One of Blade’s left-leaning friends found himself startlingly upright upon reading the Guardian’s take on John Paulson, the billionaire hedge fund boss who has been short-selling UK banks. “What on earth does it all mean?” he raged. “For example, this statement: ‘Short sellers bet that share prices will fall by selling shares they do not [...]
When one of the UK’s most respected columnists expresses his qualms about the internet and the uses to which it is put, we should take note. The man in question is Marcel Berlins, and he writes in this Guardian piece of his growing disquiet at way in which the web encourages “lies and deceit”. Berlins [...]
Law.com’s newsletter tells us that over in America lawyers have yet to change their mindset sufficiently to comply with new civil procedure rules on e-Discovery. As Carolyn Elefant notes, “A new study released by Océ Business Services finds that 39 percent of in-house attorneys and 57 percent of law firm attorneys believe that their companies [...]
Here’s a conundrum for you. A wealthy man retains up-market estate agents to sell his mansion (pictured below). The asking price is in the region of £3m. He expressly instructs the agents not to sell the property to his sworn enemy, the next door neighbour, a man who has roused his ire owing to his [...]
The Guardian tells us today that UK property sales have dropped to their lowest level since 1959. David Dooks, of the British Bankers Association, is quoted saying: “Falling property prices, economic pressures on households, tighter lending criteria and anticipation of the government’s announcement on stamp duty all suppressed or delayed demand in August and will [...]
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