A new school which aims to combat child prostitution by teaching the victims law opens its doors last week in a world first. The School for Justice in India will take underage girls out of the country’s brothels and train them to be lawyers and prosecutors with the power to ensure the criminals who force […]
Last week the UK saw the enforcement of a 28-day limit on police bail. This comes after criticism of scenarios where people have been kept on police bail for months, and in cases even years, without charge during investigations, essentially in a legal limbo. There is still the flexibility of an extension up to three […]
O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) in association with Stanford University, US, hosted 'Law of Democracy - India Field Study', a joint exercise offering an exciting exploration of the legal, political and social constructions of the Indian and American democracies from 26th March - April 1st 2017. The programme was conducted under the auspices of the Centre for […]
As the UK’s Gender Pay Gap reporting legislation recently came into force, Suzanne Horne, Head of the International Employment Law Practice at Paul Hastings, explains to Lawyer Monthly the potential effectiveness of the new rules and the implementation thereof. Whilst the gender pay gap will rightly shine a light on gender pay, the incoming regulations leave a lot […]
The UK Supreme Court recently ruled that civil service employees do not have to show the reason why they were disadvantaged to progress their claims of indirect discrimination against their employer, the Home Office. This decision overturned the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal in June 2015. The landmark case, brought by Thompsons on […]
The peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market is a young phenomenon. So young, in fact, that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is still working out how best to regulate it. This week Lawyer monthly benefits from expert analysis by Angus Dent, CEO at ArchOver, who delves into the potential for consensus on this complex discussion. With the […]
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