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Lloyd's warns of rise in lawsuits against business

Posted on March 24, 2009
Insurers will be hit by multiple class action lawsuits as investors in the financial markets seek to recover their losses, warned Lloyd's of London today, as the world's biggest insurance market revealed that hurricanes and plunging shares had sliced its profits in half during 2008.

Dragon Oil admits ex-staff took money for deals

Posted on March 24, 2009
Dragon Oil, the oil explorer, today published details of a damning investigation into "improper conduct" and apparent bribery within its marketing and contracts departments, where some staff appear to have colluded to obtain money from contractors.

Home buyers set for rise in legal fees as Abbey cuts ties to 7,000 solicitors

Posted on March 24, 2009
House buyers with one of Britain?s biggest mortgage lenders face a big rise in legal fees because the Abbey National has ditched 7,000 solicitors from the panel that handles its conveyancing.

Broker MF Global admits defrauding client

Posted on March 24, 2009
MF Global, the brokerage spun off from Man Group, the London-listed hedge fund, has admitted defrauding a former client who lost millions of pounds while trading derivatives on the back of inaccurate information.

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Senior judge warns that changes will not open up family courts

Posted on March 24, 2009
Ministers? plans to open the family courts to the media have been hailed as a signifiant reform. But is all as it seems? The proposals are coming under fire ? and not just from disgruntled members of the public who will still be denied access to the hearings.

AIG executives in London 'hold out in bonus assault'

Posted on March 24, 2009
Senior London-based executives at American International Group (AIG) are among those understood to be holding out against returning their bonuses.

Dawson takes legal advice as it loses contracts

Posted on March 24, 2009
Dawson Holdings, one of Britain's three main newspaper and magazine distributors, said on Tuesday night that it was consulting lawyers after losing two more big contracts.

Stars call for end to archaic libel laws

Posted on March 23, 2009
The actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson and writer Andrew O?Hagan are heading a coalition of entertainers, writers, lawyers and journalists in a move today for the scrapping of an archaic law that allows people to be jailed for speaking out.

Lawyer seeks �5m for childhood abuse at Preston Catholic College

Posted on March 23, 2009
A former City lawyer who says he ruined his life because he was sexually abused at a Jesuit-run school today launched High Court action claiming �5 million in damages.

Business big shot: Charles Randell of Slaughter and May

Posted on March 23, 2009
Few lawyers in the City can claim to have the ear of senior figures in Government. Charles Randell, a partner at Slaughter and May, has been ever-present since the summer of 2007, advising HM Treasury on its response to the global financial meltdown.

Don?t change rules on charges, warns Keir Starmer

Posted on March 23, 2009
The Director of Public Prosecutions delivered a strong warning last night that handing back the job of charging suspects to the police would be a ?grave mistake?.

Publish and be slammed

Posted on March 21, 2009
It might come as a shock to fans of Jonathan Ross that once the studio lights are dimmed, one of the BBC?s highest-paid performers is an extremely sensitive and private person. Three years ago, Mr Ross?s solicitors wrote to Fleet Street editors, passing on their client?s dismay at having been snapped by photographers while playing tennis with David Baddiel at a private members? club...

Lawyers use NHS as �100m cash cow

Posted on March 21, 2009
LAWYERS are earning �800 an hour from the National Health Service and taking ?indefensible? fees of tens of millions of pounds in legal disputes. The money is coming from a government scheme intended to compensate patients for medical blunders and inadequate care, an investigation has found.

Parents given hours to appeal for Baby OT's right to life

Posted on March 20, 2009
Parents battling to keep their baby son alive have lost their fight after a judge ruled the boy should be allowed to die - and gave medics the right to stop his treatment.

Total alone held liable for Buncefield explosion

Posted on March 20, 2009
Total, the French oil giant, is facing a bill of hundreds of millions of pounds after a judge today found it responsible for Britain's biggest peacetime explosion.

Slaughter and May earns �9.4m on Northern Rock

Posted on March 20, 2009
Slaughter and May, the City law firm, earned �9.4 million as chief legal adviser to HM Treasury on the nationalisation of Northern Rock, dwarfing the amounts billed by other advisers.

Top-class graduates struggle for jobs as they spurn stricken banks

Posted on March 20, 2009
Thousands of highflying graduates, who made banking their first career choice for years, are risking major disappointment as they fight for places as accountants and lawyers.

Parents lose court fight to keep baby OT alive

Posted on March 20, 2009
The parents of a gravely ill baby boy failed last night in their attempt to overturn a court ruling that gave doctors the power to end his treatment and allow him to die.

Guardian loses appeal over Barclays tax gag

Posted on March 19, 2009
The Guardian today lost its appeal against an emergency gagging order that banned the newspaper from publishing documents that allegedly show details of huge tax avoidance schemes at Barclays Bank.

BAA may challenge order to sell airports

Posted on March 19, 2009
BAA may appeal against the Competition Commission's ruling that it must sell both Gatwick and Stansted airports, as well as either Edinburgh or Glasgow, within the next two years.

Daughters cut out of will by Megan Swanston, mother they tried to evict

Posted on March 19, 2009
Three women have been cut out of their mother?s will because they tried to evict her from the family home so that they could sell it.

More power for JPs raises fear of prison overcrowding crisis

Posted on March 19, 2009
Longer prison sentences for assault, theft and benefit fraud are likely under plans to overhaul the courts system. But the proposed stronger powers for magistrates could bring the country?s overcrowded prisons to breaking point, campaign groups say.

Cuomo: kickback deals included Carlyle Group

Posted on March 19, 2009
Two men allegedly pocketed $30 million in kickbacks for steering investments by the $122 billion New York state pension fund to managers including Carlyle Group, one of the world$?s biggest private equity firms.

'Islamophobe' head Erica Connor wins Surrey County Council payout

Posted on March 19, 2009
A campaign by two Muslim governors to give Islam a greater presence in a state school played a key part in forcing a successful head from her job, the High Court found yesterday.

Lawyers welcome plans for financial shake-up

Posted on March 18, 2009
Proposals aimed at shaking up Britain's banking sector received a cautious welcome from the City's leading financial services lawyers today.

Attorney-General boosts fraud-busting powers

Posted on March 18, 2009
Judges will have new powers to bar convicted fraudsters from professsional practice, including financial services, legal services and real estate, under new anti-fraud measures announced by the Attorney-General today.

Solicitors to take on estate agents

Posted on March 18, 2009
Solicitors have declared war on estate agents. They are calling for a licensing system to bring them under strict regulation and for greater transparency over what they call excessive fees.

Property fraud: now the Metropolitan Police get in on the act

Posted on March 18, 2009
So, property fraud ? it just gets worse, doesn?t it?

Lawyer of the Week: Russell Van Praagh

Posted on March 18, 2009
Russell Van Praagh, a private equity partner at Taylor Wessing, advised Ross Brawn, the Formula One veteran, on the management buyout of the Honda Formula One team to create Brawn GP F1.

Water Cooler

Posted on March 18, 2009
* Will he or won?t he? The first supreme court justices are shortly to be announced and speculation is rife as to whether Jonathan Sumption, QC, will leapfrog a host of judges to become one of them. Sticking our necks out, The Times believes he will not, despite earlier bets to the contrary...

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