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  SFO Insider Tapped To Lead Agency As Ephgrave Exits

  By Christopher Crosby

  The attorney general tapped on Thursday a senior official at the Serious Fraud Office to run the white-collar ag...(read more)

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  SRA Backs Mazur Litigation Rights Limits On Appeal

  By William Janes

  The solicitors' watchdog asked a London appeals court on Thursday to uphold a decision that unauthorized law fir...(read more)

• Nokia Submits To UK Court's Role In Paramount Patent Feud

  By Jamie Lennox

  Nokia said Thursday it has agreed to let a London judge set global terms for a license allowing Paramount and Warner Bros. to use its video coding patents, backing down from its earlier challenge to the U.K. court's jurisdiction.

• Broker Denies Tricking Investors Over ESMA Risk Before IPO

  By Joel Poultney

  Broker Plus500 Ltd. has denied in litigation with a group of institutional investors that it withheld information before going public, saying it was clear that impending European rules designed to protect retail investors could hurt the online trading platform's business.

• CMA Advocates Ban On Noncompetes For Low-Paid Workers

  By Hanna Vioque

  The U.K.'s competition watchdog has told the government that it should ban noncompete clauses for employees earning below a certain threshold, but stopped short of calling for a blanket ban.  

• Amazon Loses Bid to Halt £4B Class Actions Over 'Buy Boxes'

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  Amazon lost its bid to stifle two major class action cases against it on Thursday, as the Court of Appeal rejected its attempts to challenge tribunal decisions that gave the green light for the £4 billion ($5.4) cases to proceed to trial.

• Tribunal Can't Delay Ruling On Tesco Equal Pay Job Analysis

  By Adele Redmond

  An employment tribunal must rehear arguments about the effort required to perform different roles at Tesco after an appellate tribunal ruled Thursday that a judge was wrong to avoid dealing with the issue in the long-running equal pay claim.

• Louis Theroux's Co. Beats 'Alien Autopsy' Copyright Claim

  By Eddie Beaver

  A court dismissed on Thursday a movie director's claim that Louis Theroux's production company is infringing his copyright in the 1995 "Alien Autopsy" film by producing its upcoming documentary on the origins of the hoax footage.

• FCA Tests Global Reach In HTX Crypto-Exchange Litigation

  By Alex Davidson

  The landmark legal case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority against HTX, which the regulator says has promoted crypto-asset services to U.K. consumers without authorization, will be a litmus test, establishing whether it has the teeth for enforcement against overseas crypto-exchanges, lawyers say.

• Rolls-Royce Unveils £9B Buyback Package

  By Irene Madongo

  Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC said it plans to return between £7 billion and £9 billion ($9.5 to $12 billion) to investors through share buybacks in the next few years as it revealed Thursday that it had started a £2.3 billion repurchase program.

• EU, UK To Share Info On 'Significant' Antitrust Probes

  By Bryan Koenig

  British and European Union officials signed a new agreement Wednesday promising to notify each other of major merger and antitrust probes and coordinate their efforts "when necessary," in what they called the first dedicated competition cooperation agreement following the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.

• FCA To Launch Review Of AI Use By Insurance Industry

  By Martin Croucher

  The U.K.'s financial services watchdog plans to launch an investigation into the benefits and risks of insurers using artificial intelligence in their businesses in the coming months.

• Harrods Staff Fight For £1 Charge To Be Treated As Tip

  By Adele Redmond

  Staff at Harrods began their battle on Wednesday for a £1-per-person levy that the department store charges diners in its restaurant to be paid to them as tips, in what their union claims is the first legal challenge under a law passed in 2023.

• Microsoft Stops Finnish Tech Biz Reviving UPC Claim

  By Jamie Lennox

  Appellate judges at the Unified Patent Court have refused to reopen a Finnish tech company's failed patent infringement claim against Microsoft, ruling that the court made no obvious error in throwing out the case.