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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Santander nearly £33 million for failing to transfer funds totalling over £183 million to the beneficiaries of tens of thousands of deceased UK customers. The watchdog's investigation found that 40,428 customers were directly affected, and

The UK government will pay compensation to Britons who were resettled abroad in the post-war period. Around 4,000 children were sent to different institutions in the Commonwealth between 1945 and 1970, where many of them say they were sexually, physically and mentally abused.

The House of Lords is set to overhaul its disciplinary processes next year to better support complainants in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC, The Times reports. The 82-year-old peer and former barrister resigned from the Lords last week ahead of a vote

The UK government has announced a new package of workplace reforms it calls the "largest upgrade in workers' rights in over a generation". The announcement takes forward 51 of the 53 recommendations made last summer by the Taylor Review, led by Matthew Taylor, CEO of the Royal Society of Arts and fo

Lord Sumption's retirement from the Supreme Court this week has triggered renewed calls for the age at which judges must leave the bench to be raised, The Times reports. Lord Sumption caused a stir after he was elevated to the Supreme Court straight from the bar in 2012.

Adverts that depict gender stereotypes including women struggling to park and men being baffled by nappies are to be banned under new rules set out by advertising regulators. These “harmful gender stereotypes” will be outlawed in an attempt to curb adverts which could negatively impact t

Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC has resigned from the House of Lords ahead of a vote on whether he should be suspended for breaching the code of conduct. The 82-year-old peer and former barrister allegedly harassed women's rights campaigner Jasvinder Sanghera while they worked together on a parliamenta

Tens of thousands of fraud victims have been denied justice after a computer algorithm dismissed four-fifths of reported cases. The Sunday Telegraph reports that 80 per cent of fraud incidents reported to the police in 2017-18 were rejected.

At least 40 motorists have had their drug-driving convictions quashed after evidence emerged of manipulation in the forensic testing process. The motorists had been banned from driving and in some cases fined but their convictions have now been overturned.

Deliveroo riders have lost a legal battle to gain union recognition after the High Court ruled in favour of the delivery company. The ruling confirms the Central Arbitration Committee's (CAC) judgment from November last year, which the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain was seeking to o

The commercial wing of the St Andrews Links Trust has lost its appeal to register the Scottish town’s name as an EU trade mark for services relating to golf. St Andrews Links Ltd – which runs seven famous courses (including the Old Course) and is one of the town’s biggest employers

The UK government has published its full legal advice on the draft Brexit deal after government ministers were found to be in contempt of Parliament in an historic first. The government had failed to publish the advice of Attorney General Geoffrey Cox QC in spite of a binding vote to that effect by

Article 50 TEU allows the unilateral revocation of the notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU, according to an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union.  At the request of various MSPs, MPs and MEPs, the Inner House of the Court of Session, asks the Court of

A woman whose husband was killed in Kenya has called for the role of the UK government in the "unfair" prosecution and trial of the "innocent" man convicted of killing him to be investigated. Judith Tebbutt, a British tourist kidnapped in Kenya in 2011 with her husband David, who was kille

Professor Steven Peers of University of Essex School of Law explains and comments on today's opinion from Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona on the revocability of Article 50. Was sending the Article 50 notification of withdrawal from the EU like jumping off a cliff – impossible to c