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August 05, 2025
Christian Teacher Fired For 'Islamophobic' Post Sues For Bias
A Christian teacher has accused his former school of launching a "witch hunt" to oust him for making allegedly Islamophobic social media posts, claiming that he was only expressing concerns over violent crime following a Muslim student's assault of two police officers.
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August 05, 2025
Minimum Wage Hike Likely Amid Push To End Youth Pay Rate
The government said Tuesday that it might raise the minimum wage after asking the independent body tasked with recommending rates to narrow the gap between 18- to 20-year-olds and those aged 21.
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August 05, 2025
Barclays Defends Firing Banker Over Alleged Fee Cover-Up
A Barclays PLC subsidiary told an employment tribunal on Tuesday that it was entitled to fire an ex-investment banker for allegedly attempting to conceal an error in client interest fees, saying it conducted a thorough investigation and denying the ex-employee's unfair dismissal claims.
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August 05, 2025
Companies House To Roll Out Compulsory ID Verification
Companies House said Tuesday that from November this year it will require company directors to verify their identities, the latest move in the registrar's rollout of heightened powers to protect against fraud.
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August 05, 2025
State Pension Gender Gap Almost Eliminated
Men and women retiring now receive largely the same amount of money from the state pension, according to official figures published Tuesday.
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August 05, 2025
CMS, Sackers Guide National Grid On £900M Pension Deal
The pension plan of National Grid has agreed to a £900 million ($1.2 billion) buy-in with Rothesay Life PLC, the insurer said Tuesday.
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August 04, 2025
Employment Lawyer Barred For Misleading Clients, Tribunal
A London tribunal has barred a lawyer from practicing after she admitted to the Solicitors Regulation Authority that she had provided misleading information to an employment tribunal and three clients when she said she had been overworked.
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August 04, 2025
Solicitor Ignored Red Flags In Property Deals, Tribunal Told
The Solicitors Regulation Authority told a disciplinary tribunal Monday that a lawyer who displayed "manifest incompetence" when he failed to prevent a number of fraudulent or potentially fraudulent property deals should face disciplinary consequences.
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August 04, 2025
Serco Must Pay £750K To 147 Staff For Trade Union Breaches
A tribunal has ordered Serco to pay 147 immigration center workers more than £750,000 ($997,000) in total after it ruled that the public services contractor breached trade union laws by making a pay offer directly to staff.
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August 04, 2025
Pool Federation Defeats Trans Player's Challenge To Ban
A transgender pool player has lost her case that a ban on her playing in women's teams and competitions is discriminatory, one of the first tests of the U.K. Supreme Court's watershed ruling on the legal definition of a woman.
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August 04, 2025
FIFA Faces Multibillion-Dollar Action Over Transfer Rules
FIFA is facing a potentially multibillion-dollar class action on behalf of approximately 100,000 footballers across the European Union and the U.K. over its allegedly unlawful and restrictive no-poaching agreements that have been in place since 2002, a Dutch foundation revealed Monday.
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August 04, 2025
Half Of Britons Clueless On Pension Investment Performance
More than half of U.K. pension savers do not know how their retirement pots are performing, Hargreaves Lansdown said Monday.
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August 04, 2025
Pensions Dashboards Could Ease UK Inheritance Tax 'Chaos'
The government could use new online retirement savings portals to ease the expected chaos around introducing inheritance tax on pension wealth, a professional services company said Monday.
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August 04, 2025
Accountancy Boss Denies Siphoning Funds During Exit Talks
A businessman accused of wrongly extracting at least £850,000 ($1.1 million) from an accountancy has denied this was a conspiracy to harm the firm and claimed he was taking out money he considered at the time that he and his wife were owed.
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August 04, 2025
Venues Biz Beats Axed Staffer's Appeal To Use Leaked Emails
An appeals judge has blocked the former employee of a venue operator from using leaked emails between the company and its lawyer to support her tribunal claim, ruling that the correspondence was legally privileged.
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August 01, 2025
Spacey Claims No Memory Of Actor In Old Vic Assault Case
Kevin Spacey has denied sexually assaulting British actor Ruari Cannon during a 2013 production at the Old Vic theater, telling a London court he has "no recollection of ever meeting" Cannon.
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August 01, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Skadden, Wachtell, Latham
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. announce megamerger plans, Palo Alto Networks acquires identity security company CyberArk, Brookfield buys British life insurer Just Group, and Duke Energy sells its Piedmont Natural Gas Tennessee local distribution business to Spire Inc.
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August 01, 2025
Barclays Adviser Wrongly Fired Over Sexual Remarks
A former Barclays employee was unfairly dismissed for making sexual comments to female colleagues, but he could have been fairly dismissed for the same conduct, according to a Glasgow tribunal ruling.
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August 01, 2025
Unvaxxed Care Workers Lose Bid To Sue Gov't Over Firings
More than a hundred unvaccinated care home workers fired during the COVID-19 pandemic have failed to convince an appellate tribunal that they should be able to sue the government for discrimination alongside their former employers.
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August 01, 2025
Pension Watchdog Warns Trustees On 'Systemic' Climate Risk
Britain's retirement saving's watchdog has urged pension scheme trustees to treat climate change as a core financial risk, as the regulator looks to set up an industry working group to work on a practical approach to environment-related matters.
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August 01, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen several telco giants hit with a trademark claim, a collapsed hotel company sue a property investor in an ongoing dispute over a decades-old hotel sale, and two litigation funders square off against each other.
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August 01, 2025
Barrister Fails To Overturn Disbarment For Sexual Misconduct
A former barrister has lost his bid to challenge his disbarment for sexual misconduct, with a court ruling that a tribunal was entitled to find that a lighter sentence would be inappropriate given his repeated offenses and lack of insight.
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July 31, 2025
Equality Watchdog Gets New Chair Amid Trans Controversy
The government appointed a controversial new chair to the Equality and Human Rights Commission on Thursday, despite accusations she had endorsed gender-critical views, as the commission fights a challenge to the legality of its guidance on toilet use for trans people.
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July 31, 2025
West Ham Star Cleared Of Spot-Fixing Matches
The Football Association said Thursday that an independent panel has cleared West Ham United player Lucas Paquetá of four spot-fixing charges linked to allegations that he had deliberately received yellow cards in four Premier League matches.
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July 31, 2025
Tesco Wins Partial Victory Over Tribunal Errors On Equal Pay
Tesco won part of its bid on Thursday to challenge a tribunal's findings about what constitutes equal work, as an appellate judge agreed that the panel had made mistakes in its comparison of female and male employees' roles.