Thursday

4th April - Law News

2654th 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: Despite Australia’s efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions there’s one area that continues to be problematic – industry. It is the second biggest contributor to Australia’s emissions. The emissions from industry include the greenhouse gases that come mainly from manufacturing and extracting and processing resources. They make up about 30 percent of Australia’s emissions and they’re rising. Right now, the government essentially lets big polluters nominate their own carbon emissions limits


Focus of the Day Article:
The question of how the Law Society should deal with the new types of practice soon to be permitted to solicitors – the so-called freelance solicitors, and solicitors in unregulated entities - is a difficult one. To recap, last November the LSB approved handbook changes put forward by the SRA which introduced new permitted types of working conditions for solicitors, with the new rules due this summer. The Law Society has consistently and strongly opposed the changes.


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Wednesday

3rd April - Law News

2653rd 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 senior Conservative minister has warned Theresa May that if Parliament wants to support a 'softer' Brexit - she can't afford to ignore it. The Justice Secretary David Gauke said there were no ideal choices - as MPs prepare to hold a second round of indicative votes tomorrow on alternative options. The shape of Britain's future relations with Europe is already affecting millions of EU citizens who must now apply for a new 'settled status' scheme if they want to live here.


Focus of the Day Article:
The right to recover money under loans made by a law firm before an intervention does not vest in the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), appeal judges have ruled. A struck-off sole practitioner launched an appeal after the High Court held that he was entitled to some of the loans he had made but not others.
Full story - Legal Futures

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Tuesday

2nd April - Law News

2652nd 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: Former Canadian Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould releases a recording to bolster her version of events in the SNC-Lavalin case. The audio is from a December 2018 phone call she conducted with Michael Wernick, the former clerk of the privy council.


Focus of the Day Article:
Police watchdogs to investigate forces over immigration referrals. Inquiry follows super-complaint against sharing of victims’ data with Home Office.
Full story - Guardin Law

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Monday

1st April - Law News

2651st 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 Vancouver-based advocacy group is under scrutiny by provincial officials after a report emerged claiming that it has been receiving taxpayer money despite promoting an anti-vaccination agenda. It denies being against vaccines.


Focus of the Day Article:
Without targets, diversity among judiciary will be slow The judiciary would be more diverse if the old secret soundings system operated, barrister and MP David Lammy has said. Lammy made the remarks while giving evidence this week to the Justice Committee on progress made following his 2017 review into the treatment of BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) people in the criminal justice system.
Full story - New Law Journal

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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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