Gazza saves himself from bankruptcy by selling two houses

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

London, Jan 9 (ANI): Troubled football star Paul Gascoigne has saved himself from bankruptcy by selling two holiday homes. Gascoigne was due to be declared bankrupt at a hearing in London over an unpaid 200,000 pounds tax bill, but managed to pay off the debt by selling two properties he owned ...

Client claims top UK barrister charged her 250 pounds an hour even for having sex

Friday, March 27th, 2009

London, Mar.27 (ANI): A client has claimed that a married British barrister with whom she had an affair charged her 250 pounds an hour for the time he spent having sex with her. In legal papers filed before the London High Court, Anal Sheikh, 48, claimed that she enjoyed secret love ...

Gurkhas drag Brown Government back to court; win right to stay in UK

Friday, March 27th, 2009

London, Mar.27 (ANI): Gurkha veterans, who have fought wars for Britain, will be given the right to stay in this country following a "legal first" in which the High Court had to enforce its own ruling against the Government. The news came as the Gurkhas returned to court to enforce ...

Brit Indian MP Vaz facing calls to step down for abusing power

Monday, March 16th, 2009

London, Mar.16 (ANI): Keith Vaz, the Brit-Indian Labour MP, is facing calls to resign as the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee after a letter surfaced that said that he had asked a High Court judge to halt a case in which a friend stood to lose 400,000 pounds. ...

Haneef’s Oz lawyers honoured for their ‘extraordinary pursuit of justice’

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Melbourne, Feb 14 (ANI): Indian born doctor Mohamed Haneef lawyers, who helped after he was wrongfully held on terror charges in Australia, have been honoured for their "extraordinary pursuit of justice". Barrister Stephen Keim, SC, and solicitor Peter Russo, were once accused of professional misconduct after Keim leaked police documents to ...

71yr-old Brit charged with being danger to public for skating in restricted area

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

London, February 10 (ANI): A septuagenarian roller skater in England has been charged with being a danger to the public, after he was accused of skating in a restricted area. Geoff Dornan, 71, who appeared before North Sefton magistrates' court in Merseyside, will now have to prove that he is ...