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  SRA's Merger Notice Plan Adds Risk For Law Firm Deals

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The bid by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to tighten oversight of law firm mergers with a proposed notifica...(read more)

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  Aircraft Lease Investor Exits LSE After £190M Qatari Takeover

  By Tom Fish

  Amedeo Air Four Plus Ltd. said Friday it has ceased trading on the London Stock Exchange after a subsidiary of L...(read more)

• Meta Addiction Lawyer On Taking Social Harms Fight To UK

  By Joanne Faulkner

  Social media litigation pioneer Matthew Bergman believes the legal foundations for claims against technology companies for designing harmful products already exist in the U.K. — and that the only thing missing is lawyers willing to test them.

• Tether Unit Can't Block Crypto Biz's JV Trade Secrets Claim

  By Sophia Dourou

  A Tether company failed on Friday to block a crypto trading company from pursuing litigation in England accusing it of stealing the crypto business' trade secrets in a bitter dispute over a failed bitcoin mining joint venture.

• Modi Must Pay Bank Of India $10.7M Over Loan Guarantee

  By Sophia Dourou

  Jewelry magnate Nirav Modi has been ordered to repay the Bank of India $10.7 million for guaranteeing to cover loans to his diamond company after a court rejected his argument that the deal was unenforceable under Indian law.

• Gov't Sets Out State Pension Comms Plan After WASPI Fallout

  By Joel Poultney

  The U.K. government has said it will develop a communications strategy to provide accessible and targeted information on the state pension age in response to a report that found it failed to properly set out legislative changes to women's state pension age.

• Hasbro Wins Copyright Claim Over Stolen 'Peppa Pig' Sounds

  By Hanna Vioque

  A London judge ruled Thursday that Hasbro is entitled to a summary judgment on one of its copyright claims against a Vietnamese animation studio, after finding that sound effects and noises from the studio's YouTube show matched "Peppa Pig" episodes.

• Apple Loses Bid To Decertify £785M App Store Class Action

  By Sophia Dourou

  Apple has failed in its bid to throw out a £785 million ($1 billion) class action by app developers, after the Competition Appeal Tribunal held Thursday that the claims may be "unusually strong."

• Bank To Pay £31.7M To WealthTek Clients Exposed To Risk

  By Alex Davidson

  The Financial Conduct Authority said Thursday that it has censured asset servicing bank Caceis UK, which has agreed to make a £31.7 million ($41.9 million) voluntary payment to compensate clients of the now defunct WealthTek for losses after failing to act on financial crime risk.

• SRA Refers 2 Solicitors To Tribunal In Post Office Scandal

  By Ashish Sareen

  The solicitors' watchdog said Thursday that it has referred two lawyers to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over alleged misconduct concerning the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, in which accounting system flaws led to the wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters.

• Kirkland, Paul Weiss Guide Bain's €7.4B VW Unit Deal

  By Najiyya Budaly

  U.S. investment company Bain Capital will buy a majority stake in Volkswagen's marine and power engines subsidiary Everllence in a deal valued at €7.4 billion ($8.4 billion), the companies said Thursday.

• Ryanair Blocked Pilot Who Sued From Promotion Track

  By Adele Redmond

  Ryanair unlawfully blocked a pilot who alleged race discrimination from joining its program for promotion to captain, a partially successful case brought against the airline has revealed.

• IP Owners Urge New Labour Leader To Prioritize AI Concerns

  By Alex Baldwin

  Creatives and rightsholders have renewed calls for Britain's next prime minister to protect intellectual property rights amid the boom in artificial intelligence.

• Google Must Disclose DOJ Probe Docs In £14B Class Action

  By William Janes

  A tribunal has ordered Google to hand over documents from an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, requiring it to disclose the information in a £13.6 billion ($17.9 billion) class action that alleges the technology giant abused its dominance in the advertising market.