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  Financier Settles Libel Case Over €454M Vatican Fraud Claims

  By William Janes

  An Anglo-Italian financier has settled his libel action against a newspaper publisher in which he alleged that t...(read more)

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  Disclosure Overhaul And AI Reform To Tackle Courts Crisis

  By Christopher Crosby

  A landmark review of the U.K.'s ailing criminal court system called for an overhaul of disclosure rules on Wedne...(read more)

• UK Moots Further Exceptions To Delayed Fire And Rehire Law

  By Adele Redmond

  Employers would be able to fire and rehire staff who reject changes to shifts and cuts to housing, share schemes and compensation for expenses under proposals by the government on Wednesday to further dilute its crackdown on the cost-cutting tactic.

• Law Firms, Claims Managers Warned On Motor Finance Cases

  By Alex Davidson

  Financial and legal regulators warned claims management companies and law firms handling claims for motor finance compensation on Wednesday to avoid multiple representation of consumers and ensure that any fees they charge are fair.

• Slaughter And May-Led Zurich Gets Beazley Nod On £8B Offer

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Beazley has backed a sweetened £8 billion ($11 billion) takeover approach from Swiss insurance heavyweight Zurich Insurance Group Ltd., the companies said Wednesday, after the London-listed company rejected two lower bids in January.

• Banque Havilland Gets Fine Over Qatar Currency Cut To £4M

  By Alex Davidson

  A tribunal upheld on Tuesday the Financial Conduct Authority's finding that Banque Havilland, now Rangecourt SA, acted without integrity to harm Qatar's currency, but trimmed the regulator's fine of the bank from £10 million ($13.7 million) to £4 million.

• Data Regulator Probes X's Grok Over Sexualized 'Deepfakes'

  By Eddie Beaver

  The U.K.'s data watchdog revealed Tuesday that it has launched formal investigations into personal data processing within X's Grok generative artificial intelligence chatbot and its potential to produce harmful sexualized "deepfake" images and videos.

• Exec Fights To Keep Name Out Of SFO Bribery Settlement

  By Christopher Crosby

  An executive cleared of bribery urged a London court on Tuesday to overturn findings that he could be named in a corporate settlement with the Serious Fraud Office, arguing that maintaining his privacy would not breach the principle of open justice.

• Met Confirms Probe Into Mandelson's Alleged Epstein Leaks

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  The Metropolitan Police confirmed on Tuesday that it will launch an official investigation into allegations that Peter Mandelson leaked government information to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

• HSBC Claims Barclay Bros Stalling Petition Over £140M Debt

  By Eddie Beaver

  HSBC Bank PLC told a London court on Tuesday that two members of the Barclay Family have owed it £140 million ($192 million) since April 2024 and that the brothers are now seeking to adjourn bankruptcy petitions "on very vague terms."

• Gov't Delays Fire And Rehire Reforms Until 2027

  By Adele Redmond

  The U.K. government said Tuesday that it would postpone a promised ban on controversial "fire and rehire" tactics until January 2027 as it set out an updated timeline for implementing reforms in the Employment Rights Act.

• SFO Will Drop London Mining Bribery Prosecution

  By Christopher Crosby

  The Serious Fraud Office will drop its prosecution against three people in the mining industry over their alleged involvement in a bribery scheme in Sierra Leone, a person with knowledge of the case said Monday.

• New 'British FBI' Plan Missing Vital Detail, Lawyers Say

  By Christopher Crosby

  Plans by the government to merge several fraud enforcement agencies give little detail about how the largest policing overhaul in 200 years will operate in practice, although lawyers say the Serious Fraud Office appears to be safe — for now.

• Doreen Lawrence Felt 'Violated' By Alleged Mail Spying

  By Ronan Barnard

  Campaigner Doreen Lawrence told a trial on Monday that she felt "violated" when she was told that the publisher of the Daily Mail had spied on her unlawfully while it publicly supported her family's efforts to secure justice for her murdered son.