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Judge rules ceremony with priest was not a marriage

Posted on June 05, 2009
A woman whose ?splendid and romantic? wedding took place on a rooftop with spectacular views over a sunlit sea was told today that she was not legally married.

Weird cases: if you don't like this excuse, I have others

Posted on June 05, 2009
In civil law, a defendant can raise alternative and even contradictory defences.

Nuclear test veterans win right to sue Government

Posted on June 05, 2009
A thousand serviceman who say they suffered ill health because of Britain?s atomic tests in the Pacific in the 1950s won a crucial High Court victory today that paves the way for them to sue the Ministry of Defence.

Leading City lawyer finds his elixir of love in opera

Posted on June 05, 2009
Ian Rosenblatt has a problem. He is running a City law firm in the middle of a slump and has just been to the third pitch for an important new client who still won't commit. But that's not what's worrying him. His problem is a three-way diary clash this evening.

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New Qatar court will blend legal cultures of West and East

Posted on June 04, 2009
If the rule of the law was the theme of last week-end's Qatar Law Forum, its real focus was the emirate's new legal and regulatory framework, aimed at ensuring the fast-growing region takes off in the international business and commercial world.

Judge selection still perceived as unfair

Posted on June 04, 2009
Perceptions of unfairnness and prejudice in the selection of judges still widely persist, three years after a new body was set up to modernise the system.

Ex Countrywide chief charged with fraud

Posted on June 04, 2009
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of America's biggest mortgage lender, with fraud and insider trading.

Prime crime: Britain?s animal rustlers

Posted on June 03, 2009
In the building that was once Stafford Crown Court, now a museum, there is a long list of convictions from trials held there in the 19th century. Alongside highway robbery and the famous wrongful conviction of George Edalji for horse mutilation (later overturned after a personal campaign by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) are verdicts such as these: 1806 ? William Pritchard: stealing one ewe sheep, guilty...

Madoff sons speak of 'biblical' betrayal

Posted on June 03, 2009
One of Bernard Madoff's sons is obsessed with his father's crime and the other is still in shock over the $65 billion Ponzi scheme, according to a new expos� on the convicted fraudster.$

How the rule of law can avoid the world at war

Posted on June 03, 2009
The judge who heads Britain?s top court has warned that ?popular emotion? must not subvert the rule of law.

Women used to talk about how little time they had taken off to have children

Posted on June 03, 2009
Research today shows that 55 per cent of lawyers might apply to be judges if they could work part-time. This week Sylvia de Bertodano started sitting as a circuit judge. Unusually, she does 80 per cent of a full-time post ? spreading the hours so that she works a full week but takes more holiday...

Lessons for the new court and tribunal in Qatar

Posted on June 03, 2009
This is a good time to consider the rule of law in an Islamic context. Last weekend the Qatar Law Forum met to discuss the rule of law, the challenge of globalisation and other related topics. Today, the Societies of Inner and Middle Temple begin a series of public discussions in the Temple Church on the subject of Islam in English Law.

Qatar Law Forum: anyone who is anyone celebrates the rule of law

Posted on June 03, 2009
Britain?s senior law lord warned that the rule of law was not a ?luxury item to be stored in a cellar in times of emergency? and judges debated the need for solidarity and speaking out jointly when the rule of law is threatened, be it in Pakistan or Zimbabwe.

Lawyer of the Week: Heather Rogers

Posted on June 03, 2009
The barrister Heather Rogers, QC, of Doughty Street Chambers, acted for Private Eye magazine in the Court of Appeal case in which the judges ruled that disciplinary rulings on solicitors can be published. Michael Napier, the former president of the Law Society, lost his battle to seek an injunction against the magazine publishing details of a finding against him.

Rwanda: why Keir Starmer has to act

Posted on June 03, 2009
This week a former Baptist church preacher in Rwanda was charged with genocide for his alleged role in the killilngs in 1994. The charge has been brought by Finland. In Britain, meanwhile, the Crown Prosecution Service?s public reaction to the failure of the Rwanda genocide extradition case in April is depressing...

UK companies linked to Iraqi reconstruction fraud inquiry

Posted on June 03, 2009
Two British companies have been linked to a multimillion-pound fraud concerning a ?ghost? delivery of equipment to Iraq, as part of a US investigation into how billions of dollars in reconstruction funds went missing.

Debbie Purdy takes assisted suicide case to the House of Lords

Posted on June 02, 2009
A woman with multiple sclerosis today took her case to the House of Lords to clarify the law on assisted suicide.

Elitist culture of secrecy must end, says Lord Falconer

Posted on June 02, 2009
First Parliament, next the Government. Lord Falconer of Thoroton has warned that the ?elitist culture of secrecy? in government and Whitehall will be next in the firing line of public calls for transparency.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to fight shock-jock Michael Savage's lawsuit

Posted on June 01, 2009
Jacqui Smith will not back down against a right-wing American radio DJ who is suing after he was barred from entering Britain.

Chrysler sale to Fiat approved by judge

Posted on June 01, 2009
A US bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of most of Chrysler?s assets to a group including Fiat, of Italy, hours before an expected bankruptcy filing by General Motors (GM).

Gordon Brown and Treasury accused on banking crisis

Posted on June 01, 2009
A fateful decision 12 years ago by Gordon Brown, egged on by envious Treasury officials, led to the catastrophic failure of UK regulators to anticipate and prevent the banking crisis, according to a former Bank of England director and City grandee.

MPs brought disgrace upon themselves, says Lord Falconer of Thoroton

Posted on June 01, 2009
MPs brought the damaging revelations over expenses on themselves by their ?elitist? view that information could be withheld from voters, one of Tony Blair?s former key ministers has told The Times.

Short-selling rules extended by FSA

Posted on June 01, 2009
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) plans to extend its policy of forcing investors to disclose their short positions in 32 banking and insurance shares beyond June 30, when it was scheduled to expire.

FSA steps up battle against insider trading

Posted on May 31, 2009
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to increase the firepower of its enforcement division by hiring several lawyers from leading City firms, The Times has learnt.

GM bond deal paves way for Chapter 11

Posted on May 31, 2009
The US Government was forced to take a large stake in General Motors (GM) to stop the company being broken up, President Obama said, as the carmaker prepared to make the world's largest industrial bankruptcy filing today.

Court takes child of ?stupid? mother

Posted on May 30, 2009
WHEN Rachel celebrated her daughter?s third birthday three weeks ago the little girl was a picture of happiness. Yet for her mother it was a bittersweet occasion.

Mother ?too stupid? to keep child

Posted on May 30, 2009
A MOTHER is taking her fight to the European Court of Human Rights after she was forbidden from seeing her three-year-old daughter because she is not ?clever enough? to look after her.

Investors to sue Lloyds chiefs

Posted on May 30, 2009
AN ARMY of Britain?s small investors is raising funds to launch a legal campaign against the directors of Lloyds TSB over their decision to rescue HBOS.

Weird cases: bored juror goes missing

Posted on May 29, 2009
Some trials are sensational, but jurors cannot always rely on getting a stimulating case to hear. Grant Faber, a juror in Oregon, recently left the case he was hearing at lunch time and did not go back in the afternoon because, as he told police when they later apprehended him, he was ?extremely bored? in court.

Briton Robert Tringham charged over $7 million Ponzi scheme$

Posted on May 28, 2009
A Briton faces 170 years in jail after being charged in the United States over a $7 million ($�4.39 million) investment fraud.

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