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Family death ends insider dealing trial of City lawyer

Posted on May 27, 2010
A lawyer on trial for alleged insider dealing was excused from prosecution yesterday after his brother was killed in an assault.

In the City: Edward Fennell

Posted on May 26, 2010
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Strikes are a minefield - for both sides of the dispute

Posted on May 26, 2010
Devotees of the television series Ashes to Ashes are familiar with the scene. With management and unions at BA locked in confrontation, it may look and feel like 1983 but, in the real world, trade union legislation has changed the rules fundamentally from the days when a show of hands around a burning brazier was enough to close a workplace.

Lord Beaverbrook?s heirs in battle over Ł100 million art collection

Posted on May 26, 2010
A fierce legal battle over a Ł100 million art collection has been reopened by descendants of Lord Beaverbrook, the press baron.

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Steer clear of ambushing the World Cup, UK businesses warned

Posted on May 26, 2010
With World Cup fever gaining momentum, businesses need to watch out to avoid falling foul of trade mark laws.

Lawyer of the Week: Bill Braithwaite

Posted on May 26, 2010
Bill Braithwaite, QC, the joint head of Exchange Chambers in Liverpool, represented the motorist David Tolley, who was paralysed for life when he stopped to help a woman motorist to move her car out of danger in the fast lane. In the first recorded case in British law of insurance companies challenging a road traffic rescuer over liability, the High Court ordered the insurers to compensate him fully.

Can lawyers make good football agents?

Posted on May 26, 2010
As the football season ends, so the transfer season begins, and it is now that football agents get busy.

World Cup football, wine, beaches, steaks ? what else can lawyers squeeze in?

Posted on May 26, 2010
This is a World Cup guide for South African virgins ? lawyers who are visiting South Africa for the first time.

NHS trust may operate on cancer patient by force

Posted on May 26, 2010
A leading judge gave an NHS trust permission yesterday to sedate a cancer patient with a phobia of hospitals and needles and perform a hysterectomy considered necessary to save her life.

Government faces huge bill for defendants? costs

Posted on May 26, 2010
Ministers face paying out hundreds of thousands of pounds to defendants who have been cleared in the courts because of a legislative drafting blunder, The Times has learnt.

Referral fees: two reports say they should stay

Posted on May 25, 2010
Referral fees ? paid by solicitors to estate agents and others to be referred work ? look likely to stay with publication of a report today opposing a ban on the practice.

Son sues mother for ?failing to protect him from childhood abuse?

Posted on May 25, 2010
A son sued his mother at the High Court yesterday over her alleged failure to protect him from his father?s beatings. The 32-year-old man from Co Durham, who cannot be identified, said that his mother, now in her late 60s, assaulted him herself and aided and abetted the daily punishment meted out by her husband by reporting his failings.

Enthusiasm led friends to buy shares, court told

Posted on May 25, 2010
The finance director of an AIM-listed biotechnology business who is standing trial for insider dealing was so enthusiastic about the company that he inadvertently encouraged friends to buy shares, a court was told yesterday.

Child rape case sparks anger

Posted on May 24, 2010
Demands were made last night for sweeping reform of the way that young children are dealt with in the criminal courts after two boys aged 10 and 11 were found guilty of attempting to rape a girl of 8.

Can we stay humane, even in the hell of war?

Posted on May 24, 2010
Among the celebrity chefs, pop stars and chick-lit novelists on the British bestseller lists, Hans Fallada cuts an unlikely figure. The German author, a drug addict and alcoholic who spent much of his life in psychiatric hospitals, died of a morphine overdose more than 60 years ago.

This spectacle has no place in a civilised land

Posted on May 24, 2010
What sort of people are we? In every sense, this is the question we?ve been asking ourselves during the election. We listen to our politicians and we make a choice that?s more philosophical than we?re inclined to admit, contentedly thinking we don?t really do philosophy this side of the channel...

Child rape case reignites debate about putting children on trial

Posted on May 24, 2010
The spectacle of two boys aged 10 and 11 standing trial at the Old Bailey accused of raping an even younger child aged 8 has reignited the debate about putting children on trial.

Questioning children is not easy, but it is crucial to the truth

Posted on May 24, 2010
Child witnesses frequently give evidence in criminal trials, particularly as complainants in sexual allegations, and I have been required to question many in my 16 years as a defence barrister.

Message board: terrorists' rights

Posted on May 22, 2010
Should a judge have all owed an Al-Qaeda leader to stay in Britain?

Directors will face election every year

Posted on May 22, 2010
DIRECTORS will be forced to put themselves up for re-election by shareholders every year under controversial measures to be introduced in a new boardroom code published this week.

For a vampire gold-digger, I don?t want much

Posted on May 22, 2010
No one says the word but it hovers in the air: gold-digger. Gold-digger. Gold-digger. When you divorce a billionaire, as I?m in the process of doing, you find yourself cast in an old and well-known story. And you are not a sympathetic character (although he usually isn?t either) ? but why should you be?

Time and place: Michael Mansfield QC

Posted on May 22, 2010
Railways are in my blood. My father was a controller with British Railways, and there was a line at the bottom of our garden in the days when the occasional steam train would pass, taking people on day trips to such exotic locations as Clacton and Southend-on-Sea...

SFO ends investigation of property tycoon

Posted on May 21, 2010
A Yorkshire property tycoon accused of involvement in a multimillion-pound fraud will not face charges after a three-year investigation was dropped, it emerged today.

7/7 victims inquests to investigate alleged failings by MI5 and police

Posted on May 21, 2010
The activities and knowledge of M15 leading up to the July 7 bombings will be investigated as part of the inquests into the deaths of the 52 victims, the coroner ruled.

July 7 inquests will examine role of MI5

Posted on May 21, 2010
The activities and knowledge of M15 leading up to the July 7 bombings will be investigated as part of the inquests into the deaths of the 52 victims, the coroner ruled.

FSA makes fresh insider dealing arrest

Posted on May 19, 2010
A 39-year-old man from East London has been arrested for insider dealing, the City regulator said today.

Why brains and not class count in the scramble for pupillage

Posted on May 19, 2010
If you want to become a barrister you have to secure pupillage ? a training place in chambers.

City firms welcome survival of the Financial Services Authority

Posted on May 19, 2010
An almost audible sigh of relief swept through the corridors of banking and regulation departments in City law firms when the new Government jettisoned proposals to scrap the Financial Services Authority (FSA), one of the totems of the new Labour years and a personal creation of Gordon Brown.

Law firms take up the supermarket challenge

Posted on May 19, 2010
Solicitors are taking on supermarkets and banks in a High Street war for customers with a ?superbrand? network of law firms in England and Wales.

Lawyer of the Week: Simon Campbell

Posted on May 19, 2010
Simon Campbell, a partner at First Defence, a Bedfordshire firm, acted for Ellis Drummond, 18, who faced an antisocial behaviour order that banned him from wearing in public low-slung trousers and any clothing with the hood up. The judge ruled that these conditions breached the Human Rights Act 2000 and were removed.

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