Ex-RAF Officer Wins Bid To Pursue Sex Discrimination Claims

By Eddie Beaver

A former Royal Air Force officer who alleges a commodore told her he could "feel the emotion" after she raised a complaint can continue to pursue her sex discrimination claims against her former employer, according to an Employment Tribunal judgment published Friday.

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Odey's Libel Claim And Sex Assault Case To Have Joint Trial

By Ronan Barnard

Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey's £79 million ($106.2 million) libel claim against the Financial Times will be tried jointly with claims by five women accusing him of sexual abuse, a London judge ruled Friday.

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Bahraini Bank Worker Loses Whistleblowing Case Over Delay

By Adele Redmond

A short-lived employee of a Bahraini bank has lost his bid to sue his former employer, as a London tribunal ruled he waited too long to bring his claim he was fired for whistleblowing.

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Pharma Co. Sues Generali In £2M Alzheimer's Coverage Claim

By Eddie Beaver

A pharmaceutical company has alleged that Italian insurance giant Generali Group wrongly refused to pay out as much as £1.96 million ($2.63 million) under an income protection policy after a senior employee became incapable of doing his job because of Alzheimer's disease.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen the owner of a £6 million ($8 million) mansion once rented by Adele sue real estate consultants Strutt & Parker, Romanian-Australian mining investor Vasile Frank Timis bring a claim against reputation and privacy firm Schillings, and a Chinese businessman bring a legal action against his former lawyer over an alleged £12.5 million mortgage fraud.

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Brief

NHS Doctors Go On Strike After Rejecting Pay Deal

By Adele Redmond

Tens of thousands of resident doctors working in the National Health Service began a five-day strike on Friday as they called for a pay rise of almost 30%.

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Gov't Warned That Pension Bill Excludes Investment Cos.

By Alex Davidson

A trade body for investment companies said Friday it had urged the government to amend the Pension Schemes Bill so that its power to require pensions to invest in private assets will allow this through investment companies.

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'Disconnect' Between Pension And Savings, Broadstone Says

By Dawood Fakhir

Britons aged between 40 and 75 who are yet to fully retire face a gap of more than £18,000 ($24,000) per year between their state pension and the income they hope to live on, actuarial consultant Broadstone said Friday.

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Pensions Watchdog Wants Dashboards Data Improvements

By Joel Poultney

Too many pension schemes do not have enough high quality, recent or digital data as the retirement savings industry edges towards the launch of the long-awaited dashboards programme, the top regulator has said.

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