Lawyer of the Week: John Cooper

The 25 Bedford Row barrister acts for families of the servicemen who died when the Nimrod XV230 burst into flames in Afghanistan in 2002

Europe flexes its muscles over banks

Is this an attempt by Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner for Competition, to fill the vacuum created by a decade of light-touch regulation?

Setback for Government over new control orders

High Court rules that terror suspects must be allowed enough information to answer allegations against them

Whatever happened to the radical lawyers?

The baby-boomer lawyers believed they could use law to change society. Did they do it and is there a generation following in their footsteps?

City executive says boss 'wanted her killed'

Jordan Wimmer tells employment tribunal that a man who looked like her boss tried to run her down on Kings Road

Former MEP jailed for £39,000 expenses fraud

Tom Wise, a Ukip MEP, spent his secretarial expenses allowance on a new car, fine wines and clearing his credit card debt

Baby RB to be allowed to die as father concedes

Father withdraws his opposition to doctors plea for severely disabled one-year-old boy to be taken off life support

Ofsted hid crucial evidence on Baby P sacking

Documents that Sharon Shoesmith was told 'did not exist' emerged only after Freedom of Information request lodged

Judge blocks attempt to play pensions system

Trustees of undrfunded plans cannot use the Pension Protection Fund to boost workers’ retirement benefits

Sun pays high price in Oracle’s takeover bid

The delay is costing the database company hundreds of millions of dollars as its corporate customers flee the uncertainty

In the City: it’s simply not our culture

Being hopelessly devoted to clients may seem appealing ... but wouold it show up the locals?

Frances Gibb: victims in the driving seat?

At the Bar conference barristers leaders warned that people should not be deceived into thinking that they are in the driving seat

Weird Cases: briefs grief

A holidaymaker claims the design of his underwear was at fault for his discomfort

Frances Gibb: the internet and the super-injunction

The recent clash between the courts, media and Parliament over the Trafigura injunction has exposed the latest enemy of press freedom

In the City: you have a dispute. Are lawyers the solution?

Litigation might be booming but how did everyone at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' annual mediation symposium answer the question?

David Pannick: putting handcuffs on literature

Victims will not receive a penny from the restrictions on the publication of criminal memoirs - the Exchequer will keep any money received

Scheme of arrangement excludes property interests held in trust

In re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in Administration) (No 2)

Removal of privilege against self-incrimination

BTA Bank JSC v Ablyazov and Others

Police can keep seized property pending private prosecution

Scopelight Ltd and Others v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police and Another

Belief based on science can be entitled to protection

Grainger plc v Nicholson

Prosecution notices must be served lawfully

Gidden v Director of Public Prosecutions

Misuse of police computer

Attorney-General’s Reference No 68 of 2009 Regina v Turner (Mark Simon)

Legal advice privilege review

Regina (Prudential plc and Another) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax

Judges must not prejudice accused’s right to fair trial

Michel v The Queen