The new chief justice of Barbados got much of his legal experience in New York, where he practiced law and worked in the New York State court system for more than 20 years.
Marston C. D. Gibson will begin the new job Sept. 1, report the New York Times City Room blog and the New York Law Journal. His official title, the Times says, is chief judge of the High Court, the countrys top trial court, and president of the Court of Appeal, an intermediate appeals court. (The top appeals court is the Caribbean Court of Justice on the island of Trinidad.)
Gibson was a law professor in Barbados before coming to New York in 1987.
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WASHINGTON – Roger Charles Day Jr. was found guilty late yesterday of leading an international conspiracy to sell more than $4.4 million in nonconforming and defective parts to the Department of Defense (DOD).
The guilty verdict was announced today by U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride of the Eastern District of Virginia; Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; Special Agent in Charge Robert E. Craig of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) Mid-Atlantic Field Office; and Special Agent in Charge Edward T. Bradley of the DCIS Northeast Field Office.
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With the Republican campaign for the White House taking shape, hundreds of Tea Party activists kicked off a national bus tour on Saturday, aiming to rally their base and new recruits to the conservative political cause.
As supporters waved American flags and carried signs that read, “I’ll keep my money, guns and freedom, you keep the change,” organizers said the “Reclaiming America” bus tour was about restoring good governance.
“We want Washington to live within its means, just like we do,” said Amy Kremer, chairwoman of the Tea Party Express, a group organizing the tour. “We’re in an economic downfall.
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Amid concern that lawyers have so far collected more than triple the amount paid to victims, an appellate judge has limited several firms’ fee awards for work on the receivership case connected to WexTrust Capital. And it’s not the first time he’s spoken out on the issue.
Judge Denny Chin of the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said he was troubled Wednesday that the WexTrust Capital estate has paid more than $15.5 million to law firmsprimarily to Dewey & Leboeuf, the former firm of court-appointed WexTrust receiver Timothy Coleman-so far, “more than three times the approximately $5 million paid to the victims,” the Am Law Daily reports.
Chin also raised concerns about the proposed hiring of Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman as insurance coverage counsel on the case and rejected a settlement with a Chicago law firm accused of malpractice by the WexTrust estate.
“Kasowitz Benson is a terrific law firm, an expensive law firm,” Chin said at an August 3rd hearing, according to the Virginian-Pilot, the Am Law Daily reports.
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Clifford Chance has scooped an instruction from US defence company Raytheon, which has lodged claims worth £500m against the Government for axing a computer systems contract.
Partner Rob Lambert is acting for Raytheon in arbitration proceedings between the company and Home Secretary Theresa May that follow on from the Government terminating Raytheon’s contract on the ‘e-Borders’ project. The pr
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