Failed directors are let off hook under bankruptcy law’s shake-up

Failed directors are let off hook under bankruptcy law’s radical shake-up By Dan Atkinson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:32 BST, 4 July 2020 | Updated: 22:51 BST, 4 July 2020 A radical shake-up to bankruptcy law last week allows directors at failed firms to remain in charge – and will shield them from … Read more

Crackdown on statue vandalism: Justice Secretary Robert Buckland pledges laws to protect monuments

Crackdown on statue vandalism: Justice Secretary Robert Buckland pledges new laws to protect monuments with tougher sentences for perpetrators after campaign by 120 Tory MPs Robert Buckland says laws against desecration of memorials are ‘inadequate’ MPs will present a proposed Desecration of War Memorials Bill this week Justice Secretary Mr Buckland said he ‘fully agrees’ with … Read more

Ministers set to usher in laws to protect vital UK firms from foreign predators after China tech row

Laws to protect struggling British firms from takeovers by foreign companies are to be introduced by Ministers following a series of political rows over the expansionist ambitions of Chinese business. The legislation will give Business Secretary Alok Sharma extra powers to impose conditions on deals to protect key UK firms that have been left vulnerable by … Read more

Ministers set to usher in laws to protect vital UK firms from foreign predators after China tech row

Laws to protect struggling British firms from takeovers by foreign companies are to be introduced by Ministers following a series of political rows over the expansionist ambitions of Chinese business. The legislation will give Business Secretary Alok Sharma extra powers to impose conditions on deals to protect key UK firms that have been left vulnerable by … Read more

Peers will be paid £162 to stay at home and vote on laws without coming to Parliament

Peers will be paid £162 to stay at home and vote on laws without coming to Parliament in hybrid House of Lords Lords can vote ‘on a smartphone, laptop or other device’ via an ‘online hub’ They will be paid half the usual attendance rate of £324 to vote under new rules Spokesman said voting was … Read more

Radio broadcaster John Laws, 84, goes on a bizarre rant about Kelly Rowland for showing cleavage

‘I had to turn my head away!’ Radio broadcaster John Laws, 84, goes on a bizarre rant about Kelly Rowland after she showed off her cleavage on The Voice By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:52 BST, 29 May 2020 | Updated: 04:52 BST, 29 May 2020 Radio broadcaster John Laws, 84, shocked … Read more

Sadie Frost heads to ex Jude Law’s house to congratulate him after and wife Phillipa pregnancy news

Sadie Frost  2 September 1997 – 29 October 2003 Three children – son Rafferty, 23, daughter Iris, 19, and son Rudy, 17 The couple met on the set of film Shopping. In what was his first major role, Jude was just 19. Sadie was a 25-year-old married mother-of-one. Sadie Frost (pictured in 1996) She divorced her … Read more

Dozens wrongly charged under new coronavirus laws

Dozens of people have been wrongly charged by police under new coronavirus laws, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has admitted. All 44 charges brought under the Coronavirus Act, which allows officers to remove or detain a ‘suspected infectious person’ for screening and assessment, since it was brought in on March 27 were incorrect. And 12 … Read more