Top court rejects Tesco appeal in ‘equal pay’ case Legal The Supreme Court has blocked Tesco from appealing a key ruling in a long-running equal pay claim brought by more than 16,000 shop workers. Tesco is one of several UK supermarkets caught in a legal battle over allegations that it underpays its store workers, mainly women, compared with distribution centre workers, who are mostly men. [...]
Supreme Court blocks Scottish Power’s £28m tax write-off Tax The Supreme Court has ruled that the energy giant, Scottish Power, cannot deduct £28m in regulatory settlement payments from its taxable corporate profits after a lengthy legal battle with HMRC. The legal case stems from a probe by the energy regulator Ofgem into Scottish Power between 2013 and 2016 regarding mis-selling, poor complaints handling, and [...]
FCA revokes ban on Libor traders after court overturns rate-rigging convictions Banking The financial watchdog has revoked bans it had placed on four City traders convicted of rigging Libor and Euribor interest rates after the Court of Appeal overturned their convictions. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Friday it “has reviewed its regulatory action against individuals whose convictions have recently been overturned by the Court of [...]
Lloyd’s underwriters seek to halt £45m legal cover for Petrofac bribery defendants October 15, 2026 A group of Lloyd’s syndicates have sought to block £45m in defence funding for two former Petrofac executives facing a criminal bribery trial. The group of syndicates provided directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insurance coverage to Petrofac’s former chief operating officer, Marwan Chedid, and former chief operations officer George Salibi. Chedid and Salibi rely on Petrofac’s [...]
Former City trader’s rate rigging conviction overturned October 9, 2026 A former City trader previously convicted of rigging the Euribor interest rates has had his fraud conviction overturned. Christian Bittar, formerly a trader at Deutsche Bank, had his conviction overturned by the Court of Appeal on Friday after being sentenced to five years in prison for rigging the primary European interest rate, the Euro Interbank [...]
Bolt set for £190m VAT bill after legal defeat October 8, 2026 Ride-hailing platform Bolt has been refused permission to appeal a case brought by HMRC over how it calculates and pays its VAT. This follows HMRC winning an appeal in June against the Estonian tech giant over its VAT payments and calculations, overturning earlier decisions that had ruled in Bolt’s favour. The tax authority brought the [...]
Former City traders’ fraud convictions overturned October 7, 2026 A group of five former City traders previously convicted of rigging the Libor and Euribor interest rates have had their fraud convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal. The five investment bankers, who previously worked at Barclays, had their convictions quashed having served jailtime for conspiring to rig the now-defunct interest rates in the run-up [...]
Claimant law firms seek appeal in Diesel emissions legal battle September 28, 2026 A group of car manufacturing giants may be forced back to the High Court to defend allegations that they installed devices to curb diesel emissions tests. In the case nicknamed ‘Dieselgate’, the High Court handed down a judgment in July ruling in favour of the carmakers, but claimants, over a million motorists, a law firm [...]
Fast fashion copyright battle continues as Shein granted appeal against Temu September 21, 2026 Fast fashion retailer Shein has been granted permission to appeal against rival Temu in a first-of-its-kind copyright battle in the UK. A judge confirmed in a hearing on Monday that Shein can challenge a judgement handed down last month in the Court of Appeal. The judge said there were “compelling reasons” for the court to [...]
TikTok loses court battle over £12.7m child privacy fine August 5, 2026 TikTok has lost an appeal against a £12.7m fine from the UK’s data protection regulator for illegally processing the data of over 1.4m children under the age of 13. The watchdog hit TikTok with the penalty in April 2023 for breaching the UK’s data protection law, the GDPR, for unlawfully processing the data of children [...]