Tuesday

20th June - Law News

2003rd 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: With less than two weeks remaining for India's Goods and Services Tax rollout, few housing developers are demanding full payment before July 1.


Focus of the day story:  UK workers are cheated out of at least £1.5bn a year in holiday pay. One in 20 does not get statutory holiday pay, one in 12 does not get payslip and £1.2bn in wages are unpaid annually, says study. Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

19th June - Law News

2002nd 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: Several people have been injured after being hit by a van near Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, early Monday morning. The van reportedly veered off the road into people outside the mosque but it was unclear whether the collision was deliberate. A clean shaven white man has been arrested at the scene.


Focus of the day story: A former wife has successfully challenged a ruling that her ex-husband should get half of the fortune she built up during their marriage. The Court of Appeal heard that both parties earned about £100,000 during their six-year relationship but the wife, a trader, received bonuses worth £10.5m, in Sharp v Sharp [2017] EWCA Civ 408. The couple, in their early 40s with no children, had matrimonial assets of £5.45m at the time of the divorce.  Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

18th June - Law News

2001st 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: Two young girls were allegedly stripped of their school uniform by a private school in Bihar's Begusarai district, India and forced to walk down home in a semi-naked condition on Friday because they could not pay the school fees.

 

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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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