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  Master Of The Rolls Geoffrey Vos To Retire

  By Jamie Lennox

  Master of the Rolls Geoffrey Vos announced Monday that he will step down from his post as the most senior civil ...(read more)

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  UK Pays Settlement To Tortured Guantánamo Bay Detainee

  By Joanne Faulkner

  The government has reached settlement in a legal fight with a Guantánamo Bay detainee, two years after the U.K. ...(read more)

• Solicitor Accused At Trial Of Stalking Court Blogger

  By Ronan Barnard

  A solicitor stalked a legal blogger who had covered litigation in which he was involved by sending repeated emails that included threats of litigation and comments about his sexuality, prosecutors said at a London criminal court Monday.

• Knights Hits £103M In Revenue In First-Half Results

  By Ashish Sareen

  Knights said Monday that a series of law firm acquisitions and a return to organic growth have helped the group's revenue pass £100 million ($135 million) as it released financial results for the first half of its current financial year.

• Court Term Starts With Move To Close 'Transparency Gap'

  By Joanne Faulkner

  The start of a new court term on Monday will usher in a pilot program designed to increase the transparency of court documents, but there are unanswered questions about whether it will fulfill a stated aim of informing public understanding of court proceedings.

• Mining Giants Glencore, Rio Tinto Confirm Merger Talks

  By Dawood Fakhir

  Anglo-Swiss mining giant Glencore said Friday that it is in talks with British rival Rio Tinto for a possible megamerger that could create the world's largest company in the industry, in a deal worth more than $200 billion.

• Too Famous To TM? Orwell Ruling Shows Risks Of Waiting

  By Alex Baldwin

  Europe's top trademark authority has made it harder to secure protections for the names of famous individuals once they reach a certain level of cultural significance, in a decision over George Orwell's name that lawyers say means people in the public sphere need to act sooner to register their names.

• UK Private Funds Pose Stability Risk, Lords Committee Warns

  By Alex Davidson

  A House of Lords committee warned Friday of risks to financial stability from the $185 billion in U.K. private market funds connected with banking and insurance.

• Microsoft Defeats Web Browsing Infringement Case At UPC

  By Jamie Lennox

  The Unified Patent Court has rejected a claim that Microsoft infringed a Finnish company's patent for a way of browsing the internet by walking around to discover nearby search results, ruling that the patent is invalid.

• HSBC To Pay €300M To Settle French Tax Fraud Probe

  By Eddie Beaver

  HSBC has agreed to pay French authorities more than €300 million ($350 million) in fines and unpaid taxes to settle a criminal probe into how the bank's Paris branch handled dividend arbitrage transactions between 2014 and 2019, public prosecutors revealed Thursday.

• SRA Investigates Lawyer Over Threats To Leaseholders

  By William Janes

  The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday it is investigating a London lawyer accused of bullying and threatening leaseholders into buying freeholds from him at inflated prices.

• McDonald's Work Harassment Claims Under UK Gov't Review

  By Eddie Beaver

  The government has said it will further examine allegations by a group of trade unions and a campaigning organization that McDonald's has failed to appropriately address gender-based violence and harassment in its restaurants and franchises.

• Authorities To Push For Transparency In UK Pension Value

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Two finance watchdogs and a government department revealed plans on Thursday to force pension plans to publish information on their investments, costs and service quality in a move to equip retirement savers with better information on performance.

• Tribunal Cases Set To Rise 17% As Workers Gain New Rights

  By Jamie Lennox

  The government has predicted that new workplace protections set out in the Employment Rights Act will cause the number of cases at the Employment Tribunal to rise by 17%, potentially exacerbating a backlog that is already soaring.