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Law News from Times Online
Law News from Times Online
Lawyers indulge love of high living despite credit crunch
Never mind redundancies, profit cuts and belt-tightening ? lawyers are still
indulging their love of high-living and excess.
The weirdest legal cases of 2008
Read
Gary Slapper's Weird Cases every Friday
Law firm bypasses banks to protect partners' payouts
A leading UK law firm has paid its partners £12 million in profits ahead of
schedule because it believes that the money will be safer in private rather
than corporate bank accounts.
Football fan Michael Shields jailed for crime abroad seeks pardon from Britain
London Lawyers for the jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields
have begun a challenge to his conviction by a Bulgarian court. Two High
Court judges in London are being asked to rule that Jack Straw, the Justice
Secretary, has the power to exercise the ancient ?royal prerogative of
mercy?, even though Shields was convicted abroad. Shields, 22, is serving a
ten-year sentence in the UK for the attempted murder of a barman at a diner
in Varna, Bulgaria, in 2005, a few nights after Liverpool?s victory in the
Champions League final in Turkey. His conviction has been described by Fair
Trials Abroad as a blatant miscarriage of justice. At the hearing, Shields?s
legal team sought a judicial review of Mr Straw?s decision that he lacked
the jurisdiction to issue a pardon.
Police are ordered to destroy all DNA samples taken from innocent people
More than 1.6 million DNA and fingerprint samples of innocent people on police
databases must be destroyed after a court ruled yesterday that keeping them
breaches human rights.
Law must allow the use of data in fight against serious crime
This judgment will come as a disappointment to the police service. But it does
at least provide some clarity on an issue that has been outstanding for some
time. What is required now is some exhaustive and thorough research on
offending (and reoffending) profiles of those whose DNA and fingerprints
were taken in the past.
DNA: what happens after an arrest
When a suspect is arrested for a record-able offence a mouth swab is taken,
usually when the person has arrived at a police station and the custody
sergeant has authorised detention.
Case studies: petty crimes betray big criminals
- A huge manhunt began after the model Sally Anne Bowman was found murdered
close to her home in South London in September 2005.
Times Law Panel welcomes ruling on DNA samples
A ruling
by one of Europe's highest courts that could prevent authorities from
stockpiling DNA samples taken from people with no criminal conviction was
welcomed by lawyers today.
Reed Smith set to cut 130 jobs as woes mount in legal sector
Reed Smith, the transatlantic law firm, has launched a cost-cutting programme
that will put 130 jobs at risk across its US and UK offices.
In depth: DNA is destroyed in Scotland
In Scotland, police must destroy the DNA records of suspects who are not
convicted, except where criminal proceedings were raised against them for a
sexual or violent offence.
European ruling could force 'innocent' DNA samples to be removed from UK data...
Hundreds of thousands of DNA and fingerprint samples face being removed from
police national databases after a court ruled today that holding details of
people with no criminal convictions breaches human rights laws.
Costs, targets, paperwork: why the system fails children at risk
Ed Balls moved swiftly to remove Sharon Shoesmith from her post, and states
that every local council must learn the lessons of Baby P?s death. But in
many ways, Shoesmith was the perfect children?s director for the new-look
Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Recruitment, law, pubs and estate agents: four different industries, one comm...
From high street pubs to City law firms, the services sector is hurting as
spending dries up. The Times examines some of the service industries
most affected by the economic gloom.
The Water Cooler
* No fewer than 28 barristers (not to mention solicitors) crowded into court
yesterday to hear Lord Justice Latham throw out the appeal by the Serious
Fraud Office (SFO) against the striking out of its indictment alleging
conspiracy to defraud in the NHS price-fixing case ? known as Operation
Holbein. The case drew in the heavyweights: Douglas Day, QC, for the SFO
(plus Lord Grabiner, QC, advising); with Lord Pannick, QC, and Clare
Montgomery, QC, for the companies.
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