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  Retentions Ban Leaves Construction Facing A Risk Gap

  By William Janes

  The government will forge ahead with plans to ban retentions in construction contracts, but lawyers warned that ...(read more)

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  DeFi Accountability Issues Exposed By Binance Hack

  By Alex Davidson

  The $6.4 billion Binance hack has exposed how decentralized finance can help attackers move stolen assets beyond...(read more)

• Hospital Cleaners Sue For Race Bias In NHS Pension Lockout

  By Adele Redmond

  More than 250 hospital cleaners, caterers and porters are suing for four years of pay and pension contributions after they were denied better terms available to other National Health Service employees.

• Insurers Face Mounting Costs As AI Fuels Consumer Claims

  By Martin Croucher

  Insurers and their lawyers are looking at spiraling costs for investigating and defending claims from litigants in person, as artificial intelligence technology empowers more individuals than ever before to pursue claims on their own.

• DWP Boss Says Admin Errors Likely To Be Inevitable

  By Martin Croucher

  The new top civil servant at the Department for Work and Pensions said Wednesday that more administrative errors are likely to be inevitable because of antiquated computer systems and the scale of the work.

• Lambretta Owner Says Betrayal Fueled Brand Rights Grab

  By Eddie Beaver

  The company claiming ownership of the Lambretta brand told a court on Wednesday that a longtime licensee betrayed its former trademark owner by handing rights to a businessman who had spent years trying to wrest control of the famed scooter name.

• Bratz Maker Fends Off Startup's £90M Antitrust Appeal

  By Sophia Dourou

  A startup toymaker failed on Wednesday to revive its claim against MGA Entertainment after the Court of Appeal rejected its argument that it was entitled to damages for being unlawfully excluded from the market by the maker of Bratz dolls.

• Gov't To Probe Sky's £1.6B ITV Buy Over Public Interest

  By Najiyya Budaly

  The culture secretary said Wednesday that she will intervene in Sky Group's proposed £1.6 billion ($2.2 billion) purchase of the broadcast and streaming division of ITV to safeguard media plurality in the U.K.

• Builder's £7.3M Cladding Claim Survives Prior Settlement

  By Isabel Jackson

  Architect Hawkins Brown cannot block United Living's £7.3 million ($10 million) claim over cladding defects at a London development, a court ruled Tuesday, finding the builder acted in good faith by excluding the allegations from an earlier dispute.

• Ex-QPR Player Seeks £165K Over Docs Irwin Mitchell Withheld

  By Adele Redmond

  A professional footballer sought nearly £165,000 ($221,000) in wasted costs from Irwin Mitchell LLP on Tuesday, after the firm accepted that a former Irwin Mitchell solicitor negligently withheld documents from the Football Association that were relevant to the midfielder's racism claim.

• CPS Prosecutor Rapped For Citing AI-Created Precedent

  By Max Austin

  A senior prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service has admitted to citing a made-up legal precedent during a High Court review over a child defendant, the agency's second slip-up this year over false submissions.

• Netflix Can't Pause UPC Dispute Over Video Playback Patent

  By Max Austin

  Netflix has failed to pause an injunction won by a U.S. rival over a video streaming patent, with the Unified Patent Court ruling that a pending challenge at a European intellectual property authority was not reason enough to put the dispute on hold. 

• Google AI Results May Infringe Publishers' IP, EU Court Told

  By Alex Baldwin

  An adviser to the European Union's top court urged justices on Tuesday to rule that the real-time retrieval and use of online press publications by AI chatbots to answer queries may infringe the rights of publishers, in a first-of-its kind copyright dispute against Google.

• Gov't Warnings On Poundland May Prove More Bark Than Bite

  By Najiyya Budaly

  The government's threats to intervene if it finds Gordon Brothers tipped Poundland into insolvency lack legal force, lawyers say, but political pressure and directors' duties could save the retailer because ministers cannot force the owner to accept rescue bids.