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August 15, 2025
Medical Union Loses Bid To Block NHS Changes
A London judge denied a medical union's bid on Friday to stop the U.K.'s health department from implementing recommended changes to union members' jobs, ruling that the union had not met the test for relief before a full hearing.
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August 15, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Transport for London hit with a procurement claim by the operator of Oyster card, while Mastercard and Visa face claims from the Rocco Forte Hotel Group, and Liverpool Football Club lobbed a claim against a security company.
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August 15, 2025
Pro Rugby Exec Quits Alleging Misogyny From Owners
The chief operating officer of a professional rugby club has alleged its owners suggested she sleep with someone at the sport's governing body in an open letter on Thursday announcing her resignation.
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August 15, 2025
Engineer Fired After Raising Gas Safety Concerns Wins £66K
An employment tribunal has ordered an energy infrastructure company to pay a former chief engineer more than £66,000 ($89,500) for unfairly firing him after he raised concerns with a job to replace gas mains in London.
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August 15, 2025
Tech Co. Denies Liability For Founder's Legal Fees
An anti-piracy technology firm has rejected a founder's claim that it is obliged to pay for his £186,000 ($252,000) legal bill for litigation against the business, denying that it agreed to cover those legal fees.
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August 15, 2025
Asos Avoids Bias Case Over Worker With Anti-Uniform Beliefs
Fashion retailer Asos did not discriminate against the philosophical beliefs of an employee working for IT firm Ricoh UK by requiring him to wear uniforms that impeded his duties on-site, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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August 15, 2025
L&G Sees Near £1T Pension Deals Globally Over Next Decade
Legal & General has said global insurers could secure up to £1 trillion ($1.4 trillion) in pension liabilities over the next decade.
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August 14, 2025
Trustees Warned To Follow Rules Or Face Jail, Fines
The Pensions Regulator on Thursday warned pension scheme trustees that they face large fines or even jail if they flout investment rules designed to protect savers.
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August 14, 2025
UK Faces Pensions Crisis As Savings Fall Short, Says Official
A director at the pensions watchdog has said that ensuring workers in Britain have sufficient financial resources in later life is the "challenge of our time."
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August 14, 2025
Ex-CEO Denies Contract Breaches In £4.6M Dividend Spat
An education company's former chief executive has denied allegations in a £4.6 million ($6.2 million) claim that she had caused the business to violate the terms of its government contracts by paying herself profits as dividends rather than reinvesting them.
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August 14, 2025
WTW Trust Invests £450M In Schroders Renewables Fund
Insurance broker WTW said Thursday that its defined contribution master trust will invest $450 million in a fund of renewable energy-focused investment manager Schroders Greencoat LLP.
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August 14, 2025
Retail Assets Under Management Overtake Pension Assets
The Investment Association said that for the first time, pension assets fell below retail assets as a proportion of assets under management by investment managers, driven by the continued impact of the 2022 gilts sell-off and by direct benefit pension scheme wind-downs.
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August 14, 2025
Prison Officer Can Appeal Firing Over Clash With Colleague
A former prison officer on Thursday won a bid to revive his case that he was unfairly sacked for confronting a colleague after the pair had a heated exchange while he was subject to a final written warning.
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August 14, 2025
Cycling Charity Bans Trans Women From Gongs After Ruling
A British cycling charity has banned transgender women from being nominated for an annual award for females following legal advice.
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August 14, 2025
Workplace Safety Regulator To Probe Reality TV Star's Death
Britain's regulator for workplace health and safety will take over the investigation into the death of a former reality TV personality who fell to his death.
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August 14, 2025
Aviva Reports Dip In Pension Deals Amid Market Slowdown
Insurance giant Aviva said Thursday that it penned £2 billion ($2.7 billion) worth of bulk annuity deals in the first half of 2025, marking a fall compared with the corresponding period the previous year.
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August 13, 2025
HSF Kramer, CMS Guide £36M Pension Deal For German Bank
Pension Insurance Corp. has completed a £36 million ($49 million) buy-in transaction involving the pensions of 156 members of The Helaba Group in a deal guided by CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP and Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP.
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August 13, 2025
Thousands Of Sainsbury's Female Staff Fight For Equal Pay
Thousands of female shop workers for retail giant Sainsbury's have claimed that their jobs are of equal value to those of better-paid male warehouse staff in their fight for equal pay.
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August 13, 2025
UK Employers Targeted By Foreign Worker Sponsorship Scam
U.K. organizations that sponsor overseas workers have been targeted by fraudsters posing as the Home Office and using a sophisticated phishing scam to steal sensitive data, according to cybersecurity company Mimecast.
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August 13, 2025
EAT Draws Hard Line On Bringing 2nd Claim During 1st
An appeals tribunal has upheld a decision to block a worker's second claim against a social housing provider, ruling that he should have tried to add the complaint to the first claim he had filed.
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August 13, 2025
Gov't Urged To Tackle UK Self-Employed Pensions 'Crisis'
The government should allow HM Revenue and Customs and financial advisers to provide personalized "nudges" to self-employed workers to encourage retirement saving amid mounting concern that they are not putting enough money aside, a cross-party think tank has said.
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August 13, 2025
Recruitment Co. Founder Wins £229K For Botched Dismissal
A recruitment agency must pay £229,118 ($310,000) to one of its co-founders after it unfairly dismissed him and failed to pay him his bonus, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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August 13, 2025
Squire Patton Steers £23M Pension Deal For UK Steelmaker
Reinforced-steel supplier Rom Ltd. has agreed a £23 million ($31 million) full pension scheme buy-in with Just Group, the financial services company said Wednesday.
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August 13, 2025
Machinery Biz FD Gets 11-Year Ban For £1.5M Undeclared Tax
A former financial director of a machinery business has been banned from the profession for 11 years for submitting false value-added tax returns over three years and leaving more than £1.5 million ($2 million) undeclared to HM Revenue and Customs.
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August 12, 2025
Calling A Woman's Attire 'Conservative' Could Be Harassment
A tribunal has ruled that a business consultant working at Shell may have harassed a female colleague by labeling her clothes "conservative," rejecting the consultant's own set of claims against his former employer.