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Serving time: how much is it worth?

Posted on August 27, 2008
How much compensation should be paid to someone whose life is blighted after being wrongly accused or even convicted and jailed for murder?

Lawyer of the Week: Debaleena Dasgupta

Posted on August 27, 2008
Debaleena Dasgupta, a solicitor at Fisher Meredith, the London firm, acted for a woman who was raped four years ago. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (Cica) decided that, in her case, the standard award of £11,000 be reduced by 25 per cent, because of alcohol consumption...

Water Cooler

Posted on August 27, 2008
* What a pity that the former Lord Chancellor was not employed to use his honed diplomatic skills in the dispute between Tarique Ghaffur, the Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner, and his bosses at the Met. Lord Falconer of Thoroton was suggested for mediating the dispute in which Ghaffur alleges racial discrimination — and avoid a tribunal hearing where it is now heading...

Police cautions and on-the-spot fines leave magistrates with nothing to do

Posted on August 27, 2008
Adult and youth courts in the Midlands are being cancelled because more offenders are being given on-the-spot fines, according a letter leaked to The Times.

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Law firms feeling pinch as companies slash legal spending

Posted on August 26, 2008
Law firms are feeling the pinch as Britain's top companies, under pressure from the economic downturn, slash their spending on outside legal advice.

Sir Salman Rushdie wins apology from former bodyguard over libel

Posted on August 26, 2008
Salman Rushdie, the Booker prize-winning author, won apologies in the High Court yesterday over allegations that when living under police protection he was unhygienic, suicidal and sought to profit from the fatwa on him.

Geoffrey Green: 'I miss the buzz of doing deals'

Posted on August 26, 2008
The market has been good to us. The areas in which we’ve been most heavily involved, such as top end private equity, leveraged loans and structured finance, have done very well. Which I suppose explains why profit per equity partner reached over £1 million this year...

Weird Cases: animated witnesses

Posted on August 26, 2008
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Lawyers make billions but good times are ending

Posted on August 25, 2008
Their clients may be cutting jobs and reeling from millions of pounds in losses, but Britain’s corporate lawyers enjoyed record profits last year.

Salman Rushdie to appear in High Court as libel case is settled

Posted on August 25, 2008
Sir Salman Rushdie will be at the High Court today for the settlement of a libel action he brought over allegations in a book written by a former policeman.

Hermitage and HSBC's law firms raided in Moscow

Posted on August 22, 2008
Leading law firms representing HSBC and Hermitage Capital Management have been raided by Russian Interior Ministry officials in an attempt to link senior lawyers with an alleged tax fraud.

Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs settle bond dispute

Posted on August 21, 2008
Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney-general, last night secured financial settlements from Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, whereby the investment banks have agreed to buy back $15 billion ($£8 billion) of bonds they sold to the American state.

UBS and Vestra reach pact over raid claim

Posted on August 21, 2008
UBS has dropped its legal action against Vestra, the start-up wealth manager it accused of conducting a “smash and grab raid” on its UK wealth management arm.

Lawyer of the Week: Jan Levinson

Posted on August 20, 2008
Jan Levinson, a partner at the Manchester office of Beachcroft LLP, represents Ben Collett, the former Manchester United footballer, whose career was ended when he was injured in a tackle in 2003 and who has been awarded more than £4.3 million in compensation...

Legal blogs: isn’t it time British lawyers staked their claim in the blogosphere?

Posted on August 20, 2008
Should law firms have blogs? In America they are all the rage. Just about every self-respecting law professor has one, many firms believe them to be a must-have accoutrement, and even one or two judges have got in the act.

Is London really able to govern itself or is it simply too chaotic?

Posted on August 20, 2008
Boris Johnson and the Conservatives favour more local political control over chief constables and police forces — not to mention Sir Ian Blair, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

How logging on can help you to find the right lawyer

Posted on August 20, 2008
Lawyers have never believed themselves to be a service industry. But the days of hanging up your shingle and waiting for a grateful public to beat its way to your door are gone, replaced by an online environment where the power is shifting rapidly towards consumers.

Trader added to Belgo insider dealing trial

Posted on August 20, 2008
A second person is to stand trial on insider dealing charges relating to the 1997 takeover of Belgo Group, the restaurant chain.

BAA monopoly heads for break-up as report takes aim at poor service

Posted on August 20, 2008
BAA could be forced to sell three of its airports after the Competition Commission criticised the company for what it said was decades of poor service to airlines and passengers.

So you want to study law?

Posted on August 19, 2008
On arriving at law school students are given prodigious reading lists. Descending into the minutiae of legal study is much easier if you already have a good knowledge of all the rudiments. These are some tips for getting started.

Morgan Stanley faces £9m lawsuit over failed Irish mortgage venture

Posted on August 19, 2008
Morgan Stanley is facing a €12 million (£9 million) legal action after turmoil in credit markets forced the investment bank to abandon plans to enter the Irish mortgage market.

Hundreds sued for sharing video games

Posted on August 19, 2008
As many as 100 people suspected of illegally sharing computer game files over the internet are to be sued for copyright infringement, it emerged today.

How the courts are coping with the mortgage crisis

Posted on August 18, 2008
It comes as no surprise to the courts that mortgage possessions are up 48 per cent for the first half of this year. They have been steadily increasing for at least the past two years and are now accelerating at an alarming rate.

Alan Paul: 'Deals are rather like cooking'

Posted on August 18, 2008
I’m quite realistic about what I can and can’t do. As a kid I used to play quite a lot of football — I actually had a trial at QPR at one stage — but I always knew I wasn’t good enough to make a career out of it, so I focused on my studies and went off to read classics at Oxford...

Abortion does not harm mental health, says study

Posted on August 17, 2008
Women do not put their mental health at risk by having an abortion, according to an authoritative study that will undermine the campaign to tighten the UK's abortion laws.

Tarique Ghaffur in race bias case against Sir Ian Blair

Posted on August 17, 2008
Britain’s most senior Asian officer will announce formal legal proceedings this week against Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, alleging racial discrimination at Scotland Yard.

Telenor to fight Siberian court order

Posted on August 17, 2008
Telenor, the Norwegian telecoms group, is to appeal against a court decision ordering it to pay $2.8 billion ($£1.5 billion) in damages for delaying an acquisition by VimpelCom, a Russian telecoms company in which it is a leading shareholder.

Gatwick attracts bidders as BAA awaits Competition Commission's call for disposal

Posted on August 17, 2008
BAA, the airports operator, will complete a near £13 billion refinancing this week as it prepares for the biggest shake-up to its business for more than 40 years.

Solicitor quizzed over £30m fraud

Posted on August 16, 2008
A SOLICITOR is being questioned by the legal profession’s watchdog as part of an investigation into a huge fraud allegedly involving one of Britain’s biggest property-law firms.

Stelios takes easyJet to court over branding

Posted on August 15, 2008
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is taking easyJet, the airline that he founded, to the High Court to try to limit its ability to make money from activities that may clash with his other ventures. The surprising spat between the budget carrier and its founder stunned the City yesterday and threatens to limit the airline’s ability to raise revenues.

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