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Feb 27 2012
Here is an interesting article about the increasing presence of Russian oligarchs in London Courts. According to the article, London has become the preferred...
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Nov 18 2011
Seminars on bribery and corruption in the Indian justice system were held in Mumbai and Delhi last month. The seminars examined bribery & corruption laws and assessed...
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Jun 07 2011
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has announced the hire of Cheryl Scarboro from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Scarboro leaves her role fighting against...
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May 21 2011
A campaign is under way, which hopes to have a chapter on Right to Information included in high school syllabuses. Infocracy India, an organisation that aims to...
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May 20 2011
In the past year, the Court has put itself into policy making and governance roles, issuing orders to agencies on issues from malnutrition to caste violence to...
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Apr 12 2011
India has been rocked by various scams and scandals like the Adarsh Housing Scam, Commonwealth Games Scam, 2G Scam etc. The corruption list goes on and on. Despite all...
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Feb 07 2011
Veerappa Moily: We have come out with the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, which will directly address and look into any perception of corruption. We have...
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Jan 31 2011
The Delhi High Court has refused an anticipatory bail plea of R. Dhanapal Raj, Vice Chairman of the Bar Council of India who was arrested on charges of corruption and...
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Dec 10 2010
The Supreme Court has upheld its remarks that “something is rotten in the Allahabad High Court and the High Court really needs some house cleaning”.
A Supreme Court...
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Dec 06 2010
The Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra had come down on the Allahabad High Court and had said, “something is rotten in...
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Nov 23 2010
A Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justices G.S. Singhvi and Ashok Kumar Ganguly will today continue to examine the Prime Ministers affidavit, which elucidates the...
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Nov 12 2010
Indonesia’s consumer and resources boom is fueling an investor frenzy in the market, with Bloomberg reporting that investors have bought $23.3 billion of debt this...
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Nov 11 2010
The former Law Minister, Shanti Bhushan is in the news again saying, he would rather face imprisonment than apologise for leveling corruption charges against the...
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Nov 10 2010
Justice Soumitra Sen has been found guilty by the Parliament Committee, which now will initiate the process of impeachment.
The three member panel set up in 2009...
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Nov 02 2010
That the ongoing multi crore provident fund scam which has seen the involvement of a large number of members of the judiciary is seen as a large mark of shame, is no...
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Oct 12 2010
With the instances of judicial corruption increasing in recent times, the Union Cabinet has given its nod to the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010...
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Oct 08 2010
A new international survey on corruption within the legal profession has shown some startling results.
The survey was conducted by the London-based International...
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May 26 2010
The probe panel set up by Vice President Hamid Ansari to probe allegations of corruption and land grabbing against the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court,...
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Feb 05 2010
Teodoro Nguema Obiang, son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, is named in a 352-page report released Thursday by the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on...
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Jan 28 2010
Initial interest in the case management system (CMS) of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department arose following the jailing and hospitalization of two senior...
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Jan 25 2010
Ruffin Poole, a former partner at McGuireWoods and one-time chief legal aide to former North Carolina Gov. Michael Easley, was charged with 51 counts of corruption by...
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Dec 07 2009
The Chicago Tribune reports that police is investigating a burglary at the offices of former Governor Rod Blagojevich's attorneys in which at least one computer with...
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Apr 02 2009
Seeking connection with activists in re: release of 10,000 FIPs (Falsely Imprisoned Persons), in Los Angeles, California.
All who are attentive to Human Rights...
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Nov 06 2008
According to Chinese media, special government investigators are reviewing investments cases in which two US-based law firms are involved. Media sources did not name...
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Mar 06 2008
Fidelity Investments Vice Chairman Peter Lynch, former head trader Scott DeSano and 11 employees accepted more than $1.6 million worth of gifts from brokers jockeying...
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