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“The four men, who denied wrongdoing, had been accused of agreeing with Virgin Atlantic to fix fuel surcharge prices between 2004 and 2006.”
“PwC said last night it would “vigorously” fight a £40m claim made by a former employee in a race discrimination case.”
“the mayor of Friendship Heights, a suburb of DC, is now crusading to institute a $100 fine on anybody who smokes anywhere outdoors, on lawns and in parks or even while walking along pavements.”
“BA's head of sales Andrew Crawley, ex-commercial director Martin George, ex-communications head Iain Burns and ex-UK and Irish Republic sales chief Alan Burnett were the four executives accused of price fixing.”
“a government lawsuit in the hope of reaching a settlement over demands that the Swiss bank hand over details of 52,000 American citizens suspected of tax evasion”
“The woman from the caravan, Andrea Melville, had told them that she had just gone to bed when she was disturbed by an intruder.”
“Mr George and Mr Burns resigned from BA in 2006, while Mr Burnett retired in the same year.”
“the US Justice Department said it would only accept a deal that would involve UBS handing over “information on a significant number of individuals” to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)”
“By then, they had circulated Gorman’s details, and he had been linked to an unsolved case in Shrewsbury eight months earlier.”
“The charges against the BA executives related to a period of 18 months, when fuel surcharges rose from £5 to £60 for a typical long-haul return ticket.”
“The Treasury will introduce a new Banking Act in the autumn to formalise the proposals and is inviting consultation until 30 September.”
“Gorman stood trial for the offences at Truro Crown Court in June 1998.”
“Mr Johnson states that in the past few years, there have only been about 10 cases that the FA has had to investigate, and a couple of cases involving players betting on their own team to lose.”
“• Implications of the Walker review on corporate governance, due on 16 July, and the FSA’s code of practice on remuneration to be taken into account.”
“Gorman was found guilty on all counts.”
“In April the court ruled that two years ago the FCC had overstepped those powers”
“• FSA to be given greater powers to suspend and penalise firms and individuals who are found guilty of misconduct. More powers to vet key staff.”
“Texas state law, which says firmly that “a manual recount shall be conducted in preference to an electronic recount””
“A five year trademark dispute meant that Google was not allowed to use the name Gmail in the UK.”
“Mandell and the five other employees charged all surrendered to FBI agents yesterday morning.”
“There are now nearly 200 cases filed against him.”
“In 2005 a company called Independent International Investment Research claimed it had used "Gmail" first.”
“the creation of an oral trust in 1970”
“On November 7, the satirical magazine Punch was fined £25,000 for publishing an article about David Shayler’s claims that the 1993 bombing of the Bishopsgate area of London could have been averted”
“Google claimed at the time that the settlement IIR asked for was "exorbitant" and dropped the name.”
“Starr was not liable on the claim.”
“On November 1, the prosecution of Lieutenant-Colonel Nigel Wylde was stopped on the orders of the attorney-general, Lord Williams of Mostyn”
“The firm is not releasing the details of the new settlement but states that the matter is "happily resolved".”
“bail set at $750,000 (£461,000)”
“The nearest we have come to a definition in this country was in the obscure asylum appeal in May this year of a Pakistani cleric accused of fundamentalist activity”
“The government had been looking into possible legal challenges to the boycott but does not seem intent on mounting one itself.”
“worked at Goldman for a month between May 2007 and 5 June, when he left to join an automated trading firm, the FBI Said.”
“There was a year‑long investigation into the claims by Mr Mac Williams”
“Mr Balls says head teachers will be in breach of their statutory duties and that he is very disappointed that they are taking this action.”
“A preliminary hearing has been set for 3 August.”
“The seven, who could in theory face trial for spying”
“This would fall from two years to no more than nine months, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said.”
“$400,000 a year”
“In 1994, their legal team launched a private prosecution. That prosecution failed in 1996 because there was not sufficient evidence.”
“An insurer must decide on liability within 15 days of being notified of a claim”
“preliminary hearing has been set for 3 August”
“That prosecution failed in 1996 because there was not sufficient evidence.”
“That change banned developers from using automatic translation tools, effectively forcing them to develop two applications - one for Apple products and one for everything else.”
“Fletcher spent the past 23 years at Clifford Chance”
“In May 1999, I was charged with breaching Section 5 of the 1989 Official Secrets Act: the first time this law had been exercised.”
“No US company is allowed to invest more than $20m in the Iranian economy”
“I made a single appearance at Bow Street and faced an Old Bailey trial, plus two years’ imprisonment and financial ruin.”
“State lawyers are considering whether the raids in Fremont were legal, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.”
“By December 1999, a year after the raid, a new attorney-general had looked at the file, discovered new evidence and decided he was “not content” for the case against me to proceed.”
“He told the Chronicle that the computers would not be examined until then.”
“He was interviewed for four hours and emerged convinced of the MoD’s declared belief that The Irish War had indeed damaged national security.”
“It's revealing that nowhere in this advice does it claim that our industrial action is illegal. We maintain that we have got a legal trade dispute and we're calling on our leadership group members to take the action.”
