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Police ordered to delete images of peaceful protester Andrew Wood

Posted on May 21, 2009
Police surveillance tactics were dealt a blow by appeal judges today with a ruling that photographs taken of peaceful protesters campaigning against the arms trade must be destroyed.

City police arrest two over Ł50m fraud scheme

Posted on May 21, 2009
The City of London Police today arrested two men in connection with an alleged fraudulent investment scheme worth Ł50 million.

Analysis: Private Eye victory benefits lawyers and their clients

Posted on May 21, 2009
The magazine Private Eye has won a significant victory with yesterday's Court of Appeal ruling against leading solicitor Michael Napier and his law firm, Irwin Mitchell, making public the disciplinary findings against lawyers in thousands of cases.

Two arrests in investigation into alleged Ł250m fraud

Posted on May 21, 2009
Two investment consultants were arrested yesterday by police investigating an international fraud involving potential losses of Ł250 million.

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Scientific advances brought demise of double jeopardy rule

Posted on May 21, 2009
It was David Blunkett who scrapped the 800-year-old legal principle that people could not be tried twice for the same crime.

Blue chip companies set to clash with taxman

Posted on May 20, 2009
Eight in ten of Britain?s biggest companies are set to clash with HM Revenue & Customs over new rules to hold finance directors personally liable for errors in the accounts, research suggests. Under new rules in the Finance Bill, due to be passed this summer, finance directors of Britain?s largest companies will face fines of up to Ł15,000 if they or one of their staff make a careless mistake when compiling their company accounts.

City law firms to suffer in weaker market

Posted on May 20, 2009
Businesses are deserting the "magic circle" and other City law firms in favour of cheaper alternatives as the legal market continues to struggle with weaker demand, a study has found.

Ireland unveils long-awaited report on Catholic child abuse

Posted on May 20, 2009
The long wait is finally over today for thousands of Irishmen and women who suffered horrendous abuse at the hands of Catholic nuns, priests and monks inside state-sponsored children?s institutions.

EU may force Lloyds to sell-off core assets

Posted on May 20, 2009
Lloyds Banking Group today has issued a stern warning that the Government bailout, after the disastrous purchase of HBOS, could lead to stringent action from the EU, including the forced sale of some core businesses.

Ten curious facts about the Speaker

Posted on May 20, 2009
1. The Speaker of the House of Commons is one of the great offices of state ? it ranks sixth in the official order of precedence after the Royal Family.

City lawyers accused in latest FSA insider dealing prosecution

Posted on May 20, 2009
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has launched a criminal insider dealing prosecution against two senior lawyers, including a current partner at US law firm Dorsey & Whitney.

Trader banned for $10m bet after 'boozy' lunch$

Posted on May 20, 2009
A trader has been banned from the City for taking out a huge $10 million bet and concealing it from his superiors after a three and a half hour alcoholic lunch.$

Listening and learning: lessons from the sorry saga of Clause 11

Posted on May 20, 2009
The Secretary of State for Justice, Jack Straw, made a written statement in the House of Commons last Friday explaining that the Government will withdraw Clause 11 of the Coroners and Justice Bill that would have conferred power on the Secretary of State to dispense with a jury in an inquest...

Lawyer of the Week: Peter Atkinson

Posted on May 20, 2009
Peter Atkinson, a senior associate at Gordon Dadds, led the team that acted for Rajesh Gill, a City trader client who has been awarded record provisional damages of Ł19.75 million to be paid by MF Global, a brokerage firm, with a possible further Ł10 million including Mr Gill?s legal fees, after it was found to have defrauded its former client.

Ingrained arrogance in the police leads to miscarriages of justice

Posted on May 20, 2009
Police attitudes have progressed by light years since the bad days of the 1980s and highly publicised miscarriages of justice. So runs the prevailing wisdom. But the recent police operation at the G20 summit and instinctive reaction of some officers to doctor the facts indicates that a deep-seated corruption in policing still prevails.

