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  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 share...(read more)

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  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 st...(read more)

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• 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.

• 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.

• Citibank Sues Santander Over $90M Mozambique Bond Row

  By Joanne Faulkner

  The London branch of Citibank N.A. and a company behind the development of a major energy project in Mozambique are seeking declarations from the High Court that Santander owes $90 million under two bond contracts.

• Trader Hid Fraud As Nickel Prices Soared, Trafigura Says

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  A metals trader denied allegations on Thursday that he tried to cover up his alleged nickel fraud against Trafigura when prices shot up in 2022, repeating his accusation that the commodities supplier knew it was trading in sham metal and was in on the scheme.

• Court Ends Block On South Sudan Oil Amid £142M Battle

  By William Janes

  A London court ended on Thursday an injunction that prevented South Sudan from dealing with a shipment of oil amid claims that the country has refused to hand over £142 million ($188 million) of the fuel to an energy company.

• UK Budget A Lose-Lose For Employers And Workers

  By Adele Redmond

  Unemployment is forecast to grow and wages are likely to fall as employers, yet to feel the worst of last year's increase to their national insurance contributions, seek to alleviate the cost of the rising tax burdens announced in Wednesday's Budget.

• UK Launches Reward Program For Tax Fraud Whistleblowers

  By Christopher Crosby

  The U.K. government launched a reward program on Wednesday for whistleblowers who report large-scale tax fraud to HM Revenue and Customs, offering informants significant payouts if investigators can claw back sizable amounts of tax.

• UK Cuts ISA Allowance To Push Cash-Rich Toward Investing

  By Alex Davidson

  The government will cut the tax-free allowance that under-65s can pay into a cash individual savings account each year to £12,000 ($15,854) from the current £20,000, effective from April 2027, to push savers with extra cash toward investment markets.