Lloyd's List
Great reformer Woolf welcomes proactive role for judges in the pursuit of justice
The civil procedure rules, or Woolf Reforms, were first introduced ten years ago with the intention of, among other aims, making the law more accessible. The reforms changed the focus of the judiciary as, until then, judges ‘sat back and decided the case almost exclusively on the basis of arguments put forward by the parties’, Lord Woolf told delegates at a London School of Economics lecture to mark the publication of his book, In Pursuit of Justice.
(Source: Lexis)

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Bloomberg
US Home-Price Index Falls 14.4 per cent
‘The decline in housing prices is still accelerating and is going to overshoot on the downside the same way it overshot on the upside,' billionaire investor George Soros told a conference at LSE last week. ‘We are not yet halfway in the decline in housing prices.’
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ajojnweWQjfE&refer=home

RIA Novosti, Russia
EU to forge new strategic partnership with Russia
Professor Margot Light of LSE said: ‘Russian officials believe these values are determined exclusively in the EU and are simply proclaimed by EU officials for Russia to adopt.’
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080527/108603190.html

The Zimbabwean, Africa
ANC keeps a dying dream alive at cost of the living
Article by Professor Gwyn Prins, LSE, and Dr Greg Mills, head of the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation.
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id
=12995:anc-keeps-dying-dream-alive-at-cost-of-the-living&catid=3:zimbabweans
-permitted-to-take-limpopo-jobs&Itemid=61

The International Design Magazine
Q+A: Richard Sennett
Interview with Professor Richard Sennett, professor of Sociology at LSE.
http://www.id-mag.com/article/?p_ArticleId=6449

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Spanish)
Balance provisional de crisis financiera: Consecuencias a largo plazo
Tarde o temprano, los efectos se harán sentir en Europa. ‘Quizás no inmediatamente por avión, sino más lentamente y por barco", según Howard Davies, director de la London School of Economics.
(Source: Lexis)

United Nations News Service
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, professor to visit Gaza on UN-backed mission
An independent United Nations fact-finding mission - by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Professor Christine Chinkin of the London School of Economics - will visit Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-7F2SG5?OpenDocument

Financial Times (26 May)
Regulators now need to think globally
Review of the book Global Financial Regulation: The Essential Guide written by Howard Davies, Director of LSE, and David Green, adviser on International Affairs at the Financial Reporting Council.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/63405cf2-2abd-11dd-b40b-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

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