Monday

3rd June - Law News

2714th 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: Despite strong calls for its cancellation, hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists have taken to the streets of Berlin, for the annual Al-Quds demonstration, which marks the day of Jerusalem. Usually held on the last Friday of Ramadan , the protest is against, what's viewed by the demonstrators, as Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem. The Israeli community in the city held a counter-demonstration - and expressed fears that anti-Semitism is gaining momentum in Germany.




Focus of the Day Article:
The Law Society has issued a practice note highlighting solicitors’ duties when encountering a suspected victim of human trafficking.
Full story - New Law Journal

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Sunday

2nd June - Law News

2713rd 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: US immigration: Texas detention facility severely overcrowded: A US government watchdog has issued a damning report on overcrowding at a migrant detention facility in Texas. The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security says immediate action must be taken to address the problem.





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Saturday

1st June - Law News

2712nd 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: India's GDP or gross domestic product grew 5.8 per cent in the January-March period, the slowest rate of expansion recorded since the quarter ended June 2017, government data showed on Friday. That was worse than economists' expectations, and lower than 6.6 per cent in the previous quarter. A survey of economists by news agency Reuters had forecast GDP growth at 6.3 per cent annually in the quarter ended March 31.





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Friday

31st May - Law News

2711st 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 US Justice Department has charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with receiving and publishing classified information, including the names of confidential sources for American armed forces. The case presents immediate questions about media freedom, including whether the Justice Department is charging Assange for actions — such as soliciting and publishing classified information — that journalists take as a matter of course.





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A competition offering grants of £50,000 for technology-based approaches to making legal services more accessible will be announced by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and a government-backed technology foundation today. The Legal Access Challenge has recei

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Thursday

30th May - Law News

2710th 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: Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, argues that world leaders are weak, shortsighted and mediocre, and no longer willing or able to defend human rights. It used to be that human rights abuses were called out and many were stopped. Violators had something to fear. But today, the silence of those public officials is astounding. Probable genocide in Myanmar, imprisonment of journalists in Egypt and their murder in Turkey, authoritarian-minded leaders elected in Brazil, Hungary, India, Russia, Italy and Austria, oppression in China, Cambodia, Venezuela, children separated from their parents and locked up right here in Trump’s America. That's without mentioning North Korea. The worst human rights offenders are able to act with complete impunity.





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The very best technology allows staff simply to get on with their job. It works away in the background and we don’t even notice it’s there. There are, in fact, probably many instances where everyday processes are taking advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) and we don’t even realise.
In the near future, we anticipate machine learning will start to be used in the conveyancing process too. It will be used to check documents and recognise images with the aim of speeding up the overall workflow.
Full story - Legal Futures

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Wednesday

29th May - Law News

2709th 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: Could a beligerent approach to foreign policy make for a safer world? Many think Trump a buffoon and a threat to world peace. But with ISIS weakened, and signs of progress in North Korea, perhaps his supporters can point to some initial successes. Is the beat way of pursuing peace to prepare for war? Or has Trump in fact made the world more precarious than ever?





Focus of the Day Article:
New thinking on prison sentencing needed. A different approach is required, where punishment is not seen as an inevitable escalator of severity.
Full story - Guardian Law

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