Sunday

7th July - Law News

2748th 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: More women than ever before are making up a part of Gaza's workforce. Unemployment is at record levels. Yet women are setting up their own businesses to raise money for their families. But they have to deal with cultural, as well as economic barriers.



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Saturday

6th July - Law News

2747th 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 fire broke out at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Office in Karkardooma this afternoon. A team of 22 fire tenders have been deployed on the spot to extinguish the fire. No casualties have been reported so far.



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Friday

5th July - Law News

2746th 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: Following a tweet by President Trump, Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge in Maryland that they have been told to try to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census in a way that's consistent with a Supreme Court ruling.


Focus of the Day Article:
Since introducing ‘Continuing Competence’ requirements in 2016, forty percent of law firms report that they have increased the amount of learning and development support offered to their solicitors.
Full story - The Global Legal Post

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Thursday

4th July - Law News

2745th 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: Police have charged two men arrested during counter terrorism raids in Sydney's west yesterday. Radwan Dakkak, 23, has been charged with being a member of the terrorist organisation Islamic State. The Toongabbie man was refused bail and is expected to appear before Bankstown Local Court today. A 30-year-old man arrested during the raids yesterday has been charged with a fraud offence. He was granted bail and will appear before Burwood Local Court later this month. Isaak el Matari, 20, was also arrested yesterday and is yet to be charged.


Focus of the Day Article:
New safeguards on the lasting power of attorney process, including a register of active powers, should be introduced to protect vulnerable people from fraudsters, a study by a Westminster thinktank and fraud prevention body has recommended. Protected by Design: new fraud protections for people at risk, published by thinktank Demos and counter-fraud network Cifas calls for more oversight of the power of attorney system..

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Wednesday

3rd July - Law News

2744th 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: It's tough enough for children with special educational needs, let alone getting the help they need from the school system. We're investigating the issue all this week and how getting the right support can be a long battle. Without the right provisions, many children simply begin refusing to go to school. Across England, three quarters of a million pupils were persistently absent in the last term of 2018. Parents can face prosecution or fines if their children continually fail to meet attendance targets, and last year more than 27,000 parents were taken to court in England and Wales, leaving many feeling they're being punished rather than getting the help they so desperately need.


Focus of the Day Article:
Technology allowing litigants to run a civil money claim online from beginning to end should be in place to pilot by this time next year, with nearly 70,000 having already used the more limited version available now, the Master of the Rolls has revealed.
Full story - Legal Futures

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Tuesday

2nd July - Law News

2743rd 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: Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, 25, and his daughter Valeria drowned on Sunday while trying to cross from Matamoros, in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, into Texas. His mother, Rosa Ramírez, told the BBC how she felt when her son and his young daughter set out on a journey from which they would never return. Warning: Some distressing images contained in this video


Focus of the Day Article:
Junior judges face zero-hours working conditions, say lawyers. Criminal Bar Association warns that recorders are expected to work at impossibly short notice.
Full story - Guardian Law

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Monday

1st July - Law News

2742nd 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: An Alabama woman has been indicted for manslaughter after another woman shot her in the stomach, killing her unborn child. The shooter was not charged, but her victim was blamed for inciting the fight and faces 20 years in prison


Focus of the Day Article:
The family court system is ‘overloaded’, lawyers have warned after official quarterly statistics revealed child care proceedings take an average 33 weeks to reach first disposal, up three weeks from last year.
Full story - New Law Journal

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