Saturday

24th March - Law News

2280th 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: Three people were killed and 16 others injured in an attack by a lone gunman in southern France, French President Emmanuel Macron has said, calling the act ‘Islamic terrorism.’




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Friday

23rd March - Law News

2279th 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: Kylie Morris speaks to the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman Adam Schiff, one of the leading figures investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. I began by asking him about those comments from Alexander Nix that sounded so dismissive of their efforts to discover what Cambridge Analytica had been doing and how his committee didn't have jurisdiction over his activities.



Focus of the Day story: Lawyers, Legal Language and Fact-finding Hearings under Part IV of the Children Act 1989 -  what lessons can be learned from the Court of Appeal's judgment in R (Children) [2018] EWCA Civ 198. Full story - Family Law Week


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Thursday

22nd March - Law News

2278th 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 BBC investigation has revealed that Rohingya girls as young as 13, who fled Myanmar in the past 6 months, are being trafficked into prostitution in Bangladesh. The undercover team filmed traffickers openly offering the girls for sex in Cox's Bazar, the town nearest to the refugee camps, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims now live.



Focus of the Day story: Families living below the poverty line are being denied vital legal help, according to research commissioned by the Law Society and published today. Chancery Lane is urging the Ministry of Justice to restore the means test to 2010 'real terms' levels. According to today's report by Loughborough University, Priced out of justice? Means testing legal aid and making ends meet, at the maximum level of disposable income at which legal aid is allowed, households have too little income to reach a minimum standard of living before footing any legal bills. Typically, they have disposable incomes 10% to 30% too low to afford a minimum budget. Families below the disposable income limit, while eligible for legal aid, are required to contribute to legal costs, unless their income is extremely low. Full story - The Law Society Gazette


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Wednesday

21st March - Law News

2277th 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: One of the American soldiers ambushed by militants in Niger was wearing a helmet camera – an analysis of the footage to understand what happened.



Focus of the Day story: Justice Secretary David Gauke today finally published the Civil Liability Bill, which the government said “offered hope” of lower insurance premiums to millions of motorists by reducing the “unacceptably high number of whiplash claims”. The bill, first announced in last June’s Queen’s Speech, also contains changes to the way the personal injury discount rate is calculated. The plan is to introduce the whiplash changes in April 2019. Full story - Legal Futures


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Tuesday

20th March - Law News

2276th 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: Cambridge Analytica claims to use data 'to change audience behaviour'. But now a whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, has come forward to expose the company's practices. Wylie describes how its CEO, Alexander Nix, attracted support from then-Breitbart editor, Steve Bannon, and investment from billionaire Robert Mercer before obtaining help from Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan to harvest tens of millions of Facebook profiles.



Focus of the Day story: Barrister blows whistle on 'broken legal system brought to its knees by cuts'. Damning book by ‘secret barrister’ tells of courts plagued by daily errors leaving them unfit for purpose. Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

19th March - Law News

2275th 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: Outgoing Rep. Trey Gowdy bristled at President Donald Trump's attorney John Dowd's calling for the Justice Department to end Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

Focus of the Day story: Domestic abuse perpetrators could be electronically tagged or forced to attend programmes to address their attitudes under new Domestic Abuse Protection Orders. Breaching an order would be a criminal offence. Where abuse involves or affects a child, this would be counted as an aggravating factor during sentencing. A Domestic Abuse Commissioner would be appointed to hold the government to account. Full story - New Law Journal



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Sunday

18th March - Law News

2275th 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: Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has returned to Australia with a new exhibit on the plight of refugees, and says Australia has to be “very careful” in how it deals with an unstoppable China and its political influence in this country.


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