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OFT seeks less onerous contracts for landlords letting through Foxtons
Posted on April 29, 2009Landlords letting properties through Foxtons, the estate agent, are given confusing and unfair contracts, the High Court was told yesterday at the start of a test case that could shake up the residential lettings industry.
Director disqualifications reaches record high
Posted on April 28, 2009A record 1,252 company bosses were disqualified from acting as directors in the last financial year in a sign that the Government is toughening its stance towards individual business executives.
Family courts are open, but parents will still struggle to win
Posted on April 28, 2009The doors of the family courts are now open. But the odds remain stacked against some parents involved in care proceedings in three ways.
Family courts system accused of hiding evidence from parents
Posted on April 28, 2009Parents fighting in the family courts for contact with their children are being denied access to their personal files by a corrupt system, a leading parental rights campaigner has said.
Family Courts: Central London
Posted on April 27, 2009Times reporters at family courts: Bath | Barnet | Cardiff | Ipswich | Manchester
Family Courts: Barnet
Posted on April 27, 2009Times reporters at family courts: Central London | Bath | Cardiff | Ipswich | Manchester
Family Courts: Cardiff
Posted on April 27, 2009Times reporters at family courts: Central London | Bath | Barnet | Ipswich | Manchester
Family Courts: Manchester
Posted on April 27, 2009Times reporters at family courts: Central London | Bath | Barnet | Cardiff | Ipswich
Family Courts: Bath
Posted on April 27, 2009Times reporters at family courts: Central London | Barnet | Cardiff | Ipswich | Manchester
Butler Gary Lindley can remove tag to serve Countess of Arran
Posted on April 27, 2009As butlers go, Gary Lindley would seem to have everything. He is hard-working, a former servant at Buckingham Palace and, according to his employer, the Countess of Arran, he makes an excellent breakfast.
CASE STUDIES: Family courts
Posted on April 27, 2009Times reporters at family courts: Central London | Bath | Barnet | Cardiff | Manchester
At last, we go behind the closed doors of family courts
Posted on April 27, 2009Yesterday morning I finally walked through a door that used to be marked ?keep out?. It was an eerie feeling. The guards and clerks at Ipswich County Court were polite, but nervous. One admitted he was a bit shocked by the arrival of two Times journalists. I felt a bit shocked, too ? by the banality of the set-up, in contrast to the bitter heartaches it contains.
Age of secrecy ends as family courts are opened to media scrutiny
Posted on April 27, 2009Times reporters at family courts: Central London | Bath | Barnet | Cardiff | Manchester
Revenue to pour quarter of its £4bn budget into battle against tax evasion
Posted on April 27, 2009HM Revenue & Customs is to spend £1 billion on enforcement and compliance this year to cut tax avoidance and evasion by £2.4 billion, Britain's most senior tax collector said last night.
Small finance houses lack controls to keep out clients on rogue list, says FSA
Posted on April 27, 2009The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said last night that many small and medium-sized financial institutions have insufficient command and controls to prevent them doing business with those on the Government's blacklist of financial sanctions.
Auditors plead for help amid fear of lawsuits
Posted on April 26, 2009Leading accountants will meet the Government this week to plead for protection as they prepare for a surge in litigation from investors trying to recover their losses from big company failures.
Weird Cases: pungent courtroom stench
Posted on April 24, 2009The fragrance of justice is refreshing but it can be displaced by stronger scents. Criminal cases were abandoned at Bristol Crown Court recently when people were overcome with nausea from intense garlic fumes that were permeating the building.
Holiday home owners in line for sun-kissed windfalls
Posted on April 24, 2009Hundreds of thousands of Britons who own second homes in Europe could receive a windfall of up to five years' worth of tax paid back to them by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
First company charged under new manslaughter law
Posted on April 23, 2009A Gloucester-based company today became the first to face charges under a new law designed to impose tougher penalties for deaths in the workplace.
PwC auditors 'ignored' Satyam fraud for fees
Posted on April 23, 2009Two PricewaterhouseCoopers auditors were aware that accounts of Satyam, the IT outsourcer at the centre of India?s biggest corporate fraud, were being misstated but signed them off in return for an ?exorbitant audit fee?, Indian investigators have alleged.
?Women get annoyed by low pay and leave to have children?
Posted on April 23, 2009Bridget Bodman, the winner of a unequal pay case, considers the Equality Bill a step in the right direction but not enough to help women to draw alongside men.
Dagenham car plant stitch-up that triggered fight for equal pay
Posted on April 23, 2009Graphic: mind the gap
Open divorce courts will lead warring spouses to 'blackmail'
Posted on April 23, 2009Family lawyers are gearing up to try to block the reporting of divorce disputes when the family courts are opened up to the media next week.
EU ensures that rock's oldies will bring in goodies for longer
Posted on April 23, 2009Ageing rock stars were given the hope of a boost to their pensions yesterday after the European Parliament voted to extend performance copyright from 50 to 70 years.
Compulsory audits on equal pay will force firms to give women more
Posted on April 23, 2009Companies will be forced by law to disclose how much they pay men compared with women in a surprise government move to narrow the pay gap.
?Manslaughter by negligence? case
Posted on April 23, 2009A company director will be the first person to face charges under a new corporate manslaughter law.
Judge Margaret Short sacked for being rude to solicitors
Posted on April 23, 2009A district judge has been sacked for ?inappropriate, petulant and rude? behaviour towards solicitors appearing before her in court. In the first judicial sacking for decades, Judge Margaret Short has been removed by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice after a ?history of complaints?.
Binyam Mohamed challenges secret evidence ruling
Posted on April 22, 2009This week lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantánamo detainee, return to court to challenge the ruling that he cannot see secret evidence that, he maintains, is central to his claim to have been subject to torture with the consent of the UK intelligence authorities.
Law lords consider a matter of time in Procol Harum royalties claim
Posted on April 22, 2009First it wins the ultimate accolade as the most-played song in British public places; now A Whiter Shade of Pale enters the legal history books.
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