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Will the Equality Act make everyone equal before the law? Wait for May 6 . . .

Posted on April 14, 2010
The passage of the Equality Act last week, which comes into effect in October, marks the culmination of 40-odd years of progressive legislation to create fairness between groups.

Seizing the Pope? What an arresting idea. Will it work?

Posted on April 14, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI?s visit to Britain in September has prompted the atheist Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens to announce that they will apply for an arrest warrant over the sex abuse scandals involving priests.

Should the Human Rights Act be replaced with a Bill of Rights?

Posted on April 14, 2010
Should the Human Rights Act 1998 be scrapped and replaced by a British Bill of Rights? This is the topic of a pre-election debate to be held next week by The Times with Matrix Chambers, with speakers including Cherie Booth, QC; David Davis, the former Shadow Home Secretary; Andy Hayman, the Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations in the Metropolitan Police 2005-08; and Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty.

Unexpectedly, changes to DNA rules did get through the wash up

Posted on April 14, 2010
DNA samples of people arrested for a recordable offence, even of juveniles, may be kept indefinitely even if they are not convicted. But in December 2008 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that indefinite and blanket retention of DNA samples of persons who have not been convicted was disproportionate and contrary to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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The Equality Act 2010 ? what does it mean for employees?

Posted on April 14, 2010
The Equality Act - the single biggest piece of discrimination legislation created in this country - draws together all the important anti-discrimination laws introduced in piecemeal fashion since the Seventies. Its overarching ambition is to simplify and standardise the law to make it easier for people to understand, and so, hopefully, to follow.

Will the proposed corporate governance laws improve a company's ethics?

Posted on April 14, 2010
A raft of corporate governance rules and regulations are on their way. The Walker Review, the resultant changes to the Combined Code and the Financial Reporting Council?s (FRC) stewardship code for institutional investors, the consultation on which closes tomorrow, all highlight systemic failings of ethics and corporate governance as an important cause of the financial crisis.

Analysis: Two months later, and MPs may not have been granted legal aid at all

Posted on April 13, 2010
The disclosure that the MPs facing charges over their expenses would receive legal aid has prompted an outcry and been denounced by David Cameron as a ?complete outrage.? But what is not well known is that anyone granted legal aid is likely to be ordered, on conviction, to pay it back according to their financial circumstances.

Northern Rock directors fined and banned by City watchdog

Posted on April 13, 2010
Two former Northern Rock bankers, including the ex-deputy chief executive, have been fined and banned from working in the financial services industry for misreporting mortgage arrears figures in the period up to the lender?s collapse.

Expenses MPs ?will have to pay back legal aid?, says Brown

Posted on April 13, 2010
Three Labour MPs awarded legal aid to fund a court battle against charges that they fiddled their parliamentary expenses will have to pay the money back, Gordon Brown declared today.

Women solicitors work hard, love their jobs yet still don?t make the top. Why?

Posted on April 13, 2010
The march of women seems to be slowing to a halt. Women make up the lion?s share of entrants to the legal profession ? but then what? They don?t stay the course and the top ranks remain as women-light as ever.

'Expenses MPs' Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine get legal aid

Posted on April 12, 2010
Three former Labour MPs accused of fiddling their parliamentary expenses have won taxpayer money to help pay their legal bills just weeks before the introduction of ?means testing?.

Top Russian judge Eduard Chuvashov 'assassinated in revenge attack'

Posted on April 12, 2010
A senior Russian judge who presided over the high-profile trial of a gang of racist killers was assassinated in Moscow today.

Judge in charge of family courts criticises ?arrogant social workers?

Posted on April 12, 2010
Social workers have been criticised as ?arrogant and enthusiastic removers of children from their parents? by the judge who takes charge of the family courts today.

Sir Nicholas Wall: the forthright and firm judge in the family courts

Posted on April 12, 2010
The formal swearing in today of the new top family judge in England and Wales may be a relatively low-key affair ? but Sir Nicholas Wall is unlikely in futureto have a low profile to match.

