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  PM Law Clients Get £9M Back So Far After Firm Collapsed

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Friday that it has already paid out £9 million ($12 million) to clients...(read more)

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  UK Insurers Hold Cover For Persian Gulf Shipping, At A Price

  By Martin Croucher

  Insurers in the specialist London market continue to provide insurance for high-risk shipping in the Persian Gul...(read more)

• Freshfields Helps Axel Springer's £575M Telegraph Group Deal

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Politico owner Axel Springer SE said Friday that it will buy Telegraph Media Group for £575 million ($767 million) from RedBird IMI, beating a contentious rival deal from the owner of the Daily Mail.

• Meta Agrees To Let Rival AI Bots On WhatsApp In Europe

  By Matthew Perlman

  Meta Platforms will let rival artificial intelligence providers back on its WhatsApp service in Europe for a fee for the next year, after enforcers threatened to impose restrictive measures as part of an antitrust investigation, the company confirmed Thursday.

• Shakespeare Martineau Beats £1.3M Divorce Negligence Case

  By William Janes

  A former client of Shakespeare Martineau LLP has lost her bid to revive a £1.3 million ($1.7 million) negligence case over advice given to her by the firm's predecessor about a divorce settlement, as an appeals court ruled on Thusday that she brought her claim too late.

• BAT Sued By Investors Over North Korean Sanctions Breach

  By Christopher Crosby

  Investors have sued British American Tobacco in England over the cigarette company's failure to disclose information about its activities in North Korea, which led to it paying U.S. authorities hundreds of millions of dollars for violating sanctions.

• Water Cos. Beat Attempt To Revive £800M Sewage Claim

  By Sophia Dourou

  An environmental consultant cannot revive an £800 million ($1.1 billion) collective action against water utility companies for their allegedly underreported sewage discharge after a divided Court of Appeal held Thursday that misleading of the industry regulator was an "essential ingredient" of the claim.

• Simmons & Simmons Tackles AI Privilege Risks In New Guide

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  Simmons & Simmons said Thursday that it has published new guidance for clients and other law firms on preserving legal privilege when lawyers use generative artificial intelligence, following recent rulings on the issue in the U.S. and U.K.

• Addison Lee Drivers Seek £20M After Worker Status Win

  By Jamie Lennox

  Lawyers at Leigh Day have estimated that Addison Lee taxi drivers could win more than £20 million ($26.7 million) in total compensation after convincing a tribunal that they hold worker status under U.K. employment law.

• UK Urges Employers To Assess Pay-Gap Risk And Set Targets

  By Adele Redmond

  The government is urging employers to publish "action plans" for narrowing their gender pay gaps and supporting menopausal women at work — amid concerns that organizations might not act on the call to pursue training and gender representation targets a month from the reporting deadline.

• SRA Slammed For Failing SSB Clients In Rare Rebuke

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The Legal Services Board said Thursday that it has issued an official public reprimand to the solicitors' regulator for repeatedly failing to act on concerns about SSB Group Ltd., only the second time the umbrella watchdog has made such a move.

• US Filmmakers Can't Cash In On Dutch Broadcasts

  By Jamie Lennox

  A Dutch court blocked filmmakers in the U.S. from claiming payment for broadcasts of their work in the Netherlands, ruling Wednesday that the writers and directors routinely assign their copyrights to film studios under U.S. law.

• Arbitration Awards Outdo State Immunity, Top UK Court Rules

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  Spain and Zimbabwe lost their bids on Wednesday to use state immunity to escape arbitration awards as the U.K. Supreme Court upheld judgments against the two nations, ruling that state immunity does not apply to the enforcement of investor-state arbitration awards.

• Spies Targeted Hong Kong Dissidents In UK, Prosecutors Say

  By Sophia Dourou

  Two men accused of spying for China carried out "shadow policing operations" that targeted Hong Kong dissidents living in Britain, a prosecutor told the opening of a criminal trial on Wednesday.