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Britain decides against a new lower limit for drink-driving

Posted on October 05, 2008
Britain is to become the only European country that allows motorists to have at least one alcoholic drink and still be legally fit to drive.

More snakes than ladders as terror legislation unravelled

Posted on October 05, 2008
The case of Dhiren Barot, the most senior al-Qaeda figure to be detained in Britain, convinced police that they needed more time to hold terrorist suspects.

Alcohol cost solicitor his home and his firm

Posted on October 05, 2008
It took a decade of increasingly heavy drinking and the loss of a series of jobs for Anthony Bogan to accept that he had a problem.

Nokia offers unlimited music for one-off fee of Ł130

Posted on October 03, 2008
Video: the new Nokia

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Baroness Warnock: Euthanasia abroad would mean a 'two-tier death service?

Posted on October 03, 2008
Baroness Warnock, Britain?s leading expert on medical ethics and a vocal supporter of euthanasia, has said that it would be wrong to give immunity from prosecution to relatives who help terminally ill patients to die abroad.

Aim should be to make life bearable

Posted on October 03, 2008
There is no getting away from the fact that dementia is horrible. Our challenge is to continue to find ways to make these illnesses more bearable and eventually to consign them to history.

Analysis: Deminor, creditor committee or class action?

Posted on October 03, 2008
Plans by Deminor, an investor rights group, to form a ?European Creditor Committee? to recover assets from Lehman Brothers are nothing more than a sophisticated way of rallying potential litigants together.

Will India ever open up its legal market?

Posted on October 02, 2008
Senior partners at law firms in London and New York are keeping a keen eye on the dénouement to a long-running case before Mumbai?s High Court. The judge?s decision could be the first big step towards allowing foreign practices to set up in the booming market ? or just another roadblock on a route that has been littered with obstacles for the past 13 years.

In the City: 'What did you do in the financial crisis, Mummy?'

Posted on October 02, 2008
War stories

Lawyer of the Week: H. Rodgin Cohen

Posted on October 02, 2008
H. Rodgin Cohen, chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell, the New York-based firm, advised AIG on its $85 billion ($Ł45.9 billion) bailout by the US Government, giving it an 80 per cent interest in AIG. He, and a number of S&C partners led by Michael Wiseman, also advised Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, on its ground-breaking conversion to a bank holding company and advised Lehman Brothers before it filed for bankruptcy.

Why losing money is more hurtful than going to prison

Posted on October 02, 2008
It is an occupational hazard, according to Clive Osborne. Once inside prison, Mr Bigs do not have a change of heart. ?We know that they carry on their activities, like Norman Stanley Fletcher in Porridge,? he says. Most of the Mr Bigs put away by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) efforts, he admits, are still running their businesses.

The Water Cooler

Posted on October 02, 2008
* Wigs are far from dead yet. Not only have the circuit bench clung to theirs (for all cases, not just criminal) ? even the district judges, who sported the new gowns at the ceremonial opening of the legal year yesterday, ended up wearing barristers? wigs...

Did Magna Carta die in vain?

Posted on October 02, 2008
Magna Carta, or as it is properly called the Great Charter of Liberty, was born on June 15, 1215, at Runnymede when King John ? Bad King John as he is more commonly known ? was persuaded to accede to a number of demands made by a powerful group of his barons...

Lehman Brothers's European creditors prepare for legal action

Posted on October 02, 2008
The fallout from the collapse of Lehman Brothers in Europe continued apace yesterday as Deminor, the Brussels investor rights group, began a legal action aimed at recouping billions of dollars of losses for the bank?s creditors.

Suicide ban ?breaches right to privacy?

Posted on October 02, 2008
A woman suffering from multiple sclerosis is facing the ?dilemma? of when to take steps to kill herself or whether to wait until she needs help from her husband and risk his prosecution, the High Court was told yesterday.

Total: Chevron should share Buncefield bill

Posted on October 02, 2008
Total, the French oil company, told a court hearing today that fellow oil giant Chevron should pay some of the bill for damage caused by the Buncefield fire.

City law firms less profitable than US rivals

Posted on October 02, 2008
Three City law firms were among the ten most profitable in the world last year but they continued to lag behind their New York-based competitors.

Total accused of ducking blame for Buncefield explosion

Posted on October 01, 2008
Total, one of the world?s largest oil companies, has been accused of hiding behind a ?completely ludicrous? legal argument to avoid responsibility for Britain?s biggest peacetime explosion.

Extradition bid raises fears of 'thought crime' offences

Posted on October 01, 2008
Crown Prosecution Service lawyers will put the case on behalf of the German authorities tomorrow that Fredrick Toben, an Australian doctor, should be extradited for offences allegedly committed in Germany.

?Paraffin mafia? comes unstuck after ?676m fines

Posted on October 01, 2008
The European Commission imposed one of the highest cartel fines in its history yesterday as it penalised nine companies for operating an illegal ?paraffin mafia? for more than 13 years.

Judges give up wigs in a case of modernisation

Posted on October 01, 2008
Westminster There will be no fanfare, but legal history will be made today when judges across civil courts break with 300 years of tradition and ditch their horsehair wigs for modern gowns.

Swiss clinic Dignitas has helped 100 Britons to die

Posted on October 01, 2008
More than 100 Britons have travelled to Switzerland to make use of laws that allow assisted suicide, a practice prohibited in Britain.

Mervyn King appoints new legal adviser

Posted on October 01, 2008
Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, has turned to a veteran City lawyer to replace Dame Juliet Wheldon as his chief legal adviser.

Total and Chevron fight over blame for Buncefield blast

Posted on September 30, 2008
Total and Chevron, two of the world?s biggest oil companies, will tomorrow begin a court fight over liability for Britain?s biggest peacetime explosion.

Former BA executive Keith Packer to be jailed in US

Posted on September 30, 2008
A former executive in British Airways? cargo business has agreed to plead guilty to price-fixing in the US and will serve eight months in jail and pay a fine of $20,000, the US government said on Tuesday night.$

BSkyB could be forced to reduce shareholding in ITV

Posted on September 29, 2008
BSkyB could be forced to cut its holding in ITV to less than 7.5 per cent after it suffered a double defeat in a tribunal hearing yesterday.

How can the courts do more to help fathers?

Posted on September 29, 2008
Fathers are predictably furious about a Ministry of Justice report out last week assessing how courts handle contact between separated parents and their children.

Wembley contractors slammed over Ł20m case

Posted on September 29, 2008
A judge has issued a stinging rebuke to two companies involved in the construction of Wembley Stadium for wasting more than Ł20 million on a long-running legal fight that served ?no useful purpose?.

Enforced mergers in banking sector provide new headache for regulators

Posted on September 29, 2008
When the dust finally settles on the British banking sector?s biggest shake-up in a generation, the competition authorities will face an unprecedented new challenge to keep customers safe.

The Water Cooler

Posted on September 26, 2008
* London legal aid firm Hickman & Rose has given up legal aid - the clearest indication, if one was needed, of how things are going for lawyers toiling in the publicly-funded sector. Its legal aid branch is going over to join TV Edwards. Partners at Hickman & Rose have put the surprise decision down to massive cuts in legal aid rates...

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