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  SRA Takes Carter-Ruck Privilege Fight To Top UK Court

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Tuesday that it plans to seek permission to appeal directly to the U.K....(read more)

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  MPs Call For Whistleblower Handling Probe As AGM Hijacked

  By Adele Redmond

  A group of MPs called for an independent investigation on Tuesday into how the Financial Conduct Authority handl...(read more)

• Blasket Says Spain Can't Block €29M Arbitral Award Transfer

  By Sophia Dourou

  Blasket Renewable Investments LLC told an appeals court Tuesday it should be permitted to enforce a €29.3 million ($33 million) arbitral award against Spain, arguing the energy investors that won the award were entitled to transfer their enforcement rights.

• Italian PM Meloni Wants Voice TM Amid AI Deepfake Risk

  By Jamie Lennox

  Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has filed for a European Union trademark over her voice in a move potentially designed to combat the risk of artificial intelligence deepfakes.

• Top Chef, Wife Sued Over Michelin-Starred Restaurant Sale

  By Isabel Jackson

  A celebrity chef and his wife have been sued for more than £1.3 million ($1.7 million) by the buyers of a Michelin-starred restaurant and hotel after he allegedly misrepresented financial records and oversaw a decline in food standards before quitting earlier than agreed.

• Emotional Perception Can't Get UK Patent For AI

  By Alex Baldwin

  The U.K.'s Intellectual Property Office has denied AI company Emotional Perception's patent application for an artificial neural network, despite winning a landmark U.K. Supreme Court decision that similar AI inventions should not be denied patent protections by default.

• Amazon Urges CAT To Reject £6.3B Claim As Duplicative

  By Ronan Barnard

  Amazon told a London antitrust tribunal Monday that a proposed consumer class action estimated to be worth up to £6.3 billion ($8.3 billion) should be rejected, arguing that it would duplicate work done for similar claims and "generate vast returns" for lawyers and funders.

• Dr. Reddy's Opens Trial Over Diabetes Treatment Patents

  By Alex Baldwin

  Counsel for generic drugmaker Dr. Reddy's urged a London court Monday to invalidate patent protections for Boehringer Ingelheim's billion-dollar diabetes treatment, in a bid to clear the way for its own generic version.

• How Devonshires Won A Fight Over Construction Defaults

  By Eddie Beaver

  Lawyers for a housing association doubted they would get the chance to show that the Court of Appeal had erred in a ruling. So the team at Devonshires was stunned when Britain's highest court agreed to hear an appeal. Here, members of the team tell Law360 how their confidence was vindicated.

• Lessors Say Reinsurers Owe $4B For Planes Stuck In Russia

  By Sophia Dourou

  Reinsurers cannot refuse multibillion-dollar claims for planes stranded in Russia on the basis that they're not covered by reinsurance policies arranged by airlines, a group of lessors told the opening of trial Monday.

• Pogust Warns BHP Claimants Of £2B Costs If Firm Is Ousted

  By Joanne Faulkner

  Pogust Goodhead warned claimants at a High Court hearing on Monday that any attempt to replace it in litigation against BHP over Brazil's Mariana dam disaster could leave them facing legal bills exceeding £2 billion ($2.6 billion).

• Ex-GB News Pundit Alleges Sunak 'Heathen' Dig Led To Firing

  By Adele Redmond

  A former GB News commentator may argue that senior figures at the right-wing broadcaster conspired to fire him over a government backlash after he called then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a "heathen," the Employment Tribunal ruled Monday.

• 'No Principled Reason' To Ditch Jury Trials, Lawyers Say

  By Christopher Crosby

  Government plans to press ahead with judge-only trials for complex economic crime cases to spare jurors from lengthy proceedings were criticized on Monday by white-collar lawyers, who said there was "no principled reason" for the controversial reforms.

• Ofcom Data Demand Exceeds Its Powers, Tech Giants Say

  By Eddie Beaver

  Meta, X and TikTok urged a London court on Monday to strike down "extremely onerous" demands from the communications watchdog for data on their content moderation, in a major test of the regulator's information-gathering powers under the Online Safety Act.