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LAWFUEL – The music producer Phil Spector is facing the promise of a second murder trial after the first collapsed when jurors told a judge they were hopelessly deadlocked. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler declared a mistrial and dismissed jurors after they pronounced themselves hung, 10-2, on a charge of second-degree murder […]

LawFuel – Lawfuel’s lead story from TIME reports that Senator Larry Craig’s lawyers had a tough job trying to argue that their client’s guilty plea to a charge of disorderly conduct was a ‘manifest injustice’. Time magazine asks whether the case will go to trial.

LawFuel – The Law Newswire – Fiji’s military said a state of emergency declared Sept. 6 after ousted prime minister Laisenia Qarase returned from nine months in exile will end next week as the threat to security has passed, Bloombergs report. “We have had no problems from Qarase and Fiji is stable,” Lieutenant Colonel Mosese

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Hillary Clinton’s main competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination last night tried to chip away at her record as a New York senator and former first lady on the issues of Iraq, Iran and health care, Bloomberg reports. Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards said Clinton’s vote yesterday in

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Late on a balmy Friday night in Wicker Park, a gentrifying neighborhood just northwest of the Loop, a small tribe of 20-somethings gathers outside a corner bar, the Boston Globe reports. Their leader, a petite, energetic 25-year-old named Meghann Walker, hands out leaflets to people heading inside. “Do you

Thursday, 27 September 2007, 11:58 am – From the President of the New Zealand Law Society, John Marshall QC The New Zealand Law Society makes submissions on most new legislation from an independent perspective and in the public interest. It is very rare for the Society to come to the view that a bill is

LAWFUEL – Sen. Larry Craig said Wednesday he will remain in office while a Minnesota judge considers his bid to withdraw a guilty plea, overturning the senator’s previous statements of intent to resign by Sunday. The Idaho Republican said he will stay in office “for now,” but people close to him said he will remain

Wednesday 26 September 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) today released a Discussion Paper, Client Legal Privilege and Federal Investigatory Bodies (DP 73), containing 42 proposals aimed ataddressing lengthy and costly disputes over client legal privilege in federal investigations. ALRC President, Professor David Weisbrot, said that the ALRC

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Three Freehilss lawyers have resigned from the firm to help launch a new Melbourne-based firm on 1 October this year, Lawyers Weekly reports. The three lawyers, two still in their first years of practice, have opted to leave the large law firm environment for the chance to be involved