Saturday

3rd March - Law News

2260th 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 Focus: The hipster fascists trying to bring Mussolini back into the mainstream.  the small, fascist party that runs a youth hostel, a medical centre and a food bank - but only if you're Italian.



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Friday

2nd March - Law News

2259th 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 Focus: A proposed law to help choke fugitives involved in major economic offences has been cleared by the government, amid investigations into a massive bank scam involving jewellery billionaires who have left the country. The Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill will help the government seize properties of those involved in fraud worth more than Rs. 100 crore, said Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. "The law will be passed as soon as possible as we can't allow people to make a mockery of the law... first indulge in loot, then refuse to submit to the jurisdiction of the country," Mr Jaitley told reporters after a cabinet meeting this evening.


Focus of the Day story: Afghan boy launches UK legal challenge against refugee policy Teenager argues Home Office applied unfair selection criteria after Calais camp closed. Full story - Guardian Law

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Thursday

1st March - Law News

2258th 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 Focus: Nationality feels powerful, especially today. But the idea of identifying with millions of strangers just based on borders is relatively new. We explain why it was invented — and how it changed the world.


Focus of the Day story: Nearly all criminal law practitioners have encountered a failure to disclose evidence in the past 12 months, according to a survey which attracted over 1,200 responses. The BBC commissioned a survey in conjunction with the Criminal Law Solicitors' Association, the London Criminal Courts Solicitors' Association and the Criminal Bar Association. Its results will be broadcast tonight. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Wednesday

28th February - Law News

2257th 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 Focus: There's a strong chance it's this guy. Planet America examines the forgotten legacy of President Warren G Harding, who signed racist laws and cut taxes for the rich … while he played golf.


Focus of the Day story: It’s been a buyer’s market in recent years for solicitors purchasing professional indemnity insurance (PII). But could that soon change? We canvassed the views of a number of experts to find out what 2018 might hold. For some law firms with good claims records, the benign picture of 2017 remains unchanged, with insurers offering a range of incentives, including 18-month contracts and additional cyber cover or lower run-off premiums, to encourage them to review their options earlier and go with them. Full story - Legal Futures

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Tuesday

27th February - Law News

2256th 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 Focus: As night falls in Athens, the city’s squares turn seedy, and middle-aged European men can be seen chatting with teenage Syrian boys – a seemingly odd pairing of friends. Many of these youngsters are refugees who have resorted to selling themselves for as little as €10 just to eat. Some also choose drug pedaling and petty theft to survive. With no official documents or help from Greece’s immigration authorities, they are stranded in this horrific life. To escape, some consider abandoning their dream of living in Europe, and others even contemplate suicide.


Focus of the Day story: A feature of the modernisation of the family justice system has been the inclusion of children, young people and other vulnerable parties in proceedings. There has been a recognition that the family justice system has failed to ensure that children, the subjects of these most personally intrusive proceedings, understand and are afforded an opportunity to take an active role in a process to which they frequently neither choose nor wish to be a party. In so recognising the need for the inclusion of children in proceedings, attention has largely focused on whether, when and how children and vulnerable persons' voices should be heard. Full story - Family Law Week

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Monday

26th February - Law News

2255th 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 Focus: Sexual abuse that reportedly took place in an orphan boarding school sent shockwaves across Russia after its former residents described the horrors that happened there, claiming they had been raped by a visitor and staff.


Focus of the Day story: The gender pay gap at the Law Society Group (the Law Society and Solicitors Regulatory Association), is ‘substantially lower’ than across the UK workforce as a whole, the group has announced. Full story - New Law Journal
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