Nissan executives and Japanese officials hit back at Carlos Ghosn January 9, 2020 Former chief executive of Nissan and successor to Carlos Ghosn, Hiroto Saikawa, has slammed his former mentor’s daring escape from the authorities in Tokyo to his childhood home of Lebanon. Ghosn fled the country late last month while awaiting trial for four charges of financial misconduct. Read more: Carlos Ghosn lambasts Japanese government and Nissan [...]
Boris Johnson’s political survival could come at the cost of Britain’s rule of law April 20, 2022 Last week epitomised a favourite phrase of political pundits: it was a “bruising week” for the government. This one, so far, isn’t shaping up to be much better, after the Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis compared fines handed out to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor to speeding tickets. The partygate fines have been fraught [...]
Policing minister and BRC say ignore call for ‘discretion’ prosecuting shoplifters May 19, 2022 The policing minister has urged officers not to let people off the hook if they steal food in order to feed their families amid a cost of living crisis. Kit Malthouse hit out at the “old-fashioned” thinking put forward by Andy Cooke, the new chief of HM Inspector of Constabulary, who said police should use [...]
White male barristers earn twice as much as female, ethnic minority colleagues February 7, 2022 White male barristers earn more than twice as much as female barristers from ethnic minority backgrounds, figures from the Bar Standards Board (BSB) show. White men working as barristers earned £238,241 in 2020, while women from ethnic minority backgrounds earned just £98,324 over the same period of time. On average, female barristers earned just more [...]
See you in court: keep an eye out for the most interesting cases in 2024 December 28, 2023 Coming soon: Alleged confidential leaks, missing aircraft in Russia and alleged negligence by a Big Four accountancy firm
Timpsons boss supports Raab’s suggestion to hire criminal offenders to fill vacancies October 1, 2021 Dominic Raab’s call for low-level criminal offenders to be used to address the country’s shortage of workers gets support from businessman Sir John Timpson. The Justice Secretary told The Spectator those given community sentences could help with the UK’s lack of HGV drivers amid concerns about fuel transportation. Sir John, whose company Timpsons began recruiting [...]
Weekend Read: Legal minds discuss how Sue Gray report could prejudice police probe into partygate January 30, 2022 Publishing the findings of Sue Gray’s inquiry could prejudice the police investigation into allegations of lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street, the Metropolitan Police said yesterday morning. However, lawyers have questioned how this could be the case, as they zoom in on both investigations and look at the legal aspects of finding the truth in what [...]
Post Office victims see hopes raised by inquiry’s line of questioning February 23, 2022 Sub-postmasters who were victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have seen their hopes raised by the line of questioning adopted by the public inquiry’s chairman. Former judge Wyn Williams has confirmed the victims’ compensation agreements would be revisited, after the inquiry’s terms of reference didn’t mention a specific financial redress for the sub-postmasters, reported [...]
Binance ‘temporarily pauses’ stablecoin withdrawals after run December 13, 2022 Binance has registered $1.9 billion of withdrawals in the past 24 hours, blockchain data firm Nansen said on Tuesday, as the world’s biggest crypto exchange said it had “temporarily paused” withdrawals of the USDC stablecoin. How crypto exchanges such as Binance and its now-bankrupt former rival FTX handle customer deposits is under close scrutiny from [...]
A-levels are the tip of the iceberg — biased algorithms are running our lives August 24, 2020 The A-levels debacle has laid bare the stark reality of relying on algorithms to make important decisions. Between the results being announced and the government’s U-turn four days later, public outrage had reached a fever pitch at the idea that an individual could have their life chances limited because of the results other people had [...]