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News updates from March 7: Sweden joins Nato; Powell says Fed ‘not far’ from having confidence to cut rates
Ukraine’s former top general set to become UK ambassador
...Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has approved the candidacy of Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s former top army general who was dismissed in February, for the position of Ambassador of Kyiv to Great Britain...
March 7, 2024
Political espionage
Former UK parliamentary aide charged with spying for China
...The charges were given consent by the attorney-general, Victoria Prentis, earlier this month....
April 22, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
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Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
UK public services
Stephen Parkinson appointed UK director of public prosecutions
...Attorney-general Victoria Prentis KC said Parkinson had had a “stellar” legal career, adding: “I have every confidence he will be a collaborative director and a principled and independent prosecutor.”...
September 14, 2023
White collar crime
Two men acquitted of corruption in Saudi defence contract case
...Mason’s barrister told the judge that Mason intended to seek costs from the SFO, MoD and attorney-general. The case involved more than 2mn documents and in excess of 200 witness statements....
March 6, 2024
Serious Fraud Office UK
Lawyers question UK fraud agency over case disclosure problems
...The attorney-general’s office, which oversees the agency, said it was “aware the SFO recently identified an issue with its e-discovery platform” and it is “waiting for the findings of the independent inspectorate...
April 23, 2024
Disrupted Times
Economy moves to centre stage ahead of UK general election
...The attorney-general must now decide whether to pursue the case....
March 20, 2024
FT Live
Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific
Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region
Thursday, 16 MayHong Kong
Letter
Letter: Britain’s legal advice on the Gaza war should be published
...When it was extracted much later, we saw how a side agreement had been put in place to enable the attorney-general to change his mind and say war would be legal....
April 8, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: Europe must consolidate its defence industry, says Ursula von der Leyen
...outside attorney hired by her office....
February 16, 2024
The Week Ahead
Opening arguments begin in Trump trial
...In another New York courtroom another judge will hold a hearing over the $175mn bond Trump posted as he appeals against a $454mn fraud judgment, after the state’s attorney-general Letitia James asked for...
April 21, 2024
UK Budget 2024
Keir Starmer hits out at ‘desperate’ Budget
...Broadly, Starmer and Reeves have shadowed the Conservatives on tax and spend, an attempt to prevent a dividing line emerging in the months before Prime Minister Rishi Sunak calls a general election....
March 6, 2024
John McTernan
Starmer should use powers the Tories will leave behind
...These words, attributed to Sir Hartley Shawcross, attorney-general in Clement Attlee’s 1945 Labour government, were used by political opponents to characterise the attitude of Labour ministers backed by...
April 11, 2024
Markets InsightPeter Kinsella
The pound is no longer so vulnerable
...The rapid fall in UK inflation since a peak in 2022 — both headline and core — has prompted inflation-adjusted real interest rates to move towards positive territory....
April 11, 2024
News in-depthUK local elections
Dorset Tories tell Sunak’s MPs to ‘stay away’ in local election battle
...In the past, the Lib Dems were typically stronger in the far south-west, such as Brexit-voting Cornwall and Devon, but recently they have been resurgent in wealthier territory closer to London, including...
April 20, 2024
National Archives
Blair government considered detaining asylum seekers on Scottish island
...The Mull proposal, first mooted by the attorney-general’s office, was quickly quashed, according to cabinet papers released by the National Archives on Friday....
December 29, 2023
Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
Is my aunt stealing money from my grandmother?
...In this case, perhaps the initial focus should be on whether it is tax-efficient to transfer the second property to your children.The opinions in this column are intended for general information purposes...
February 7, 2024
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Wednesday, 11 SeptemberLondon, UK
The best books of the week
No Way Out — Tim Shipman on Brexit, Theresa May and the death of a premiership
...Crucial legal advice of the attorney-general, baritone barrister Geoffrey Cox, becomes known as “Cox’s codpiece”. And so on....
April 23, 2024
UK society
Climate activists in England and Wales lose ‘consent’ defence
...The legal challenge was brought by attorney-general Victoria Prentis KC as part of a broader government effort to deter disruptive protest at a time of rising civil disobedience over the environment....
March 18, 2024
Inside Politics
UK’s electoral landscape swings into volatility
...know is whether what we’re seeing at the moment is a permanent reversion to type in these constituencies — that these seats, which would have been marginal in the south, will continue to be more difficult territory...
March 21, 2024
Inside Politics
Tackling homelessness needs to start from the evidence
...Below is the Financial Times’ live-updating UK poll-of-polls, which combines voting intention surveys published by major British pollsters....
April 22, 2024
Cyber warfare
US and UK accuse China of cyber attacks on politicians and companies
...not tolerate efforts by the Chinese government to intimidate Americans who serve the public, silence the dissidents who are protected by American laws, or steal from American businesses”, the country’s attorney-general...
March 26, 2024
UK immigration
Rwanda plan threatens to put UK in breach of legal obligations, says ECHR
...Some Home Office officials are uneasy about the situation and want clarity from a legal authority, such as the attorney-general, about whether their individual involvement in ignoring a Rule 39 order would...
January 25, 2024
UK economy
UK economy returns to growth in January
...January’s GDP growth raises expectations of the UK economy expanding in the first quarter, which would end the recession and give Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a boost ahead of the general election expected...
March 13, 2024
Post Office scandal
Top judge insists courts can handle Post Office appeals despite planned legislation
...The judicial proposal involved the attorney-general submitting cases in groups to be overturned in the Court of Appeal, according to three people briefed on proposals....
February 13, 2024
Pilita Clark
Wall Street is letting Orwellian doublethink kill climate action
...He points out the Republican Attorneys General Association, which has received millions of dollars in company contributions, is a major contributor to state attorneys-general who attack firms for supporting...
March 20, 2024
Miranda Green
Labour’s twin victories suggest it may be too late to save Tory bacon
...“Both parties have a clear territory to target,” according to Ford....
October 20, 2023

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