Oromia and Amhara regions. At least 90 demonstrators were killed during the wave of anti-government protests.


Focus of the Day article:  Two barristers from the same chambers have between them accounted for more than one in ten of the four hundred plus new complaints made against their branch of the profession in 2015/16. The revelation came amid a crisis of public confidence in the fairness and openness of the barrister’ complaints process. Invited to agree that the process was open and fair, nearly 70% of complainants said it was not. However, among barristers there was widespread satisfaction. Full story - Legal Futures



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Wednesday

10th August - Law News

1689th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Indian activist Irom Sharmila has ended her 16-year-long hunger strike against a controversial security law, in order to compete in local elections. Her campaign, described as the world's longest hunger strike, had led to her being detained, and forced fed through a tube in her nose for over a decade. She was held under a law that makes attempting suicide a crime.


Focus of the Day article:  The MP leading a review of racial bias and representation in the criminal justice system says judicial diversity will be one of the key aspects of his final recommendations. David Lammy (pictured) told the Gazette that there is no problem with the supply line of black and minority ethnic (BAME) lawyers in the profession, so he wants to pin down why they do not progress to the bench. Full story - The Law Society Gazette



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Tuesday

9th August - Law News

1688th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Thousands of women and girls are being trafficked to Italy from Nigeria, into a life of forced prostitution. Freeing girls trafficked to Italy for sex: 'You will not be a slave for ever'.


Focus of the Day article:  There’s only one way to fix this child abuse debacle – listen to the victims. This ill-fated inquiry must return to first principles. Record the dreadful narratives of what happened. Then the next steps will be clear. Full story - Guardian Law



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Monday

8th August - Law News

1687th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: Julian Assange Special: Do Wikileaks have the email that'll put Clinton in Prison?


Focus of the Day article: “Lawyerless” justice could encourage two-tier justice system. Lord Justice Briggs’s plans to modernise and digitise the civil courts structure have received a mixed reception from lawyers. Bar Chairman Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC says that moves towards introducing online courts with minimum assistance by lawyers could lead a two-tier justice system. Full story - New Law Journal



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Sunday

7th August - Law News

1685th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.


Today's video story: England's riots five years on: 'It was off the scale'. On 4 August 2011 Mark Duggan was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, north London, sparking the largest civil unrest the UK has seen for a generation. 


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