Saturday

28th December - Law News

2923rd 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.


Season's greetings to all our readers, may you be blessed with happiness and peace!


Today's Video Focus:  A European court has ruled Airbnb will remain exempt from onerous property laws in the continent. But tourism associations are outraged by the decision. 

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Friday

27th December - Law News

2922nd 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.


Season's greetings to all our readers, may you be blessed with happiness and peace!


Today's Video Focus:  Co-Founder of Liberation in a Generation Solana Rice explains how a combination of institutional racism & white supremacy created America's racial wealth gap. 

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Thursday

26th December - Law News

2921st 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.


Season's greetings to all our readers, may you be blessed with happiness and peace!


Today's Video Focus:  It is not about sex, it is about domination and control. That's what the British actress Lysette Anthony tells us tonight, as she makes new allegations that she was raped more than once and sexually abused by the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. She is one of around 80 women alleging harassment, sexual assault or rape by Harvey Weinstein. 

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Wednesday

25th December - Law News

2920th 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.


Season's greetings to all our readers, may you be blessed with happiness and peace!


Today's Video Focus:  Yes Prime Minister - Sir Humphrey on foreign policy. 

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Tuesday

24th December - Law News

2919th 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.


Season's greetings to all our readers, may you be blessed with happiness and peace!


Today's Video Focus:  A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced five people to death for the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year, the public prosecutor has said. Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi government, was killed inside the kingdom's consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul by a team of Saudi agents. 

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Monday

23rd December - Law News

2918th 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:  Gripping footage showed the extreme conditions firefighters have faced as they try to control Australia's sweeping bushfires. New South Wales Rural Fire Service shared a video from the early hours of Sunday morning of their firefighters attempting to tackle a blaze raging close to homes in Blackheath. A fire service official had said strong southerly winds fanned more than 100 fires in New South Wales alone on Saturday. 

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Sunday

22nd December - Law News

2917th 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:  The International Criminal Court is preparing to investigate alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories. The ICC's chief prosecutor says this could include charges against Israelis or Palestinians. Fatou Bensouda says she is convinced war crimes have been, or are being, committed in the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. 

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Saturday

21st December - Law News

2916th 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:  Indian government officials have been saying that protests against the citizenship law have been instigated by certain external elements and political parties. Have politicians politicised something that people are fighting for? 

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Friday

20th December - Law News

2915th 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 the 17th century, Christmas was completely banned in England and its territories, for 17 years. Shops were forced to stay open, public Christmas drinking and festive feasting were illegal, mince pies were seized, even putting up foliage as decoration was banned. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out why a parliament full of protestant Puritans would make celebrating Christmas illegal. 

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Focus of the Day Article: A speech on the rule of law which was due to be given at a legal conference in China was cancelled by censors, a global association of lawyers has reported. The president of the Paris-based Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) was due to deliver the keynote speech at the Global Lawyers Forum hosted in Guangzhou earlier this month. California litigator Jerry Roth planned to talk about the international rule of law and the importance of an independent bar and judiciary. Full story: The Law Society Gazette