The solicitors' watchdog asked a London appeals court on Thursday to uphold a decision that unauthorized law firm staff cannot conduct litigation even under supervision, arguing that the law prevents them from making decisions about litigation.
The solicitors' watchdog asked a London appeals court on Thursday to uphold a decision that unauthorized law firm staff cannot conduct litigation even under supervision, arguing that the law prevents them from making decisions about litigation.
Amazon lost its bid to stifle two major class action cases against it on Thursday, as the Court of Appeal rejected its attempts to challenge tribunal decisions that gave the green light for the £4 billion ($5.4) cases to proceed to trial.
Broker Plus500 Ltd. has denied in litigation with a group of institutional investors that it withheld information before going public, saying it was clear that impending European rules designed to protect retail investors could hurt the online trading platform's business.
The landmark legal case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority against HTX, which the regulator says has promoted crypto-asset services to U.K. consumers without authorization, will be a litmus test, establishing whether it has the teeth for enforcement against overseas crypto-exchanges, lawyers say.
Two investment companies have sued a tax refund lender and its directors for more than £4.3 million ($6 million) in unpaid debt, alleging that the company made false statements about the performance of loans tied to U.K. tax refunds.
A European Union court has rejected AlfaStrakhovanie AO's bid to be removed from the bloc's sanction list, ruling that the insurer provided "material" support to the Russian government in its war efforts in Ukraine.
Prateek Gupta can't challenge a finding that he carried out a $500 million scam against Trafigura through sham nickel trades, after a judge rejected his argument on Thursday that the commodities trader was aware of the fraud.
A Florida man involved in a $2 billion Danish tax refund scheme fraudulently transferred millions of dollars to a U.S. company to prevent the Danish government from seizing those assets, Denmark's tax agency told a New Jersey federal court.
A Delaware federal judge has denied German entity Financialright Claims GmbH's bid to reconsider his decision ordering arbitration of a dispute with a Burford Capital affiliate over an allegedly fraudulent arbitration pact, rejecting claims that the ruling was "premised on a clear error of law."
Nokia said Thursday it has agreed to let a London judge set global terms for a license allowing Paramount and Warner Bros. to use its video coding patents, backing down from its earlier challenge to the U.K. court's jurisdiction.
A court dismissed on Thursday a movie director's claim that Louis Theroux's production company is infringing his copyright in the 1995 "Alien Autopsy" film by producing its upcoming documentary on the origins of the hoax footage.
A London tribunal ruled in favor of the U.K. tax authority's decision to block nearly £94 million ($127 million) in tax relief to a financing company, saying the relief was improper because the losses dated back to before the business moved from Guernsey to mainland Britain.
A company owner isn't liable for a nearly £2 million ($2.7 million) civil tax evasion penalty because HM Revenue & Customs didn't raise its claims of dishonesty by the owner in a prior proceeding it relied on later, a London court said Thursday.
A tribunal has ordered a British video production company to pay a former manager £73,500 ($99,300) for sacking her shortly after learning that she was pregnant.
An employment tribunal must rehear arguments about the effort required to perform different roles at Tesco after an appellate tribunal ruled Thursday that a judge was wrong to avoid dealing with the issue in the long-running equal pay claim.
