Gina Miller, who brought the lawsuit that forced U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to get parliamentary approval for her Brexit plans, may file another legal challenge — this time over May’s bid to take control over thousands of European Union laws. The investment manager said Thursday that she would …
Jolyon Maugham doesn’t mind a tough fight. He was rejected from one of his first jobs after university for being a man, instead of a woman named Joleen that the employers thought the temp agency was sending. He filed a sex discrimination case and won. And now Maugham seems to be taking on the majority of Britons who voted to leave the European Union (EU). Along with some politicians, he has filed a case that could allow the UK parliament to reverse Brexit if they so wish. He now regularly gets online hate messages from what he calls “a small group of angry and loud individuals”—but that’s not going to stop him from the pursuit. …
The case could pit the power of the judiciary against the authority of the prime minister. In the hall of London’s Inner Temple, a grand dining chamber with stained-glass windows and coats of arms adorning the walls, 300 lawyers assembled to …
HSBC Holdings PLC’s (NYSE:HSBC) restructuring effort could be affected by increased litigation charges, in addition to new proposed regulation by the Basel Committee, for estimating operational risk. HSBC’s unit HSBC Finance Corp has agreed to settle the shareholder claims related to Household International, which are 14-years old, for the payment of worth $1.575 billion. HSC spokesman Rob …