Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has made an outspoken attack on the judicial process as his trial for crimes against humanity began. He and seven associates are charged with ordering the killing of 143 Shia men in 1982 in Dujail. He refused to confirm his identity, and questioned the validity of the trial and the […]
The lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Tuesday he will ask a tribunal for a three-month adjournment of the former Iraqi dictator’s trial for a 1982 massacre. Saddam and seven senior members of his 23-year regime go on trial Wednesday to face charges they ordered the killings of nearly 150 people from the mainly Shiite town
Radical reforms to modernise the legal profession and make obtaining legal advice a lot easier were outlined by the Lord Chancellor yesterday. The Government published details of plans for England and Wales to allow outside companies to own law firms. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, QC, indicated that companies would be allowed to
The wife of a prominent San Francisco Bay Area lawyer was beaten to death over the weekend, and the investigation into her slaying remains “wide open,” a sheriff’s spokesman said Monday. Pamela Vitale, 52, was found dead Saturday evening. Her husband, attorney Daniel Horowitz, 50, reported finding her dead at a trailer where the couple
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a government effort to force tobacco companies to give up $280 billion, leaving the Bush administration with a scaled-back version of its lawsuit. Shares of cigarette makers rose. The high court, without comment, let stand a decision that bars the government from recouping decades of profits it says tobacco companies
Bankruptcy filings in the past few weeks have spiked to record highs as consumers rushed to file before a new, more stringent bankruptcy law takes effect on Monday, Oct. 17. For the week ending Oct. 8, bankruptcy courts reported a total of 102,863 filings, up from the previous record high of 68,387 the week before,
US regulators last night took action against Refco, one of the world’s largest derivatives brokers, as the repercussions of its chief executive being charged with fraud continued to reverberate across Wall Street. In a step that reflected the severity of the situation, the securities and exchange commission placed trading restrictions on the business, limiting Refco
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty to a charge that it conspired to fix the price of memory chips and will pay a $300 million fine, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. The Justice Department said the criminal antitrust fine was the second-largest in U.S. history, and it left
Technology and communications companies rank third on the list of U.S. and U.K. industries with the most litigation, according a new survey of manufacturing companies. The survey by the law firm Fulbright & Jaworski, a leading intellectual-property litigator based in New York and Houston, found that the average U.S. manufacturer currently faces 40 lawsuits. Of
Phillip R. Bennett, the chief executive and chairman of Refco Inc., who took the futures broker public two months ago, was placed on a leave of absence after an internal review found he owed the company $430 million. Bennett, 57, whose backers include Boston-based buyout firm Thomas H. Lee Partners LP, didn’t disclose that the
