Business news for Mon, 17 Dec 2007 & with word court. 11 news.

Eric Volz was ordered freed after an appeals court threw out his conviction in the murder of his Nicaraguan lover. The real-estate broker had been convicted despite evidence that placed him in another city at the time of the murder.

AUSTRALIA'S largest retailer, Woolworths, says it will oppose the appeal by the New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZCC) against the NZ High Court's decision to allow the grocer to bid for The Warehouse Group.

The Bronfman-Fisher Investment group hopes to overturn a court ruling that annulled the results of the tender they won to build an IKEA outlet in Rishon Letzion, on the grounds that the Tel Aviv Administrative Court made material mistakes. ...

Call it a Springfield whodunit, the case of the ghostwriter's brief. Was it the speaker and his barrister in the Capitol? The lobbyist and the Chicago lawyer at the rail? The GOP and the corporados in the boardroom? How about the not-so-tight-lipped governor? Uncover the answers and you'll solve ...

INTERNATIONAL Securities Trading Corporation (ISTC), the capital lender run by Tiarnan O’Mahoney, returns to the High Court today to update progress on finding a rescue package after it was forced into examinership last month.

Prime Development Inc., an Edwardsville-based real estate company that was forced into bankruptcy proceedings recently, owes First Bank and two other banks more than $6.6 million, according to recent court filings.

Court arguments over whether to put a company owned by developers Michael and Larry Shaheen into receivership came down this week to whether the company is insolvent.

A 'key person' in last year's alleged plot to blow up Heathrow aircraft escapes custody after appearing in an Islamabad court where he was fighting a UK extradition request

A filing in New York state court is a window into battles likely to ensue from battered mortgage-investment vehicles.

FORMER assistant tax commissioner Nick Petroulias has been found guilty of two criminal charges in the NSW Supreme Court after a long-running case.

A Thai court rejected a suit seeking to delist PTT but ordered the company to return gas pipelines to the government.