The case against Bernard Madoff has hit a brick wall after Peter Madoff, younger brother of the jailed Ponzi scheme fraudster, refused multiple questions yesterday in London's High Court. | 13yrs
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Three members of the Tokyo based Olympus Corp have been found guilty for their role in an extensive fraudulent scheme, which has shell-shocked corporate Japan. | 13yrs
A Supreme Court ruling in a case involving Virgin Atlantic Airways has overturned a century-old legal principle of patent-holders having a right to damages for infringed patents notwithstanding later amendment to the patent. | 13yrs
The Law Society of England and Wales has taken steps to help small law firms finding difficulty getting professional indemnity insurance (PII). | 13yrs
The Barclay brothers left a London court yesterday with a win under their belt following another bout with an Irish businessman over three of London's most prominent hotels. | 13yrs
New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and magic circle player Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have topped the Thomson Reuters M&A Legal Reviews for the first half of 2013 in a period marked by deals in decline. | 13yrs
A round-up of recent global deals and the lawyers who made them happen. | 13yrs
The Mandela family is becoming embroiled in legal action as the former South African president remains in hospital in a critical condition. | 13yrs
Hundreds of thousands of expatriate workers in Saudi Arabia have been given a last minute reprieve against threatened deportation. The move came hours before new laws were meant to come into place on 3 July. | 13yrs
NHS guidance for investigating complaints from patients has been declared 'confusing' and 'unlawful' by campaigners and their lawyers, as threats of a legal challenge build against Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. | 13yrs
Australia may need to reconsider its policies on data sovereignity, a recent report by law firm Baker & McKenzie and the University of New South Wales says. | 13yrs
An ex-FBI director has been selected to look into suspected fake compensation claims issued against BP following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. | 13yrs
A US appeals court has struck a blow to authors aiming to derail plans by tech giant Google to create a digital library, ruling that they should not be able to sue as a group. | 13yrs
Following demands by the UK Parliament, police are now looking into claims that law firms and blue chip companies may have been involved in phone hacking and illegal privacy breaches by creating a list of those with possible connections. | 13yrs
Chief legal officers at medical-device and pharmaceutical companies are scoring high in the salary rankings, according to a recently released report. | 13yrs
A weekly round-up of in-house legal moves from around the globe. | 13yrs
General Electric has trimmed back on its European legal panel in a move led by the company's internal procurement team. | 13yrs
Leading UK insurance group Direct Line is preparing to make 'sizeable' cuts to its legal department as part of a larger plan which may see 2,000 of the group's staff made redundant. | 13yrs
Nigeria's Chief Justice has given a stinging assessment of the legal profession in the country after admitting that a lack of transparency, integrity and accountability are all key factors responsible for the increase of corruption. | 13yrs
Global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline's Chinese offices have been raided by police after an anonymous whistleblower accused sales staff of bribery, according to reports. | 13yrs