I was listening to CBC a few weeks ago and I remember reading this in August so I dug up some links about how a comma in their contract with Aliant cost Rogers over $2.Million .
Wall Street JournalLawBlog ; RobHyndmanBlog ; CRTCdt2006-45
I know someone who is a lawyer; and know the care she puts in to her legal docs; this really demonstrates a hit to the pocketbook.
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Other Lawyer issues
Don’t forget a trip to your lawyer before you travel; just in case ….
An Identity theft story 8-); chills you to the bones huh? [from 2003]
Wrong man arrested after identity theft
A British man was arrested in South Africa and held for 2 weeks on an FBI warrant after his identity was stolen by a fraudster. He was only released after the real suspect was picked up in the U.S. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2806827.stm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
British pensioner falsely accused by the FBI of being one of America’s most wanted men has arrived back in the UK.
Charity worker Derek Bond told a news conference at Heathrow he had come “close to the edge” during his ordeal.
All Because a Mr Sykes used his name 14 years previously as an alias.
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IdentityTheftRepersussions
How it began
Byrd’s nightmare began in 1998, he said. A man arrested on drug charges that year identified himself to local officials as Malcolm Byrd.Thanks to an article in the local Janesville Gazette, the real Malcolm Byrd found out about the identity theft, and headed to the police to correct the error. The paper ran a correction, too. But that was hardly the end of the ordeal.