Wednesday

27th February - Law News

2619th 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: "Don't mention the war." Basil Fawlty didn't follow his most famous piece of advice, and arguably the same can be said for all sides in the Brexit debate. Both Leavers and Remainers have likened Brexit to Dunkirk and tried to claim Churchill for themselves, while some advocates for a no-deal Brexit cite rationing as evidence the country will cope perfectly well with leaving without a deal. So why is World War Two constantly drawn upon in the Brexit debate?



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Criminal law barristers cannot go on without “sensible parameters” for sitting hours and overnight working and will take action if the judiciary does not, the head of their representative body said yesterday. Chris Henley, chair of the Criminal Bar Association, said it and the Bar Council have “endeavoured to agree” such parameters with the senior judiciary.
Full story - Legal Futures


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Tuesday

26th February - Law News

2618th 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 government has confirmed for the first time that around 100 refugees that were Syrian White Helmets rescuers and their family members have been re-settled in the UK. They were evacuated from Syria with the help of the UK last year. In their first TV interview we spoke to one of these former White Helmets. A man who has left a life of pulling bodies from collapsed buildings in Syria - and is starting to make a new life in the UK with his young family.



Focus of the Day Article:
It is hard to see how a child’s interests can be truly prioritised and safeguarded if one of the parties is not properly advised and represented, writes a former lay judge in the family court
Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

25th February - Law News

2617th 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: During the war in Syria, children in areas controlled by Islamist groups were involuntarily recruited as fighters and forced to witness barbaric executions. The Syrian Army has now taken back control, but these children are still haunted by what they saw, what was done to them, and the brainwashing they received.



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The founder of The First 100 Years project has called for quotas in law firms to guarantee more women at equity partner level and in senior management. Dana Denis-Smith, the entrepreneur and lawyer who set up the project nearly five years ago, has warned that the profession is dragging its heels on equality, with ‘rigid and inflexible structures’ in many law firms preventing women from progressing to senior positions. ‘Women are still not sufficiently represented at equity level, amongst QCs or in the judiciary and when they are, they are not paid as much as their male counterparts. We should be demanding equal representation and pay,’ Denis-Smith said.
Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

24th February - Law News

2616th 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: French President Emmanuel Macron introduced a bill this week that would make anti-Zionism a criminal offence. Anti-Semitism, hostility and prejudice directed against Jewish people, is already illegal in France. Anti-Zionism, opposition to the state of Israel, could now follow. Elsewhere in Europe, 12 MPs resigned from their parties in the UK, citing the failure to deal with anti-Semitism as one of the reasons. The EU says hate speech and harassment are becoming the new norm. So why are Jewish people being singled out?



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Saturday

23rd February - Law News

2615th 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: Two Kashmiri students were allegedly attacked by activists of the far-right Shiv Sena's youth wing in Maharashtra's Yavatmal on Wednesday night, becoming the latest incident of the kind to occur after the Pulwama terror attack. A video clip of the assault was widely shared on the social media. The eight accused were affiliated to the Yuva Sena, which has since taken action against them. Police said they have been arrested on the basis of a First Information Report (FIR) filed at a local station.



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Friday

22nd February - Law News

2614th 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: Saudi teenager Rahaf Alqunun captured the world's attention when she fled from her family in Kuwait, fearing she would be harmed or killed by her family for renouncing Islam. She lived in a country where she was under the control of her father in a strict male guardianship system — needing permission to work, marry and travel. Human rights groups have called for the system to be abolished, saying it can trap women and girls as prisoners of abusive families.



Focus of the Day Article:
US patent and trademark office releases report on trends and characteristics of women inventors, echoing findings from IWPR report. The report shows that women still comprise a small minority of patented inventors. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) report, entitled Progress and Potential: A profile of women inventors on US patents, covers trends and characteristics of US women inventors named on US patents granted from 1976 through 2016.
Full story - The Global Legal Post
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Thursday

21st February - Law News

2613rd 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: Musa Syeed’s evocative short film “The Dispossessed,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The film shows how Mohammed Shafi Hazari, a traditional faith healer, exorcises patients who've been possessed. But in Kashmir, amidst the world’s longest running conflict, nothing is as it seems. A xerox technician by day, Hazari has a faith healing practice, looking for signs his patients might be possessed by a jinn. Bu more often than not, he finds what his patients call possession may actually be depression, triggered by a conflict that has dragged on for decades.



Focus of the Day Article:
Takling the 'stubbornly low' number of female partners in large law firms along with under representation of people from minority ethnic communities in senior roles is the key to creating a judiciary more representative of society as a whole, the lord chief justice said last night. In a lecture ‘A changing judiciary in a modern age’, the Lord Burnett of Maldon said that it was inevitable that the judiciary reflected society as it was several decades ago, when current judges completed their education, rather than today. He noted that, since 1991, the ethnic minority population of the UK has increased from 5.5% of the total to 14%. 'A bare comparison between the proportion of ethnic minority judges and the current overall ethnic minority population will not take these factors into account.'
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