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Cheviot Asset Management is real winner in UBS fight
Posted on August 14, 2008UBS has won another round in its fight with Vestra, the start-up wealth manager that the Swiss bank claimed was trying to hijack its staff and clients. David Guild, one of the four bankers it took to court for conspiracy, has decided to stay with UBS after all...
Report raises concerns of racism at solicitors' watchdog
Posted on August 14, 2008Urgent change is needed to policy, procedure and practice if the authority that regulates the solicitors' profession is to avoid a charge of institutional racism, according to a report out today.
Fresh blow for Vestra as leading ‘defector’ decides to stay at UBS
Posted on August 14, 2008Vestra, the start-up accused of attempting to hijack UBS’s UK wealth management arm, suffered a further blow after one of those leading the move decided to stay with the Swiss bank.
Former Belgo boss faces insider dealing trial
Posted on August 14, 2008A former senior executive of Belgo Group, is to stand trial on insider dealing charges relating to the takeover of the restaurant chain more than a decade ago.
‘The smell hits the back of your throat and brings tears to the eyes’
Posted on August 13, 2008Frank Morgan lives 300m from a composting site. “You can end up being stuck in your house like a prisoner,” he says. Morgan, 57, from Publow, near Bristol, and his neighbours are complaining about what they say is the site’s unbearable smell...
Lawyer of the Week: Jeremy Moore
Posted on August 13, 2008Jeremy Moore, the managing partner at Carter Moore, a Manchester firm, acted for Barry George, who was acquitted of the murder of Jill Dando, the BBC presenter, at a retrial, after having served eight years in prison.
Colin Stagg awarded £700,000 damages over Rachel Nickell murder
Posted on August 13, 2008The man cleared of the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992 has been awarded £706,000 damages by the Home Office.
A judge by any other name: the fashion in legal titles
Posted on August 13, 2008On a short cycling break, coming off the North York Moors, I began the almost arrow-straight two-mile descent from Glaisdale Moor, down Glaisdale Rigg and into the lovely village of Glaisdale in the wooded Esk Valley. The name was vaguely familiar, recalling the Seventies House of Lords judicial heyday of Lord Simon of Glaisdale, who had been MP for Middlesbrough West and Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire.
Justice or giving comfort to thieves?
Posted on August 13, 2008A woman walks into a jeweller’s shop and pockets a ring worth £10,000. As she leaves, she is arrested by store detectives. They retrieve the ring. The woman is prosecuted and convicted of theft. Even though the ring has been recovered the court makes a confiscation order against her for £10,000...
Jersey police chief's fury as abuse suspects release ‘scares off’ witnesses
Posted on August 13, 2008A furious memorandum from the senior detective in the Jersey child murder and abuse investigation claims that it has been hampered by prosecutors, destroying victims’ faith in the justice system.
Analysis: owning up to the FSA
Posted on August 13, 2008If an investment bank has uncovered evidence that a trader has deliberately mispriced positions it then faces an additional burden: informing the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Credit Suisse hit by two regulators' fines in a day
Posted on August 13, 2008Credit Suisse, the Swiss bank, was hit by two fines yesterday worth almost £6 million for falsifying the value of its assets and trading ahead of clients' orders.
The long arm of the English courts
Posted on August 12, 2008Law is about delivering justice, but what happens when rival views of justice collide? Is it for one country to pass judgment over another? When should a court decide that another state cannot or will not do justice? This was the dilemma faced by Mr Justice Christopher Clarke in the recent High Court case of Cherney v Deripaska.
Dozens more rape compensation payouts cut as victims had been drinking
Posted on August 12, 2008Dozens more rape victims have had their compensation payments cut because they had been drinking when they were attacked, it emerged yesterday.
Father told: ‘You won’t need a lawyer’
Posted on August 12, 2008Private Geoff Gray, from Hackney, East London, joined the Army on January 2001 – his 17th birthday – fulfilling a childhood dream. Nine months later, on September 17, while on guard duty at Deepcut barracks, in Surrey, he was found dead with two bullet holes in his head.
Grieving families fight for legal aid to afford expert help at inquests
Posted on August 12, 2008Bereaved families are struggling to represent themselves at inquests because of government curbs on when relatives should receive legal aid.
Government says cutting compensation for drunken rape victims is against the rules
Posted on August 12, 2008The Government denied today that it was routinely cutting the compensation paid to rape victims known to have been drinking heavily, insisting that 14 cases in which payments were reduced had been based on a misunderstanding of the guidelines.
Councils get power to ‘spy’ on your e-mail and net use
Posted on August 12, 2008Councils and health authorities are to be given the right to access e-mail and internet records under surveillance powers to be introduced next year, the Home Office said yesterday.
Man United trainee Ben Collett awarded record £4.5 million over tackle
Posted on August 11, 2008A former Manchester United trainee whose promising career was ended by a tackle was today awarded more than £4.3 million in damages - a sum believed to be a record payout for sporting compensation.
Monica Burch: 'the culture here suits me'
Posted on August 11, 2008There’s still this attitude that working reduced hours means you’re not committed. For the last few years I’ve taken additional amounts of time off to fit in with my children’s school holidays. It’s something I wish I’d been brave enough to have done at a much earlier stage...
How ministers failed to gag coroners over Forces
Posted on August 11, 2008There have been a number of inquests where the Ministry of Defence has squirmed as coroners have complained about equipment defects and shortages in Iraq and Afghanistan. Could such cases be affected in the future by the new Bill, on the ground that public airing of such damaging details is not in the public interest?
Uproar at plan to hold inquests in secret
Posted on August 11, 2008Inquests that are deemed a risk to national security by the Government would be held in secret in future under proposed powers to come before the House of Lords this autumn.
In court today
Posted on August 11, 2008City of Westminster Magistrates’ Hans Kristian Rausing, 45, the Tetra Pak business heir, and his wife, Eva, 44, are to receive a conditional caution in connection with possession of Class A drugs.
US poised to clash with Britain over aid for Shorts aerospace project
Posted on August 10, 2008The United States is set to clash with the British Government over £155 million in state aid given to the Shorts aerospace factory in Belfast. US trade negotiators have told The Times that they are seeking further information from the Government over the reason for the aid.
Banks braced for more bond mis-selling action
Posted on August 10, 2008Flushed with the success of securing $40 billion of settlements from Merrill Lynch, UBS and Citigroup, US state regulators are expected to turn up the heat on banks accused of mis-selling auction rate securities (ARS).$
Employers fear extension of Equalities Bill
Posted on August 10, 2008Business groups are stepping up pressure on the Government amid growing fears that the forthcoming Equalities Bill will set new requirements for pay audits in the private sector and increase other regulations.
UBS agrees to ‘give money back’ in deal with New York
Posted on August 09, 2008The attorney-general of New York declared yesterday that his $18.5 billion ($£9.6 billion) settlement with UBS sent a signal to Wall Street that banks are “just going to have to give the money back” concerning America’s most recent bond mis-selling scandal.
Relative Values: Helena Kennedy Qc and her daughter, Clio
Posted on August 09, 2008CLIO: When I was little I’d always know when Mum had come home because I’d hear her bangles jangling as she came in the door. She’s always worked long hours. People sometimes ask if I missed out because of this, but my memories are of Mum being very much around...
Citigroup in $7.6bn settlement over auction-rate bonds$
Posted on August 08, 2008Citigroup agreed to a $7.6 billion ($£3.9 billion) landmark deal with regulators yesterday to settle charges that it mis-sold bonds to customers. Hours later, Merrill Lynch announced its own plans to buy back from clients up to $10 billion of the same asset class, known as auction-rate securities (ARS)...
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