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High Court cases against the FTSE 100 are averaged 2 per company last year, up 76% on the 1.14 average of the previous year. | 12yrs

The solicitor whose breach of confidentiality over client JK Rowling led to her being outed as the author of a crime story has been fined £1,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). | 12yrs

Lynne Stewart, convicted in 2005 for helping a client smuggle messages out of prison to a terrorist organisation, has been released from jail early because she is dying of cancer. | 12yrs

Dr Daniel Sokol, honorary senior lecturer in medical ethics and law who offered a legal appeals service against exam results, has had his employment contract terminated by King's College London. | 12yrs

Toronto mayor Rob Ford - famous for admitting to taking crack in one of his 'drunken stupors' - has appointed a sole practitioner lawyer as one of his leading advisers. | 12yrs

Justice Todd Ducharme of the Ontario Superior Court is facing a complaint from EthicalOil.org after participating in an environmental mock trial. | 12yrs

Lawyer and IT specialist Somnath Bharti, chosen to hold the law brief in the newly-elected state government in Delhi, is promising to increase the numbers of judges and public prosecutors in order to speed up the criminal justice system. | 12yrs

While the last legal bills for the financial crisis are being submitted to banks, the peak has been reached on litigation and the sector is likely to make progress in 2014, according to the Financial Times. | 12yrs

A trial scheme will start on 6 January allowing parties to family law cases to hire lawyers for limited parts of proceedings. | 12yrs

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is struggling to have the resources necessary to handle investigations, according to lawyers. | 12yrs

Lawyers are among the businesses which are looking beyond the security risk to take advantage of the opportunities in Iraq. | 12yrs

Three law firms have been accused of being 'copyright trolls' for trying to collect money from a man who had downloaded pornography. | 12yrs

A group of 90 plane passengers who kept in touch through a Facebook page has sued Virgin Atlantic over a 26-hour flight delay in October 2012. | 12yrs

Bank of America will soon be told by a New York federal judge how much it will pay regarding Countrywide, the troubled mortgage lender which it acquired in 2008. | 12yrs

The poor and ruined businesspeople are being sentenced to jail illegally because of unpaid court fees and fines, according to human rights campaigners. | 12yrs

Ahmed El-Gizawy is to be given 50 lashes in a Saudi Arabian square on 25 January, the third anniversary of the public uprising which saw Hosni Mubarak toppled after 30 years. | 12yrs

BP is appealing against a Christmas Eve court decision which requires it to pay compensation over the Deepwater Horizon oil leak even to businesses and people who have suffered no loss as a result of the spill. | 12yrs

A Canadian-Arab lawyer has been cleared of possession of spice (synthetic cannabis) after a Dubai court accepted that procedures were carried out against him unlawfully. | 12yrs

2013 is being seen as the year in which Cade, Brazil's competition authority, seriously began flexing its muscles and showed the way it will operate in future. | 12yrs