Expenses: in the spirit of the rules?

Posted on May 20, 2009
A police investigation into the MPs expenses scandal will swiftly identify false accounting as the criminal offence most likely to have been committed by the most egregious of the SW1 claimants.

Coroners Bill: now the battle begins for legal aid and juries

Posted on May 20, 2009
With Jack Straw?s dropping of plans this week for secret inquests, one of the big battles in the Coroners and Justice Bill has been fought and won. But the Justice Secretary?s move does not guarantee the Bill a trouble-free ride.

Could the Queen really dissolve Parliament now?

Posted on May 20, 2009
Thinking the unthinkable is what constitutional lawyers are paid to do. Many are now saying that with the daily revelations about improper expenses claims from beleaguered MPs the Queen should step in and dissolve Parliament ? against the Government?s wishes ? forcing a general election to compel MPs to stand for immediate re-election after a scandal on the scale of that of the pre 1832 rotten boroughs...

Complaints against lawyers can be made public, Appeal Court rules

Posted on May 20, 2009
Thousands of disciplinary rulings against lawyers accused of misconduct can be publicised after one of Britain's leading solicitors lost a battle in the Court of Appeal to keep his own case under wraps.

Medical law too often doffs its cap to the doctor's white coat

Posted on May 20, 2009
"It?s up to you what you do with your own body,? goes the rhetoric. But when you dive away from abstractions into the real world of suffering and desire, things are not so simple.

Little guys take to the courts for protection

Posted on May 19, 2009
A small community in Alaska this week went to court in California to fight for the right to bring proceedings over the world?s oil and energy corporations. The homes and traditional hunting and fishing way of life of the villagers of Kivalina is disappearing, washed away by rising sea levels and the melting ice cap.

Lawyers face calls to give business free service

Posted on May 19, 2009
Banks and other cash-strapped businesses are putting pressure on law firms by calling for the services of junior lawyers free of charge during the downturn.

Berlusconi faces calls to quit over false testimony in corruption trials

Posted on May 19, 2009
Silvio Berlusconi faced calls to resign yesterday when a judge ruled that David Mills, the British tax lawyer, had given false testimony at two corruption trials to protect the Italian Prime Minister and his business empire.

Pringles too much like potato crisps to escape VAT, appeal court rules

Posted on May 19, 2009
The taxman took a multimillion-pound bite out of Pringles today after winning a VAT legal battle.

Courts rule British soldiers covered by right to life

Posted on May 18, 2009
Army chiefs can be sued over decisions taken in the heat of battle after a Court of Appeal ruling that troops must be protected by the Human Rights Act.

Thousands of criminal suspects to be tried in virtual courts

Posted on May 17, 2009
Graphic: virtual justice - a scenario

Virtual courts will cut costs, but justice will suffer

Posted on May 17, 2009
Since the days of Sir Henry Fielding and the Bow Street Runners, the local magistrates? court in London has played its part as a theatre for the poor. Now the leading players in those dramas are set to become mere spectators, via 42in plasma screens on the wall.

Plans for US-style community courts scrapped because of lack of cash

Posted on May 17, 2009
Plans to create American-style community justice courts in which judges engage directly with offenders and take charge of their rehabilitation have been dropped.

Ernst & Young lawyer found guilty of fraud after insider-trading inquiry

Posted on May 17, 2009
A former partner at Ernst & Young (E&Y) in New York has been found guilty of insider trading after passing on to a friend information about proposed multibillion-dollar buyouts.

Sub-prime king for ?boiling in oil?

Posted on May 16, 2009
Angelo Mozilo looks like what he is - a butcher?s boy from the Bronx made very, very good. His dazzling white teeth are set in a perma-tanned face that tops a suit so loud it should come with ear plugs. Now the 70-year-old looks increasingly likely to be the first, and perhaps only, big name to face charges over the sub-prime home-loans scandal.

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