Clifford Chance on Monday beat Société Générale SA's bid to move its €140 million ($145 million) negligence claim against the law firm's European arm to France, with the Court of Appeal ruling that the case should be heard in England.

The accounting watchdog said Monday that it has started an investigation into KPMG LLP over its audit of international betting company Entain PLC for the year to the end of December 2022.

Unionized judges called for the removal of the chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission, Helen Pitcher, in an open letter to the justice secretary on Monday.

In the past week, former lord chancellor Alex Chalk KC joined Jones Day's disputes practice, Jenner & Block recruited a seasoned investigations partner from Baker McKenzie to spearhead the launch of its public law practice and Mayer Brown scored its second partner from White & Case since the start of the year. Here, Law360 looks at those and more of the week's most notable lateral hires around the U.K.

Jones Day said Friday it has hired former justice secretary Alex Chalk KC as a partner in its London office, boosting its global disputes practice with both legal and political experience.

American vape maker NJOY convinced the Unified Patent Court on Friday to pull the plug on a vape device patent owned by its rival Juul in seven European countries, nixing one of several Juul patents NJOY is currently challenging.

An intellectual property group is urging the Unified Patent Court to clarify that parties' employees can act as representatives, expressing concern that a recent ruling has threatened in-house counsel's ability to appear at the court.

While the spotlight has focused on the soaring salaries for newly qualified solicitors, top barristers' chambers in London have also begun advertising substantial compensation packages amid a talent shortage and growing demand for commercial litigation.

A judge ordered the ex-wife of solicitor imprisoned for defrauding investors on Friday to explain how she acquired a house in northwest England after granting the Serious Fraud Office its first-ever unexplained wealth order

Imprisoned oligarch Ziyavudin Magomedov's $14 billion claim against Transneft, Rostatom, TPG and others over an alleged Russian state-led conspiracy to strip his assets in two major port operators was struck out at a London court on Friday.