Saturday

27th August - Law News

1706th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Human Rights & Social Justice.

Today's video story: Picture from Pescara del Tronto as rescue operations continue in the wake of an earthquake that struck central Italy. The town is located some 160 kilometers northeast of Rome and was one of the three hardest hit. A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake followed by a series of aftershocks rocked central Italy on Wednesday. Strong tremors were felt in the country’s capital, Rome, and several small towns and villages have seen severe damage.




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Friday

26th August - Law News

1705th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Human Rights & Social Justice.

Today's video story: Rio 2016 is over and much is made of the legacy that the Games leave, but who will actually benefit?


Focus of the day: Latest figures for the number of A-level students embarking on law degrees suggest the supply of law graduates will continue to exceed the profession’s demand – despite undergraduate vacancies remaining at nearly 30 universities. According to figures reported by admissions service Ucas, 22,890 applicants have been placed in the subject group of M (law) this year, compared with 19,480 four years ago. Full story - The Law Society Gazette


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Thursday

25th August - Law News

1704th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Human Rights & Social Justice.

Today's video story: The international charity Oxfam has accused the British government of violating the International Arms Trade Treaty as London continues its arms deals with Saudi Arabia.


Focus of the day: Family law specialists should be required to work under fixed fees, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has suggested as it ramped up its call for regulatory intervention to improve transparency in the market. The panel said family law was one area where it advised that regulators “should now consider mandating fixed fees”. Full story - Legal Futures



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Wednesday

24th August - Law News

1703rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Human Rights & Social Justice.

Today's video story: The forgotten children of China's prisoners. In a government building in Nanzhao, the Zhang children’s father awaits his fate.


Focus of the day: Overburdening start-ups could harm their progress, says CEO. Forcing new entrants to the legal services market to publish their prices could disadvantage lawyers, the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) has said. Responding to the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) interim report on the sector, CILEx said it supports measures to increase market competition but wants reforms to be outcomes focused - not mandated - to protect its members. Full story - Solicitors Journal



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Tuesday

23rd August - Law News

1702nd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Human Rights & Social Justice.

Today's video story: What it's like to perform a C-section in Aleppo? Dr Farida is an obstetrician and gynaecologist working in a hospital in eastern Aleppo. She performs an emergency caesarean section while explaining the injuries she comes across in newborn and unborn babies. “They lose their arms sometimes,” she says. “They lose their legs sometimes.


Focus of the day: A British bill of rights will go ahead as promised, the justice secretary, Liz Truss, has said, though she refused to give a timeframe for any detailed proposals. There has been repeated speculation that the legislation, which was a 2015 Conservative manifesto promise and set to replace the Human Rights Act introduced by the last Labour government, could be ditched in the wake of the EU referendum.. Full story - Guardian Law



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Monday

22nd August - Law News

1701st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Human Rights & Social Justice.

Today's video story: Suspect slips cuffs, ejected from police car. After being arrested, Logan Younger was ejected from a police cruiser when it crashed on the way to a detention center.

Focus of the day: Government plans to introduce tax avoidance scheme penalties for professional advisers have been roundly criticised by lawyers and accountants. Under the plans set out in a discussion document published this week “enablers” of tax avoidance could have to pay a fine of up to 100% of the tax the scheme’s user underpaid. Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

21st August - Law News

1700th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Human Rights & Social Justice.

Today's video story: Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts claims NASA has corrupted data, there is no empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming and the climate models are wrong.Professor Brian Cox explains climate science to denier Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts.


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Saturday

20th August - Law News

1699th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Lawyers, Law, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation & Rights.

Today's video story: CDC: Pregnant women should avoid travel to Miami-Dade County. "The risk (of contracting Zika) is still low, but the result is catastrophic," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden tells CNN'.





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