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Compulsive gambler claims William Hill should cover £2m loss
Posted on October 16, 2008A compulsive gambler who lost around £2 million in a disastrous five-month betting spree today appealed against a ruling that threw out his claim for compensation and damages from bookmaker William Hill.
FSA chairman Lord Adair Turner warns UK banks of hard-line regulation
Posted on October 16, 2008Lord Adair Turner, the recently installed chairman of the Financial Services Authority, has warned that Britain?s banks face a hard-line regime of supervision after admitting that the regulator had been guilty of supervising them "on the cheap".
A record deal in the making
Posted on October 15, 2008The divorce could lead to a record payout of more than £100 million to Guy Ritchie. As the couple want a settlement by Christmas, Madonna and Ritchie could also become the first famous couple to agree their split with the new fast-track US-style collaborative approach, under reforms announced this week...
MPs call for Equitable Life payout
Posted on October 15, 2008The Government was today put under pressure by MPs to compensate policyholders whose retirement savings were decimated in the Equitable Life scandal.
Mishcon de Reya and Anthony Julius win conflict dispute
Posted on October 15, 2008A bid by the former chief executive of the Jewish National Fund UK to stop law firm Mishcon de Reya acting in a dispute over his suspension failed today.
Flexible working: taking control of the office and life
Posted on October 15, 2008Monica Burch and Jane Hollinshead are a rare breed: senior partners at a big City law firm. On top of that, they both work flexibly, fitting busy practices into hours to suit them and their families.
It's crunch time for jobs
Posted on October 15, 2008Half of all law students are worried about job prospects when they qualify and would take a trainee position anywhere in Britain, a new survey concludes.
William Blackstone: a sour, morose and imperious judge of the common law
Posted on October 15, 2008Next Monday is the 250th anniversary of the appointment of William Blackstone as the first Vinerian Professor of Law at Oxford University. William Prest?s timely biography, William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, £29...
Uniformly dull? How dare you! We're a riveting bunch . . .
Posted on October 15, 2008As an undergraduate, I shared a house with ancient historians and literature buffs. While reasonably tolerant of me, they were dismissive of law students as a breed ? and regarded us as a uniformly dull and avaricious bunch. I sought in vain to explain that, contrary to popular belief, there are numerous distinct species to be found in any given land law seminar ...
How law students are staging their legal theories
Posted on October 15, 2008In the 16th and 17th centuries during long summer breaks when the Courts of Justice were not sitting, law students wrote and performed plays on legal themes at the Inns of Court. They were watched by lawyers, judges and even the monarch and government of the day.
Red-carpet lifestyle? It's oceans away from my old life
Posted on October 15, 2008A little over a year ago, I was interviewing Sir Richard Branson on the terrace of his Caribbean hideaway on Necker Island. There had been a problem with my flight from Miami, so his PR had rustled up a private jet. As travel editor of this paper for ten years, I might not have matched the salary of some of those I interviewed, but I certainly sampled their red-carpet lifestyle.
Is the credit crunch turning students away from law?
Posted on October 15, 2008Law schools are predicting a recruitment boom as the credit crunch prompts more students to choose a ?safe? profession in times of financial turmoil.
Actually, crime does pay, and it's fun
Posted on October 15, 2008You have found £20,000 for the vocational training for the Bar, including living expenses, negotiated pupillage and are one of the few (20 per cent) to land a tenancy (permanent seat) in chambers. The pressures are far from over: the new criminal barrister will face another tranche of hurdles in what is one of the toughest areas of work in this competitive profession.
Express to pay out £375,000 damages to 'Tapas 7'
Posted on October 15, 2008Friends of the parents of Madeleine McCann who were on holiday with the family when she disappeared are expected tomorrow to accept libel damages of £375,000.
Will you be stuck with a bog-standard Legal Practice Course?
Posted on October 15, 2008The news this month that the College of Law will provide bespoke training at Pannone, the Manchester-based law firm, marks an important step in the coming of age of tailor-made legal training.
Training just got harder for would-be barristers (but easier for solicitors)
Posted on October 15, 2008If it?s already tough getting into the Bar, it?s about to become a great deal tougher. All aspiring barristers will soon have to take a special aptitude test before they can sit the one-year vocational training course, a move that could weed out hundreds of applicants a year.
Should people in the public eye have a right to privacy?
Posted on October 15, 2008Had Max Mosley descended those steps in Chelsea to pursue le vice anglais in the company of half a dozen French maids murmuring sweet nothings ? rather than barking orders in German ? it might all have been put down to a bit of a giggle. As it was, the alleged link to Nazism put it in the grey area of the law where public interest is conflict with the right to privacy.
Can law students get away with plagiarism?
Posted on October 15, 2008Wide variations in the way that law schools define and deal with cases of plagiarism mean that students who are caught cheating are subject to a postcode lottery, according to new research.
Miscarriages of justice: are the bad old days returning?
Posted on October 15, 2008Cuts are taking their toil throughout the justice system. At the Criminal Cases Review Commission they are biting particularly hard. Staff there, according to Graham Zellick, the retiring chairman, are angry and dispirited. The upshot will be ?melancholic challenges? for his successor, ?as damaging in practice as they are demoralising in prospect?...
Lawyer of the Week: Tony Bugg
Posted on October 15, 2008Tony Bugg, global head of restructuring and insolvency at Linklaters, is heading the team advising PricewaterhouseCoopers on the UK administration of Lehman Brothers, the global investment bank that declared bankruptcy last month, reportedly the world?s biggest, with debts of £613 billion.
Hector Sants apologises for FSA's failure to prevent bank crisis
Posted on October 15, 2008The head of the City?s chief regulator has publicly apologised for its failure to prevent the banking crisis.
City law firms need own watchdog, says College of Law head
Posted on October 14, 2008The head of Europe's biggest training institution for lawyers has stepped into the row over whether there should be separate regulation of the UK's major corporate law firms as distinct from the High Street firms that make up the bulk of the profession.
An end to the free ride against legal aid opponents
Posted on October 14, 2008It may have been heralded with a champagne reception at Coutts attended by the legal great and the good but the launch last week of the Access to Justice Foundation had little to do with the world of high finance.
WPP settles lawsuit against former director
Posted on October 14, 2008A multimillion-pound lawsuit brought by advertising company WPP against its former Italian director Marco Benatti was settled on undisclosed terms in the High Court today.
Jack Straw?s cutbacks will be mirrored across the rest of government
Posted on October 14, 2008The confidential slide presentation made to ten senior officials by the top mandarin at the Ministry of Justice last month left little doubt as to the gravity of the situation.
British judges reject US-style civil damages
Posted on October 14, 2008Plans to encourage British consumers and small businesses to pursue legal action against companies that breach competition law suffered a blow today after judges rejected the award of American-style damages in civil cases.
Northern Rock warns on slowing debt repayment
Posted on October 14, 2008Northern Rock warned this morning a serious downturn in the property market will restrict its ability to pay back additional Government debt after reducing its borrowing from the Bank of England by 57 per cent.
House of Lords deals fatal blow to 42-day terror detention plans
Posted on October 13, 2008Plans to give police up to 42 days to question terrorism suspects were crushed by the House of Lords last night, halting a three-year, high-wire political battle begun in the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings.
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