LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Prime Minister Helen Clark is defending the decision to give up access to the Privy Council in favour of New Zealand’s own Supreme Court, reports the NZPA. Yesterday a justice lobby group said last week’s decision of the judicial committee of the Privy Council to quash the murder conviction
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LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – See Hot Gossip – Patty Hearst, the famed (for those who remember) bank robber and heiress has reportedly been advising fellow socialite Paris Hilton on life in prison. Apparently “The Insider” TV show is reporting the fact, but TMZ.com, the gossip website, carries a letter from Ms Hearst that
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May 11, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising US Investigations Services, Inc. (USIS) and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) in connection with the acquisition of USIS by Providence Equity Partners Inc., a Rhode Island-based private equity firm. USIS, a Virginia-based portfolio company of WCAS and The
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Monday 14 May 2007 LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Mr John Raymond Webb of Carine, and Mr Gregory John Millar of Bunbury, both of Western Australia, have appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court on criminal charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). ASIC alleges that Mr Webb participated in the management
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LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – In months-long plotting and secrecy worthy of a John Grisham novel, seven prominent attorneys in one of the Triad’s largest law firms defected early Tuesday morning and had their new firm up and running later that day. The attorneys, who made up the bulk of Nexsen Pruet Adams
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Sources familiar with a consultants’ report on the biggest oil spill on the Alaskan North Slope last year told Reuters this week the document blamed cost cutting at BP following two mergers for decimating internal controls over operations with key findings deleted from the report. U.S. congressional investigators this week asked BP Plc to explain
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U.S. congressional investigators this week asked BP Plc to explain why it plans to delete a key finding from a consultant’s report that detailed “budget pressure” as a contributor to the biggest oil spill on the Alaska North Slope last year. BP wants to remove a finding in a March 2007 report by consultants Booz
LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Australian securities regulators are finding an upsurge in insider trading cases following the rise in takeovers and the booming stock market, according to reports from News.com. The rise in takeovers and the booming stock market has led to a big increase in the number of potential insider trading cases
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The rise in takeovers and the booming stock market has led to a big increase in the number of potential insider trading cases spotted by the Australian Securities Exchange, according to supervision head Eric Mayne. Mr Mayne said the ASX had referred 18 potential insider trading cases to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Acting on source information provided by the FBI in Los Angeles , law enforcement authorities in Montreal arrested Richard Steve Goldberg, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, announced J. Stephen Tidwell, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles , and Anthony Batts, Chief of
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