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The wife of former German President Christian Wulff has included search engine giant Google in legal action to end allegations over her private life. | 14yrs

A Brazilian federal judge has agreed to hold the first war trial for alleged crimes by two members of its former dictatorship during the military's rule from 1964 to 1985. | 14yrs

A proposed law change which could see company directors given gaol time for not acting in the best interest of a business has been slated by one of New Zealand's largest law firms. | 14yrs

The representative body of more than one million European lawyers has called on EU institutions to create a single comprehensive and high level data protection regime. | 14yrs

The Paris office of London's magic circle law firm Clifford Chance has become entangled in a legal battle with two female non-lawyer employees. | 14yrs

The UK's gambling regulatory authority has launched a tender for the provision of legal services worth up to £5 million, should its proposed merger with the national Lottery Commission (NLC) proceed. | 14yrs

Kim Dotcom, the controversial owner of online file-sharing web site Megaupload, has been granted access to his assets by New Zealand's High Court in order to fund his legal costs and living expenses while fighting extradition to the US. | 14yrs

A former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner is seeking to stop Citibank getting a summary judgment against him by claiming that the bank helped the firm 'lure' laterals. | 14yrs

The general counsel of the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has called for improvements in global co-operation to fight piracy. | 14yrs

California's state bar exam violates the US constitution, four lawyers and two citizens have claimed after disagreeing with the requirement that lawyers from other states must pass an exam. | 14yrs

The number of reported defamation court cases in the UK plummeted 15 per cent last year, according to a study released yesterday. | 14yrs

A lawyer who was set to represent Pope Benedict XVI's former butler has walked away from the brief after clashing with his client over differences in defence strategy. | 14yrs

The London High Court judge overseeing the battle between Russian oligarchs Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky has lambasted the 'heavily lawyered' approach to the case for undermining witness statements. | 14yrs

Greece is facing austerity like no other country in Europe as a result of more than two years of constant recession and the eurozone debt crisis. Effie Mitsopoulou assess the impact on recent employment legislation | 14yrs

A US federal judge has ruled that previously undisclosed communications regarding a former University of Iowa general counsel and his handling of a sexual assault case should be made public. | 14yrs

Three of the six publishers accused of price-fixing in the US e-book market have agreed a settlement of $69 million -- but the deal will result in only small returns to consumers across America. | 14yrs

With governments across the world eager to sniff out missing tax revenues and the wealth management sector evolving rapidly, specialist lawyers need to take a world view, suggest Marnin Michaels and Marie-Thérèse Yates | 14yrs

Kuwaiti investment firm National Industries Group (NIG) has claimed that the Carlyle Group sold it a fixed income fund in 2006 without a proper licence, demonstrating the potholes that exist for US and European private equity firms in the area. | 14yrs

Virgin Trains has instructed London-based global law firm Herbert Smith to challenge the UK government in court following minsters' decision to award the West Coast main line franchise to rival operator FirstGroup, the company announced yesterday. | 14yrs