Saturday

28th May - Law News

1615th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap



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Today's video story: Students in Manipur protests against issue of Inner Line Permit. Police resort to baton charge and lob tear gas shells on protesting students. 

Friday

27th May - Law News

1614th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY:  Lack of information on legal rights and available services is harming access to justice. Two in three domestic abuse victims are unaware of their legal aid eligibility - increasing their risk of harm. A legal needs survey of 8,912 people in England and Wales by Ipsos MORI found that 20 per cent of domestic violence sufferers thought they could not access legal aid, while 47 per cent did not know. Full story - Solicitors Journal




Saturday Conversations on Law
Today's video story: The American legal system is rapidly transforming itself with the expressed purpose of replacing much of international law. Be it within the realm of trade and banking, criminal prosecutions and even sports. The Americanization of law supplants the United Nations and the sovereignty of every state on the planet.

Thursday

26th May - Law News

1613rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY:  An appeal court ruling last week appears to have delivered a serious blow to solicitors seeking to offer ‘unbundled’ services without being held liable for matters beyond those in their client retainer. The judgment, in Sequence Properties Ltd v Kunal Balwantbhal Patel ‘pretty much kills unbundled litigation services’, one practitioner told the Gazette. The Law Society, meanwhile, agrees the case may 'present difficulty' and has called for statutory protection for solicitors offering such services. Full story - The Law Society Gazette




Saturday Conversations on Law
Today's video story: Ahead of the first debate on the EU referendum on 26 May, we asked for your thoughts and views in video, using your mobile. The debate - the first ahead of the 23 June poll - is aimed at young voters. You've told us whether you're voting to leave or remain - in or out - and about the issues of concern to you ahead of the referendum to decide Britain's future in Europe. 

Wednesday

25th May - Law News

1612nd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY:  Only a tiny number of law firms follow up enquiries from potential clients after making initial contact with them, ‘mystery shopper’ research has found. And even that initial contact is often too slow in a world where ever-more rapid responses are expected. The report by client feedback specialist Shoppers Anonymous, The client journey project, surveyed 85 firms and recorded more than 400 one-to-one client experiences, made via web search, telephone, and walk-in office enquiries. Full story - Legal Futures



Saturday Conversations on Law
Today's video story: Hundreds take to the streets at anti-labor reform rally in Brussels, Belgium.
 

Tuesday

24th May - Law News

1611th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY:  'I’ve seen how our jails wreck human potential. Reform will take courage', Peter Stanford. Reoffending costs £13bn a year – and giving inmates an education is the best way to prevent it, says a member of the Coates review panel. Full story - Guardian Law




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Today's video story: Some Turkish residents living in London discuss the xenophobic Vote Leave poster about Turkish migrants and the European Union. 

Monday

23rd May - Law News

1610th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Family lawyers will be keeping a close eye on plans to speed up adoption, announced in this week’s Queen’s Speech. The Children and Social Work Bill would put into practice a legacy policy for the prime minister, both changing the requirements to be taken into consideration in adoption cases and creating a “care leavers’ covenant” where looked-after children would be given support until they are 25-years-old. Full story - New Law Journal 



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Today's video story: BBC News has spent a week filming inside Wandsworth prison, one of the six prisons where governors will be given new powers over budgets and setting the daily regime. This is Wandsworth HMP, 2016. The doors have been unlocked. And, for seven days, the BBC has been given unprecedented access.

Sunday

22nd May - Law News

1609th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap


Saturday Conversations on Law
Today's video story: Director of The European Azerbaijan Society, Lionel Zetter, gives his views on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that is still simmering between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus. 
A full transcript of the letter can be seen at http://thelawmaptlm.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/the-battle-of-ideas-over-legal.html