Media titan Rupert Murdoch may have his hands full with his Time Warner deal, but it hasn’t stopped his British newspapers taking their revenge on Rolf Harris’s media lawyers who tried to keep the jailed entertainer’s name from them when questioned over sex assault issues by the police. The media specialist law firm Harbottle & […]
UK justice minister Chris Grayling has received a judicial slapping and been prevented from turning legal aid into “an instrument of discrimination” today, after three judges found his reforms to be unlawful. In a devastating judgement which could bring the residency test requirements to a halt, the judges found the lord chancellor had radically overstepped
Privacy issues and the law have intersected so many times, particularly with social media’s impact on court reporting, that rulings over the media’s reporting of private disputes like divorce cases have become common. But the recent case of a UK hedge fund tycoon who sought to prevent the publication of Britain’s richest divorce case has
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Australian-born entertainer Rolf Harris faces the rest of his life in prison following his conviction on 12 counts of indecently assaulting four girls in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in a dramatic trial that showed how the entertainer used his celebrity status to protect himself from action over his often brazen sexual assaults. One of the victims was
Too many lawyers? It’s a question that’s asked with increasing frequency and in the UK, where there are around 200,000 lawyers, being one in 300 in the population, there are surplus lawyers in numbers that may number tens of thousands. The Guardian reports on a legal recruiter, Samuel Clague, who has set up a legal
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War crimes are being committed by Al Qaeda-spawned fighters and from ISIS militants on an industrial scale, according to reports emerging from war-ravaged Iraq. UN high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay has expressed his “extreme alarm” at the reports and images of everything from summary executions, to rapes, kidnappings and wholesale slaughter occurring in
Scottish law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn is considering expansion as its profits increased by 10 per cent and the firm’s strength sees it eyeing opportunities for further growth with possible acquisitions. Herald Scotland reports the S&W had grown its fee income beyond forecast levels for the 12 months to April 30, 2014, to rise seven
Comedian Russel Brand landed a good punch line when he obtained substantial damages from the Sun on Sunday, who claimed he had cheated on girlfriend Jemima Khan. The newspaper published an apology and paid his legal costs.Brand was not at London’s high court for the settlement of his action against News Group Newspapers over a
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Law firm mergers are hardly anything new, but watching small firms grown into big ones is one of the trends encouraged through deregulated markets, like the UK legal market.And so the most recent news of a UK legal merger, between a firm that had its origins in Liverpool over 200 years ago and a
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Cherie Blair, the wife of former British PM Tony, has been doing alright since her husband left Number 10 Downing Street. Like husband Tony, who has operated lucrative business broking deals and various charitable and peace-keeping missions (the results of which are perhaps less notable), Cherie Blair operates her ultra-private law and strategy firm from
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