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February 13, 2026
Two fired executives of a regional newspaper publisher have denied they must repay the company more than £900,000 ($1.2 million) in compensation, claiming they were wrongly forced out of the company for blowing the whistle on the fraudulent overcharging of advertisers.
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February 13, 2026
The U.K.'s prosecution oversight body said Friday it would prioritize a planned review of the Serious Fraud Office after it dropped the prosecution of former mining executives in part due to disclosure failings.
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February 13, 2026
The next director of the Serious Fraud Office must tackle the systemic disclosure failings that haunt its cases or face recurring questions about the agency's credibility after the latest collapse of a prosecution over problems with its handling of evidence, lawyers say.
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February 13, 2026
This past week in London has seen a former U.S. defense contractor convicted of tax evasion face legal action, French football club Olympique Lyonnais sued following a $97 million ruling against its owner John Textor, consulting giant Kroll targeted by a South African airline, and H&M hit with a claim alleging it copied protected sunglasses designs. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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February 13, 2026
The U.K. competition watchdog has fined a car parking giant more than £473,000 ($645,000) for failing to comply with a request to hand over information, rejecting the company's excuse that it thought the request was a scam.
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February 12, 2026
Dutch prosecutors hit the Netherlands subsidiary of Louis Voutton with a €500,000 ($593,000) fine Thursday for anti-money laundering violations after it said the fashion house failed to vet customers who repeatedly made large cash purchases.
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February 12, 2026
The Labour government should not introduce what is known as a holiday tax on the hospitality industry, more than 200 hotel companies told the U.K.'s finance minister.
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February 12, 2026
A former legal secretary at Latham & Watkins LLP has been barred from working for another law firm after a criminal court convicted her of defrauding a partner at the firm of more than £50,000 ($68,105).
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February 12, 2026
The U.K. government published on Thursday its detailed proposed changes to the appointed representatives regime, which will give the Financial Conduct Authority new powers to crack down on misconduct.
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February 12, 2026
An English broker told Britain's top court on Thursday that Denmark's tax authority can't sue it for more than £56 million ($76 million) over a tax refund fraud, because an earlier decision in related proceedings rendered the claim inadmissible.
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February 12, 2026
A former police officer has been convicted of 15 counts of fraud by abuse of position in which he dipped into about £13,500 ($18,500) in the petty cash of a staff association for police constables to fund his family holidays.
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February 12, 2026
The Serious Fraud Office said Thursday that it is reexamining the integrity of approximately 20 cases after it abandoned a decade-old bribery prosecution because of another failing in disclosure.
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February 11, 2026
The root cause of the collapse of criminal proceedings against two men accused of spying for China was outdated legislation, but the risk of future problems has not been entirely negated by a new national security law, a parliamentary committee warned Thursday.
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February 11, 2026
A veteran compliance expert has persuaded an employment tribunal that she was forced to quit working at a car dealership because bosses had unfairly passed her over for a promotion to a new head role and given the job to a man.
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February 11, 2026
Denmark told Britain's top court on Wednesday that it should be allowed to sue an English brokerage for £56 million ($76 million) over a tax refund fraud, arguing that an earlier decision barring linked allegations was based on "fundamentally different" facts.
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February 11, 2026
The U.K. arm of Bank of Africa should not have been held liable for its chief executive's decision to fire a whistleblowing human resources executive, a London appeals tribunal ruled on Wednesday.
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February 11, 2026
A European Union court lifted sanctions on Wednesday against the daughter of the chief executive of a Russian state-controlled oil and gas company, finding that the bloc's council had failed to produce fresh evidence for reimposing the restrictions.
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February 11, 2026
PwC has paid £150,000 ($205,000) to settle an age and disability discrimination claim from a former employee of more than 40 years, the equality watchdog for Northern Ireland has revealed.
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February 11, 2026
VTB Bank asked a London appeals court on Wednesday to lift an injunction that blocks it from bringing a $156 million case in Russia over frozen funds, arguing a judge wrongly concluded that its claim was "vexatious and oppressive."
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February 10, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority will require lenders to conduct affordability checks and give consumers clearer information before they borrow under deferred payment plans, Britain's financial watchdog said Wednesday as it moves to regulate the rapidly growing "buy now, pay later" sector.
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February 10, 2026
Britain's competition enforcer said Tuesday that Apple and Google have committed to fairness and transparency measures for their respective app stores, after the mobile platforms were designated as having strategic market status under the country's new digital regime.
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February 10, 2026
A London judge convicted a solicitor on Tuesday of stalking a legal blogger after he sent numerous, unwanted and "aggressive" emails proposing sex and threatening litigation if his advances were rejected.
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February 10, 2026
Capita lost its bid on Tuesday to strike out a £4 million ($5.5 million) claim over the fallout from a cyberattack, with a London court rejecting the outsourcing giant's argument that the claimants' lawyers "tainted" the case by embellishing allegations of harm.
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February 10, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said Tuesday it has started legal action against global crypto exchange HTX for illegally promoting crypto asset services to U.K. consumers, amid continuing communications on platforms including X, YouTube and LinkedIn.
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February 10, 2026
WhatsApp can pursue its challenge to an order from a European Union board for Irish authorities to increase a data-protection fine to €225 million ($268 million), the bloc's top court said Tuesday.