Monday

19th November - Law News

2520th 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 rape trial has sparked outrage in Ireland after the defence used a controversial argument concerning consent, to win the case.
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The Court of Appeal (Civil Division) followed in the footsteps of the Supreme Court this week by live-streaming its judgments. A dispute over Premier League football club West Ham United’s use of the stadium that was built for the 2012 London Olympics, heard in Court 71 before the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Lewison and Lady Justice Asplin, made legal history as the first Court of Appeal hearing to be live-streamed in full. WH Holding Ltd v E20 Stadium concerns the seating capacity that should be made available to the London club for home fixtures at what is now known as the London Stadium in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Full story - New Law Journal



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Sunday

18th November - Law News

2519th 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: They murdered, enslaved, and tortured their fellow citizens in Cambodia and Vietnam during the 1970s, but now, two top officials of the Khmer Rouge have also been found guilty of genocide. A UN-backed tribunal has delivered a historic judgement against two of Pol Pot's deputies Nuon Chea, and Khieu Samphan, sentencing both to life in prison. Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a mid-level Khmer Rouge official before defecting, has said that no more suspects should be prosecuted. There are cases against four more officials pending, but it has taken the tribunal 12 years and $300 million to convict three people and it is unclear if the remaining cases will move forward.



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Saturday

17th November - Law News

2518th 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: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday termed demonetisation as the biggest scam in the history of independent India, adding it would be proved that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had "robbed the poor of their hard-earned money and given it away to a few rich". Addressing a campaign rally for the November 28 Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, Rahul Gandhi said PM Modi does not talk about being a "chowkidar (watchman) of the country and of tackling corruption.



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Friday

16th November - Law News

2517th 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: Matthew Whitaker: Who Is Trump's Acting Attorney General? The acting attorney general, a vocal critic of the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling, was associated with a shadowy company fined nearly $26 million.

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Growing concern that the UK could exit the EU without a deal has led the Law Society of England and Wales to publish the first in a series of papers giving solicitors guidance so they can take steps to mitigate some of the risks. The first tranche of papers gives advice on some of the potential rule changes where a deal goes wrong between a business here and in the EU, what happens in family law if a couple splits up and how data sharing should be approached if the UK quits the EU without any agreement. There is also a paper on legal services.
Full story - Family Law Week

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Thursday

15th November - Law News

2516th 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 men were found guilty of planning to conduct a terror attack in Melbourne, Australia's CBD over the Christmas period in 2016, in a verdict handed down earlier this month.

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he High Court has agreed that a former junior lawyer who claimed to be scared to come clean to her bosses about her misconduct should be struck off, after the SRA successfully argued had been treated too leniently at tribunal. Judges in Solicitors Regulation Authority v James & Ors today ruled that the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal was wrong to opt against a strike-off and instead to impose a suspended suspension. The judgment comes less than two weeks after the two-day appeal hearing.

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Wednesday

14th November - Law News

2515th 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: Now for some voices you rarely hear from in the Brexit debate. More than 600,000 children live in the UK who were born elsewhere in the EU. Many of them came to Britain years ago and now consider it home. So what does Brexit mean for these young people, who are still finding their place in the world?

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A year-long pilot to hear applications to set aside county court default judgments by an internet-enabled video link will begin at the end of this month. It is the latest development in the ongoing court modernisation programme. The pilot will apply to applications heard at the Manchester or Birmingham Civil Justice Centres under changes introduced in the 101st update to the Civil Procedure Rules as Practice Direction 51V.
Full story - Legal Futures

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Tuesday

13th November - Law News

2514th 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 greatest challenges facing India is the creation of new jobs for its rapidly expanding workforce. The current government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has pledged to achieve this in a country that will in the next few years surpass China as the world's most populous. It's led to a heated debate within India about what exactly Mr Modi has promised and how you accurately measure employment for an economy with a vast informal labour force. As elections approach in India, our Reality Check team will be following the campaigns, addressing claims and unpicking the facts around contentious policy issues.

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Police chiefs want to trigger an expansion of stop and search by lowering the level of suspicion an officer needs against a suspect to use the power, the Guardian has learned. They want to scrap the requirement that “reasonable grounds” are needed before a person can be subjected to a search, amid mounting concern over knife attacks.
Full story - Guardian Law

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Monday

12th November - Law News

2513th 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: Dozens of world leaders have arrived in France on the invitation of French President Macron to join commemorative events marking the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI.

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Solicitors have expressed concern about a hike in probate fees to as high as £6,000. The proposals, announced in a written statement by justice minister Lucy Frazer this week, are to replace the existing flat fee for probate of £155 for those applying with a solicitor or £215 for individuals with a sliding scale of fees. 
Full story - New Law Journal


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