Wednesday

25th January - Law News

1856th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: In response to increasingly ultra-right leaning US President Donald Trump's executive order, The Netherlands want to launch an international abortion fund.


FOCUS OF THE DAY story:  Family mediators call on lawyers and judges to be more supportive. Initiative is reminder to family lawyers of their duty to consider all dispute resolution options. Full story - Solicitors Journal



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Tuesday

24th January - Law News

1855th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Can the TPP survive without the US? Australian trade minister Steven Ciobo speaks after President Trump pulled the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.


FOCUS OF THE DAY story: Some 31,000 jobs at law firms and other businesses in the personal injury (PI) sector are at ‘high risk’ of being lost if the government presses ahead with its reform agenda, according to an economics consultancy commissioned by the pressure group, Access 2 Justice. Full story - Legal Futures



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Monday

23rd January - Law News

1854th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: More than $11m (£8.8m) is missing from The Gambia's state coffers following the departure of long-time leader Yahya Jammeh. Mr Jammeh flew into exile on Saturday, ending his 22 years in power.


FOCUS OF THE DAY story: The Supreme Court decision on bus company’s duties to wheelchair users strikes a “balance” between the law and real-life practicalities, a leading discrimination law solicitor has said. The case of FirstGroup plc v Paulley [2017] UKSC 4 arose from an incident in 2012 on a bus from Wetherby to Leeds, where a woman with a sleeping child in a buggy refused to move to allow wheelchair user, Doug Paulley, to take her place. The woman said her buggy would not fold. Paulley sued for unlawful discrimination on the grounds of disability. Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

22nd January - Law News

1853rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: For years, members of the indigenous Mapuche community have battled with the Chilean government over land rights. Now, Mapuches in Argentina are also struggling to regain what they say is their ancestral territory. The land in question belongs to the Italian fashion giant Benetton. One of the group’s local companies owns almost a million hectares of land, mostly in Patagonia.



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Saturday

21st January - Law News

1852nd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Challenging inaccurate stories about Muslims. Last month there were nine corrections to articles concerning Muslims in the British media - this month has seen four so far.
The activist behind most of the complaints and corrections says inaccurate media reporting about Muslims has led to increased hatred. But critics argue there is an attempt to prevent criticism of Islam. The most high profile apology last month was given to a Muslim family falsely accused of being extremists by columnist Katie Hopkins in the Mail Online – one of the family has told our reporter that he would now like to invite Katie Hopkins for tea at his house.




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Friday

20th January - Law News

1851st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: United States President Donald Trump spoke to the nation for the first time as Commander-in-Chief Friday afternoon moments after taking the oath of office to become the 45th President. Thousands of protesters flocked to downtown Wasington D.C. Friday Jan. 20 to speak out against President Donald Trump.


Focus of the day story:   Why can’t Britain apologise to these victims of rendition? With MI6’s help, Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj was handed over to Muammar Gaddafi and tortured. Yet still our government won’t say sorry. Full story - Guardian Law


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Selected photos of a banner making workshop in Cardiff where an effigy of Trump's bust was created by community artists, followed by the community protest on the 20th January outside Cardiff Castle where the effigy was beaten and trodden on.
Trump bust effigy
Banner for Trump protest

Cardiff protest against Donald Trump's misogyny
Beating of the Trump effigy

Beating of the Trump effigy
Protesting against Trump