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  Roschier-Led Betting Investor Makes $13.8B Bid For Evolution

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Cayman Islands-based betting investor Candle Lake Ltd. said Thursday that it has launched a mandatory cash offer...(read more)

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  Big Tech Fraud Liability Plan A Great Idea With Long Odds

  By Christopher Crosby

  Novel plans to hold online platforms criminally liable for fraudsters who exploit their operations could shake u...(read more)

• Scottish Council Faces Holiday Pay Bill For 600 Staff

  By Jamie Lennox

  A local authority could have to compensate nearly 600 part-time workers after a tribunal ruled that the local authority unlawfully cut their wages by reducing their holiday pay entitlement.

• Winston Taylor-Led Frasers Group Acquires Harvey Nichols

  By Tom Fish

  Frasers Group PLC said Thursday it has acquired the loss-making Harvey Nichols group after the luxury retailer entered administration, in a deal including six U.K. stores, online business, existing inventory and more than 1,000 employees.

• Deutsche Calls Ex-Execs' £700M Conspiracy Claims Baseless

  By Sophia Dourou

  Deutsche Bank has hit back against a £700 million ($944 million) claim brought by four former executives, denying that it conspired to have them imprisoned in an attempt to conceal its historical accounting errors in one of Italy's biggest financial scandals.

• Vodafone Settles £85M Case Over Franchise Commission Cuts

  By Eddie Beaver

  More than 60 franchisees have settled their £85 million ($115 million) London claim against Vodafone over the telecommunications company allegedly making arbitrary decisions to cut commission, issue excessive fines and depress government financial support to business owners.

• UK Patent Document Access Rules Raise Secrecy Concerns

  By Alex Baldwin

  Imminent changes to transparency rules in patent disputes at the High Court, part of a new pilot program for making court documents publicly available, should formalize best practice for open justice despite the scope for parties to exploit the rules, intellectual property lawyers say.

• Simon Cowell Sued Over Unpaid Fee Deal 'Written On Napkin'

  By Eddie Beaver

  The founder of Rosenblatt Solicitors has sued Simon Cowell in London, alleging that the music mogul failed to pay him a cut of a confidential 2025 deal under a contract "written on a napkin" over dinner.

• New Test In Part-Timer Bias Cases Puts Employers At Risk

  By Adele Redmond

  The U.K.'s top court broadened the causation test for discrimination against part-time workers on Wednesday, casting doubt on the lawfulness of some business practices and leaving employers with more questions than answers.

• Acas Battles Arbitral Body CEO's Race Discrimination Claims

  By Ronan Barnard

  The U.K.'s workplace disputes mediator argued in the closing stages of a London trial Wednesday that the chief executive of the organized labor arbitral body had not proved that her pay was downgraded because she is a Black woman.

• UPC To Decide If Non-Infringing Sales Count Toward Damages

  By Jamie Lennox

  The Unified Patent Court is poised to consider for the first time whether profits from selling non-infringing goods can count toward the calculation of damages after a successful claim of patent infringement.

• Samsung Voids Japanese Rival's Video-Casting Patent At UPC

  By Jamie Lennox

  Samsung has persuaded the Unified Patent Court to revoke a Japanese company's patent for a way of "casting" videos from a phone to a bigger display, proving that the tech isn't inventive enough to merit protection.

• Brazilian FC Share Sale Blocked In £24M Ownership Dispute

  By Eddie Beaver

  The owner of a portfolio of professional football clubs won an injunction on Wednesday to block the administrators of one of his companies from selling off a stake of approximately £24 million ($33.5 million) in Brazil's Botafogo that he claims is his.

• Top UK Court Lowers Bar For Part-Time Worker Bias Claims

  By Adele Redmond

  Workers treated unfairly because they work part-time need not prove that their part-time status was the sole reason they were mistreated, Britain's top court ruled on Wednesday. Correction: An initial version of this story misstated the justices' decision. The error has been corrected.