TOP 100 LAW SITES
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| City braces for Tories’ new financial crime force A new agency with beefed-up powers to tackle fraud and other financial crime could be created within the first year of a Conservative government, City lawyers believe. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
Analysis: Trafigura order cast sinister spectre The court order to prevent a question being reported placed Parliament under a sinister spectre. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
Cardiologist will fight libel case ‘to defend free speech’ A British doctor who is being sued for libel after criticising an American company’s research has pledged to turn the action into a test case for freedom of speech. Peter Wilmshurst, a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, told The Times that he aims to use a public-interest defence to fight the claim from NMT Medical and establish the principle that scientists may engage freely in academic debate. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
Ex-Evolution analyst tipped off trader friend A former analyst at Evolution Securities committed market abuse when he passed inside information to a friend who used it to make £85,500 on spread bets, a Financial Services Authority (FSA) tribunal ruled today. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
Law directories: a benchmark of success or simply nice to have? The tension is palpable in a room at a Central London hotel. A gaggle of law firm business development staff — and even the odd partner on the scrounge for a free drink — nervously quaff warmish fizz and impatiently giggle through a typically quixotic speech by Michael Chambers. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |