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  • Lawyers lobby government on employment insurance law

    16/07/2008

    The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) is lobbying the government to keep in place legislation that helps injured workers to claim compensation.
    Current...view full story

  • File shares fined

    04/07/2008

    Topware Interactive, which produces the computer game Dream Pinball 3D, obtained default judgments in the Central London County Court against four individual file-sharers...view full story

  • Skunk smokers 18 times more likely to be psychotic

    04/07/2008

    People who use super-strength skunk cannabis are 18 times more likely to suffer a psychotic episode than those who smoke milder forms of the drug, research has shown. Ne...view full story

  • Skunk smokers 18 times more likely to be psychotic

    04/07/2008

    People who use super-strength skunk cannabis are 18 times more likely to suffer a psychotic episode than those who smoke milder forms of the drug, research has shown. Ne...view full story

  • Microsoft releases OOXML-to-HTML translator

    04/07/2008

    Microsoft on Monday unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats, reports a story on Linxworld.  It released the des...view full story

  • TSA's whole-body imaging system scans down to underwear

    03/07/2008

    For just over a month, the Transportation Security Administration's Whole-Body Imaging system has been screening hundreds of people a day.
    The WBI machine can prod...view full story

  • Legal eagles join Chorley law firm

    17/06/2008

    A Lancashire legal firm has appointed two new partners in its Chorley office.
    Helen Shirbon has joined Forbes Solicitors as a member of the family team and special...view full story

  • Experts say NZ jails too many people

    17/06/2008

    Two British prison experts say they are astounded at the high rate of imprisonment in New Zealand and suggest alternatives should be considered.
    Baroness Vivian St...view full story

  • Indian cyber crime busted

    17/06/2008

    A one-of-a-kind cyber crime has been busted in the city. Crime branch officials have recovered a database of more than 4000 credit card holders, mainly from the US, which...view full story

  • Treason laws could be abolished

    12/06/2008

    The ancient laws of treason could be scrapped under plans to simplify the legal system.
    Offences relating to crimes against the Royal Family, some of which date ba...view full story

  • Time to check wills are accurate

    12/06/2008

    Thousands of wills could need updating as rising care and nursing fees force the elderly to sell their assets to pay for care, the Law Society is warning.
    It has b...view full story

  • Time to check wills are accurate

    12/06/2008

    Thousands of wills could need updating as rising care and nursing fees force the elderly to sell their assets to pay for care, the Law Society is warning.
    It has b...view full story

  • Pannone adds two partners

    05/06/2008

    Manchester-based law firm Pannone has appointed two new partners to its personal injury department. Kate Wild joins Pannone from Simpson Millar’s Manchester office, wher...view full story

  • Singers Defence Hit Hard In Experts' Testimonies

    05/06/2008

    A video forensics expert has shattered US singer R. Kelly's defence in his child pornography trial after matching a mole on the singer's back to that of the man in the se...view full story

  • Pay difference' found between male and female lawyers

    29/05/2008

    Male professionals in the legal sector earn more money on average than their female colleagues, new research has revealed.
    In fact, female solicitors take home &po...view full story

  • Cannabis ruling condemned by drugs experts

    09/05/2008

    Cannabis is to have its classification raised by the UK government from a class C drug -- to class B.
    It will bring with it a higher jail term of five years for u...view full story

  • Scottish Solicitors to deliver verdict on future of profession

    29/04/2008

    AGM to debate 'Tesco law' plans
    Solicitors are being asked to carefully consider a new policy paper on the future direction of the legal profession in Scotland.view full story

  • Univerity offers quick legal management course

    16/04/2008

    Solicitors seeking to acquire new skills to compete in the era of `Tesco law' are being offered help by Manchester Metropolitan University.
    The university is teami...view full story

  • Tactical win for Chancery Lane in legal aid row

    04/04/2008

    The Law Society has resolved a long-running dispute with the Legal Services Commission (LSC) over the new unified contract for legal aid after the LSC dropped a threat to...view full story

  • What drives parents to kill?

