Thursday

5th July - Law News

2382nd 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: How prisons and jails across the United States have become recruiting grounds for human traffickers, who are targeting incarcerated women and trafficking them out of correctional facilities and into pimp-controlled prostitution

Focus of the Day Story: An immigration solicitor told a client an advocate's fee was five times higher than it really was and pocketed the difference in an 'appalling case' highlighted by a member of human rights organisation Justice's working party on immigration and appeals. The working party, led by former High Court judge Sir Ross Cranston, has urged tribunals to refer incompetent and dishonest practitioners to the regulator in its Immigration and Asylum Appeals - a Fresh Look report, which contains 49 recommendations to be considered by a new administrative justice body chaired by the senior president of tribunals, Sir Ernest Ryder. Full story - The Law Society Gazette

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Wednesday

4th July - Law News

2381st 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: Deep divisions along party lines and fears over immigration have raised concerns for the ultimate fate of the US. Almost a third of Americans polled said they thought a second civil war was possible.


Focus of the Day Story: A significant proportion of home owners do not trust the law firms they are referred to by estate agents, a survey has found. It also revealed that a quarter of home owners considered that lawyers offered “the lowest level of customer service that they encountered during life’s major transactions”. Full story - Legal Futures

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Tuesday

3rd July - Law News

2380th 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: Hiding in plain sight in homes all across Australia, international crime syndicates are growing millions of dollars-worth of cannabis. Senior police believe these syndicates are far more powerful than they previously suspected and say they operate across multiple states in a “scattergun” model, designed so the detection of one house does not cripple the overall business. The ABC has gained rare access to several crop houses during police raids in NSW. Reporter Nino Bucci followed the trail of these syndicates all the way to the poorest provinces of Vietnam where most crop sitters come from before arriving to Australia on student visas.



Focus of the Day Story: Police study UK rendition report amid pressure to investigate. Former military lawyer says The Hague might step in if Britain fails to launch inquiry. Full story - Guardian Law


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    Monday

    2nd July - Law News

    2380th 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 video of a child apparently getting kidnapped in India has gone viral in India, leading people to attack strangers. The local police are now using social media to reveal the truth and reassure locals.

    Focus of the Day Story: Parties to commercial litigation must disclose all ‘smoking guns’ under draft disclosure rules due to be piloted in the Business and Property Courts in January. The Civil Procedure Rules Committee approved the draft rules this month and is likely to finalise its approval when it meets again in July. The draft rules, first published in November by a disclosure working group of judges and senior litigators, have been fine-tuned to take account of feedback from a three-month, 26-event roadshow. Full story - New Law Journal



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    Sunday

    1st July - Law News

    2379th 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 seven-year-old is kidnapped from outside her school, gang-raped and left to die in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur. At an Indore hospital, 200 km from Mandsaur, where the girl is admitted, BJP leaders met with the family and offered all possible help. However, they expected to be "thanked" for the visit. The opposition Congress party is questioning the motive. But in an election year, as politics takes over this case, we ask on Left, Right and Centre, does anybody care about protecting our children? Can India ever be safe for the girl child?


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    Saturday

    30th June - Law News

    2378th 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: Fake university degrees are being purchased by hundreds of Canadians.


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    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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