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Former UBS banker charged with US tax fraud

Posted on May 14, 2008
A former colleague of the senior UBS banker detained by US authorities last week has been charged over allegations he helped a billionaire real estate developer evade millions of dollars in US income taxes.

Grandmother overjoyed by go-ahead to sue over hospital superbug MRSA

Posted on May 14, 2008
A great-grandmother was “overjoyed” after being given the go-ahead to bring a test case against the National Health Service for allegedly infecting her with the MRSA superbug.

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe begins legal action to win freedom

Posted on May 14, 2008
Peter Sutcliffe, the mass murderer dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper because he mutilated the bodies of his female victims, has begun a legal challenge to win freedom.

The Water Cooler

Posted on May 14, 2008
* City types already facing losing their bonus or even their job are having to cope with another, unexpected side-effect of the credit crunch: divorcing has become harder. According to Anna Wagstaff, a family law partner at Gordon Dadds, there have been a number of cases involving City-types lately in which the divorce can't be finalised because the parties can't sell their biggest asset, their house...

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Student son's right to privacy

Posted on May 14, 2008
A university lecturer who wrote to an undergraduate’s mother to outline details of the student’s studies has been reprimanded for breaching data protection rules.

Police apologise for 'fake' claim over Channnel 4 mosque documentary

Posted on May 14, 2008
The Crown Prosecution Service and West Midlands Police will apologise in the High Court today for wrongly accusing a Channel 4 film of faking an exposé of Islamic extremism.

Disabled woman allowed to challenge post office closures

Posted on May 13, 2008
London A severely disabled woman was given permission to bring a test challenge over the closure of local post offices.

Alien knitting patterns undo Dr Who fan

Posted on May 13, 2008
A Doctor Who fan who created knitting patterns for the programme’s monsters and gave them away online has been told by the BBC to stop or face the threat of court action.

Beazer Homes restates nine years of accounts

Posted on May 13, 2008
Beazer Homes, the US building group, has filed nine years of restated accounts as it remains under the cloud of a series of regulatory and legal investigations.

Director dismissed amid suspected fraud at Jewson

Posted on May 13, 2008
Jewson, the UK’s second largest building materials supplier, has sacked its sales director and called in the police after accountants uncovered a suspected £750,000 fraud.

Jobs for junior lawyers dry up as boom ends

Posted on May 12, 2008
Britain’s largest law firms are reducing the number of junior lawyers they are hiring amid concerns that debt finance and corporate takeover work both in London and overseas has largely dried up.

Bribery: why things must change

Posted on May 12, 2008
Has the cost of doing business in countries such as China and India, and in the Middle East and Africa just got higher? As well as paying bribes to government officials to win export contracts in the first place, it looks as if Western companies must also factor in paying off their own governments — in the form of substantial fines — when caught in the act.

In the City: May 13

Posted on May 12, 2008
The good book

Legal Moves

Posted on May 12, 2008
* Mandie Lavin, director of fitness to practise and legal affairs at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, is to join the Bar Standards Board (BSB).

Victims of apartheid can sue multinationals

Posted on May 12, 2008
Thousands of South Africans who suffered under apartheid won the right yesterday to sue a number of companies, including BP, Citigroup and Ford, for allegedly helping to perpetrate human rights abuses.

Lawyer of the Week: Alexander Carter-Silk

Posted on May 12, 2008
Alexander Carter-Silk, a partner at Speechly Bircham, acts for the luxury shoe brand Gina, which accepted £100,000 plus £150,000 court costs in settlement from Moda in Pelle, which was selling copies of its shoes in retail and internet outlets.

Consign libel tourism to the dustbin of history

Posted on May 12, 2008
Too many foreigners jet in to sue foreign publications, authors and broadcasters before our claimant-friendly libel courts. Foreigners unable or unwilling to take their chances before their own courts come to ours.

Crime against authority? Case dismissed!

Posted on May 12, 2008
All rise, all rise, The Times fashion department hereby acquits the Lord Chief Justice of all charges against judicial traditions. We are aware of the 300 years of history contended in court today, but for crimes against poodles, the wig must go and with it we also bid farewell to the bin-liner gown and starched collars...

Lord Chief Justice and his funky new gown

Posted on May 12, 2008
For 300 years the wig and gown have symbolised the authority of the court. All that will change in October, when judges in civil and family cases will ditch their horsehair wigs and instead be dressed by a designer whose trademark is “funky British clothes for aspiring funky British girls”.

Boris Johnson drops Ken Livingstone's lawsuit against water plant

Posted on May 12, 2008
The new Mayor of London has dropped a legal challenge initiated by his predecessor that claimed a proposed water plant in East London was inefficient and bad for the environment.

Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills: after all that, it's finally over

Posted on May 12, 2008
In contrast to the media circus that surrounded previous hearings, the four-year divorce of Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills finally ended today with a quick, uncontested pronouncement by a High Court judge.

HM Revenue sued over pension scheme tax

Posted on May 12, 2008
The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has teamed up with a private pension scheme that manages the retirement savings of Ford, Jaguar and Land Rover workers to bring a £300 million legal challenge against the Government’s policy of charging VAT on investment management fees.

Farepak liquidators to sue former directors

Posted on May 12, 2008
The liquidators of Farepak are suing the company’s former directors over the high-profile collapse of the Christmas savings club two years ago.

What experience should I get before university if I want to become a barrister?

Posted on May 12, 2008
I am currently a 6th form student. I am an aspiring barrister but I am all too aware of the excruciating competition that exists to get pupillage at the top chambers. What should I do in order to bolster any future application I may make? Please could you explain or give me some indication of the type of experience that I could undertake after university.

Harry Potter copyright case: fair use or foul?

Posted on May 12, 2008
The high level of media interest in the Harry Potter copyright case heard in New York last month was perhaps inevitable given the popularity of anything to do with the young wizard.

Councils consider legal action against building companies

Posted on May 11, 2008
Local authorities are looking into the possibility of launching legal action against building companies accused last month of cover-pricing and bid-rigging by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

Mother wins court fight over son's bouncy castle injury

Posted on May 09, 2008
Parents who hire bouncy castles for a child and his or her friends could be liable for damages for any injuries suffered by the children after a landmark High Court ruling yesterday.

Weird Cases: an astonishing delay

Posted on May 09, 2008
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Sir Tom Hunter tries to block Dobbies rights issue

Posted on May 09, 2008
Sir Tom Hunter's long-running battle with Tesco for control of Dobbies Garden Centres took a new twist yesterday when the Scottish billionaire began legal proceedings to thwart a proposed rights issue that threatens his position.

Is this the end of the kiss-and-tell?

Posted on May 09, 2008
Last week’s Court of Appeal decision in the case brought by J. K. Rowling has stacked yet another building block in the creation of a privacy law. The court upheld Rowling’s right to battle to ban publication of covert long-lens pictures taken of her son in public when 18 months old...

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