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A Gibraltar-based pension scheme will face British investors' claims it was negligent in accepting pension transfers from an unregulated firm in Cyprus that allegedly scammed them, an appeals court has ruled, in a significant decision for consumers' claims against offshore companies.

A task force commissioned by the government will next week present its plan for a more diverse workforce in U.K. financial services, the chair of the body said on Thursday, amid criticism that its anticipated approach will fail to make a difference.

A former in-house doctor at the Kuwaiti embassy in London should not be allowed to expand his £715,000 ($852,000) claim for alleged race discrimination, the Gulf state's government argued at a U.K. employment tribunal on Friday.

A U.K. outpost of Saudi Arabia's education ministry should have state immunity from a British woman's discrimination lawsuit because her role was "sufficiently close" to its sovereign activities, the department argued to an appeals tribunal on Tuesday.

A proposal to tie some senior finance executives' pay to their progress on workforce diversity is unlikely to include hard targets, attorneys say, as they warn that regulators must prescribe how firms measure and manage such a requirement.

Britain's failure to bring enforcement action over workplace discrimination has disproportionately hit the country's lowest earners, who are far less likely to go to the employment tribunals even though bias at work remains rampant, new research says.

A Royal Navy officer who complained that the service's housing policy discriminated against him for being gay has won almost £47,000 ($54,500) after data protection failures forced him to reveal his sexuality, an employment tribunal has ruled.

A bill to repeal European law in the U.K. risks allowing foundational employment laws to lapse or be reformed without proper scrutiny, MPs and attorneys warned Tuesday as the proposed legislation was debated in Parliament.

A bill to legislate minimum service levels during strikes by transport workers proceeded to its first reading in Parliament on Thursday, prompting reactions from unions saying the proposal was "unfair, unworkable and incompatible with our international commitments."

The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Thursday it is not disproportionate to make a charity boss convicted of fraud repay approximately £97,000 ($117,000) he obtained dishonestly, opting for a "middle way" between an all-or-nothing approach to confiscation in résumé fraud cases.