Friday, May 25, 2007

Judges uphold £48m divorce payout
Clare Dyer Legal editor
The Guardian
25 May 2007

The insurance magnate John Charman yesterday failed to stop his former wife collecting the biggest divorce payout awarded by the British courts and vowed to take his case to the Lords. Three appeal court judges, headed by Sir Mark Potter, president of... read more...

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

U.S. law’s compliance costs fall
By Kara Scannell
The Wall Street Journal Europe
16 May 2007

WASHINGTON—Compliance costs for a controversial provision in the U.S.’s Sarbanes-Oxley corporate-governance law fell in 2006 for the third year, with most of the reduction coming from managers who spent less time on reviews, while fees paid to external... read more...

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Black trial hears of ‘non-compete’ ruse
Andrew Clark Chicago
The Guardian
10 May 2007

Conrad Black and his senior colleagues received fraudulent payments of $5.5m (£2.8m) as a reward for not competing with themselves in an imaginary transaction involving a tiny Californian newspaper, a jury was told yesterday. The former Telegraph... read more...