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Racecourse owners cleared of cartel claim

Posted on August 08, 2008
A consortium of more than half of Britain’s racecourses did not breach competition laws by forming its own breakaway television channel, a judge ruled today.

Weird Cases: family feud

Posted on August 08, 2008
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Office of Fair Trading charges British Airways executives with price-fixing

Posted on August 07, 2008
Four past and present executives of British Airways will appear in court next month in a criminal price-fixing prosecution brought by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the regulator confirmed today.

Smith & Nephew threatens to sue Plus bosses

Posted on August 07, 2008
Smith & Nephew, the medical devices group, says it will sue the sellers of Plus, the orthopaedics business it bought last year for $899 million ($£457 million), after finding what it describes as “unacceptable sales practices” within it.

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British Airways four charged with criminal price-fixing

Posted on August 07, 2008
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday charged four past and present executives of British Airways (BA) with criminal price-fixing offences in the first prosecution of its kind against employees of a leading UK business.

In court today

Posted on August 06, 2008
Isleworth Crown Court

Lawyer of the Week: Dominic Crossley

Posted on August 06, 2008
Dominic Crossley, a partner at Steeles Law, acts for Max Mosley, president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, who succeeded in his High Court action against the News of the World and won record privacy damages of £60,000 over the publication of a video and article showing scenes of a sadomasochistic orgy...

Going for gold: how lawyers will claim their Olympic prizes

Posted on August 06, 2008
It may sound heretical to those who believe that the greatest show on Earth is about nothing other than sport, pure and simple, but without lawyers the Beijing Olympic Games would not exist. So, too, the array of other well-publicised sporting events that we devour — whether through television, newspapers or the internet — as if manna from heaven.

Office of Fair Trading to charge British Airways executives with price-fixing

Posted on August 06, 2008
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is set to unveil plans today to charge four past and present executives of British Airways with criminal price-fixing offences.

In court today

Posted on August 06, 2008
City of Westminster Magistrates’

Taylor Wessing sues US firm for 'poaching' partners

Posted on August 06, 2008
Taylor Wessing, the City law firm, has sued an American rival for $5 million ($£2.6 million) for allegedly illegally poaching several partners from its Paris office.

Stamina, not speed, counts in the Chinese market

Posted on August 06, 2008
For more than 25 years foreign law firms have dominated legal services in China in a determined attempt to mop up their share of the torrents of foreign capital that have flowed into the Middle Kingdom.

Top UBS lawyer named in fraud lawsuit quits

Posted on August 05, 2008
David Aufhauser, the senior lawyer at UBS’s investment bank in New York, has quit three days after he was identified as one of seven executives at the centre of a fraud lawsuit filed by state authorities.

BAA sues Ryanair over unpaid landing fees

Posted on August 05, 2008
BAA, the airports operator, has started legal action against Ryanair after the budget carrier refused to pay higher landing fees.

BAA takes legal action against Ryanair

Posted on August 05, 2008
BAA, the airports operator, has started legal action against Ryanair after the budget carrier refused to pay higher landing fees.

Land of Leather sued for £250,000 by rescue fund

Posted on August 05, 2008
Land of Leather, the troubled furniture retailer, is facing a £250,000 lawsuit from an investment group that wanted to inject £5 million of emergency funding into the business only two months ago.

The Water Cooler

Posted on August 04, 2008
* The law lords rarely make personal comments but Baroness Hale of Richmond, the only woman among them, is not averse to doing so — and they add a welcome human touch. Her latest was in the decision in which the House of Lords upheld the Serious Fraud Office’s halting of its corruption inquiry into the BAE Systems arms deal with Saudi Arabia...

In court today

Posted on August 04, 2008
St Albans Magistrates’ Court

UBS wins injunction to stop ex-staff poaching clients

Posted on August 04, 2008
UBS today won the first stage of a legal fight to stop former employees from poaching its investment clients or the bank's staff.

UBS faced plot to poach staff and clients

Posted on August 04, 2008
UBS won a court order yesterday barring a group of former and departing executives from poaching clients of its UK wealth management unit.

Robert Elliott: 'Nobody can afford to be complacent right now'

Posted on August 03, 2008
Nobody can afford to be complacent right now. I’ve just re-read JG Ballard’s Empire of the Sun, and while I realise it may be going a bit far to compare the credit crunch to World War Two, the book’s message of not taking anything for granted is sound advice for anyone working in the City at the moment...

Magnet of Middle East attracts top City law firms

Posted on August 03, 2008
Clifford Chance, the world's biggest law firm by revenue, opened a new office in Abu Dhabi yesterday with 14 lawyers drawn from offices including London. It expects the office to double in size in the next two years.

Is the law bleeding the NHS to death?

Posted on August 02, 2008
For Dr Spencer at his Norfolk surgery, the whoops-a-daisy moment came when he dosed a woman with bismuth. Startled by her dyspeptic response, and eager to reassure her increasingly agitated husband, he swallowed a spoonful of the stuff himself...

Former manager made 'smash and grab' raid on UBS

Posted on August 01, 2008
UBS, the embattled Swiss bank, yesterday accused a group of former and departing executives backed by Goldman Sachs of orchestrating a “smash and grab raid” that devastated the bank’s UK wealth management arm.

Of course I had to abduct Sam, it was the right thing to protect my family

Posted on August 01, 2008
Hugh Jones shows photos of his wife, his stepson, and the new baby daughter he may never meet. They are living as fugitives abroad. He has only just got out of prison. Last September, he helped his pregnant wife Sarah to flee to France with her eight-year-old son Sam, who had been taken into care...

Judge’s rare ruling allowed story to be told

Posted on August 01, 2008
Hugh has only been able to speak out about his case because The Times went to court to challenge part of an injunction that gagged him and seven other individuals, including the child’s mother and grandmother.

Susan Young: the woman who sat at Barry George’s side

Posted on August 01, 2008
For the woman who has sat at Barry George’s side in court and prison cells, yesterday’s verdict was both a professional and personal victory.

Barry George: loner cleared of JIll Dando killing set for £1m award

UBS lawyer identified in fraud lawsuit

Posted on August 01, 2008
The general counsel of UBS’s investment bank is one of seven senior executives accused of pulling $21 million ($£10.6 million) of their own money out of the collapsed auction-rate securities market, while the bank continued to tell clients their money was safe, according a report.

Trader faces £603,000 bill for job rethink

Posted on July 31, 2008
A top options trader who accepted a job with Tullett Prebon but then changed his mind has been ordered to pay the interdealer broker £603,000.

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