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...“Well, welcome to the southern district of Florida,” the magistrate judge, Jonathan Goodman, said amiably. Blanche entered a “not guilty” plea on Trump’s behalf....
...Fintech’s play looks more like a haphazard copy-paste of Kenneth Dart’s well-timed bet on a Greek bond in 2012, except this time it went horribly awry....
...“Most of those who are prolific shoplifters have a drug addiction problem . . . They’ll go to magistrates’ court and get fined, and that’s not going to help with the cycle of offending....
...Six sub-postmasters had their magistrates court convictions overturned last year....
...I will not let them end this [legislative] session without changing some of these laws,” Alice O’Lenick, the Republican chair of the board of elections in Gwinnett County, outside of Atlanta, was quoted...
...The judge, Kenneth Marra, said in his ruling that Mr Epstein had “sexually abused more than 30 minor girls” between 1997 and 2007....
...in their case, said Judge Kenneth Marra in a 33-page ruling....
...The second series of Making a Murderer (from Friday) comes swiftly on the heels of the installation of controversial judge Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court bench, as though American justice wasn’t conflicted...
...On a cold December day at Edmonton County Court, his barrister, Mary-Rachel McCabe, managed to persuade a judge, whom she described as “visibly shocked” by the tale, to give Rice more time to sort out his...
...Mr Parker, who is currently chairman of the National Trust, has a reputation for turning around struggling businesses but was once dubbed the “Prince of Darkness” by unions for cutting jobs at shoe company...
...“I learnt my trade in magistrates’ courts, and county courts and coroners’ courts,” he once told an audience of Durham university law students, “in courts of quarter sessions and before High Court masters...
...Even the adversarial system itself — the hallowed tradition of prosecution and defence duelling in court before a judge and jury — does not escape without a salvo or two....
...The DoJ demanded his extradition, which a London magistrate granted on the basis that spoofing is a crime both here and in the US — even though the FCA has so far only brought one case of spoofing, which...
...The judges will select two entries who shall be invited to join the FT Political Editor, George Parker, for a day on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election 2017 (“Prize”)....
...The FT’s Mehreen Khan reports that the county’s primary budget surplus – a key measure of government finances that excludes debt repayments – nearly doubled last year as the left-wing Syriza has ramped up...
...Kenneth Parker, the judge, said that Mr Ecclestone’s request for judicial review should be put on hold until another challenge over the HMRC’s decision to scrap the agreement was heard in the commercial...
...Anatomy of a Soldier, by Harry Parker, Faber, RRP£14.99/Knopf, RRP£25.95 Former British army captain Harry Parker’s semi-autobiographical novel about a soldier who loses both legs is a compelling addition...
...His case was transferred to Southwark Crown Court by District Judge Kenneth Grant and Mr Clarke was released on unconditional bail until his next hearing on July 18....
...Mr Leslie will say Labour will create leaner, more efficient commissioning arrangements for health and social care and encourage the co-location of county courts and magistrates courts to save money....
...District judges – who hear less serious cases in county and magistrates’ courts – were particularly vulnerable because they sat in smaller rooms than criminal courts, he added....
...The county courts, where district judges hear 90 per cent of the 1.7m civil disputes a year, including 100,000 family cases, are expected to be particularly affected....
...Justice Kenneth Parker adjourned the case until the imminent completion of a human resources review at DfT....
...They give little comfort to the claimant locked out of court while government lawyers play to an open goal in private with the judge.”...
...Which is why the two bankrupt Californian cities of Fontana and Ontario in San Bernardino County offer such a bracing jolt to Washington’s passivity....
...Citigroup rose 6 per cent to $25.05, as investors shrugged off a judge’s decision to tear up the bank’s settlement with the SEC over alleged miss-selling of mortgages....
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