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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Tuesday

3rd October - Law News

2108th 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 Syrian army, backed by Russian air power, is making a last push to repel the remaining terrorists out of the largely-liberated city of Deir ez-Zor. Citizens there have had to endure three years of siege by Islamic State.


Focus of the day story:  Britain will be 'world embarrassment' unless rights watchdog has more powers. David Isaac, chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission, urges action to make sure not only the wealthy get justice. Full story - Guardian Law
 

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Monday

2nd October - Law News

2107th 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 Saudi Arabia many women are celebrating following a royal decree from King Salman allowing them to drive for the first time. The law will be changed by June next year, ending Saudi Arabia's status as the only country to ban women drivers on the roads.


Focus of the day story: Anti-human rights rhetoric and post-Brexit equality concerns are posing a serious threat to the UK’s global status as a champion for human rights, the UN has been told. Full story - New law Journal
 

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Sunday

1st October - Law News

2106th 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: As Catalonia prepares to hold a historic referendum on whether to split from Spain, Catalonia's pro-independence President Carles Puigdemont, a former journalist, talks to Al Jazeera. He says “one important thing has happened in the past few days. There is a new majority in Catalonia, a wide ranging majority amongst the Catalans people which has grown that want to vote – be it ‘yes’ or ‘no’, but they want to vote and this is unstoppable. Referendums are not carried out by the courts or the police, its voters who make up a referendum… The wish to vote is unstoppable. You cannot put a brake on it.…Today the debate is not between independence yes or no, it’s above all between those who wish to create a new state right from the grassroots. A modern state. Or to continue with an authoritarian state which can cut back on our freedom, our liberties, to compel us to continue forming part of this state.”


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Saturday

30th September - Law News

2105th 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: Dr Eva Orsmond investigates why where you are born and raised in Ireland can have a dramatic impact on how long you live. In Moyross, Limerick, Dr Eva met Jeanette, a mum of seven, who showed her the reality of her weekly shop.


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