A London judge ordered Serious Fraud Office investigator Antony Puddick on Wednesday to disclose details of his solicitors' retainer agreement in a £1.8 million ($2.4 million) costs dispute with Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. following the end of their legal fight.
A London judge ordered Serious Fraud Office investigator Antony Puddick on Wednesday to disclose details of his solicitors' retainer agreement in a £1.8 million ($2.4 million) costs dispute with Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. following the end of their legal fight.
South Africa's FirstRand plans to sell its British operations, including lender Aldermore and motor finance provider MotoNovo, after Britain's compensation scheme for missold car loans forced the bank to sharply increase its expected costs.
BDO has rejected an £80 million ($107 million) claim for negligence from a collapsed construction company which alleged that it had bungled an audit, saying the business would still have failed even if £43 million in losses had been uncovered earlier.
A warehouse technology company has sued an Israeli logistics business for almost €1.6 million ($1.85 million), alleging that the Middle Eastern company delayed the installation of machinery and failed to mitigate disruption caused by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
A Swiss watchmaker has denied it copied a jeweler's copyright over 88-facet diamond designs, telling a London court that there are crucial differences between its gemstones and those of its opponent.
A tribunal has told a U.K. subsidiary of Libya's sovereign wealth fund to pay a former manager £497,500 ($670,000) after it short-changed his holiday entitlement for decades and unfairly sacked him out of the blue.
A London court has ordered the winding up of a financial services company that went into administration after being sued for £1.7 million ($2.3. million) by investors in failed property redevelopment schemes, ruling that the reason for administration was "tenuous."
A disciplinary tribunal fined a former Olswang LLP solicitor £15,000 ($20,000) on Wednesday for failing to promptly report a series of drink-driving convictions to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
