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  SFO Pushes Whistleblower Rewards To Refill Case Pipeline

  By Christopher Crosby

  Proposals to reward whistleblowers for information could put the Serious Fraud Office back on boardroom agendas,...(read more)

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  Meta Challenges Ofcom's Worldwide Revenue Fine Formula

  By Eddie Beaver

  Meta told a court on Tuesday that the communications watchdog wrongly gave itself the power to impose penalties ...(read more)

• 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.

• Chinese Law To Govern Fraud Victims' £5B Bitcoin Claim

  By Isabel Jackson

  Chinese law must determine whether fraud victims are owed a share of more than £5 billion ($7 billion) in seized cryptocurrency, a London court has ruled, improving the U.K.'s chances of retaining the record haul.

• FCA Motor Finance Scheme Dispute Delayed To February 2027

  By Alex Davidson

  A tribunal has delayed the Financial Conduct Authority's motor finance compensation program until February 2027 to allow for the use of expert evidence and to require the regulator to disclose more detail of its redress calculations.

• UK To Go Ahead With Plan For SEP Litigation Track

  By Alex Baldwin

  The government has confirmed in its long-awaited response to a consultation that it will introduce a specialist track within the courts to set fair licensing rates for essential technologies.

• SFO Opens Direct Line To Speed Corporate Self-Reporting

  By Christopher Crosby

  The Serious Fraud Office gave company boardrooms on Tuesday a direct line to its head of legal services to speed up settlement discussions, hours after the government said it would press ahead with plans to pay whistleblowers for intelligence on misconduct.

• The Top UK Property And Construction Decisions In 2026

  By Joanne Faulkner

  A missed tenant notice, three dead falcons and a football club's derailed training academy have produced some of the most significant rulings of 2026 in property and construction, alongside landmark decisions on liabilities in building safety, lease renewals and contractors' termination rights.

• Billionaire's Family Office Seeks $150M Over Alleged FX Fraud

  By Eddie Beaver

  The investment arm of Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris' family told a London court Monday that it is owed approximately $150 million after it was duped into pouring millions into a foreign exchange business that was secretly controlled by outsiders using it to "milk" fees.

• Great British Bake Off Makers Deny Owing Exec £755K Bonus

  By Hanna Vioque

  The makers of hit TV show "The Great British Bake Off" have denied that a former head producer was contractually entitled to incentive payments, arguing that her alleged financial misconduct disqualified her from a final £755,752 ($998,000) payout.

• AI Must Not Determine Outcome Of Cases, Judges Told

  By Jamie Lennox

  Justice Colin Birss has warned judges in England and Wales that they must not allow artificial intelligence to replace their own decision-making.

• Property Sales Cluster Below £2M As Mansion Tax Looms

  By Josh White

  Some 18 months before England's mansion tax comes into force, sales of homes just above the levy's £2 million ($2.6 million) threshold are falling, while deals below it are rising, a phenomenon known as bunching that may become more pronounced as the deadline approaches, experts told Law360.

• Gov't Consults On SFO Reward Program For Whistleblowers

  By Isabel Jackson

  The government launched a consultation Monday on a proposed Serious Fraud Office program to financially reward individuals who report economic crime as part of a wider review of the country's whistleblowing framework.