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  FCA's Contested Car Finance Redress Hits Roadblocks

  By Alex Davidson

  Legal challenges to the Financial Conduct Authority's motor finance redress scheme fired off this week to the Up...(read more)

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  Samsung Must Pay ZTE $392M For Phone Patent Licensing

  By Hanna Vioque

  A London judge ordered the South Korean tech giant Samsung to pay $392 million on Friday to use ZTE's portfolio ...(read more)

• Tesco Exec Denies Warehouse Jobs Viewed As 'Men's Work'

  By William Janes

  A Tesco executive has denied that the supermarket chain viewed warehouse jobs as "men's work" as she gave evidence on the first day of a trial of equal pay claims brought by thousands of mainly female shop workers on Friday.

• Medical Cannabis User Revives Bias Claim Over Job Ban

  By Jamie Lennox

  A London appeals tribunal restored a medical cannabis user's claim on Friday that Network Rail discriminated against him based on his disability by banning him from safety-critical rail work for five years after he failed a drug test.

• DWF Director Eyes More IP Growth After Oatly TM Win

  By Alex Baldwin

  Coming off its victory at one of the highest-profile U.K. trademark disputes in recent years, DWF Group has high hopes for the future of the intellectual property practice. Here, director Asima Rana talks to Law360 about the challenges of the case and the growing demand for IP work in the U.K.

• UK Defense Contractor Pays £15M To Settle Bribery Probe

  By Christopher Crosby

  British defense contractor Ultra Electronics agreed to pay £14.8 million ($20.2 million) on Friday to settle a bribery investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into suspected corrupt payments involving airport contracts in Algeria and Oman.

• Johnson Matthey Beats Fraud Claim Over £325M Pharma Deal

  By Eddie Beaver

  Johnson Matthey defeated on Friday a claim that it acted fraudulently in the £325 million ($444 million) sale of one of its pharmaceutical businesses, despite a finding by a London court that the chemicals business had failed to disclose to the buyer significant details about the transaction.

• FCA Vows Robust Defense Of Car Finance Redress In Court

  By Alex Davidson

  The Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday that it will mount a robust defense of its £7.5 billion ($10.2 billion) motor finance redress scheme against four legal challenges so far from lenders and a consumer group.

• Baker McKenzie-Led Daily Mail Owner To Sell Data Biz For $1B

  By Tom Fish

  The owner of the Daily Mail has agreed to sell its U.S. property data business Trepp Inc. for $1 billion in cash to financial services provider Fitch Group Inc.

• Ex-Sub-Postmaster Fights Split Of £4.5M Post Office Trial

  By Ronan Barnard

  A former sub-postmaster urged a London appellate court Thursday to overturn a decision to split his £4.5 million ($6 million) claim against the Post Office and Fujitsu over a 2007 civil judgment which he alleges was obtained by conspiracy, arguing that it is wrong in principle.

• Gymshark Co-Founder Sues Aybl Execs Over Alleged Ouster

  By Hanna Vioque

  A Gymshark co-founder has sued his former business partners in Abyl, another sportswear brand he helped launch, accusing them of hanging him out to dry after he refused to sell 10% of his shares to move forward with an initial public offering. 

• Star Wars Worker Fired Over 'White Man' Remark Wins £234K

  By Max Austin

  A former safety manager on a Disney Star Wars production has been awarded £234,112 ($317,500) after a tribunal found that the company latched on to comments she had made about being replaced by "a white man" to fire her. 

• Mazur Ruling Shows Law Needs Refresh, CILEX Chief Says

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The head of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives is calling on the government to update the legislation that governs the regulation of legal services, saying that the recent ruling over who can conduct litigation has starkly exposed the limits of the U.K.'s 19-year-old framework.

• UK Collective Pension Plans Cleared For 2027 Launch

  By Martin Croucher

  The U.K. retirement savings watchdog has finalized rules for new collective type pension plans, which will go live in October.