Edition 4313: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Today's Highlighted Video Story: India’s Supreme Court has declined to legalise same-sex marriages but said the rights of LGBTQ+ people must be upheld.
Five judges ruled they could not legalise such unions, which they said was parliament's job.
In 2018, the Supreme Court had decriminalised gay sex in a landmark ruling.
But the ultra-conservative right-wing government and Hindu religious leaders strongly opposed same-sex marriage, claiming it was against India's culture.
Focus of the Day Legal News: Nearly 30% of firms probed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for their adherence to anti-money laundering (AML) rules in the last year were non-compliant, new figures have shown.
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