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“promised to deliver the new ornaments within two months”
“The case was dismissed on July 31.”
“The councillor has since been bailed and will appear before Birmingham Magistrates' Court on September 10.”
“banning Raja from spending over £5,000 a week”
“continued to be delayed until September 29, 2025, when the jewellers allegedly refused to return the gold”
“Pirro's July filing cites Department of the Interior records indicating that personnel first flagged issues with the lining as early as June 11.”
“pushed up a requested litigation budget to £6.1m, with the fees for disclosure spiking over 50 per cent from an estimated £500,000 to over £1.1m”
“Following an inquiry, the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission ruled in his favour on May 9, 2022.”
“From day one, the case against Mr. Hearn was motivated by political considerations and devoid of adequate factual support," his lawyers wrote in a 28-page motion filed last week.”
“to train an AI model to review up to 30,000 disclosure documents”
“CBI is already probing the 1st and 2nd JPSC exams”
“will last nineteen days and involve hearing from seven witnesses”
“former JPSC panel chairperson L Khiangte has been questioned four times since July 28”
“A judgment handed down on 22 May found a junior solicitor at the firm used AI to draft two “misleading” emails containing so-called hallucinations sent to the High Court in March and April this year during an insolvency case where the firm…”
“This follows elite US firm Sullivan & Cromwell which in April had to apologise for multiple AI hallucinations in a bankruptcy case.”
“The group is in dispute with the up-market grocer over the terms of this agreement, after Ocado threatened to take legal action over a £190m payment which it said was being upheld by Marks and Spencer.”
“there remains a large knowledge gap among the public, as highlighted by £3.7m sitting in an unclaimed bucket that is being rerouted to charities.”
“Take Stagecoach South West Trains. The class action was a collective settlement approved by the CAT in May 2024 regarding “boundary fare” overcharging, with a £25m payout agreed.”
“However, less than one per cent of the funds potentially available to passengers were actually claimed.”
“On Monday, the Access to Justice Foundation (ATJF) announced it will channel £3.9m from the unclaimed fund to 16 UK charities, including Citizens Advice Croydon, St Luke’s Advice Service, Motherwell & Wishaw Citizens Advice, and South Wale…”
“The chatter around class actions only benefiting lawyers and their funders was heightened after the outcome of the Merricks v Mastercard: A claim on behalf of 46m consumers, once valued at up to £14bn, eventually settled for £200m.”
“After 10 years of fighting in court, those eligible to claim would only receive between £45 and £70 each.”
“The litigation funding sector is also currently under the spotlight. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is focusing on reviewing the existing opt-out collective actions regime and investigating the potential introduction of broade…”
“It’s why English law remains the preferred choice for cross-border contracts, underpinning 40 per cent of global corporate arbitrations.”
“Moreover, in 2024, 72 per cent of cases in the Commercial Court were international in nature.”
“Admirable preparation is underway: the Property (Digital Assets) Bill, which seeks to confirm the legal status of digital assets as a distinct category of personal property, received Royal Assent in late 2025.”
“the Court of Appeal backed the tax authority said Bolt should not be allowed to use a tax scheme originally designed for tour operators and travel agents.”
“This means Bolt is required to charge VAT on the entire fare they charge rather than just on its commission-based margin. Ride hailing giant Uber has a similar ongoing legal battle over a £1bn VAT bill over TOMS, awaiting to be heard by th…”
“Lex Greensill will face a nine-year ban from serving as a company director, after he signed a legally binding disqualification undertaking to resolve long-running enforcement proceedings just days before a scheduled High Court trial.”
“The Insolvency Service, which opened its probe into him in 2022, filed a director disqualification claim against the founder of Greensill Capital, Lex Greensill, in March 2024.”
“the nine-year period is significantly above the average duration of director disqualifications, reflecting the severity of the corporate governance and fiduciary failures.”
“After four years of investigation, this matter has concluded with no finding that Mr Greensill acted dishonestly or in bad faith.”
“ending the six-week trial that was scheduled to begin on Monday, 8 June.”
