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The Water Cooler
Posted on April 14, 2009* A note for your diaries: the Bench and Bar Art Exhibition is being held in Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn from April 22 to 24. The event combines works of art from lawyers, such as Colin Nicholls, QC, those who have retired from the profession, including four watercolours from Sir Jonathan Parker, the retired Court of Appeal judge, and paintings from His Honour Adrian Head...
Lehman yields bonanza for the professionals
Posted on April 14, 2009Accountants and lawyers who are trying to sort out the European collapse of Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank, have charged more than £100 million in fees in six months.
Equitable Life victims go to court over Government?s ?shabby? response to claims
Posted on April 14, 2009The Government faces a High Court challenge over its failure to compensate more than 1 million policyholders who lost about £4 billion when Equitable Life nearly collapsed in 2000.
Financial Services Authority shuts record number of rogue advisers
Posted on April 13, 2009The City watchdog has banned a record number of firms that sell mortgages, pensions, investments and insurance.
Openness of family courts is a ?con trick?
Posted on April 09, 2009Jack Straw has been accused of a confidence trick over plans to open the family courts to the media.
When the stakes are so high, parents want to be heard
Posted on April 09, 2009The detail of the Ministry of Justice reforms, published this week, makes clear for the first time that although the family courts will be opened to the press on April 27, they will not be quite as open as we had expected. Buried in a short paragraph is the information that judges will have wide grounds to refuse journalists permission to publish the details of a case they have just heard.
Weird Cases: sex with a lawyer? Now that's creepy
Posted on April 09, 2009Lawyers are sometimes criticised for screwing clients with unwarranted fees. In a case in London, a client has alleged a rather direct version of that, saying her lawyer charged for having sex with her.
Liberal imam wins libel claim against Muslim newspaper
Posted on April 08, 2009A progressive Muslim imam from Oxford has won a libel action against a Muslim newspaper in what he claims is a "watershed moment" in the battle between liberal and extremist Muslims in Britain.
Madoff baseball tickets to be sold on eBay
Posted on April 08, 2009The trustee in charge of liquidating the assets of Bernard Madoff is planning to sell the jailed financier's New York Mets baseball season tickets on eBay, the internet auction site, to raise money for his victims.
Satyam founder faces life imprisonment
Posted on April 08, 2009B. Ramalinga Raju, the disgraced outsourcing mogul behind India?s biggest corporate fraud, faces life imprisonment after being charged with forgery by the country?s version of the FBI.
Nine charged over Satyam fraud scandal
Posted on April 08, 2009India?s version of the FBI has charged nine people connected to Satyam, the IT outsourcer, for their alleged roles in the country's largest corporate fraud.
Lord Justice Collins among new supreme court justices
Posted on April 08, 2009A former solicitor is among the first two judges to be appointed to the new supreme court.
Courts are racist, says black magistrate
Posted on April 08, 2009A black magistrate claimed yesterday that a culture of courtroom racism routinely saw innocent ethnic minority defendants found guilty before being handed the harshest possible jail sentence.
Administrative Court takes asylum cases out to the regions
Posted on April 08, 2009London is the legal capital and many big disputes can only be heard in its courts. But from this month hundreds of immigration and asylum cases and challenges to decisions by government or public bodies will be devolved to the regions as four Administrative Court centres open in Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds and Manchester.
Scandal, murder and corruption: it has been a good life at the CPS
Posted on April 08, 2009Chris Newell jokes that his career was sandwiched between the political scandals of Jeremy Thorpe in 1979 and cash for honours in 2006-07. The events provide a neat symmetry to most of Newell?s 34-year career as a prosecutor ? much of it with the Crown Prosecution Service, where, for the past four years, he has been principal legal adviser.
Have the Woolf reforms worked?
Posted on April 08, 2009Access to justice is central to the democratic process ? and procedural rules are the gateway to that justice. We have now had ten years of the Woolf reforms and experience proves that the reforms ? known as the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) ? have been a disaster for the civil justice system...
Coming soon to eBay: Bernard Madoff's tickets to the Mets' new Bailout Field
Posted on April 08, 2009Bernard Madoff, the New York conman, has already lost several homes, his yacht and his liberty since admitting a $65 billion investment fraud. He is now about to be deprived of another prize possession, an $80,000 pair of season tickets to his beloved New York Mets...
Lawyer of the week: Fiona Murphy
Posted on April 08, 2009Fiona Murphy, a partner at Bhatt Murphy, acted for Babar Ahmad, who was arrested in December 2003 on suspicion of being connected with al-Qaeda, and detained, although no charges were brought against him. He has been awarded £60,000 damages against the Metropolitan Police for assault during his arrest.
Times is accused of revealing jury room secrets
Posted on April 08, 2009The Attorney-General began legal proceedings against The Times yesterday, alleging that the newspaper was in contempt of court for reporting how a jury had reached its verdict.
High Court halts extradition of four men wanted for Rwanda genocide
Posted on April 08, 2009Four men accused of taking part in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 won their battle against extradition yesterday when the High Court ruled that they could not receive a fair trial in their country.
PartyGaming deal offers hope of return to US
Posted on April 07, 2009PartyGaming, the online poker and casino operator, has agreed a landmark settlement with the American authorities that could pave the way for an eventual return to the most lucrative gaming market in the world.
Employers fail to follow redundancy procedures
Posted on April 07, 2009Thousands of workers made redundant by major City institutions could have a legal claim without realising it, employment lawyers said.
Family courts open to media but not bloggers
Posted on April 06, 2009Thousands of hearings that now take place behind closed doors will be open to the accredited media from April 27, Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, said today.
Satyam inquiry leads to three more arrests
Posted on April 06, 2009India?s version of the FBI has arrested three more Satyam executives, suggesting that investigators believe that complicity in the £1 billion fraud at the IT outsourcer extends far further than the company?s disgraced founder has claimed.
Court freezes Allen Stanford's UK assets
Posted on April 06, 2009A UK court has frozen more than $100 million ($£67 million) worth of assets belonging to Stanford International Bank (SIB), the Antigua-based financial group controlled by alleged fraudster Allen Stanford, at the request of the US Government.
FSA wins case to bar General Re chief
Posted on April 06, 2009The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has won its case to ban the former chief executive of a division of insurer General Re from working in the City again.
Madoff's yacht seized by French authorities
Posted on April 06, 2009Bernard Madoff's yacht has been seized by the French authorities on the Côte d'Azur, following legal action by a Paris-based investment group seeking to reimburse customers who lost out in the $50 billion fraud.$
Migrant rule change was unfair on skilled workers
Posted on April 06, 2009Thousands of highly skilled migrants may receive compensation after the High Court ruled that changes to the rules under which they originally entered Britain were unfair.
Investors accuse fund chief over Bernard Madoff losses
Posted on April 06, 2009The hedge fund manager J Ezra Merkin, a pillar of New York society, was accused of fraud yesterday for allegedly funnelling investors' money to Bernard Madoff, the Wall Street swindler.
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