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  CILEX Wins Permission To Challenge Mazur Ruling

  By William Janes

  The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives has won permission to appeal against the ruling known as Mazur, whic...(read more)

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  Kuwait Pension Chief's Kids Fail To Escape $1B Bribery Case

  By William Janes

  The children of a Kuwaiti pension authority director lost on Tuesday their bid to escape a case the organization...(read more)

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• Home Office Apologizes, Pays £225K Over War Crimes Libel

  By Eddie Beaver

  The Home Office apologized "unreservedly" on Tuesday for publishing a report falsely alleging that a Bangladesh-born British citizen was guilty of war crimes and offered him £225,000 ($295,000) in damages — among the largest libel payouts made by the government to one of its citizens.

• SFO's Crypto Probe Marks Shift In Tackling Blockchain Fraud

  By Christopher Crosby

  The launch by the Serious Fraud Office of its first cryptocurrency investigation signals an appetite for using new resources to crack down on fraud, part of a wider move by U.K. law enforcement agencies to treat blockchain as a mainstream threat, lawyers say.

• Ex-Trafigura Exec Denies Devising $600M Nickel Fraud

  By Sophia Dourou

  Trafigura's former head of nickel trading denied conspiring with Prateek Gupta to defraud the company out of $600 million through a sham nickel trade deal, as he gave evidence at the trial on Monday.

• Sheikh Held Liable For €67M Shares Breach By Top UK Court

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  Britain's highest court ruled on Monday that a business tycoon breached his fiduciary duties when he transferred shares out of his wound-up company, and ordered him to hand over €67 million ($77 million) in damages.

• Pogust's Brazil Shipwreck Case Stalls Over Authority Doubts

  By Joanne Faulkner

  Pogust Goodhead's ability to litigate on behalf of around 18,000 Brazilians following a shipwreck has been thrown into doubt after the 5-year-old case was stayed pending questions over whether the firm is authorized, recently published court documents have revealed.

• Ex-Georgia PM Wins $607M Appeal Over Credit Suisse Fraud

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  The Bermudan life insurance arm of Credit Suisse lost its challenge on Monday to a $607 million damages bill it owes to the former prime minister of Georgia as the top court for overseas U.K territories rejected its arguments.

• Miner BHP Pulls £34B Takeover Approach For Anglo American

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Australian mining heavyweight BHP Group Ltd. said Monday that it has walked away from talks to swallow up U.K. rival Anglo American after the failure of a £34 billion ($45 billion) approach earlier in the year.

• Top Court Poised To Set UK Path On FRAND With Apple Case

  By Alex Baldwin

  The U.K. top court's promise to outline the "correct" approach to global patent licensing spats will bring much needed clarity following five years of disparate rulings on just what counts as a fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory, or FRAND, rate for standard essential patents, lawyers say.

• Thaler Loses Appeal In AI-Patent Inventor Case

  By Hanna Vioque

  A London judge once again refused to let a computer scientist obtain inventor credits for artificial intelligence-made technology on Friday, dismissing claims that his ownership of an AI-model should give him rights over a divisional patent. 

• 10-Year Migrant Pathway May Be 'Catastrophic' For Employers

  By Adele Redmond

  The government's plan to extend routes to settlement in Britain for migrants to up to 20 years could have "catastrophic consequences" for sponsoring employers and risks tying vulnerable workers to bad bosses for a decade, experts have warned.

• UK Government Faces Backlash Over Juryless Trial Proposal

  By Christopher Crosby

  Controversial plans to overhaul criminal law to bar some defendants from electing to be tried by a jury won't succeed in reducing the backlog of cases without long-term funding, and it suggests that the government is no longer able to deliver justice, experts said Friday. 

• Ex-Reform UK Politician Gets 10 Yrs Over Pro-Russian Bribes

  By Ronan Barnard

  The former leader of the Reform UK party in Wales was sentenced to over 10 years imprisonment on Friday for receiving corrupt payments in exchange for supporting Russian causes in speeches made when he was a member of the European Parliament.