Word: courtroom
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...also be one of the shrewdest. After assuming control of her husband Teddy Wang's estate a decade ago, she transformed his property development company, the Chinachem Group, into a multi-billion dollar behemoth. But the good times may be coming to an end. After a 171-day courtroom inheritance battle, a Hong Kong judge ruled on Nov. 21 that Nina Wang had "probably" forged her husband's will. The judge awarded Teddy Wang's estimated $128 million estate to his 90-year-old father, Wang Din-shin. The decision is the latest twist in a case that dates back...
...limit on wages subject to the tax to €5,100 from the current €4,600. Ultimately, the Greens went along but 18 of them protested that the raise sends the "wrong message." Maybe their next move will be to release their own protest song. REPARATIONS Apartheid's Courtroom Drama Companies that thought they had seen the end of lawsuits stemming from the horrors of the 20th century had better think again. Last week lawyers representing over 33,000 South Africans sued 22 multinational companies, including Barclays, DaimlerChrysler and IBM, for dealing with South Africa's apartheid regime after...
...guarantees citizens an impartial jury of their peers, and while it’s a little troubling to learn that our peers find Regis Philbin really funny (something the Framers can’t have anticipated), and disappointing to learn just how far district court is removed from celluloid courtroom drama, it is also reassuring to learn that the justice system requires us to spend a morning in a narrow room stocked with old magazines more frequently than it requires us to be moral giants...
...Handbook,” that explained the importance of jury service. “As a juror, you will have to make difficult judgements [sic] involving all of the human passions—love, hate, greed, anger, etc.,” the Handbook promised, and accordingly I imagined a courtroom drama with the pageantry and carefully enumerated sins of a medieval morality play. “Remember that the function of a jury is to find the truth,” the Handbook remonstrated, and I imagined myself a female, chin-deficient version of the young Fonda...
...personal accounts, a ceremonial sword, "One Lilac Dress with Beige Hanger and Cellophane Dust Cover," 13 cards and letters that "Mummy" wrote William, including one that begins "My darling Wombat." The bric-a-brac of the dead is always sad. That Diana's was picked through in a courtroom full of tabloid reporters taking shorthand was doubly so, but also powerfully reminiscent of her life, both tawdry and irresistible: little bits of the goddess preserved in plastic bags, relics of a media saint. Prosecutor William Boyce said Diana's mother and sister will testify during the six-week trial that...