The mother of a disabled boy won a crucial legal victory yesterday that could lead to new rights to flexible working for Britain’s six million carers. Sharon Coleman, 41, says that she was forced to resign from her job as a legal secretary, working at a London law firm, in 2005 after her employers refused […]
Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused to legally define waterboarding as “torture” during Senate testimony Wednesday, although he acknowledged that if the interrogation technique were performed on him, he would personally “feel that it was.” During his first testimony since his November confirmation, Mukasey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that it wouldn’t “be appropriate for me
The Senate voted Monday against extending the eavesdropping law beyond Feb. 1, increasing political pressure to pass a new version of the bill this week. The existing law will expire Feb. 1, a deadline the White House, intelligence officials and congressional Republicans are using to push the Senate into adopting a bill that would also
Five men were convicted on Monday of stealing £53m from a depot in Kent in Britain’s biggest ever cash heist. The heavily-armed gang carried out the raid in February 2006 after kidnapping the depot’s manager and family at gunpoint. Disguised as policemen and kitted out in an array of fake noses, chins and beards, the
Workers who are legally prescribed marijuana to treat illness can still be fired from their jobs, following a ruling Thursday from the California Supreme Court. The 5-2 decision upheld the job termination of Gary Ross, who flunked a company drug test shortly after being hired at a telecommunications firm. A state referendum that allows people
Jerome Kerviel, the rogue French trader who allegedly lost billions for one of the world’s largest banks, is reportedly now talking to French authorities at a police station in Paris. Kerviel single-handedly broke Societe General earlier this week by making bad stock market bets at a loss of $7.14 billion, and gambling tens of billions
Lucie Alhadeff has a knack of starting the new year in style. Last January she was named by The Lawyer as one of its Hot 100. This January the 33-year-old solicitor with Withers appeared in The Times as its Lawyer of the Week. “I’m really enjoying things at the moment,” Alhadeff, a family lawyer who
French bank Societe Generale said Thursday it has uncovered a $7.14 billion fraud — one of history’s biggest — by a single futures trader who fooled investors and overstepped his authority. The fraud destabilized a major bank already exposed to the subprime crisis. France’s second-largest bank by market value said it would be forced to
With its massive structured finance practice, layoffs at Cadwalader were not a matter of if, but when. The hard-nosed firm is reaping the credit crunch whirlwind. The only truly surprising aspect of the redundancies announced this month by Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft was that it took so long. The market had been waiting for weeks.
Jose Padilla, a Brooklyn-born convert to Islam who became one of the first Americans designated “an enemy combatant,” was sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison by a federal judge in Miami on Tuesday for his conviction on charges that he conspired to help Islamic terrorists around the world. The judge also sentenced
