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Allen Stanford denies $7bn pyramid scheme swindling charges$

Posted on June 25, 2009
Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire and Twenty20 cricket impresario, pleaded not guilty today to charges that he ran a $7 billion pyramid scheme.$

Pupils free to rate teachers? performance online

Posted on June 24, 2009
A court has ruled that schoolchildren may rate their teachers online, rejecting the case of a woman who argued that her rights had been infringed by pupils who gave her bad grades on a popular website.

L'Oreal found guilty of racism in shampoo ads

Posted on June 24, 2009
L'Oréal, the French cosmetics giant, was found guilty today of racial discrimination after the highest court in France heard that executives had sought an all-white team of sales staff to promote its shampoos.

Creating law: from a blank sheet of paper to justice from the bench

Posted on June 24, 2009
Should people who have been seriously wronged by the State ? whether the police or a care home ? be able to obtain redress in the shape of compensation?

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Formula One: why falling out is an expensive game

Posted on June 24, 2009
Sport, of course, is all about the glory of winning and (if you are British) the nobility of defeat.

Lawyer of the Week: Dan Brennan

Posted on June 24, 2009
Dan Brennan, QC, of Matrix Chambers, led the team that acted for 12 of the victims? families of the Omagh bombing in 1998 that resulted in 29 deaths. The High Court, in a landmark civil case, ruled that four Real IRA members were liable for the attack and awarded £1...

A glass of wine with your picnic? It's against the law

Posted on June 24, 2009
More than 700 ?controlled drinking zones? have been set up across England, giving police sweeping powers to confiscate beer and wine from anyone enjoying a quiet outdoor tipple.

French cosmetics giant L?Oréal guilty of racial discrimination

Posted on June 24, 2009
L?Oréal, the French cosmetics giant, whose advertising campaigns proclaim ?because you?re worth it?, was found guilty of racial discrimination for considering black, Arab and Asian women unworthy of selling its shampoo.

Earl Spencer and ex-wife in secret talks after failing to ban media

Posted on June 24, 2009
Earl Spencer and his former wife, Caroline, are in secret talks to try to settle their dispute over money within hours of losing a battle to ban the press from a bitter High Court fight.

Low-paid male council workers win right to equal pay with women

Posted on June 24, 2009
More than 12,000 men in low-paid jobs won the right to bring equal pay claims alongside thousands of women in a landmark ruling yesterday.

Analysis: Mau Mau claim will be fought every step of the way

Posted on June 23, 2009
The British do not use torture. At least, that has always been the official line, but as we square up to the realities of our past in the colonies and beyond, it is becoming an increasingly difficult line to hold.

Analysis: Britain has moral duty to allow Mau Mau case to proceed

Posted on June 23, 2009
Since the 1950s, Mau Mau has often been synonymous with atavistic savagery. It was a grassroots movement that sought to end British rule in Kenya, and with it the privileges of an African minority loyal to colonialism. Comprised almost entirely of Kikuyu ? Kenya?s largest ethnic group ? Mau Mau perpetrated some heinous crimes...

Madoff lawyer seeks 12-year sentence

Posted on June 23, 2009
Bernard Madoff?s lawyer has asked the judge who will sentence the mastermind behind America?s largest investment fraud to jail him for just 12 years, urging the court to ignore demands for ?mob vengeance?.

Lords scrutinise bank charges

Posted on June 23, 2009
The legal battle over bank overdraft charges moves to the House of Lords today, where high street banks and Nationwide building society will bid to over-turn a previous ruling by the Court of Appeal.

Earl Spencer fails to win blanket press ban in divorce proceedings

Posted on June 23, 2009
Earl Spencer and his former wife, Caroline, were united yesterday in an attempt to oust the media from their battle for a divorce settlement at the High Court.

Woolf v Genn: the decline of civil justice

Posted on June 23, 2009
Fury and feathers are flying in the genteel world of academe ? and all over the civil justice system.

Mau Mau rebel recalls nine years of 'British torture' in detention camp

Posted on June 22, 2009
Leaning on a wooden cane and gazing into the distance, Wambugu Nyingi, 84, recalled his nine years of misery in British-run detention camps. ?I was arrested on December 24, 1952, and taken to a concentration camp. They would beat my fingers with sticks...

Mau Mau veterans claim compensation over ?lost decade?

Posted on June 22, 2009
Five elderly Kenyans will sue the British Government today for a lost decade of alleged torture, suppression and humiliation under Britain?s colonial rule of Kenya more than half a century ago.

SEC charges four recruiters with helping Madoff

Posted on June 22, 2009
America?s securities regulator charged Stanley Chais, an investment manager to the stars of Hollywood, Palm Beach socialite Robert Jaffe and two brokers with participating in Bernard Madoff?s $65 billion Ponzi scheme.$

Tycoon Scot Young faces jail in £400m divorce

Posted on June 20, 2009
A SECRETIVE tycoon at the centre of one of Britain?s biggest divorce cases is facing jail over the whereabouts of his £400m fortune.

Weird cases: And this week's award for judicial petulance goes to . . .

Posted on June 19, 2009
In Tennessee, a judge is legally required to be ?patient, dignified and courteous? with people in court. He is also required, not unreasonably, ?to respect and comply with the law?. But not all judges do.

Allen Stanford arrested in the US after surrendering to the FBI

Posted on June 19, 2009
The billionaire and cricket entrepreneur Allen Stanford was arrested in Virginia overnight and is expected to appear in a US court this morning to face criminal charges.

First criminal trial without a jury approved

Posted on June 18, 2009
A criminal trial is to go ahead without a jury for the first time in England and Wales in 400 years after a historic ruling by the Court of Appeal today.

Commentary: a long history of jury 'nobbling'

Posted on June 18, 2009
Jury intimidation or ?nobbling? is not new: its origins date back over centuries. It was a series of attempts to intimidate jurors that led to the introduction of majority verdicts in the Criminal Justice Act 1967, so that there could be a conviction even if one or two jurors disagreed.

Journalist Suzanne Breen need not disclose Real IRA contacts

Posted on June 18, 2009
A newspaper journalist won the right today to withhold information from the police about the Real IRA and its involvement in the murder of two British soldiers.

Total sacks 900 workers in Lindsey strike row

Posted on June 18, 2009
Nearly 900 workers were dismissed after a wildcat strike by contractors at Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire, according to Unite, the union.

Brown fights all-powerful EU financial supervisors

Posted on June 18, 2009
Gordon Brown last night attempted to fend off EU proposals for the creation of pan-European supervisors that would have the power to force governments to bail out struggling banks and financial institutions.

History-making divorcee Julia McFarlane is awarded an extra £100,000 a year

Posted on June 18, 2009
A divorcing wife who made legal history when the law lords awarded her a £250,000-a-year payout from her husband has won a 40 per cent increase in her maintenance payments.

Why Lord Steyn believes ID cards should be scrapped

Posted on June 17, 2009
Law lords, even when retired, can still crack a whip. This week it was Lord Steyn, who ? coming from South Africa ? knows a thing or two about the denial of civil liberties. He launched an attack on the Government?s plans for ID cards, condemning them as unnecessary, likely to be ineffective and unBritish...

IVF libel battle shows how capping costs would hit claims

Posted on June 17, 2009
The BBC is no doubt still licking its wounds after settling a claim, reputedly for up to £6 million, by Mohamed Taranissi, an IVF specialist. He launched his claim after a Panorama programme, broadcast in January 2007, made serious allegations about his medical practices.

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