Tobacco products are to be hidden and anti-smoking officers will get powers to instantly fine shops under get-tough measures announced by the Government.
The High Court has dismissed an appeal by a former Rainbow Warrior captain against his convictions over obstructing a coal carrier in Lyttelton Harbour two years ago.
"Pleased as punch" was how Alan Shadrake´s ebullient lawyer described his client after listening to the judge´s verdict in his hearing for contempt of court on November 3rd.
The scary effect of constitutional courts on the politics of the European Union.
Sometimes a tackle says much about a match and even the entire season. This is the case with a trial that opened on November 1st, pitting the world’s two biggest makers of corporate software, Oracle and SAP, against each other.
During his testimony in a New York court on October 19th, Guy Hands, the boss of Terra Firma, a European private-equity firm, compared suing Citigroup to “putting a stick into a dragon”.
If AT&T has its way before the Supreme Court, any business that issues a contract to customers would be able to prevent them from joining class-action lawsuits, taking away arguably the most powerful legal tool available to the little guy.
Several of Britain´s leading personal-injury law firms are planning to seek public listings.
Twenty-four songs are barely enough music to fill an hour, but Jammie Thomas-Rasset will be paying for those two dozen tunes for years.
It has been 18 years since Paddy Hill´s conviction for the Birmingham bombing was overturned and he has yet to receive any proper counselling. And the trauma is just getting worse and worse.
With her rent-free $2.5-million mansion, two nannies, a chef and a chauffeur, Lola seems an unlikely champion of downtrodden single mothers.
While Republicans cannot fulfill their campaign promise to repeal the new health care law any time soon, they can lead Congress in a sweeping re-examination of its more unpopular provisions, including new taxes and a requirement for most Americans to carry health insurance.
A Brunei prince´s lawyers said details about his multiple wives and statues of him having sex shouldn´t be presented to a New York jury when his lawsuit against his former legal advisers goes to court next week.
A baby who was born to a ten-year-old Roma girl in Spain was fathered by a boy aged 13, it has been revealed.
Toyota Motor Corp asked a US court to throw out lawsuits over acceleration defects in its cars, saying many of the plaintiffs never identified any defect or experienced sudden, unintended acceleration.
US Supreme Court justices signaled they may divide, perhaps evenly, in a case involving Mazda Motor Corp. that could open automakers to more consumer lawsuits over vehicle safety.
The family of Lieutenant Kevin M. Kelley of the Boston Fire Department filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday against six companies contracted by the city to inspect or maintain the braking systems on the firetruck he died in last year.
A solo practitioner in Virginia who specializes in civil rights litigation is suing his former girlfriend in Washington federal district court, alleging malicious prosecution, false imprisonment and defamation.
Toll Brothers Inc., the largest U.S. luxury-homebuilder, agreed to pay US$25-million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the company misled investors about its ability to weather the slump in the housing market.
Attorneys representing Arizona and the U.S. Justice Department faced off Monday in an appeals court hearing over the state´s controversial new immigration law.
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