Friday

14th September - Law News

2454th 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: This week marks a decade since the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. What became known as the Global Financial Crisis saw banks collapse and even whole countries teeter on the brink of insolvency. While much of the world fell into prolonged recession, Australia's economy narrowly avoided that fate - but 10 years on, many individual Australians are still paying the price. Now, there are new warnings from financial insiders that the global economy could be even more vulnerable to a repeat meltdown.
 

Focus of the Dar Article:
Law firms taking the pledge on mental health. ABA calls on firms to pledge to tackle lawyer mental-health and substance-use issues.
Full story - The Global Legal Post


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Thursday

13th September - Law News

2453nd 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 Washington Post is reporting that President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is in talks with special counsel Robert Mueller about a possible plea just days before his second trial.
 

Focus of the Dar Article:
As the government prepares to convince practitioners of the benefits of moving remand hearings for defendants in custody out of court and into a 'video space', research released by HM Courts & Tribunals Service has revealed significant concerns from those on the front line. A reply to an FoI request by former magistrate Penelope Gibbs, director of Transform Justice, reveals that HMCTS published a 'user research report' last December based on a 'condensed two-week discovery' to understand what defendants, lawyers, police, probation and judges require from virtual remand hearings.


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Wednesday

12th September - Law News

2452nd 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 governing body of women's tennis has backed Serena William's claim that it was "sexism" that led to her being penalised in the final of the US Tennis Open. She lost the match, but her outbursts at the umpire and the penalties levied have led to the tennis world taking a long hard look at whether the men and women players are treated equally.
 

Focus of the Dar Article:
A catalogue of disastrous consequences has followed a reduction in the scope of legal aid, including debt from high lawyers’ fees, possible ill-informed judicial decisions, and knock-on costs for other parts of the public sector, according to new research. A survey of 115 people with legal problems who would have received legal aid before implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) in 2013 was carried out for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
Full story - Legal Futures


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Tuesday

11th September - Law News

2451st 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: More than 120 Indonesians who were jailed by Australia for human trafficking between 2009 and 2011 are now seeking compensation. They allege they were children when they were wrongly imprisoned as adults.
 

Focus of the Dar Article:
Battle over EU copyright law heads for showdown. Brussels to vote on directive, supported by artists and news agencies, that opponents say could destroy the internet.
Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

10th September - Law News

2450th 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: New demonstrations are breaking out in Germany - over the death of a 22-year-old man in the city of Kurten. He was reportedly killed in a fight on Saturday, with two migrants now in custody.
 

Focus of the Dar Article:
The Court of Appeal has backed legal professional privilege in a landmark ruling on the status of documents generated during an internal investigation. In Serious Fraud Office v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation [2018] EWCA Civ 2006, the Serious Fraud Office sought access to notes of interviews with current and former employees and other documents created by solicitors and forensic accountants during an internal investigation.
Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

9th September - Law News

2449th 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: An Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people, including senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders, to death for their part in protests against the 2013 military coup. Fifty others were given a life sentence. Among them was them Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood’s spiritual leader. Those sentenced are accused of security-related offences, including incitement to violence and organising illegal protests.



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Saturday

8th September - Law News

2448th 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: Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said that being a liberal and a practicing lawyer, he did not agree with the anti-sacrilege bills recently passed by the Punjab Assembly. The former home minister, however, added that his views were "irrelevant" as he was not Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's "boss".



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Friday

7th September - Law News

2447th 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: When Fraser Anning made his controversial maiden speech he blamed the demise of Australia's European-based immigration program on "the rise of [former prime minister Gough] Whitlam in the Labor party". But Liberal MP Tim Wilson rebuffed that version of history, tweeting "Fact: Liberal Prime Minister Harold Holt abolished the White Australia Policy over 50 years ago. It is one of our proudest achievements." So who's right?

Focus of the Day Article:
The issue of how vulnerable witnesses are examined in court is by no means a new issue, but it is one that has regularly been hit by the spotlight in recent years. This is due to a variety of factors but perhaps one of the biggest is the introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO 2012). As a result of legal aid being cut from the majority of private family law cases, we have had the highest number of litigants in person to date. The latest Family Court quarterly statistics published in 29 March 2018 have shown that in 37% of cases neither party had representation.
Full story - The Barrister

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