UK government to consult on tobacco packaging rules December 6, 2011 BRITAIN is to begin a wide-ranging consultation on plain packaging of tobacco products by the end of the year, informed by the legal challenges Australia has faced as the first nation to pass such legislation. Australia’s parliament approved laws last month to introduce plain packaging from December 2012 to reduce the attraction of smoking, but [...]
TIME LINE | CHANGES AT HEWLETT-PACKARD November 21, 2011 November 2010: Ray Lane, a respected Silicon Valley veteran, is named chairman of Hewlett-Packard. November 2010: Leo Apotheker is named chief executive of HP after the messy departure of ousted Mark Hurd. January 2011: Shortly after her failed political campaign, Meg Whitman is added to the board of directors at HP. June 2011: HP launches [...]
TIME LINE | CHANGES AT HEWLETT-PACKARD November 21, 2011 November 2010: Ray Lane, a respected Silicon Valley veteran, is named chairman of Hewlett-Packard. November 2010: Leo Apotheker is named chief executive of HP after the messy departure of ousted Mark Hurd. January 2011: Shortly after her failed political campaign, Meg Whitman is added to the board of directors at HP. June 2011: HP launches [...]
Madoff trustee loses JPM case November 1, 2011 A US judge last night threw out most of a $19.9bn (£12.46bn) lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase and a $2bn case against UBS by the trustee seeking money for victims of epic swindler Bernard Madoff’s fraud. The decision is one of the largest setbacks for the trustee, Irving Picard, who has spent nearly three years [...]
Madoff trustee loses JPM case November 1, 2011 A US judge last night threw out most of a $19.9bn (£12.46bn) lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase and a $2bn case against UBS by the trustee seeking money for victims of epic swindler Bernard Madoff’s fraud. The decision is one of the largest setbacks for the trustee, Irving Picard, who has spent nearly three years [...]
Sage slapped with legal bid November 14, 2011 SAGE Group is embroiled in a legal row with an Australian private equity outfit over its decision to walk away from talks to buy MYOB. Archer Capital, which owned a stake in the Melbourne-based firm, has launched a lawsuit – thought to be worth in the region of £83m – arguing the eventual sale of [...]
Fresh lawsuit a year after BP Gulf spill April 20, 2011 THE ONE year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster was yesterday marked by a minute’s silence and a fresh round of legal action against oil major BP. BP’s 80,000 employees held a minute’s silence at 10am yesterday to commemorate the 11 workers who died in the blast last April, which spewed an estimated 5m barrels [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 26, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES SANTANDER SEEKS TO OFFLOAD €3BN OF PROPERTY Spain’s Santander, the biggest bank in the Eurozone by market capitalisation, is quietly trying to sell a €3bn package of thousands of repossessed homes and plots of land to foreign investors to clean up its balance sheet, according to sources. THE TIMES RIO TINTO HAS TO [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 17, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES THEFT, FRAUD AND ERROR TAKE £4.9BN TOLL ON SHOPS Shoplifting, employee theft and error have cost UK retailers an estimated £4.9bn in the past year, the highest figure ever recorded, as worsening economic conditions fuel rising levels of crime in the retail sector. In the year to June 30, losses relating to theft, [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 17, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES THEFT, FRAUD AND ERROR TAKE £4.9BN TOLL ON SHOPS Shoplifting, employee theft and error have cost UK retailers an estimated £4.9bn in the past year, the highest figure ever recorded, as worsening economic conditions fuel rising levels of crime in the retail sector. In the year to June 30, losses relating to theft, [...]