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  Tribunal Woes Spark Wider Rethink Of Workplace Disputes

  By Adele Redmond

  Calls to reform the U.K.'s embattled employment tribunals are growing, but practitioners say the real key is imp...(read more)

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  Addleshaw Goddard Steers £220M Church Pension Deal

  By Tom Fish

  ​The Church of Scotland has completed a £220 million ($296 million) pension buy-in transaction with Just Group P...(read more)

• JCT Contract Didn't Extinguish Builder's Earlier Liabilities

  By William Janes

  A court has ruled that the signing of a widely-used construction industry standard contract did not overwrite a building company's liabilities under an earlier agreement, as it concluded that the business could not escape consequences for allegedly breaching its obligations.

• Ex-Tesco CFO Says He Never Questioned Workers' Pay Gap

  By Sophia Dourou

  Tesco's former chief financial officer said he had never questioned the widening gap between what workers in supermarkets and warehouses were paid as he gave evidence Thursday at a tribunal considering equal pay claims brought by thousands of mainly female shop workers.

• MFS Boss Can Sell £1.6M Cars Amid £1.3B Fraud Case

  By William Janes

  The owner of a now-collapsed mortgage lender accused of systematically plundering £1.3 billion ($1.75 billion) has been granted permission to sell cars including a Ferrari and several Rolls-Royces, according to a court order.

• KC Accused Of Dodging £2M Tax Bill Believed Plan Was Legal

  By Ronan Barnard

  A senior tax barrister accused of cheating HM Revenue and Customs out of nearly £2 million ($2.7 million) genuinely believed he was using a legal tax strategy, his defense counsel told jurors at his criminal trial in London on Thursday. 

• BDO Fined £1.3M Over 'Significant' Breaches In NMCN Audit

  By Alex Davidson

  The audit watchdog said Thursday that it has fined BDO LLP £1.33 million ($1.78 million) and an audit partner almost £50,000 for serious breaches of rules in their audit of the 2019 annual financial statements of construction group NMCN.

• Ousted BP Chair Pushes Back On Alleged Misconduct 'Lies'

  By Adele Redmond

  Ousted BP chair Albert Manifold hit out on Thursday at alleged lies about his conduct, hiring lawyers as he said no one ever raised issues about his behavior during his eight-month tenure at the oil giant.

• CMA Clears $3.4B Kimberly-Clark, Suzano Joint Venture

  By Tom Fish

  Britain's competition regulator said in a statement Thursday it has cleared a proposed $3.4 billion joint venture between Brazilian pulp producer Suzano and U.S. consumer goods company Kimberly-Clark.

• Consumers Seek To Widen £1.5B Apple Overcharge Claim

  By Sophia Dourou

  A group of consumers urged the Competition Appeal Tribunal on Wednesday to extend their successful class action claim against Apple to the date of the ruling that found the technology giant had abused its dominant position by charging excessive and unfair prices.

• HF Snaps Up Rosling King Team After Law Firm's Collapse

  By Jamie Lennox

  HF said Wednesday it has hired a team of around 40 lawyers from Rosling King, rescuing dozens of jobs after the law firm entered into administration.

• Tesco HR Boss Denies Turning Blind Eye To Equal Pay

  By William Janes

  A senior Tesco executive denied on Wednesday that the supermarket chain turned a blind eye to equal pay concerns as she gave evidence at a tribunal hearing equal pay claims brought by thousands of mainly female shop workers.

• AkzoNobel Snubs €12.5B Sherwin-Williams, Nippon Paint Bid

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Dulux paint-maker AkzoNobel said Wednesday that it has rejected a bid of €12.5 billion ($14.6 billion) by U.S. rival Sherwin-Williams and Nippon Paint of Japan in favor of a merger it had already agreed with Axalta Coating Systems to form a $25 billion company.

• Google Defeats Film Distributor's 'Shorts' TM On Appeal

  By William Janes

  A distributor of short films lost its appeal Tuesday seeking to force Google to drop its YouTube "Shorts" brand, as a London appeals court upheld a ruling that "shorts" had a broad and descriptive meaning that undermined the distinctiveness of the distributor's trademark.