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Fears of 'licence to kill' as Tories bid to change self-defence law

Posted on January 24, 2010
A new law to give greater protection to householders is unnecessary and could be a licence to kill, a leading criminal barrister has warned.

Judges need more discretion, not more laws

Posted on January 24, 2010
What should be done when people take the law into their own hands in pursuit of what they regard as justice?

Iraq inquiry: Government legal official will disclose advice given to ministers

Posted on January 24, 2010
Sir Michael Wood, the former top legal adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has been given permission from the Attorney-General to break with protocol and disclose advice given to ministers in the build-up to the Iraq war.

Victims' families demand Edlington boys be named

Posted on January 24, 2010
Pressure was growing on the Government last night to release the full findings of a confidential inquiry into the Edlington torture case.

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Compulsory retirement age would be scrapped under watchdog?s plans

Posted on January 24, 2010
Millions of older people will be able to lengthen their working lives under proposals from the equalities watchdog to scrap the compulsory retirement age of 65.

'Sarah's Law' to be introduced to help parents check for paedophiles

Posted on January 24, 2010
A scheme that allows parents to check if anyone in regular contact with their children is a paedophile is expected to be introduced across the country after a successful pilot project.

Solicitors drum up childhood-abuse cases with jail ads

Posted on January 23, 2010
SOLICITORS are advertising in jails for prison inmates to make compensation claims for abuse against former carers and teachers. Some of the claims involve allegations stretching back decades.

Truth of the MMR vaccine scandal

Posted on January 23, 2010
They travelled to London in the mid-1990s, each carrying or pushing a child. A dozen anonymous families with 11 boys and one girl, who were to trigger the health scare of our time. The children had brain disorders. Some had autism; others, Asperger?s or epilepsy...

From the Dordogne dream to shattered lives

Posted on January 22, 2010
When Steve and Joy Coleman moved to the Dordogne, they looked forward to playing with their grandchildren in the house that was to be the setting for a comfortable retirement.

Cash for gold companies face watchdog inquiry

Posted on January 21, 2010
Their television advertisements, featuring celebrities such as the perma-tanned Dale Winton and TV presenter Anne Diamond urging viewers to send in their gold jewellery and coins in exchange for cash, are a phenomenon of the current economic crisis.

BSkyB loses appeal over ruling to cut ITV stake

Posted on January 21, 2010
BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster, this morning lost a legal appeal against a ruling ordering it to cut its 17.9 per cent stake in ITV.

FSA gets tough on client money

Posted on January 21, 2010
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has criticised the UK?s insurance and investment industry for failing to safeguard client money and announced that it is investigating two businesses and has frozen the assets of a third over the issue.

British expatriates condemn SocGen

Posted on January 21, 2010
They retired to the Dordogne to enjoy the sun, the foie gras and the scenery, but lost tens of thousands of pounds, and sometimes hundreds of thousands of pounds, to a British swindler.

Allen & Overy adapts to encourage women

Posted on January 21, 2010
Allen & Overy, the fourth-largest of the City?s ?magic circle? law firms, said yesterday it would allow its top partners to work part-time in an effort to encourage more women into the role.

Juicy twist in Vivian Imerman's divorce

Posted on January 21, 2010
A business tycoon?s estranged wife has won the right to use 20,000 documents stolen from his computer in her battle for a slice of his �300 million fortune.

BSkyB loses fight on ITV stake

Posted on January 21, 2010
BSkyB was ordered yesterday to reduce its 17.9 per cent holding in ITV to below 7.5 per cent, in a move that analysts said would renew bid speculation over the free-to-air broadcaster.

Office of Fair Trading investigates the bling buyers

Posted on January 21, 2010
To the plinky-plunk of elevator music, a minor celebrity urges you, the viewer, to swap your gold for a fistful of twenties. Maniacally grinning ?customers? attest to the credit card bills paid and new laptops purchased after the mere act of sending in unwanted gold in an envelope.

Judge is refused care authorities? report in Edlington torture case

Posted on January 21, 2010
Care authorities have refused to allow a High Court judge to read a confidential report into their handling of two young brothers who sadistically tortured two children and left them for dead.

'Draining' family courts system to be overhauled

Posted on January 20, 2010
Ed Balls has announced a far-reaching review of the family courts and promised more help for parents who have separated, including greater access to mediation.

Jackson's proposals on civil litigation costs divide legal profession

Posted on January 20, 2010
Going to law is expensive, favouring those with deep pockets. If you are of modest means, you are at a serious disadvantage.

Businessman who beat intruder thanks nation for support after release

Posted on January 20, 2010
A businessman jailed for seriously injuring an intruder thanked the ?whole country" today after he was released from jail after having his sentence cut.

Terrifying ordeal of burglary victims meant this was no vigilante attack

Posted on January 20, 2010
When the most senior judge in England freed Munir Hussain yesterday he reopened the question about how far it is acceptable to go to defend one?s home against violent intruders.

Judge's 'act of mercy' on Munir Hussain fuels row on self-defence

Posted on January 20, 2010
The political debate on the right to defend one?s home and family was inflamed last night after a man jailed for a violent attack on a burglar was freed by the Court of Appeal.

Legal actions after weight-loss surgery have soared over past two years

Posted on January 20, 2010
The number of patients taking legal action after paying for weight loss surgery has risen sharply over the past two years, according to medical negligence figures seen by The Times.

Brixton chief Tim Wheeler took ski trip amid crisis, tribunal told

Posted on January 20, 2010
Tim Wheeler, the former chief executive of Brixton Plc, refused to cancel a holiday and concentrate on rescuing the ailing commercial property company, telling a fellow director: ?F*** that, I?ve paid for it?, an employment tribunal heard yesterday.

Munir and Tokeer Hussain: an altered sentence can still be basically right

Posted on January 20, 2010
Judge John Reddihough had been in no doubt that it was his ?public duty? to jail Munir and Tokeer Hussain last month and, although the brothers won their appeal yesterday, the trial judge is unlikely to feel that he did anything wrong.

Divorce courts may be thing of the past under radical overhaul of family justice

Posted on January 20, 2010
Divorce disputes and other acrimonious battles over children or money would be taken out of the courts under plans for a radical overhaul of family justice announced yesterday.

Law directories: a benchmark of success or simply nice to have?

Posted on January 20, 2010
The tension is palpable in a room at a Central London hotel. A gaggle of law firm business development staff ? and even the odd partner on the scrounge for a free drink ? nervously quaff warmish fizz and impatiently giggle through a typically quixotic speech by Michael Chambers.

Would I be an executor again? Yes, but it can be quite a burden

Posted on January 20, 2010
No one tells you how time-consuming death is. The Four Last Things ought to be Death, Judgment, Heaven ? and Probate. That desolate telephone call from the hospice tips you down a chute into a nether world of callous, grasping and bewildered people (of all ages) and caring (well, most of them) professionals...

Lawyer of the Week: Corinna Ferguson

Posted on January 20, 2010
Corinna Ferguson, a barrister at the human rights organisation Liberty, acted for Pennie Quinton, a journalist, and Kevin Gillan, a peace protester, in the landmark European Court of Human Rights case that ruled unanimously that Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 giving the police sweeping stop-and-search powers breaches human rights.

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