Drax reached a settlement with its former public affairs manager on Monday over allegations that bosses sacked her amid a "toxic" working environment after she blew the whistle on concerns about alleged sustainability failings by the energy company.
Drax reached a settlement with its former public affairs manager on Monday over allegations that bosses sacked her amid a "toxic" working environment after she blew the whistle on concerns about alleged sustainability failings by the energy company.
A Caribbean bank and its former CEO "knowingly" assisted in the commission of a £415 million ($536 million) value-added tax fraud, the creditors of a company allegedly linked to the scam said on the first day of a London trial Monday.
An employment tribunal has ruled that managers at a charity should never have left a document detailing concerns about an assistant's performance out in the open for her to see, ruling the failure amounted to disability bias.
A recruitment company for the pharmaceutical industry brought legal action against three former executives and their newly established rival company, alleging that they secretly worked together to steal clients from their employer for their new business.
One of the U.K.'s largest private-sector pension funds said it had offloaded £10 billion ($13 billion) in longevity risk to two reinsurers, in a deal steered by A&O Shearman and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.
The total value of pension deals carried out last year hit a near-record £47.6 billion ($61.6 billion) — a level that could prove to be a new norm for the market, a consultancy said.
