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  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 organiz...(read more)

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  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 ...(read more)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• SFO Uses Novel Approach To Return £400K To Fraud Victims

  By Christopher Crosby

  The Serious Fraud Office said Thursday it will return £400,000 ($537,000) to people who were defrauded by a Lebanese financier more than two decades ago after using a novel legal strategy to claw back the money.

• Willkie Helps Mutares Buy Thermoplastics Biz For $450M

  By Najiyya Budaly

  German private equity firm Mutares said Thursday that it will buy the European and American thermoplastics business of Sabic, a Saudi Arabian chemicals heavyweight, for $450 million in the largest transaction it has ever made.

• MoJ's Client Account Scheme Faces Backlash From Lawyers

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  Law firms would have to hand over 75% of the interest earned on pooled client accounts under plans unveiled by the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday to help fund the justice system.

• Quinn Emanuel To Pay Costs Over Disclosure Failings

  By Sophia Dourou

  A tribunal has ordered Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a senior partner to pay more than £8,300 ($11,200) in costs after it found that they had acted unreasonably when they handled disclosure in a former employee's claim.

• Sprenger Follows The Puck To New Boutique Dream Team

  By Christopher Crosby

  White collar veteran Polly Sprenger explained her decision to join the new London office of U.S. firm Michelman & Robinson with Wayne Gretzky's famed follow-the-puck mantra. Here she talks to Law360 about seeking out a different way of working, what clients actually need and why she thinks good lawyers should reveal rather than conceal the truth.

• Aircraft Co. Settles $44M Claim Over Plane Stranded In Russia

  By Eddie Beaver

  An aircraft leasing company and two others have reached a settlement with a dozen reinsurers that they claimed should cover for the $44 million loss of a plane leased to a Russian airline and stranded after the country's invasion of Ukraine.

• Mr. Men Owners Sue UK Gift Sellers Over Copycat Merch

  By Sophia Dourou

  The owners of the Mr. Men and Little Miss franchise have sued three U.K. gift sellers for breach of copyright, accusing them of misrepresenting unlicensed merchandise as being connected to the children's books characters.

• 2 Former Carillion Execs Fined Over Misleading Statements

  By Alex Davidson

  The Financial Conduct Authority said Wednesday that it has fined two former finance directors of international construction company Carillion PLC, which is in liquidation, for their part in its misleading statements to the markets.

• Solicitor Crowdfunds To Challenge SRA's Mental Health Ruling

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  A solicitor launched a crowdfunding campaign on Tuesday to raise money to challenge the Solicitors Regulation Authority's decision to sanction another solicitor who had attempted to take their own life.