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April 14, 2025
Ex-BGC Tax Adviser Admits Contempt In £23M Fraud Case
A former BGC Partners employee faces a potential jail sentence after admitting before a London judge Monday that he breached restrictions the court imposed after he committed a £23.5 million ($30.9 million) fraud against a subsidiary.
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April 14, 2025
Costco OK To Fire Worker For Positive Breath Alcohol Tests
Costco has defeated a former staffer's claims of unfair dismissal after an employment tribunal ruled that she was "straw clutching" by denying scientific evidence that she had come to work under the influence of alcohol.
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April 14, 2025
Pensions Body Warns Of Risks Of AI Adoption
The U.K.'s tough regulatory environment will mean that artificial intelligence is unlikely to replace pension trustees in key decision-making roles anytime soon, a trade body said.
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April 14, 2025
Pension Trustees Warned To Plan Ahead In Dashboard Prep
U.K. pension plans have been warned to plan for bottlenecks in processing customer data as they prepare to meet deadlines for new government-backed online portals.
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April 14, 2025
Squire Patton Guides £120M Pensions Deal For Utilities Co.
Pensions insurer Just Group said on Monday that it has taken on £120 million ($158 million) in retirement savings liabilities from a plan sponsored by a U.K. water supplier, in a deal guided by Squire Patton Boggs.
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April 11, 2025
Gowling Partner Revives Claim Against Ex-Boss At Credit Firm
A Gowling WLG partner on Friday rekindled her whistleblowing claim against her boss at a credit firm where she previously worked, convincing a London appeals judge that an earlier tribunal was wrong to let the executive off the hook.
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April 11, 2025
Teacher Loses Racial Bias, Harassment Claim
An employment tribunal has thrown out a teacher's claims that staff at a grammar school in southeast England discriminated and harassed her, putting an end to her case after she'd already had allegations that the head teacher committed insurance fraud to pay his solicitors tossed out.
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April 11, 2025
UK Urged To Reduce Gov't Interference In Pension Sector
The U.K. government should consider freeing pension providers to allocate the assets wherever they choose to maximize returns and boost the country's economic growth, an industry association has said.
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April 11, 2025
Hilton Settles Hiring Dispute Over Sabbath Observance
The Hilton Belfast hotel has agreed to pay £10,000 ($13,000) to a man who claimed that the hotel rescinded its job offer because of his Judeo-Christian beliefs, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has said.
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April 11, 2025
Guardian Says Actor's Libel Claim Is 'Bizarre' And 'Childish'
The publisher of The Guardian newspaper argued at the end of a trial on Friday that it was "frankly inconceivable" that stories alleging actor Noel Clarke sexually harassed, abused and assaulted women for about 15 years were the result of a defamation conspiracy.
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April 11, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen law firm Michael Wilson & Partners reignite a 20-year dispute with a former director over an alleged plot to form a rival partnership, headphone maker Marshall Amplification sue a rival in the intellectual property court, and a commercial diving company pursue action against state-owned nuclear waste processor Sellafield. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new cases in the U.K.
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April 11, 2025
Officer Loses Appeal Over Unapproved COVID-19 Leave
A former security officer has lost his appeal challenging a tribunal's decision to reject his claim for unfair dismissal after he took five weeks off during the COVID-19 pandemic to look after his vulnerable mother without permission.
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April 11, 2025
NHS Asks To Limit Streaming Access To Changing Room Case
A National Health Service board has asked the Employment Tribunal to restrict public access to a case brought by a nurse, who says that she was harassed in a dispute over a transgender doctor's use of a single-sex changing room.
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April 10, 2025
Recruiter Wins £25K For Maternity Bias, Unequal Pay
A recruitment consultant who left her job when her employer reneged on its offer for reduced hours after she had a baby has won more than £25,000 ($32,400), with a tribunal upholding her claim for maternity discrimination.
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April 10, 2025
Dyslexic College Lecturer Wins Bias Case Over High Workload
An employment tribunal has ordered a U.K. college to pay £25,357 ($32,812) to a lecturer for making harassing comments about her dyslexia and failing to ease her workload, despite a doctor's report showing she was feeling overwhelmed.
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April 10, 2025
Part-Time Driver Says Booking-Fee Ruling Applied Wrong Test
A minicab driver urged a London appellate court Thursday to overturn part of a tribunal's decision about whether his employer treated him worse for being a part-time employee, arguing that the tribunal had applied the wrong legal test.
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April 10, 2025
Navy Reservist Can Sue Over Part-Time Pay Rate Complaints
A Royal Navy reservist can bring a claim that he was mistreated for seeking equal pay with full-time sailors in the service, as a tribunal ruled that the apparent statutory exclusion of reservists from that right "cannot be read literally."
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April 10, 2025
Charity Worker Fired Without Inquiry Wins Reduced Payout
An employment tribunal has ordered a charity for people with learning disabilities to pay £6,100 ($7,900) to a former support worker for failing to investigate accusations that she abused users of the service before firing her.
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April 10, 2025
Aspiring Barclays Manager Gets OK To Bring Sex Bias Claim
An employment tribunal has ruled that a Barclays Bank employee who was passed over for promotion after going on maternity leave can go ahead with her pregnancy discrimination claim despite missing the deadline, finding she had reasonably relied on internal grievance procedures.
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April 09, 2025
Sales Manager Fired For Running Own Eye Drops Biz Gets Payout
An employment tribunal has ordered a management software firm to pay £10,219 ($13,037) to a former sales manager, after bosses jumped to the conclusion that he was liable for gross misconduct for setting up his own company.
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April 09, 2025
Part-Time Firefighter Loses Claim Demotion Was Biased
A fire service did not discriminate against a firefighter based on his part-time status when it demoted him to a lower role after his predecessor returned from leave, a tribunal has ruled.
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April 09, 2025
NHS Staff Win Pay Rise And Protections After Strikes
More than a million National Health Service staff will benefit from a package of improved pay and measures to tackle violence against health workers announced by the health secretary on Wednesday, after years of negotiations and industrial action.
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April 09, 2025
Howden Accused Of Poaching Entire W&I Team From PIB
A subsidiary of insurance consolidator PIB has accused Howden of decimating its warranty and indemnity team by poaching 32 staffers and executives and for recruitment in the rival's underwriting division, Dual.
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April 09, 2025
Care Provider Unfairly Fired Staffer With Long COVID, Crohn's
A care organization unfairly axed a disabled employee on grounds of ill-health after his long COVID and Crohn's disease left him unable to take on a full workload, a tribunal has ruled.
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April 09, 2025
Rothesay Seals £105M Pensions Deal With Skipton
A pension plan for U.K. building society Skipton has agreed a £105 million ($135 million) full buy-in deal with insurer Rothesay Life PLC, securing the benefits of all 705 members.