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April 08, 2024
Solicitor Accused Of Falsifying Costs Faces Tribunal
A solicitor was brought before a disciplinary tribunal on Monday to face allegations that he made untruthful statements in costs schedules submitted to the High Court and undermined confidence in the legal profession.
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April 08, 2024
Minister Calls For Prison Time Over Post Office IT Scandal
Individuals in the Post Office who wrongfully prosecuted innocent sub-postmasters "should go to jail," a minister said on Monday, on the eve of the inquiry into the miscarriage of justice resuming.
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April 08, 2024
Gowling, Osborne Clarke Steer £60M Tech Co. Pension Deal
Insurer Just Group said Monday it has completed a £60 million ($75.7 million) buy-in of a pension scheme sponsored by technology companies Epson (UK) Ltd. and Epson Europe BV, in a deal guided by Gowling WLG and Osborne Clarke.
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April 08, 2024
Pension Schemes Considering Alternatives For End Goal
Pension plans need to carefully weigh a range of options for their end game strategies, a professional services firm said, as retirement savings scheme funding continues to hover around near record levels.
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April 08, 2024
Quran Teacher Wins Sex, Race Bias Case Against Mosque
A female Quran teacher has won her race and sex discrimination case against a London mosque, with a tribunal ruling in a judgment published Monday that leaders viewed her as "expendable" because she was a Somali woman and unfairly fired her when pupil numbers dwindled.
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April 08, 2024
Saturday Work Is Not Sex Discrimination, Tribunal Rules
London Underground did not discriminate against an employee by refusing to give her Saturdays off to look after her child — but the transport operator botched the process for assessing her request for flexible working, a tribunal has ruled.
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April 08, 2024
Grant Thornton Fined For Audit Compliance Breaches
The Financial Reporting Council said Monday it has fined accounting firm Grant Thornton £40,000 ($50,500) for failing to comply with audit regulations in its work on a local authority's pension fund.
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April 05, 2024
Korean Trade Promoter Wins Claim Despite Kickback Bid
A South Korean trade agency unfairly dismissed a London-based employee of over 20 years — but won't have to pay him a dime after he tried to negotiate a secret commission, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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April 05, 2024
Ex-Ashurst Real Estate Chief Tapped For Employment Judge Post
The Justice Secretary has appointed a property-focused consultant solicitor as a full-time salaried employment Judge, the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary announced Friday, stepping up his involvement in the judiciary from two previous part-time posts.
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April 05, 2024
Exec Wins £61K After Being Forced To Quit Following Merger
A bedding company must pay its former managing director £61,000 ($77,000) after it forced him to quit following a merger by backtracking on his benefits under the deal, and blocking him from entering the premises, a tribunal has ruled.
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April 05, 2024
UK Urges Delay In Claiming Pensions Until Rules Change
The U.K. tax authority has warned people to delay claiming their pensions until after Saturday, when the lifetime allowance is abolished, while the government clarifies technical changes to the legislation.
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April 05, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the BBC sued by former Georgian defense minister David Kezerashvili, Russian businessman Ildar Sharipov file a defamation claim against the publisher of the Liverpool Echo newspaper, MEX Group Worldwide sue Barclays and NatWest, and a climbing gear company hit retailer Next with a claim of copyright infringement. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 05, 2024
7 Spring Law Changes That Employers Need To Know About
An array of employment laws taking effect in April should prompt businesses to revisit their policies and think about what more they can be doing to comply, lawyers say.
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April 05, 2024
Rothesay Sees 'Unprecedented' Pipeline For Pension Deals
Pension insurer Rothesay Life said Friday it secured £12.7 billion ($16 billion) in new business premiums across a dozen de-risking retirement savings deals in 2023, with the year ahead marked by an "unprecedented pension risk transfer market pipeline."
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April 05, 2024
Senior Doctors Accept Pay Offer After A Year Of Strikes
Senior doctors have voted to accept the government's latest pay offer, ending a year of strikes, the British Medical Association said on Friday.
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April 05, 2024
UK Pension Schemes Maintain Near-Record Surpluses
The aggregate surplus of the U.K.'s defined benefit pension sector remained at near-record levels of around £151 billion ($190.8 billion) in March, a consultancy has said.
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April 05, 2024
Academic Can't Sue University Over Anti-Semitism Probe
A university lecturer lost her bid to sue her employer after it investigated and ultimately cleared her of allegations she had made anti-Semitic comments after a judge found she could not skirt a settlement agreement she had already signed with the institution.
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April 04, 2024
Advocate Hit With 5-Year Ban Over Doctoring Emails In Jersey
A legal tribunal banned an advocate from practicing in England for five years on Thursday following the ruling of a Jersey court that he had dishonestly doctored emails to hide the fact that he had caused "excessive" delays for a client.
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April 04, 2024
Sexually Harassed Class Helper Fired For Lying Wins Payout
A teaching assistant who lied about having COVID-19 to go on vacation has won a £9,309 ($11,775) payout after a female headmaster sexually harassed him, then sacked him following a flawed investigation into his lies.
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April 04, 2024
Law Firm Defeats Adviser's Unfair Redundancy Claim
A Scottish law firm didn't unfairly cull one of its financial advisers during a redundancy process because bosses scored candidates with a reasonable checklist, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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April 04, 2024
Head Teacher Fired Trade Union Rep Over 'Personal Animosity'
A primary school's head teacher unfairly dismissed and discriminated against a trade union representative because he didn't like that she was challenging his "dictatorial attitude," an employment tribunal ruled.
