Moves to reduce drastically the fees that barristers earn in long, complex cases will put at risk 14 terrorism trials due to start next year, the new head of the Bar will say today.
A parcel bomb killed a secretary and seriously injured a lawyer yesterday when it exploded at a Paris office building which also houses a law firm part-owned by President Sarkozy.
The CIA made videotapes in 2002 of its officers administering harsh interrogation techniques to two al-Qaeda suspects but destroyed the tapes three years later, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy used radio and television messages overnight to renew an appeal for Colombian rebels to free French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, who was kidnapped in 2002, and other hostages.
The administration´s plan to use technology and physical barriers to keep people from illegally entering the country is back on track this week.
American intelligence agencies based this week´s surprise assessment that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 on notes obtained from Iranian military officials.
Lawyers welcomed attempts to find practical solutions to ´mega´ cases, but say they will only work if judges apply them
A Senate committee approved a broad bill on Wednesday night to address climate change, a major step toward passage of a measure that would for the first time slow and then reverse emissions of the gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet.
President Hugo Chávez’s political movement, once considered largely above internal criticism here, is being consumed by recrimination and soul-searching after his proposal to transform Venezuela into a socialist state was rejected by voters over the weekend.
American intelligence agencies reversed their view about the status of Iran’s nuclear weapons program after they obtained notes last summer from the deliberations of Iranian military officials involved in the weapons development program, senior intelligence and government officials said on Wednesday.
The surprising defeat of a referendum over the weekend to accelerate President Hugo Chávez’s socialist-inspired revolution has given new energy to his long-suffering opposition.
£234bn of mortgages put in trusts supposedly for the benefit of good causes
Britain’s four biggest mobile phone operators used their own industry trade body as a forum for colluding to shut rival 3 out of the UK market, the High Court heard yesterday.
Radical proposals to examine a US-style system of sentencing intended to control the number of offenders sent to overcrowded jails will be outlined by ministers today, The Times has learnt.
Wendy Alexander, the leader of Scottish Labour, made it clear yesterday that she was staking her political future on e-mails which she says show that she challenged the legality of a donation to her campaign for the post.
A survey shows that two-thirds of the profession is in favour of retaining the traditional horsehair in the highest courts
Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 and has not restarted it since, a stunning new assessment released yesterday by intelligence agencies in the United States has found.
The UK´s largest supermarket group dismisses food inflation fears as hype, but implemented £270m of price cuts this summer
President Hugo Chavez crashed to an unprecedented vote defeat on Monday as Venezuelans rejected his bid to run for reelection indefinitely and accelerate his socialist revolution in the OPEC nation.
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