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Judge rejects Bank of America-SEC Settlement

Posted on August 10, 2009
A federal court judge poured scorn on the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) $33 million settlement with Bank of America over charges that the bank misled shareholders over a multi-billion dollar bonus payment.$

Pressure on Rio Tinto as espionage claims intensify in China

Posted on August 10, 2009
City investors were further unsettled yesterday by the increasingly shrill accusations of espionage being made against Rio Tinto, the world?s second-largest mining group.

Sharon Shoesmith?s legal challenge fast-tracked by High Court

Posted on August 10, 2009
The High Court is to fast-track Sharon Shoesmith?s legal challenge against the Education Secretary?s role in her dismissal from Haringey Council without compensation.

One-stop courts to help women confront abuse

Posted on August 08, 2009
ONE-STOP courts to help victims of domestic violence win legal redress are to be established across the country to encourage battered women to come forward and identify their abusers.

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Revealed: Britain's most lenient judge

Posted on August 08, 2009
A CIRCUIT judge who sits at Birmingham crown court has had 10 of her sentences increased on appeal, placing her top of a list of judges whose decisions have been overturned for excessive leniency.

Spinvox in probe over financial mismanagement

Posted on August 08, 2009
THE troubled technology firm Spinvox has launched an inquiry into the activities of some senior executives after a dossier alleging financial mismanagement was circulated to shareholders.

Deutsche spied on me like the Stasi, says lawyer

Posted on August 08, 2009
Germany?s biggest bank has been accused of mounting a Stasi-style entrapment operation against a prominent shareholder regarded as a troublemaker.

Bernard Madoff aide Frank DiPascali is to plead guilty

Posted on August 08, 2009
BERNARD MADOFF?s right-hand man will plead guilty this week to criminal charges linked to his role in the $65 billion (�40 billion) Ponzi scheme orchestrated by the convicted fraudster.

OFT refers Sports Direct over JJB Sports stores

Posted on August 07, 2009
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the consumer watchdog, has referred Sports Direct to the Competition Commission after the retailer failed to find a buyer for stores it had acquired from JJB Sports, its biggest rival.

Linklaters sued by former employee

Posted on August 07, 2009
Linklaters, the City?s biggest law firm, admitted today that it is facing legal action by a former employee over a redundancy programme that resulted in around 200 staff in London losing their jobs.

Police to ignore European Court of Human Rights ruling on stored DNA

Posted on August 07, 2009
Chief constables have been told to ignore a landmark European Court ruling and continue storing the DNA samples of innocent people.

Judge queries SEC deal with Bank of America

Posted on August 06, 2009
A New York judge has refused to sign of a $33 million settlement between the top US securities regulator and Bank of America over the bank's controversial $50 billion takeover of Merrill Lynch.$

Ex-AIG boss pays $15m to settle SEC inquiry$

Posted on August 06, 2009
Hank Greenberg has paid $15 million to settle a long-running investigation into an accounting scandal at American International Group (AIG), the insurer he turned into a financial giant only to watch it decimated by the credit crunch.$

Tenants to gain safeguards from landlords

Posted on August 05, 2009
Tenants in properties let by financially unstable landlords could be given greater protection if their homes are repossessed under proposals published today.

Law Panel live: cracking down on corruption

Posted on August 05, 2009
On Thursday August 6 at 1pm we will be holding the first of a series of live discussions featuring members of The Times Law Panel.

Minister admits: rape review plans back to drawing board

Posted on August 05, 2009
A Home Office minister today admitted plans to review rape laws had gone back to the drawing board after an intervention by Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman.

Book in for some good summer reading

Posted on August 05, 2009
The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law by Albie Sachs

Corby 'toxic soup' case: why it's a long way from being over

Posted on August 05, 2009
The satisfaction of the Corby families last week about the High Court ruling over the link between the reclamation work of a former British Steel plant between 1985 and 1999 and the disabilities suffered by their children might have suggested that the compensation cheques had already being written.

Lawyer of the Week: Ronald Thwaites

Posted on August 05, 2009
Ronald Thwaites, QC, of Ely Place Chambers, successfully defended a libel action by Richard Desmond, the press baron, against Tom Bower, the journalist and author, backed by publisher HarperCollins. The case was said to have hinged on successfully gaining the right to play the tape of a telephone conversation between Desmond and another person ? generally, no case is won on a single piece of evidence.

Trainee barristers are being offered annual salary on a par with MPs

Posted on August 05, 2009
Aspiring lawyers are now being offered as much as �60,000 a year, almost the same as an MP?s salary, before they even qualify.

Environment Agency cracks down on organised crime in waste industry

Posted on August 05, 2009
Guns, ammunition, stashes of cash and luxury cars are being seized as environment authorities try to stop organised criminals muscling in on Britain?s �9 billion waste industry, The Times can reveal.

Judge Ian Trigger faces investigation over immigration speech

Posted on August 04, 2009
A senior judge who described Britain?s immigration system as ?completely lax? is to face an investigation. Judge Ian Trigger said last week that ?hundreds and hundreds of thousands? of illegal immigrants were abusing the benefits system.

Harriet Harman digs in her heels to demand tougher rape law

Posted on August 04, 2009
Harriet Harman has vetoed a review of the rape laws at the eleventh hour, complaining that the proposals fail to address the concerns of women.

Juries return to Japanese justice in Katsuyoshi Fujii trial

Posted on August 03, 2009
A petty squabble between two elderly neighbours that escalated into a brutal, deadly stabbing attack became the centrepiece of the most radical shake-up of Japanese justice since the Second World War.

SFO adopts aggressive approach on banking fraud

Posted on August 03, 2009
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched a series of investigations into UK-based banks to establish whether they fraudulently mis-sold complex financial products in the run-up to the global banking crisis.

Criminal trials from 18th and 19th centuries go online for first time

Posted on August 02, 2009
On March 2, 1882, Roderick Maclean brandished a pistol outside Windsor railway station and attempted to shoot Queen Victoria.

Tracking law Q and As

Posted on August 01, 2009
Do tracking devices such as these come under privacy laws?

Suicide and the law ? where we stand

Posted on August 01, 2009
MAN IN THE HOT SEAT

Assisted suicide: Whose life is it anyway?

Posted on August 01, 2009
Debbie Purdy was ?ecstatic?. It was a strange reaction to the news that it had suddenly become easier to be killed in Zurich. But the real reason for her elation was that the news also meant it might soon become easier to be killed in Britain.

Hacker Gary McKinnon fights on as extradition appeal rejected

Posted on July 31, 2009
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon will appeal to the newly formed Supreme Court after he today lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to America.

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