Monday

10th July - Law News

2023rd 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: Matt and Chelsea Bond are living the Australian Dream, a house in the suburbs, kids at great schools, but that doesn’t mean racism hasn’t impacted their lives.



Focus of the day story: The Law Society has published a devastating critique of LASPO (Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012), which slashed civil and family legal aid. In a report published last week, ‘Access denied? LASPO four years on’, the Law Society concludes that the legislation, which came into force in April 2013, has denied access to justice to society’s most vulnerable, hit the public purse and damaged the foundation of the justice system. Full story: New Law Journal


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Sunday

9th July - Law News

2022nd 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: At least 28 inmates killed in Mexico’s Acapulco prison riot. Distraught families in the Mexican city of Acapulco have been waiting to identify the bodies of their relatives. Former inmates say the jail was a time-bomb.


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Saturday

8th July - Law News

2021st 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: Hundreds of left wing activists clashed with police in Hamburg, Germany. At least 29 activists are now under arrest and authorities claim that more than 150 policemen are injured. They are protesting against the G20 summit, Donald Trump's climate change denial and the presence of Russian president Putin.


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Friday

7th July - Law News

2020th 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 review of the ongoing tension between India and China over the Doklam trijunction between India, China and Bhutan. Should India take a different approach towards the issue and try to solve the matter peacefully rather than engaging in military buildup? Given the tense atmosphere, should India as well as China maintain restraint in their discourse?


Focus of the day story: The Legal Services Board (LSB) has given the frontline regulators largely positive reviews of their performance, but warned the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) that it will be monitoring the impact of its controversial decision to end public and press access to its board meetings. It also expressed concern at the high staff turnover at the Bar Standards Board (BSB). Full story - Legal Futures

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Thursday

6th July - Law News

2019th 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 long struggle for pro-independence groups to separate Biafra from Nigeria is gathering pace, 50 years after a brutal civil war over a successionist rebellion. Now, it's mainly young activists from southeastern Nigeria, also known as Igboland, that are demanding separation.


Focus of the day story:  Barristers and solicitors have similar fees according to guidance published by the Bar Standards Board for people needing help with immigration and asylum issues. The Bar Standards Board has collaborated with the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner to publish guidance for members of the public and guidance for professionals to help clients navigate the system. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Wednesday

5th July - Law News

2018th 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: Doctors say they are seeing a rise in the number of young girls wanting cosmetic surgery on the most intimate part of their body – their genitals. The country’s leading adolescent gynaecologists told the Victoria Derbyshire Programme that girls as young as nine are desperate for the surgery because they are so distressed about the appearance of their vaginas. The surgery is called labiaplasty. It’s where the lips of the vagina are shortened or reshaped. It’s not recommended for girls under the age of 18 as their bodies haven not fully developed, but there are concerns that some girls are being given the surgery unnecessarily on the NHS.


Focus of the day story:  Wait for care proceedings rises to 28 weeks. Cafcass CEO ‘not surprised’ at increase following rise in applications. Full story - Solicitors Journal

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Tuesday

4th July - Law News

2017th 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: Chris Patten, Hong Kong’s last governor, handed the former colony back to China on 1 July 1997 to be ruled with a degree of autonomy under a system called “one country, two systems”. 20 years on, China controls the legislature with iron grip.


Focus of the day story: The independent report into deaths in custody must be delayed no longer
Dr Omar Khan of the Runnymede Trust, Martha Spurrier of Liberty, Kate Paradine of Women in Prison and others question the continued and unexplained delays in publishing a report due a year ago. Full story - Guardian Law

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