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Judge starts evidence review on bank charges

Posted on January 14, 2008
An eagerly awaited court case that could determine the future of retail bank fees began today when a judge started wading through evidence on the legality of charges levied against customers who exceed their overdraft limits.

Banks hope ‘dream team’ of top QCs will secure victory in overdraft fees test case

Posted on January 13, 2008
<a href="http://www.oft.gov.uk/advice_and_resources/resource_base/market-studies/personal/personal-test-case/personal2">Q&A: what is the OFT doing to ensure fairness in bank charges and how does the test case fit in?</a>

Council services suffer as back-pay claims mount

Posted on January 13, 2008
Town halls are freezing posts, making service cuts, raising council tax and mortgaging assets to fund £3 billion in compensation payments for 700,000 equal pay claims. Schools are having to make cuts and the issue now extends to the NHS, where compensation could reach £5 billion...

Equality watchdog drops its backing for low-paid women’s legal challenge

Posted on January 13, 2008
<a href="http://timesonline.co.uk/alphamummy">The blog for working mothers</a>

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Reshuffle for top lawyers when supreme court opens

Posted on January 13, 2008
Britain’s most senior judge is being tipped to take over as head of the first supreme court in what will trigger a major reshuffle of top judicial posts.

Top Wall St firm blames credit crunch as it culls 35 lawyers

Posted on January 11, 2008
One of America’s most profitable law firms is axing 35 jobs in the first major cutback to hit the traditionally safe profession following last summer’s credit crunch.

We will all end up paying for the rising cost of litigation

Posted on January 11, 2008
Are you sitting comfortably? In a recent road traffic personal injury case three claimants recovered, respectively, £400, £600 and £1,000. Their solicitor’s costs? Wait for it: £80,000!

Weird Cases

Posted on January 11, 2008
There’s a scene in the Monty Python film Life of Brian in which Brian tries to join a political group:

The Water Cooler

Posted on January 11, 2008
* Pinsent Masons is officially the most gay-friendly law firm in the UK according to gay rights group Stonewall. It was ranked 67th in Stonewall’s list of 100 gay friendly places to work. None of the other 17 law firms that are signed up to Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme, a forum that promotes gay equality in the workplace, made it into the list.

How to . . . deal with clients, part II

Posted on January 01, 1970
<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>

Lehman Brothers file criminal complaint after ‘$350m scam$’

Posted on January 01, 1970
Lehman Brothers may have been defrauded out of more than $350 million ($£175.8 million) in an alleged Japan-based scam of “epic proportions and sophistication”. Tokyo-based investigators said that the alleged confidence trick, which involved meetings at the headquarters of one of Japan’s most famous corporate names, could have been pulled on many more Japanese and Wall Street investment houses.

HBOS investigation: Blowing the whistle can help FSA nail the cheats

Posted on January 01, 1970
When the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said last week that it was launching an investigation to catch the market manipulators behind the spectacular bear raid on HBOS shares, the response from regulatory lawyers was a near-unanimous and sceptical “Oh yeah?”.

Credit crunch: is bankruptcy a way out?

Posted on January 01, 1970
Amid talk of a “credit crunch” or “credit squeeze”, ponder this: in 2007, the number of people who petitioned in court to become bankrupt was twice that of 2003. And it was not the creditors who were calling the shots — more than three-quarters of the applications for bankruptcy were by the debtors themselves.

Alistair Darling to give City whistle-blowers immunity

Posted on January 01, 1970
Whistle-blowers are to be granted immunity from prosecution in return for evidence.

Is Dubai overlawyered?

Posted on January 01, 1970
More than 160 years after the discovery of a few gold nuggets turned San Francisco into a boomtown, a different type of gold rush is underway 13,000 miles east in the Persian Gulf. It is turning Dubai — until a generation ago a minor pearl fishing village — into a 21st century El Dorado.

UBS turns to senior lawyer as chairman departs

Posted on December 31, 1969
UBS has turned to its senior lawyer to lead it out of trouble after it was revealed the investment banking giant is seeking emergency funding of SwFr15 billion (£7.57 billion).

Letting a child witness have his day in court

Posted on December 31, 1969
Unravelling the story behind the 24-day ordeal of nine-year-old Shannon Matthews has involved skill and patience as specially trained officers tease out information in bursts of 10 to 15 minutes.

What a difference an uproar can make

Posted on December 31, 1969
In 1978, when Kate Bush was No 1 with Wuthering Heights and Ipswich Town FC were progressing to Wembley to win the FA Cup, BBC television broadcast the drama series Law and Order.

Legal Moves

Posted on December 31, 1969
* Mark Rawlinson has been appointed head of corporate practice at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Why a supermodel is still such a potent symbol of human dignity and liberation

Posted on December 31, 1969
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the grandmother of most modern bills of rights, becomes a pensioner this year. Yet in 1948 when it was adopted by the General Assembly, few foresaw the extent of its influence. Within less than a lifetime it has contributed to the development of an entire body of jurisprudence.

Lawyer of the Week: Rachael Vasmer

Posted on December 31, 1969
Rachael Vasmer, a partner at Walker Smith Way, the Cheshire and North Wales firm, acts for Angelique Sutcliffe, who was left paralysed after being injected with a syringe contaminated with chlorhexidine — a fluid used to clean patients before surgery — during childbirth...

Who will become head of the first United Kingdom supreme court?

Posted on December 31, 1969
A far-reaching reshuffle of top judicial posts is about to be triggered with the announcement of the next senior law lord, or top judge in the highest court of the land. The post is key because that person will become head of the first United Kingdom supreme court when it opens its doors for business in October next year.

How a walk turned into a funeral march

Posted on December 31, 1969
One afternoon in October 2004, Richard Chapman, 45, who ran a family florist in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, set out for a 30-minute walk. He ended up unconscious in a cell in Stevenage police station and never regained consciousness.

Why law firms need to shake up their IT

Posted on December 31, 1969
While the incomes of law firms and their partners continue to spiral to increasingly dizzying heights, there is growing disquiet in the wider world about the way that the legal business operates.

In the City: April 1

Posted on December 31, 1969
Debriefed

Diana death 'conspiracy' thrown out by coroner

Posted on December 31, 1969
The decade-long conspiracy theory that Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed were murdered by MI6 on the orders of the Duke of Edinburgh was finally and comprehensively dismissed yesterday.

Diana jury faces 20 questions at the heart of the matter

Posted on December 31, 1969
Lord Justice Scott Baker, the coroner, set out 20 issues for the jury to examine when the hearing began six months ago:

DPP Sir Ken Macdonald: Detaining terror suspects for over four weeks is not needed

Posted on December 31, 1969
Powers to allow terrorist suspects to be detained without charge for 42 days are not needed and are unlikely to find favour with the judges who would have to approve them, the Director of Public Prosecutions said yesterday.

Credit crunch fallout could drag on for years, lawyers warn

Posted on December 31, 1969
Lawyers across the City have been sifting through traders' e-mails and listening to recordings of their phone conversations in an attempt to piece together thousands of financial transactions.

Coroner accuses Paul Burrell, Diana's butler, of blindingly obvious deceit

Posted on December 31, 1969
Paul Burrell, the butler and self-styled “rock” of Diana, Princess of Wales, was once a loyal servant of the Crown but “cashed in” on his experience, the coroner said at her inquest yesterday.

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