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Dominion Finance trial dates set

The High Court trials of the directors of failed finance company Dominion Finance Holdings and its subsidiaries are set down for February 11 and June 17 next year, according to the eighth liquidator’s report. Directors Terence Maxwell, Robert Whale, former chief executive Paul Cropp and a fourth person who has name suppression, face a total [...]

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High court penalties threaten civil society, warns law dean

Text size Comments (0) “The High Court of Justice is ‘flying a black flag’ over petitions being submitted to it by human rights groups and this could deal a severe blow to civic society,” says Prof. Gad Barzilai, dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa.

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School lunches become a billion-dollar battlefield

(CBS News) School lunches have become a billion dollar battlefield. On one side there are those pushing for changes in the way millions of kids eat. On the other is an industry that has had a long and successful run inside lunchrooms. For a high school project, 16-year old juniors Michael Benson and his friend [...]

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L&T set to bolster housing finance subsidiary

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Interim Dean of SLU Law Will Donate Salary to the School

On Monday, Tom Keefe Jr., who had accepted an offer on August 8 to serve as dean of the Saint Louis University School of Law, addressed a letter to students announcing that he would donate back his salary to the law school. The Belleville trial lawyer accepted the offer for the post of dean of [...]

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Tarlton Law Library/University of texas school of law/File 1986

Elizabeth Warren was a fresh-faced 29-year-old who had just finished a grueling day of interviews for her first major job in academia when her prospective colleagues, all men, took her to dinner at a Houston steakhouse. One of the senior professors, a polio survivor who used a wheelchair and was infamous for needling young recruits, [...]

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Elizabeth Warren’s politics rooted in academia

Elizabeth Warren was a fresh-faced 29-year-old who had just finished a grueling day of interviews for her first major job in academia when her prospective colleagues, all men, took her to dinner at a Houston steakhouse. One of the senior professors, a polio survivor who used a wheelchair and was infamous for needling young recruits, [...]

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