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May 22, 2024
Home Secretary Fights Disability Case For Injured Officers
Two police forces argued at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday that injured officers should not be able to take their disability claims to the employment tribunals, claiming that benefits for injured police are not pensions and are therefore an employment matter.
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May 22, 2024
Aspiring Judge Can't Reopen Race Bias Case
An Asian-British solicitor has failed to persuade an employment tribunal to reconsider his race discrimination claims against a High Court judge who dismissed his application because he filed his request too late.
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May 22, 2024
Gov't Dismisses 'Arbitrary Deadline' On Pensions Redress
The government on Wednesday shrugged off calls to draw up plans by the summer for a redress program for millions of women who have been underpaid under state pension plans.
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May 21, 2024
Gov't Must Pay £50K For Bias Against Deaf Job Seeker
The U.K. government must pay £49,880 ($63,390) to a deaf person for discriminating against him and failing numerous times to provide interpreters to aid his job search, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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May 21, 2024
Tesco Fights Looming Disclosure Deadline In Equal Pay Battle
Retail giant Tesco fought to push back a disclosure deadline in its equal pay battle with thousands of workers on Tuesday, telling an appeals tribunal that it hasn't had enough time to process millions of documents for the case.
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May 21, 2024
Post Office Official Told MP About IT Bugs Ahead Of Report
A former Post Office senior official conceded she was the "bearer of bad news" by ensuring an MP was told of bugs in the IT system used to wrongly prosecute innocent people, as she gave evidence to an inquiry Tuesday.
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May 21, 2024
Injured Ex-Cops Take Disability Case To Court Of Appeal
Two former police officers urged an appeals court Tuesday to revive their claim that pensions rules for those disabled in the line of duty are discriminatory, arguing that an employment tribunal was wrong to find it had no jurisdiction over the question.
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May 21, 2024
Lawyer Suspended For Misconduct Toward Junior Women
A solicitor was suspended from legal practice for two years on Tuesday and hit with costs of £85,000 ($108,000) after a disciplinary tribunal held a private hearing over allegations of sexually motivated and inappropriate conduct toward multiple junior female employees.
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May 21, 2024
Finance Pros 'Too Afraid' To Blow Whistle On Fraud
More than three-quarters of finance professionals in the U.K. stayed silent after spotting or suspecting internal fraud in their workplaces, a survey published on Tuesday showed, with nearly half saying they feared a backlash.
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May 21, 2024
UK Pension Reform Could Create 'Too Big To Fail' Providers
The proposed government fix for the spiraling number of retirement savings pots could create pension giants that are too big to fail, an industry body warned on Tuesday.
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May 21, 2024
Ex-Insurance Exec's Wife Denies Knowledge Of Illegal Money
The wife of a former executive at Gable Insurance has denied cashing in on unauthorized payments from her husband who, the Liechtenstein insurer alleges, siphoned off millions of pounds from the company to accounts he had links to.
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May 20, 2024
Autonomy CEO Reaped $516M From HP Acquisition, Jurors Told
Ex-Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch took home more than $516 million from the software company's $11.7 billion sale to HP, an FBI agent testified Monday as the government's last witness in a trial over allegations Lynch duped HP into overpaying to buy the company.
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May 20, 2024
Civil Servants Lose Fight To Relaunch Age Bias Case
A group of 20 civil servants lost its bid Monday to revive claims that a redundancy compensation scheme was unjustifiably biased against older employees, with an appeals tribunal ruling that a lower court correctly found their case to be vexatious.
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May 20, 2024
Rugby Players Still Can't Join Forces For Concussion Claims
A London judge declined again on Monday to combine negligence claims brought by almost 300 former rugby players, as governing bodies for the sport argued they had only just become aware of more medical evidence about conditions allegedly caused by repeated concussions.
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May 20, 2024
Watchdog Finds Pensions Minister Broke Rules On Expenses
Paul Maynard, the pensions minister, broke parliamentary rules on expenses when he failed to properly manage the use of his taxpayer-funded office for political campaigning, a standards body has ruled.
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May 20, 2024
Property Manager Refused Sick Days Wins £31K
A letting agency must pay a former employee £31,000 ($39,361) for unlawfully firing her after an employment tribunal found the chief executive refused to allow sick days and remote working for her endometriosis.
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May 20, 2024
Tribunal OK To Halt Sea Captain's Case Ahead Of Court Ruling
A tribunal did not misstep by pausing a ship captain's claim against his ex-employer while awaiting a ruling from a court on his ability to bring the case in England, an appeals judge has ruled.
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May 20, 2024
Pension Funds Under-Investing In UK Assets, Minister Warns
Pension schemes are not investing enough in Britain, a Treasury minister has warned, adding that the government will consider what "further action" is necessary to stimulate the capital injection that lawmakers want for the economy.
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May 17, 2024
Law Firm Beats Temp Receptionist's Discrimination Claims
A law firm in southern England fended off several disability discrimination and harassment claims from a temporary receptionist, after an employment tribunal ruled she wasn't legally disabled.
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May 17, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen a wave of claims filed against Verity Trustees Ltd., Harley-Davidson hit retailer Next with an intellectual property claim, Turkish e-commerce entrepreneur Demet Mutlu sue her ex-husband and Trendyol co-founder Evren Üçok and the Solicitors Regulation Authority file a claim against the former boss of collapsed law firm Axiom. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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May 17, 2024
Pensioners Lose £80M In Credit Over Submission Errors
The Department for Work and Pensions has said that retirees lost out on £80 million ($102 million) in payments to help top up their weekly income to a minimum level because they submitted inaccurate information about themselves in the last financial year.
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May 17, 2024
Unite, GMB Unions Lose Pay Claim Against Housing Co.
More than 100 trade union members at a housing association have lost their employment tribunal claim accusing their employer of ducking out of pay negotiations after the tribunal found the charity did not intend to "narrow" the negotiations.
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May 17, 2024
Risk For Employers As Bar For Protected Belief Claims Shifts
Employees face a low bar to gaining legal protection for objectionable views, as lawyers say it has become almost impossible for employers to distinguish philosophical beliefs akin to religion from politicized public debates.
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May 17, 2024
Exec Was Fired Because His Wife Had Cancer, Tribunal Rules
The head of sales for a Hong Kong software company has won more than £90,000 ($114,000) after he was fired because his wife had terminal breast cancer.
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May 17, 2024
Disabled NHS Therapist Loses Forced Resignation Claim
A therapist has lost all her claims against an NHS trust after an employment tribunal ruled that her bosses had done their best to accommodate her disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.