Robert Maxwell, a dodgy press baron, was given short shrift when he came knocking.

ECONOMIST: Siegmund Warburg

It is clear that in his relationship with his sons, Robert Maxwell dominated, placing them under tremendous pressure.

BBC: Kevin and Ian Maxwell

By the time Mr Montgomery took charge in 1992, after the death of Robert Maxwell, the paper's circulation had fallen to 2.9m.

ECONOMIST: A tale of two papers

After acquittals in high-profile trials such as that involving Robert Maxwell's empire, the case was held up as further evidence that jury trials were defective.

ECONOMIST: Jury trials

Less than a month after Robert Maxwell's death, the Serious Fraud Office began investigating the management of the Mirror Group pension fund, and the company's finances.

BBC: Kevin and Ian Maxwell

After it was revealed in the early 1990s that Robert Maxwell had been robbing his companies' pension funds, regulators felt a need to tighten their grip.

ECONOMIST: British government debt

Certainly, the government was embarrassed by the collapse of pension funds controlled by the late Robert Maxwell, and by the sale of inappropriate personal pensions by insurance companies.

ECONOMIST: Tomorrow's pensioners

But there were more, some arising from his dealings in the 1980s with another Labour multi-millionaire, the monstrous Robert Maxwell, who stole his workers' pensions before falling or jumping off his luxury yacht into the Atlantic.

ECONOMIST: The

The requirement, drawn up after Robert Maxwell robbed his companies' pensions funds in the early 1990s, attempts to assess the present value of pension funds' future liabilities, taking the yield curve on gilts as its reference point.

ECONOMIST: Institutional investors in Britain: Throwing the book at them | The

Waterhouse always said his decision to quit the left-leaning newspaper was down to one man - the imposing owner Robert Maxwell, whom he nicknamed Cap'n Bob and who had tried to insist he wrote an opinionated piece on trades union ballots.

BBC: Obituary: Keith Waterhouse