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  Tougher Energy Efficiency Rules Start Shaping Property Deals

  By William Janes

  Plans to tighten energy efficiency standards for large commercial buildings are reshaping property deals and lea...(read more)

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  Celeb Makes 'Unprecedented' Bid To Block Sex Predator Story

  By Robbie Kalus

  A celebrity "would be likely to commit suicide" if ITN and The Guardian published an investigation which accuses...(read more)

• BHP Claimants Challenge Bar On Replacing Pogust With BGI

  By Joanne Faulkner

  A committee that represents victims of a dam disaster has sought permission to appeal against a ruling that prevents it from replacing Pogust Goodhead before a damages trial against BHP, saying the decision leaves the claimants unable to choose who represents them.

• Stephen Fry's Stage Fall His Own Fault, Event Organizer Says

  By Laura Stewart Liberty

  The organizer of a technology conference has denied liability for Stephen Fry's fall from a stage at the O2 Arena in London, arguing that it was not responsible for the stage design and that the actor had failed to take sufficient care for his own safety.

• Gender-Critical Scientist Kicks Union Chief Off Appeal Panel

  By Adele Redmond

  A senior union official was recused Tuesday from hearing an appeal by a defense research body that says it is not liable for harassment of a former employee, after the scientist argued that the unionist appeared to be biased against his gender-critical beliefs.

• Gupta's Liberty Commodities Auditor HW Fisher Fined By FRC

  By Tom Fish

  Britain's accounting regulator said Tuesday it has fined accountancy firm HW Fisher £140,000 ($187,000) for "serious and numerous" failures in auditing a commodities trader that formed part of Sanjeev Gupta's industrial group.

• Chancellor Urged To Cut Taxes On Investors To Revive LSE

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Capital markets experts are urging the chancellor to scrap "restrictive" taxes on investors to help boost the global competitiveness of the London Stock Exchange as Andy Burnham's government prepares to deliver its first Budget.

• FCA's Mortgage Rules Revamp Could Boost Misselling Risk

  By Alex Davidson

  The Financial Conduct Authority's proposed rewrite of mortgage rules within its consumer duty regime, designed to protect households from taking risky financial action, could lead home buyers to make poor decisions and expose them to misselling traps, according to legal experts.

• Visa, Mastercard Face Class Actions Over Swipe Fees

  By Isabel Jackson

  Visa and Mastercard are facing class actions potentially worth billions of pounds for allegedly charging unlawful transaction fees, the law firms bringing the claims said Monday.

• Mercuria Says Baltic Kept Flawed Rate Amid Hormuz Crisis

  By Joanne Faulkner

  Energy trader Mercuria accused the Baltic Exchange on Monday of keeping an unreliable benchmark running to avoid losing business to a rival, despite internal warnings that disruption in the Strait of Hormuz had made its assessments meaningless.

• Caterpillar Attacks 'Frankenstein' Price Behind Import Duty

  By Eddie Beaver

  Caterpillar told a tribunal on Monday that the U.K. trade authority created a "Frankenstein price" to wrongly justify a steep import duty on the construction equipment giant's Chinese-made excavators following an anti-dumping investigation.

• IP Office Shows Early Discrepancies With New Patent Test

  By Alex Baldwin

  In two recent decisions from the U.K.'s Intellectual Property Office, it is grappling with a new test for whether an invention is patentable, marking a significant step toward modernizing the patent system for the AI era. But experts warn that the way officials apply the new standard will likely vary until it is tested.

• Irish Lender Rejects Axis' Bid As Sale To Austrian Bank Nears

  By Dawood Fakhir

  Permanent TSB on Friday said the court hearing to approve its approximately €1.62 billion ($1.8 billion) sale to Austrian bank BAWAG PSK will go ahead as scheduled Tuesday, despite rival suitor Axis Capital's move to postpone the hearing.

• London's Rainmaker Wars Make Partnerships More Fragile

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  U.S. law firms' race to dominate London's lucrative private capital market is making some partnerships more fragile, as Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has seen with increasingly mobile rainmakers across the city commanding huge pay packages and controlling client relationships worth tens of millions of dollars, recruiters and consultants say.