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July 21, 2026
M&G said Tuesday that it has taken on £760 million ($1 billion) of pension plan liabilities from a retirement savings program sponsored by FTSE 100 engineering business Smiths Group, in a deal steered by Sackers.
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July 21, 2026
A former copy chief at The Economist told a London tribunal on Tuesday that its publisher carried out a sham redundancy process after she raised complaints of misogyny and discrimination at the publication.
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July 21, 2026
The government's flagship pension review faces a tough decision in balancing higher long-term retirement savings against lower monthly paychecks for workers, a think tank warned on Tuesday.
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July 21, 2026
The government's plan to overhaul rules on pension scams should be tweaked to avoid unnecessary delays to fund transfers, an industry counter-fraud body warned Tuesday.
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July 20, 2026
A tribunal has ruled that HM Revenue and Customs must pay a former employee £155,100 ($206,700) after a senior manager accused him of lying about his depression when applying for his job.
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July 20, 2026
Andy Burnham succeeded Keir Starmer as British prime minister on Monday, pledging to end four decades of private sector-led policy by expanding state control over people's well-being and the economy.
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July 20, 2026
A former British aerospace company engineer has denied sharing its confidential data with a U.S. rival, saying a copy of a propulsion system she designed gave her no competitive advantage because she deleted it soon after leaving.
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July 20, 2026
The government must encourage pension schemes to invest more in the domestic economy through targeted incentives and a stronger pipeline of investment opportunities, rather than impose mandatory size thresholds or deadlines, a trade body has warned.
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July 20, 2026
The government's legislative fix for the fallout from a landmark court ruling is not a panacea for all pension programs, a trade body has warned.
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July 20, 2026
A London appellate judge has revived race discrimination claims brought by a former Barclays vice president, overturning a ruling by an earlier tribunal that the executive had waited too long to bring his case.
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July 20, 2026
Andy Burnham's government must prioritize a "stable, long-term" framework for defined benefit pensions in the U.K., with a clear focus on a range of already legislated reforms set to shake up the retirement savings landscape, a consultancy has said.
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July 17, 2026
A tribunal has ruled that a vehicle logistics company discriminated against a driver by refusing to amend her shift pattern to accommodate her arthritis after it moved her onto a longer rota that made painful flare-ups of her condition more likely.
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July 17, 2026
Two former directors of a telecom technology company have settled their £8 million ($10.8 million) claim against their successors over allegedly being tricked into selling their shares at a fraction of their true value.
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July 17, 2026
Unite the Union has failed to strike out its former legal chief's claim accusing the union of leaking details of his suspension to the press, after a London judge ruled that an earlier tribunal decision left too much uncertainty over who was responsible.
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July 17, 2026
Proposals to reform equal pay laws and processes in the U.K. fall short of radical new European rules on pay transparency and equality — but the government's more incremental approach is likely to be unpopular with employers concerned that it will increase wage costs and sow division among workers.
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July 17, 2026
The past week in London has seen Snapchat and Dolby press on with a fresh infringement claim in their ongoing patent battle, The Telegraph face an intellectual property claim by a photo archive, a group of international human rights barristers and chambers sued, and oil business Equinor embroiled in a contract dispute with BP after recently acquiring full ownership in their offshore project. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 17, 2026
The government must revise its planned changes to pension transfer regulations, as proposals intended to strengthen protections against scams could instead create unnecessary barriers to legitimate transfers while doing little to deter fraud, an industry body has warned.
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July 17, 2026
A former employee of a sports data firm has denied misusing any confidential information in breach of his employment contract, telling a London court that he emailed himself documents only to preserve evidence during a "flawed" disciplinary process.
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July 16, 2026
A London appeals tribunal held Thursday that two rail operators breached collective bargaining rules by cutting negotiations short and taking a pay offer directly to union members, preserving a £4.9 million ($6.4 million) payout to 1,250 workers.
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July 16, 2026
Europe's top court ruled Thursday that the rules of the governing body of world football regarding players' agents breach the EU's ban on cartels, but said national courts must decide whether other rules also violate competition law.
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July 16, 2026
A human resources adviser has lost a bid to expand her disability discrimination appeal against the National Health Service, after an appellate tribunal found she waited too long to challenge an earlier decision that part of her claim was out of time.
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July 16, 2026
The U.K. government should develop a clearer national framework for measuring retirement adequacy to ensure the pension system is guaranteeing savers have enough money to live well in later life, an influential trade body has said.
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July 16, 2026
The Ministry of Defence has defeated a sex discrimination claim from a female member of the Royal Navy, convincing a tribunal that it was not unfair to restrict her participation in a fitness test required to become a higher-ranked officer because she had recently had a baby.
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July 16, 2026
Pension Insurance Corporation PLC has taken on full responsibility for all 36,000 members of the Rolls-Royce UK Pension Fund, just nine months after signing a £4.3 billion ($5.8 billion) deal with the British aerospace and defense giant.
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July 16, 2026
The number of U.K. pensioners paying income tax has risen by three million in the five years since earning thresholds were frozen, government figures have revealed.