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Lawyer of the Week: Charles Randell

Posted on October 22, 2008
Charles Randell, a partner at Slaughter and May, has been the main legal adviser to HM Treasury and a key architect of the UK bank recovery plan ? from the recapitalisations of RBS, Lloyds TSB and HBOS and the package of support to the banking industry, through to the Icelandic banks, Bradford & Bingley, the Bank of England?s special liquidity scheme, the Banking Reform Bill and Northern Rock.

In the City: the good, the bad and the ugly

Posted on October 22, 2008
Top of the class. . .

Facing the pain

Posted on October 22, 2008
Will the restructuring of the financial services sector be reflected by a similar process within the City?s legal infrastructure?

Reforms threaten family courts

Posted on October 22, 2008
Access to justice in the family courts is threatened by Government policies driven by a need to recoup or save costs, Britain?s top family judge has warned. Sir Mark Potter, President of the Family Division, has told The Times of his concern that current proposals, if pursued, will put the system under ?increasing strain? as well as affect access to the courts.

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Europe votes for equal rights for temporary workers

Posted on October 22, 2008
More than 8 million temporary workers across Europe will share the same rights as permanent employees after an historic deal was approved by the European Parliament today.

Law lords ruling stops return of families to Chagos Islands

Posted on October 22, 2008
Families expelled from the Chagos Islands by the British Government to make way for the Diego Garcia US airbase today lost their legal battle to return home.

SEC has record year chasing insider traders

Posted on October 22, 2008
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that it had brought a record number of insider-trading cases during the 12 months to September 30. The SEC said that the number of insider-trading and market manipulation cases rose by more than 25 per cent and 45 per cent respectively compared with the previous year...

In court today

Posted on October 21, 2008
Newcastle Crown Court

OFT accuses recruitment agencies of price-fixing

Posted on October 21, 2008
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has accused eight recruitment agencies of price-fixing and collectively boycotting an intermediary company when supplying staff to the construction industry.

DPP chief Sir Ken Macdonald attacks Big Brother state surveillance

Posted on October 21, 2008
The Director of Public Prosecutions has given a warning of the dangers of plans for a massive expansion of ?Big Brother? state surveillance and of the growth of a ?security state?.

Ted Greeno: 'We're seeing a big increase in litigation'

Posted on October 20, 2008
We are now seeing a big increase in litigation for all sorts of reasons. When profits are falling, people hang on to what they?ve got because they have more time on their hands and there aren?t the deals to be done. Litigation is often used by companies as a cash flow tool to avoid paying money out...

What do students think about legal dress?

Posted on October 20, 2008
Wigs have finally gone ? at least in the family and civil courts ? after one of the longest-running debates in the legal profession. Circuit judges, however, have hung on to theirs and wigs and gowns remain in criminal courts. But what do students think about legal dress?

How can you decide if the criminal law is for you?

Posted on October 20, 2008
Today's TV crime dramas spur many fantasies about a career as a good brief. But first remember that curbs on the legal aid budget mean that today's criminal lawyers get a raw deal financially in return for their efforts. Of course there are notable exceptions: probably the biggest household name at the criminal Bar is Michael Mansfield, QC, a sure-fire role model for students wondering about a career in criminal (or civil rights) law...

Kaupthing could bring legal action against UK 'within weeks'

Posted on October 20, 2008
The Government could face legal action within weeks over its decision to put the UK arm of Kaupthing, the failed Icelandic bank, into administration.

In court today: Trial continues of PC Christopher Donald

Posted on October 20, 2008
Plymouth Crown Court

US government to launch CDS investigation

Posted on October 20, 2008
The US government has joined forces with Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general, to investigate the market for credit default swaps, a derivative contract used to insure debt.

Media must be allowed into family courts, says Sir Mark Potter

Posted on October 19, 2008
Britain's most senior family judge has said that family courts should be opened to the media to dispel the ?myths and inaccuracies? surrounding the system.

Straw must take heed: no publicity, no justice for families

Posted on October 19, 2008
Judges in the family courts have been the butt of an intense campaign of attack in recent years, including having their addresses emblazoned on a website.

A secret state is operating in which families are being torn apart

Posted on October 19, 2008
I began writing about parents whose children were being removed by social workers after two chance meetings. One was with a couple who had taken their daughter to A&E with a leg injury, only to have both their children forcibly removed into care and returned only after a legal battle...

More open justice for families in the courts

Posted on October 19, 2008
Family courts are to be opened up to public scrutiny in response to mounting criticism from parents whose children are taken into care that they are victims of ?secret justice?.

UK slammed for 'inaction' on foreign corruption

Posted on October 17, 2008
Britain has been slammed by an international watchdog for its failure to stop bribes paid by companies dealing in foreign markets.

The Water Cooler

Posted on October 17, 2008
* Some 4500 top lawyers gathered in Buenos Aires for the International Bar Conference is clearly too much of a good opportunity. Word has gone out to the local criminal fraternity, one lawyer tells The Water Cooler, and an estimated 20-30 lawyers have already been robbed in the street...

Rolls Royce loses landmark age discrimination case

Posted on October 17, 2008
Britain?s biggest union today won what it hailed as a landmark ruling in one of the first cases on age discrimination to be considered by the courts.

Swiss clinic Dignitas has helped 100 Britons to die

Posted on October 17, 2008
More than 100 Britons have travelled to Switzerland to make use of laws that allow assisted suicide, a practice prohibited in Britain.

'Tapas Seven' accept damages of �375,000 from Express

Posted on October 16, 2008
The friends known as the Tapas Seven, who were on holiday with Kate and Gerry McCann when daughter Madeleine vanished, have accepted �375,000 libel damages from Express Newspapers.

The Water Cooler: student edition

Posted on October 16, 2008
* How do you sue? A new interactive book that teaches students and newly qualified solicitors how to start legal proceedings has been launched by legal experts at Staffordshire University?s law school. The City Litigation Handbook 2008-09 (OUP) has been co-authored by Susan Cunningham-Hill and Karen Elder, senior lecturers on the Legal Practice Course (LPC) in the school...

Scrap qualifying conditions for abortion and let women decide, say academics

Posted on October 16, 2008
Britain?s 40-year-old abortion law flouts the legal principles that underpin modern medical practice, 85 academic lawyers and ethicists say today.

Why the law should be reformed . . . and why it shouldn?t

Posted on October 16, 2008
The Abortion Act was passed in 1967. It did not legalise abortions, but provided a legal defence for those carrying them out under certain conditions, including the risk that continuing with the pregnancy would be more damaging to the physical or mental health of the woman than ending it.

Al Jazeera cleared of �1m bias claim by Christian former employee

Posted on October 16, 2008
The news channel Al Jazeera has successfully fought off a �1 million claim that it discriminated against a former employe because she was a Western, Christian woman and forced her out of her job.

Philip Bramwell: 'general counsel should not join boards'

Posted on October 16, 2008
One of the UK's most respected in-house lawyers said today that general counsel at large public companies should not become directors.

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