» SocGen writes off Kerviel as a footnote in history
15/06/10 14:08 from TimesOnline:rss
The rogue trader who cost Société Générale almost €5 billion was dismissed as an historical footnote today by executives seeking to draw a line under France’s biggest financial scandal.
» Witnesses ‘lied to hide Prince’s involvement,’ court told
15/06/10 00:00 from TimesOnline:rss
Witnesses in the Chelsea Barracks case “concocted an untrue story” to cover up the involvement of the Prince of Wales and the Emir of Qatar in the cancellation of an £81 million modernist housing project, the High Court was told yesterday. ..
» Lord Saville — an outstanding legal mind defined by Bloody Sunday inquiry
14/06/10 18:50 from TimesOnline:rss
It is an irony of the Bloody Sunday inquiry that the most expensive and long judicial investigation in history was chaired by a judge chosen for his efficiency.
» Thousands detained unlawfully in police stop-and-search blunder
11/06/10 00:01 from TimesOnline:rss
Home Secretary\'s anger, Crime Central
» Barristers turn brokers as credit crunch hits divorce
10/06/10 15:06 from TimesOnline:rss
The wife of the celebrity chef Marco Pierre White was due to enter the divorce courts on her own next week, without lawyers, to battle for a share of her husband’s estimated £50 million wealth. But publicity in The Times about her case has ..
» Hague court sentences Bosnian Serbs to life for Srebrenica genocide
10/06/10 12:48 from TimesOnline:rss
Two Bosnian Serbs were today convicted of genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment for their role in the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995.
» Oil spill brings BP trouble from all corners
10/06/10 00:01 from TimesOnline:rss
Down in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is not just fighting to contain the massive oil leak from the explosion on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. It is also trying to absorb a build-up in litigation that is threatening to come ashore and overwh..
» Lawyer of the Week: Amjad Malik
10/06/10 00:01 from TimesOnline:rss
Amjad Malik, a solicitor-advocate at the Rochdale firm Amjad Malik Solicitors, acted pro bono for three Pakistani students in a deportation appeal hearing at a Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in London and won the appeal again..
» Michael Jackson bodyguard in libel trial challenge
10/06/10 00:01 from TimesOnline:rss
A controversial decision that a high-profile libel trial must go ahead without a jury is to be challenged in the Court of Appeal today.
» Rogue trader: ‘I acted like a complete idiot’
09/06/10 11:11 from TimesOnline:rss
The rogue trader who lost his bank almost €164.5 billion told a French court that he had acted in a \"completely idiotic\" way when he staked tens of billions of euros on the stock market.