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Eight arrested in investigation by Financial Services Authority

Posted on July 30, 2008
The campaign by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to clean up the City entered an aggressive new phase yesterday with the arrest of eight people suspected of running an insider-trading ring.

Arrest warrant issued after Liberal Democrat donor Michael Brown skips bail

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Liberal Democrats' biggest donor, who was due to face a multimillion-pound fraud trial within weeks, is on the run.

Eight released after FSA swoop face questions

Posted on July 30, 2008
The eight men arrested in the Financial Services Authority's largest investigation concerning insider dealing will face further questioning after being released without charge yesterday.

Summer reading: the books that should appeal to lawyers

Posted on July 30, 2008
Bookshop stands may be groaning with a spread of enticing books designed to catch the summer market but as Michael Gove put it recently in The Times, why go for new at all? Much better, he exhorted, to spend the holidays with old friends or filling gaps — those classics such as Bleak House or Crime and Punishment that you never quite managed.

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Lawyer of the Week: Adam Lewis

Posted on July 30, 2008
Adam Lewis, of Blackstone Chambers, was part of the British Olympic Association’s legal team led by David Pannick, QC, that fought off an injunction application brought by the sprinter Dwain Chambers against a bylaw making him ineligible to run in the Beijing Olympics...

Gary McKinnon, British computer hacker, loses appeal over US extradition

Posted on July 30, 2008
Gary McKinnon stands accused of becoming the most accomplished computer hacker in history by crashing the United States army network, but claims only to have been pursuing a fascination with aliens.

Rating agencies face deception claim in US

Posted on July 30, 2008
The state of Connecticut is suing Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch, the ratings agencies, over alleged deceptive and unfair practices that are said to have cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

How is the recession hitting lawyers?

Posted on July 30, 2008
Is the credit crunch going to crack open the legal business and hack back the ambitions and prospects of lawyers?

Law lords back decision to halt Saudi arms inquiry

Posted on July 30, 2008
London Attempts to reopen a corruption inquiry into an arms deal between Saudi Arabia and Britain’s biggest defence firm collapsed yesterday as the law lords backed a decision to halt the investigation.

Why the Olympics are not necessarily good for business

Posted on July 30, 2008
While the Beijing Olympics may be a festival of sport, spectators may not be aware of the challenges that the Games have caused for businesses in China. These include restrictions in getting business visas for a number of big Chinese cities and the recent and summary announcement by Chinese authorities to shut down hundreds of businesses close to Beijing's Olympic site to improve air quality.

Top US firm to cut another 96 lawyers

Posted on July 30, 2008
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft is laying off 96 lawyers including some in London in a second round of job cuts as the Wall Street firm reacts to prolonged turmoil in global credit markets.

SFO 'courageous' in dropping BAE arms probe

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Serious Fraud Office’s controversial decision to halt a corruption inquiry into a lucrative arms deal between Saudi Arabia and BAE Systems, Europe's biggest defence contractor, won the unanimous backing of Britain’s highest court today.

Promoting the Olympic spirit in the courtroom

Posted on July 30, 2008
The founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, said at the London Games 100 years ago that “the important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well”.

In the City: heart-warming tales of help

Posted on July 30, 2008
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Police escape multi-million pound bill over Giles van Colle witness murder

Posted on July 30, 2008
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How our watchdogs can add bite to their bark

Posted on July 30, 2008
The purpose of the judicial system is to protect the weak and restrain the powerful.” So said Thomas Jefferson in the late 18th century; his words can readily be applied to the regulation of powerful, dominant and monopoly interests in a modern economy.

Sarika Watkins-Singh wins right to wear bangle at school

Posted on July 29, 2008
A Sikh girl who took her fight for the right to wear a religious bangle at school to the High Court has won a landmark claim for discrimination.

Huge case over small item bodes ill for further battles

Posted on July 29, 2008
The bangle at the centre of Sarika Watkins-Singh's case may be smaller than a watchstrap, but head teachers will fear confrontations over much more ostentatious religious symbols.

Sikh teenager Sarika Watkins-Singh wins right to wear bangle

Posted on July 29, 2008
A Sikh teenager won a legal battle yesterday over her right to wear a bangle that she holds central to her faith.

Siemens to sue former executives over corruption scandal

Posted on July 29, 2008
Siemens is planning to sue two former chief executives and nine other former senior managers for alleged supervisory failings that led to a corruption scandal at the German engineering group.

Women win landmark equal pay battle

Posted on July 29, 2008
Tens of thousands of women working for local councils and health authorities won the right to higher wages today following a landmark Court of Appeal ruling on equal pay laws.

Max Mosley case: are judges strangling the freedom of the press by stealth?

Posted on July 29, 2008
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Lord Goldsmith caught up in 'oligarch riddle'

Posted on July 29, 2008
Lord Goldsmith, the former Attorney-General, has become embroiled in a suspected sting that resulted in a top anti-mafia lawyer being put on trial in secret in Belarus today.

FSA launches third insider trading case

Posted on July 28, 2008
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is continuing its crackdown on insider trading with the launch of the watchdog’s third criminal prosecution this year, according to reports.

Deborah Parry: 'Nobody saw this downturn coming'

Posted on July 28, 2008
Spirits are still reasonably high. But everyone reads the papers and picking up the Evening Standard these days makes you want to cut your throat. The media can get a bit carried away with the pessimism, but it’s fair to say there’s far less work around at the moment than this time last year...

FSA continues crackdown on insider trading

Posted on July 28, 2008
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is continuing its crackdown on insider trading by instigating its third criminal prosecution this year.

Justice Cranston rules himself out of foxhunting case

Posted on July 28, 2008
A High Court judge ruled himself out of a case involving hunting yesterday after it emerged that he had spoken out against the sport’s “barbarity” and voted for a ban when he was an MP.

In court today: Lesley Molseed killer Ronald Castree seeks leave to appeal

Posted on July 28, 2008
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More male partners will be convicted of murder after law reform

Posted on July 28, 2008
A male rape victim who kills his attacker after being taunted over what happened could avoid a murder conviction under reforms outlined yesterday. Similarly, a mother who returns home to find a man raping her daughter and kills the assailant could also be sentenced for manslaughter rather than murder.

Judges outlaw use of physical restraint in children’s prisons

Posted on July 28, 2008
Staff in children’s prisons have been forbidden to use physical restraint to control disruptive youngsters, after an Appeal Court ruling yesterday.

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