Paramount cuts London legal team in global restructuring
Film-maker Paramount Pictures has taken an axe to its London in-house legal team, with the US company reducing its headcount in the city from seven to two.
Inside Halden, the most humane prison in the world
Amelia Gentleman visits Halden, the high-security jail in Norway where every cell has a flatscreen TV, an en-suite shower and fluffy, white towels
Halden prison smells of freshly brewed coffee. It hits you in the workshop areas, lingers in the games rooms and in the communal apartment-style areas where prisoners live together in groups of eight. This much coffee makes you hungry, so a couple of hours after lunch
Sam Hallam walked free, escaping a fate almost worse than death | Erwin James
I remember living with innocent people in jail. You don’t know it at the time, though sometimes there are clues
Seeing the pictures of Sam Hallam enjoying his first steps of freedom after being cleared of the 2004 murder of Essayas Kassahun brought back vivid recollections from my own prison experience. Hallam served seven years before evidence emerged proving beyond doubt that he was innocent. But I can ima
Juror fined £450 after smoking cannabis joint on break from rape trial
Shezad Hussain admits contempt of court after juror on another case spotted him smoking at bus stop during lunch hour
A juror on a rape trial who smoked a cannabis joint in his lunch hour was today fined £450 after admitting contempt of court.
Shezad Hussain, 26, smoked the drug at a bus stop just yards from the entrance to Bolton crown court, Greater Manchester.
But he was spotted by a juror on another case who
Proskauer hires Dewey City steering group duo
Dewey & LeBoeuf London restructuring partners Mark Fennessy and Hazel Miller are set to join Proskauer Rose, meaning that all but one of the firm’s London steering group will have found new homes.
Barristers may strike over legal aid reforms and fees
Criminal Bar Association head accuses government of duplicity as he warns of action that hit courts across England and Wales
The head of the Criminal Bar Association is to raise the spectre of strike action by criminal barristers across England and Wales in protest at cuts in fees and legal aid reforms.
In a confrontational speech, Max Hill QC, will accuse politicians of “duplicity”. signalling a signi
Sam Hallam criticises Metropolitan police after murder conviction quashed
Young man jailed over 2004 killing then released by court blames Met police for taking away eight years of his life
Sam Hallam has criticised the Metropolitan police for taking away eight years of his life after the court of appeal quashed his conviction for murder when hearing fresh evidence that “significantly undermined” his conviction.
Speaking outside the high court, Hallam – who was put in pris
Trainee solicitors are worth more than £11,000 a year | Laura Swan
Paying us the minimum wage will make the legal profession the preserve of the rich
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has just voted to scrap the tailored minimum wage for trainee solicitors and over the next two years will seek to implement a salary in line with the national minimum wage.
I came to law late, not for the financial rewards, but out of a genuine desire to provide expert legal advice to those who fa
Hallam’s case will send shockwaves through criminal justice system | Kim Evans
Today’s miscarriages of justice are caused by ineptitude or dishonesty by police. Tomorrow’s may be caused by underpaid defence lawyers
“I will not have my courtroom turned into a circus,” Lady Justice Hallett warned family and supporters in a standing room-only courtroom at the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday. Family and friends had turned out in force to support Sam Hallam, who was 1
Grabiner’s £3k-an-hour fee adds to £53m News Corp bill
One Essex Court silk Tony Grabiner QC’s £3,000 hourly rate has helped push the cost of the phone-hacking investigation by News Corporation’s Management and Standards Committee (MSC) to £53m.
