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...Veteran media lawyer David Hooper promises to reveal how the rich and powerful use the law to gag their critics....
...David Davis, a senior Tory backbench MP and former cabinet minister, told the House of Commons earlier this year that the use of libel lawsuits, dubbed “lawfare”, was causing a “chilling effect” on the free...
...Tory MP David Davis told the House of Commons in January that the fear of libel lawsuits, dubbed “lawfare”, is causing a “chilling effect” on the free press and that the English court system was being used...
...On February 24, on the day war began, he transferred control of Norma, an investment vehicle that manages his stakes in start-ups, and its subsidiary to David Davidovich, an Israeli business associate....
...For those interested, Catherine Belton’s recent book Putin’s People explores this apparatus in excellent detail (full disclosure: Ms Belton once worked for the Financial Times)....
...Marianela Nuñez and Thiago Soares lent the gloss of glamour to Goyo Montero’s Circular Ruins, a slightly corny powerplay set to a commissioned score by Owen Belton in which the always picture-perfect Nuñez...
...David Green QC, SFO director, was forced to watch on the sidelines last May as the US Department of Justice levied hundreds of millions of dollars in fines against US banks for manipulating benchmark interest...
...David Perry QC, lawyer for Rolls-Royce, said the behaviour set out by the prosecutors was “unacceptable and under no circumstances would it be condoned” by the new management at the company....
...But lawyers and anti-corruption activists warned that the government’s call for evidence still left it with considerable room to back off from pledges to introduce the legislation made after David Cameron...
...David Perry QC, lawyer for Rolls-Royce, said the behaviour set out by the prosecutors was “unacceptable and under no circumstances would it be condoned” by new management at the company....
...Successful prosecutions of individuals in the Rolls-Royce case could be crucial to the reputation of a newly assertive SFO under David Green, who was appointed director-general in 2012....
Kremlin describes unverified reports of compromising material as ‘total fabrication’
...But under David Green who took over as SFO director-general in 2012, the agency is aiming to go as high up the company as it can....
...The fact that Rolls-Royce has agreed to the DPA is a huge coup for David Green, the SFO director, who has sought to make deferred prosecution agreements a key weapon in the watchdog’s anti-corruption armoury...
...“It’s just a really bad way of doing things,” said a former official who worked under David Cameron, Mrs May’s predecessor....
...Additional reporting by David Lynch in Washington, Kara Scannell and Joe Rennison in New York and Max Seddon in Moscow Letter in response to this article: Molière and ‘the Donald’: a must for language...
...David Snell, head of PwC’s law firms advisory group, warned of further pressure because of uncertainty surrounding the Brexit vote....
...review of the evidence obtained …it has been decided not to initiate criminal proceedings on the grounds there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction” in the case, said David...
RT blames UK government after decision by NatWest
...Mr Clarke’s lawyer, David Corker, says his client had “no knowledge” of the accounting irregularities, while Mr Grace’s lawyer, Stephen Pollard, says his client denies wrongdoing....
...David Corker, the partner at CorkerBinning representing Mr Clarke, said his client had “no knowledge” of the alleged accounting fraud....
...Additional reporting by Catherine Belton and Katie Martin in London...
...By Jim Pickard, Judith Evans, Bryce Elder, Michael Pooler, Henry Mance and Catherine Belton...
...Additional reporting by Catherine Belton and Katie Martin in London This article has been amended to clarify how chatroom nicknames were used....
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