London-headquartered Fieldfisher said Thursday that it has expanded its European presence with the opening of an office in Austria's capital city, as it looks to capitalize on Vienna's importance in the international arbitration space.
Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson has hit back at a real estate fund manager's negligence suit, saying it provided the most appropriate insurance to cover the refurbishment of a building in Madrid that collapsed twice, killing two people.
Changing the legal definition of sex under U.K. law to "biological sex" would make it easier to exclude transgender people from some groups or services, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said in response to a request for advice from ministers.
The Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday that a tribunal was right to refuse to allow a high-profile priest renew his discrimination claim against the Church of England, finding that he had breached a court order by failing to seek permission before suing.
A London NHS Trust has agreed to pay £10,000 ($12,000) to a Catholic chaplain who sued for discrimination claiming he was sacked for answering questions from a patient on a psychiatric ward about the church's teaching on gay marriage, a leading religious nonprofit said Friday.