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Assisted suicide guide prepared by Director of Public Prosecutions

Posted on July 31, 2009
The Director of Public Prosecutions started work yesterday on the guidelines for assisted suicide cases as calls came for a change in the law.

Former GP Michael Irwin questioned by police over Dignitas death

Posted on July 31, 2009
A former GP known as Doctor Death was questioned by police this morning after admitting that he helped a terminally ill man pay for assisted suicide.

US Government settles tax secrecy with UBS

Posted on July 31, 2009
The US Government has agreed to settle its case with UBS over claims that the Swiss bank helped up to 52,000 rich Americans evade tax on money held in secret bank accounts.

Judge orders Tchenguiz brothers to return files

Posted on July 31, 2009
The billionaire Tchenguiz brothers have been ordered by a judge to return confidential documents seized from their brother-in-law in a feud over their sister Lisa?s divorce.

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High Court revokes order on suspected terrorist after law lords' ruling

Posted on July 31, 2009
A control order on a terrorism suspect was revoked by the High Court yesterday, the first to be overturned after a landmark ruling by the House of Lords.

Oleg Deripaska loses his battle to transfer lawsuit from London to Russia

Posted on July 31, 2009
An appeal by Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire, to have a �2.4 billion lawsuit against him transferred from London to Russia was rejected yesterday.

Disinherited family win High Court battle for thousands

Posted on July 31, 2009
The family of a wealthy philanthropist have won a High Court battle to reclaim their inheritance after she left her estate to a man she might never have known.

Enron boss seeks early release in court appeal

Posted on July 30, 2009
The former chief executive of Enron may see his 24-year sentence for fraud cut by ten years today after his case was re-examined by an appeal court.

Enron boss may see jail time cut in resentencing

Posted on July 30, 2009
The former chief executive of Enron may see his 24-year sentence for fraud cut by ten years today after his case was re-examined by an appeal court.

Auditors cleared in landmark negligence case

Posted on July 30, 2009
Auditors preparing for a surge in legal action arising from the financial crisis received a boost today after Britain?s highest court threw out a multimillion-pound negligence case against Moore Stephens, a City accounting firm.

'Right to die' campaigner Debbie Purdy wins House of Lords ruling

Posted on July 30, 2009
Debbie Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis, won a landmark victory in the House of Lords today in her fight to allow her husband to help her commit suicide.

Earl of Sandwich bites takeaway owner over use of name

Posted on July 30, 2009
When in 1762 the Fourth Earl of Sandwich ordered his butler to bring him a piece of meat tucked between two pieces of bread to sustain him at the gaming tables, he invented the world?s most famous snack. That, at least, is the claim, and the sandwich has borne his name ever since.

Fund manager Hermitage Capital hopes US court action will link Russian bank to fraud

Posted on July 30, 2009
Hermitage Capital, a London fund manager, has started legal proceedings in the US that will seek to connect Renaissance Group, a leading Moscow investment bank, to alleged fraud and money laundering involving the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from the Russian Treasury.

Matthew Fisher wins 40 per cent of royalties to A Whiter Shade of Pale

Posted on July 30, 2009
The composer behind the iconic organ introduction to Procol Harum?s A Whiter Shade of Pale won the right to a share of the song?s royalties yesterday, after a four-year court battle.

Historic last words that bring years of uncertainty and fear to an end

Posted on July 30, 2009
Seven years of fear, stress and disappointment dissolved into relief and jubilation today as Debbie Purdy heard Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers utter the words: ?Here endeth our final judgments.?

Local council found liable over birth defects

Posted on July 29, 2009
A group of young people who blame their disabilities on their mothers? exposure to toxic materials can seek compensation from the local council after winning a crucial first legal ruling today.

Farewell to the law lords

Posted on July 29, 2009
Today the law lords sit to give judgment for the last time in the House of Lords and, as Lord Hope of Craighead said there last week, the upper chamber will be ?losing part of itself?. From October the law lords will become Justices of the Supreme Court, created under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005...

Victims pleased over legal ruling in Corby 'toxic soup' case

Posted on July 29, 2009
As the other children hopped around the nursery, Dylan South watched from the sidelines because his deformed right leg made such movement impossible.

How virtual lawyers are weathering the recession

Posted on July 29, 2009
Some do it for childcare. Others do it to pursue non-legal interests such as oil painting. One even combines it with presenting the weather on Sky News. But all represent a growing trend of solicitors embracing the freelance life.

Suicide law campaigner Debbie Purdy hopes for crucial law lords ruling

Posted on July 29, 2009
Debbie Purdy is expected to secure the backing of the highest court in the land today with an historic final ruling on her plea for clarity in the law on assisted suicide.

A high-flier no one envied

Posted on July 29, 2009
When my friends and I were working 14 hours a day and complaining about our lack of social life, we?d find solace in the life of a university friend who was a high-flying lawyer.

The stress of being a female lawyer

Posted on July 29, 2009
Like others within the legal profession I was very sad to have read the tragic story of Catherine Bailey, a partner at a leading City law firm about whom an inquest recorded a verdict of suicide. Having practised as a divorce lawyer for 30 years I have seen many changes within the legal profession, with increasing pressure put on women, and I have suffered from it at times throughout my career ? much more than my friends in other professions.

Law lords pass into history with move to the UK's new supreme court

Posted on July 29, 2009
The crates are stacked, the law books labelled. All that remains before the law lords pack up their personal effects is to hear the final few short cases and to give their last judgments.

Northern Rock investors lose compensation appeal

Posted on July 28, 2009
Former shareholders in Northern Rock, the state-owned bank, today lost their second legal challenge over the Government?s compensation scheme.

Successful lawyer Catherine Bailey drowned herself

Posted on July 28, 2009
A successful City lawyer who was struggling to balance the demands of her job and motherhood told her husband to look after their children and then drowned herself.

MoD under fire for trying to cut compensation to injured soldiers

Posted on July 28, 2009
The mother of a young British soldier who lost both his legs while serving in Afghanistan attacked the Ministry of Defence today for appealing against compensation awarded to two injured soldiers.

Bar Council says Crown Prosecution Service wasting millions with in-house prosecutions

Posted on July 27, 2009
A row has broken out over the Crown Prosecution Service?s "profoundly flawed" policy of using its own in-house prosecutors for serious trials.

Business claims fuel surge in libel actions

Posted on July 27, 2009
Libel actions have soared in recent months as companies increasingly resort to the courts to defend their reputations, according to a new figures published today.

US-style community justice courts fail to reduce reoffending rates

Posted on July 27, 2009
A radical US-style court initiative in which judges monitor each criminal?s progress after sentencing has failed to cut reoffending rates. The results are a blow to supporters of specialist community justice courts who had hoped for better results in preventing criminals returning to a life of crime.

Judge defends US-style initiative as integral part of the community

Posted on July 27, 2009
The man who is the public face of the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre insists that the ?bald? reconviction figures do not tell the full story of the pioneering work of his court.

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