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Standard Chartered, Societe Generale are among four banks added to Forex Lawsuit by investors

03/08/2015(0)
Standard Chartered Plc and Societe Generale SA are among four banks added to a suit by investors claiming banks manipulated the $5.3 trillion a day foreign-exchange market. The investors ... Read More
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Deutsche Bank faces legal headwinds

31/07/2015(0)
Deutsche Bank warned that its new performance targets were at risk from heavy legal charges as it set aside 1.2 billion euros ($1.31 billion) for fines and settlements and ... Read More
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Google to defy French ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling

31/07/2015(0)
Google is to defy France’s ruling that the “right to be forgotten” should be applied globally and not just in Europe. Last month, the French privacy watchdog, CNIL, ordered ... Read More
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Accountants will soon be competing directly with solicitor firms

30/07/2015(0)
Acountants will soon be competing directly with solicitor firms ‘on every high street in the country’, according to a leading financial adviser to the legal sector. Ian Muirhead, chairman ... Read More
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Foreign lawyers working in China could be at risk of arrest

29/07/2015(0)
Australian commercial law firms operating in China should be seriously concerned about the recent crackdown on human rights lawyers, a professor of Chinese law says. Professor Bing Ling from the ... Read More
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International Law firm Pinsent Masons acquires majority stake in cloud-based compliance Venture

29/07/2015(0)
International law firm Pinsent Masons has announced that it is to acquire a majority stake in Cerico, the cloud-based compliance joint venture which it launched in conjunction with IT consultancy ... Read More
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30% lawyers in the country are fake, says Bar Council of India

28/07/2015(0)
Bar Council of India has also said that 20% those who claim to be lawyers don not even have proper degrees. 30% of lawyers in the country are fake, possessing ‘fraudulent’ ... Read More
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What are the implications of the Greek crisis for legal business and the rule of law

27/07/2015(0)
What are the implications of the Greek crisis for legal business and the rule of law? At a roundtable held under the Chatham House Rule, Jonathan Rayner heard City ... Read More
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7 bitcoin-related court cases

24/07/2015(0)
Bitcoin is back in the headlines again this week, but for all the wrong reasons. It surfaced yesterday that two operators of bitcoin exchange Coin.mx were being charged by ... Read More
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