Former Cazenove trader faces insider dealing charge

City watchdog renews its battle to clean up financial markets after launching only one previous insider dealing case

UBS faces New York lawsuit

The US Attorney is preparing civil securities fraud charges relating to the bank's role in the auction rate securities market

Tiscali accuses BT of defamation

Italian broadband group issues proceedings against telecom giant after it approaches broadband customers

Dan Troy named top lawyer at Glaxo

The Sidley Austin life sciences partner will replace Rupert Bondy as general counsel at the pharmaceutical giant

OFT: businesses still not complying

Despite an active year for the UK's competition watchdog, its chairman says many companies are still not getting the message

Telecom Italia seeks $50m freezing order

The Italian telecoms giant will ask the UK courts to intervene in a dispute over nationalisation of its holdings in Bolivia

UBS closes US clients' Swiss accounts

Group caves in to US Government pressure and prepares to lift a veil of secrecy that has protected clients for centuries

Analysis: Mosley ruling raises the stakes

Mr Justice Eady's ruling is not legally a 'landmark' but it does make it harder for the press to intrude into celebrities' private lives

'Fake Facebook profile' victim awarded £22,000

A man who sued a former school friend for creating a fake profile on the social networking site has won his libel case

Max Mosley judgment due this morning

Foreign visa curbs to tackle forced marriages

Teenage foreign brides and bridegrooms to be barred from entering on marriage visas unless they are at least 21-years-old

Parents to be punished for children’s net piracy

Illegally downloading music and films will result in being blacklisted and having internet access curbed under reforms

Ministers speed up compensation for road accident victims

New streamlined procedure for claims between £1,000 and £10,000 can be lodged more quickly

Dawn Page gets £800k for diet brain injury

A mother of two won £800,000 at the High Court after claiming that a radical diet left her brain-damaged and epileptic