The Serious Fraud Office acknowledged on Wednesday that it "inappropriately" erased the mobile phone of its former director, Lisa Osofsky, during litigation over alleged leaks in what mining giant ENRC told a London court was a "flagrant breach" of its disclosure obligations.

Early talks between prosecutors and defendants could ease the pressures of disclosure in complex economic crime cases where the large volume of online evidence creates a risk that suspects will be denied a fair trial, a government-backed review advised Wednesday.

Autonomy's ex-chief technology officer testified Tuesday in the California federal fraud trial of former CEO Michael Lynch that he had concerns about Autonomy's "bizarre" 2010 deal to sell $6 million in repackaged hardware, which prosecutors allege was never delivered and was only used to artificially inflate Autonomy's revenues.

The Post Office's former general counsel felt "scapegoated" over the conclusions of an independent report she commissioned into the IT system used to prosecute hundreds of innocent people, she told the inquiry into the scandal Tuesday.

Junior woman barristers in their first three years of practice earned an average of 13% less than their male colleagues in 2022, showing a slight improvement from the 17% disparity the year before, a Bar Council report published Tuesday found.

Retail giant Tesco violated workers' contracts when it "fired and rehired" them so it could remove what it described as a "permanent" pay supplement, a British trade union argued to the U.K. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

French private equity firm PAI Partners said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in British audio technology business Audiotonix from its rival investment firm Ardian, in a deal guided by Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP.

Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi asked a London court on Tuesday to prevent Panasonic from suing it in overseas jurisdictions amid a patent dispute, arguing that its Japanese rival is using the threat of injunctions to put pressure on it to accept a licensing deal.

Pfizer urged a London court on Tuesday to revoke one of Moderna's patents for the mRNA vaccine, kicking off the U.K. arm of the global litigation campaign over the central intellectual property behind the COVID-19 jabs.

JD Sports said on Tuesday that it has proposed to buy U.S. athletic fashion retailer Hibbet Inc. for approximately $1.08 billion as the U.K. sportswear store chain eyes expansion in the American southeast.