Thursday

10th May - Law News

2327th 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 talks with North Korea approach, the new national security adviser, John Bolton, has long pushed for regime change in another country with nuclear ambitions: Iran. One of his chosen replacements is the dissident group Mujahedeen Khalq, known as M.E.K.


Focus of the Day Story: Government defeats bid to annul legal aid reform as MPs call for more support for criminal Bar. Full story - Legal Futures

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Wednesday

9th May - Law News

2326th 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 meeting between a Trump campaign official and an Australian diplomat in a London wine bar spiralled into a sprawling FBI investigation, looking at possible links between the Trump Presidential Campaign and the Russian government.


Focus of the Day Story: Miscarriage of justice victims unfairly denied compensation, court told. UK supreme court hears claim on behalf of two men jailed for 24 years for crimes they did not do. Full story - Guardian Law

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Tuesday

8th May - Law News

2325th 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: At the group's annual convention in Dallas, Lois Beckett speaks to ordinary NRA members in the wake of unprecedented pushback from teenage mass shootings survivors, and hears that the Parkland students 'need to do a little research before they jump into things they don't know much about'


Focus of the Day Story: Peers review dispute resolution & enforcement post-Brexit. A Lords’ committee led by Helena Kennedy QC has issued a stark warning on the consequences of leaving the EU without effective replacement dispute resolution systems in place. Full story - New Law Journal

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Monday

7th May - Law News

2324th 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: Thousands of those caught up in the Philippines war on drugs end up in Manila City Jail where they often spend years waiting for their day in court. Dennis Garcia, accused of two counts of robbery, has spent 16 years waiting for his trial. He tells the BBC's Howard Johnson what life inside the jail is like.



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Sunday

6th May - Law News

2323rd 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 armed group has for six decades for a homeland in northern Spain and southwest France. ETA has waged a campaign of violence killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands more. The separatist group whose name stands for 'Basque Homeland and Freedom' had wanted an independent state in parts of Spain and France. ETA now says it's dissolving its organisation and ending its violent campaign. International negotiators have hailed its announcement and called for dialogue. The group issued an apology last month to the victims, saying it took 'direct responsibility'. But Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says ETA's crimes will not go unpunished. What will this move mean for other separatist movements in Europe?



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Saturday

5th May - Law News

2322nd 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: Tim Winton is one of Australia’s most celebrated authors with 29 books to his name. In this excerpt from his appearance on ABC's One Plus One, he argues that Australia's political life has been infested with misogyny.




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Friday

4th May - Law News

2321st 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: Six months after the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, police investigators are building a detailed picture of what they believe happened. After three suspects were arrested in December last year, mobile phone data and CCTV footage is providing valuable evidence in determining how Caruana Galizia was killed



Focus of the Day Story: People of the so-called 'Windrush generation' may be denied justice because of legal aid cuts, the Law Society has said, drawing attention to official figures that show an alarming drop in the number of people who receive publicly funded immigration help. Almost all non-asylum immigration cases were taken out of scope by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, which came into force in April 2013. According to the government's latest legal aid statistics, there were 22,496 newly initiated immigration non-asylum legal aid cases in 2012/13. In 2016/17, there were three. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Thursday

3rd May - Law News

2320th 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: Guns sold by a former Washington DC police officer were traced to a murder, a convicted felon and the suicide of a former US Marine according to court records



Focus of the Day Story: Self-employed barristers are “data controllers” and not “data processors” for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as they need to be able to act independently of instructing solicitors, the Bar Council has said. The Bar Council said it was responding to attempts by solicitors’ firms to get individual barristers or chambers to enter into data processing contracts under the GDPR, which comes into effect on May 25. Full story - Legal Futures

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