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Judgment in a case concerning alleged fraud and torture will be handed down next week by the UK Supreme Court via video link. The appellant (Shagang) and the respondent (HNA) are both based in China. In August 2008, a charterparty was concluded between Shagang and Grand China Shipping Co Ltd. HNA pr

MI6 has been forced to apologise to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal after two of its officers asked court staff to return documents relating to MI6’s use of agents and not show them to judges. The tribunal suggested MI6’s actions were “inappropriate interference”. The revel

A proposed commission to look at the relationship between the courts and Parliament has apparently been shelved by the UK government. Plans for the Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission were outlined in the Conservative manifesto in the aftermath of last year's prorogation litigation, w

Lord Sumption has admitted that he stopped obeying the coronavirus regulations when they began "reaching levels of absurdity". Speaking to legal journalist Joshua Rozenberg QC (hon.), the former Supreme Court justice said he did not accept that there was a "moral obligation to comply with the law".

Uber drivers have launched a legal case in the Netherlands to force the release of the computer algorithms used to manage their work in a test case that could lead to greater transparency for millions of gig economy workers. The case has been brought by UK-based App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU)

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the UK government acted unlawfully in stripping Shamima Begum of her citizenship. Ms Begum is a British woman currently detained in Syria. She is one of three schoolgirls who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State in February 2015, at the age of 15

A High Court judge has refused to strike out a claim for negligence brought by the widow of a Bangladeshi worker killed on a ship. Mr Justice Jay held that Maran (UK) Ltd arguably owed a duty of care to the shipbreaker, Khalil Mollah. The decision is likely to send shockwaves around the shippin

Global legal business DWF is in the early stages of a consultation process on its UK business, which is understood to put between 15 and 18 positions at risk. The redundancies follow cuts made across the company's international outposts to deal with the economic effects of the pandemic.

More than 70 legal, campaigning and civil society organisations are calling for an urgent public inquiry into the UK government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Between 43,000 and 65,000 people have died in the UK so far as a result of coronavirus - the figure represents one of the high

Global experts in law and human rights have contributed to a new online publication about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19, Law and Human Rights: Essex Dialogues, published today by the University of Essex, includes expert analysis on issues including emergency powers legislation, healt

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that a private hospital group and seven consultant ophthalmologists broke competition law by taking part in illegal price-fixing. Following an investigation by the CMA, Spire Healthcare Limited and Spire Healthcare Group plc has admitted tha

The UK government should act immediately to deal with a "pandemic of misinformation" that poses an existential threat to our democracy and way of life, according to a report of the Lords' Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies. The committee said online platforms are not "inherently ungover

Vicky Fox has been appointed the next chief executive of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, taking over from Mark Ormerod CB, who retires in September. Ms Fox is currently the director of regulation and insight at the Independent Parliamentary St

UK government officials have asked the Law Commission to help them design a lawful system for charging employment tribunal fees, according to reports.

A former partner at Baker McKenzie must pay nearly £100,000 after he was found guilty of kissing a junior colleague against her will. A disciplinary tribunal fined Gary Senior, 58, formerly senior partner in Europe and the Middle East at the firm, £55,000 for professional misconduct and