Middle class South Africans, as well as the poor, are unable to take part in litigation because the legal fees are too high, according to Deputy Justice Minister John Jeffery. | 11yrs

Lawyers are among the recipients of fines and warnings from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) as the regulator showed a new determination to give higher punishments. | 11yrs

Ireland's new Court of Appeal, due to start hearing cases next year, will lead to a rise in prosecutors fees, according to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Clare Loftus. | 11yrs

Bank of America is coming under pressure to settle a US $6 billion compensation demand from the Federal Housing Finance Agency after JP Morgan agreed to pay a record US $4 billion to the regulator. | 11yrs

Erick Schneiderman, the New York Attorney-General, has described some practices for alerting the market to new financial information as being 'Insider Trading 2.0'. | 11yrs

Four out of five businesses expect to suffer 'material losses' as a result of legal risks, according to a survey of senior personnel by Berwin Leighton Paisner. | 11yrs

Linklaters is losing the two partners who run its private equity team, Ian Bagshaw and Richard Youle, after a combined 13 years of partnership, to White & Case. | 11yrs

Litigation costs at Bank of America have increased to USD1.1 billion dollars in its third quarter results, according to data released by bank. | 11yrs

A bill to merge the two sides of the Russian court system - general courts and arbitration courts - runs the danger of creating chaos between now and spring. | 11yrs

London arbitration chambers Fountain Court is in the early stages of evaluating whether to follow a handful of other sets to Singapore to be near the International Arbitration Centre. | 11yrs

Lawyers in UK organisations should be ready to report what their companies are doing to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), according to its new co-head of bribery and corruption. | 11yrs

Sir Hector Sants, head of compliance and government and regulatory relations at Barclays Bank, is taking leave to recover from 'exhaustion and stress' after nine months in the job. | 11yrs

The 30,000-strong Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) has appointed a specialist data management company, Modus, as its premier e-discovery alliance partner. | 11yrs

Silicon Valley-based 700-lawyer firm Cooley is taking on 54 lawyers from Dow Lohnes to become a Top 30 Washington firm. | 11yrs

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Mary Jo White has raised the prospect that companies could be required to send less information to investors who may be struggling with 'information overload'. | 11yrs

The British High Commissioner to Zambia, James Thornton, has said that there is 'no point' in judges continuing to wear wigs and robes. | 11yrs

Raff & Becker has earned millions of dollars of fees for an appointment that was expected to last three years in 1983 but is now into its fourth decade. | 11yrs

Brian S Lichter has been appointed a partner in the Davis Polk & Wardwell real estate team, having transferred over from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. | 11yrs

Argentina accounts for more than 11 per cent of disputes being heard at the World's Bank tribunal, the International Court for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. | 11yrs