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.
Protests in Russia broke out on 23rd January 2021 supporting Alexei Navalny after he was arrested following the release of the film “Putin’s Palace”, uncovering a connection between President Vladimir Putin and a palace that is allegedly being built for him. [1] With more than 5,000 individuals detained, Moscow police had to block off the city centre as well as metro stations. Navalny was arrested when he returned to Russia after his recovery from a recent attempt on his life.
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.
Since 2014 Yemen has been steeped in a complex and brutal civil war that has involved many of its Gulf neighbours. Since 2015 the UK government has been sanctioning arms exports to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi coalition partners. The war has been widely decried as a humanitarian disaster with there being credible reports of war crimes and human rights abuses from all sides of the conflict.
Alexei Navalny is an opposition politician and anti-corruption campaigner in Russia, who was arrested on returning to Russia following treatment in Germany after being poisoned. Navalny has been sentenced to serve two years and eight months prison term as a result of his suspended sentence for a fraud conviction being made custodial.
For many generations, tea has been a symbol of relaxation, tradition, and pleasure. ‘Tea culture’ has been adopted in all parts of the world and is associated with different customs and rituals. Our future enjoyment of this herbal drink might be impacted by a recent decision of Kenyan tea farmworkers, to take legal action against a Scottish tea giant.
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
