Lord Carlisle QC, chairman of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, attacked the government's planned sentencing reforms in a speech last Friday at the University of Hertfordshire's Law School. He described the government's Crimes (Sentences) Bill as “unnecessary and unjustified”. He added: “Whatever may happen, one thing one can predict with certainty is that the prison population will be higher than it is at the moment.”
White & Case chooses London base for latest commodity set-up
US firm White & Case is set to launch a commodity and trade finance practice at its London office, bringing it closer to the City’s powerful financial institutions. It has appointed its Paris finance partner Nicholas Budd to head the new London group. Budd is in the process of making a slow transition between the […]