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Trio Capital has mixed with a starry cast of companies, writes Stuart Washington.

It reads like an airport spy novel: an unsolved murder in a Tokyo red-light district, exotic tax havens around the world, and thousands of defrauded investors in Britain. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple suspected of helping spread some of the internet’s most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said.

Scotland Yard’s electronic crimes unit said a man and a woman, both 20, were arrested November 3 on suspicion of helping spread malicious Trojan computer programs sometimes known as “Zbot” or “ZeuS.” Read the rest of this entry »

A former far-right British member of the European Parliament who cheated on his expense money to buy fine wine and a car has been jailed for two years.

“This fraud was so blatant, I do not believe for one moment you were disadvantaged in understanding the system or that this fraud should be seen as falling into some grey area which you might not have fully comprehended,” Judge Geoffrey Rivlin said in sentencing Tom Wise, 61, a former representative for the fringe UK Independence Party. Read the rest of this entry »

FUND manager Perpetual has said it may face more court action after its opponents moved to appeal a recent UK court decision that could ultimately affect billions of dollars.

Perpetual Trustee won a Court of Appeal decision in London on Friday that sought $125 million frozen from Mahogany Capital noteholders since the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year.

$12.5 billion may be affected.

A JUDGE has confiscated a Nintendo Wii belonging to a 12-year-old boy as part of his bail conditions.

In the past nine months, the boy has been charged with vandalism, assault and breaching court orders, Sun Media reports.

Judge Marvin Garfinkle has granted the boy bail, but he must continue to live with his grandmother, appear at all court dates, keep the peace and participate in a bail management programme.

“He is pledging as a security, akin to a cash deposit, his Nintendo Wii. If he doesn’t comply, he loses it,” the judge said.

Every adult in Britain would be legally required to make a choice on whether to donate their organs after death under a proposal by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP).

The ethics committee of the 500-year-old college has called for an examination of “mandated choice” to boost the supply of donor organs amid a UK shortage that leads to more than 1,000 avoidable deaths a year. Read the rest of this entry »

 On Monday 28th September Justice Secretary Kenny McAskill announced the appointment of Professor Hector MacQueen to the Scottish Law Commission.Professor MacQueen, who will replace Professor Joe Thomson, has been appointed for a period of five years starting in September 2009.  The Scottish Law Commission acts to ‘keep the law of Scotland under review with a view to its modernisation, simplification and systematic reform. The Commission receives and considers proposals for changes to the law; examines particular branches of the law, and makes recommendations for reform.’

Professor MacQueen will continue to teach at Edinburgh Law School until the end of December 2009.

Edinburgh Law School is pleased to announce the launch of a new free legal advice centre.

The advice centre will open to the public between 6-9pm each Monday night until the end of March 2010.  The centre will be staffed by qualified solicitors, academics and students and will deal with a wide variety of legal topics, ranging from employment issues to family law, housing benefits and IT.

Read more about the Legal Advice Centre

The British High Court is permitting an injunction to be served to an anonymous user on microblogging site Twitter.

The user, who has been posing as right-wing political blogger Donal Blaney of website Blaney’s Blarney, is accused to breaching Blaney’s copyright.

Blaney, who felt the content appearing on Twitter under his name was “mildly objectionable,” Read the rest of this entry »