In a ground-breaking unanimous judgment, the law lords ruled in favour of a public interest defence that brings English law more into line with the freedom enjoyed by the US media. In future, journalists will be free to publish material if they act responsibly and in the public interest and they will not be at […]
According to an annual survey by US lawyers Fulbright & Jaworski (F&J), nearly 80% of UK firms surveyed faced some court proceedings last year. One in four UK firms face class action lawsuits in the US while three out of five face a regulatory-related action. Employment and contract disputes are the most common source of
The justices’ decision allows the companies to continue to fight state laws requiring payments to accounts set up as part of a $206 billion financial settlement eight years ago with the largest tobacco companies. Each of the 30 states had passed a law requiring companies that didn’t participate in that settlement to pay into the
Perth-based Integrated Legal Holdings (ILH) plans to raise $14m (£5.6m) through the IPO and intends listing on the ASX on 12 December according to a prospectus filed with the ASX on Monday (9 October). ILH plans to spend $10m (£4m) of raised funds acquiring the Perth-based legal practices of Talbot Olivier, Durack Zilko and tax
“Nice kid. He’s gonna get killed,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan, New York’s senior U.S. senator, growled backstage after grudgingly endorsing Eliot Spitzer’s 1998 candidacy for attorney general of New York. Moynihan, a fabled handicapper, was wrong: Spitzer won — albeit barely, by 25,186 votes out of 4.3 million cast, and only after a recount. Now, thanks
It was merely the latest success story for a charismatic individual whose colourful CV suggests that he has always been something of a young man in a hurry. By his mid-twenties, the rugby-playing, motorbike-riding Mr Nulty was already a former fashion model and a former television presenter. After qualifiying as a solicitor, he joined a
Surrender your cellular phone and BlackBerry. Send your personal effects on a conveyor belt that spirits them off to the X-ray machine. Sign on the dotted line. Accept a numbered metal chit, reminiscent of a dog’s rabies tag, to be returned in order to reclaim mechanical gizmos upon exiting, and presto, you are in the
Police investigators believe Anna Politkovskaya, a 48-year-old mother of two, was killed as she was getting out of an elevator at her apartment building in central Moscow on Saturday. She had two gunshot wounds, including one to the head, police said. Politkovskaya had won international fame for exposing human-rights abuses by Russian soldiers in Chechnya.
U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob made the award, which was reduced from the requested $16 million, Tuesday. The money will be split between the New York-based nonprofit Children’s Rights Inc., and the Atlanta firm of Bondurant, Mixon and Elmore. The attorneys deserved the award because their lawsuit had beneficial results despite the state’s resistance to
The search leader has made it clear that it wants to index all of the works in print, including copyrighted works. Under Google’s plans, web users would be able to view snippets of the contents of copyrighted works, in a similar way that Amazon enables visitors to browse portions of selected titles. However, Amazon and
