A judge struck out on Thursday a claim brought by Pogust Goodhead on behalf of approximately 18,000 Brazilians over pollution caused by a shipwreck, after the law firm's authority to bring the action was thrown into doubt.
A judge struck out on Thursday a claim brought by Pogust Goodhead on behalf of approximately 18,000 Brazilians over pollution caused by a shipwreck, after the law firm's authority to bring the action was thrown into doubt.
Freeths has reached a settlement in its £5 million ($6.8 million) negligence dispute with a litigation-funder at a London court, swerving claims that its advice caused the owner of a quarrying business to lose his company.
The government has sued logistics firm Uniserve Ltd. for more than £90 million ($121 million), alleging it supplied unusable medical gowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A diamond and jewelry tycoon accused of swindling more than $1 billion from banks testified at trial in London on Thursday that he never attended board meetings and signed off on minutes years after the fact without ever seeing the contents.
A private equity shop's special purpose vehicle has settled its case against a French restaurant manager alleging that he lied about his previous work experience to secure a €9.3 million ($11 million) investment for a failed food business venture.
A management consultancy has told a London court that a purported bond-market trader used a $9.4 million investment to buy a country home and other businesses instead of paying promised returns.
Dale Vince told an appeals court on Thursday that Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice should not be allowed to defend a post accusing the green energy entrepreneur of supporting Hamas as his honest opinion because it was presented as fact.
Novo Nordisk has convinced a London judge to block access to several websites selling counterfeit versions of its diabetes and weight loss drug Ozempic, after showing that the risks to public health were too great.
A company that makes software for OnlyFans creators has denied unlawfully accessing another platform's user data, telling a London court that its rival has breached competition law by failing to make the data readily available.
A former executive at investment holding company Jusan Technologies Ltd. won his whistleblowing case on Thursday after a tribunal found that the British company withheld money he was due after he raised concerns about embezzlement.
The government said Thursday that proposed policies aimed at preventing the misuse of nondisclosure agreements in cases of workplace harassment and discrimination might cost businesses up to £48.8 million ($65.7 million), without any guarantee that the resulting benefits will offset the cost.
An employment tribunal has ruled that the U.K. unit of architecture and engineering consultancy Ramboll won't have to face claims brought by a manager at the group's Danish operation because he was only on a short-term assignment.
A London court has maintained a £15,000 ($20,100) fine imposed on a barrister after he sent a barrage of emails accusing HMRC and a caseworker of colluding to sabotage his tax appeal, backing a disciplinary panel's findings of misconduct.
Several partnerships can claim tax relief on the equity-financed portions of their film productions but not debt-financed components designed to inflate their tax relief, a London court found, ordering HMRC to amend parts of its closure notices.
