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Timeline: the battle against enforced retirement

Posted on September 25, 2009
*October 1 2006: Employment Equality (Age) Regulations become law, enabling an employer to sack any worker over age 65

Judge demands Government scrap compulsory retirement age

Posted on September 25, 2009
The Government faces overwhelming calls to scrap the compulsory retirement age of 65 after a High Court judge ruled today that in the current economic climate it was likely to be unlawful.

Mabey & Johnson prosecution a feather in the cap of Serious Fraud Office

Posted on September 25, 2009
The judgment against Mabey & Johnson is a major coup for the Serious Fraud Office ? and for the principle that large companies operating abroad can be held accountable under British law.

I still have plenty to offer, says librarian forced out of work on 65th birthday

Posted on September 25, 2009
Margaret Davison-Scott had worked full-time all her life until she took up two part-time jobs a couple of years ago to give her time to travel.

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Bribes firm ordered to pay �6m for breaching Iraq sanctions

Posted on September 25, 2009
A British company that admitted bribing ministers and officials in Ghana and Jamaica, and breaching sanctions in Iraq, was yesterday ordered to pay �6.6 million in fines and compensation.

Foreign Office chief faces sack after 'anti-Semitic' rant verdict

Posted on September 24, 2009
A senior civil servant is facing the sack today after being found guilty of shouting that Israelis should be ?blown off the f***ing earth? while exercising in a gym.

New blow to terror control orders as second suspect released

Posted on September 24, 2009
Alan Johnson has allowed a second terror suspect to be released from virtual house arrest rather than disclose secret evidence against him.

Mabey & Johnson to be sentenced in landmark bribery case

Posted on September 24, 2009
A British company that bribed foreign officials to win business contracts and breached United Nations (UN) sanctions in Iraq is due to be sentenced tomorrow in the first prosecution of its kind in the UK.

Perot employee charged with insider dealing

Posted on September 24, 2009
An employee of H. Ross Perot's investment firm has been charged with insider dealing ahead of Dell?s proposed $3.9 billion ($�2.4 billion) takeover of Perot Systems.

Metropolitan Police chief says fixed penalties undermine courts

Posted on September 24, 2009
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Britain?s most senior police officer, has criticised the increasing use of on-the-spot penalties, saying they undermine the authority of magistrates? courts.

Tax system repels foreign insurers, says Lloyd?s chief

Posted on September 24, 2009
Britain?s tax system was deterring overseas insurers from relocating to the UK and risked damaging the long-term competitiveness of the world?s oldest insurance market, Richard Ward, the chief executive of Lloyd?s of London, said yesterday.

SEC pursues insider trading case against Perot worker

Posted on September 24, 2009
An employee of Ross Perot?s investment company has been charged with insider dealing ahead of Dell?s proposed $3.9 billion ($�2.4 billion) takeover of Perot Systems.

Loloahi Tapui and her husband arrested by immigration officials

Posted on September 24, 2009
The Attorney-General?s former housekeeper was arrested in West London by UK Border Agency officials yesterday and questioned about alleged immigration offences.

JJB Sports spent �3.7m with its directors' companies

Posted on September 24, 2009
JJB Sports, the sportswear retailer that has teetered on the verge of bankruptcy for much of this year, spent �3.7 million in the past 18 months on goods and services from companies linked to its own directors.

IN FULL: factors for and against prosecution

Posted on September 23, 2009
Factors in favour of prosecution

Attorney General's aide resigns over housekeeper row

Posted on September 23, 2009
Baroness Scotland of Asthal was under growing pressure today to resign as Attorney General after one of her aides quit over her breach of immigration law.

Judge Bruce Macmillan resigns after second drink-driving arrest

Posted on September 23, 2009
A Crown Court judge resigned today after being arrested for drunk driving for the second time in a month.

Q&A: assisted suicide

Posted on September 23, 2009
Why is the issue of assisted suicide so controversial?

Assisted suicide guidelines do not give immunity against prosecution, says DPP

Posted on September 23, 2009
New guidelines on assisted suicide give no guarantee against prosecution, the Director of Public Prosecutions warned today.

BNP Paribas Fortis director arrested

Posted on September 23, 2009
A director of BNP Paribas Fortis has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in a ?19.5 million insider dealing scam in the shares of Fortis in the Belgian bank's final days as a standalone business.

Siemens threatens to sue former bosses

Posted on September 23, 2009
Siemens has threatened to sue a group of former executives if they do not agree to pay millions of euros in damages to the engineering conglomerate for their roles in its recent corruption scandal.

Three sent for trial in insider-dealing case

Posted on September 23, 2009
An accountant and two lawyers accused of insider dealing by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) have been committed to stand trial at Southwark Crown Court.

Husband said farewell to dying wife at airport to avoid suicide prosecution

Posted on September 23, 2009
Sydney Robbins, 82, said farewell to his wife Dorothy at an airfield, then sent her to die. He was unable to accompany her to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland after being warned by police that he might be prosecuted for assisting in her suicide.

Assisted suicide guide is a blend of protection and compassion

Posted on September 23, 2009
Keir Starmer has made the best of a difficult job. First, as widely trailed, he has decided that his assisted suicide guidelines must apply to England and Wales as well as to behaviour abroad. This is surely right: there is no moral difference between an act committed in Geneva and its replica in Hull.

Trafigura's �30m payout approved after 'slops' dumped in Ivory Coast

Posted on September 23, 2009
The �30million settlement of the class action by thousands of Africans against the oil company Trafigura was formally approved in the High Court yesterday.

New guidelines on assisted suicide will help but debate is likely to continue

Posted on September 23, 2009
During the interview police conducted with the mother of Daniel James, there was a moment when it was put to her that, in accompanying her son to the Dignitas clinic in Zurich, she might have thought that she was breaking the law.

Don?t trust me, I?m a doctor . . .

Posted on September 23, 2009
In my twenties I allowed a podiatrist to remove the hard skin on my feet as I knelt on a chair in front of him facing the wall. He used my bottom as a headrest for his forehead and grunted as he grappled with my heels. I assumed that was the standard way to treat feet until I returned to my office and complained to the women I worked with that I had sore knees, and told them why...

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