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July 08, 2026
Google should face a £5 billion ($6.7 billion) class action on an opt-out basis, an academic seeking to bring the claim told a U.K. tribunal Wednesday, saying smaller businesses would otherwise be shut out of compensation for allegedly inflated search ad prices.
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July 08, 2026
The Law Society has pushed back against the U.K. government's plan to ban nondisclosure agreements in cases of workplace harassment and discrimination, saying its proposals to make employers cover the cost of written legal advice for workers could undermine settlements and draw out disputes.
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July 08, 2026
A former manager at Spar has been awarded £61,989 ($83,100) after a tribunal found that the retailer failed to give her enough time to consider a new contract, causing her to lose the private medical cover she needed for surgery.
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July 08, 2026
British American Tobacco PLC faces a second group claim in London this year after more than 100 shareholders alleged it had failed to disclose information about its North Korean activities, which ultimately led to the company paying hundreds of millions in penalties.
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July 08, 2026
English law is equipped to determine civil liability arising from the use of artificial intelligence, according to a government-backed legal statement which concludes that established principles of contract and negligence are capable of addressing harms linked to AI.
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July 08, 2026
Apple failed Wednesday to annul European Union rules designating its app stores and operating system as "gatekeepers" that are subject to specific obligations to ensure fair competition.
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July 08, 2026
A tribunal has ruled that a freight transporter discriminated against a former liaison manager by treating her sudden drowsiness as evidence of drug or alcohol use without first considering whether her symptoms stemmed from her bipolar medication.
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July 08, 2026
Real estate developer Urbas has admitted to defaulting on loan agreements but argued that a €189 million ($215 million) claim brought by a Luxembourg credit provider for repayment must be recalculated because PwC allegedly undervalued the shares appropriated by the lender as collateral.
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July 08, 2026
Metals tycoon Prateek Gupta told the Court of Appeal on Wednesday that a U.K. commodities trader cannot bring a fraud claim worth almost $7 million against him in England because the alleged loss occurred abroad.
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July 08, 2026
Red Bull has filed an intellectual property claim against a British drinks supplier in a London court, adding to a recent infringement case that it filed against another wholesaler.
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July 07, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week not to review a D.C. Circuit decision laying a path to enforce more than $400 million in arbitral awards against Spain has removed a jurisdictional hurdle for other similarly situated creditors, but other sticking points in the cases are likely to remain.
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July 07, 2026
German aerospace giant Lufthansa argued Tuesday before the Court of Appeal that it should have received more from an avionics company after prevailing in a long-running patent infringement claim over its in-seat power outlet technology.
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July 07, 2026
Dental aligners are not exempt from value-added tax under a provision aimed at dental prostheses, the Upper Tribunal ruled Tuesday, reversing a decision by a lower tribunal.
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July 07, 2026
A residential care provider has revived a claim for unjust enrichment against a National Health Service body after a court ruled that a deputy master wrongly relied on evidence from the defendant's solicitor while rejecting the claimant's expert evidence.
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July 07, 2026
A South Korean outdoor gear brand has maintained that its patented ladder safety is unique and solves a number of problems in the market, pushing back against a British rival's claim that the design is not inventive.
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July 07, 2026
A former Digby Brown legal claims adviser can continue pursuing a case over alleged cuts from his final paycheck, but a tribunal has thrown out his unfair dismissal claim, finding he filed it too late.
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July 07, 2026
One of Scotland's biggest property managers must pay £54,500 ($73,000) to a lift attendant who was sacked because he complained he'd been told he was due just three days' holiday, despite working six days a week.
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July 07, 2026
Lloyd's of London's Belgium-based subsidiary has lost a bid to overturn a decision ordering it to pay $3.7 million to a ship financier to cover losses after a cargo ship struck a mine in Ukrainian waters, with a London appeals court ruling that a forged insurance policy did not sink the lender's claim.
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July 07, 2026
A law firm shut down for dishonesty has been ordered to pay almost £30,000 ($40,000) to a former employee after a tribunal ruled that she had been discriminated against and harassed.
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July 07, 2026
Meta on Tuesday told the Court of Appeal that a tribunal wrongly allowed 46 million Facebook users to expand their collective action to seek payments for the use of their personal data because that type of award is unavailable in competition claims.
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July 07, 2026
A group of Ugandan farmers launched a bid on Tuesday to stop construction of an oil pipeline by a TotalEnergies subsidiary, saying that the infrastructure project violates their environmental rights.
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July 07, 2026
A hotel and its manager won an appeal Tuesday to recalculate the compensation owed to a chef who was sexually harassed, with a judge ruling a tribunal should have considered any benefits the chef might have been eligible for.
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July 07, 2026
Thousands of Chinese investors defrauded by a money launderer argued Tuesday that their claims seeking to recover their share of billions of pounds of seized cryptocurrency should be governed by English law.
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July 07, 2026
The owners of a ship stranded in a Ukrainian port told a London court Tuesday that their war-risk insurers, including Lloyd's and Berkshire Hathaway, are liable for approximately $3.4 million in maintenance and replacement insurance costs after Russia's invasion trapped the vessel in a war zone.
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July 07, 2026
Prince Harry and other celebrities lost their privacy claims against the publisher of the Daily Mail on Tuesday, as a London judge ruled that they had failed to prove their allegations that its journalists had used unlawfully gathered information to get stories.