“Ashurst reportedly carried out an investigation from June to August 2025 over allegations made by a whistleblower against an unnamed former executive, following the Big Four firm conducting its own internal inquiry and another by external …”
“KPMG had claimed the law firm was called in to investigate the allegations, which were made formally in May 2024, and had found “no wrongdoing””
“As a result of the scandal, KPMG is set to be banned from bidding on any Australian government contracts until September 2026, as the country’s Department of Finance investigates the firm’s governance and ethical standards.”
“Last week the Society for Civil Liberties (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte - GFF) released a 3,000 page report, which offered a comprehensive argument for why the AfD could be banned in Germany from a legal point of view. [...] Ultimately…”
“A preliminary hearing has been set for 3 August.”
“As the Airports Slot Allocation Regulations 2026 officially took effect on Friday, 19 June, Gatwick rushed to the court to ask for an immediate emergency freeze to stop the new rule.”
“It is surprising that the claimant did not offer any undertaking in damages.”
“On Monday, the court will hold a formal hearing to decide on ‘interim relief’”
“and, at a further date, the court will hold a rolled-up hearing to accelerate the trial to decide both if Gatwick has the right to bring this lawsuit and, if so, who wins the overall case.”
“the decision follows a 10-year legal battle between the regulator and the drugmaker”
“Pfizer and Flynn appealing against the fines in March 2025”
“which was heard in January this year”
“Mr Vegas is one of the safest and secure online casinos. The site is properly licensed and regulated by the UKGC (United Kingdom Gambling Commission).”
“single mother Alison Weekes said that she is to sue Lloyds TSB for £70,000 for sex and race discrimination and victimisation, after she was sacked by the bank.”
“Figures published recently by the Employment Tribunal Service show a massive increase of 40 per cent in March 2008 compared to March 2007.”
“Provisional figures released for the year ending February 2009 show that unfair dismissal claims rose to approximately 47,000 in February 2009, up from 41,000 in the same month in 2008.”
“Similarly, claims for redundancy pay and for breaches in the redundancy process have increased, the latter by a staggering 165 per cent.”
“The other notable increase is in age discrimination claims, which have increased by 116 per cent.”
“Compensation for unfair dismissal is capped at £66,200.”
“once you reach 20, then a 30-day collective consultation will be triggered”
“100 triggers a 90-day process”
“The Department of Transportation will rule on BA’s and AA’s plans to join forces on highly-lucrative transatlantic routes by the end of October.”
“Scot Young, a “fixer” to Russian oligarchs and billionaires, has been told that he could be imprisoned for failing to tell a High Court judge where his money has gone. Young, 47, is a close friend of Sir Tom Hunter, the billionaire entrepr…”
“But over the last few months, the watchdog has received legal challenges from the financial services arms of manufacturers, including Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen. On the flipside, Consumer Voice is also bringing forward a challenge to the…”
“Last month, the regulator said challenges to its schemes have targeted the FCA’s application of the law relating to limitation periods, which affects whether consumers have suffered loss or damage for which compensation is payable.”
“It added that it had received a challenge by at least one of the applicants regarding the alleged unlawful interference with lenders’ property rights under the Human Rights Act 1998.”
“Seven of Britain’s largest housebuilders are facing a class action lawsuit worth a potential £4.5bn in damages over allegations they overcharged 700,000 buyers of new-build properties.”
“in the range of £2.2bn to £4.5bn.”
“closed in October 2025 without action being taken”
“for two years until February 2024.”
“for more than ten years.”
“It added that the defendants acted primarily from two successive securities broker-dealers, The Thornwater Company and Sky Capital, raising some $140m for the scheme between 1998 and 2006.”
“When pushed on whether the FRC is under-powered today, she admitted that the accountancy regulator currently “doesn’t have powers to require information” in all cases and agreed that bolstering those powers should be a priority change once…”
“Paresh Raja, who founded MFS in 2006, was hit by a freezing order by courts in both London and Dubai in March, ordering him to provide details of his assets and banning Raja from spending over £5,000 a week without the consent of MFS’s adm…”
“Pennon, announced a return to profitability and repeated an apology for an incident with contaminated water supply in 2024, for which its South West Water unit was slapped with a fine of almost £2m earlier this year.”
