Tuesday

18th October - Law News

1757th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Shortly after the invention of photography, an Italian started the first photography studio in Albania. Now an exhibition of the photographs taken by three generations of photographers has opened in Foam, a museum of photography in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Kim Knoppers is the curator of 'Dynasty Marubi - A hundred years of Albanian studio photography'. She talks about how the photographs bear witness to the country's rich cultural and political history.


Focus of the Day story: Amnesty delivers verdict on LASPO. Report criticises “inherent and systematic failings” of exceptional case funding scheme. The justice system is “increasingly closed to the poorest, most vulnerable and most in need of its protection”, according to a devastating Amnesty International report into the impact of legal aid cuts. Full story - New Law Journal



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Monday

17th October - Law News

1756th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: The challenges of our unequal world, with girls facing discrimination from the moment of conception through education, health, marriage and employment.


Focus of the Day story: Stalking victims backed in challenge to ‘disturbing’ lenient court sentences
Peer calls for reform after ‘soft justice’ outcry at sentence for Emily Maitlis’s stalker. Full story - Guardian Law


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Sunday

16th October - Law News

1755th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Fasting has been an integral part of organized religion in India. Sometimes fasting is undertaken for the betterment of worldly life and at times for renunciation of material comfort. But the 'Lakshman Rekha' was breached when Aradhana Samdhariya - a 13-year-old girl - suffered a fatal heart attack after completing a fast that lasted 68 days. Her death shocked the country, as her funeral procession was turned into a 'shobha yatra' in an attempt by her community to extol her virtues. It was only after the Child Rights Organizations filed a complaint that a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder was registered against the Jain teen's parents.



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Saturday

15th October - Law News

1754th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: It’s been five years since the NATO-backed overthrow of Libyan President Colonel Gaddafi and still much of the conversation about the man and the consequences of his killing remain muddied. Was Gaddafi the tyrant he’s portrayed to be by western media? Did the plan to 'install democracy' in Libya succeed?




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Friday

14th October - Law News

1753rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Things just got real for Donald Trump. After recordings surfaced of Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women, and numerous women have come forth describing past encounters where Trump groped them, Michelle Obama took to the campaign trail to call out the Republican nominee for President of the United States on his disgusting behavior.


Focus of the Day story: South-west law centre was forced to turn away up to 4,000 people needing legal advice or support last year, according to a report by Amnesty International on the impact of the government’s legal aid reforms. Clare Carter (pictured), director of Avon and Bristol Law Centre, told the human rights group that the cases the centre was taking ‘are just the tip of the iceberg’. She said: ’Demand is high and resources are low, so now we only take the people who are the most destitute, who face the most barriers. Ethically that is incredibly difficult for staff here, to think this person hasn’t quite reached rock bottom so we turn them away.’ Full story - The Law Society Gazette



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Thursday

13th October - Law News

1752nd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Hong Kong's new parliament has opened to chaotic scenes after newly-elected pro-democracy politicians mocked the swearing-in process and ripped up their oaths.


Focus of the Day story: Lord Sumption, the outspoken Supreme Court justice, has said he regrets the “growing tendency of would-be lawyers to devote themselves to the study of law from the age of eighteen”. Instead he said that “in an ideal world” law should only be offered as a second degree and “the study of a different subject at a formative time of one’s life” was “personally enriching”. Full story - Legal Futures


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