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  Vodafone Unit To Buy 20% Of Kenya's Safaricom For $2.1B

  By Dawood Fakhir

  Vodafone said Thursday that its African subsidiary Vodacom has agreed to acquire a 20% stake in Kenyan telecoms ...(read more)

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  Lucasfilm Asks Court To Toss CGI Peter Cushing Image Claim

  By Alex Baldwin

  Counsel for Lucasfilm and a Disney subsidiary have asked the Court of Appeal to throw out a claim that it should...(read more)

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• ECJ Clarifies Copyright Rules For Utilitarian Objects

  By Jamie Lennox

  The European Union's top court has clarified the eligibility of utilitarian objects for copyright protection, ruling Thursday that applied art is no different from other subject matter when it comes to assessing originality.

• Engineer Can't Stop Trans Women From Using Female Toilets

  By Hanna Vioque

  A female engineer has failed to convince an employment tribunal that defense supplier Leonardo was harassing and discriminating against women by allowing transgender individuals access to toilets based on their reassigned gender. 

• Smaller Audit Firms Gaining UK Market Share, Watchdog Says

  By Tom Fish

  Smaller auditors are starting to challenge the dominance of the Big Four firms for scrutinizing the finances of the country's biggest and most important companies, the accounting watchdog said Thursday.

• Sheffield Hallam Uni Settles Forced Labor Libel Claim

  By Ronan Barnard

  A university apologized in a London court on Thursday to a major Hong Kong-based textile and clothing manufacturer for a report into apparel supply chains which linked some of the suppliers to human rights abuses against China's Uyghur minority and other groups.

• Legal Challenge Withdrawn After Gov't Pensions U-Turn

  By Joel Poultney

  Campaigners fighting for compensation over historical failings on payments of women's state pensions have scored a win after the government agreed to reconsider its decision not to create a redress program within 12 weeks.

• Payroll Co. Sued Over MoD Data Breach

  By Ronan Barnard

  Manchester firm Barings Law has said that it has brought a High Court claim against a payroll software company over a breach of U.K. Ministry of Defence payroll data, alleging the company may have exacerbated the harm it caused by not raising the alarm.

• Payments Firm Denies Suspecting LC&F Funds Tied To Fraud

  By Ronan Barnard

  A payments processing business has denied being liable to the administrators of London Capital & Finance for allegedly allowing £20.3 million ($27 million) to be diverted to the defunct investment firm's former directors and others.

• Eurojust Probes 5 Linked To €2.6M Insider Trading At IT Firm

  By Laura Stewart Liberty

  Five individuals linked to a Swiss information technology company are facing investigations in Switzerland, Germany, and the U.K. as part of a probe into suspected insider trading worth up to €2.6 million ($3 million).

• InterDigital Seeks Arbitration In Amazon Patent Dispute

  By Sophia Dourou

  InterDigital told a judge Wednesday that the English courts should not issue final license terms in its global patent licensing dispute with Amazon, arguing that the matter should be dealt with by way of arbitration.

• Lawyers Condemn 'Unprincipled' Plan To Scrap Jury Trials

  By William Janes

  The U.K. government's plan to end jury trials for some criminal cases has been subjected to withering criticism from criminal defense lawyers who warn the reforms could undermine the foundations of the justice system without even speeding up proceedings.

• BHP Fails To Block US Testimony In Pogust Goodhead Row

  By Joanne Faulkner

  BHP failed Wednesday to block Pogust Goodhead from pursuing deposition testimony from a U.S-based witness for potential use in English legal proceedings arising from compensation agreements with victims of the Fundão dam disaster in Brazil.

• Latham-Led CVC To Buy Smiths Detection For £2B

  By Dawood Fakhir

  Private equity giant CVC said Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire aviation security-screening company Smiths Detection for £2 billion ($2.7 billion) from Smiths Group PLC in a deal guided by Latham & Watkins and Freshfields.