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Los Angeles plaintiffs firm Owen Patterson & Owen claims Girardi Keese owes it $25 million for unpaid referral fees on several mass tort cases, joining a long list of clients and co-counsel who say they've been ripped off by the scandal-plagued firm and its now-infamous founder, Thomas V. Girardi.
British farming must change after the inefficiency of EU membership
Instead of setting our face against new trade deals, farmers need to focus on how we can compete
19 May 2021 • 7:00pm
The Government is said to be determined to push ahead with a free trade deal with Australia, one of many being signed by the International Trade Secretary Liz Truss. The promise is of cheaper food, closer economic ties with one of our historic allies, and yet more free trade deals to come. It may surprise you to know that I am not one of those farmers who is against freer trade. But let’s be clear: there will be consequences for farming, and the whole rural economy, particularly in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, if this is mishandled.
PM faces sleaze watchdog probe over Caribbean holiday
Standards commissioner confirms Boris Johnson is being investigated over his 2019 getaway
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The parliamentary standards commissioner has confirmed the prime minister is being investigated over his 2019 Caribbean holiday.
Independent commissioner Kathryn Stone revealed on Monday that Boris Johnson was included in a list of MPs being investigated for breaking the code of conduct.
The watchdog will probe who paid for the PM s stay in a villa in Mustique in Christmas 2019.
The ten-day trip, which Johnson took with his fiancée Carrie Symonds, reportedly cost around £15,000.
The PM claimed at the time the cost of the villa had been paid by Tory party donor David Ross, who owns property on the island.
Last modified on Tue 11 May 2021 07.29 EDT
Five Conservative members of parliament are under investigation over attempts to lobby judges ahead of a hearing in relation to the disgraced former Conservative MP, Charlie Elphicke.
Parliament’s sleaze watchdog confirmed it was investigating the MPs; Roger Gale, Adam Holloway, Bob Stewart, Theresa Villiers and Elphicke’s estranged wife, Natalie, who succeeded him in his Dover and Deal seat.
Using Commons stationery, the group wrote to senior judges to intervene in a hearing on whether references to support the former MP at his sentencing for sexual assault could be made public.
They are being investigated by Kathryn Stone, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, for “use of facilities [stationery] provided from the public purse” and for “actions causing significant damage to the reputation of the house as a whole, or of its members generally.”