Monday

27th November - Law News

2162nd 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: Some poor Indian families are marrying off their young daughters to older men from Arab countries to make ends meet. But in most cases, the men soon leave their new wives behind. This is a true story of one such woman. Names have been changed to protect identities.


Focus of the day story: Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption has criticised the law of negligence and highlighted the benefits of ‘no-fault’ personal injury, in a speech that is likely to provoke controversy. Lord Sumption, who is due to retire in December 2018, also commented that there is currently an unacknowledged trend among the judiciary towards strict liability. His speech last week to the Personal Injuries Bar Association, ‘Abolishing personal injuries law—A project’, noted that greater numbers of claims are being brought—he cites figures of about 250,000 claims in 1973 compared to 1.2 million in 2013–14. Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

26th November - Law News

2161st 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: Zimbabwe's former finance minister Ignatious Chombo has been detained in custody until Monday, when a court will rule on his bail application in his corruption trial. This comes the day after Zimbabwe's new president was sworn in.


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Saturday

25th November - Law News

2160th 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: Is the media not giving relevance to the mysterious death of a CBI judge who was probing Sohrabuddin case out of fear? CBI court judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya who handled the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case died under suspicious circumstances after which the case was transferred to another judge barely days later and all charges against BJP President Amit Shah were dropped. In an interview to NDTV, retired Justice AP Shah said that he felt it was 'necessary' that the head of the judiciary looks into 'it' (allegations by family members of Justice Loya that his death was not a natural one as claimed).




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Friday

24th November - Law News

2160th 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: Elizabeth Byrne and her sister Pamela speak for the first time together about the devastating fire which killed Elizabeth’s two young daughters and her sister thirty years ago.



Focus of the day story:  England and Wales’ first female solicitor advocate QC is set to also become the first to dual qualify as both a solicitor and barrister. June Venters, who was made QC in 2006, will be called to the bar by Middle Temple on Thursday. But the crime and family law specialist, who has run her own Surrey firm since 1991, told the Gazette she believed the solicitor and barrister professions should merge in order to make the best of their shared skills. Full story - The Law Society Gazette


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Thursday

23rd November - Law News

2159th 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: Connect House in Mitcham, London, is a converted office block in the depths of an industrial estate that is temporarily home to vulnerable people, families and young children. We meet two young mothers who tell us what daily life is like there. An estimated 120,540 children with their families live in temporary accommodation across England, a  figure that has risen 37% since 2014



Focus of the day story:  This year, like many in recent years, has seen some key changes within the employment law field, with the government, trade unions and lobbyists remaining endlessly engaged in seeking to impose their interpretation of fair balance between employers and their respective workforces. Although consensus on that equilibrium can never really be achieved, sometimes there are pieces of legislative movement which are difficult to argue with regardless of your perspective: This is one of those. Full story - Legal Futures


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Wednesday

22nd November - Law News

2158th 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: He was his country’s liberator, but Zimbabwe was held in thrall to Robert Mugabe for far too long. Today the build-up of pressure of almost four decades of misrule was too much. The military took over a week ago, putting Mugabe under house arrest and toppling his wife Grace from power. Then the ruling Zanu-PF party sacked him as its leader and parliament started impeachment proceedings. Those proceedings were halted today as his surprise resignation letter was read out. That sparked wild celebrations inside parliament.



Focus of the day story:  Ireland's top law firms are facing more security risks than ever before with the top 20 experiencing a 60 per cent increase in cyber attacks in under a year and six out of 10 firms reporting attacks. Full story - The Global Legal Post


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Tuesday

21st November - Law News

2157th 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: Charles Manson, the cult leader whose followers committed murders that shocked the nation almost a half-century ago, has died of natural causes at age 83, according to the California Department of Corrections.



Focus of the day story:  Family courts are a revolving door for too many parents. Family drug and alcohol courts can help break the patterns that blight children’s lives; this innovation should be shared. Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

20th November - Law News

2156th 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: Assisted dying legislation has been debated in both the NSW and Victorian parliaments, with the NSW bill being voted down. Former prime minister Paul Keating says "the experience of overseas jurisdictions suggests the pressures for further liberalisation are irresistible". Are they?


Focus of the day story: More than 80% of jurisdictions predict an increase in compensation claims for data protection breaches when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect next year, research shows. The GDPR aims to harmonise EU data protection law, and is due to come into force across all 28 EU member states on 25 May 2018. It will bring higher financial sanctions, rights to compensation and group litigation mechanisms. It will apply to EU organisations and to any organisation based outside the EU offering goods or services to EU residents. Full story - New Law Journal


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