DWF LLP has defeated an attempt by three personal injury claimants to revive a data privacy lawsuit after the Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that they sought to advance a "new, unpleaded case."
DWF LLP has defeated an attempt by three personal injury claimants to revive a data privacy lawsuit after the Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that they sought to advance a "new, unpleaded case."
Financial institutions need to manage a practical legal risk arising from intensified enforcement of China's anti-foreign sanctions law, a trade body for the sector said Thursday.
A London tribunal has granted a hedge fund a costs order potentially worth more than £1.6 million ($2.2 million), finding that a former employee should have known most of his employment claims had "little reasonable prospect of success."
Britain's National Crime Agency said Thursday that it has seized more than $5.2 million from an agricultural company in an investigation into suspected money laundering and evasion of sanctions on Iran.
The Serious Fraud Office has seen a mixed first half of the year with the collapse of its prosecution of London Mining softened by its first deferred prosecution agreement in several years.
Pension sector bosses are undecided about who should benefit from an estimated £160 billion in surplus funds released under landmark reforms, a survey has found.
Only one in six savers in the U.K. believe they can afford retirement, a pensions company has said, raising further concern that scores of Britons will have to rethink what later life looks like.
Plus500 launched a share buyback program worth up to $100 million on Thursday as part of the online trading company's plan to return $182.5 million to investors.
A consultancy specializing in legal services regulation led by a former general counsel at the solicitors' watchdog has expanded into financial services regulation as investors target law firms and the Financial Conduct Authority takes on a greater role in anti-money laundering supervision.
The Financial Conduct Authority’s recent proposals to create a more consistent and streamlined remuneration framework for solo-regulated firms will allow firms to design more flexible policies, but mean greater scrutiny of the firms’ decision-making, governance and recordkeeping, say lawyers at Birketts.
