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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Rep. Ron Paul disclosed more than $5 million in third-quarter fund raising for his insurgent Republican presidential bid, the only Republican in the field so far to report increased donations. While the Texas lawmaker remains a second-tier candidate in a party field dominated by the likes of Rudy Giuliani

LAWFUEL – The Australia Law Jobs Newswire – The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today issued a discussion paper on a proposed online breach reporting system for dual-regulated institutions. The proposed system aims to simplify the process for regulated institutions to report breaches and reduce breach reporting

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Portuguese police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann appeared to have come to a standstill today after it emerged that a successor to the sacked head of the inquiry was unlikely to be appointed until next week, The Times reports. Chief Inspector Goncalo Amaral, who until yesterday

LAWFUEL – NZ Legal Jobs & Newswire – The Commerce Commission has cleared Schering-Plough Corporation to acquire 100 percent of the shares in, or assets of, Organon Biosciences N.V. The clearance is subject to the divestment undertaking dated 1 October 2007 provided by Schering-Plough Corporation to the Commission pursuant to section 69A of the Commerce

LAWFUEL – NZ Legal Jobs & News – Detective Senior Sergeant Simon Scott is pleased with the number of calls recieved from the public about the investigation into the death of Kayo Matsuzawa. “After the Investigator programme last night, our 0800 MURDER number rang off the hook,” he said. Investigators are working through the information

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Microsoft Corp. amped up its antipiracy campaign Monday, adding a program that targets large customers that need to “get legal” after being fingered for using counterfeit or illegally-applied volume licenses. The program, dubbed Get Genuine Windows Agreement (GGWA), plugs a hole in the company’s antipiracy efforts, said Cori Hartje,

A former California lawyer currently in custody on fraud charges has been charged in an unrelated case in California with defrauding approximately 100 victims out of more than $19.7 million. Mark Forrest Cohn, 53, formerly of Woodside, California, was named in a two-count information filed Monday in United States District Court in Los Angeles. Cohn

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – In a plea agreement filed today, a Diamond Bar man agreed to plead guilty to participating in a scheme that smuggled dozens of protected and endangered tortoises into the United States. Wai Ho Gin, 31, who also uses the name “Bobby Gin,” agreed to plead guilty to one count

LAWFUEL – The ‘Missing’ three hours in which Mohammed Al Fayed claims MI6 agents met the head of the Ritz security to plot Princess’s Diana’s death are captured in CCTV footage. Haunting images of Princess Diana in her final hours – relaxed, happy and smiling broadly – have been shown for the first time at

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – In its Draft Authorisation released today, the Commerce Commission is proposing to authorise prices for the supply of Powerco Limited and Vector Limited’s gas distribution services which would represent reductions of 42% and 15%, respectively, if implemented. These are further to preliminary price reductions of 9% and 9.5 %,