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Malcolm Calvert, former Cazenove partner, guilty of insider dealing
Posted on March 10, 2010A former partner at Cazenove was convicted of insider dealing yesterday after making more than £100,000 profit from trading ahead of three takeovers.
Fraud and corruption is costing Britain £30 billion a year
Posted on March 10, 2010It is almost 25 years since the Roskill Report published its radical recommendations for improving the way complex fraud, corruption and financial market crimes are tackled.
Lawyer of the Week: Jessica Learmond-Criqui
Posted on March 10, 2010Jessica Learmond-Criqui, a founding partner of Learmond Criqui Sokel, acted for Stephanie Booth (the stepmother of Cherie Booth, QC), who successfully sued for unfair dismissal after losing her job for whistleblowing. She had raised concerns about the lack of health and safety procedures that were putting their charges, vulnerable young people, at risk.
Legal aid lawyers told to wait for their money
Posted on March 10, 2010Jack Straw?s frustrations with the running of the £2.1 billion a year legal aid scheme were laid bare this week along with the policy clashes that have led to the demise of the body in charge.
Be your own judge: try your hand at sentencing
Posted on March 10, 2010The clamour over Jon Venables highlights a punitive public mood that killings such as that of James Bulger evoke. The case is exceptional but the inclination of the public to tough sentencing is not. Or is it?
Why is the EU failing to comply with its international law obligations over Israel?
Posted on March 10, 2010If you lived on a street where a neighbour frequently and flagrantly broke the law, you would want something done about it, especially if that neighbour took part of your garden, replaced the fence with a 30ft wall, cut down your trees and redirected your water supply.
Criminal justice system should stop sending so many people to prison
Posted on March 10, 2010Some crimes are so serious and some criminals so dangerous that prison is the only possible disposal; nobody disputes that. Even so, why have prison numbers burgeoned by nearly 40 per cent since 1997 to a level where we now imprison more per 100,000 of population than any other country in Europe? Where we have more lifers than Russia? How has it come to this?
Berezovsky wins High Court damages over Litvinenko murder claim
Posted on March 10, 2010Boris Berezovsky won £150,000 High Court libel damages yesterday over claims on a Russian television broadcast about the radiation poisoning murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
Winterflood Securities begins second market abuse appeal
Posted on March 09, 2010Winterflood Securities, the City market-maker, went to the Court of Appeal today for its latest attempt to overturn a ruling that the firm and two of its brokers committed market abuse.
Psychiatric report said Jon Venables was ?a negligible risk?
Posted on March 09, 2010A psychiatric report that paved the way for the release of Jon Venables, one of James Bulger?s killers, concluded that he posed a ?trivial? risk to the public, The Times has learnt.
Law firms prepare to float on the stock market
Posted on March 09, 2010City law firms are preparing to raise millions of pounds from external investors as the British legal market braces for its own version of Big Bang.
'Every prisoner will be looking out for Venables'
Posted on March 08, 2010If Jon Venables appears in the dock in a magistrates? court, few will know his true identity. Even his Liverpudlian accent will be barely discernible as he confirms his false name to the court.
Judges told they have no power to allow secret evidence in Guantanamo case
Posted on March 08, 2010Three of the country?s top judges were told yesterday that they had no power to allow ministers to use secret evidence in fighting a damages claim by six former Guantanamo Bay detainees over alleged ill-treatment.
Photography under threat: The shooting party?s over
Posted on March 07, 2010Put that camera away. Yes, you, put it away right now. This is a public place, you can?t take pictures here. What right have you got to take photographs? People might not like it. Did they say you could take photographs? Did they? No. Are you some sort of paedo? A terrorist? Gimme that camera...
Soon every Swiss dog could have his day in court
Posted on March 05, 2010There is no better place than Switzerland to be a chicken. Or a hamster. Or even ? though the jury is still out on this ? a goldfish.
AIG subsidiaries settle discrimination charges
Posted on March 04, 2010Two subsidiaries of American International Group (AIG) agreed to at least $6.1 million to settle allegations that they discriminated against African-American borrowers.$
Ex Cazenove broker 'skilled at share picking'
Posted on March 04, 2010A former partner at Cazenove, the Queen?s stockbroker, who is standing trial on insider dealing charges, is ?a skilled market observer? with ?the ability to pick a winner? a court heard today.
Former MI6 officer charged with exposing spy techniques
Posted on March 03, 2010A former spy has appeared in court accused of stealing and disclosing top-secret material.
'It has never been so bad': Zimbabwean human rights lawyers under attack
Posted on March 03, 2010Lawyers for Morgan Tsvangirai?s office have a list of 184 people, including a boy of 3, who were murdered during the run-off presidential elections in June 2008 that ended with Robert Mugabe having himself declared the winner.
A licence to drill: winning the oil row in the Falkland Islands
Posted on March 03, 2010Storms are brewing afresh in the South Atlantic. After the decision by the Falkland Islands government to issue licences for oil and gas exploration in its surrounding waters, the Argentine Government has imposed a permit regime on ships travelling from Argentina to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands.
Lawyer of the Week: Robert Francis
Posted on March 03, 2010Robert Francis, QC, of 3 Serjeants Inn Chambers, chaired the independent inquiry into the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. It found systematic failure and that hundreds of patients had died over three years because of poor care.
South African courts come to the aid of white Zimbabwean farmers
Posted on March 03, 2010Zimbabwe?s dispossessed white farmers will at last be able to put the heat on President Mugabe. Four former farmers have been given the right to seize Zimbabwean government property in South Africa in pursuit of their compensation claim.
Top family law post vacant after challenge to government critic
Posted on March 03, 2010Jack Straw has challenged the appointment of a new head of the family justice system who castigated the Government over its policies, including opening family courts, The Times has learnt.
Binyam Mohamed judgment: was Jonathan Sumption right to complain?
Posted on March 03, 2010?What I have written, I have written.? Court of Appeal judges ? or any judges for that matter ? do not adopt Pontius Pilate?s uncompromising stance when they circulate their draft judgments.
Ex Cazenove partner will not testify in insider dealing case
Posted on March 03, 2010A former partner at Cazenove, the Queen?s stockbroker, who is standing trial for alleged insider dealing, declined to give evidence in his defence today.
Profiles: the Bulger killers, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson
Posted on March 03, 2010Jon Venables was born on August 6 1982, the middle of three children. Jon's father Neil, a fork-lift truck driver, separated from his wife Susan when Jon was four but stayed in close touch with the children, who lived with their mother in Norris Green, Liverpool.
Pressure grows over James Bulger killer as Jack Straw keeps silent
Posted on March 03, 2010Jack Straw refused to say today why one of the killers of James Bulger has been sent back to jail.
James Bulger mother: killer Jon Venables is 'where he belongs'
Posted on March 03, 2010The mother of the murdered toddler James Bulger said his killer Jon Venables is ?where he belongs? in her first reaction to news of his return to custody.
High Court halts BAE plea deal with Serious Fraud Office
Posted on March 02, 2010The High Court has filed an injunction against the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to prevent it concluding an investigation into BAE Systems, Europe?s largest defence company, over bribery and corruption allegations.
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