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  World Rugby Denies Liability In Ex-Players Brain Injury Claim

  By Sophia Dourou

  A governing body for rugby union has denied liability in a negligence case brought by hundreds of former players...(read more)

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  Top Barclays Exec Named As Head Of UK Banking Watchdog

  By Tom Fish

  The Bank of England said Friday that senior Barclays executive and former Treasury official Katharine Braddick h...(read more)

• UK Plans To Expand Collective Redundancy Talks For Millions

  By Adele Redmond

  The plan to expand employers' duty to consult staff and their unions about job cuts could improve protection for an additional 16.1 million workers — but a quarter of small and midsized businesses would be exempted when 250 or more redundancies are on the table, an official analysis says.

• 5 Questions For Kennedys' Ash Daniells On FOS Reforms

  By Alex Davidson

  The government is reforming the Financial Ombudsman Service, which settles claims between consumers and regulated financial businesses. The reforms come after years of complaints that the ombudsman is not working efficiently, but the proposals have attracted wide criticism.

• 'A Recipe For Disaster': How SFO's London Mining Case Sank

  By Christopher Crosby

  The decision by the Serious Fraud Office to abandon its long-running prosecution of former executives at London Mining has led to renewed scrutiny of its handling of online disclosure of evidence and its broader approach to investigations and technology.

• Elliott Pushes LSE To Improve Finances After £3B Buyback

  By Dawood Fakhir

  Activist investor Elliott Advisors said Friday that it still wanted to see the owner of the London Stock Exchange improve its financial performance despite the company's move to pay back shareholders, confirming that it had taken a "significant stake" in the business.

• 2 Firms Guide Equinix, CPP Investments On $4B AtNorth Buy

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and U.S. digital infrastructure company Equinix said Friday that they will buy atNorth for $4 billion from Swiss private equity shop Partners Group in order to grow the Nordic data center operator's capabilities in areas such as artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure.

• Nokia Submits To UK Court's Role In Paramount Patent Feud

  By Jamie Lennox

  Nokia said Thursday it has agreed to let a London judge set global terms for a license allowing Paramount and Warner Bros. to use its video coding patents, backing down from its earlier challenge to the U.K. court's jurisdiction.

• Broker Denies Tricking Investors Over ESMA Risk Before IPO

  By Joel Poultney

  Broker Plus500 Ltd. has denied in litigation with a group of institutional investors that it withheld information before going public, saying it was clear that impending European rules designed to protect retail investors could hurt the online trading platform's business.

• CMA Advocates Ban On Noncompetes For Low-Paid Workers

  By Hanna Vioque

  The U.K.'s competition watchdog has told the government that it should ban noncompete clauses for employees earning below a certain threshold, but stopped short of calling for a blanket ban.  

• Amazon Loses Bid To Halt £4B Class Actions Over 'Buy Boxes'

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  Amazon lost its bid to stifle two major class action cases against it on Thursday, as the Court of Appeal rejected its attempts to challenge tribunal decisions that gave the green light for the £4 billion ($5.4) cases to proceed to trial.

• Disability Case Appeal May Heighten Employer Scrutiny

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  Employers may be forced to think more carefully about their assessment of workers' disability status under the Equality Act depending on the outcome of an appeal in a landmark case between Accenture and a former employee with endometriosis, experts say.

• SFO Insider Tapped To Lead Agency As Ephgrave Exits

  By Christopher Crosby

  The attorney general tapped on Thursday a senior official at the Serious Fraud Office to run the white-collar agency as it searches for a permanent replacement for Nick Ephgrave after his decision to retire halfway through his tenure. 

• SRA Backs Mazur Litigation Rights Limits On Appeal

  By William Janes

  The solicitors' watchdog asked a London appeals court on Thursday to uphold a decision that unauthorized law firm staff cannot conduct litigation even under supervision, arguing that the law prevents them from making decisions about litigation.