Wednesday

28th February - Law News

2257th 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 Focus: There's a strong chance it's this guy. Planet America examines the forgotten legacy of President Warren G Harding, who signed racist laws and cut taxes for the rich … while he played golf.


Focus of the Day story: It’s been a buyer’s market in recent years for solicitors purchasing professional indemnity insurance (PII). But could that soon change? We canvassed the views of a number of experts to find out what 2018 might hold. For some law firms with good claims records, the benign picture of 2017 remains unchanged, with insurers offering a range of incentives, including 18-month contracts and additional cyber cover or lower run-off premiums, to encourage them to review their options earlier and go with them. Full story - Legal Futures

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Tuesday

27th February - Law News

2256th 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 Focus: As night falls in Athens, the city’s squares turn seedy, and middle-aged European men can be seen chatting with teenage Syrian boys – a seemingly odd pairing of friends. Many of these youngsters are refugees who have resorted to selling themselves for as little as €10 just to eat. Some also choose drug pedaling and petty theft to survive. With no official documents or help from Greece’s immigration authorities, they are stranded in this horrific life. To escape, some consider abandoning their dream of living in Europe, and others even contemplate suicide.


Focus of the Day story: A feature of the modernisation of the family justice system has been the inclusion of children, young people and other vulnerable parties in proceedings. There has been a recognition that the family justice system has failed to ensure that children, the subjects of these most personally intrusive proceedings, understand and are afforded an opportunity to take an active role in a process to which they frequently neither choose nor wish to be a party. In so recognising the need for the inclusion of children in proceedings, attention has largely focused on whether, when and how children and vulnerable persons' voices should be heard. Full story - Family Law Week

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Monday

26th February - Law News

2255th 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 Focus: Sexual abuse that reportedly took place in an orphan boarding school sent shockwaves across Russia after its former residents described the horrors that happened there, claiming they had been raped by a visitor and staff.


Focus of the Day story: The gender pay gap at the Law Society Group (the Law Society and Solicitors Regulatory Association), is ‘substantially lower’ than across the UK workforce as a whole, the group has announced. Full story - New Law Journal
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Sunday

25th February - Law News

2254th 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 Focus: Knife crime rose by more than a fifth in the UK last year, with a third of recorded offences taking place in London. Most of those killed in the capital were black teenagers. Three have died in the last week alone. Community leaders have pointed to funding drying up for community centres and other social support structures.



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Saturday

24th February - Law News

2253rd 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 Focus: Once an unspoilt Caribbean paradise, last September, Hurricane Irma turned the island of Barbuda into a scene of devastation. But months later, many residents continue to accuse the government of a land grab, by amending laws which have kept the island under common ownership since slavery ended in the 1830s. Barbudan campaigners have brought legal action against the government of Antigua and Barbuda, two islands which form a twin state. Among the developers who could potentially benefit from the changes is the Hollywood actor Robert de Niro. His attempts to build a luxury resort and gain access to land on the island are fiercely opposed by campaigners.



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Friday

23rd February - Law News

2251st 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 Focus: Amnesty International says leaders including Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are undermining human rights. What is behind the rise in global rights violations?


Focus of the Day Story: The Law Society and the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) are discussing the possibility of a new career path for criminal lawyers involving both defence and prosecution work, it has emerged. Angela Rafferty QC, chair of the CBA, warned this week of the “decimation” of both the criminal Bar and the solicitors’ profession if no action was taken to tackle an “unprecedented recruitment crisis”. Full story - Legal Futures


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