The British Government faces renewed pressure to drop or delay plans for overhauling the legal aid scheme with a damning report this month from MPs. The Constitutional Affairs Committee says that if the proposed reforms go ahead, there is a risk to access to justice for the most vulnerable in society.The Constitutional Affairs Committee says […]
NBC Universal is taking sides with fellow media conglomerate Viacom Inc. over a piracy lawsuit filed against Google Inc.’s online video sharing site YouTube, according to papers filed in court. The case involves a separate party, Los Angeles News Service operator Robert Tur, who sued YouTube in July for allowing its users to appropriate his
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz violated the agency’s ethics rules when he arranged a pay increase and a promotion for his companion, a panel of directors has concluded, according to a bank official. Wolfowitz has been given the report and will have a chance to respond, said the official, who declined to be identified because
In China, the government is vowing to clean up its pharmaceutical industry, in part because of criticism over counterfeit drugs flooding the world markets. In December, two top drug regulators were arrested on charges of taking bribes to approve drugs. In addition, 440 counterfeiting operations were closed down last year, the World Health Organization said.
Don Imus, the tousled and acerbic radio host whose racial remarks engendered a media storm that triggered a swift upending of his career, is not going away quietly even if the imbroglio has all but disappeared from the national conversation in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre. For Imus, who made a career out
The trial of former Telegraph proprietor Lord Conrad Black is expected to plumb new depths of acrimony this week, when his former ally and business partner David Radler gives evidence against the embattled peer. Radler will tomorrow appear as a star witness for the prosecution, which accuses Black of 14 counts of fraud and racketeering.
A Justice Department prosecutor, lobbyists and military officials are among the clients of a Vallejo woman accused of a running a prostitution ring in the nation’s capital, ABC News reported Friday night in a highly anticipated program resulting from its analysis of phone records of the alleged “D.C. Madam.” On the network’s “20/20” program, Deborah
An Alaska lawmaker and two of his former colleagues were arrested on Friday for allegedly soliciting and accepting bribes from VECO Corp., a private oil services company, to pass a new oil-tax system, officials said. The three, Rep. Vic Kohring of Wasilla, former state House Speaker Rep. Pete Kott of Eagle River and former state
Republican presidential candidates terminated any presidential aspirations the Terminator may have had. The 10 candidates were asked in their Thursday night debate if they would support amending the Constitution to allow fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, a former bodybuilder and action movie star, to run for U.S. president. “Intimidating as he might be, I’m saying ‘no,’”
A former deputy attorney general today heaped praise on most of the eight U.S. attorneys who were fired after he left the job, testifying that he only considered one of them a weak prosecutor who had trouble managing his office. James B. Comey, the Justice Department’s second-in-command from 2003 until August 2005, also told a
