Oil giant BP was today facing a shareholder revolt regarding the pay package of departing chief executive Lord Browne.

IRELAND’S largest trade union may take a class action lawsuit against multinational companies which have lost significant amounts of employee pension funds through malpractice or inside trading.

Nine investment banks financed lucrative schemes that helped Enron, the failed US energy giant, appear to be a profit powerhouse up to its collapse, said lawyers who plan to add the banks to a shareholder lawsuit today.