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April 04, 2024
Insurer Wants Greater Flexibility On State Pension Age
The U.K. government should explore giving Britons more choice over when they can start claiming their state pension amid concerns over increases to the official retirement age, insurer Aegon said Thursday.
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April 04, 2024
Defense Ministry OK To Reject Foreign Nationals For Jobs
An employment judge has thrown out a discrimination claim against the U.K.'s defense ministry, ruling that U.K. law allows the government body to reject non-British nationals from certain jobs for national security reasons.
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April 04, 2024
Gambling Biz Says Rival, Ex-Employees Copied Game Code
An online gambling company has sued two former members of staff and its rival for allegedly plagiarizing copyrighted source code for its "Slingo" online betting game to produce several competing products.
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April 04, 2024
Standard Life Bags Insurer's Pension Plan In £95M Deal
Standard Life has completed a £95 million ($120 million) buy-in of a pension scheme sponsored by Brit Insurance in a deal guided by Burges Salmon LLP.
Expert Analysis
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5 Ways To Address Heightened Forced Labor Compliance Risk
In response to ever-increasing enforcement efforts targeting forced labor, companies can leverage available resources to assess conditions in their supply chains and avoid unintended imports and exports with entities known for human rights violations, say Joyce Rodriguez and Francesca Guerrero at Thompson Hine.
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UK Whistleblowing Laws May Be Ripe For Reform
COVID-19 has reignited calls to expand U.K. whistleblowing laws, with many advocating for enhanced reporting protections and independent oversight of cases, says Pia Sanchez at CM Murray.
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G4S Deferral Agreement Illustrates SFO's Enforcement Focus
The Serious Fraud Office’s recent deferred prosecution agreement with multinational security services company G4S suggests the agency’s approach to compliance, program remediation and corporate renewal is evolving to favor parent company involvement and the appointment of independent compliance monitors, say Chris Roberts and James Ford at Mayer Brown.
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Opinion
Time To Fix Human Rights Abuses In US Gov't Supply Chains
The U.S. government buys goods made in global supply chains where human and labor rights violations are commonplace, so to drive better rights compliance among contractors, it should adopt six key reforms to the federal procurement process, says Isabelle Glimcher at the New York University Stern School of Business.
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Opinion
Reflections On The UK Bribery Act 10 Years On
While the U.K. Bribery Act has been positive overall, regulators should seek urgent reform to better enable the investigation and prosecution of companies and individuals for economic crimes, especially in cases directly harming people and the environment, says Chris Phillips at Alvarez & Marsal.
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Human Rights Are Becoming A Compliance Issue
A recent commitment from the European Union's commissioner for justice to introduce rules for mandatory corporate human rights due diligence next year may signal the arrival of this issue as a global business imperative, making it as fundamental as anti-corruption diligence, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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5 Steps For Keeping Supply Chains Free Of Uighur Slavery
In light of a March report identifying 83 global brands suspected of supply chain links to forced labor of Uighurs — an ethnic minority long targeted by the Chinese government — companies should adopt certain procedures to identify red flags in their own supply chains, say Benjamin Britz and Rayhan Asat at Hughes Hubbard.
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Perspectives
Addressing Modern Slavery Inside And Outside The UK
As the problem of modern slavery persists, U.K. companies must take a broad approach when rooting out slave labor in their supply chains, and should not ignore the risk posed by suppliers within the U.K., says Maria Theodoulou of Stokoe.
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UK Antitrust Watchdog Proposals Would Bolster Enforcement
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority's proposals for reshaping competition enforcement and consumer protection would shift the historical balance in U.K. competition policy, increasing regulatory burden on companies while weakening judicial scrutiny of CMA actions, says Bill Batchelor of Skadden.
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UK's New 'Name And Shame' Approach To Anti-Trafficking
There has been considerable anxiety and speculation from companies over the annual transparency statement required by the U.K. Modern Slavery Act, but a recent tender announcement from the U.K. Home Office provides key insights into what to expect, say attorneys with Perkins Coie.
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A Victory For Legal Privilege In Cross-Border Investigations
The U.K. Court of Appeal's recent decision in Serious Fraud Office v. Eurasian Natural Resources is a substantial step toward confirming the application of legal privilege in internal investigations, and has significantly reduced the divergence in U.K. and U.S. privilege law, say attorneys with Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP.
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Is It Time To Prosecute UK Cos. For Human Rights Violations?
The idea of holding companies criminally liable for human rights abuses committed overseas has gained traction over the past decade. Though the U.K. government has made it clear that it has no immediate plans for further legislation in this area, calls for corporate criminal liability are only likely to get louder, say Andrew Smith and Alice Lepeuple of Corker Binning.
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UK Employment Law Risks In Cross-Border M&A
U.K. employment law has developed in myriad ways and continues to do so. The acquisition of U.K.-based companies or assets will therefore often give rise to employment law considerations that are unfamiliar to U.S. buyers, says Richard Moore of Lewis Silkin LLP.
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4 Questions About Whistleblowing In The UK And Beyond
Following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's announcement of its biggest-ever Dodd-Frank whistleblower awards, Chris Warren-Smith of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP discusses whistleblowing in financial service industries in different jurisdictions with other Morgan Lewis attorneys based all around the world.
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Revamping Contracts For GDPR: 3 Ways To Prepare
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation requirements — which take effect May 25 — create a substantial hurdle for thousands of companies worldwide and affect millions of vendor contracts, which now need to be reviewed, amended and potentially renegotiated, say Mathew Keshav Lewis and Zachary Foreman of Axiom Law.