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By Jemma Slingo2021-05-06T09:33:00+01:00
A trial date has been set for a case containing ‘the most serious allegations ever levelled against English solicitors in civil proceedings’.
Claims lodged by two Jordanian lawyers – Karam Al Sadeq and Jihad Quzmar – against City firm Dechert and three of its current and former partners will be heard at a joint trial in October 2022. The trial is expected to last for 55 days.
Both claimants are currently detained in Ras Al Khaimah, an emirate forming part of the United Arab Emirates, serving sentences for criminal offences. Both contend that the defendants to their respective proceedings committed ‘serious wrongs’ against them in the course of acting for the emirate.
By Jemma Slingo2021-05-05T09:45:00+01:00
A City firm which claims its bank account was hacked into as a result of a case it is working on has been told it cannot cross-examine a private investigator prior to trial.
Stokoe Partnership Solicitors – a criminal defence firm based in London and Manchester – alleges that it has been subject to attempted cyber-attacks since taking on the case of Karam Al Sadeq, a Jordanian lawyer who is detained in a prison in the United Arab Emirates following a fraud conviction.
Al Sadeq claims that his conviction was based on material obtained as a result of torture and duress, and has brought separate proceedings against international law firm Dechert and some of its current or former partners in relation to this. Dechert and the lawyers strongly deny the allegations.
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Egypt and Sudan on Tuesday signed a defence co-operation pact, sending Ethiopia a stern warning over what the two allies see as its intransigence on a border dispute with Khartoum and talks over Addis Ababa’s construction of a massive Nile dam.
Signed in Khartoum by the Sudanese and Egyptian chiefs of staff, the pact crowns months of increasingly closer relations between the militaries of the two countries, including a series of joint war games and high-level visits.
It came as Sudan’s Foreign Minister Mariam Al Mahdi met with her Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on Tuesday, when the pair blamed Ethiopia for stalled talks on the dam project and urged bringing in international parties into the talks to make progress.
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