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Finance is bumped off new BA board...

17.11.09
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PM targets City's rule-breakers in 'short, sharp' Queen's Speech

16.11.09
Crackdown on City risk-taking, bonuses and fraud will be a key plank of Gordon Brown's pre-election Queen's Speech, it has emerged... more

Mayor’s vision for building has its emphasis on quality

16.10.09
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JJB puts £100m lifesaver on hold as investors get 'whiff of scandal'

09.10.09
JJB Sports delayed a lifesaving £100 million fund-raiser after some investors withheld their backing because of speculation that a Sunday newspaper would be making damaging allegations about the chairman... more

Sugar plumbs new low in Pimlico

09.09.09
There was once a laughable suggestion that Alan Sugar could run for London Mayor. Surely there is no chance of the star of TV’s The Apprentice and Gordon Brown’s recently ennobled business adviser, taking to the hustings — given that he keeps firing off solicitors’ letters to anyone who has the temerity to criticise him... more

Winners and losers in law's Magic Circle

13.07.09
Lawyers at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer must be ringing up their Clifford Chance counterparts to gloat. Equity partners at the triple-barrelled legal firm pocketed almost twice as much as those at its Magic Circle rival last year... more

JJB directors ‘didn’t know’ of rival’s loan to chairman

07.07.09
The crisis at JJB Sports over a £1.5 million loan to its chairman Sir David Jones from rival retail tycoon Mike Ashley deepened today, as it emerged that Jones had not disclosed the affair to five of his six fellow directors ... more

Confidence tricks

10.05.09
Whether it's a job interview or a first date, self-assurance pays dividends. So what's the best way to give yourself a boost?... more

Osborne puts his foot in it again – over defence cuts

28.04.09
Just how credible is the would-be next chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne? Ask his colleague, shadow defence secretary Liam Fox ... more

City law firms pay trainees £10,000 to take a gap year

04.03.09
City law firms are paying graduates thousands of pounds not to start work for a year after being hit by the recession... more

Advisers and banks that recommended 'bad funds' face lawsuits

17.02.09
As casualties of the Madoff scandal emerge, lawyers are looking for potential defendants with rather deeper pockets... more

‘Magic circle’ has lost its aura as City law firms feel pain of recession

10.02.09
Legal Analysis: What affects our clients affects us, the global managing partner of the world's biggest law firm tells Joshua Rozenberg... more

JJB Sports set to oust chief as it faces £10 million dive into the red

14.01.09
Leisure: Chris Ronnie is likely to be ousted as chief executive of JJB Sports within days after the leisurewear retailer revealed it has suffered an awful Christmas... more

JJB Sports set to oust chief as it faces £10 million dive into the red

14.01.09
Leisure: Chris Ronnie is likely to be ousted as chief executive of JJB Sports within days after the leisurewear retailer revealed it has suffered an awful Christmas... more

Blowing cold in the Lords on windpower

26.11.08
Building thousands of turbines to meet Britain's renewable energy commitments by 2020 is likely to be a disaster... more

How Mervyn learned to pitch it right...

22.10.08
Mervyn King once harboured ambitions to be the next Jim Laker: “I was taught to bowl — slow left arm – at Old Town primary school by the headmaster ..."... more

City lawyers fear good times are over

09.09.08
Legal analysis: James Baxter, editor of Legal Business magazine, sees dark clouds on the horizon, with most law firms expecting to show a drop in profits this year after a decade of rapid growth... more

Bank boss: City must be 'human' over staff depression

10.07.08
Bosses must show more "humanity" and "decency" to staff suffering depression, Britain's top bank boss said... more

The rare case of a barrister facing £22 million claim over 'negligence'

17.06.08
Investors in film finance scheme say they did not receive the tax relief they had been advised to expect... more

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