SEP
6
2011

Amanda Knox murder case reopens in Italy

The appeal by American Amanda Knox against her conviction for killing her British roommate in Italy entered its final stretch yesterday.

SEP
6
2011

Former Iceland PM Geir Haarde goes on trial

Former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde has appeared at a special court on charges of "failures of ministerial responsibility" in his handling of the 2008 financial crisis.

SEP
6
2011

No plan to prosecute Assange: Australia

Australia wasn´t planning to prosecute WikiLeaks founder for US diplomatic cables on the internet.

SEP
6
2011

Health concerns keep Chirac from start of embezzlement trial

A French court decided on Monday to proceed with the trial of former president Jacques Chirac for misuse of public funds without him being present, after a neurologist found that his memory was too frail.

SEP
6
2011

Frenchman ordered to pay wife damages for lack of sex

A Frenchman has been ordered to pay his ex-wife £8,500 in damages for failing to have enough sex with her during their marriage.

SEP
5
2011

Mel Gibson to pay $750,000 in custody dispute

Mel Gibson will pay $750,000 to his ex-girlfriend and continue to provide housing and financial support for their young daughter to resolve a bitter legal fight that followed sexist, racist rants attributed to the actor.

SEP
5
2011

Microsoft sued over phone tracking

Windows Phone 7´s camera application said to gather location data even if users disallow location data collection.

SEP
5
2011

Legal services jobs grow, but barely

What seemed like a legal services hiring spree in July slowed to a trickle in August as the industry added just 100 new jobs in the month, according the Bureau of Labor Statistics´s August employment report, released Friday.

SEP
5
2011

Legal responses to 9/11 still in flux

Ten years later the American legal system, traumatized and transformed by Sept. 11, is still struggling to strike the balance between liberty and security, with both interests scoring victories and losses along the way.

SEP
5
2011

Brazilian university students fined for promoting a "rodeo of fat girls"

Brazilian students who organized a "rodeo of fat ladies" in Orkut to donate about US$ 6,650.

SEP
2
2011

U.S. is set to sue a dozen big banks over mortgages

The federal agency that oversees the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is set to file suits against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgage securities they assembled and sold at the height of the housing bubble, and seeking billions of dollars in compensation.

SEP
2
2011

SAP won´t have to pay Oracle $1.3bn after all

Last fall, a jury found that SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow had stolen software and customer support documents from password-protected Oracle Web sites, and ordered SAP to pay Oracle $1.3bn for the fight.

SEP
1
2011

Youngest London rioter – boy aged 11 – given youth rehabilitation order

Romford boy looted bin from smashed Debenhams storefront days after being convicted of damaging bus.

SEP
1
2011

Sisters face charges over hospital scam

A pair of sisters who ripped off two Sydney hospitals for nearly $700,000 by pretending to investigate a cancer diagnosis aid have been referred for criminal prosecution.

SEP
1
2011

Bride stole £170,000 from her boss for lavish dream wedding

Incredulous at how 29-year-old part-time accounts clerk Kirsty Lane could afford such a lavish ceremony, Peter Sutton took a closer look at the books – and discovered she had stolen nearly £170,000 from the firm.

AUG
31
2011

Sarkozy´s office denies report of Bettencourt cash

Nicolas Sarkozy´s office denied allegations published in the daily Liberation that he was handed cash by L´Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt for his 2007 election campaign.

AUG
31
2011

The case of the $755bn lawsuit against Brazil

One of those people was the former construction tycoon Jesus Murillo Valle Mendes, whose construction empire – Mendes Junior – was once the third-largest privately-held conglomerate in Brazil.

AUG
30
2011

Greece will proceed with name-and-shame treatment for tax dodgers

Athens - Greek companies and individuals accused of major tax evasion will have their names published online starting in a few days, part of a new Greek government initiative to replenish its coffers, according to newspaper reports Tuesday.

AUG
30
2011

Obama uncle Onyango Obama arrested for ´drink-driving´

US president Barack Obama´s uncle has been arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving, authorities have said.

AUG
30
2011

Akin Gump signs pharma giant Novartis

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld last week notified Congress that it is lobbying for a Swiss pharmaceutical giant.

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