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Relatives of disabled win groundbreaking victory after Sharon Coleman discrimination case

Posted on July 18, 2008
Britain’s six million carers won a landmark victory today when the European Court of Justice upheld the right of a woman who was denied time off work to look after her disabled son.

Dwain Chambers fails in bid to compete at Olympics

Posted on July 18, 2008
Dwain Chambers today lost his High Court bid to be allowed to compete at next month’s Olympic Games in Beijing.

In court today: Judgement expected in Dwain Chambers' Olympic bid

Posted on July 17, 2008
High Court

Case study: Jane Sanders

Posted on July 17, 2008
Jane Sanders believes that she would still be a nurse if the hospital where she worked had been forced to take a more sympathetic view of her need to care for her husband Eiton, who is visually impaired, and her sons Ben and Rhys, who have Down’s syndrome and diabetes respectively.

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Analysis: good, but not great for carers

Posted on July 17, 2008
Today’s European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling gives carers significant new protection at work but it stops well short of giving them an automatic right to demand flexible working arrangements.

UBS closes Swiss accounts of US clients

Posted on July 17, 2008
UBS caved in to mounting pressure from the US Government yesterday and announced plans to close the Swiss bank accounts of all its American customers and prepared to lift the veil of secrecy that has protected its clients for centuries.

FSA fines Winterflood £4m over market abuse

Posted on July 17, 2008
The Financial Services Authority has provisionally fined Winterflood Securities £4 million, the biggest penalty for market abuse imposed on a regulated financial firm, it emerged yesterday.

Millionaire Gary Dean silences gossips by putting divorce deal online

Posted on July 17, 2008
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SFO to allow company plea-bargains over fraud

Posted on July 17, 2008
Companies will be encouraged to own up to their own fraud and corruption and escape prosecution under an American-style fraud-fighting strategy to be adopted by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

Ex-Samsung boss fined for tax evasion

Posted on July 16, 2008
The former chairman of Samsung escaped with a 110 billion won (£55 million) fine and a three-year suspended sentence today after being found guilty of tax evasion by a South Korean court.

‘Barristers are prima donnas in all sorts of different ways’

Posted on July 16, 2008
The first woman High Court judge in the Commercial Court made a crucial career decision as a schoolgirl in the 1960s, when she was surprised to hear Lord Scarman’s “dinosaur-like views” on women barristers.

Former Samsung chief Lee Kun Hee spared jail in tax case

Posted on July 16, 2008
The former chairman of Samsung escaped with a 110 billion won (£55 million) fine and a three-year suspended sentence yesterday after being found guilty of tax evasion by a court in South Korea.

Juvenile informers are the answer to knife crime wave

Posted on July 16, 2008
There is something very flawed about the Government’s response to knife crime. To be fair, none of the political parties has come up with an effective way of tackling the problem.

Office of Fair Trading threatens banks with second court action

Posted on July 16, 2008
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) raised the pressure on the banking industry in its dispute over current account charges yesterday by threatening to drag high street lenders into another multibillion-pound court case if they do not agree to radical changes.

In the City: like other survivors of the Sixties, the Hayward keeps on churning out great performances

Posted on July 16, 2008
Building a reputation

In court today: Robert Murat will agree to the settlement of libel actions

Posted on July 16, 2008
High Court

Unions discriminated against female workers, court rules

Posted on July 16, 2008
One of the country’s largest trade unions discriminated against female members while negotiating a pay deal with their employer, the Court of Appeal said today in a ruling that could cost it and other unions millions of pounds.

Watchdog clears Arthur Andersen and Lord Wakeham over Enron role

Posted on July 16, 2008
The UK arm of Arthur Anderson, the accountancy firm that collapsed following its role as chief auditor to Enron, has been cleared of any professional wrongdoing in its involvement with the bankrupt energy group.

Office of Fair Trading threatens banks over current account charges

Posted on July 16, 2008
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) today threatened to report banks to the Competition Commission after finding that the current account market did not offer good value for customers.

Lawyer of the Week: Victoria Blankstone

Posted on July 16, 2008
Victoria Blankstone, a solicitor in the Birmingham office of Irwin Mitchell, acted for the daughter of 77-year-old Leslie Vines, who died in Maypole nursing home in 2002, one of 27 in a year. A judicial review overturned a coroner’s decision not to open an inquest into the death, and an inquest was ordered by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary...

Sir Cliff Richard pins hopes on law that will keep cash rolling in until he’s 113

Posted on July 16, 2008
The rock dinosaurs of the 1960s are in line for a spectacular windfall after the EU announced plans yesterday to extend musicians’ entitlement to retrospective royalties from 50 to 95 years.

Compensation payout hope over Equitable Life

Posted on July 16, 2008
More than a million people who lost savings in the Equitable Life crisis should be compensated by the Government because of a “decade of regulatory failure”, a watchdog concludes today.

Ebay wins court victory against Tiffany & Co

Posted on July 15, 2008
Ebay, the internet auction site, has won a significant battle in the war over the sale of luxury goods on its site.

Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, charged with genocide

Posted on July 15, 2008
Sudan promised to turn Darfur into a graveyard yesterday as it reacted with fury to charges laid by an international prosecutor accusing President al-Bashir of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

David Cameron calls for US-style bankruptcy rules

Posted on July 15, 2008
David Cameron called for United States-style bankruptcy protection laws for businesses yesterday as part of a Conservative rescue plan for the economy.

Jail text-messaging death drivers, judges told

Posted on July 15, 2008
Motorists who read or write text messages on a mobile phone could face jail sentences of up to seven years if they cause a death, under new guidelines from a sentencing watchdog today.

In court today: Dwain Chambers at High Court to get Olympics ban lifted

Posted on July 15, 2008
High Court

LG fights negligence case involving former partner's wife

Posted on July 15, 2008
LG, the law firm, was accused of negligence in the High Court today in the latest twist of an ongoing saga involving a former partner who stole more than £6 million of clients' money.

Is this the end of City bonuses?

Posted on July 15, 2008
There may be some significant changes in the pipeline for City workers, affecting the amount and method of their bonus payments, as well as their ability to freely talk about them - and other elements of their compensation package - in the workplace.

Parents to be 'responsible' for child's sentence

Posted on July 15, 2008
Parents could be made legally responsible for ensuring their children complete sentences handed down for youth offending, under government plans published today to tackle criminal behaviour by youngsters.

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