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  • Clifford Chance sets out to improve its public image
    Clifford Chance has said that it must improve its public image if it is to achieve its ambition of becoming one of the world’s leading professional service providers.

  • The Water Cooler
    * It must be champagne corks popping all round down at the Royal Courts of Justice. Sir Igor Judge has received his life peerage after all (see Watercooler August 28) because Downing Street has specially bestowed one, even though it no longer comes automatically with the job. So he can sit among the law lords or even speak in the House of Lords, in theory (although the latter is unlikely), at least until the Supreme Court is set up next year and the law lords are disentangled from the Upper House entirely. Lord Justice May was also announced as the new President of the Queen's Bench Division from October 1 - taking over from Sir Igor - and Mr Justice Etherton, chairman of the Law Commission, moves up to the Court of Appeal - bringing the number of appeal judges to 38.

  • Weird Cases: banning books
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  • TNK-BP becomes independent oil major as warring sides reach deal
    TNK-BP is to be transformed into an independent oil major with international operations and bigger downstream interests under a deal between BP and its Russian partners.

  • Phillip Bennett starts 16-year jail sentence for Refco fraud
    Phillip Bennett, the British former chief executive of Refco, reported to a New Jersey prison yesterday to begin a 16-year sentence for fraud after pleading guilty to criminal charges over a scheme to hide the commodity broker’s financial problems.

  • FSA challenged over insider trading case
    A father and son accused of insider trading today asked for the case against them to be dismissed on procedural grounds.

  • 'Fat Man' wins legal battle over £2m gambling debt
    An Arab billionaire gambler known as the “Fat Man” won his High Court battle yesterday over £2 million lost in a night of blackjack at a prestigious London casino.

  • BP's Dudley exits in Russian shake-up
    BP has struck a deal to resolve the bitter dispute at TNK-BP, its Russian joint venture, that has caused a political firestorm and threatened the British oil group's future in the region.

  • Case study: sentenced to cold comfort
    For the judge at Aylesbury Crown Court it is a common refrain. As the 12 men and women squeeze into the tiny jury box, His Honour Judge Christopher Tyrer sighs while he explains apologetically that the wooden structure was “designed by and for Victorians, and so was not planned for comfort” (Steve Bird writes).

  • Courts face closure as judges are told of £90m shortfall in collection of fees
    The criminal courts are facing their biggest cash crisis in decades after a warning to judges and magistrates of a £90 million shortfall in the budget for the justice system. Judges and magistrates in England and Wales have been told of the emergency, which is likely to result in trial delays, cancelled court sittings and redundancies.


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