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UK Banking Protocol system saves potential scam victims £9.1m in first year of operation

December 13, 2017 World Justice News 0

Seventy-two-year-old Barry Fox is one of hundreds of people saved from scams after bank staff stopped him spending £10,000 on a fictitious Rolls-Royce. The retired lorry driver went into his Barclays branch intending to withdraw […]

Rio Tinto charged with fraud by US authorities

October 18, 2017 World Justice News 0

British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and two of its former executives have been charged with fraud in the US, accused of hiding losses by inflating the value of African coal assets. It bought the Mozambique […]

Sex toy school head jailed for £100k fraud

October 6, 2017 World Justice News 0

A former school principal who kept sex toys in his office has been jailed for four years for misconduct and fraud. James Stewart, 72, executive principal at Sawtry Village Academy until 2014, showed greed that […]

Could Pirate TV Box Users Be Prosecuted For Fraud?

July 9, 2017 World Justice News 0

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) recently suggested it could go after people who use ‘pirate’ set-top boxes at home. Such prosecutions are potentially tricky under UK copyright law so chances of success could be […]

‘Most Hated Man in America’ Goes on Trial

June 26, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

Martin Shkreli, the so-called ‘Pharma bro’, goes on trial on Monday for defrauding investors by a more than US$ 11 million in what prosecutors call a Ponzi Scheme. The former pharmaceutical chief executive gained the […]

Barclays and four former executives charged with fraud

June 20, 2017 World Justice News 0

Barclays and four former executives have been charged with fraud over their actions in the 2008 financial crisis. The Serious Fraud Office case relates to the way the bank raised billion of pounds from Qatari […]

Two found guilty of fraud after UK’s longest criminal trial

May 16, 2017 zoshinuk 0

A husband and wife have been found guilty of fraud after the longest trial in UK criminal history. Edwin McLaren, from Quarriers Village in Renfrewshire, was found guilty of property fraud totalling about £1.6m. The […]

Former poker champion sentenced to 8 years in prison for massive $31million debt fraud

April 21, 2017 zoshinuk 0

By Associated Press and Jordan Gass-Poore for Dailymail.com One of the nation’s top poker players blamed gambling for derailing his life on Thursday in Manhattan federal court as he was sentenced to more than eight […]

TalkTalk customers targeted by fraud network in India to install virus

March 7, 2017 World Justice News 0

TalkTalk customers are being targeted by an industrial-scale fraud network in India, according to whistleblowers who say they were among hundreds of staff hired to scam customers of the British telecoms giant. The scale of […]

Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the US, but not on copyright grounds

February 20, 2017 World Justice News 0

The New Zealand High Court today ruled that Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the US, but it won’t be on copyright grounds. After months of deliberation, Justice Murray Gilbert agreed with the US Government’s […]

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Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

February 8, 2026 0

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]

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Rape trial puts Norway’s royal family in unwelcome glare of public

February 1, 2026 0

When Marius Borg Høiby stands up in room 250 at Oslo district court on Tuesday, at the start of Norway’s biggest trial in years, he will have no moral support from his closest relatives. His […]

Human Rights

France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

February 1, 2026 0

France is to enshrine in law the end of so-called “conjugal rights” – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex. A bill approved on Wednesday in the National Assembly adds a clause […]