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The Pakistani leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, declared a state of emergency on Saturday night, suspending the country’s Constitution, firing the chief justice of the Supreme Court and filling the streets of the capital with police officers. The move appeared to be an effort by General Musharraf to reassert his fading power in the face of […]

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy will vote against the nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, a source close to the senator told CNN Friday. The Vermont Democrat, who is to make an announcement Friday afternoon, is the latest committee Democrat who will oppose Mukasey because of questions about his views on the

The police might normally be expected to celebrate a guilty verdict, but the outcome of the trial that concluded Thursday at London’s Old Bailey courthouse caused consternation among the city’s law enforcement officers. That’s because the defendant was London’s Metropolitan police force, in the dock over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes — the

London-based firm Kendall Freeman is to merge with Boston-based US firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, The Lawyer can exclusively reveal.EAPD has strong footholds in antitrust work and intellectual property but for Kendall Freeman the enticement is the US firm’s class action and mass tort division. Laurence Harris, the managing partner of Kendall Freeman, said:

What is the public image of a barrister? Wigs, courts and fat fees? Rumpole of the Bailey or Kavanagh, QC? People tend not to think public service, human rights, access to justice – far less, the export of legal services. But this is equally the reality of the Bar today. And it’s a message that

The Supreme Court agreed today to review some aspects of the worst oil spill in United States history, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster that fouled hundreds of miles of Alaska’s shoreline. The justices will consider the case on grounds that are narrow but nevertheless of great importance: whether maritime law allows for the imposition of

A crooked insurance chief and two of his former directors were jailed for up to seven years each today for covering up one of Britain’s “worst commercial disasters”. Led by Michael Bright, once feted as one of the country’s leading businessmen, they desperately sought to safeguard their reputations and well-paid jobs by hiding the company’s

The United Methodist Church here is the kind of politically active place where parishioners take to the pulpit to discuss poverty in El Salvador and refugees living in Meriden. But few issues engage its passions as much as the death penalty. The last three pastors were opponents of capital punishment. Church-sponsored adult education classes promote

One thing that Iraq veteran Phillip Carter of McKenna Long & Aldridge knows for certain is that, on the ground in chaotic Baghdad, FBI agents investigating the Blackwater convoy shootings in September face daunting obstacles. First, the FBI is late to the game. “Some of the witnesses have already been interviewed by the Iraqi government