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Guy Ritchie gets Ł50m from Madonna in divorce settlement

Posted on December 15, 2008
Guy Ritchie will receive almost Ł50 million in cash and property in what may be the largest divorce settlement paid to a man, a spokeswoman for his former wife, Madonna, said last night. The film director and the pop singer were granted a divorce settlement in the High Court last month.

SFO pleads workers in City to turn whistleblower

Posted on December 15, 2008
The Serious Fraud Office on Monday urged City workers to turn whistleblowers in the fight against financial crime.

Siemens to pay ?1bn as corruption inquiry closes

Posted on December 15, 2008
A corruption scandal that threatened to engulf Siemens and ended the careers of its former chief executive and chairman, finally came to an end yesterday with a record ?1 billion (Ł890 million) payment to US and German authorities by the company.

A chance to bite back for the bankers?

Posted on December 15, 2008
The Serious Fraud Office is expecting a boom. Frauds tend to go undetected during the good times, because nobody is looking. The ugly truth is revealed when the tide goes out. Downturns also encourage the desperate to resort to fraud.

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Tobacco giants can be sued over low-tar cigarettes

Posted on December 15, 2008
The American tobacco industry faces another multi-billion-dollar flood of lawsuits after the US Supreme Court ruled yesterday that smokers can sue over the way that it promotes light and low-tar brands.

Boom-time scam laid bare by bust

Posted on December 15, 2008
The credit crisis is in danger of making us blasé about enormous sums of money. Even so, the scale of the losses from the apparent fraud carried out by Bernard Madoff is breathtaking.

British banks losing billions to ?one big lie? in biggest ever fraud

Posted on December 15, 2008
The eye-popping scale of what is being billed as the world?s largest swindle became apparent yesterday as wealthy investors and banks around the world emerged as the victims of Bernard L. Madoff.

?Barrister? who bought wig and robes on eBay is jailed

Posted on December 15, 2008
A man who posed as a barrister at a series of court hearings after buying his robes and wig on eBay was jailed for two years yesterday.

PartyGaming co-founder nears DoJ settlement

Posted on December 15, 2008
PartyGaming, the online gambling operator, revealed today that it was close to agreeing a settlement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) that avoided any criminal plea.

Public in strong backing for right to assisted suicide

Posted on December 13, 2008
Public opinion has moved sharply in favour of assisted suicide, according to a poll for The Sunday Times. The YouGov survey of more than 2,000 people shows that most would consider euthanasia for themselves and think that relatives who help with assisted suicides at foreign clinics should not be prosecuted.

Forget the kids – now custody battles are switching to Fido

Posted on December 13, 2008
The fight for custody of the children has long been at the heart of divorce battles, but access to the family dog is the latest bone of contention.

British surrogacy ruling saves baby twins from Ukraine orphanage

Posted on December 12, 2008
A High Court judge called yesterday for a review of Britain?s surrogacy laws after making a ruling that rescued baby twins from a legal limbo, which had left them ?marooned, stateless and parentless? in Ukraine.

Beresford solicitors struck off after being found guilty over sick miners scandal

Posted on December 12, 2008
How The Times broke the story

My mother deserves dignity in life, not a way out

Posted on December 12, 2008
My mother is dying. Or at least, she is not truly living. She is in a twilight world, T.S.Eliot's ?living and partly living?. Slowly but irrevocably she is losing every one of her faculties. It could take quite a while.

More solicitors to face tribunal over coalminers? scandal

Posted on December 12, 2008
Solicitors across Britain are bracing themselves for further sanctions over the coalminers? compensation scandal that led to two lawyers being struck off for dishonesty. Jim Beresford and Doug Smith, former partners in a Doncaster law firm that was paid Ł136 million by the Government for handling claims by sick miners, were found guilty this week of conduct unbecoming a solicitor.

Shamed solicitor Jim Beresford plans legal services ?supermarket?

Posted on December 11, 2008
Jim Beresford aims to bounce back from yesterday?s public humiliation with a multimillion-pound marketing campaign to set up Britain?s first ?legal services supermarket?.

Children?s plight likely to be increasingly common

Posted on December 11, 2008
Mr Justice Hedley?s ruling has exposed the conflict between British laws on surrogacy and those of other countries, which can leave surrogate babies in a legal no man?s land.

The Water Cooler

Posted on December 11, 2008
* Speculation was rife as to the identity of the Linklaters' partner who pocketed Ł3.4 million last year. The payment, included in the firm's first set of LLP accounts, was considerably higher than the firm's average profit per equity partner of Ł1...

How The Times broke the story of Beresfords - the millionaire solicitors

Posted on December 11, 2008
The senior partners in a firm of South Yorkshire solicitors have been paid almost Ł30 million for settling thousands of compensation claims on behalf of dead or sick miners. Until late 2003, Beresfords? head office was to be found among a shabby line of redbrick terraced buildings on tired and dust-stained Balby Road in Doncaster...

Lloyd's forced to pay Ł35m to Kim Jong Il's regime after losing battle over 'fraud' claims

Posted on December 11, 2008
Insurance syndicates at Lloyd's of London have suffered a humiliating multimillion-pound defeat in a legal battle with one of the world?s most reviled regimes ? the North Korean Government of the dictator Kim Jong Il.

Josh Hartnett accepts Ł20,000 over sex allegations

Posted on December 11, 2008
Hollywood film star turned West End thespian Josh Hartnett accepted Ł20,000 in libel damages today over allegations he was caught engaging in "steamy shenanigans" with a woman on a top London hotel?s CCTV cameras.

In the City: the best Christmas freebie ever

Posted on December 10, 2008
Soppy dates

Turning to India at break-neck speed

Posted on December 10, 2008
Ten of England?s top 30 law firms have outsourced back office functions or legal work to India, according to new research from RSG Consulting.

Christmas law books: stocking thrillers, fillers and always a courtroom drama

Posted on December 10, 2008
Kirsty Brimelow

Lawyer of the Week: Sarah Webb

Posted on December 10, 2008
Sarah Webb, a partner at Russell Jones & Walker, acted for Constance Briscoe, a barrister and part-time judge, and Hodder & Stoughton, her publishers, who succeeded in defending a libel action by Miss Briscoe?s mother over allegations in her autobiography, Ugly.

John Magnier pursues Laing O?Rourke in Irish courts

Posted on December 10, 2008
Laing O?Rourke, the huge construction company, faces a potential winding-up order in the Irish courts after a clash with John Magnier, The Times has learnt. Mr Magnier, the Republic?s seventh-richest man, is considering requesting a ?cease trade? order after Laing O?Rourke failed to pay ?3...

Egg is fined Ł700,000 for mis-selling insurance cover for payment protection

Posted on December 10, 2008
Egg, the online bank owned by Citigroup, has been fined Ł721,000 for ?serious failings? on sales of credit card payment protection insurance (PPI) to nearly half its customers over a three-year period. The bank may have to pay millions of pounds to customers in PPI refunds.

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