Thursday

19th December - Law News

2914th 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:  Now Donald Trump looks likely to achieve that goal - but for all the wrong reasons as he looks set to become just the third President in American history to be impeached. The House of Representatives is currently debating the charges against him and will vote later tonight. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: Latest gender pay gap figures reveal extent of diversity challenge facing top UK law firms. Full story: The Global Legal Post

Wednesday

18th December - Law News

2913th 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:  Gina Martin, the campaigner who helped make upskirting illegal in England and Wales, talks to CNN's Bianca Nobilo about activism and her work in the UK Parliament. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: AI, blockchain, Big Data, cloud computing, smart contracts, etc. How can practitioners best assess the various digital solutions for providing legal services? Full story: Legal Futures

Tuesday

17th December - Law News

2912th 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:  This summer, India published a list which effectively stripped about 1.9 million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship. India says the National Register of Citizens is needed to identify illegal Bangladeshi migrants. But it has sparked fears of a witch hunt against Assam's ethnic minorities. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: By 1989, when the dictator was killed, up to 20,000 had died in Romania’s children’s homes. Now criminal cases may finally be brought. Full story: Guardian Law

Monday

16th December - Law News

2911th 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:  Young Colombian demonstrators in Bosa, Bogota take the protest to the streets because they have nowhere to play near the apartment complex they live in. The local park has been closed for more than 3 years, and the children are also prohibited from playing in the halls. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: Costs lawyers have called for an urgent review of the guideline hourly rates―the baseline figures used by judges to assess the fees charged by solicitors. Full story: New Law Journal

Sunday

15th December - Law News

2910th 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:  While Saturday's trial was about corruption and illegal possession of foreign funds, the former president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, also faces additional charges. In 2009, the International Criminal Court charged him with two counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity. That was for his role in the war in Darfur, which started in 2003. At least 300,000 people were killed and another 3 million displaced. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

Saturday

14th December - Law News

2909th 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 proposed law for tougher punishment, including the death sentence, within 21 days for those guilty of crimes against women was cleared by the Andhra Pradesh assembly on Friday, a little over two weeks after a young woman's gang-rape and killing in neighbouring Telangana. The law has been dubbed the "AP Disha Act" after the name given to the woman in social media campaigns and protests after the horrific crime. 

Saturday Conversations on Law


Friday

13th December - Law News

2908th 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:  Elite military teams have prepared six bodies to be airlifted from New Zealand's White Island, in a daring bid to bring the dead home to their loved ones. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: 'Lawyers using the technology will triumph over those who do it the old way'. Full story: The Global Legal Post

Thursday

12th December - Law News

2907th 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:  TAn utterly decent human being, something that is hard to find in modern politicians, that is what those who have met Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn say. We asked George Monbiot about Jeremy Corbyn, he didn’t hold back. 

Saturday Conversations on Law

Focus of the Day Article: Legal services have been on the agenda of talks over a post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the US - but the proposed new Solicitors Qualification Examination could exclude solicitors from US jurisdictions. Full story: The Law Society Gazette