We may have gone too far in suspecting abuse

Posted on April 12, 2010
The family courts are groaning under the weight of applications to take children into care. Within weeks of the Baby Peter tragedy being made public, legal departments at local authorities went into overdrive as social workers decided that they would no longer take chances where they suspected, but were not certain, that a child was in danger of abuse or neglect.

Fake hospital visits, gangsters and legal action - Fujitsu in an 'un-Japanese' mess

Posted on April 11, 2010
An acrimonious spat in the boardroom of Fujitsu has plunged one of Japan?s most revered companies into an innuendo-laden pantomime of manipulative powerbrokers, fake hospital visits, lawsuits and alleged associations with yakuza gangsters.

Questions over Richard Branson as BA four face court

Posted on April 11, 2010
Sir Richard Branson is set to be dragged into the trial of four British Airways executives accused of price fixing.

Plan to end ?gold digger? divorces

Posted on April 10, 2010
ONE of Britain?s leading family lawyers, Baroness Deech, says that assets built up before a marriage should be excluded from divorce settlements.

Baroness Scotland's former cleaner Loloahi Tapui guilty of fraud?

Posted on April 09, 2010
An illegal immigrant was found guilty today of tricking the Attorney-General, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, into hiring her as a cleaner.

The legislative farce of the Digital Economy Act

Posted on April 09, 2010
They say that there are two things you should never see made: laws and sausages. As a tiny group of MPs debated the Digital Economy Act this week, the stomachs of an online audience turned.

Barack Obama faces supreme battle as judge in America?s highest court quits

Posted on April 09, 2010
President Obama faces a potentially explosive nomination battle in the Senate this summer after John Paul Stevens, the liberal icon of the US Supreme Court, announced his retirement.

Business big shot of the week: Lady Patten

Posted on April 09, 2010
Few of Britain?s leading business figures have turned a hand to writing fiction, yet Lady Patten is hardly ordinary. Last year, the woman known as the ?Queen of the non-executives?, who sits on the boards of Bradford & Bingley and Marks & Spencer, published Bad Money, a thriller about a high-flying female management consultant who becomes embroiled in a plot involving crooked hedge funds.

City firms fined �4.2m over reporting failures

Posted on April 08, 2010
The Financial Services Authority has fined Credit Suisse and two trading firms a combined �4.2 million for failing to provide accurate trading data used by the regulator to detect market abuse.

Brixton chief Tim Wheeler took his eye off the job, tribunal rules

Posted on April 08, 2010
The former chief executive of Brixton became so obsessed with his retirement package that it clouded his management of the property group as it struggled to survive the downturn, an employment tribunal found yesterday.

Criminals evade efforts to seize millions of pounds of assets

Posted on April 08, 2010
Efforts to seize millions of pounds from fraudsters and tax evaders are failing because criminals are managing to hide their gains from the authorities.

Baroness Scotland ?did not ask cleaner about immigration status?

Posted on April 07, 2010
The Attorney-General asked her cleaner, an illegal immigrant, to start immediately on piles of ironing and laundry, without seeing a passport or even asking about her immigration status, a court was told yesterday.

Sir Nicholas Wall: a doughty fighter for family justice who will speak up

Posted on April 07, 2010
So it?s Sir Nicholas Wall, after all. The impasse between judges and the Government ended last week when Wall was announced as head of the Family Division, the most senior family judge in England and Wales. Jack Straw decided against exercising his veto ? perhaps the imminence of the election had something to do with it?

What is happening to our magistrates? We must sound the alarm

Posted on April 07, 2010
More than 55 per cent of criminal offences are dealt with outside our courts ? on-the-spot fines exceed 200,000 a year and more than a fifth of offenders who breach conditional cautions are not pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service. A Commons select committee described this as representing ?a fundamental change to our concept of a criminal justice system?.

A ban on referral fees may be too late for lawyers

Posted on April 07, 2010
What price access to justice for injured people? Right now it?s somewhere between �600 and �800.

Lawyer of the Week: Robert Howe

Posted on April 07, 2010
Robert Howe, QC, of Blackstone Chambers, acted for Pink Floyd, the rock band, which won a ruling in the High Court recently against EMI, the music label, that individual tracks must not be sold on digital music services without the band?s permission.

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