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Redundancy insurers add bank staff to blacklist
Posted on March 10, 2009Bank workers have been blacklisted by redundancy insurance companies amid fears that mounting job losses will mean huge payouts, an investigation by The Times has found.
Banks accused of aiding corrupt regimes
Posted on March 10, 2009Some of the world's biggest banks have been accused of dealing with some of the world's most corrupt regimes by Global Witness, the human rights and environmental campaign group.
Three more directors suspended at sub-prime lender Cattles
Posted on March 10, 2009The crisis at Cattles, the struggling sub-prime lender, deepened yesterday when it suspended three more directors as part of an inquiry into its accounts and said it believed it was in breach of its banking covenants.
Bernard Madoff faces 150 years as he agrees to plead guilty to fraud
Posted on March 10, 2009Bernard Madoff could spend the rest of his life behind bars after he agreed to plead guilty last night to running a ?massive Ponzi scheme?.
British pair charged in 'industrial espionage' row
Posted on March 09, 2009A leading British manufacturer has been caught up in an industrial espionage row after two engineers used a mobile telephone to photograph a secret piece of equipment at an American factory.
L'Oréal begins lawsuit against eBay over sale of fake cosmetics
Posted on March 09, 2009L'Oréal, the French cosmetics giant, today accused eBay of putting consumers at risk by failing to stem the sale of fake products on its site.
Lawyer and father-in-law 'profited' from inside information
Posted on March 09, 2009The Financial Services Authority (FSA) began its first criminal insider dealing trial today when the City watchdog accused a lawyer of leaking confidential information to his father-in-law.
Law firms from 21 countries meet to plot case against Bernard Madoff
Posted on March 09, 2009A global coalition of law firms representing victims of Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme will today meet to plot their case against the fund manager.
Bankruptcy becomes America's growth industry
Posted on March 09, 2009Law firms across the United States may be dismissing partners and staff, cutting bonuses and freezing salaries, but every cloud has a silver lining: experienced bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers are hotter than ever as the number of corporate failures surges.
Robert Moore snubbed by Royal Mail after he stopped runaway post van
Posted on March 09, 2009The Royal Mail is being accused of ingratitude after criticising a man who stopped a 2-tonne runaway post van from careering over a busy main road.
Clive Stafford Smith: 'If I had my time all over again, I'd defend paedophiles'
Posted on March 09, 2009Whatever motivates the human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith to defend the despised, it isn't the money. There are some large, honey-coloured houses in the chocolate-box Dorset village of Symondsbury, but the Stafford Smiths' dwelling is not one of them...
Delay to online bidding for reactor sites could open window for legal challenge
Posted on March 09, 2009Fresh doubts emerged yesterday over the handling of Britain's drive to build a new generation of nuclear power stations after the delay of a highly sensitive auction of three sites earmarked for construction of reactors.
FSA investigates Resolution founder Clive Cowdery over £5bn sale
Posted on March 09, 2009Clive Cowdery, the insurance entrepreneur who founded Resolution, is being investigated by the Financial Services Authority over the £5 billion sale of his closed life funds consolidator to Hugh Osmond, the pubs-to-pizza tycoon.
Cool heads: meet ten lawyers thriving despite the recession
Posted on March 08, 2009Michael Brindle, QC Fountain Court Chambers
Man Financial 'overstated value of account by millions'
Posted on March 08, 2009Man Financial, the City brokerage, deliberately overstated the value of a customer trading account by millions of pounds in a systematic ?fraud?, the High Court will hear today.
London trader at centre of Merrill investigation into 'irregularities'
Posted on March 06, 2009Merrill Lynch, the investment bank that is now owned by Bank of America, admitted today that it had ?discovered an irregularity? during a review of its trading operations in London.
Omar al-Bashir may face new charges for ousting aid agencies from Sudan
Posted on March 06, 2009The United Nations may level another war crime charge against Sudan?s President after he ordered the expulsion of 13 aid agencies. The expulsion order came moments after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant on Wednesday for Omar al-Bashir?s arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the ?scorched earth? campaign in Darfur.
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