The recent Lawyers in Local Government (LLG) member survey has shone a spotlight on an issue very particular to law in local government - the ageing demographic of our lawyers. Lawyers working within local government have a very different age profile to that of the wider legal sector. The ...
For nearly three years, a harsh crackdown on dissent in Belarus by its authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has filled the country’s penal colonies with thousands of political prisoners, with new arrests reported daily. At the same time, a government campaign has gotten rid of many independe...