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Regulatory control for the Libor benchmark could go to Paris under new European proposals. | 13yrs

A New York judge affirmed a lower court's decision to deny a motion by US energy giant Chevron to quash deposition notices for Chevron CEO John Watson and general counsel Edward Scott. | 13yrs

Financial lawyers in Switzerland are sweating over a cabinet proposal which may release their names - along with tax advisors and asset managers - to US tax evasion authorities. | 13yrs

Members of the Nigerian legal profession have expressed their support for new efficiency rules proposed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloma Mukhtar. | 13yrs

Personal injury lawyers in Scotland have claimed that courts will not be able to cope with the deluge of cases expected to hit if government proposals are given the green light. | 13yrs

Michigan-headquartered automotive giant Ford has forced a British village parts centre to hand over its website domain following a trans-Atlantic internet tussle. | 13yrs

European competition regulators are 'almost 100 per cent' likely to ask Google to revise its proposals in an on-going antitrust tug-of-war. | 13yrs

London-headquartered publisher Penguin is set to pay out $75 million to settle a case in which it was accused of fixing the price of eBooks. | 13yrs

Costa Rica-based digital currency firm Liberty Reserve has been accused of running a massive money laundering scheme which, according to US prosecutors, saw the company become the 'bank of choice for the criminal underworld'. | 13yrs

Australian lawyers could have dined on taxpayers' money for years if any attempt was made by the Queensland State Government to take IBM to court following the collapse of a payroll contract, an inquiry has heard. | 13yrs

A group of UK lawyers have told supermarkets they may be vulnerable to legal action from employees and customers if they continue to stock raunchy magazines and newspapers. | 13yrs

Social media platform Facebook is being sued by the music company representing US rap superstar Eminem over an alleged copyright infringement. | 13yrs

A group of lawyers who attempted a series of 'troll' copyright claims against internet users who illegally downloaded pornographic videos have missed a deadline to pay a $81,000 fine. | 13yrs

The lawyer representing former Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble board member Rajat Gupta has urged an appeals court to give his client a new trial, claiming that excluded evidence may have cleared him of insider trading charges. | 13yrs

Three former Saab executives have been arrested by Swedish accounting enforcers on suspicion of 'grave attempts' to complicate tax controls. | 13yrs

US lawmakers are mulling over a bill aimed to block so-called patent trolls from filing vague claims on patents that stifle the development of new products. | 13yrs

Two of the biggest names in world cotton trading have again locked horns in a courtroom over alleged market manipulation during a period of price swings in 2011. | 13yrs

The Indian government is considering a new law aimed to combat the issue of spot-fixing in sport following the arrest of cricketers and bookmakers last week. | 13yrs

Less than a quarter of whistleblowers involved in financial services are listened to when attempting to raise a claim with their employers, a survey has revealed. | 13yrs