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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    French politics
    French police raid offices of Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National

    Party leader Jordan Bardella says officers seized accounting information and other documents

    French far-right party Rassemblement National president and MEP Jordan Bardella
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Money laundering
    EU to remove UAE and Gibraltar from money laundering ‘grey’ list

    Gulf state had raised the issue in trade talks with Brussels

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK crime
    Drop jury trials for some fraud and sexual crimes, official report recommends

    Former judge Brian Leveson says backlog in England and Wales ‘jeopardises’ entire system without radical overhaul

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  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    Employment
    UK seeks to rein in employers’ use of ‘gagging clauses’

    Weinstein whistleblower welcomes changes that will help workers speak out against sexual harassment

    Campaigners from Can’t Buy My Silence and Pregnant Then Screwed, take part in a protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    News in-depthMoney laundering
    South Africa eyes removal from money laundering ‘grey list’

    Country confident of shift by global financial crime watchdog after prosecutions blitz, says central bank governor

    Lesetja Kganyago, governor of South Africa’s Reserve Bank
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    UK society
    Palestine Action loses bid to secure block on UK government ban

    Activist group that broke into RAF military base will be proscribed as a terrorist organisation from midnight

    Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand, central London, ahead of a hearing over whether proscribing of Palestine Action should be temporarily blocked
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    News in-depthInsider trading
    Lockdown to locked up: ex-Janus Henderson analyst jailed over WFH insider trading

    Sentencing of Redinel Korfuzi and his sister caps a four-month trial in London

    A montage of Redinel and Oerta Korfuzi and a screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation saying: ‘Open the platforms and stay ready’ and the reply ‘I have them ready’
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Money laundering
    UBS and Citi among nine banks hit with $21.5mn penalty in Singapore money-laundering case

    Scandal involving island-wide seizures of gold bars and luxury cars rocked city-state’s wealth management sector

    A worker climbs over a railing in Singapore
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Ursula von der Leyen
    EU watchdog warns Ursula von der Leyen against rushing deregulation

    European Commission risks eroding trust by using urgent procedures to cut red tape, ombudsman says

    Farmers protest in Lisbon
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    UK politics
    Four charged over RAF Brize Norton break-in

    Damage to military aircraft prompted security review across UK military bases

    Aerial view of an aircraft at RAF Brize Norton after it was sprayed with red paint by Palestine Action members in June 2025
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Legal services
    Trump is breaking US judicial system, says star litigator Abbe Lowell

    Lawyer who defended Jared Kushner and Bill Clinton has ‘never been as concerned’

    Abbe Lowell
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Security Service UK
    Senior UK judges order probe into false MI5 testimony

    Security service misled court over agent accused of domestic abuse

    MI5, the UK government’s domestic intelligence agency headquarters
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Marriage and divorce
    UK Supreme Court divorce case sets precedent for dividing up assets

    Former UBS CFO transferred investments worth £78mn to his wife but argued they had not become ‘matrimonialised’

    Clive and Anna Standish
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Standard Chartered PLC
    Standard Chartered hit with $2.7bn lawsuit over 1MDB scandal

    Liquidators still trying to recoup billions of dollars siphoned from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund and then laundered

    Standard Chartered signage in Singapore
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    FT WealthClare Maurice
    Family offices put lawyers in an awkward position

    Their growing sophistication means legal advisers no longer get automatic access to the wealthy principal

    Illustration of a family of three standing at the base of a long table, facing a lone authoritative figure seated at the opposite end
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Spain
    Pedro Sánchez aide held in prison over Spanish kickback allegations

    Spain’s prime minister’s former right-hand man is being investigated for crimes including bribery

    Former Spanish Socialist lawmaker Santos Cerdan
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    UK sale of F-35 fighter jet parts used by Israel ruled legal by High Court

    Palestinian group had sued government over supply of components to global pool used by allies

    An Israeli F-35 fighter jet
  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Liberia
    The extraordinary life and mysterious death of a carbon credits broker

    How an Italian fugitive used diplomatic immunity to work with Dubai royalty and Liberia’s fallen hero

    Samuele Landi from a film still from ‘The Legend of Landi’
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    UK banks
    Jes Staley loses bid to have US investor lawsuit over Epstein ties thrown out

    California judge finds statements about Barclays ex CEO’s links to dead paedophile were potentially misleading

    Former Barclays chief Jes Staley
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    News in-depthJes Staley
    How Epstein sealed Staley’s ‘inevitable’ downfall

    The ex-Barclays boss used a trial to try to clear his name and distance himself from the dead sex offender. He failed.

    Montage of Jes Staley, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Barclays logo
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    UK politics
    Four arrested by UK counterterrorism police after RAF break-in

    Palestine Action campaigners sprayed paint into aircraft engines in protest against Israel’s war in Gaza

    Aerial view of an aircraft at RAF Brize Norton after it was sprayed with red paint by Palestine Action members in June 2025
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers
    Accelerating Business

    A monthly series that examines how the legal ecosystem uses new technologies to serve fast-changing business needs. This month: legal teams assess whether to build or buy AI tools

    Construction in the City of London
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Special ReportAccelerating Business
    Build or buy? Legal teams split on how to exploit AI

    In-house lawyers are weighing up the benefits of building products internally or choosing a third party supplier

    Software developers discussing code at a desk, with monitors and laptops in use
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine to set up war tribunal with Council of Europe

    Special court will have jurisdiction over Russian officials who planned and carried out the full-scale invasion in 2022

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament in The Hague
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    Special Report
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