Tuesday

10th October - Law News

2115th 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: Facebook has hit back at criticism that it's failing to do enough to police fake news. The company's security chief says the social-media giant mustn't end up becoming an Orwellian-style Ministry of Truth.

Focus of the day story:  One in five stopped by immigration enforcement is a UK citizen, figures show. Home Office data from 11 UK cities obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Bristol Cable casts doubt on ‘intelligence’ behind stops. Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

9th October - Law News

2114th 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: Step into a nursery in Lima, Peru where children play and learn within the confines of the Santa Monica de Chorrillos prison, where their mothers are inmates.

 
Focus of the day story: It’s vital that today’s legal professionals start preparing for what the future legal market is going to look like, according to a principal at Fortinberry Murray. Speaking to Lawyers Weekly ahead of the upcoming Future Forum, Dr Bob Murray, principal at Fortinberry Murray, said that its now become a necessity for lawyers to be planning ahead, as the future legal market is set to be vastly different than as we know it today. “The future of the ‘legal’ market for many firms will not be pure law, or maybe not ‘law’ at all,” Dr Murray said. Full story - Lawyers Weekly


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Sunday

8th October - Law News

2113rd 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: Gerrymandering is why election maps across the country can look so crazy. Politicians manipulate boundaries to favor one party or another.

 

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Saturday

7th October - Law News

2112nd 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 prime minister's speech was more eventful than many expected. It was perhaps an unmitigated disaster that highlights the present state of her government.

 

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Friday

6th October - Law News

2111st 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 EU's mandatory quota scheme has been the focus of much of the criticism. Poland and Hungary have been the most vocal critics, refusing to take in any refugees. The crisis also proved a challenge even for the EU's biggest and wealthiest countries - like France and Germany. RT spoke to the Hungarian Foreign Minister - for his take on the bloc's common migration policies.


Focus of the day story:  General counsel continue to face an uphill struggle demonstrating their value to the business, sector research suggests, highlighting differences of opinion among senior lawyers and their board directors about lawyers' role and performance. Winmark, a network and research body, worked with international firm Clyde & Co to survey 100 senior in-house lawyers and 18 board directors for its latest Looking Glass report, which will be unveiled this evening. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
 

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Thursday

5th October - Law News

2110th 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 Guardian/ITV News undercover investigation into conditions at a chicken processing factory that supplies Britain's major supermarkets reveals hygiene failures, manipulation of slaughter dates and repackaging of returned meat. The 2 Sisters plant in the West Midlands supplies M&S, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Aldi and Lidl with pre-packaged chicken meat.


Focus of the day story:  More than 50 solicitors, barristers and in-house counsel have volunteered to outsmart predictive software based on artificial intelligence in a ground-breaking lawyer v machine challenge. Lawyers will have a week to predict whether real PPI complaints were upheld or rejected by the Financial Ombudsman, before Elexirr, developed by the team behind LawBot, predicts the outcomes in its own way. Full story - Legal Futures
 

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Wednesday

4th October - Law News

2109th 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: San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz says that Trump's comments about Puerto Rico's budget and comparisons to Hurricane Katrina showed a lack of respect for the Puerto Rican people.


Focus of the day story:  Law firms could be forced to adopt the new Corporate Governance Code under “comply or explain” conditions imposing a serious burden on the law firms involved. Full story - The Global Legal Post
 

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