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Tchenguiz brothers appeal for right to use stolen documents in divorce
Posted on May 10, 2010Two brothers who stole 20,000 documents to help their sister in her divorce from her multimillionaire husband lodged a landmark appeal yesterday for the right to use them to expose the true state of his finances.
3i sued for £6m over investment fund closure
Posted on May 10, 20103i, the FTSE private equity firm, is being sued for more than £6 million by the former bosses of PartyGaming and Betfair, the gambling operators, over the closure of the fund that the two men were brought in to run.
BA threatens to bite back after collapse of price-fixing trial
Posted on May 10, 2010British Airways has hinted that it might refuse to pay a £121 million price-fixing fine after four of its executives walked free from their criminal trial yesterday.
Barack Obama nominates Elena Kagan as youngest judge for Supreme Court
Posted on May 10, 2010President Obama?s Republican opponents were preparing to torpedo the youngest-ever nominee to the Supreme Court last night on the ground that she has never served as a judge.
Draft law opens way for first women bishops by 2014
Posted on May 08, 2010THE Church of England has paved the way for ordination of its first women bishops with new legislation that it hopes will prevent Anglicans splitting over the issue.
Tycoon?s wife gives taxman secret files
Posted on May 08, 2010THE wife of the tycoon at the centre of a £400m divorce is to hand secret files on his dealings with the super-rich to the taxman.
If you feel it?s trouser chic to show cheeks, the law?s behind you
Posted on May 07, 2010Trousers have never been under more scrutiny. Well, possibly not your trousers ? unless you happen to be wearing those baggy, saggy, backside-revealing ones, popular with teenagers and probably unpopular with belt retailers.
Bullying ?did not apply? to PwC partner
Posted on May 07, 2010A former executive of PricewaterhouseCoopers was told that anti-bullying and harassment policies did not apply to him because he was a partner, an Employment Tribunal heard yesterday.
Galleon founder?s lawyer calls foul on wiretap
Posted on May 07, 2010Lawyers for Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon hedge fund founder at the centre of a $50 million ($£33.8 million) insider trading probe in the US, have moved to suppress wiretap evidence used in the investigation, arguing that the secret recordings were improperly obtained.
At leisure: The Englishman who trains in his garage to climb up a mountain
Posted on May 07, 2010There are those who think the Tour de France, if not quite for wimps, is not necessarily as tough as life gets on a bike. If you truly want to climb deep into the pain barrier on two wheels, then the Giro d?Italia is, they say, your torture of choice.
Jailed Cazenove partner ordered to pay over £500,000
Posted on May 07, 2010A former partner at the Queen?s stockbroker Cazenove, who was jailed for insider trading, has been ordered to pay over half a million pounds in confiscation and costs or spend more time behind bars.
Lawyers mass to plot record action against BP
Posted on May 06, 2010Up to 200 American lawyers are planning a class action against BP that could be one of the most expensive yet.
Parliamentary privilege, new constitutions and favourite speeches
Posted on May 05, 2010With time running out before the general election, there is much more than party manifestos for the legally interested who want topical reading.
Judges halt latest moves towards secrecy in the courts
Posted on May 05, 2010This week judges struck a blow for openness. They rejected attempts by government and security service lawyers to hold a secret trial to defend a claim for damages being mounted by former Guantánamo detainees. They ruled that such a move would undermine the right of a party to know the case against him, one of the ?most fundamental principles of the common law?.
BA ?price-fix? trial is halted for third time
Posted on May 05, 2010The trial of four British Airways executives accused of criminal price-fixing was postponed for the third time yesterday.
What did the Labour Party ever do for the law?
Posted on May 05, 2010Wherever we might end up by this time tomorrow, today feels like the end of an epoch. So let us pause and review in brief what has happened since that day when Things Can Only Get Better.
Lawyer of the Week: Richard Langton
Posted on May 05, 2010Richard Langton, a senior litigation partner at Russell Jones & Walker, acts for 1,650 claimants who suffered painful skin complaints because of the presence of the chemical dimethyl fumarate (DMF) in sofas. After the largest consumer injury group litigation in the UK, £20 million in compensation has been agreed with the retailers.
Press still silenced, despite family court reforms, say lawyers
Posted on May 05, 2010One year after ground-breaking reforms that were meant to open thousands of hearings to the media, more family courts are now more closed to public scrutiny, it is claimed today.
Family courts: ?the changes were a misguided, politically motivated fudge?
Posted on May 05, 2010It was championed as a great victory ? opening up the closed, secretive world of the family courts. A year ago, thousands of hearings held behind closed doors on removing children into care or on contact with parents were opened to the media after a sustained campaign by fathers? groups, politicians and the media, led by The Times.
British bankers trapped in Bahrain for ten months
Posted on May 05, 2010Three British bankers have been unable to leave Bahrain for ten months after being placed under investigation in relation to the collapse of a Saudi bank.
Judges ban secret evidence in Guantanamo compensation case
Posted on May 04, 2010Ministers and the security services were blocked today by senior judges in their ground-breaking attempt to use secret information in defending a damages claim by six former Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Madoff investor?s estate set to pay $2bn to victims of Ponzi fraud$
Posted on May 04, 2010The estate of the late Jeffry Picower, a former investor in Bernard Madoff?s Ponzi scheme, is poised to hand over billions of dollars to victims of the fraud, according to a court order.
S. J. Berwin?s merger talks with leading US law firm collapse
Posted on May 04, 2010A major transatlantic legal merger involving S. J. Berwin, a City law firm, has collapsed after an American suitor abandoned talks.
Judge says ?pants? to ban on low-slung trousers for ASBO teenager
Posted on May 04, 2010In a victory for skaters, hoodies and owners of oversized trousers everywhere, a teenager has won the right to wear his tracksuit bottoms halfway down his backside.
Quest for increased openness is giving security services the jitters
Posted on May 04, 2010Secrecy is the watchword of our intelligence and security services ? an essential component of their work, which arouses intense suspicion and spawns countless conspiracy theories.
Want to know about hung Parliaments? Just ask eminent constitutional lawyers
Posted on May 04, 2010Against the background of the possibility, no more, of a hung Parliament, it is appropriate to canvass the scenario of a second election.
Justice? In the law, women are unequal partners
Posted on May 04, 2010Fewer than a quarter of new partners promoted this year at the City?s ten biggest law firms are women, raising doubts about the effectiveness of the legal elite?s efforts to promote diversity in their senior ranks .
Judges ban secret evidence in Guantánamo compensation case
Posted on May 04, 2010Senior judges have blocked ministers and the security services from using secret information in defending a damages claim brought by six former Guantánamo Bay detainees.
Judge rules Asbo on low-slung trousers illegal
Posted on May 04, 2010In a victory for skaters, hoodies and owners of oversized trousers everywhere, a teenager has won the right to wear his tracksuit bottoms halfway down his backside.
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