2757th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a
UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers,
Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights &
Social Justice issues.
Today's Video Focus: On April 12, 2019, hundreds of people packed into the Old South Church
in Boston to hear the world-renowned dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky
speak. In this hour-long special, we air an excerpt of Chomsky’s speech
and his on-stage interview
Focus of the Day Article:
Home Office lied to EU states so it could deport slavery victims, say whistleblowers. Legal experts condemn ‘disgraceful and illegal manipulation of system’.
2756th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a
UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers,
Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights &
Social Justice issues.
Today's Video Focus: Riot police and anti-government protesters faced off during BastilleDay celebrations in Paris. Dozens of people were arrested, with calls for president Emmanuel Macron to resign again being chanted out loud.
Focus of the Day Article:
Nearly a third of judges in the courts and 46% of tribunal judges are women, according to the 2019 judicial diversity statistics. Women also make up 23% of judges in the Court of Appeal and 27% in the High Court as well as more than half the non-legal members of tribunals. The figures, released this week, are correct as at 1 April 2019.
2755th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a
UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers,
Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights &
Social Justice issues.
Today's Video Focus: A team of forensic scientists in Argentina is helping to bring peace to
families who lost their loved ones in the so-called "Dirty War".
That was a period in the 1970s and '80s when government death squads
hunted down and killed political opponents.
The work to identify those who disappeared is ongoing and scientists are
lending the skills they developed to other conflict areas across the
globe.
2754th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a
UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers,
Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights &
Social Justice issues.
Today's Video Focus: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, the Union Minister of Minority Affairs, has said
that there are sufficient laws to deal with crimes like lynching. He
also told NDTV in an exclusive interview that nobody should be forced to
chant "Jai Shri Ram". Mr Naqvi's comment was seen as significant in the
backdrop of a Jharkhand government report today that said lapses by
police and doctors killed a 24-year-old Muslim man, Tabrez Ansari, who
was tied to a pole, thrashed and forced to shout "Jai Shri Ram" and "Jai
Hanuman" by a mob last month.
2753rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a
UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers,
Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights &
Social Justice issues.
Today's Video Focus: In 2012, Kansas passed one of the largest income tax cuts in the state’s history. Today, it serves as a cautionary tale.
Focus of the Day Article:
Blockchain - It was only back in mid-2015, while speaking at a couple of legal
conferences (one on Client Growth Strategies) to audiences of firm
leaders and CMOs, that I would ask: 'Show of hands, how many of you have
heard of blockchain?' - only to confront an audience that had no idea
what I was talking about. Fortunately, I would speculate that most of
these same folks have now heard of blockchain and have some notion of
what the label refers to . . . but do they really?
2752nd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a
UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers,
Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights &
Social Justice issues.
Today's Video Focus: Understaffing, a toxic culture and pressure to meet unrealistic targets
at the national health regulator are risking public safety, according to
whistleblowers.
AHPRA , the Australian health practitioners' regulation agency, is
charged with investigating and disciplining more than seven hundred
thousand doctors, nurses and other medical staff.
But in this video, former senior AHPRA investigators speak out, warning
the agency isn't doing its job properly.
Focus of the Day Article:
The president of the Supreme Court has taken the constitutionally
unusual step of publicly criticising a bill that is making its way
through parliament. Lady Hale said the Divorce (Financial Provision)
Bill, introduced by crossbench peer Baroness Deech, was 'more
threatening' to the support system of the family than the perceived
threat from no-fault divorce. Lady Hale made her comments in a speech
entitled 'What is a 21st Century Family', delivered at the
International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice on 1 July but
published by the Supreme Court yesterday.