    03/04/2008

    Motives for harming children are often unclear, experts say.
    Whatever drove a 41-year-old Rockville USA, man to apparently kill his three young children in an Inne...view full story

  • Email back-up compliance saves solicitors time and money

    01/04/2008

    A solicitors firm has reduced its email and storage overheads and saved two days' work from the email backup, search and retrieval process using software from Waterford T...view full story

  • QC to DJ at Glastonbury Festival

    01/04/2008

    Once upon a time when a Queen's counsel heard the initials DJ, it would be a signal to swap his silk gown for a dinner jacket. Not any more.
    "I'm going to DJ ...view full story

  • The Use of Imaging Tools in Toxicology Assessments

    01/04/2008

    In the last decade, in vivo imaging methods have become established tools in basic science research. This lecture is designed provide a general overview of ultrasound ima...view full story

  • Milosevic Aides’ War Crime Trial Postponed for Health Reasons

    01/04/2008

    Medical report states that one of the accused is too ill to attend the trial.
    The war crimes trial of two aides of he late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was...view full story

  • Medical experts have welcomed alcohol price rise

    19/03/2008

    Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians and chairman of the UK Alcohol Health Alliance, said evidence suggested even moderately higher taxatio...view full story

  • Forensic Experts Dig at Manson Site

    17/03/2008

    For years, rumors have swirled about other possible Manson family victims — hitchhikers who visited them at the ranch and were not seen again, runaways who drifted ...view full story

  • Law firm Morgan Cole recruits insurance experts

    13/03/2008

    South Wales-based law firm Morgan Cole has recruited a 10-strong team of specialist lawyers.
    The team of fee-earners, headed by partner Mark Bailey and leading inj...view full story

  • Is photo real or a fake? Digital manipulation adds to US prosecution costs and can delay trials

    10/03/2008

    Each week, about 100,000 sexually explicit digital images of children arrive at Michelle Collins' office. They are sent by police and prosecutors who hope Collins and her...view full story

  • Law Society to warn Mortgage Solicitors

    10/03/2008

    The Law Society and the National Fraud Strategic Authority (NFSA) have joined forces to protect solicitors from becoming embroiled in cases of mortgage fraud.
    The ...view full story

  • US Experts Study Neuroscience Use in Courts

    04/03/2008

    When Peter Braunstein was put on trial in New York last year for a twisted Halloween torture attack, his lawyers used a visual aid to suggest that his actions were the pr...view full story

  • Government and medical regulators are failing to defend expert paediatricians against attacks

    18/02/2008

    Professor Terence Stephenson said child health doctors faced intimidation in the difficult field of child protection and could be put off acting as expert witnesses in co...view full story

  • Lawyers back use of intercept evidence

    08/02/2008

    Lawyers have backed prime minister Gordon Brown’s announcement that the government intends to allow intercept evidence to be allowed in criminal trials.
    The ...view full story

  • Expert Witnesses rejected from giving evidence in rape trial reforms

    28/11/2007

    It will be announced today that rape trial reforms will permit experts to present evidence to juries, detailing the psychological impact of rape, in a bid to dispel myths...view full story

  • Witnesses to be questioned pre-trial to assess reliability

    27/11/2007

    Attorney General Lady Scotland is set to announce that prosecuting lawyers and barristers will be permitted to interview their witnesses before the trial begins to assess...view full story

  • Madeleine McCann: Expert evidence reviewed in Channel 4 documentary

    19/10/2007

    Last night Channel 4’s Dispatches broadcast an in-depth investigation into the evidence surrounding the McCann case, which has shroud the highest profile abduction ...view full story

  • Digital Forensics: A News Item provided by CCL Forensics

    19/10/2007

    Digital Forensics can be described as the investigation and analysis of digital media in the interests of determining potential evidence and is an invalu...view full story

  • Law Commission to reform Criminal Conspiracy and Attempt

    10/10/2007

    The Law Commission today have published a consultation paper proposing to change the law governing the criminal liability of those who agree to or attempt to commit offen...view full story

  • Expert Criminal Law Launched

    08/10/2007

    Expert Witness are pleased to announce the launch of Expert Criminal Law, a website devoted to the promotion and marketing of criminal lawyers. We aim to provide criminal...view full story

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