WHEN police raided a local firm of advocates, it was a pretty heavy-handed affair, not least because they ignored guidelines relating to lawyers representing clients and because officers threatened to break down a door unless allowed in at 3 o’clock in the morning.

TREASURY and Resources is refusing to say how much taxpayers’ money has been paid in damages and costs following an unlawful police raid on a law firm’s premises.

A DRUNKEN man wearing steel toe-capped boots twice kicked in the head a man lying on the ground outside a Town nightclub, the Royal Court heard yesterday.

JUDGE of the Royal Court Russell Finch will be the keynote speaker at the third AO Hall Fraud Conference.

A DECISION by a local firm of lawyers to seek a judicial review of the actions of the chief officer of police and a judge of the Royal Court would not have been undertaken lightly.

THE circumstances surrounding an early morning police raid on a law firm should be subject to judicial review, the Interlocutory Court decided yesterday.