Red Ed? Come off it: A pitch for the centre September 28, 2010 POLITICAL EDITOR’S ANALYSIS ED MILIBAND’S inaugural leaders’ speech will not be remembered for its rhetorical flair. There was none of the barrister’s flourish that characterised Tony Blair’s excellent performances. For all its talk of optimism, it lacked the hopeful oratory that Barack Obama offered the US electorate in 2008. When David Cameron gave his first [...]
A sorry tale for our times July 28, 2010 THE TERRIBLE PRIVACY OF MAXWELL SIM BY JONATHAN COE Viking, £18.99 by Zoe Strimpel JONATHAN COE represents the pinnacle of British picaresque – his iconic novel about 80s Britain, What a Carve Up, hilariously and tragically skewered the stereotypes of the time while developing a narrator who is impossible not to care for even as [...]
Trial of rogue trader Kerviel begins in Paris June 8, 2010 Jerome Kerviel faced judges yesterday as a long-awaited showdown began over his part in a €4.9bn (£4bn) trading loss that brought French bank Societe Generale close to collapse. The 33-year-old trader, dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and a light, thinly striped tie, yesterday described his “extreme” trader past on the first day of [...]
Trial of rogue trader Kerviel begins in Paris June 8, 2010 Jerome Kerviel faced judges yesterday as a long-awaited showdown began over his part in a €4.9bn (£4bn) trading loss that brought French bank Societe Generale close to collapse. The 33-year-old trader, dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and a light, thinly striped tie, yesterday described his “extreme” trader past on the first day of [...]
Denton Wilde Sapte joins the rush for transatlantic law firm mergers June 6, 2010 MERGERS and acquisitions are rattling along at quite a pace among transatlantic law firms – unlike at the corporate clients they service, many of which are still finding the M&A game a little hard going at the moment, not least of course Prudential. The latest legal mega-deal repays a closer look. The City’s Denton Wilde [...]
Ex-New Star fund manager to fight for unlimited damages May 9, 2010 PATRICK Evershed, the former New Star fund manager who is suing the firm’s founder John Duffield for unfair dismissal, is due to appear in the Court of Appeal today to defend a court ruling that his case falls under whistleblowing laws. If the ruling is upheld and the case qualifies under the whistleblowing act, Evershed [...]
VEXED IN THE CITY June 2, 2010 I’m a lawyer and I want to ask out a trainer at my gym DEAR VEXED: I really fancy a trainer at my gym. I want to ask him out but I’m afraid of what my colleagues will think. Many of them go to the same gym, but also I’m afraid it would appear odd [...]
VEXED IN THE CITY June 2, 2010 I’m a lawyer and I want to ask out a trainer at my gym DEAR VEXED: I really fancy a trainer at my gym. I want to ask him out but I’m afraid of what my colleagues will think. Many of them go to the same gym, but also I’m afraid it would appear odd [...]
Calvert could face monster costs bill for illegal trading April 25, 2010 MALCOLM CALVERT should surrender more than £950,000 in a confiscation and costs order, the Financial Services Authority has suggested. The former Cazenove partner, who is currently serving a 21-month jail sentence after he was found guilty of five counts of insider trading, could pay £956,863 back to the government. The Financial Services Authority (FSA), which [...]
FSA’S SANTS MAKES LAST STAND FOR REGULATOR June 10, 2010 THERE’S nothing like going out fighting, is there? Yesterday marked the publication of FSA chief executive Hector Sants’ (right) last annual report at the helm of the regulator, which is under siege from politicians currently mulling whether or not it will have a future. Sants has never exactly made a secret of his feelings towards [...]