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February 06, 2025
Voodoo Doll Comment Not Racial, Religious Harassment
An employment tribunal has ruled that Voodoo is a legally protected religion, dismissing a Black Christian's housing support officer's claim that he was harassed by a colleague's "lighthearted" comment about a voodoo doll.
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February 06, 2025
Energy Trader Faked Illness When Quitting For Rival
An energy trading company has won its breach of contract claim against a former employee who quit to work for a rival, after a court concluded that he used sickness as a "ruse" to avoid working during a noncompete restriction period.
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February 06, 2025
Tribunal Missed 'Wider Picture' Of Harassment, Worker Claims
A former payroll supervisor at car rental company Enterprise took her claim for unfair dismissal and harassment to the Court of Appeal on Thursday, arguing that the lower courts had failed to assess the wider picture of her alleged mistreatment when finding no harassment had occurred.
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February 06, 2025
Pension Funds Warned Of Impact Of Global Trade War
Pension providers should consider the potential impact on their funding levels of a global trade war in the coming months, a consultancy warned Thursday.
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February 05, 2025
EU Guidance Clarifies AI Rules, But Key Concepts Lack Detail
Lawyers broadly welcomed the European Commission's belated guidance on newly enforced laws banning so-called artificial intelligence systems that pose an unacceptable risk Wednesday, but are wary of provisions regarding how AI providers should crack down on the prohibited use of their systems.
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February 05, 2025
Naomi Campbell Wins Shot To Fight Charity Trustee Ban
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been granted permission to challenge a decision by the U.K.'s charity watchdog banning her as a charity trustee after she claimed that her fellow trustee had impersonated her in correspondence with lawyers.
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February 05, 2025
UK Gov't Data Shows Rise In Legal Sector Data Breaches
Data breaches in the U.K. legal sector have increased by more than a third, impacting 7.9 million individuals in the 12 months that ended July 1, 2024, according to an analysis released Wednesday of U.K. Information Commissioner's Office data by document and email management company NetDocuments.
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February 05, 2025
Directors Banned For Misleading Student Housing Investors
The U.K.'s Insolvency Service has banned three men as company directors for misleading investors who had put over £4 million ($5 million) into a student housing development but were left uncompensated when the development companies became insolvent.
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February 05, 2025
Large Orgs Facing 20 Employment Tribunal Claims Per Year
Large businesses are seeing around 20 Employment Tribunal claims per year with unfair dismissal and disability discrimination cases at the forefront, a law firm's new study has suggested.
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February 05, 2025
Guardian Beats Actor's Claim Reporters Faked Libel Evidence
Actor Noel Clarke has lost his bid to strike out The Guardian newspaper's public interest defense against his libel claim over articles about sexual misconduct allegations against him, as a London court ruled on Wednesday that his lawyers had wrongly accused journalists of fabricating evidence.
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February 05, 2025
IT Pro Unfairly Fired For Staying In Pakistan During COVID
An employment tribunal has ruled that a technology software company unfairly fired a developer who failed to return from Pakistan after 29 months away during the COVID-19 pandemic, ruling that bosses had wrongly concluded her dismissal was "inevitable."
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February 05, 2025
Black NHS Nurse Wins Bias Claim Over Meds Theft Allegation
A tribunal has held that a National Health Service trust discriminated against a Black nurse when a manager accused her of stealing medicine while on shift, ruling that a white co-worker would not have faced the same allegation.
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February 04, 2025
Whistleblowing Failures Cost Gov't £426M, Report Finds
Failing to heed whistleblowers contributed to three major scandals that cost the U.K. government over £426 million ($529 million), a whistleblowing charity said in a report Tuesday as it demanded urgent reforms.
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February 04, 2025
Barclays Poised To Slash Former Staffer's Racism Claims
Barclays has won a key decision as it looks to beat a former employee's race discrimination case, convincing a tribunal that he brought the vast majority of his claims too late.
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February 04, 2025
Sustainable Growth Must Take Pensions Priority, LCP Says
Government plans to drive growth in the U.K. through redirected investment from retirement savings schemes must prioritize environmental concerns and sustainability, a consultancy said Tuesday.
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February 04, 2025
Business Leaders Seek 'Targeted' Edits To Workers' Rights Bill
Making "targeted changes" to the Employment Rights Bill would soften the harmful impact of the reforms on hiring, a business leaders' network has claimed as it reports historically low levels of confidence among companies about investment and growth.
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February 04, 2025
3 Firms Advise On £25M Pension Deal For Redress Program
The U.K.'s financial compensation scheme has passed £25 million ($31 million) of its staff pension liabilities to Pension Insurance Corp. PLC, the insurer said, in a deal guided by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Eversheds Sutherland and Arc Pensions Law LLP.
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February 03, 2025
'Far-Reaching' EU Ban On High-Risk AI Models Now In Effect
The European Union on Sunday ushered in key laws to rein in the use of artificial intelligence systems that pose an "unacceptable risk," but a lack of guidance from the bloc has companies in the dark.
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February 03, 2025
Uyghur Rights Group To Sue FCA If Shein Gets LSE Listing
A Uyghur human rights group has threatened to take the Financial Conduct Authority to court if it permits Shein to list on the London Stock Exchange, stepping up its fight against the ultra-fast-fashion giant over slavery concerns.
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February 03, 2025
Pension Deal Demand To Be Unaffected By Surplus Reform
The government's plans to allow U.K. businesses to tap into £160 billion ($198 billion) of pension surpluses will be unlikely to significantly dent demand for insurance risk transfer deals in the near future, a ratings agency said Monday.
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February 03, 2025
Schroders Commits To Extracting Pension Surplus
Asset manager Schroders said that it has struck a deal to allow its staff retirement savings plan to run on as the government weighs regulation to allow businesses to extract surpluses from their pension scheme.
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February 03, 2025
IT Analyst Loses Discrimination Case Over 'Belief In Dreams'
An employment tribunal has dismissed a computer analyst's claim that he was fired from an IT company over his belief that he had prophetic dreams, ruling that he was let go because he sent a colleague "objectionable" messages about her haunting his dreams.
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February 03, 2025
Manager Wins Case After 'Working For Free' For 3 Months
A warehouse manager for an Amazon Marketplace seller has won her claim alleging that the founder of the company withheld the salaries of workers for three months during a cash-flow crisis sparked by an audit by the online retailer.
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February 03, 2025
Female Asda Workers Win Ruling In £1.2B Equal Pay Claim
Female checkout operators and shop floor assistants for retail giant Asda carry out work of equal value to the mostly-male distribution center staff, an employment tribunal has ruled, setting the stage for victory in their £1.2 billion ($1.5 billion) equal-pay claim.
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January 31, 2025
Brexit Five Years On: The Legal Landscape After Europe
Five years after the U.K. formally left the European Union, Law360 looks at how Brexit has changed the legal, regulatory and financial terrain.