Friday

29th June - Law News

2377th 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: This content is the subject of a legal complaint made on behalf of Victoria Woodcock Shahmir Sanni, who worked for the official Vote Leave campaign, today breaks cover to raise concerns that the group behind the knife-edge 2016 vote in favour of Brexit – including key figures now working for Theresa May in Downing Street – may have broken the law by flouting referendum spending rules and then attempting to destroy evidence.  Sanni claims that a donation of £625,000 was made by Vote Leave to an independent referendum campaign organisation called BeLeave. Sanni says that the money, which was then channeled to a Canadian digital services firm, AggregateIQ, that has links to the controversial Cambridge Analytica, violated election regulations. The donation was sanctioned by the most senior figures in Vote Leave, including campaign director Dominic Cummings and CEO Matthew Elliott Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: 'We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles' – video.


Focus of the Day Story: US corporate legal departments continue to battle with a budget squeeze, highlighting cost controls and technology, according to the third edition of the Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker Legal Department Operations (LDO) Index. Sixty-eight percent of legal departments surveyed report the volume of work, defined by legal matters, is increasing, but only 35 per cent of legal departments report an increase in department budget over the last 12 months. Additionally, 25 per cent report a budget decrease, while 40 per cent report their budget remains flat. Full story - The Global Legal Post

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Thursday

28th June - Law News

2376th 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:  INew satellite images show North Korea has made rapid improvements to the infrastructure at its Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center -- a facility used to produce weapons-grade fissile material, according to an analysis published by 38 North, a prominent North Korea monitoring group.


Focus of the Day Story: Family solicitors today urged the government to extend civil partnerships to couples of the opposite sex after the Supreme Court ruled in Steinfeld and Keidan v Secretary of State for International Development that there was no justification for the ongoing discrimination since legislation was introduced allowing same-sex couples to marry. Full story - Law Society Gazette


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Wednesday

27th June - Law News

2375th 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:  Inside Turkey's Election: A Democracy on the Brink - What does an election look like when democracy’s very survival is in question? To find out, we came to Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for more than 15 years.

Focus of the Day Story: A third of women barristers, those from a black, Asian or ethnic minority (BAME) background and disabled barristers have experienced harassment, bullying or discrimination in recent years, new Bar Council research has revealed. There has been a “significant increase” in the number of barristers reporting both personal experience of these behaviours and witnessing it happening to others, with those in employed settings more likely to face them than those in self-employment. Full story - Legal Futures


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Tuesday

26th June - Law News

2374th 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:  After a decades-old ban is lifted, women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to get behind the wheel of a car.


Focus of the Day Story: Chris Grayling was a justice minister who preferred to keep faith in privatisation even when his changes were failing some of the most vulnerable in our society. He ought to be accountable. Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

25th June - Law News

2373rd 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:  With political fissures deepening in the EU over how to deal with the influx of migrants, some of the bloc's leaders have gathered for an emergency meeting to discuss solutions.


Focus of the Day Story: A general sentencing guideline could be introduced to help judges, magistrates, prosecutors and defenders confronted with offences that fall outwith specific guidance. Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

24th June - Law News

2372nd 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 prospect of a trade war slowing down the world's economy means investors have been reassessing where to put their money. In recent weeks, developing market currencies like the Turkish lira and Argentina's peso have fallen to their weakest levels in months against the US dollar. For the time being, the US Federal Reserve is the only major central bank raising interest rates, and that's lending support to the dollar.


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Saturday

23rd June - Law News

2372nd 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 Uttar Pradesh Police apologised after three policemen were seen escorting a mob who dragged on the ground an alleged lynching victim. But the department only apologised after a photograph of the incident went viral on social media. The photograph, the police say, was taken a few minutes after the police arrived and tried to take the victims to hospital. They claim the victim was dragged, because there was no ambulance available but say the policemen should have been more sensitive in their conduct. Is this apology from the UP police acceptable? Can the police get away with just an apology or is exemplary action needed to set an example?


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Friday

22nd June - Law News

2371st 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 Rebel Puppeteers of Sudan.” - Filmed in that country’s remote Nuba Mountains, the film tells the story of a resourceful group of journalists and a drama collective who banded together to create “Bisha TV,” a satirical web series that mocks the cruelty of Sudan’s repressive leadership. Not only a comedy show born amid conflict and oppression, the series is a rare outlet for commentary from the Nuba Mountains. As one of the puppeteers says, “We’re showing what actually happens.”


Focus of the Day Story: The first signs of criticism emerged this week of the opening legislative move in the government's court reforms. The Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) passed its second reading in the House of Lords yesterday and is expected to reach committee stage before the summer recess. Delegating judicial functions to court staff, the bill is deliberately narrow in scope and should be the first in a series of pieces of legislation to replicate the aborted Prisons and Courts Bill last year. Full story - The Law Society Gazette


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