Railway strikes in the UK have halted services throughout July and Augst 2022.
Sony, owners and creators of the gaming sensation PlayStation, have been hit with a lawsuit with a possible £5 billion pay out.
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The UK government has once again extended its trade sanctions with Russia.
The UK underwent a record-breaking heatwave in July with another hitting the country in August.
The UK has blocked a Chinese company from purchasing intellectual property from the University of Manchester using its powers under the National Security and Investment Act.
The giant Ever Given container ship was pried from the Suez Canal’s bank on the 29th of March, and traffic through the Suez Canal resumed soon after. The blockage began when the vessel slammed into the bank on the 23rd of March and caused the Canal’s longest closure since it was shut for eight years following the 1967 Six-Day War.
The FCA successfully followed up on their October announcement to ban cryptocurrency derivatives, taking effect on January 6th 2021. This has been justifiably criticised by the investing community, for a lack of factual ground and practical enforceability. It appears to be more of an attack on digital assets then a well-reasoned choice of regulation, hence, there should be concerns about the future of financial freedom.
On 27 January 2021 the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman concluded an investigation into a Nottinghamshire County Council pursuant to the Local Government Act 1974, sections 26(1) and s26A(1). [1] [2] [3] It produced a damning report concluding that Nottinghamshire County Council had failed to have any regard for even the most basic human rights of a man living in a care home miles away for his family for 5 months.
The topic of abortion has for many decades sparked controversy in Northern Ireland. In more recent years the laws have changed and now the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is attempting to reamend them. Simultaneously, the Northern Ireland (NI) Human Rights Commission is taking legal action against the Northern Ireland secretary, the Stormont Executive and Northern Ireland’s Department of Health over the delay in commissioning abortion services.
The High court has been looking to put forward an amendment that stops the UK signing trade deals with states that have been found guilty of committing genocide. The House of Lords All-Party genocide Amendment has recently hit the house commons and has been defeated by a small vote margin of 11.
'The UK could still sign a trade deal with a state committing genocide...This amendment puts that right'.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), an independent financial regulatory body, contend that National Westminster Bank PLC, commonly referred to as NatWest, failed to adhere to certain clauses of the Money Laundering Regulations Act 2007 (MLR 2007). The FCA alleges that “NatWest’s systems and controls failed to adequately monitor and scrutinise” suspicious transactional activity between November 2011 and October 2016, and so were remiss in their duty to prevent money laundering.
In the wake of the vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common, on Tuesday the parliament voted on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Its contents have been widely criticised as “draconian”. Despite opposition on both sides of the House, the Bill passed by 359 votes to 263 on Tuesday night.
Arcadia Group, the parent company of retail stores such as Topshop, Miss Guided and Dorothy Perkins, officially went into administration on 30th November 2020, affecting 13,000 jobs. Ian Grabiner, the chief executive of Arcadia Group, cited the pandemic as being the main reason for the group’s collapse
