QCs on six-year, 155m Bloody Sunday inquiry say: it has cost far too much
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The length and cost of the Bloody Sunday inquiry, which begins its final hearings this week, has been condemned by the leading lawyers involved, who have earned millions of pounds from it.
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LONDON: Fraud costs Britain a minimum of 13.9 billion a year, and the figure could be as high as 20 billion, according to a report yesterday.Comment
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A new hi-tech communications centre for Lothian and Borders Police is suffering from a Â£1.2m overspend.
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Senior Iraqi cabinet members over a six-month period blocked investigations and prosecutions of corruption within their ministries valued at $35 million, using a Saddam Hussein-era law meant to shield officials from political abuses of the justice system, according to a recent memo by an official at...
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The probe into the alleged airliner bomb plot is costing the Metropolitan Police Â£1m a week, chief Sir Ian Blair says.
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An OFT inquiry finds the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs, the BBC learns.
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Decision clears three who were arrested during 16-month probe costing Â£800,000.
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OTTAWA (CP) - It will cost taxpayers more than &#36;20 million to get to the bottom of the sponsorship scandal, according to a budget estimate drawn up by the commission of inquiry into the affair.
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MPs face public scrutiny over the millions of pounds paid each year in expenses and allowances.
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DUBLIN, Ireland  - Ireland has paid the equivalent of &#36;442 million to more than 15,000 soldiers who claim they suffered hearing damage from weapons training, the government announced Friday.
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ST. GEORGE -- Police are looking for the perpetrators after about 16 cars were hit with a paint-stripping chemical, causing nearly $32,000 in damage.  Investigators said the cars were sprayed last week with a chemical that left a 6-inch-wide strip of bubbling paint on the sides.
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An OFT inquiry finds the NHS pays hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded medicines, the BBC learns.
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The federal government has fined the American Red Cross a record $5.7 million for violating blood-safety laws and the terms of a 2003 consent decree.
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A Government-sanctioned inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane was criticised tonight by the solicitorâs family after it emerged it would mostly be held in private.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern on  Thursday defended an 8,000-pound ($15,000) fee he was paid for  speaking at a dinner in Manchester in 1994 when he was finance  minister, saying the ethics of the case were "in order."
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An OFT probe finds the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs, the BBC learns.
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Federal investigators are examining allegations of criminal misconduct related to $6 billion worth of contracts for equipment and services needed in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday.