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Torture claim Thulambo family win reprieve in fight against deportation

Posted on April 06, 2009
A mother and her two daughters who say that they sought sanctuary in Britain after fleeing persecution in Zimbabwe won a reprieve yesterday against deportation.

Allen Stanford in TV denial over $8bn Ponzi claim$

Posted on April 06, 2009
Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire and cricket enthusiast accused of an $8 billion fraud, said that he expected to be indicted by US authorities in the next two weeks.

Sacked paperboy, 15, tries to change employment law

Posted on April 05, 2009
Ashford A schoolboy is trying to change children?s employment laws after being sacked from his paper round.

Peter Madoff asks for asset freeze to be lifted

Posted on April 03, 2009
Lawyers for Bernard Madoff's brother, Peter Madoff, have begged a judge to lift the freeze on his assets, complaining that the fraudster's sibling would not be able to pay his taxes otherwise.

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The Water Cooler

Posted on April 03, 2009
* Never mind anti-capitalist protesters, judges will not be revolting over their salary freeze. Despite a recommendation by the Senior Salaries Review Body that they should get 2.6 per cent, they are "philosophical", The Water Cooler hears, about their actual award of 1...

Judges back Muslim groups in condemnation of forced marriage

Posted on April 03, 2009
Senior family judges have joined Muslim leaders in condemning forced marriage as intolerable and a gross abuse of human rights.

Former Dresdner Kleinwort employee Christian Littlewood was arrested in insider-dealing inquiry

Posted on April 03, 2009
The banker arrested as part of an investigation into an alleged insider-dealing ring this week was Christian Littlewood, a former Dresdner Kleinwort corporate finance adviser who is now employed by Shore Capital, The Times has learnt.

Boy playing tag not liable for dinner lady?s injury

Posted on April 03, 2009
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�80m buy-to-let fraudster John Potts jailed

Posted on April 02, 2009
A company director whose luxurious lifestyle was funded by an �80 million property fraud has been jailed for five years.

Linklaters maintains lead but M&A falls 60%

Posted on April 02, 2009
Linklaters held onto its position as the busiest legal adviser on European mergers and acquisitions in the first quarter of 2009, according to figures released today.

Winterflood fined �4m for market abuse

Posted on April 02, 2009
Winterflood Securities, one of the City?s best-known market-making firms, must pay a fine of �4 million after a tribunal today upheld that it had committed market abuse.

Top investigators leave after clash over SFO direction

Posted on April 02, 2009
Ten senior case officers have abruptly left the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) with payouts of up to �200,000 each, The Times has learnt. They left under the Management Approved Voluntary Early Release scheme ? effectively a voluntary redundancy option...

FSA market abuse ruling on Winterflood Securities upheld

Posted on April 02, 2009
Winterflood Securities, one of the City's best-known market-making firms, hopes to take its case to the Court of Appeal after a tribunal yesterday upheld that it and two of its traders committed market abuse.

Abused couple lose �100,000 damages

Posted on April 02, 2009
A vulnerable couple who were subjected to savage abuse by a gang of youths have been stripped of their �100,000 damages payout by senior judges.

Eversheds tells staff to stay home on protest fears

Posted on April 01, 2009
Eversheds has told staff at its London headquarters to work from home today amid fears for their personal safety during anti-capitalist demonstrations in the City of London.

Myerson v Myerson: judgment in full

Posted on April 01, 2009
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) ON APPEAL FROM Mrs Justice Baron

'Credit-crunched' tycoon loses bid to overturn �11m divorce settlement

Posted on April 01, 2009
Myerson v Myerson: judgment in full

2nd place: Alexander Halban

Posted on April 01, 2009
In 1785 Paris was flooded by pamphlets with stories of Marie Antoinette?s debauchery, accusing her of incest, homosexual affairs, catching venereal disease from a cardinal and spreading it around the court. Little could be done against the authors of these fabrications and few were even caught or punished...

3rd place: Fraser Campbell

Posted on April 01, 2009
Whenever it decides that individuals should have certain rights, protected by law, society engages in a collective act that simultaneously limits and protects the autonomy of its members.

1st place: Bryn Adams

Posted on April 01, 2009
In 1859 John Stuart Mill wrote that ?the time, it is to be hoped, is gone by when any defence would be necessary of the ?liberty of the press? as one of the securities against corrupt or tyrannical government?. This essay will assume, as Mill did 150 years ago, that freedom of the press is a cornerstone of democratic society and will thus not embark on a lengthy exposition of why this is so...

Can Google Street View stay ahead of the privacy lawyers?

Posted on April 01, 2009
The voyeur in me has been fascinated with Google?s controversial mapping service Street View. Now we are able to peer over people's front gardens from the comfort of our computers but the lawyer in me wonders whether the many complaints of breach of privacy that have already been made will lead to legal action against it.

Redundancy in the City: painful lessons for the big beasts

Posted on April 01, 2009
The announcements that Clifford Chance and Linklaters were to make redundancies across their organisations in the wake of the credit crunch sent shockwaves across the legal world. An era was clearly over.

Lawyer of the Week: Joel Donovan

Posted on April 01, 2009
Joel Donovan, a barrister at Cloisters, acted for Erica Connor, the head teacher awarded more than �400,000 in damages from Surrey County Council after suffering a career-ending nervous breakdown caused by persistent allegations of Islamophobia and racism by one of the school?s governors...

Privacy: the new law will freeze the lifeblood of the media

Posted on April 01, 2009
A person?s home and family life is private. But when does the personal become political? If you are a Labour minister and you send your child to private school ? because the local state school can?t provide enough assistance with learning difficulties ? are the media entitled to publish?

The Times/Matrix Privacy Forum and Debate

Posted on April 01, 2009
This week Max Mosley spoke of the impact of the revelation that he indulged in sadomasochistic orgies ? a predilection he had kept hidden from his wife of 48 years and two sons. ?On a scale of embarrassment,? he told The Times, ?it is hard to think of anything worse.

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