Morning roundup: Charles Taylor to testify

Legal news from today's papers . . .

* Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, is expected to testify at The Hague today in a bid to distance himself from the atrocities that occurred during the savage 11-year civil and ethnic war in Sierra Leone (The Times).

* The boss of Virgin Atlantic admitted that he had been aware that his airline had conspired to fix prices with its rival British Airways as three former BA executives and one current director pleaded not guilty to price-fixing offences at Southwark Crown Court (The Telegraph, The Times).

*  The scale of organised crime in Britain is so great that it outstrips the capacity of the criminal justice system to cope with it, a government report has revealed. About 30,000 individuals in 4,000 criminal groups are involved in running a black economy worth £40 billion (The Times).

* A year on from the De Grazia report, the Serious Fraud Office has culled 90 per cent of its senior management but increased prosecutions 80 per cent (The Telegraph).

* Max Clifford, the PR guru, is planning legal action against the News of the World over allegations that his phone was hacked (The Guardian).