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Serious Fraud Office reviews cases after software problems

...The UK Serious Fraud Office has launched a review of its past and present cases after uncovering problems with crucial software used in evidence disclosure, marking the latest blow to the troubled prosecutor...

April 19, 2024

UK immigration

Home Office sends ‘third country’ removal notices to dozens of British asylum seekers

...legislation passed into law....

March 29, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Foreign & Commonwealth Office UK

Foreign Office to close rapid certification service

...Law firms and notaries have warned that having to send time-critical documents to Milton Keynes by post or courier will introduce added expense and could hold up big deals, as they urge the government to...

December 27, 2023

Chinese business & finance

China’s ‘red circle’ law firms rush to tap other markets

...Han Kun Law Offices opened a New York outpost in December, just months after setting up a Singapore office....

April 18, 2024

Commercial property

‘Skyscraper queen’ leaves CBRE as New York property crisis deepens

...Harmon sold it in 2015 for $5.45bn after the original deal soured....

February 5, 2024

Special ReportBusiness Legal Leaders

Post Office scandal exposes ethical dilemmas of general counsel

...More than 700 prosecutions were brought by the Post Office itself....

April 23, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

News in-depthClimate change

Pivotal case in UK law begins over climate protest at JPMorgan offices

...A Home Office spokesperson said the “right to protest is a fundamental part of our democracy but we must also protect the law-abiding majority’s right to go about their daily lives”....

February 19, 2024

Due Diligence

Czech’s in the Royal Mail Premium

...In December, Han Sun Law Offices opened a New York outpost, months after setting up in Singapore. DeHeng Law Offices landed in Laos last year, while Yingke Law Firm opened an office in South Africa....

April 18, 2024

Post Office Ltd

Post Office chief executive ‘exonerated’ of misconduct after review

...The government hopes the bill will pass into law by the end of July. Staunton was sacked as chair in January by business secretary Kemi Badenoch....

April 17, 2024

Post Office scandal

Evidence of fraud ‘quite compelling’, says Post Office’s ex-managing director

...itself using a general right in English law....

April 12, 2024

Foreign aid

Labour explores stopping ‘raids’ on UK overseas aid budget

...Lisa Nandy, shadow international development secretary, said that if Labour won power it could codify in law the work of the official development assistance “star chamber” committee, which scrutinises spending...

April 20, 2024

Alex Chalk

Cases like Mr Bates vs the Post Office must be funded

...Those who fought on faced an uphill battle against the Post Office, with all its legal and financial firepower....

March 3, 2024

Post Office scandal

UK to bring in legislation quashing all convictions in Post Office scandal

...The bill, which the government hopes to pass into law before the end of July, will exonerate hundreds of sub-postmasters who were wrongly prosecuted using flawed evidence from the Post Office’s faulty Horizon...

March 13, 2024

ExplainerPost Office scandal

Can the UK exonerate all sub-postmasters with a single law?

...“Blanket measures often throw up difficulties in law....

January 9, 2024

UK immigration

40,000 migrants living in limbo in the UK, Home Office says

...MPs voted on Monday to strip the bill of seven amendments introduced by peers — including those that sought to ensure “due regard” for international and domestic law....

April 15, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Georgia

Georgians rally against ‘foreign influence’ law they say is modelled on Vladimir Putin’s regime

...In Russia, being classified as a foreign agent can get people fired or banned from running for office. Repeated non-compliance with the law can lead to prison sentences....

April 19, 2024

Zelda Perkins

The Post Office scandal shines an unforgiving light on NDA abuse

...Overturning convictions and pursuing compensation are part of redressing the harm done by the Post Office....

January 24, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Israel passes bill to shut local Al Jazeera office

...The law allows the government to close Al Jazeera’s local offices and confiscate its equipment, while banning local cable and satellite TV companies from carrying the channel and blocking its website in...

April 1, 2024

Letter

Letter: Disqualification will not right Post Office wrongs

...Professor Joan LoughreySchool of Law, Queen’s University Belfast,Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK...

January 15, 2024

Post Office scandal

Top judge insists courts can handle Post Office appeals despite planned legislation

...In January, Sunak promised to pass a law to overturn the convictions en-masse after a political storm caused by a TV drama about the scandal....

February 13, 2024

LexPost Office scandal

Funding behind the Post Office’s defeat has been better for justice than investors Premium

...Britain’s Post Office Horizon scandal blights the reputation of nearly everyone it touches....

March 13, 2024

Donald Trump

New Yorkers’ unvarnished views of Trump aired in ‘hush money’ trial

...The case was brought by the office of Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg....

April 16, 2024

EU rule of law

Fico closes Slovakia anti-corruption office despite EU warnings

...rule of law....

February 8, 2024

News updates from February 1: Meta announces first ever dividend, Bank of England holds interest rates

Israel says most settlers ‘law-abiding’ in response to US sanctions

...“The absolute majority of the settlers in Judea and Samaria are law-abiding citizens, many of whom are currently fighting in the regular [army] and in the reserves for the defence of Israel,” the office...

February 1, 2024

Post Office scandal

Kemi Badenoch and former Post Office chair locked in war of words

...Jonathan Reynolds, shadow business secretary, called for a Cabinet Office investigation into the claims made by Staunton, and for all correspondence between Badenoch’s department and the Post Office on the...

February 19, 2024

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