Motor finance firms urged the U.K. Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn findings that car dealers owed a legal duty to act in the interests of their customers, as a landmark hearing that could determine the size of compensation bills begins.
Motor finance firms urged the U.K. Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn findings that car dealers owed a legal duty to act in the interests of their customers, as a landmark hearing that could determine the size of compensation bills begins.
A group of major banks accused the Court of Appeal on Tuesday of circumventing Britain's specialist competition tribunal when it allowed a £2.7 billion ($3.5 billion) foreign exchange claim to go ahead against them as an opt-out class action.
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.
Celtic Football Club has agreed to settle numerous sexual abuse claims brought by former members of the club's boys team for a seven-figure sum, the law firm representing the claimants announced Tuesday.
A group of 300 holidaygoers has sued TUI UK Ltd. for £200,000 ($258,000) alleging that the package holiday provider allowed food contaminated with bacteria and exposed to insects and pests to be served at a five-star Cape Verde hotel.
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.
Three businessmen have hit back at an investment fund's accusations that they allowed it to issue £11.8 million ($15.2 million) in loans for property developments that it alleged were likely to fail, telling a London court the fund's parent company was responsible.
Insurance brokers have less than a year to file claims on behalf of their clients for business losses suffered during the national COVID-19 lockdowns, a law firm warned on Tuesday.
An electrical equipment supplier has told a London court that a rival fire alarm manufacturer's patent for fire and carbon monoxide alarm systems is not viable because the supplier's competitor sold similar alarm systems before the patent was filed.
The U.K. government has broken human rights law by removing a value-added tax exemption for school fees because doing so limits access to education, a lawyer representing 10 children told a London court Tuesday.
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."
An employment tribunal has dismissed a former chief executive's claims that a heating, ventilation and air conditioning manufacturer forced him to resign by blackmailing him into signing onerous warranties before a restructuring, ruling that he had "overplayed his hand" despite his duty to help.
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.
