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  Credit Suisse Charged With Laundering Over Tuna Bond Case

  By William Janes

  Swiss prosecutors have charged UBS and Credit Suisse over alleged money laundering failures linked to the transf...(read more)

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  Director Pleads Guilty To International Aircraft Parts Fraud

  By Christopher Crosby

  A director of an aircraft parts supply company pleaded guilty at a London criminal court on Monday to charges of...(read more)

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• Spain, Zimbabwe Urge Top UK Court To Ax Arbitration Awards

  By Ronan Barnard

  Spain and Zimbabwe urged the U.K.'s highest court Monday to throw out a ruling that they could not use state immunity to dodge enforcement of multi-million-dollar arbitration awards, saying that they had not explicitly waived immunity in the international agreement.

• Brett Wilson Denies Mishandling Ex-IT Exec's Defense

  By Hanna Vioque

  Brett Wilson has rejected claims that it provided negligent advice and failed to properly defend a former chief technology officer in criminal and civil proceedings over a cyberattack at his employer.

• Judicial Proceedings Immunity Can't Stop Whistleblower Claim

  By Eddie Beaver

  A London appeals court revived on Monday a former charity worker's claim that his employer launched arbitration proceedings against him in retaliation for blowing the whistle on alleged verbal and physical abuse of staff.

• Unfair Dismissal U-Turn Not A 'Get-Out Clause' For Employers

  By Adele Redmond

  Employers should fine-tune their performance management procedures and consider shorter probationary periods for their staff, lawyers have said after the government U-turned on its policy of protection against unfair dismissal from the first day in a new job.

• LetterOne Denied Compensation Over Forced Broadband Sale

  By Eddie Beaver

  An investment group backed by Russian oligarchs failed on Friday to secure the "fair market value" for its shares in a regional broadband provider that the U.K. government forced it to sell over national security concerns.

• Guardian Can't Defend 'Alt-Right' Agitator Remark As Opinion

  By William Janes

  A court ruled in a preliminary decision on Friday that the publisher of The Guardian was making a statement of fact when its articles described a journalist an "'alt-right' agitator," preventing the newspaper from defending the defamatory remark as an opinion.

• Gupta Denies Hiding $600M Nickel Fraud From Trafigura

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  A businessman told the High Court on Friday that he did not attempt to hide the true contents of metal sold to Trafigura in an alleged $600 million nickel fraud, arguing that the trading firm could have inspected the shipments at any time without his involvement.

• UK Budget Lowers Apprentice Costs For Smaller Law Firms

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  Small and midsized law firms in England were given a welcome boost when the chancellor revealed in her Budget statement a new funding plan to make apprenticeships for under-25s "completely free" for smaller enterprises, although legal recruiters point to unresolved questions over age restrictions.

• Former Top Prosecutors Back Judge-Only Fraud Trials

  By Christopher Crosby

  Radical reforms dispensing with jury trials for complex fraud and many other criminal cases may be the only way to stop the justice system from collapsing under its own weight, former chief prosecutors have told Law360.

• TV Personality Hit With Gag Order For Special Forces Podcast

  By Sophia Dourou

  A judge has ordered television personality Ant Middleton not to repeat "highly sensitive" accounts made in a podcast of his time in the U.K Special Forces, ahead of his trial for breaching a confidentiality contract.

• UK Drops Day 1 Unfair Dismissal Rights, Agrees To 6 Months

  By Adele Redmond

  The government has dropped its plan to give workers protection against unfair dismissal from their first day on the job, saying it now agrees with employers and the House of Lords that a six-month qualifying period is "workable."

• Osborne Pro Fights To Reverse SDT's Zahawi SLAPPs Ruling

  By Ronan Barnard

  An Osborne Clarke partner urged a court on Thursday to overturn a ruling by a disciplinary tribunal that he had wrongly attempted to prevent a tax policy journalist from disclosing that he was being threatened with a defamation claim by former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi.