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UK: Law firm named and shamed for not paying 10 workers the minimum wage

According to a spokesperson, the issue arose around four years ago when apprentices' wages were not ...

Jose Mourinho banned for four UEFA games after abusing English referee

The Roma manager and former Chelsea, Manchester United and Spurs boss confronted and swore at the En...

UK barrister who asked client for drugs jailed

Hendron was representing a man who was arrested in 2021 on suspicion of being concerned in the suppl...

Mother accused of attempted murder after locking child in dog cage

The 32-year-old woman is accused of keeping her son in sub-zero temperatures and starving him....

British woman jailed for taking abortion pills after legal limit during lockdown

The 44-year-old mother of three obtained pills from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) du...

Swiss police on trial over Nigerian's death

Mike Ben Peter died after being arrested in the city of Lausanne....

UK judge removed from office for deleting data

The judge, Andrew Easteal, appointed in 2018, was found to have deliberately deleted data in the kno...

Mother sues firm after solicitor son took his own life

The mother of the late Kristof Fabry, who was an associate solicitor with London practice Statham Gi...

UK man spared jail after six-year delay in case coming to court

Darryl Foster had signed up to Sugar Daddy Meet and started talking to the account of a girl who he ...

Ivan Toney: Banned footballer bet on own team to lose, says FA

The England international admitted 232 breaches of betting rules between February 2017 and January 2...

Juventus deducted 10 points by Italian federation for false accounting

The decision sees Juventus drop from second place to seventh in the Serie A, making it highly unlike...

UK: Solicitor banned indefinitely for practising while bankrupt

Sarah Louise Williams was found to have concealed her bankruptcy from the regulator and it was plain...

IT worker sues her boss believing 'xx' in email were kisses

Karina Gasparova also claimed that when Alexander Goulandris renamed a work file with his initials '...

UK: Solicitor fined £23,000 over ‘sexualised’ song directed at female trainee

The solicitor, who cannot be named and is referred to as Respondent AC, was a partner of the firm wh...

Ed Sheeran wins Thinking Out Loud copyright case

The British singer-songwriter had denied stealing elements of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On song for...

Man who fathered up to 600 children banned from donating sperm

The Dutch court also ordered the man to contact sperm banks abroad and request that they destroy any...

Dutch Police arrest fake 'Boris Johnson' for suspected drink driving

Police say the driver had a fake Ukrainian licence featuring a picture of the former prime minister ...

Barristers targeted by disgruntled businessman in “fake bomb plot”

Jonathan Nuttall, 50, is accused of planting two packages resembling explosive devices at one of the...

UK: Law firm to pay ex-client £400,000 for negligent divorce advice

A High Court, found in Joanne Lewis v Cunningtons Solicitors that the firm should have advised the c...

UK Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab resigns after findings of bullying in report

In a resignation letter posted on Twitter on Friday, Dominic Raab said he decided to resign as deput...

UK law firm to pay £19k for unfairly dismissing pregnant paralegal

Though Farzana Yasin’s pregnancy was not the primary reason she was let go by Bolton firm Swift Lawy...

More UK judges want to quit before retirement, official survey shows

The 2022 UK Judicial Attitude Survey, published earlier this month, found that 43% of salaried judge...

British solicitor who defrauded clients of £1.7M jailed

Bilmes pleaded guilty to seven charges of fraud. Between November 2014 and October 2017 he dishonest...

UK Immigration minister banned from driving for six months for speeding

The minister has been hit with a six-month driving ban and fine after being caught speeding last yea...

TikTok fined £12.7m for misusing children's data

It estimated TikTok allowed up to 1.4 million UK children aged under 13 to use the platform in 2020...