LAWFUEL – The Legal Announcement Service – The annual meeting of the 36th Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police (PICP) was held in Wellington, New Zealand from 8 – 12 October 2007. The theme for the conference was “Future Directions of Pacific Policing” and was hosted by the Niue police. The conference adopted a Future Directions […]
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LAWFUEL – Australia New Zealand Legal Jobs & Law News – Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Mr Tony D’Aloisio and the Chief Executive Officer of Standards Australia, Mr John Tucker, today jointly launched a new handbook, Reference Checking in the Financial Services Industry, which provides employers with a reference-checking framework that
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LAWFUEL – The Legal News Service – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and MARK J. MERSHON, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) announced today the arrest of ANGELA HAMBLIN on art fraud charges. HAMBLIN, 58, of Revere,
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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A livid Fijian football chief plans to take New Zealand’s refusal to allow his side’s goalkeeper into the country to the international Court of Arbitration for Sport. Fiji will play the All Whites at North Harbour Stadium on Saturday in a vital World Cup qualification match. The New Zealand
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LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Bell Gully has retained its top rankings in the just released 2008 edition of IFLR1000, a guide to the world’s leading financial law firms. The firm is named in the top tier of recommended New Zealand firms in the practice areas of banking and project finance, capital markets,
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BALTIMORE – October 10, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Ober|Kaler is pleased to announce that Neil E. Duke, a principal in the firm’s Employment & Labor Group, has been selected for The Daily Record’s 2007 Leadership in Law Award. Mr. Duke is among 24 lawyers and judges to be recognized for
Lex Lasry QC, who has represented executed drug trafficker Van Nguyen and two members of the Bali Nine, said he was saddened the debate about the death penalty had become politicised, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Prime Minister John Howard has contradicted Australia’s position on the death penalty for the sake of political expediency, says
LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Service – DLA Piper has received the International Law Office (ILO) Client Choice Award in the Singapore and International categories following an announcement made on 9 October. The Client Choice Awards, which recognise law firms around the world for their client care and quality of service, are now in
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Firm to Pay More Than $8 Million to Settle Charges Washington, D.C., Oct. 10, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a settled enforcement action against New York hedge fund adviser Sandell Asset Management Corp. (SAM), its chief executive officer, and two other employees for engaging in
LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements – The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today, several annual statistical publications, such as
