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  Landlord Challenges 30-Year Limit In Cladding Costs Fight

  By William Janes

  The landlord of a 1960s London tower block sought Thursday to overturn a ruling shielding apartment owners from ...(read more)

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  Insurers Lose Bid To Pull Petrofac Execs' £45M Defense Cover

  By Christopher Crosby

  Lloyd's of London insurers must continue paying up to £45 million ($60 million) in additional criminal defense c...(read more)

• Axiom Ince's Ex-CFO Denies Destroying Docs In SFO Probe

  By Christopher Crosby

  Axiom Ince's former chief financial officer denied on Thursday a new charge brought by the Serious Fraud Office as it investigates the shuttered law firm, which collapsed with a hole of more than £60 million ($80 million) in its client accounts.

• Sports Betting Tech Co. Faces EU, UK Antitrust Claims

  By Alex Lawson

  Sportsbook software company Altenar lobbed antitrust complaints against sports technology giant Sportradar in the European Union and United Kingdom on Wednesday, alleging that Sportradar is illegally blocking access to the essential data behind live odds during games.

• Mike Tyson's Wife Jabs At Casino's 'Amateur Hour' Marketing

  By Eddie Beaver

  The wife of six-time world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson told a court Wednesday that she did not hand an online casino a "blank check" to use his name as part of a $2 million promotional deal, criticizing the company's marketing efforts as "amateur hour."

• Property Firms Build Regional Teams Amid Talent Crunch

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  Britain's regional cities are becoming growth hubs for law firms' real estate teams rather than merely lower-cost delivery centers as they compete for scarce senior talent to capture a revived pipeline of construction, development and property-finance work.

• Tribunal Ruling On FCA Car Finance Redress Adds Uncertainty

  By Alex Davidson

  The Upper Tribunal's decision to delay hearings on legal challenges to the Financial Conduct Authority's motor finance redress program, in order to allow expert witnesses to give evidence and force the regulator to explain its calculations, ramps up uncertainty for lenders, lawyers warn.

• UK Introduces Legislation To Speed Unsafe Cladding Repairs

  By William Janes

  The government introduced legislation on Wednesday to speed up the removal of flammable cladding on buildings in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, including criminal penalties for those who obstruct repairs.

• Palantir Ends London Mayor Row Over Blocked £50M Deal

  By Eddie Beaver

  Palantir said Wednesday that it has settled its legal claim alleging that the London mayor's policing office unlawfully blocked the Metropolitan Police from awarding the data analytics company a £50 million ($66 million) software contract.

• Russell Brand Was 'A Sexual Predator,' Prosecutor Tells Trial

  By Sophia Dourou

  Comedian and actor Russell Brand was "ruthless, calculating and manipulative" and a "sexual predator," prosecutors told the opening of a rape and sexual assault trial on Wednesday.

• UK Seeks To Make Worker Status Harder To Deny

  By Adele Redmond

  The government set out proposed changes on Wednesday to employment status that will make it harder for companies to argue that their workforce is self-employed, potentially boosting group claims that target gig economy employers.

• Insurance Lawyers Face Questions Over 'Silent AI' Cover

  By Martin Croucher

  Insurers are gradually ending their silence on whether existing policies respond to artificial intelligence risks, but an absence of consensus in the market means that legal advisers are having to navigate potential disputes over the scope of cover.

• Grenfell Prosecutors Face Difficult Path From Inquiry To Trial

  By William Janes

  Prosecutors are weighing charges over the Grenfell Tower fire after a nine-year police investigation, but lawyers say that building criminal cases from the evidence will be difficult because of the potential number of defendants and complex chains of responsibility.

• Amazon £6B Price Inflation Class Action Gets Provisional OK

  By Eddie Beaver

  An antitrust tribunal ruled Tuesday that a consumer rights group can pursue a £6.3 billion ($8.3 billion) class action against Amazon over allegedly inflated prices, but only if it agrees to coordinate parts of its case with two existing claims against the online retail giant.