Saturday

25th March - Law News

1914th 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: This Week In Hate - A Sikh Woman’s Subway Ride. Rajpreet Heir was on the L train, on her way to a friend’s birthday party in Manhattan, when a man started harassing her. As part of The Times’ series This Week in Hate, she recounts her story at the site of the incident in this 360 video.


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Friday

24th March - Law News

1913th 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: Lebanon has long been known for being the sex tourism capital of the Middle East. For years people from around the region have flocked to its “super night clubs” in the hope of meeting and sleeping with women. But the influx of Syrian refugees has pushed more people into the sex industry, with many Syrians turning to prostitution to survive. Benjamin Zand from BBC Pop Up meets Syrian refugees who say they had no other choice but to become prostitutes, and finds out how European women in "super night clubs" are being locked up, by law, everyday.

Focus of the day story:  Lord chief justice attacks Liz Truss for failing to back article 50 judges. Lord Thomas also criticises putting out of inaccurate information about scheme to pre-record rape victims’ testimony. Full story - Guardian Law

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Thursday

23rd March - Law News

1912th 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: It's got more oil than any country on the planet but its people eat garbage and gangsters rule. Defying a media ban, Eric Campbell goes undercover in the onetime socialist idyll of Venezuela.


Focus of the day story: bill designed to make it easier for lawyers to act for their clients in intellectual property disputes is close to completing its passage through parliament. The IP (Unjustified Threats) Bill passed the report stage, where all MPs can debate it, and third reading without amendments yesterday. The bill now requires only royal assent before becoming law. Commending the bill to a sparsely populated House of Commons, IP minister Jo Johnson said that ‘IP is crucial to supporting growth’ and that he was pleased that this ‘vital and important piece of legislation’ was completing its passage. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Wednesday

22nd March - Law News

1911th 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: Full statement from Metropolitan Police on the unfolding events in Westminster this afternoon... LATEST: four dead, 12 injured, as many as 3 police officers also injured, woman pulled alive from River Thames, PM to chair emergency COBRA meeting.


Focus of the day story: Extradition is where the law and politics collide. Nowhere else is the issue of other countries’ human rights examined more closely. While extradition has many similarities to immigration matters, there are two important differences: first, extradition is dealt with in public, and second, all individuals facing extradition are of course alleged or convicted criminals. Full story - Solicitors Journal

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Tuesday

21st March - Law News

1911th 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: How do the largest community of British migrants living in Spain feel about Brexit? So many of them have voted for brexit and complain of foreigners in the UK without thinking of themselves as foreigner in Spain. When article 50 is triggered, the UK will begin negotiating its exit from the European Union – and expats rights to healthcare, pensions and their British citizenship all hang in the balance. Britons living in Orihuela Costa, Alicante – ‘effectively a British enclave’ – give their views.


Focus of the day story: The government’s personal injury reforms will boost insurers’ profits by up to £700m a year, an economics consultancy has predicted ahead of today’s second reading of the Prisons and Courts Bill. Capital Economics (CE) also said there were reasons other than fraud which led to rising insurance premiums, and that the argument motor accident rates have fallen while claims have risen may be misleading. Full story - Legal Futures

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Monday

20th March - Law News

1910th 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: Protesters have gathered in Paris to rally against police brutality. The march comes a few weeks after a wave of violent protests, sparked by the alleged rape of a black man by police during a routine ID check on February 2, 2017.



Focus of the day story: The current reciprocal rules for enforcing civil justice across the EU cannot be replicated by the Great Repeal Bill, a committee of Peers has found. In a report published this week, “Brexit: justice for families, individuals and businesses?”, the House of Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee gave a dire warning about access to justice across the EU for families and businesses post-Brexit. Full story - New Law Journal



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