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  Carter-Ruck Pro Cleared Over Alleged OneCoin SLAPP

  By Sophia Dourou

  A disciplinary tribunal on Friday dismissed allegations that a Carter-Ruck partner improperly threatened to sue ...(read more)

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  FCA Clarifies Guidelines For Non-Financial Misconduct

  By Alex Davidson

  The Financial Conduct Authority released widely anticipated final guidance on its rules for non-financial miscon...(read more)

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• Microsoft Says £2B Class Action Fails To ID Viable Legal Test

  By Ronan Barnard

  Microsoft said at a London antitrust tribunal on Friday that a claim potentially worth £2.1 billion ($2.8 billion) should not be given clearance to continue, arguing the competition lawyer proposing to bring it had not identified a route for it to go to trial.

• FCA Floats Pension Transfer Overhaul For Better Outcomes

  By Martin Croucher

  The Financial Conduct Authority has proposed rules that will allow pension providers to create new online planning tools for customers considering a savings transfer.

• Sidley Promotes 29 Lawyers To Partner, 15 To Counsel

  By Ashish Sareen

  Sidley Austin LLP has elected 29 lawyers to its partnership and named more than a dozen new counsel, with all the newly promoted individuals being based in offices in the U.S. and Europe.

• Nationwide Fined £44M For Financial Crime Control Failings

  By Alex Davidson

  The Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday that it has hit Nationwide Building Society with a £44 million ($58 million) fine over its inadequate financial crime systems and controls, adding that the lender had "failed to get a proper grip."

• EY Must Release Wirecard Audit Files, Top German Court Says

  By Eddie Beaver

  Germany's highest civil court largely sided with Wirecard's insolvency administrator on Thursday, finding that the former auditors of the payments company, Ernst & Young, must disclose audit files from the four financial years running up to its collapse.

• Abbott Appeals To Revive Glucose Monitoring Patent

  By Sophia Dourou

  Abbott urged an appeals court Thursday to restore the patent for its flagship glucose monitoring device, arguing that the delay in producing the judgment that invalidated it led to "material inconsistency" in the judge's reasoning.

• Carter-Ruck Pro Says She Was Bound To Defend Crypto Scam

  By Christopher Crosby

  A Carter-Ruck partner was professionally "bound" to threaten a whistleblower with legal action on behalf of Ruja Ignatova because she did not know that the "Crypto Queen" was actually running a multibillion-dollar scam, the solicitor's counsel told a disciplinary tribunal on Thursday.

• Shell Accused Of Worsening Typhoon Through Emissions

  By Eddie Beaver

  Over 100 survivors of a "super-typhoon" that hit the Philippines in 2021 have sued Shell PLC in the first case in England that directly links climate change to a fossil fuel giant, alleging that the company's operations intensified the storm's destruction.

• Lords Shoot Down Employment Bill Over Payouts Controversy

  By Adele Redmond

  The Employment Rights Bill has failed to pass its final legislative hurdle, as the House of Lords narrowly voted to reject the reform package for a fourth time over a last-minute amendment to remove the cap on compensation for unfair dismissal.

• Scottish Gov't Not Liable In Judicial Officer's Assault Case

  By Hanna Vioque

  A female legal practitioner cannot hold Scotland's government vicariously liable for alleged assaults and harassment committed by a senior judge in 2018, even though two had occurred within the court environment, the U.K.'s top court ruled Wednesday. 

• Fife Ruling Little Help In Solving Single-Sex Space Disputes

  By Adele Redmond

  A keenly-awaited ruling in a nurse's claim that she was harassed by the use by a transgender doctor of a women's changing room provides little clarity to employers on how to manage disputes over single-sex facilities, as a tribunal largely side-stepped a landmark decision on the legal definition of a woman.

• British Hacker Gets 2 Years In Prison For $9M Crypto Theft

  By Christopher Crosby

  A British man was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Wednesday in London for his part in an international hacking group that stole millions of pounds worth of cryptocurrency from an American entrepreneur.