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  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
    Personal Finance
    The race to stop ‘predatory marriage’ in old age

    Cases have grown since the pandemic — with relatives complaining they have been cut out of a loved one’s will

    An illustration of a wedding ring casting a shadow where the diamond is transformed into menacing eyes
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Private wealth
    Rich opt out of English courts for private divorces

    Wealthy couples splitting up increasingly turn to arbitration as streamlined alternative to overburdened traditional route

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Leicester City Football Club
    Helicopter group Leonardo sued for £2.2bn over Thai billionaire’s death

    Lawsuit over air crash at Leicester City in 2018 thought to be largest fatal accident claim in English legal history

    Tributes to club owner  Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha outside the Leicester City ground after his death in 2018
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
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    ‘Anybody can be a victim’: what do UK grooming gangs look like today?

    New data shows the shape of child sexual abuse after Elon Musk highlights decades-old scandal

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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
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    US Supreme Court declines to halt Trump’s ‘hush money’ sentencing

    President-elect was ordered to appear in Manhattan court on Friday morning to bring historic criminal case to a conclusion

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
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    Truss lawyers tell Starmer to stop saying she ‘crashed the economy’

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
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    Venâncio Mondlane holds ‘inauguration’ at airport amid fears that deadly stand-off with ruling party could destabilise region

    Mozambique’s main opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane, centre, wearing a garland of flowers and surrounded by people upon his arrival at Maputo International Airport in Mozambique on January 9 2025
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
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    Grooming gangs scandal: what has the UK government done so far?

    The 2022 Jay Review made 20 recommendations to crack down on sexual abuse yet almost none have been carried out

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  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
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    US accuses Sudan paramilitary force of genocide

    Biden administration places sanctions on leader of Rapid Support Forces

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  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
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  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Keir Starmer
    Starmer hits back at Musk over comments on historic sex abuse cases

    UK prime minister says ‘line has been crossed’ as Emmanuel Macron also expresses alarm about billionaire’s interventions

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a speech in Epson, Surrey, on Monday
  • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
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    Hedge fund’s founder and owner of the English club has had preliminary talks with at least one possible buyer

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  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    Donald Trump
    Trump’s ‘hush money’ sentencing set for January 10 but jail time unlikely

    New York judge says he wants to bring ‘finality’ to the prosecution ahead of president-elect’s inauguration

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  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
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    Ex-crypto chief Do Kwon brought to New York to face fraud charges

    New indictment adds count of money laundering to case against Terraform Labs co-founder

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  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Elon Musk
    Tories seek UK probe into rape gangs as Musk spat with Starmer escalates

    Tech billionaire claims PM failed to tackle grooming scandal when he was head of prosecution service

    Elon Musk
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
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    AI-generated phishing scams target corporate executives

    Fast-developing technology gives hackers ability to craft ‘perfect’ fraudulent emails

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  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
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    Hungary loses EU funds as economic slump deepens

    Rift with Brussels has led to Budapest having €19bn worth of support frozen

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  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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    Fight over ‘forum shopping’ heads for US Supreme Court

    Case could give justices a chance to curb the rush to sue in the most ideologically friendly venues

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  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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    Should banks foot the bill for cyber scams?

    Governments, banks and tech companies disagree on who should cover losses from payment fraud

  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
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    Judicial scandal surfaces in fight over bankruptcy of JC Penney

    Creditors challenge controversial restructuring terms of US retailer in courtroom of Texas judge in 2020

    A montage of JC Penney and Judge David Jones
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Israel
    Israel’s attorney-general orders probe into Sara Netanyahu

    Prime minister’s wife accused of harassing witnesses and obstructing justice in her husband’s corruption cases

    Benjamin Netanyahu hugs his wife, Sara
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
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    UK Serious Fraud Office spent £16mn on botched Unaoil investigation

    Costs breakdown provided after prosecutor lost bid to block FT freedom of information request

    The Serious Fraud Office in central London
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    EY
    EY accused of helping UAE company defraud Spac investors

    Lawsuit alleges auditor played ‘pivotal role in a years’ long scheme’ at Brooge Energy

    EY’s offfices in London
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Tycoon threatens international legal action against Bangladesh over ‘destroyed’ investments

    Move by Mohammed Saiful Alam could threaten Dhaka’s pursuit of assets it claims were stolen under Sheikh Hasina

    Anti-government protesters display Bangladesh’s national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace in Dhaka
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Silver Point Capital LP
    Silver Point accused by SEC of failing to monitor star lawyer

    Hedge fund says the late outside counsel Chaim Fortgang was not subject to tough information restrictions

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