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Europe plans to relax state aid and VAT
Posted on July 07, 2008The European Commission proposed a shake-up of its value added tax and state aid rules yesterday in an attempt to help small businesses, to promote economic growth and to cut administrative red tape.
Credit-rating agencies to face regulation
Posted on July 07, 2008Europe's chief financial regulator will tell its finance ministers today that he intends to table legislation in the autumn to regulate the activities of credit-rating agencies. The move by Charlie McCreevy, the European Internal Markets Commissioner, comes as Alistair Darling is expected to press for Brussels to begin a more wide-ranging review of the role of ratings agencies in Europe's broader system of financial regulation.
Amiable Irishman gets tough as OFT takes aim at unfair practices
Posted on July 06, 2008John Fingleton has a confession to make. The scourge of British business, the man who, as chief executive of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), issued £237 million of fines last year, has raided supermarket head offices and gone toe-to-toe with the banks on overdraft fees is, well, a bit of a softie.
Top barristers battle over BAE Systems arms deal with Saudi Arabia
Posted on July 06, 2008Two of Britain's highest-paid and most sought after QCs will go head to head during the Serious Fraud Office's appeal against a High Court ruling that it unlawfully halted its investigation into the BAE Systems arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
In court today: Max Mosley brings an action for breach of privacy
Posted on July 06, 2008High Court
SFO proposes plea-bargain system for British companies
Posted on July 05, 2008BRITISH companies will be able to admit bribery offences in return for more lenient sentences under a plea bargain-style system to be put forward by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) this week.
Postcode lottery of rape conviction
Posted on July 05, 2008Women who report a rape are five times less likely to see their attacker convicted in some parts of the country than in others, according to new research.
Linklaters follows rivals with record £1.29bn turnover
Posted on July 04, 2008Linklaters has followed its rivals in announcing a record turnover today, although it narrowly missed overtaking Clifford Chance as the world's biggest firm.
Linklaters reveals record profits on back of emerging markets
Posted on July 04, 2008Linklaters capped an extraordinary year for the City's leading law firms yesterday by announcing a record turnover of £1.2 billion, but failed to overtake Clifford Chance as the world's largest firm.
EasyJet faces flying visit from bailiffs
Posted on July 04, 2008A court has asked bailiffs to reclaim £400 from easyJet to compensate a passenger who missed his flight home when his train was delayed by flooding.
Overcharged British Airways and Virgin Atlantic passengers to claim compensation
Posted on July 04, 2008Millions of Britons who flew across the Atlantic between two and four years ago are being invited to claim a share of more than £70 million that has been ordered to be handed over to them.
Crunch decision goes against taxmen as court rules a Pringle is not a crisp
Posted on July 04, 2008When is a crisp not a crisp? When it is more like a cake or biscuit. And when its shape is derived not from nature but nurture.
Feel free to run wild in your garden, says judge
Posted on July 04, 2008What constitutes a garden and gardening has been redefined by a judge who ruled that chopping down a swath of trees can count as weeding rather than forestry.
Guy Hands sues Baker Tilly over 'negligent' tax advice
Posted on July 04, 2008A group of wealthy individuals including Guy Hands, the private equity luminary, have accused Baker Tilly, the accountancy firm, and a leading barrister of professional negligence in £23 million compensation claim.
Vodafone defeats Customs in £2bn tax fight
Posted on July 04, 2008Vodafone, the world’s largest telecoms group, has won a £2 billion tax battle with Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that could lead to billions of pounds of savings for other UK-based multi-nationals.
Tempus analysis: Delayed reaction
Posted on July 04, 2008Results season among City law firms ended today as Linklaters announced its figures. They were eagerly awaited: would it surpass Clifford Chance as the world’s biggest firm? Would it match the astonishing rise in profitability of bitter rival Freshfields?
Analysis: Words of reason to cool Muslims row
Posted on July 03, 2008When the Archbishop of Canterbury waded into the choppy waters of Sharia this year, he caused uproar - not least, by his own subsequent admission, because of the “unclarity” of his remarks.
Internal Revenue Service asks accountancy firms to help stop tax evasion
Posted on July 03, 2008The United States Internal Revenue Service is calling on the world's biggest accounting firms to strengthen its campaign against tax dodgers, two days after securing the backing of a federal court to track down UBS customers suspected of evading US taxes using Swiss accounts.
Case dismissed: Lord Chief Justice lays down law on Sharia
Posted on July 03, 2008Britain's most senior judge declared last night that there was no place for Sharia courts in this country and insisted that all residents were governed by the laws of England and Wales.
Refco boss Phillip Bennett jailed for 16 years by US judge
Posted on July 03, 2008Phillip Bennett, the British former chief executive of Refco, was sentenced to 16 years in an American prison yesterday after pleading guilty to criminal charges over a scheme to hide the commodities broker's financial problems.
Oligarchs to settle $4bn battle in High Court$
Posted on July 03, 2008A $4 billion dollar legal dispute between two Russian oligarchs will be decided in London after an English judge said that the danger of assassination and lack of a fair trial made it too risky to try the case in Russia.$
Allen & Overy's £1billion turnover confirms London as centre of the legal world
Posted on July 03, 2008Britain's four largest law firms each earned more than £1 billion last year, confirming London's emergence as the centre of the global legal services market.
Dwain Chambers’s legal sprint for a place in the Olympic Games
Posted on July 02, 2008With the Beijing Olympics just weeks away, the disgraced sprinter Dwain Chambers is set to launch a legal claim to lift the ban that stops him taking part in the Games.
Fugitive hedge fund fraudster surrenders
Posted on July 02, 2008A fugitive hedge fund fraudster who faked his own death to avoid a 20-year jail term has given himself up after nearly a month on the run.
Lloyds names face bankruptcy after court loss
Posted on July 02, 2008Individuals who invested money through Lloyds of London are facing bankruptcy after losing a court battle against the world’s oldest insurance market.
Gurkhas lose High Court battle over pensions
Posted on July 02, 2008Former Gurkha soldiers today lost their High Court battle over a pensions deal with the Ministry of Defence, which they say has left them struggling to live.
Heyday takes mandatory retirement challenge to Europe
Posted on July 02, 2008A controversial law that allows British employers to force workers to retire at 65 will was challenged in Europe’s highest court today.
Hedge funds angry at new FSA rules on secret stakes
Posted on July 02, 2008Investors who secretly build stakes in listed companies using synthetic instruments will have to disclose their holdings when they exceed 3 per cent, under new rules announced yesterday.
Britain's buggies march into battle against eBay
Posted on July 02, 2008Two of Britain's most popular baby buggy brands have joined the front line in the growing global battle between retailers and eBay, the internet auction site.
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