The society commissioned KPMG Forensic, a financial consultancy, to examine the accounts of Thomas Byrne, a Dublin solicitor, in preparation for a disciplinary hearing. The 81-page report chronicles a catalogue of dubious practices.
It found that Byrne gave undertakings to numerous financial institutions relating to the same properties, maintained inadequate client accounts, and allowed properties to [...]
A law professor steps onstage and calls the proceedings to a halt. There’s polite applause from the audience of Chinese legal educators, who’ve been invited to watch the professor’s students play the roles of lawyers and clients in a simulated mediation. The observers then suggest ways to improve the exercise, the instructor dutifully writing out [...]
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said his government is taking legal advice on whether it can take Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the International Court of Justice for inciting violence against Israel.
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called the Holocaust a myth and sparked international condemnation in 2005 when he said the Jewish state should be wiped off [...]
A Navy judge has barred a Pentagon legal advisor from participating in the war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver, saying the advisor lacks independence.
Defense lawyers say Hartmann rushed proceedings in hope of speedy convictions and sought improperly to select cases based on their potential to sway public opinion of the tribunal process.
Hartmann’s [...]
What could have been the largest-ever donation to the War Amps charity is disappearing into legal fees as part of a lengthy fight between the federal government and a Vancouver Island great-grandmother.
The fight centres on a piece of Victoria property, at 1638 Hollywood Cres., that once belonged to First World War veteran Arnold Palmer. Palmer, [...]
Croatian striker Ivan Klasnic has launched a 1.5 million euros (2.3 million US dollars) lawsuit against two Bremen doctors for “gross mishandling” of his kidney complaint which led to a transplant.
Klasnic, 28, became the first professional footballer to return to international competition after he had a kidney transplant in March 2007.
According to German magazine Der [...]
Investigations into finance companies were one of the commissions two highest enforcement priorities this year, commission chairman Jane Diplock said in a speech to the Auckland District Law Society.
In the past two years, 17 finance companies have gone to the wall. More than $2 billion had been invested in the 17 companies, with some of [...]
George Lucas, creator of the blockbuster intergalactic sagas, and his billion-dollar merchandising arm are suing Andrew Ainsworth, a small-scale prop designer who sells replicas of the film characters from his southwest London studio.
Lucasfilm and related parties have already won a 2006 court case against Ainsworth in California, where the judge awarded the firm $20 million [...]
Gere made headlines when he kissed Shilpa Shetty, winner of the British reality television show Celebrity Big Brother, several times on the cheek at an anti-AIDS show in New Delhi last year.
Its a badge of somewhat insane courage, he told Reuters during a visit to San Francisco on Tuesday, saying others had also been charged [...]
David Collins, QC, has confirmed he is taking contempt proceedings against editor Tim Pankhurst, along with Fairfax New Zealand. Papers were filed in the High Court at Wellington on Monday and served on Fairfax lawyers yesterday.
The proceedings relate to articles published in The Dominion Post and several other Fairfax publications on November 14 last year.
The [...]
