Andrew Kerslake regards the settlement as ‘dirty money’ and has put it in a trust A judge has ordered a father to give his estranged wife £100,000 from the compensation he received for suffering sexual abuse as a child. Andrew Kerslake, 47, was given £175,000 by the Government but regarded the cash as ‘dirty money’ …
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The smiling red skull glowing from the computer monitor is a rather rude indication that your computer or information system has been attacked. Upon further investigation, you learn that a significant amount of personal, company and other protected data have been hacked. Can these actions result in a lawsuit that survives a motion to dismiss? …
NEW YORK (Reuters) – HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) and UBS Group AG (UBSG.S) have each agreed to pay $14 million to settle private U.S. litigation accusing them of rigging an interest rate benchmark used in the $483 trillion derivatives market. The preliminary settlements were disclosed in filings on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in …
Are you a business owner or involved in any business affairs? If you are nodding your head for yes, issues that arise every now and then may lead to business litigation. Most of them are related to financial, property and contract problems. This type of litigation involves business legal matters that could be taken to …
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Stephen Rathkopf was entering the twilight of his career as a partner at Herrick Feinstein, and looking to resolve one of his biggest cases: Years earlier, he’d secured a $300 million trial judgment for a client, of which his firm was entitled to 10 percent for its fees. But with the case tied up in …
One of my colleagues told me early on in my career that litigation is often won or lost in discovery. It took me months of working to understand what he meant; to me as a young attorney litigation was won or lost on a motion to dismiss, a motion for summary judgment, or at trial, …
A group of investors burnt in the failure of Banco Popular have hired international law firm Quinn Emanuel to explore litigation options. The bondholder group, which includes Pimco, Anchorage, Algebris and Ronit Capital, make up a “material percentage” of holders of the bank’s junior bonds. Santander acquired Banco Popular for the symbolic sum of €1 …
Liberal activists are thrilled to be suing President Donald Trump. “The reason you’re seeing a proliferation of lawsuits against President Trump is that he brought his lifelong contempt for the rule of law with him to the Oval Office,” says Norman Eisen, the chief White House ethics lawyer for President Barack Obama. Eisen now heads …
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Whenever cars crash in Oxford and someone calls 911, fire Chief Gary Sparks said recently, the dispatcher on the other end of the line typically asks two questions. “Is anyone hurt?” An answer yes triggers an Oxford Emergency Medical Services ambulance, Sparks said. An affirmative to the second question — “Is anyone trapped in the …
Eli Lilly & CompanyLLY announced that it has entered into an agreement with generic companies to settle a patent related to its erectile dysfunction drug Cialis (tadalafil). The patent related to the unit dose of the drug is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The unit dose patent for …
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