Saturday

17th June - Law News

2000th 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: The landlocked West African country of Niger is trying to stop the flow of migrants attempting to make their way to Europe. The measures are mostly directed at the economic capital Agadez. This crackdown is causing businesses in the city to suffer.

 

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Friday

16th June - Law News

1999th 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: There's a growing anger among the residents affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. They are demanding answers over the failings which led to the disaster.


Focus of the day story:   Supreme court rules UK system for deporting foreign criminals unlawful. Ruling likely to ‘very heavily limit, if not entirely curtail’ use of ‘deport first, appeal later’ power. Full story - Guardian Law
 

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Thursday

15th June - Law News

1998th 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: UC Berkeley Professor Lok Siu walks "United Shades of America" host W. Kamau Bell through the intricacies of China's relationship with America, and how Chinese Americans get caught in the middle.


Focus of the day story:  The Solicitors Regulation Authority has admitted it does not expect any immediate change in the standard of proof when prosecuting solicitors, despite renewing calls to lower the threshold. Responding to a consultation on Bar Standards Board proposals to introduce a civil standard for barristers, the solicitors’ regulator urged its sister body to press on with immediate reform. However, a change along similar lines for solicitors was not ‘imminent’, it states. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
 

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Wednesday

14th June - Law News

1997th 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: Vicky Mohieddeen is a British woman who regularly visits North Korea from Beijing where she works for a tour company that takes foreigners into the "Hermit Kingdom". She knows the place well, has a respect for its people but realises too that she can't allow herself - or the revealing images she takes and puts on social media - to act as a mouthpiece for the country, so often condemned as aggressive and belligerent by the international community. She says she's not interested in taking those cliched "rare glimpse" pictures, but wants to use her photos of daily life in Pyongyang and beyond to connect.


Focus of the day story:  McKenzie Friends tread ‘fine line’ providing non-legal advice. What it means to conduct litigation is not clear, researchers find. Full story - Solicitors Journal
 

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Tuesday

13th June - Law News

1996th 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 Jewish Law it is the husband who has the right to decide whether he will give his wife a divorce (the “Get”). If he refuses her, the wife may be sentenced to years of living in a dead marriage. She cannot remarry and any child she has from a new relationship is considered illegitimate.


Focus of the day story: David Lidington has become the fourth Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice in just over two years after Liz Truss became the only member of the cabinet to be demoted following the election. Mr Lidington, also the fourth non-lawyer to hold the post after Chris Grayling, Michael Gove and Ms Truss, has got his own department for the first time after being appointed leader of the House of Commons last July when Theresa May became prime minister. In a statement released last night, Mr Lidington said: “I am pleased and honoured to have been appointed as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Full story - Legal Futures
 

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Monday

12th June - Law News

1995th 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: Iran has evidence that Washington is providing direct support to ISIS – that’s the claim made by the Iranian Army’s deputy chief of staff. It comes in the wake of last week’s twin terrorist attacks in Tehran. Both were claimed by ISIS, but Iran says they were only possible because of Saudi and US support for the group.

Focus of the day story: Judicial review applications on the rise. Some 1,832 judicial review applications were brought against the Home Office in 2016, a rise of 18% on the previous year, and the highest number received by any government department, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Justice this week. Full story - New Law Journal
 


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Sunday

11th June - Law News

1994th 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: A new women’s magazine is turning the page on Afghan cultural traditions, with features on fashion, make-up, and even adverts about birth control. It has prompted a re-think of which some are applauding, and others are critical.
 

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