DEC
10
2007

Plan to reduce legal fees ‘jeopardises terror trials’

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.

DEC
7
2007

One killed by Paris parcel bomb

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.

DEC
7
2007
DEC
7
2007

CIA destroyed videos showing interrogations

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.

DEC
7
2007

France´s Sarkozy urges FARC rebels to free hostages

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.

DEC
7
2007

Border fence sees progress

The administration´s plan to use technology and physical barriers to keep people from illegally entering the country is back on track this week.

DEC
7
2007

U-turn on Tehran´s nuclear intent prompted by Iranian military notes

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.

DEC
6
2007

Commercial litigation reforms draw mixed response

Lawyers welcomed attempts to find practical solutions to ´mega´ cases, but say they will only work if judges apply them

DEC
6
2007

Senate panel passes Bill to limit greenhouse gases

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.

DEC
6
2007

For Chávez, reflection and anger after defeat

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.

DEC
6
2007

Details in military notes led to shift on Iran, U.S. says

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.

DEC
5
2007

Venezuela Vote Sets Roadblocks on Chávez Path

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.

DEC
5
2007

Revealed: how UK banks exploit charity tax laws

£234bn of mortgages put in trusts supposedly for the benefit of good causes

DEC
5
2007

Mobile phone rivals accused of colluding against 3

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.

DEC
5
2007

Hopes pinned on American-style sentencing grid to reduce prison overcrowding

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.

DEC
5
2007

E-mails will prove that I questioned donations, says Wendy Alexander

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.

DEC
4
2007

Lawyers want to keep their wigs

A survey shows that two-thirds of the profession is in favour of retaining the traditional horsehair in the highest courts

DEC
4
2007

Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003, US agencies say

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.

DEC
4
2007

Tesco fights to keep the lid on food prices

The UK´s largest supermarket group dismisses food inflation fears as hype, but implemented £270m of price cuts this summer

DEC
3
2007

Chavez loses "president-for-life" vote

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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