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Portsmouth owner pledges Ł15m to keep club alive until May

Posted on March 02, 2010
Balram Chainrai, the Portsmouth owner, has pledged Ł15 million to keep the club alive until the end of the season in the hope that administrators will find a buyer in the meantime.

Britain at centre of extradition row over ex-Bosnian leader Ejup Ganic

Posted on March 02, 2010
British courts were at the centre of a bitter diplomatic battle last night as Serbian and Bosnian authorities fought for custody of a former Bosnian leader arrested at Heathrow.

Radovan Karadzic: genocide atrocities are Muslim myths

Posted on March 02, 2010
Radovan Karadzic set out a defence strategy of denial yesterday by telling judges that the two atrocities for which he faces charges of genocide were in fact myths concocted by Muslims.

James Bulger's killer Jon Venables could face life in prison

Posted on March 02, 2010
Jon Venables, one of the killers of James Bulger, has been returned to prison where he could spend the rest of his life after breaching the terms of his release.

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Yukos executives launch $100bn case against Russia in European Court of Human Rights$

Posted on March 02, 2010
The former management of Yukos, the defunct oil company, will seek $100 billion ($Ł67 billion) in damages from the Russian Government on Thursday in what is believed to be the biggest lawsuit brought in Europe.

Radovan Karadzic defends "just and holy" war against Muslims

Posted on March 01, 2010
Radovan Karadzic defended the war fought by Bosnian Serbs as a "just and holy" attempt to stop his country being turned into an Islamic state.

Families' fury as Yorkshire Ripper bids for freedom

Posted on March 01, 2010
The mother of one of the Yorkshire Ripper's victims said today that Peter Sutcliffe should never be released as the mass murderer began a bid to be freed from custody.

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe bids for freedom

Posted on March 01, 2010
Peter Sutcliffe, the serial killer, has asked the High Court to fix a time when he can be considered for release from prison.

Property tycoon on Ł61m charge

Posted on March 01, 2010
Achilleas Kallakis, a billionaire property tycoon, was charged yesterday with a Ł61 million commercial mortgage fraud against Allied Irish Bank and Bank of Scotland.

Vet cries foul over website ?extortion?

Posted on March 01, 2010
America?s leading consumer review website is being sued for extortion in a lawsuit that could prove a defining moment for the internet.

Justice must be seen to be done, rules judge

Posted on March 01, 2010
The legal moves towards freedom made by Peter Sutcliffe have been shrouded in secrecy for the past 15 months.

Peter Sutcliffe 'will die in jail, deservedly, for such heinous crimes?

Posted on March 01, 2010
When Peter Sutcliffe was found guilty of the murders of 13 women and attempted murders of a further seven, the judge at his trial gave him 20 life sentences.

Enron appeal argues failure is not a crime

Posted on February 28, 2010
If America thought that it could forget about Jeffrey Skilling when he was handed a 24-year jail term, then it must quickly think again. The former Enron chief executive is returning to the headlines.

Head charged Ł200,000 to be expert witness

Posted on February 27, 2010
A CELEBRITY headmistress claimed Ł200,000 for appearing as an expert witness for a school being sued by a pupil left brain-damaged in a hammer attack by classmates.

Kate Middleton set for Ł10,000 privacy victory

Posted on February 27, 2010
KATE MIDDLETON, the girlfriend of Prince William, is set to win a controversial claim for alleged invasion of her privacy.

Enron review could free Conrad Black

Posted on February 27, 2010
THE US Supreme Court will begin reviewing the conviction of Enron boss Jeff Skilling on Monday in a move that could also lead to the release of Conrad Black, the jailed press baron.

Binyam Mohamed case: full texts of Paragraph 168 - and how they changed

Posted on February 26, 2010
First version as originally drafted by Lord Neuberger, Master of the Rolls:

Censored Binyam Mohamed torture ruling released by court

Posted on February 26, 2010
The Court of Appeal today dealt another judicial blow to the establishment when it ruled that a controversial paragraph criticising the British Security Service should be reinstated in an earlier landmark judgment concerning the treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee.

Home Secretary Alan Johnson attacks judges over MI5 criticism

Posted on February 26, 2010
Relations between the Government and the judiciary were at breaking point today after the Court of Appeal decided to reinstate a judge's criticism of MI5 in a landmark torture ruling.

Analysis: victory for common sense and open justice

Posted on February 26, 2010
The decision of the Court of Appeal judges today to restore most of their original criticisms of the security services is a victory for common sense and open justice.

Assisted suicide: the new CPS guidelines

Posted on February 25, 2010
Public interest factors tending in favour of prosecution

Assisted suicide: focus switched to suspect's motive on prosecutions

Posted on February 25, 2010
The motivation of people who help loved ones to die will be the crucial factor in deciding if they should face prosecution under landmark guidelines issued today.

Tenon fined Ł700,000 over Lehman products

Posted on February 25, 2010
RSM Tenon has been fined Ł700,000 by the City regulator for failing to properly advise investors who bought complex investments backed by Lehman Brothers, the collapsed investment bank.

Khyra Ishaq: locked away without food and punished with a cane

Posted on February 25, 2010
When neighbours saw the face of a seven-year-old girl at a bedroom window they thought little of it. Wearing a t-shirt and a headscarf, the little girl gazed down silently. She didn?t wave and she didn?t cry.

Assisted suicide - reaction to new guidelines

Posted on February 25, 2010
Debbie Purdy, multiple sclerosis sufferer and right-to-die campaigner: ?I am still overwhelmed and delighted by this victory. It was the right decision by the Law Lords and people I meet every day in the street tell me how glad they are that we won. Omar and I can now get on with our lives.

Who made it? The Queen's Counsel of England and Wales 2010

Posted on February 25, 2010
Champagne was on ice by lunchtime. This year?s round of successful applicants for Queen?s Counsel had by yesterday morning received their letters or an e-mail confirmation.

Terry Pratchett and Debbie Purdy back new suicide guidelines

Posted on February 25, 2010
The motivation of people who help loved ones to die will be the crucial factor in deciding if they should face prosecution under landmark guidelines issued yesterday.

?It?s a comfort to have the choice?

Posted on February 25, 2010
Nicky Dalladay leans forward from the sofa to take the occasional sip of squash from a straw, using only her mouth. It is the only immediate sign of her severe multiple sclerosis, which in recent years has confined her to a wheelchair.

Freshfields ends pay freeze for junior lawyers

Posted on February 25, 2010
Junior lawyers at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer yesterday became the first among staff at the City?s top legal firms to be given a pay rise this year.

Former Madoff aide charged with fraud

Posted on February 25, 2010
The fromer director of operations at Bernard Madoff?s phony investment business was charged with having helped the Ponzi swindler carry out his $65 billion fraud.$

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