Law360, London: A former Russian politician who became the first person to be found guilty of breaching the UK's sanctions regime is challenging his conviction and sentence, his lawyer confirmed on 28 May 2025.

Law360: A Brazilian marketing manager has successfully appealed an Employment Tribunal (ET) decision that an English university did not harass her by making comments about her accent, after the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that the wrong legal test had been used to dismiss the claim.

A directory status classification whereby the customer's directory information is not available from any directory information services or products.

Law360: A London jury acquitted a former fuel trader of fraud and money laundering on 28 June 2024 after briefly deliberating over the Serious Fraud Office's (SFO) allegations that he received £5.2m in secret commissions as part of a fraud against his employer.

Benefit provided by the employer that he is not legally obliged to provide.

A commercial payment of a claim by insurers to the insured, when there is no legal liability for that claim under the policy, or no proof of legal liability.

The term whereby an employer makes a payment to an employee on an 'ex-gratia' basis on termination of employment.

Law360: A former pension scheme trustee was handed a suspended prison sentence on 4 January 2024 after admitting to making prohibited loans that cost a retirement savings plan for contractors nearly £700,000.

Law360, London: A former pharmaceutical boss is likely to avoid prison for misleading Britain's medicines regulator to gain approval for a novel drug as a London judge handed his now-defunct company a fine of £1.07m (US$1.35m) on 16 January 2024.

Law360, London: HMRC has ordered a struck-off solicitor to stop promoting two tax avoidance schemes, the first notice of its kind issued against an individual, the tax authority said on 15 May 2025.

An individual to whom pension credit rights have been or are to be allocated following a pension sharing order, agreement or equivalent provision.

Law360: A former director of the Ecroignard Trustees Ltd, a pension scheme trustee company, must repay more than £9.7m into two pension schemes after the Deputy Pensions Ombudsman found he had acted dishonestly by facilitating dubious investments.