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  Fair Work Agency Can Issue Fines For Unpaid Tribunal Awards

  By Adele Redmond

  The new Fair Work Agency will be able to fine employers 50% of the value of unpaid awards from the employment tr...(read more)

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  3 Firms Guide €56B Pershing Bid For Universal Music

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Investment group Pershing Square said Tuesday that it has offered to buy Universal Music in a cash-and-stock dea...(read more)

• Fair Work Agency Chief On Launch: 'We're Here To Listen'

  By Adele Redmond

  The new Fair Work Agency is "here to listen" to employers as well as workers, its chief executive said ahead of its official launch on April 7.

• Judge Warned Over 2 Late Rulings, But AI Use Not Found

  By Eddie Beaver

  A London court judge has received a formal warning after a probe by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office found that delays in handing down two rulings amounted to misconduct but uncovered no evidence that he used artificial intelligence to draft a judgment.

• Apple To Face UK Class Action Over ICloud Storage Charges

  By Joanne Faulkner

  The Competition Appeal Tribunal gave the go-ahead Thursday for consumer group Which to lead a multibillion-pound collective action against Apple accusing the tech company of operating a cloud storage monopoly that overcharges customers.

• Kingsley Napley's Grimes On Landing Top White-Collar Role

  By Christopher Crosby

  Jonathan Grimes, the new head of criminal litigation at Kingsley Napley, says he has no illusions about the challenge of stepping into the position long held by Louise Hodges.

• Ex-Deutsche Execs Seek £700M Over Scapegoating Claims

  By Sophia Dourou

  Four former Deutsche Bank executives who were wrongly convicted have sued the lender for £700 million ($920 million), accusing it of scapegoating them in a move to conceal its historical accounting errors in one of Italy's biggest financial scandals.

• Gov't Defends Rejecting Bouygues' Bid For £18B Contract

  By Eddie Beaver

  The Department for Education has denied running a flawed procurement process for an estimated £18.5 billion ($24.5 billion) construction project, arguing that its reasons for denying Bouygues (UK) Ltd. a contract were "adequate and intelligible."

• UK Regulators Plan Boost To High-Value Mortgage Lending

  By Alex Davidson

  Britain's finance regulators have proposed rule changes that would allow individual lenders to increase the volume of residential mortgages they offer that are large compared with the borrower's income, which would boost lending and growth.

• Altenar Sues Sportradar In US, UK Over Data Monopoly

  By Joanne Faulkner

  Software company Altenar has filed two "multimillion-dollar" claims against Sportradar in the U.S. and U.K., accusing the data giant of competition breaches by refusing to provide it with access to live official sports data.

• FRC Ends Probe Into KPMG Audit Of Ladbrokes Owner Entain

  By Eddie Beaver

  The accounting watchdog said Thursday that it has closed its investigation into KPMG LLP's audit of the 2022 consolidated financial statements of international betting company Entain PLC and will not bring enforcement action.

• Emotional Perception AI Patent Stumbles At UKIPO Do-Over

  By Alex Baldwin

  Emotional Perception's AI invention still does not qualify for patent protection, according to an early report from the U.K.'s Intellectual Property Office reconsidering whether to grant patent protections after the company's landmark win at the Supreme Court.

• Employers Urged To Go Wider On April Law Changes

  By Adele Redmond

  Lawyers are urging employers to consider a wider review of their policies and employee handbooks as a raft of measures in the Employment Rights Act kicks in on April 6.

• FCA's Palantir Tie-Up May Foreshadow Wider AI Uptake

  By Christopher Crosby

  The Financial Conduct Authority's decision to open its doors to Palantir could write the script for other agencies to follow as law enforcement and regulators embrace artificial intelligence technology to do more with less, lawyers say.