“These concerns were further amplified on June 9, when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) waived 28 environmental and historical preservation laws “in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads” in a zone that…”
“Reports from 2025 and early 2026 from the Law Society and Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) estimated there to be between 500 and 700 English and Welsh qualified solicitors practising.”
“"The expert opinion clearly shows that the legal requirements for a ban procedure against the Alternative for Germany are met," Clara Bünger, Left Party (Die Linke) Member of the Bundestag told The Local.”
“Last year, Capita was fined £14m for a cyber breach which saw customer data stolen. The fine was reduced from £45m after Capita argued it had taken steps to boost its cyber resilience.”
“Gerrie’s legal team from Brown Rudnick have pushed up a requested litigation budget to £6.1m, with the fees for disclosure spiking over 50 per cent from an estimated £500,000 to over £1.1m”
“Gerrie’s legal team justified the cost hike in part by arguing they could only allow senior lawyers, who charge the highest hourly fees, to train an AI model to review up to 30,000 disclosure documents”
“The next chapter in the legal fiasco is set to hit the courts at the end of the month, will last nineteen days and involve hearing from seven witnesses including Gerrie and his wife Alison Hawkesley, who both still own a stake in the compa…”
“A judgment handed down on 22 May found a junior solicitor at the firm used AI to draft two “misleading” emails containing so-called hallucinations sent to the High Court in March and April this year during an insolvency case where the firm…”
“This follows elite US firm Sullivan & Cromwell which in April had to apologise for multiple AI hallucinations in a bankruptcy case”
“Multiple book publishers sued Google on Tuesday for allegedly stealing copyrighted content, using it to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and then generating content that "directly" competes with the original authors' work. The la…”
“In May, multiple publishers – including Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and Turow – sued Meta on similar grounds in a New York court.”
“A US judge in September approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and several authors who claimed the San Francisco company illegally copied their work to train its AI model, Claude.”
“It was a partial victory for Anthropic – a judge ruled that the company's use of books to train Claude was transformative enough to constitute "fair use" under US law but that other uses of pirated materials were not.”
“Meta also won a partial victory last year when a US judge in San Francisco ruled that its use of copyrighted materials was "fair use". That case was filed by comedian Sarah Silverman, author Ta-Nehisi Coates and others.”
“and that the Pension Schemes Act will support “a pension landscape made up of bigger and better schemes””
“a decision by the European Court of Justice in 2024 that ruled aspects of its system incompatible with law.”
“Netherlands-based group Justice For Players also launched a class action in which around 100,000 players were invited to participate in a compensation claim for billions of euros.”
“£3.7m sitting in an unclaimed bucket that is being rerouted to charities.”
“£25m payout agreed.”
“less than one per cent of the funds potentially available to passengers were actually claimed.”
“£3.9m from the unclaimed fund to 16 UK charities”
“claim on behalf of 46m consumers, once valued at up to £14bn, eventually settled for £200m.”
“between £45 and £70 each.”
“they require anyone under 25 to pass a psychiatric exam before applying for a gun licence”
“Towers Perrin and Cornerstone Research said 210 securities class actions were filed last year, up 19 per cent on 2007.”
“America’s leading financial regulator has for the first time alleged that disgraced financier Bernard Madoff did not work alone on planning and carrying out his $65bn (£40bn) fraud, charging four of his associates with securities fraud.”
“Earlier this year, for the justice sector, he set out his vision for 'faster and fairer justice for victims,' which included an AI court assistant and his controversial scrapping of jury trials in less serious cases.”
“He received a life sentence early this year.”
“On Thursday, the Insolvency Service revealed Greensill will be banned as a company director in the UK for nine years after agreeing to be disqualified.”
“According to Duncan Beach, chief executive of the Insolvency Service, the nine-year period is significantly above the average duration of director disqualifications, reflecting the severity of the corporate governance and fiduciary failure…”
“The Federal Constitutional Court is set to rule on a case on Thursday which could determine if Germany's parliament should be limited in how quickly its allowed to push forward draft legislation for a vote.”
“Ofcom has issued millions of pounds in fines under the legislation but has so far recovered only a small proportion, with the regulator previously confirming that just one company – Itai Tech – has paid its penalty in full after also block…”
