A council in Dorset which spied on a family to see if they lived in the right school catchment area has lost a landmark ruling over its actions.
CDOs, CMOs, SIVs: The economic crash has littered the nation´s courts with suits over these and other exotic financial instruments. Judges need a crash course to keep up.
In my 28 months as a guest of the U.S. government, I often wondered how my time in that role would end. I never expected that I would have to serve the whole term, though I was, and am, psychologically prepared to do so, now that I have learned more of the fallibility of American justice, which does convict many people, who, like me, would never dream of committing a crime in a thousand years.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency´s U visa gives temporary legal status to people who suffer physical or mental abuse from crimes and help authorities apprehend perpetrators.
The court-appointed trustee seeking to recover billions of dollars lost by jailed financier Bernard Madoff sued three entities Thursday to get back more than $30 million that he said the Madoff family had invested, mostly in oil and gas properties and technology companies.
THE woman at the centre of sexual harassment claims against ex-David Jones CEO Mark McInnes is suing the retailer for more than $35 million.
Mapping service faces 28 actions, from every continent except the Antarctic.
Regulations for the recently enacted financial reform law are months away, but law firms with strong financial services practices are rolling out the welcome mat for client conferences and filling their calendars with client meetings.
A court in northwest China has rejected an appeal from a Tibetan environmentalist who was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of grave robbing and dealing in looted antiquities, his lawyer said Monday.
AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile carriers, are planning a venture to displace credit and debit cards with smartphones, posing a new threat to Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., three people with direct knowledge of the plan said.
Damian Green, the immigration minister, today promised a "thorough evaluation" would be conducted over the coming months because of what he called a "significant abuse" of the student visa system.
An investigation is under way in Indonesia after pornographic images were broadcast on an internal TV channel in the country´s parliament.
Baker & McKenzie has agreed to pay $6.65 million to compensate the bankruptcy estate of Coudert Brothers for profits Baker earned from unfinished business that partners took with them when they left the defunct Coudert firm.
Brazil´s president has offered asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, state-run media reported Saturday.
You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you´re remaining silent.
A woman who fell on her bottom while trying to sit on a work chair that slipped out from under her has been awarded nearly $420,000 in compensation.
"My first name is not Antonio, and my surname is not Barroso. I don´t know whether I was born in Zaragoza, or whether my birthday is really February 18. My whole life is a lie,"
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday issued a one-year suspension to a Newark lawyer who offered discounted fees to female clients or their family members in exchange for sexual favors.
The Los Angeles construction magnate and his partners, including Colony Capital, will pay about $660 million for the studio.
Derryn Hinch will argue before a full bench of the High Court that suppression orders he allegedly breached are constitutionally invalid.
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