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No government should award itself unreviewable powers

Posted on July 02, 2008
Last week’s report by the House of Commons Justice Committee on the draft Constitutional Renewal Bill draws attention to an issue of fundamental importance: whether judicial review should be excluded if and when the Attorney-General stops a criminal investigation or prosecution on national security grounds...

In the City: A&O recruits cast of The Apprentice

Posted on July 02, 2008
Sugar-free

The Lord Chief Justices calls for alternatives to prison

Posted on July 02, 2008
Britain’s most senior judge blamed worsening overcrowding in prisons on ministers’ refusal to pay for alternatives to jail.

Body Shop 'snoop' John Shevlin fined for insider dealing

Posted on July 01, 2008
A former IT technician at Body Shop, the ethical retailer, has been fined for market abuse in a rare victory for the Financial Services Authority in its battle against insider dealing.

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Max Mosley defeats News of the World challenge to orgy privacy case

Posted on July 01, 2008
London Max Mosley, the president of motor racing’s governing body, has been allowed to pursue his claim for breach of privacy against the News of the World over its report that he took part in a “Nazi-themed” orgy.

In court today: judgment on ex-Gurkhas' pensions claim

Posted on July 01, 2008
High Court

Severn Trent to pay £2m over false leak data

Posted on July 01, 2008
Severn Trent, the UK's second largest water company, was today fined £2 million at the Old Bailey for misreporting leakage information in a case brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

Jailed marine hose executives ordered to repay £1m

Posted on July 01, 2008
Two businessmen jailed last month in the UK’s first price-fixing prosecution have been ordered to surrender over £1 million of assets at a confiscation hearing.

Cartel lawyer urges cooperation with authorities

Posted on July 01, 2008
As competition regulators around the world sharpen their assault on cartels, companies are facing the dilemma of whether to cooperate and come clean or to stay under the radar. Michael O'Kane, of Peters & Peters, a London law firm, is one of the lawyers that executives are turning to for help.

Ex-Body Shop IT expert fined for market abuse

Posted on July 01, 2008
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined a former IT technician at The Body Shop, the ethical beauty retailer, for market abuse in a rare victory for the regulator over dealing on inside information.

Barrister jailed for £17.5m aircraft scam

Posted on July 01, 2008
A barrister was jailed for five years today after an “audacious” bid to pocket £17.5 million in VAT through the sale of four imaginary Boeing 747 engines.

EBay braced for copycat lawsuits over fakes

Posted on July 01, 2008
One of America’s leading intellectual property lawyers predicted yesterday that the ruling against eBay this week would trigger a series of lawsuits from designers seeking to block the sale of fake goods on the internet.

Severn Trent may be forced to cut prices

Posted on July 01, 2008
Severn Trent could be forced to return up to £40 million to customers as Ofwat prepares to bring further sanctions against the water company.

US demands names of UBS customers

Posted on July 01, 2008
The US Government moved a step closer yesterday to ripping off the veil of secrecy that for centuries has protected the identity of UBS clients as a federal court took the unprecedented step of demanding that the Swiss bank hand over the names of as many as 20,000 of its customers.

eBay ordered to pay €38.6m for selling luxury fakes

Posted on June 30, 2008
eBay has been ordered to pay €38.6 million compensation to LVMH, the French luxury goods group, for allowing fake versions of its products to be sold on the online auction website.

Chris Pearson: 'The outlook for City firms is still positive'

Posted on June 30, 2008
At a City firm there is an enormous support structure around you. So it’s quite easy to find yourself sucked into a comfort zone. Getting away from that for a spell early on in my career — I spent three years as an associate at our much smaller Hong Kong office — was one of the best things I’ve ever done...

In court today: Severn Trent Water and John Wilmot

Posted on June 30, 2008
Old Bailey

Chagos Islands exiles fight again for right to return

Posted on June 30, 2008
London Descendants of slaves transported to pick coconuts on a tropical plantation asked the House of Lords yesterday for the right to return to their homeland.

EBay ruling leaves a bad smell for consumers

Posted on June 30, 2008
If you pay Selfridges £40 for a bottle of Christian Dior J’adore perfume it becomes your property. You can do anything you want with it. Right? Wrong, at least in France.

EU offers 10% fine for cartel admission

Posted on June 30, 2008
Businesses that admit guilt in European Commission (EC) price-fixing investigations will receive a 10 per cent reduction in fines, the EC said today.

LVMH wins €40m fight with eBay over fakes

Posted on June 30, 2008
EBay, the online auctioneer, is likely to face a barrage of lawsuits after it was ordered yesterday to pay €40 million (£31.5 million) in damages to LVMH, the French luxury goods group, for selling fake handbags, perfumes and haute couture.

Judges scorn American-style sentencing to control prison overcrowding

Posted on June 29, 2008
Plans for an American-style sentencing “grid” to control prison numbers appear doomed because of overwhelming opposition from the judiciary.

US Supreme Court strikes down Washington DC's gun ban

Posted on June 27, 2008
The Supreme Court declared for the first time yesterday that the US Constitution grants individual citizens the right to possess firearms, a ruling that threatens to unpick America’s patchwork of gun control laws.

Equality laws will spur disputes, lawyers warn

Posted on June 27, 2008
Measures to allow positive discrimination outlined in draft equality laws yesterday were condemned as “unworkable” by lawyers, many of whom are advising companies to ignore them.

The man who has been held seven years without charge

Posted on June 27, 2008
U has been in custody since 2001 without being charged with a criminal offence because for the first four years he was fighting attempts to extradite him to the United States in connection with a plot against Los Angeles airport.

Second al-Qaeda leader to be freed in Britain

Posted on June 27, 2008
Secret negotiations have taken place to arrange the release from a British jail of one of al-Qaeda’s most important operatives in Europe, The Times has learnt.

Witness anonymity: a slippery slope

Posted on June 27, 2008
The decision this week to halt a murder trial at the Old Bailey follows a ruling on June 19 by the House of Lords that granting anonymity to witnesses threatened with intimidation could render a trial unfair. An accused, they said, had a right to confront his accuser...

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