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...UK defamation law has traditionally been so generous to claimants that London earned a reputation for libel tourism, a place where oligarchs and other wealthy types could bring cases to silence their critics...
...Claimants could get as much as $5mn each, the people said. The settlement draws a line under one of three lawsuits involving lenders to Epstein....
...The unnamed claimants are being represented by David Boies of Boies Schiller Flexner. He previously secured a settlement for Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre in a case against Prince Andrew....
...He said the government was “mindful” that not disclosing parts of the documents would deprive the claimants of “certain evidence that might be deployed in these proceedings”....
...District of New York court, the investors bringing the lawsuit are set to hire Jason Katz, a former Barclays and BNP Paribas currency trader who in 2017 pleaded guilty in the US to price-fixing charges with unnamed...
...The commission ordered BP to reinstate the worker within 14 days and pay compensation, noting that the claimant’s household family income fell 75 per cent when he was sacked....
...One particularly dogged claimant — who FT Alphaville understands to be a Russian former politician — even managed to seize some of Lars’s assets, including a private jet, for a brief period in 2017....
...“It is not necessary for us to state the precise degree of probability of the claimant’s success,” the three judges said....
...In one, an unnamed employee wrote: “We must be sure to prevent the authority from testing the Gen 1!”...
...A story last month quoting unnamed sources suggested that Mr Edmonds told Lloyds he was willing to settle for £10m....
...One unnamed 52-year-old who made a submission to the inquiry was very clear about how he thought MPs could improve pensions....
...Who are the claimants and what did they argue? The lead claimant was Gina Miller, a fund manager who was represented by barrister Lord Pannick and law firm Mishcon de Reya....
...Jolyon Maugham QC, a tax barrister, on Friday launched a crowdfunding appeal to raise £70,000 to bring the lawsuit on behalf of as yet unnamed claimants and with the Irish state and the European Commission...
...If the chances of success top 60 per cent, at a claim value of £43m, Worthington will issue 1m new shares to the claimant companies.If the claimants can get an English court finding in their favour with...
...BP also submitted a list of 1,200 unnamed businesses, broken down by industry and distance from the spill, which it said could not have been affected by the oil....
...Employees of two unnamed brokerage firms were accused of receiving commission from RBS off “wash trades” – trades that cancel each other out and have no commercial rationale....
...Even police forces have sold accident information to vehicle recovery companies, with one unnamed force making £1.3m in 2008-2009, according to Mr Straw....
...court-appointed trustee, said he expected “significant settlements” in the near future, although he declined to say whether he was negotiating with parties against whom he has already filed suit, or as yet unnamed...
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