A London appeals judge has handed the sacked chief executive of a biotechnology company a second shot at his whistleblowing claim, slamming an earlier tribunal's "wholly insufficient" assessment of his claimed protected disclosures.
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Ex-Biotech CEO Wins New Shot At Whistleblowing Claim

By Jamie Lennox

A London appeals judge has handed the sacked chief executive of a biotechnology company a second shot at his whistleblowing claim, slamming an earlier tribunal's "wholly insufficient" assessment of his claimed protected disclosures.

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Home Office Pressed Over Failure To Explain RTW Fine

By Adele Redmond

The Home Office must explain how it has determined that someone does not have the right to work in the U.K. when it issues penalty notices to employers, a restaurant argued at Britain's top court on Tuesday.

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UK Finance Gender Pay Gap One Of The Highest, EY Says

By Joel Poultney

The U.K. has one of the highest board-level gender pay gaps in the transatlantic financial services market, Ernst & Young LLP has said in a study, despite narrowing the renumeration divide to 29% from 40% since 2020.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Gov't Pension IHT Reforms Risk Delays, Costs, Report Finds

By Joel Poultney

Plans by the government to apply inheritance tax to wealth transferred through pensions place a huge burden on the personnel dealing with the estate and risk causing "significant delays and costs," a House of Lords committee warned in a report published Wednesday.  

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DEALS

DLA Piper Guides £6.6M Pension Deal For Norwegian Food Biz

By Martin Croucher

The Norwegian food company Kavli Group has offloaded £6.6 million ($9 million) of its U.K. retirement scheme liabilities to Pension Insurance Corp. PLC, the insurer said Tuesday, in a deal steered by DLA Piper and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP.

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