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| Litigation |
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plans |
| 13-Apr-2004 A
staggering two years on and the Financial
Services Authority (FSA) is still fighting
to resolve the UK’s split-capital investment-trust
scandal.
Already mired in delay
and confusion, the FSA suffered yet another
setback last week when the 21 compani...
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| The
Leader |
19-Apr-2004 By
the time you read this, the three-day auction
phase of the Canary Wharf battle will be over.
The absolute deadline for revised bids was
last Friday (16 April), and this week we might
even know whether Brascan or Morgan Stanley
has won out. On second thoughts, it’s a week
late for an Easter miracle and the battle
for Maggie Thatcher’s legacy will no doubt
drag on until next month.
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| Tulkinghorn |
19-Apr-2004 There
is just no holding those saucy Spaniards down.
Amid the claims of sleazy senorita Rebecca
Loos’ exploits with Becks, and less than a
year after Rodrigo Uría’s spectacular speech
at an awards ceremony, where he thanked his
wife “for being an excellent sex partner”,
it seems the Iberians are at it again.
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| In-Depth
Analysis |
Soldiers
of fortunes
19-Apr-2004 What
kind of madness is this?” demanded one suitably
enraged columnist in The Sun this month,
following the recent success of two Kosovan Albanians
in suing the Ministry of Defence (MoD). More>>
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Fair
to middling
19-Apr-2004 While
commercial litigators are not quite extinct, there
is no doubt that the litigation landscape has completely
altered since the Woolf reforms and the introduction
of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) in April 1999.
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| The Lawyer
Interview |
Ping
when you're winning
19-Apr-2004 They
call him ‘Ping’ on account of the braces he wears.
And on the day I meet Linklaters’ Nick Eastwell,
he lives up to his nickname, as the head of global
capital markets breezes into the room sporting a
handsome pair of navy suspenders.
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| Client Fle |
Digging
deep
19-Apr-2004 At
39, Benny Levene has run a marathon, made partner
in one of South Africa’s leading firms, and as the
head of legal at Xstrata, has structured some of
the most radical transactions the mining industry
has seen. More>>
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