Three energy companies are collaborating on a pioneering zinc hybrid battery technology that they are ultimately targeting at the UK’s industrial and commercial market. The battery system is also being developed to integrate with electric vehicle charging and demand side management solutions. The trio of firms – UK-headquartered Bryt Energy and Connected Energy, and US-based Eos Energy Storage …
He insisted that fewer than half of the UK vehicles caught up in the Volkswagen emissions scandal had been fixed. Around 470,000 of the 1.2m vehicles fitted with software to cheat environmental tests had been dealt with, he said. But he was attacked for failing to give answers to straight answers, repeatedly using phrases such as “to the best of my knowledge” and “I can’t recall” and last week …
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. …
University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto (Photo: File ) The University of Kentucky has won its lawsuit against its own student newspaper, with a judge from Lexington ruling this week that the school was right to withhold documents about a sexual assault case involving a former professor. Fayette Circuit Court Judge Thomas Clark ruled that the investigative documents the Kentucky Kernel, …
Kentucky wide receiver DeMoreo Ford, right, fails to hang on to the ball in the end zone during a game at Florida in Gainesville, Fla., on Oct. 25, 2008. (Photo: Phil Sandlin, AP) LEXINGTON, Ky. – Former Kentucky, Louisville and Murray State football players have joined a group of class-action lawsuits against their conferences and the NCAA alleging “reckless disregard for the health and safety …
MasterCard Inc (NYSE:MA) is facing an expensive lawsuit, which is expected to increase its litigation cost by the end of 2016. The payment processing company is accused of imposing additional card charges, which were ultimately borne by British consumers. It might be the first US-style class action lawsuit in the UK, which might increase the uncertainty associated with the stock.
The hulking write-down on Slater’s UK acquisition Quindell has put the company in a ‘financially precarious’ position. Ambition before fall as law firm Slater & Gordon faces possible class action
Slater & Gordon is now valued at $80 million, a fraction of its $2.75 billion value a year ago. An ambitious Australian company spends up big on a massive overseas asset. …