A former solicitor stepped down on Monday as Labour Party candidate for a parliamentary seat in the north of England after his 2010 admission of professional misconduct over his firm's handling miners' compensation claims came to light.
A Hong Kong-based brokerage house told an appellate court on Tuesday that it should not have to pay $283 million to ED&F Man over the purchase of nickel through forged receipts, arguing that the commodities trader did not suffer a loss from the fraud.
Property law firm Matini Montecristo LLP has hit back at a lawsuit filed by a dozen investors who put £900,000 ($1.1 million) into long leases for a hotel's bedrooms, denying that it failed to warn them it was a Ponzi scheme.
A human resources manager based in Dubai argued on Wednesday that a London tribunal has the jurisdiction to deal with her unfair dismissal and discrimination claim against the British Council, saying that she couldn't argue her case in the Gulf state's courts.
A lawyer for Friends of the Earth asked an appeals court on Tuesday to find that the U.K. government's decision to provide $1.15 billion in funding for a liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique breached the Paris Agreement of 2015.