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House of Lords to rule on BAE corruption inquiry

Posted on April 25, 2008
The Serious Fraud Office is to challenge the ruling that it must rethink the halting of its investigation into a £43 billion arms deals between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia.

Freezing assets of terror suspects ruled unlawful by High Court

Posted on April 25, 2008
Anti-terrorism legislation was condemned as poorly thought-out by a senior High Court judge yesterday as he declared that the Treasury’s powers to freeze suspects’ bank accounts were unlawful.

Weird Cases: a swearing statement

Posted on April 25, 2008
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OFT launches inquiry into cigarette price-fixing

Posted on April 25, 2008
Smokers may have been overcharged for cigarettes after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) accused two big tobacco companies and 11 retailers of alleged unlawful co-ordination of prices.

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Victory for consumers in bank charges test case

Posted on April 24, 2008
Britain's biggest banks today lost a landmark test case at the High Court over unauthorised overdraft charges.

Judges will carry on holding ministers to account - because that’s their job

Posted on April 24, 2008
Yesterday’s court rulings highlight the delicate relationship between the executive and the judiciary — one in which judges increasingly hold ministers to account, and find them wanting. The two cases are not isolated. In recent weeks, ministers have suffered a series of judicial hammer blows — from deporting terrorist suspects to powers to block the release of offenders on parole...

Banks told to stop stalling and pay up after verdict on charges

Posted on April 24, 2008
Banks have been accused of trying to block compensation claims from customers, after they refused to accept the findings of a High Court test case on penalty charges.

Sir Ken Macdonald hits back at criticism of crown advocates

Posted on April 24, 2008
The Director of Public Prosecutions has rebutted criticisms that crown advocates work to lower professional standards than barristers at the self-employed Bar.

Lawyers v police: who will win the 42-day argument?

Posted on April 24, 2008
Gordon Brown may have bought off the 10p tax revolt - but his move simultaneously gave sustinence to the worm of another rebellion: that growing fatter by the day over the proposed 42-day period for detaining terrorist suspects without charge.

Analysis: battle over overdraft charges a long way from over

Posted on April 24, 2008
After two months of careful deliberation, Mr Justice Andrew Smith today delivered a hefty 120-page judgment in a landmark test case on unauthorised overdraft charges. It was a resounding victory for the Office of Fair Trading and for consumers who have been stung by penalties of up to £39 for exceeding their overdrafts.

Morgan Stanley’s gotta brand new bag of lawsuits

Posted on April 24, 2008
Morgan Stanley, the Wall Street investment bank that managed some of the money belonging to James Brown, the so-called Godfather of Soul, is being sued in a South Carolina court for failing to properly manage his account.

Wm Morrison's victory over Office of Fair Trading price fixing claim

Posted on April 23, 2008
The Office of Fair Trading faces a bill for almost £500,000 after issuing an unprecedented apology yesterday for wrongly accusing Wm Morrison of fixing the price of butter and cheese.

Telecoms chief chosen as first legal regulator

Posted on April 23, 2008
A former telecoms chief has been chosen as the first regulator of the legal profession.

OFT pays damages to Morrisons over dairy price-fixing claim

Posted on April 23, 2008
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has issued an unprecedented apology to Wm Morrison for wrongly suggesting that Britain's fourth-largest supermarket group was guilty of fixing prices for butter and cheese five years ago.

Small shareholders seek judicial review over Northern Rock compensation

Posted on April 23, 2008
Northern Rock’s small shareholders will take High Court action against the Treasury within weeks after the Government’s lawyers rejected their plea for compensation.

Frances Murphy: 'Being a woman doesn't make a difference'

Posted on April 23, 2008
Frances Murphy is the kind of lawyer you’d like to have on your side in a difficult negotiation. The new head of corporate at Slaughter and May combines a smile with a huge dose of reserve and feels no compulsion to fill silences when faced with a journalist prying for insights.

SFO to appeal High Court BAE verdict

Posted on April 22, 2008
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) will appeal against a recent High Court judgment that it "acted unlawfully" when it dropped an investigation into bribery and corruption allegations over a BAE Systems' arms deal with Saudi Arabia.

Ofgem probes npower over mis-selling claims

Posted on April 22, 2008
Ofgem, the energy watchdog, today launched a formal investigation into npower and the methods the UK's fourth-biggest gas and electricity group uses to sign up customers.

Wife of murder victim Garry Newlove slams 'disgraceful' court system

Posted on April 22, 2008
A woman who saw her husband kicked to death by a gang of teenagers outside their house in Cheshire told MPs that the courts system was "utterly disgraceful".

How to . . . move from the Bar to the City

Posted on April 21, 2008
<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/How_to_be_a_better_lawyer/">Become a better lawyer: running a case, doing a deal, moving in-house and other tips from the top</a>

Lawyers fight plans for case-worker trials

Posted on April 21, 2008
Barristers begin an offensive today over plans to allow non-lawyers to conduct magistrates’ courts trials.

Law 100: the UK's most powerful lawyers

Posted on April 21, 2008
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The CPS is putting prosecution standards at risk

Posted on April 21, 2008
Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, was quoted on these pages earlier this month observing: “I think we get it right more often than we used to.”

Lawyer of the Week: Sapna Malik

Posted on April 21, 2008
Sapna Malik, a partner at Leigh Day & Co, acted for the family of the late Baha Musa and eight other Iraqis who had been tortured by British troops. She successfully argued that the Ministry of Defence had breached the claimants’ human rights and that they were entitled to compensation.

In the City: April 22

Posted on April 21, 2008
The Y? factor

The judging panel

Posted on April 21, 2008
* Alastair Brett: head of the legal department at Times Newspapers Limited

The Water Cooler

Posted on April 21, 2008
* “There is something fascinating about watching the mid-afternoon slump acting on the lawyers in the Old Bailey, although I felt a little bit concerned for the accused as his brief appeared to nod off,” says the artist Nick Botting...

Money troubles at trial of first African leader to face a war crimes court

Posted on April 21, 2008
It is a common complaint in Africa that even the most heinous crimes of some of its leaders and warlords merit barely a flicker of attention in the rest of the world while they are being perpetrated.

Legal Moves

Posted on April 21, 2008
* The Faculty of Laws at University College London has appointed two professors of property law.

A mistake that took 30 months in Preston prison to correct

Posted on April 21, 2008
For many of us who work in the criminal courts, Sir Ken Macdonald’s words that we “intend to do more for ourselves” gave greater cause for anxiety about the independence of the prosecution than for applause. Such anxiety was fuelled when on the same day the article was published the case against two men in Lancashire Constabulary’s biggest murder investigation collapsed.

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