Wednesday

17th July - Law News

2758th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: They're the biggest party in the European Parliament - and this month Nigel Farage's Brexit Party MEPs arrived in Strasbourg to take up their seats along with all their colleagues. One of the new batch is Alexandra Phillips - who now represents almost a million voters in the South East of England. Phillips used to be the head of Press for UKIP. But we wanted to ask her about her involvement with the controversial political data company, Cambridge Analytica.


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The Legal Services Consumer Panel has criticised legal regulators’ continuing “resistance” to publishing complaints data about the lawyers they oversee. It has also warned the Bar Standards Board (BSB) that it will not drop its concerns about the limited price transparency requirements it has imposed on barristers, and plans to draw them to the attention of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Full story - Legal Futures


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Tuesday

16th July - Law News

2757th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: On April 12, 2019, hundreds of people packed into the Old South Church in Boston to hear the world-renowned dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky speak. In this hour-long special, we air an excerpt of Chomsky’s speech and his on-stage interview


Focus of the Day Article:
Home Office lied to EU states so it could deport slavery victims, say whistleblowers. Legal experts condemn ‘disgraceful and illegal manipulation of system’.
Full story - Guardian Law


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Monday

15th July - Law News

2756th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: Riot police and anti-government protesters faced off during BastilleDay celebrations in Paris. Dozens of people were arrested, with calls for president Emmanuel Macron to resign again being chanted out loud.


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Nearly a third of judges in the courts and 46% of tribunal judges are women, according to the 2019 judicial diversity statistics. Women also make up 23% of judges in the Court of Appeal and 27% in the High Court as well as more than half the non-legal members of tribunals. The figures, released this week, are correct as at 1 April 2019.
Full story - New Law Journal


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Sunday

14th July - Law News

2755th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: A team of forensic scientists in Argentina is helping to bring peace to families who lost their loved ones in the so-called "Dirty War". That was a period in the 1970s and '80s when government death squads hunted down and killed political opponents. The work to identify those who disappeared is ongoing and scientists are lending the skills they developed to other conflict areas across the globe.




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Saturday

13th July - Law News

2754th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, the Union Minister of Minority Affairs, has said that there are sufficient laws to deal with crimes like lynching. He also told NDTV in an exclusive interview that nobody should be forced to chant "Jai Shri Ram". Mr Naqvi's comment was seen as significant in the backdrop of a Jharkhand government report today that said lapses by police and doctors killed a 24-year-old Muslim man, Tabrez Ansari, who was tied to a pole, thrashed and forced to shout "Jai Shri Ram" and "Jai Hanuman" by a mob last month.




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Friday

12th July - Law News

2753rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: In 2012, Kansas passed one of the largest income tax cuts in the state’s history. Today, it serves as a cautionary tale.


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Blockchain - It was only back in mid-2015, while speaking at a couple of legal conferences (one on Client Growth Strategies) to audiences of firm leaders and CMOs, that I would ask: 'Show of hands, how many of you have heard of blockchain?' - only to confront an audience that had no idea what I was talking about.  Fortunately, I would speculate that most of these same folks have now heard of blockchain and have some notion of what the label refers to . . . but do they really?
Full story: The Global Legal Post


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Thursday

11th July - Law News

2752nd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive since 2011 focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Video Focus: Understaffing, a toxic culture and pressure to meet unrealistic targets at the national health regulator are risking public safety, according to whistleblowers. AHPRA , the Australian health practitioners' regulation agency, is charged with investigating and disciplining more than seven hundred thousand doctors, nurses and other medical staff. But in this video, former senior AHPRA investigators speak out, warning the agency isn't doing its job properly.


Focus of the Day Article:
The president of the Supreme Court has taken the constitutionally unusual step of publicly criticising a bill that is making its way through parliament. Lady Hale said the Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill, introduced by crossbench peer Baroness Deech, was 'more threatening' to the support system of the family than the perceived threat from no-fault divorce. Lady Hale made her comments in a speech entitled 'What is a 21st Century Family', delivered at the International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice on 1 July but published by the Supreme Court yesterday.
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