Wednesday

20th March - Law News

2640th 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: Turning now to the New Zealand terror attacks, the Prime Minister there says new gun laws will be announced within days. Her cabinet has backed a ban on semi-automatic weapons, and the Prime Minister has urged owners to hand such guns in to the police. Among the families of the 50 victims, frustration has been growing at being unable to bury their dead within the 24 hours customary in the Islamic faith, because of ongoing investigations. We report from Christchurch.



Focus of the Day Article: Artificial intelligence (AI) should be developed in conjunction with a wide range of non-technical specialists, while an ‘ethical black box’ showing how a system made particular decisions may also be needed, according to an academic.
Full story: Legal Futures


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Tuesday

19th March - Law News

2639th 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: Ali Adeeba was praying alongside his brother and father at the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, when a gunman opened fire. He described how the harrowing events unfolded around him.




Focus of the Day Article:Knife and weapon offences reach highest level since 2009. Official figures show 21,484 offences were recorded across England and Wales in 2018.
Full story: Guardian Law


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Monday

18th March - Law News

2638th 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:There's been a steep rise in knife crime in Britain. And according to official figures, last year 35% of all crime involving a knife or sharp instrument happened in London. It's now prompted a leading supermarket chain to stop the sale of single kitchen knives.



Focus of the Day Article:
Fewer than one in ten solicitors at small law firms have made contingency plans for Brexit, according to the latest Bellwether research paper. The paper, ‘The Luxury of Uncertainty: Inaction in the face of Brexit’, published this week by LexisNexis UK, highlights overwhelming inaction to prepare for the UK’s departure in two weeks’ time. A further 20% of the 176 solicitors at small firms and small offices of large firms surveyed intend to make contingency plans in the next year or two, once the UK has left. 
Full story: New Law Journal


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Sunday

17th March - Law News

2637th 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: United Nations forensic teams have begun exhuming bodies from mass graves around the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar - home to the minority Yazidi group. It is estimated that more than 3,000 Yazidis were killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) group when they took control of the area five years ago. The UN says their treatment at the hands of ISIL amounts to genocide.





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Saturday

16th March - Law News

2636th 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 Supreme Court on Friday set aside the Board of Control of Cricket in India's (BCCI) disciplinary committee's order imposing a life ban on S Sreesanth for his alleged involvement in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal. The court asked the cricket board to consider a fresh punishment for the former India pacer within the next three months. However, the court rejected Sreesanth's plea that he should not be punished at all because he was acquitted in the spot-fixing case.





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Friday

15th March - Law News

2635th 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: Boeing introduced the 737 Max as a reliable fuel- and cost-efficient solution to air travel in the 21st century. After two fatal Max crashes, all of the Max aircraft in the world are believed to have been grounded.



Focus of the Day Article:
Dechert has announced the firm is modernising its business casual dress policy to be inclusive of jeans, though the firm insists the norm is to reflect client norms.
Full story: THe Global Legal Post



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Thursday

14th March - Law News

2634th 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: Cardinal George Pell has been sentenced to six years' jail for sexually abusing two choirboys when he was Catholic archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s. Chief Judge Peter Kidd said Pell's abuse was "a brazen and forcible sexual attack on the victims" that was "breathtakingly arrogant".



Focus of the Day Article:
Charitable organisations have urged the government to reconsider controversial proposals to increase some probate fees so that estates including bequests to charities are not adversely affected. In an open letter to justice minister Lucy Frazer QC, the Institute of Fundraising, Remember A Charity, the Institute of Legacy Management and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations warn that the proposed new fee structure has ‘unintended consequences that could be detrimental to charitable giving’.
Full story: The Law Society Gazette



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