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Apple turns lawyers loose to keep its big secret

Posted on January 20, 2010
Apple has turned to its lawyers in an attempt to keep the lid on the company?s biggest product launch in three years.

FSA fines Standard Life Ł2.45m over marketing

Posted on January 20, 2010
Standard Life has been fined Ł2.45 million by the City regulator after inappropriately targeting a Ł2.2 billion pension fund at investors who were close to retirement and looking for a safe place for capital.

Nadia Eweida begins appeal against British Airways crucifix ruling

Posted on January 19, 2010
A devout Christian began an appeal today against a ruling that British Airways did not discriminate against her by asking her to stop wearing a cross visibly at work.

E-Clear falls into administration in legal fight

Posted on January 19, 2010
E-Clear, the credit card processing company used by Globespan, the collapsed airline, was placed into administration today, in the latest step in a Ł35 million legal dispute over flight payments.

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'Have-a-go' brothers Munir and Tokeer Hussain refused appeal

Posted on January 19, 2010
Two businessmen will learn today how long they must serve in prison after an appeal that has reignited controversy over ?have-a-go heroes?.

Judge urges Charity Commission to hand over George Galloway papers

Posted on January 19, 2010
A judge has encouraged the Charity Commission to end a lengthy battle with The Times by handing over documents about George Galloway?s suspected financial links with Saddam Hussein.

Defending your house: so what is 'reasonable force'?

Posted on January 19, 2010
How far can householders go to defend themselves? The reignited debate on ?have-a-go heroes? is already prompting fresh calls from politicians for reforms to the law.

Nick Clegg pledges to curb libel law's 'chilling effect' on scientific inquiry

Posted on January 18, 2010
English libel law is a ?legal farce? that needs urgent reform to stop it from gagging scientists and endangering public health, Nick Clegg said today.

British Hindu Davender Ghai takes funeral pyre battle to Appeal Court

Posted on January 18, 2010
A British Hindu could win the right to be cremated on an open-air funeral pyre if appeal court judges agree with his definition of the word ?building?.

Terror suspects can claim damages, judge rules

Posted on January 18, 2010
The Home Secretary is to fight a surprise High Court ruling today that opens the way for compensation to be paid to terror suspects held on control orders.

Terror suspects can claim damages, judge rules

Posted on January 18, 2010
The High Court yesterday opened the way for compensation to be paid to terror suspects held on control orders.

Police scour Asia for GP insurance scam suspect

Posted on January 18, 2010
Specialist fraud police are searching for a Hertfordshire-based insurance broker who was expelled from the financial services industry for defrauding hundreds of doctors? surgeries in a Ł400,000 scam.

Appeal judges to rule on right of Hindus to open-air cremation

Posted on January 18, 2010
A British grandfather will win the right for Hindus to be cremated on open-air funeral pyres if the Court of Appeal agrees with his definition of the word ?building?.

Abuse of pre-pack deals ?could turn Britain into an insolvency brothel?

Posted on January 17, 2010
Britain is in danger of becoming the ?bankruptcy brothel of the world?, it was claimed yesterday, as furious creditors prepared a landmark legal challenge over the country?s largest pre-pack administration.

The Marco Pierre White recipe making divorce courts shiver

Posted on January 16, 2010
Marco Pierre White had a difficult conversation with Letty, his 20-year-old daughter, last week. He is about to begin a legal action against the law firm that acted for Mati, his third wife, during their divorce and Letty had read about it in the newspapers.

?No win, no fee? deals cost taxpayers and insurers millions

Posted on January 14, 2010
Going to law has become so expensive that many can face ruin if they bring or defend a claim. At the same time, the costs regime ? whether for an accident claim, business dispute or libel action ? has become an industry costing taxpayers and insurers millions of pounds a year.

Brief for India?s outsourcing lawyers: keep it cheap

Posted on January 14, 2010
It might be one of India?s biggest legal outsourcing companies, but the working environment at the headquarters of Pangea3 could be enough to make a British corporate lawyer consider suing his employer for lack of care.

Libel trials should be heard by judges without juries, says law lord

Posted on January 14, 2010
Libel trials should be heard by judges sitting without juries, Lord Justice Jackson recommends.

End to spiralling costs urged in landmark civil justice reforms

Posted on January 14, 2010
An end to the spiralling costs of going to law and the bonanza of ?no win, no fee? deals was signalled yesterday with a landmark report on civil justice.

Jackson review: the waiting is over

Posted on January 14, 2010
Lord Justice Jackson has likened his review of civil litigation costs to a trial. He gathered evidence, he heard from opposing advocates and now he is ready to deliver his judgment. But whatever Sir Rupert hands down, it will be a suspended sentence. The question of what happens once he reports ? which has hung over the review from Day 1 ? now comes into sharp focus.

Harry Redknapp accused of cheating taxpayer out of Ł40,000

Posted on January 14, 2010
Harry Redknapp, the Tottenham Hotspur manager, was charged with two counts of tax evasion yesterday after allegedly cheating Revenue & Customs out of about Ł40,000 while manager of Porstmouth FC.

Credit card fraudster ran an ?online shop for criminals?

Posted on January 14, 2010
The founding member of a global criminal website responsible for tens of millions of pounds of credit card crime is facing a lengthy jail term.

Sky begins push for TV cameras in court

Posted on January 13, 2010
A campaign to allow cameras into courts to film proceedings was announced by Sky News last night.

Lawyer of the Week: Michael Smyth

Posted on January 13, 2010
Michael Smyth, a partner and head of public policy at Clifford Chance, acted for five news groups including The Times, the Financial Times and Reuters, in a case before the European Court of Human Rights that unanimously confirmed the right of the media to protect their sources...

RBS fights allegation of role in Enron fraud

Posted on January 13, 2010
Royal Bank of Scotland defrauded an Austrian bank by encouraging it to invest in a Ł140 million sham financial vehicle created for Enron, the collapsed energy giant, a court was told yesterday.

David Edmonds: is he cracking the whip or leading the way?

Posted on January 13, 2010
Stacked on David Edmonds? desk is a pyramid of 18 varieties of baked beans. ?It?s a private joke,? he insists ? declining to be photographed with them. ?It shows the huge variety you can have, and quality at the same time.?

Court demands E-Clear reveal Globespan cash

Posted on January 12, 2010
The credit card processing company used by Globespan, the collapsed airline, has been ordered to disclose its financial position in a Ł35 million legal dispute over flight payments.

OFT mulls review of Orange/T-Mobile deal

Posted on January 12, 2010
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will decide in the coming days if it will seek to review the planned merger of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK, after the two mobile phone companies submitted their proposals to European regulators.

Court strikes down anti-terror stop-and-search powers

Posted on January 12, 2010
A key element of the Government?s anti-terror laws was declared illegal today because it breaches human rights.

First criminal trial with no jury for 400 years starts

Posted on January 12, 2010
The first major criminal trial without a jury for 400 years in England and Wales opened today with one of the barristers declaring: "We are breaking history."

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