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When puzzles are more interesting than working out the truth
Posted on December 31, 1969During the trial in Sydney, Australia, of two men accused of manufacturing narcotics, the jury seemed unusually diligent in taking copious notes. But after more than 60 days of hearings, District Court Judge Peter Zahra aborted the trial last month when the jury forewoman confessed that, in fact, she and four other jurors had been playing Su Doku in court for much of the proceedings...
Women lawyers and the City: where are they?
Posted on December 31, 1969Last month marked 793 years since Magna Carta was signed, a great step forward for the cause of liberty in Britain. Yet although there has been much progress over these eight centuries, there is one area of shame for lawyers like myself — that opportunities for high-flying women in our profession seem more suited to the 13th than the 21st century.
Crown has right to step in to Jersey's judicial affairs
Posted on December 31, 1969As a Crown dependency, Jersey has its own investigative, legal and judicial systems but Britain has the power to intervene in extreme circumstances.
UBS asks High Court to block client poaching
Posted on December 31, 1969UBS will today mount an extraordinary legal challenge to prevent departing executives from poaching valuable clients.
Children at risk of violence after failures by family courts
Posted on December 31, 1969Dozens of children caught up in bitter residency disputes are being put at risk of domestic violence because of failings in the court service set up to protect their interests.
Abbey loses challenge to precipice bond lawsuit
Posted on December 31, 1969Abbey, owned by Spain’s Santander bank, will continue fighting a £21 million claim over the alleged mis-selling of so-called precipice bonds after it failed in a challenge to the legal authority of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) today.
Russian court rules TNK-BP board nominees illegal
Posted on December 31, 1969BP suffered another blow today in its battle with a quartet of billionaires for control of the Anglo-Russian oil company TNK-BP when a court in Siberia ruled that a list of nominees to the board of TNK-BP's main operating unit, TNK-BP Holding, was illegal.
Mandela lawyer wins fight to clear name over £23m fraud
Posted on December 31, 1969Nelson Mandela's long-time lawyer has won a bid to clear his name over his alleged involvement in a £23 million fraud against one of Africa's poorest countries.
Surge in repossession orders clogging up the courts
Posted on December 31, 1969Courts are having to delay adoption hearings and personal injury claims to deal with a surge in mortgage repossessions.
Apple settlement leaves Jobs in the clear
Posted on December 31, 1969Apple's former chief lawyer, Nancy Heinen, will pay $2.2 million ($£1.18 million) to settle a charge of stock option fraud, in a deal with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that appears to end the regulator's pursuit of the iPod maker
No sex please. We're British and it's private
Posted on December 31, 1969During the hearing of Max Mosley?s successful claim that his right to privacy had been breached by newspaper revelations of sadomasochistic orgies at which prostitutes spoke German, the chief reporter of the News of the World, Neville Thurlbeck, told Mr Justice Eady: ?It certainly wasn?t Hansel and Gretel...
Lawyer of the Week: Stephen Cragg
Posted on December 31, 1969Stephen Cragg, of Doughty Street Chambers, was the advocate in the cases heard in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the police retaining fingerprints and DNA samples of innocent people. The Grand Chamber ruled unanimously that it is a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to respect for private and family life) for the police to retain such samples.
Family courts: a free-for-all? No, we will still protect children
Posted on December 31, 1969The announcement by Jack Straw that the media are to be given access to the courts at all levels is likely to be welcomed by the judiciary. At last they will be able show the world at large that there is no conspiracy or injustice going on.
Pollution, runways and protesters . . .
Posted on December 31, 1969Three months ago Lane Partners, the distinguished niche aviation law practice, merged with Bird Bird. It was clever timing. As Richard Venables, the former head of Lanes, explained: ?We had a very good reputation as a boutique firm but were missing out on the bigger work because of our size and lack of international coverage...
Why only radical reform will regain the public's confidence
Posted on December 31, 1969The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes illustrates dramatically a serious flaw in the framework governing coroners? investigations ? the inclusion in inquest findings of short-form verdicts such as accidental death, misadventure, natural causes, lawful killing and unlawful killing.
Jack Straw given approval to pardon jailed fan Michael Shields
Posted on December 31, 1969The jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields could be freed within weeks after winning a crucial High Court ruling that Jack Straw has the power to grant him a free pardon.
In court today: Robert Napper; Michael Bamford; Roger Pead
Posted on December 31, 1969Old Bailey Court 1 Robert Napper is expected to appear in court in connection with the murder on Wimbledon Common in 1992 of Rachel Nickell. Court 12 The jury is expected to retire in the trial of Michael Demitris and Paul Allen, accused of conspiracy to rob and kidnap in relation to the £53 million Securitas robbery in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2006.
MPs accuse courts of allowing libel tourism
Posted on December 31, 1969Lawyers and judges were accused by MPs yesterday of using ?Soviet-style? English libel laws to help the rich and powerful to hide their secrets.
?Access all areas? for media so justice is seen to be done
Posted on December 31, 1969Camilla Cavendish: what has changed | The first article in our campaign | From a nosebleed to care | Case studies: families ruined
Barristers' data lost in Bar Council break-in
Posted on December 31, 1969The barristers? profession is the latest victim of the theft of personal data after a laptop and four computer hard-drives were stolen from the London offices of the Bar Council.
British opt-out from 48-hour working week defeated in Strasbourg
Posted on December 31, 1969Britain?s opt-out from the EU?s 48-hour working week was soundly defeated in a vote by the European Parliament today, with many Labour MEPs voting against the Government?s attempts to keep the measure first won by John Major in 1993.
Madonna backtracks on 'inaccurate and misleading' divorce payout statement
Posted on December 31, 1969Madonna claimed today that a statement issued by her own spokeswoman that she had agreed to pay £60 million to her former husband Guy Ritchie as part of the couple's divorce was "misleading and inaccurate".
Bernard Madoff: the ?most hated man in New York? seeks $3m for bail$
Posted on December 31, 1969There are unlikely to be many residents in the smart apartment block at 133 East 64th Street in Manhattan who sport an electronic tagging device around their ankle. There will be even fewer in the building, on the corner of Lexington Avenue in the Upper East Side, who have been put under a 7pm-to-9am curfew by a public prosecutor.
Banker 'betrayed golden goose wife' in trading ring
Posted on December 31, 1969Read the full complaint from the SEC
Iraqis await court's ruling over British soldiers' brutal murder
Posted on December 31, 1969Two Iraqis held in military detention in Basra since 2003 on charges of murdering British soldiers will find out today if they are to be handed over to the Iraqi authorities, put on trial in Britain or released.
Barack Obama lays into SEC for its lack of 'adult supervision'
Posted on December 31, 1969Barack Obama launched a withering attack on American financial regulators yesterday for being ?asleep at the switch? as he laid the blame for the credit crisis and the world?s biggest scam at their door.
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