Sunday

31st March - Law News

2650th 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: A newspaper affiliated to Hamas has reported that a deal has been reached with Israel to reduce tension in the Gaza Strip, as Palestinians prepared to mark the first anniversary of weekly protests along the border fence with Israel.



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Saturday

30th March - Law News

2649th 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: Fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi, the main accused in Rs. 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank scam, will not be released on bail, a court in London ruled today, rejecting his bail application. Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said Nirav Modi's attempt to try and seek citizenship of Vanuatu, a remote island country located in the South Pacific Ocean, shows he was trying to move away from India at an important time.



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Friday

29th March - Law News

2648th 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 Nation leader Pauline Hanson is sticking by her senior staffers and blaming the media for the Port Arthur, guns and foreign lobbying scandal engulfing her party. Senator Hanson said both James Ashby and Steve Dickson would retain their positions despite secret recordings that revealed both men wanted millions of dollars in donations from America's National Rifle Association (NRA) and discussed softening One Nation's policies on gun ownership as they tried to secure the funding. The same Al Jazeera investigation obtained footage of Senator Hanson appearing to suggest the Port Arthur massacre was part of a conspiracy.




Focus of the Day Story:
Return to a ‘third state’: S (A Child) (Hague Convention 1980: Return to Third State). Pam Sanghera of Charles Strachan Solicitors represented the appellant mother in the successful appeal of an order requiring the summary return of a child “A” to a state which was not the child’s previous habitual residence, ie to a third state. In this article she explains the reasoning by which the Court of Appeal determined that the order could not stand because it was effectively a relocation order made without undertaking any welfare exercise, which in itself is not within the framework of the 1980 Hague Convention.
Full story - Family Law Week

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Thursday

28th March - Law News

2647th 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: State's Attorney Kim Foxx, who recused herself from the Jussie Smollett case after text messages showed Smollett family friend Tina Tchen reached out to Foxx on February 1, defended her office's decision in an interview with WBEZ to drop charges against Smollett.




Focus of the Day Story:
Acting without integrity involves “greater moral turpitude” on the part of a solicitor than dishonesty but a lesser sanction, a High Court judge has found, while appearing to question previous Court of Appeal authority on the issue. Mr Justice Mostyn was returning to the relationship between the two concepts after the Court of Appeal last year overturned his decision that they were synonymous.
Full story - Legal Futures

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Wednesday

27th March - Law News

2646th 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: What do you do if you are a parent of teenage boys and you've seen youngsters you know fall victim to the growing problem of knife violence? For some mothers from the Somali community in London the answer has been to protect their teenage boys by sending them to Somalia or Kenya to get them away from gangs. But that drastic measure is not always straightforward or safe.




Focus of the Day Story:
New law 'catalyst' for tenfold foreign investment increase. US$1.5 trillion of inbound investment into China projected over next 10 years as new foreign investment law kicks in, says Linklaters research.
Full story - The Global Legal Post

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Tuesday

26th March - Law News

2645th 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: On 24 March 1999, the US and its Western allies began a bombing campaign over Serbia that ended the Kosovo war. But for many Kosovo Albanians and Serbs, the conflict has never been resolved. The BBC's Jeremy Bowen, Albana Kasapi and Dejan Anastasijevic reported on the war and its aftermath. They explain why it can't be put to bed.




Focus of the Day Story:
Lady Hale: at least half of UK judiciary should be female. Supreme court president calls for full equality at event for centenary of women in law.
Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

25th March - Law News

2644th 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: Moroccan police used water cannons to disperse thousands of young teachers rallying in the capital city of Rabat on Sunday, as they protested for better work conditions. Some protesters were filmed with leg injuries as clashes erupted between riot police and protesters. An estimated 15,000 teachers gathered in front of parliament, reportedly chanting "liberty, dignity, social justice." According to reports full benefits and pensions were among the protesters’ demands.




Focus of the Day Story:
Bar Council calls on DPP to address pay ‘iniquity’. Self-employed barristers prosecuting cases deserve parity with lawyers employed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the Bar Council has said. Earlier this month, the civil service trade union, the FDA, negotiated a 10% pay rise for CPS Crown Prosecutors; increases of up to 8% for prosecutors, professionals and senior managers; and a 13.5% increase in overtime rates. The rises will be paid over the course of two years.
Full story - New Law Journal


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