Analysis

How Employers Can Stay Onside As The World Cup Kicks Off

By Adele Redmond

Employers should consider being more flexible with work hours during the FIFA World Cup — but any leeway needs to be applied consistently and fairly, lawyers say.

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Mishcon Can't Assert Privilege Over Funder Docs In Uber Row

By Eddie Beaver

Mishcon de Reya LLP must review communications with a former litigation funder after a London judge ruled Friday that the correspondence is not protected by litigation privilege in the £340 million ($455 million) claims against Uber.

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Worker Fired Over Offensive Tweets Loses Autism Bias Case

By Hanna Vioque

An employment tribunal has dismissed all of a claim handler's allegations of disability discrimination, ruling that managers at his insurance company fired him for posting offensive tweets rather than over his blunt communication style. 

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Council Can Rechallenge Teaching Assistant's Bias Complaint

By Max Austin

Ealing Council has won a second shot to challenge a teaching assistant's discrimination case after an appellate judge ruled that a tribunal failed to properly assess whether she had added new complaints not set out in her original claim.

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Load-Handling Co. Sued For £55M For Backing Out Of Lease

By Sophia Dourou

A property developer has sued the U.K. arm of a Finnish load-handling business for more than £55 million ($73.7 million) for backing out of a 20-year lease agreement to build a bespoke warehouse.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen the FCA bring a claim against a fund manager it accused of providing investment services despite having been banned, an Ardmore unit sue a contractor two days before the construction group's collapse, and shipping and cruise giant MSC hit back at an entertainment company following separate intellectual property litigation in the U.S. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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FRC Seeks Input On Guidance For Pension Surplus Rules

By Martin Croucher

The Financial Reporting Council has said it wants industry feedback as it hashes out the details of how pension bosses can tap into an estimated £160 billion ($215 billion) in funding surpluses.

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Civil Service Pension Debacle Still Unsolved 6 Months On

By Martin Croucher

The company responsible for administering the Civil Service Pension Scheme has apologized for ongoing disruption to the service, more than six months after it took over the contract.

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