Lawsuits

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (800+ words) A woman who endured years of abusive controlling behaviour by her ex-husband says it has cost her more than £105,000 to divorce him. Annabelle Boucher, 48, from Somerset, wants the law changed after she paid £75,000 to David Rogers, 61, despite him admitting to…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (290+ words) A six-year workplace dispute has taken a new turn after the retailer challenged the legal reasoning behind millions of pounds in potential payments. British clothing retailer Next has won an appeal in an equal pay case. The company has retained…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (665+ words) An alleged saboteur plotted to spray paint the word “Palestine” on the lawn at former Henley MP Boris Johnson’s Cotswolds wedding reception venue, a court has heard. Tim Speers, 41, and another man, Sean Middlebrough, were carrying spray paint, glue, and…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (343+ words) Published on 09/07/2026 at 08:47 am EDT Sept 7 (Reuters) - British clothing retailer Next has won an appeal allowing it to keep paying warehouse workers more than sales consultants, it said on Monday, overturning a key part of a landmark equal pay ruling…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (242+ words) Monday, 7 September 2026 Next has successfully appealed a 2024 tribunal ruling, with the Employment Appeal Tribunal accepting its defence that higher pay for warehouse workers is justified by market forces, recruitment and retention challenges. Sept 7 (Reuters) - British clothing retailer Next said on…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (781+ words) Nearly 500 South African women have approached attorneys after falling pregnant while using a contraceptive pill that was recalled because some packs contained the wrong sequence of tablets. LHL Attorneys is investigating a potential class action against Bayer South Africa, the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (161+ words) MISSOULA, Mont. — U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy’s lawsuit against an ammunition manufacturer is scheduled for a jury trial next August after a federal judge set deadlines for the case to move forward. A preliminary pretrial conference held Wednesday in Missoula was…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1657+ words) Town of Benson paid $9,768.97 toward Kimberly Pickett’s MPA, later demanded money back; Pickett contends a subsequent town manager contract eliminated the repayment obligation BENSON — A year after the Town of Benson demanded that former Town Manager Kimberly Pickett repay money…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (264+ words) A United States federal court has ruled that South African composer Lebohang “Lebo M” Morake must pay Zimbabwean comedian Learnmore Jonasi US$39,560 in statutory attorneys’ fees, following a legal dispute over a joke about The Lion King’s iconic Zulu chant....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (708+ words) What makes this especially troubling is that emergency medicine is already operating under extraordinary pressure. ERs across the country are managing rising patient volumes, staffing shortages, and increasingly complex cases, all under the same roof and often within the same…...