“Until now, that is. This month, the people of the UK finally have their own bill of rights – a set of written entitlements that can be enforced in the courts.”
“Government suggests that another competent person could administer the tests, but the only people legally competent to carry them out are the heads and leadership group members who are being called on to take the action.”
“sentence upon Saturday last was pronounced against him by this court, to be put to death by the severing of his head from his body; of which sentence execution yet remaineth to be done. These are therefore to will and require you to see th…”
“In April the ICO introduced fines of up to £500,000 for serious data breaches.”
“the Bar Council has sent a circular to members to ask if they intend staying in the city, or retreating to the suburbs.”
“The chair of the Bar Council, Nazeer Cassim, was himself attacked recently by four men”
“in 300 hours of undercover surveillance recorded on videotape, the Cambridgeshire constabulary hadn’t captured one shot of the centre staff smiling in complicity as a slither of heroin was exchanged.”
“The pair’s lawyers will say that Haworth failed to understand the difficulties of dealing with the homeless and that a legal manoeuvre prevented the defendants calling witnesses who might have helped them. Haworth acknowledged, for example…”
“which gave a strong hint about the direction of its thinking when it released Wyner and Brock in advance of a full hearing in the autumn.”
“It opened on 9 May 1996, and was stopped after a Customs officer introduced evidence tying the defendants to Dobbels that the prosecution lawyers knew nothing about.”
“Customs had bugged Doran, Togher and their associates when they stayed in three hotels.”
“When Tony Bland was appallingly injured at the Hillsborough disaster and fell into a persistent vegetative state, his family, after years of witnessing their son’s dreadful condition, and with the doctors’ support, appealed to the courts f…”
“as in the recent trial of an 80-year-old man who – abandoned by the support services he needed to care for his wife, who had Alzheimer’s – attempted to kill both her and himself.”
“the prolonged trial of three fundamentalist Muslims, Turkish members of Hilafet Devleti.”
“accused with two others”
“The trial began in February and is expected to drag on into the autumn.”
“The story of the charges goes back to 1996”
“Some months ago, a manager on an oil rig was awarded £92,000 for being sacked because he had cancer: £5,000 of that was for unfair dismissal, the remainder was compensation for disability discrimination. Fife council has been ordered to pa…”
“the controversial Disability Discrimination Act which has taken a drubbing since its enactment in 1995”
“a manager on an oil rig was awarded £92,000 for being sacked because he had cancer: £5,000 of that was for unfair dismissal, the remainder was compensation for disability discrimination”
“Fife council has been ordered to pay £65,000 to a partially sighted social worker who claimed unfairly dismissal and discriminated because of his disability”
“In 1988, customs seized just under 20,000 kilos of cannabis.”
“Last year, they seized just over 80,000 kilos.”
“Ecstasy switches on a light bulb inside your mind; it remains on for about four hours and then slowly dims.”
“a trend that has been gathering momentum for some ten years or more.”
“London 30 years ago carrying placards proclaiming “free the weed””
“Amid the general satisfaction at the High Court judgment in Irving v Lipstadt and Penguin Books on 11 April...”
“Irving, who has specialised in the history of the Third Reich since the 1960s, in 1996 sued Deborah E Lipstadt, Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, Atlanta, for defamation. He claimed that she had libelled…”
“After 32 days of evidence, and a month’s private deliberation, Mr Justice Charles Gray ruled just that.”
“It would have been impossible to write about this subject without examining the court case in France in 1998, at which Boycott was found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend Margaret Moore.”
“rates of reoffending in these projects were down by between 60 to 70 per cent.”
“just five days before my probation was due to finish.”
“The hearing, before a panel of three Scots judges, is expected to last at least a year, probably longer.”
“Salmond on Torts, said as long ago as 1969 that the law relating to arrest “is complex and badly in need of reform”.”
“This has been repeated in five subsequent editions.”
“In 1914, the manager of W H Smith’s news-stand at King’s Cross Station was detained by the company’s senior management.”
“Over 1,000 women are estimated to have worked in small pockets of the city centre over the past ten years – with 200 newcomers appearing on the streets each year.”
“fined up to £500.”
“Under the Civic Government Scotland Act, saunas and massage parlours are now categorised as places of public entertainment. This means that they are licensed and inspected – to make sure that they meet regulations on building safety and pr…”
“from around 18,000 defendants a year.”
“projected cost-savings of £100 million.”
“acquittal rate (40 per cent compared with 25 per cent in magistrates’ courts)”
“I was one of about 150 jurors at the particular court I attended, each serving around two weeks.”
“'preferably before March 2000'”
“She became an advocate in 1977 and a QC in 1989, the third Scotswoman to achieve that eminence.”
“In 1995 Rodger resigned as lord advocate and simultaneously appointed himself a judge of the Court of Session.”
“At age 51 he was one of the youngest men on the Scottish bench.”
“In 1996, Mackay awarded the top judicial post to Alan Rodger.”
