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SEC lawyers investigated for insider trading
Posted on May 15, 2009The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating two lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for insider trading.
Norris facing extradition after losing latest appeal
Posted on May 15, 2009Retired business chief Ian Norris faces extradition to the US to face trial on charges of obstructing justice after losing a High Court battle today.
Police arrest two in UK hedge fund probe
Posted on May 15, 2009City of London police have made two arrests as part of a formal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into the collapse of Weavering Capital, a flagship London hedge fund.
Weird Cases: suing for sex
Posted on May 15, 2009In Kenya, James Kimondo has broken new legal ground by suing the leaders of a coalition of women?s groups for the absence of sex in his life.
Jack Straw backs down over secret inquests plan
Posted on May 15, 2009Jack Straw has been forced to back down over controversial plans to allow ?secret? inquests to be held without juries.
Court orders mother in child residency dispute to be tagged
Posted on May 15, 2009A mother in a child residency dispute has been ordered to wear an electronic tag of the kind used to monitor criminals.
Fathers finding justice in fight for residence orders, Cafcass says
Posted on May 15, 2009Fathers in Britain are getting more justice than may be apparent when it comes to securing contact with their children through the courts, figures suggest.
French court psychologist Régine Labeur accused of being unqualified
Posted on May 15, 2009Régine Labeur was hailed as a respected psychologist whose evidence was pivotal in more than 400 trials in the Dordogne, southwest France. She testified in criminal cases, explaining, for instance, the hidden character of serial rapists or the trauma suffered by families and friends of murder victims.
Two arrested in inquiry into collapse of Weavering
Posted on May 15, 2009City of London Police have made two arrests as part of a formal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into the collapse of Weavering Capital, a flagship London hedge fund.
Private schools hiring lawyers to get unpaid fees from parents
Posted on May 15, 2009Unprecedented numbers of private schools are engaging lawyers to help them to claim unpaid fees, as they struggle to make ends meet in the recession, The Times has learnt.
Longer-serving workers allowed protection from redundancy
Posted on May 14, 2009Companies can take employees? length of service in to consideration when choosing who should be made redundant, the Court of Appeal said today, in a ruling that will protect older workers in the current downturn.
Charity to sue over domestic violence murder victim Sabina Akhtar
Posted on May 14, 2009A charity that campaigns for victims of domestic violence is to sue a police force and the Crown Prosecution Service over allegations that it failed to protect a woman who was murdered by her husband.
Slaughter and May competition head Nicholson to join CC
Posted on May 14, 2009Malcolm Nicholson, the head of competition at Slaughter and May, is quitting to take a role as a panel member at the Competition Commission (CC).
Expenses scandal: proving MPs committed fraud would be difficult
Posted on May 14, 2009The furore over allowances claimed by Members of Parliament has produced strong reactions from members of the public, including suggestions that criminal offences have been committed. There has been speculation in the media, suitably restrained for obvious reasons, that some cases might attract the attention of the Revenue or other authorities...
Intel fined record ?1bn over anti-trust 'abuse'
Posted on May 13, 2009Intel was today slapped with a fine of ?1.06 billion, Europe's biggest-ever penalty for anti-competitive practices, after allegedly paying manufacturers and a major retailer to suppress its main computer chip rival.
Ex-Monster chief guilty of options fraud
Posted on May 13, 2009James Treacy, the former chief executive and president of job recruiter Monster Worldwide is guilty of securities fraud and conspiracy in a stock options backdating scheme, a US jury ruled on Tuesday.
The Water Cooler
Posted on May 13, 2009* Top divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton (Sir Paul McCartney, Madonna) is thrilled that Sir Lawrence Collins, her old mentor, has been appointed a supreme court judge. He?s also the first solicitor-judge to make it to Britain?s highest court, which opens as the supreme court in October, replacing the House of Lords...
Let?s be civil and stop ?loser pays?
Posted on May 13, 2009The civil justice system has priced itself out of the reach of ordinary people; they face financial ruin if they venture into court and lose. That was the stark conclusion last week in the mammoth report on civil litigation from Lord Justice Jackson, the Court of Appeal judge ? a conclusion perhaps predictable, if depressing.
Time to settle the border disputes
Posted on May 13, 2009With just a few weeks to go before the publication of Lord Carter of Barnes?s Digital Britain review of communications policy, half a dozen media moguls are said to have been recruited to advise the Government on what should be done about online piracy.
Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany remembered in new exhibition
Posted on May 13, 2009Senior members of the judiciary were among around 100 people that attended a reception in the City of London last night to mark the opening of an exhibition commemorating the plight of Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany.
Lawyer of the week: Sally O?Neill, QC
Posted on May 13, 2009Sally O?Neill, QC, of Furnival Chambers, prosecuted the ?stepfather? of Baby P, now revealed to be called Peter, who was found guilty of raping a two-year-old girl. The victim, now aged 4, was the youngest witness to give evidence at the Old Bailey.
Jury foreman Michael Seckerson guilty of contempt over manslaughter case
Posted on May 13, 2009A jury foreman and the publishers of The Times were found guilty of contempt of court yesterday for reporting how the jurors in a manslaughter trial reached their verdict.
EBay wins key French ruling on L'Oreal fakes
Posted on May 13, 2009Ebay won an important legal victory today when a French court said the online auction house had sufficient measures in place to prevent sales of counterfeit versions of L?Oreal perfumes.
FSA blasts Morgan Stanley over trader failure
Posted on May 13, 2009A former Morgan Stanley derivatives trader was banned from working in the Ciy today and fined £105,000 after he was judged to have deliberately concealed up to $120 million of losses last year.$
Anti-competitve Intel fined record ?1bn
Posted on May 13, 2009Intel was fined a record ?1.06 billion (£950 million) yesterday for illegally seeking to crush its only serious rival, as the European Commission staged its most spectacular assault yet on alleged anti-competitive business practices.
Does anyone understand what the Privy Council does?
Posted on May 12, 2009A shaft of light was cast last week on the Privy Council, one of the most obscure and unknown parts of the British constitution and hidden parts of the justice system.
New York lawyer Dreier admits fraud charges
Posted on May 12, 2009Marc Dreier, a prominent New York lawyer, last night pleaded guilty to defrauding hedge funds out of more than $400 million ($£262 million), in a crime the presiding judge said "disgraced the honourable profession of law."
Madoff trustee sues Cayman Island hedge fund for $1bn$
Posted on May 12, 2009The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's fund management empire sued Harley International for the return of more than $1 billion that the Cayman Island-based hedge fund manager withdrew from Madoff's $65 billon Ponzi scheme.$
Competition referral may call time on tied pubs
Posted on May 12, 2009A parliamentary committee has delivered a stinging rebuke to Britain's biggest tenanted pub companies after concluding that the ?tied? business model should be referred to the Competition Commission.
Lawyers? baked-bean protest over government plans for ?Tesco Law?
Posted on May 11, 2009The first signs of a fight-back against reforms that will enable supermarkets and other stores to offer customers legal services came yesterday with a ?baked beans? protest by solicitors.
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