Friday

27th April - Law News

2314th 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 controversy brewing over the release of an American prisoner, who was sentenced to life for the murder of two policemen. Herman Bell is set to walk free on Friday. However, the police union is making last-ditch attempts to keep him locked up.


Focus of the Day Story: The criminal justice system is in crisis. Examples are everywhere: from the crumbling fabric of court buildings, to the regular adjournment of trials due to lack of court time, to the collapse of cases due to failures in the investigation and disclosure processes and to the inadequate supervision and management of offenders – every part of the system has been dangerously damaged by years of underfunding. Full story - The Barrister

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Thursday

26th April - Law News

2313rd 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: Political dramas Homeland and Designated Survivor have recently explored how a president could be removed from office using the 25th amendment to the US constitution. It can only be triggered if the president is deemed 'unfit for office'. But how would it work in reality? Who would be needed to trigger it? And why has it never been used before? The Guardian's US political reporter Sabrina Siddiqui explains


Focus of the Day Story: Employment tribunals continue to be beset with delays, including in the average time taken to deal with the first stage of the litigation process and for parties receiving judgments, employment lawyers have claimed. According to a survey of Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) members, 90% of respondents said they had experienced delays in tribunals dealing with interim paper applications. More than half (57%) said they had experienced delays in receiving reserved judgments and 45% reported postponements of a hearing due to a lack of judicial resources. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Wednesday

25th April - Law News

2312nd 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: The human rights group B'tselem has released a video showing an Israeli soldier cheering after he shot a Palestinian with a rubber bullet in the West Bank


Focus of the Day Story: A host of leading law firms, the Law Society and universities have teamed up with Barclays Bank to launch the most significant lawtech incubator in the UK to date. The ‘Eagle Lab’ will open soon in Notting Hill, in west London, with the aim of creating a centre of excellence. It will provide co-working space and support for up to 100 individuals, with access to mentoring and workshops. Full story - Legal Futures

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Tuesday

24th April - Law News

2311st 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: Consumer campaigner Martin Lewis is to launch UK High Court proceedings in a bid to sue Facebook for defamation. But why?


Focus of the Day Story: Stop handing out so many suspended sentences, courts told. Community orders more legally appropriate, Sentencing Council for England and Wales say. Full story - Guardian Law

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Monday

23rd April - Law News

2310th 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: The personal stories of the Windrush generation - British people from the West Indies who came here to live, often before their islands became independent states - have shocked the world. They have worked and lived in the UK for decades, but some are now finding that their status in this country, as citizens, is being questioned and doubted. In one community centre in Peterborough, England, every Friday a group of elderly British West Indians, many of whom served in Britain's armed forces and even fought in wars for this country, gather for lunch and for company. They told us what their lives here mean to them and how they feel about their country.


Focus of the Day Story: A judge was entitled to determine a case on the basis of burden of proof where the evidence was mainly hearsay, the Court of Appeal has held, in a case where a nephew evicted his elderly uncle from his home. Constandas v Lysandrou and others [2018] EWCA Civ 613 concerned a dispute over a house, bought in 1959 and registered in the first defendant’s name, in which the parties had lived since the claimant moved in with the defendants after his marriage broke down in 1973. In 2015, the claimant’s nephew, acting under power of attorney, evicted him, dumping his belongings in black binliners on the street. Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

22nd April - Law News

2309th 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: The centre on Saturday introduced a new ordinance in response to nationwide anger over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases involving minors. The order will now allow the death penalty for the rape of minors. It also has several provisions for speedy trials in rape cases. But is this going to help resolve this epidemic of sorts that we are seeing of child rape cases. Will this act as a deterrent?


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Saturday

21st April - Law News

2308th 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: Tear gas has been deployed along the Gaza border with Israel trying to disperse protesters. Israeli officials confirm that around 3 thousand Palestinians are involved. That's amid an anti-Israel march by families of imprisoned Palestinians. There are reports that at least two demonstrators have been killed. Local journalist Hind Khoudary was reporting for RT when she was herself tear-gassed.


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Friday

20th April - Law News

2307th 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: Police in Berlin are investigating an assault on two young men in which the attacker was heard shouting anti-Jewish abuse. One of the victims was wearing a Jewish skullcap at the time of the attack. It is reported the alleged attacker has turned himself in to the authorities.

Focus of the Day Story: A 'vigil for justice' attracted well over 100 lawyers to gather outside the Ministry of Justice's London headquarters last night to declare that it was 'time for justice'. As the sun began to set, passions rose as solicitors and barristers, armed with placards, congregrated outside the ministry's building in Petty France, London, to demand change. The event culminated with the words 'Ministry of Injustice' projected on the department's walls. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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