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British MP George Galloway and his opponent the Daily Telegraph will leave no stone unturned to sort out what could be a spectacular libel case.
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Lawyers for investor Kirk Kerkorian claim he was duped out of billions of dollars in the merger of DaimlerChrysler AG – a deal he said he only “browsed”. The claims came Monday at the start of a two-week trial in federal court, where Kerkorian is suing DaimlerChrysler for more than $1 billion in compensatory damages, and is seeking punitive damages. The $36 billion deal was concluded in 1998.
The first, major ‘trial of the century’ has seen more than 600 lawyers signed up to defend captive Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the head of Jordan’s Bar Association told the Jordan Times newspaper on Sunday. Legal volunteers had signed up at the association’s offices in Amman and that by late Friday 600 lawyers indicated their readiness to be part of a defence team for the former president of Iraq.
