Friday

16th November - Law News

2517th 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: Matthew Whitaker: Who Is Trump's Acting Attorney General? The acting attorney general, a vocal critic of the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling, was associated with a shadowy company fined nearly $26 million.

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Growing concern that the UK could exit the EU without a deal has led the Law Society of England and Wales to publish the first in a series of papers giving solicitors guidance so they can take steps to mitigate some of the risks. The first tranche of papers gives advice on some of the potential rule changes where a deal goes wrong between a business here and in the EU, what happens in family law if a couple splits up and how data sharing should be approached if the UK quits the EU without any agreement. There is also a paper on legal services.
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Thursday

15th November - Law News

2516th 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: Three men were found guilty of planning to conduct a terror attack in Melbourne, Australia's CBD over the Christmas period in 2016, in a verdict handed down earlier this month.

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he High Court has agreed that a former junior lawyer who claimed to be scared to come clean to her bosses about her misconduct should be struck off, after the SRA successfully argued had been treated too leniently at tribunal. Judges in Solicitors Regulation Authority v James & Ors today ruled that the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal was wrong to opt against a strike-off and instead to impose a suspended suspension. The judgment comes less than two weeks after the two-day appeal hearing.

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Wednesday

14th November - Law News

2515th 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: Now for some voices you rarely hear from in the Brexit debate. More than 600,000 children live in the UK who were born elsewhere in the EU. Many of them came to Britain years ago and now consider it home. So what does Brexit mean for these young people, who are still finding their place in the world?

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A year-long pilot to hear applications to set aside county court default judgments by an internet-enabled video link will begin at the end of this month. It is the latest development in the ongoing court modernisation programme. The pilot will apply to applications heard at the Manchester or Birmingham Civil Justice Centres under changes introduced in the 101st update to the Civil Procedure Rules as Practice Direction 51V.
Full story - Legal Futures

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Tuesday

13th November - Law News

2514th 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: One of the greatest challenges facing India is the creation of new jobs for its rapidly expanding workforce. The current government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has pledged to achieve this in a country that will in the next few years surpass China as the world's most populous. It's led to a heated debate within India about what exactly Mr Modi has promised and how you accurately measure employment for an economy with a vast informal labour force. As elections approach in India, our Reality Check team will be following the campaigns, addressing claims and unpicking the facts around contentious policy issues.

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Police chiefs want to trigger an expansion of stop and search by lowering the level of suspicion an officer needs against a suspect to use the power, the Guardian has learned. They want to scrap the requirement that “reasonable grounds” are needed before a person can be subjected to a search, amid mounting concern over knife attacks.
Full story - Guardian Law

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Monday

12th November - Law News

2513th 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: Dozens of world leaders have arrived in France on the invitation of French President Macron to join commemorative events marking the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI.

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Solicitors have expressed concern about a hike in probate fees to as high as £6,000. The proposals, announced in a written statement by justice minister Lucy Frazer this week, are to replace the existing flat fee for probate of £155 for those applying with a solicitor or £215 for individuals with a sliding scale of fees. 
Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

11th November - Law News

2512th 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: Three million Venezuelans have fled their country's economic and political crisis since 2015. Many are walking for thousands of kilometres through Colombia to cross the Andes Mountain range, in search of a better life. No point on the route is more dangerous than the Berlin Paramo where the freezing air makes it increasingly difficult to move forward.



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Saturday

10th November - Law News

2511th 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: After Allahabad and Faizabad in India were renamed by the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government as Prayagraj and Ayodhya respectively, there is a growing clamour to change the names of more cities. BJP lawmaker Jagan Prasad Garg has demanded that Agra be renamed as "Agravan" or "Agrawal".



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Friday

9th November - Law News

2510th 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: Northern Territory Police were called to respond to a major disturbance at Darwin's Don Dale youth detention centre on Tuesday night where a fire later broke out. The facility was surrounded by emergency crews, including ambulance officers and firefighters who were called out to the incident just before 7:00pm. A Northern Territory Hazardous Chemicals vehicle also attended the scene. A number of detainees were seen on the roof earlier in the evening, with what appeared to be smoke visible at the entry of the centre. By 10:00pm two buildings appeared to be ablaze. Just after midnight, multiple detainees were seen being escorted from the facility in police vehicles.


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The only female Afghan-born barrister practising in England and Wales revealed yesterday that she had been asked by a solicitor to return her brief because the client wanted “a white male barrister”.
Lawyers on Twitter exploded with anger after Rehana Popal of 10 King’s Bench Walk tweeted what had happened.
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