A tourist injured on a package holiday provided by a now-collapsed travel agency cannot bring a claim against Bank of Scotland after a London appellate court threw out her appeal on Friday, dismissing the test case that sought to expand consumer credit protection.
The National Crime Agency has taken control of £53.9 million ($65.3 million) of suspected proceeds of fraud from Barclays Bank UK PLC after the High Court granted a civil recovery order on Friday a first for British legal history.
The U.K. arm of international human resources group Adecco Group AG urged an appeals tribunal on Thursday to overturn a ruling that mass redundancies in several countries in Europe were transnational and should be dealt with through its European Works Council.
Permitting digital news services provided by U.K. newspapers to qualify for zero-rate value-added tax before a 2020 law change would be an illegitimate extension of the exemption for print media, HM Revenue & Customs argued Wednesday at Britain's highest court.
The U.K. branch of insurer Ergo Versicherung AG has hit back at a lawsuit over the construction of an Irish windfarm delayed by legal disputes, saying it is not liable to pay out an insurance policy because the insuree breached a condition by offering a settlement payment without consent.