Sunday

26th May - Law News

2706th 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: Kenya's government is bringing in a new biometric ID card for all citizens above the age of six. Officials say it will make the country safer, and improve access to public services. But others fear the move could be risky and infringe on people's privacy.




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Saturday

25th May - Law News

2705th 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 concerns emerging out of the huge mandate of the BJP is whether it will challenge the already strained idea of India as a secular state. At the BJP headquarters, giving his victory speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that this election has unmasked those who claim to be secular. On this show, we look at whether the political consensus around the idea of secularism ended.




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Friday

24th May - Law News

2704th 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 rise of Airbnb and other short-stay accommodation options is dividing tourist towns across Australia. Some people feel it creates healthy competition and boosts visitor numbers, whereas hoteliers want unregistered holiday homes shut down. In the Western Australian tourist mecca of Margaret River, it's pitted neighbour against neighbour



Focus of the Day Article:
EU Council to impose cyber-attack sanctions. New framework will allow the EU and its member states to be more resistant and to respond to cyber-attacks with sanctions.
Full story - The Global Legal Post


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Thursday

23rd May - Law News

2703rd 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: Judge Edgardo Ramos in New York refused to block subpoenas from the House of Representatives for Trump's financial records from Deutsche Bank and Capital One. It's the second such ruling against the President in three days.



Focus of the Day Article:
A civil liberties group is taking on a police force which it says has scanned thousands of people’s faces without their knowledge or consent at high-profile events such as the 2017 Champions League Final and Ed Sheeran concerts. The High Court, sitting at Cardiff Civil and Family Justice Centre, today began hearing Liberty’s challenge against South Wales Police’s deployment of automated facial recognition software. The civil liberties group is representing Ed Bridges, who believes his face was scanned by the force at a peaceful anti-arms protest and while he was doing his Christmas shopping.
Full story - The Law Society Gazette


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Wednesday

22nd May - Law News

2702nd 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: Somalia used to be a byword for war and hardship, and thousands of Somalis escaped to this country to seek safe refuge. Now some families here are taking the radical decision to send their sons back to Somalia to get away from the dramatic rise in knife crime and gang culture here on the streets of England and Wales.



Focus of the Day Article:
The head of the body building the new whiplash portal has insisted that the organisation “does not dictate policy to ministers”. Dominic Clayden, chief executive of the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB), also revealed that the cost of setting up the portal – which is funded by the insurance industry – would be £15m.
Full story - Legal Futures


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Tuesday

21st May - Law News

2701st 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: Nanita Sohel is a first-time voter in India's northern state of Punjab. In the last phase of the general election on 19 May, she says she will vote for the party that can guarantee good jobs for graduates.



Focus of the Day Article:
UK property register 'needed urgently' to stop money laundering. MPs and peers say plans for register of foreign-owned property should not be delayed.
Full story - Guardian Law


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