The Oscar Pistorious trial will screen globally, albeit with limitations, with the judge saying there would be three cameras filming the trial of the paralympian accused of shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The filming was agreed to after South African media requested a live audio recording and video footage of the opening and closing arguments and
Life is full of everyday heroes. They don’t get medals or prizes and sometimes they don’t even get noticed. However, good Samaritans save lives all over the country by intervening in the aftermath of accidents, alerting authorities, moving injured people out of the wreckage, and administering first aid. Sometimes even offering a cell phone to
LawFuel.com – Clifford Chance corporate partners have elected Guy Norman as global leader of the Firm’s Corporate practice, following an uncontested election. Guy will commence his four year term on 1 May, 2014. Guy has been a partner in the Corporate practice since 1998 and has recently returned from leading the corporate practice in
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A man convicted for the 1989 abduction, rape and killing of a teenager has been executed in Missouri, offering no final statement and refused a last minute appeal. Michael Taylor was 47. His attorney argued for his life on the basis that the drug used to kill him could have caused Taylor inhuman pain and
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In the old mystery movies it was always the butler who committed the crime. It became so cliché that even now, fifty years after the “butler” movies, people still refer to them. In the hotel industry, when a crime such as theft has been committed, it is always the maid who is blamed for
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We all know that the way law firms are working is changing – but now the head of a weight-loss company has set up a law firm (as a non-lawyer) to offer legal services with “a business advisory component”. It’s called Tandem Legal Group and the former Medifast co-founder is Mike McDevitt, who has set
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Missouri receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, a sophomore who has been called one of the NFL’s top prospects, faces marijuana possession charges for a second time in less than two years after police arrested him and two friends after finding over one pound of the drug in the vehicle. Green-Beckham could face a Class C felony based
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The elaborate plan to arrest Sinaloa drug cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman went without a hitch, but what happened to his Beauty Queen girlfriend Emma Coronel? Coronel, 24, is believed to be hiding with the Sinaloa cartel, although there have also been reports that she was arrested with Guzman. She has had two children
LawFuel.com – Law News Daily Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Aaron T. Ford, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Newark Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), William Fraher, the Acting Chief of Police of the Paterson Police Department, and Gary F. Giardina, the Chief of
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Asbestos-related diseases among firefighters is something that a New Hamshire lawmaker noted a report on cancer issues that was quietly published at the same time as tort reformers were pushing the FACT Act on Capitol Hill. Mesothelioma and its devastating impact was revealed by the joint report from the National Fire Administration and the National
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