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  Major Banks Appeal To Block Class In £2.7B Forex Case

  By Sophia Dourou

  A group of major banks accused the Court of Appeal on Tuesday of circumventing Britain's specialist competition ...(read more)

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  Motor Finance Ruling Was 'Egregious Error,' Lenders Say

  By Joanne Faulkner

  Motor finance firms urged the U.K. Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn findings that car dealers owed a legal d...(read more)

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• AstraZeneca Keeps Generics Off Shelves Ahead Of Appeal

  By Alex Baldwin

  Counsel for AstraZeneca convinced the Court of Appeal on Monday to review a decision to let rival Glenmark release its generic version of a billion-dollar diabetes treatment under an agreement that the company can ship supplies of the drug already packed in trucks as long as it doesn't move ahead with retail sales in the meantime.

• DWF Avoids Doc Request In Health Data Breach Claim

  By Tabitha Burbidge

  DWF Law LLP dodged an order in court Tuesday to hand over documents to three people who allege that the law firm unlawfully shared their health data, after a London judge concluded that the request was merely a fishing expedition.

• Reckitt Age Bias Ruling Is 'License To Discriminate'

  By Ronan Barnard

  A retired Reckitt Benckiser executive urged a London appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a tribunal's dismissal of his claim that the pharmaceutical company discriminated against older employees, saying the decision creates a "license to discriminate for large corporations."

• Ryanair, Staffing Agency Deny Employing Pilot On Appeal

  By Adele Redmond

  Ryanair and its pilot staffing agency both denied at an appellate hearing Tuesday being the employer of a pilot who has sued for equal conditions with the carrier's directly employed staff.

• Candey Denies Mishandling Client's Funds In Libel Dispute

  By Eddie Beaver

  Disputes firm Candey Ltd. has denied a claim by a former client that it mishandled her money following a settlement in a trademark dispute, while pressing home its allegation that her one-star Google review of its performance was defamatory.

• Birketts Promotes 5 Lawyers To Partnership

  By Ashish Sareen

  Birketts LLP said Tuesday that almost all the lawyers it moved up to the partnership in its latest promotions round are women, although it halved its overall intake of new partners.

• Employment Bill Toothless Without Funding, Experts Warn

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  The government's new Employment Rights Bill will create important new rights for workers, but a lack of funding risks leaving an increasing number of unrepresented litigants unable to meaningfully access the justice system, experts have told Law360.

• Novartis, Genentech Lose Asthma Drug Patent In Netherlands

  By Jamie Lennox

  Celltrion Inc. has persuaded a Dutch court to revoke Novartis and Genentech's patent in the Netherlands for asthma drug omalizumab, straying from a London judge's recent decision to uphold the U.K. part of the patent.

• Primark Chief Steps Down Over Probe Into Social Conduct

  By Tabitha Burbidge

  Primark's parent company said Monday that the high street clothing chain's chief executive has resigned following an internal investigation by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP into his behavior toward a woman.

• Vardy Accuses Rooney Lawyers Of Misleading Court On Costs

  By Ronan Barnard

  Rebekah Vardy accused Coleen Rooney's lawyers on Monday of understating the amount of costs Rooney had incurred in fighting the high-stakes libel battle between the two footballers wives, as she attempts to reduce the amount of costs for which she is liable. 

• Simmons & Simmons To Move To Bigger Office In London

  By Ashish Sareen

  Simmons & Simmons LLP said Monday that it is relocating to a larger office in London in 2030 in a move to ensure that it is well-placed to meet the future needs of its growing business.

• EQT Joins $5.5B Bid For Swedish Software Co. Fortnox

  By Tom Fish

  Swedish private equity firm EQT said Monday that it has joined forces with the chair of Fortnox AB to make a takeover offer for the Swedish accounting software company, valuing it at 54.9 billion Swedish kronor ($5.5 billion).