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October 25, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the Competition and Markets Authority take action against a mattress retailer after it was caught pressuring its customers with misleading discounts, Lenovo and Motorola target ZTE Corporation with a patents claim, Lloyds Bank hit by another claim relating to the collapse of Arena Television and U.K. tax authority HMRC sued by the director of an electronics company that evaded millions of pounds in VAT. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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October 25, 2024
Sainsbury's Manager Threatened By Colleague Wins £59K
Sainsbury's must compensate a former manager more than £59,000 ($76,553) for failing to respond to threats and foulmouthed outbursts the manager faced from a colleague, a tribunal has ruled.
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October 25, 2024
Chambers Assistant Can Pursue Disability-Related Claims
An employment tribunal has ruled that an assistant practice manager at 3 Bolt Court Chambers suffered from severe anxiety and depression when she was fired, allowing her to bring disability-related claims against her bosses.
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October 25, 2024
Deutsche Bank Wins £360K Costs From Trader In Bonus Row
A London judge Friday ordered a former Deutsche Bank trader to pay more than £360,000 ($467,000) as an early payment of the bank's legal costs after she lost her breach of contract case over assurances allegedly given about her compensation.
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October 25, 2024
Fraud Lawyers Take On Bullying Cases As Complaints Surge
White-collar criminal lawyers are picking up more and more work investigating allegations of non-financial misconduct inside the world's biggest companies, amid a sharp rise in incidents reported by the City watchdog ahead of an impending crackdown.
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October 25, 2024
Sexual Harassment Claims Up 7% As Duty To Prevent Kicks In
The number of employment tribunal decisions involving sexual harassment has increased by 7%, according to a new study, as employers prepare for a new legal obligation to prevent scenarios of potential sexual harassment.
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October 25, 2024
Commerzbank Can Pursue Staffer For Fake Sex Assault Claim
A London court ruled Friday that a former Commerzbank AG analyst will face contempt of court proceedings after making false sexual assault allegations against a colleague as part of his failed harassment case against the bank.
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October 25, 2024
Chubb Not On Hook For News Staffer's Discrimination Claim
Chubb is not liable for a discrimination claim by a former news company staffer because her employer's insurance policy ruled out liability for wrongful employment practices, a tribunal has ruled.
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October 25, 2024
About 9M UK Adults Lost A Pension Pot, Consultancy Says
Almost 9 million U.K. savers are convinced that they have lost or probably lost a pension pot, a study by an economic consultancy has found.
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October 25, 2024
Pensions Watchdog Wants Tougher Action Against Scammers
The Pensions Regulator has urged retirement savings plans to take action to protect savers from scams as part of Scams Awareness Week, with a video campaign featuring a victim.
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October 24, 2024
Union Threatens First-Ever Private Case Over Museum Strike
A trade union threatened on Thursday to launch a private prosecution against the security contractors for London's Science and Natural History museums if they hire agency workers to replace workers who plan to strike during the busiest week of the year.
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October 24, 2024
Judiciary Won't Make Panels The Exception For Bias Cases
Most discrimination and whistleblowing cases will continue to be heard by a full panel after the judiciary backed away from a plan to tackle the employment tribunals' crippling backlog by making it the default for judges to hear cases alone.
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October 24, 2024
Tribunals Increasingly Using WhatsApp Evidence, Study Finds
The number of employment tribunals using WhatsApp messages as evidence nearly trebled between 2019 and 2023 to reach 427 hearings, a law firm's study revealed Thursday.
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October 24, 2024
Brits Missing Over £31B In Unclaimed Pension Pots, ABI Says
The Association of British Insurers urged Britons on Thursday to trace their pension funds ahead of this Sunday's National Pension Tracing Day as almost 3.3 million pension pots totaling £31.1 billion are still unclaimed, inactive or considered lost.
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October 23, 2024
Carnival Wins Redo Of Axed Staffer's Maternity Bias Case
Cruise operator Carnival has won the chance to reargue a former staffer's claim that it unfairly made her redundant while she was on maternity leave, convincing an appeals tribunal that an earlier judge wrongly held that there were suitable alternative roles.
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October 23, 2024
British Actuary Claims Regulator Favors Indian Nationals
A British actuary told an appeals court Wednesday that the public body for the profession in the U.K. racially discriminated against him by providing more favorable arrangements to Indian nationals.
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October 23, 2024
Driver On Gett App Was Self-Employed, Appeals Court Rules
An appellate judge has refused to grant a black-cab driver the worker status that Uber drivers have won, ruling that his circumstances were different as he ferried hundreds of passengers hailing rides through the Gett app.
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October 23, 2024
Gov't To Prioritize Own Dashboard Before Commercial Models
The U.K. government has said it will prioritize the launch of its own pensions dashboards service ahead of other commercial models involved in the program intended to connect savers with lost retirement pots.
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October 23, 2024
Aviva Deal 'Rescues' Pension Plan From Lifeboat Scheme
Pensions consultant BESTrustees said it has managed to secure the benefits for 59 members of a client that went under liquidation almost a decade ago in a £6 million ($7.7 million) deal with insurance heavyweight Aviva.
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October 23, 2024
Aegon Calls For 'Cool Heads' Ahead Of Autumn Budget
Dutch life insurance giant Aegon Ltd. called on Wednesday for "cool heads" in the lead-up to the autumn budget, urging caution from both the sector and savers against acting recklessly on rumors surrounding changes to pension rules.
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October 22, 2024
Financial Ombudsman Beats Ex-Staffer's Whistleblowing Case
The Financial Ombudsman Service has defeated a former employee's claim that it did not offer him a new role due to his alleged whistleblowing, convincing a tribunal in a ruling released Tuesday that his emails were not protected disclosures.
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October 22, 2024
Commerzbank Urges Contempt Case Over False Assault Claim
Commerzbank AG asked a London court in a hearing Tuesday to allow it to bring contempt of court proceedings against a former employee who made false sexual assault allegations against a colleague as part of his failed harassment case against the bank.
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October 22, 2024
Tribunal Judge Reprimanded For 17-Month Delay In Decision
The U.K.'s judicial conduct watchdog said Tuesday that it had issued formal advice to a tribunal judge after a member of the public complained that she had taken more than a year to deliver a judgment.
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October 22, 2024
Director Imprisoned For Concealing £220K Tax Debt
The former director of a wholesale company has been jailed for 10 months after failing to deliver accounting records when his business went into liquidation owing more than £220,000 ($290,000), the Insolvency Service announced Tuesday.
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October 22, 2024
Reforms Set To Foist 15% More Cases On Struggling Tribunals
Even though the U.K. government expects its proposed employment rights law to lead to a 15% rise in cases, it hasn't committed any additional funding for employment tribunals to handle such an increase, which would present an existential threat to the beleaguered system.