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Analysis: Mosley ruling raises the stakes for the media
Posted on July 24, 2008Today’s judgment in the Max Mosley privacy case will confirm the media’s worst fears about publishing stories concerning the private lives of celebrities and other high profile individuals.
Max Mosley delighted at 'Nazi sex' privacy victory
Posted on July 24, 2008Background: what about the missing e-mails? | Analysis: a ruling that raises the stakes | What happened at the orgies |
Buncefield damage 'could have been foreseen'
Posted on July 24, 2008Total UK, one of Britain’s biggest oil companies, has admitted that much of the damage caused by the Buncefield oil fire could have been foreseen, potentially opening itself to a payout of hundreds of millions of pounds.
Ministers speed up compensation for road accident victims
Posted on July 23, 2008People injured in road accidents will be able to claim damages more quickly under a fast-track claims process announced by ministers yesterday.
Lawyer of the Week: Lucy Moorman
Posted on July 23, 2008Lucy Moorman, an in-house barrister at Simons Muirhead & Burton, represented Robert Murat, who sued 11 British newspapers for libel over allegations that he was involved in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Last week the papers apologised in court and announced a record damages payout of £600,000.
Hatchet man or saviour of the Serious Fraud Office?
Posted on July 23, 2008Are we just starting to see the true Richard Alderman? There were suspicions that he was hired as a hatchet man to carve up the Serious Fraud Office or oversee its demise. He was, after all, instrumental in creating the Assets Recovery Agency, becoming its first legal director...
The Water Cooler
Posted on July 23, 2008* After 28 years as a judge, Lord Bingham of Cornhill has sat on his last case — an appeal by a Lebanese woman asylum-seeker against deportation (Lebanese woman appeals deportation order to keep her son). Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, this week kicked off what will no doubt be a long round of parties with a reception at Lancaster House for the retiring senior law lord...
Visa curbs on foreign brides and bridegrooms to tackle forced marriages
Posted on July 23, 2008Teenage foreign brides and bridegrooms are to be barred from entering Britain on marriage visas under measures announced yesterday to tackle forced weddings.
Redundancy: last in - and, now, perhaps last out
Posted on July 23, 2008Predictions of recession and a slew of announcements of downsizing by the construction, financial and property sectors explain why it is no surprise that employment lawyers are experiencing an unusually busy summer.
Downloading illegally? Look out, they’re watching you
Posted on July 23, 2008It is easier for the authorities to find out if you - or your children - have been illegally downloading music than you think. When Virgin Media started writing to some of its customers saying that they had been downloading illegally, it was able to include the date and time of the activity as if it were issuing a speeding ticket.
Parents to be punished for children’s net piracy
Posted on July 23, 2008Parents whose children download music and films illegally will be blacklisted and have their internet access curbed under government reforms to fight online piracy.
UBS faces securities lawsuit in New York
Posted on July 23, 2008Andrew Cuomo, the New York Attorney-General, is preparing to file civil securities fraud charges against embattled investment bank UBS, according to reports.
Tiscali accuses BT of defamation
Posted on July 23, 2008Tiscali, the Italian broadband operator currently up for sale, is suing BT for “defamation and malicious falsehood” after the telecommunications group wrote to Tiscali’s customers trying to persuade them to switch to BT’s broadband service.
Sidley Austin partner named general counsel at Glaxo
Posted on July 23, 2008GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has appointed Dan Troy, a partner at law firm Sidley Austin, as its new general counsel.
The City and the bin-bag culture
Posted on July 23, 2008Thousands of jobs to go in the City, scream the headlines. Given the anticipated downsizing — much less than the carnage on Wall Street with hundreds of thousands of jobs being lost — what are employers’ obligations and what can staff expect from bosses?
Lebanese woman appeals deportation order to keep her son
Posted on July 22, 2008A Lebanese woman appealed to Britain’s highest court yesterday against a deportation order that would lead to her losing custody of her son under Sharia law to an allegedly violent husband.
New witness rules introduced to protect trials
Posted on July 22, 2008Tighter rules on when witnesses can claim anonymity in court were issued yesterday to ensure that trials are not undermined because defendants do not know the identity of witnesses.
Dawn Page receives £800k payout for brain injury caused by high-fluid diet
Posted on July 22, 2008A mother of two has won more than £800,000 at the High Court after she claimed that a radical detox diet left her brain-damaged and epileptic.
Scott Cameron: 'I was ready to take a gamble'
Posted on July 21, 2008Europe right now is a lot like the US in the late 1930s. In capital markets terms, anyway. The recently implemented “prospectus” and “transparency” directives —allowing issuers to do public offerings in more than one jurisdiction at the same time — are actually very similar to the US securities acts of the early part of last century...
Ruling could wipe out tens of thousands of criminal records
Posted on July 21, 2008Tens of thousands of criminal records could be deleted after a landmark ruling that police were breaking rules on the holding of personal details.
Times wins ruling over secrecy of family court
Posted on July 21, 2008Details of private family court proceedings that led to a mother fleeing the country with her son after he was placed in foster care have been disclosed after legal action by The Times.
Council puts freeze on ice-cream jingles
Posted on July 21, 2008Ice-cream vans have been ordered to silence their jingles after four seconds because they are considered to be noise pollution.
OFT: businesses still not complying with competition law
Posted on July 21, 2008Company directors and senior managers should pay much more attention to the daily activities of their staff to ensure they are complying with competition law, the head of the UK competition watchdog said today.
Telecom Italia asks UK court to intervene in Bolivian dispute
Posted on July 21, 2008Telecom Italia, Europe's fifth-largest telecommunications company, will tomorrow ask a court in London to intervene in a dispute with the Bolivian government over the nationalisation of its holdings in the country, lawyers close to the case said.
Judges rule adoption case a 'disgrace'
Posted on July 21, 2008Read more of Frances Gibb's exclusive online columns
In court today: Blake Fielder-Civil due to be sentenced
Posted on July 20, 2008Snaresbrook Crown Court
Another fatal stabbing, but police ignore demands to prosecute knife offenders
Posted on July 20, 2008A government edict to get tough on knife offenders is being ignored by police forces throughout the country, despite mounting public concern and a spate of killings.
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