A restaurant in the Aberdeenshire village of Balmedie in Scotland is reportedly considering filing a defamation lawsuit against TripAdvisor after a customer left a negative review. The owner of the award-winning Cock and Bull gastro pub, Rodger Morrison, said that he may take legal action against TripAdvisor as it refuses to remove what he considers …
According to the Daily Telegraph, the US hedge fund Highland Capital has filed a lawsuit against the Royal Bank of Scotland, in which it accuses the banking group of committing fraud and of lying to clients. The lawsuit is just the latest action in a long-running dispute between the two financial organisations. It all centres …
The owners of the News of the World have been forced to apologise to footballer Artur Boruc and pay him £70,000 in damages after the paper alleged that he had been unfaithful to his pregnant girlfriend. The story, published in the Scottish edition of the News of the World in July 2010, alleged that former …
A new rule has been introduced for teams wanting to compete in the Ballymena and Provincial Intermediate and Juniors Leagues which will make public liability insurance a compulsory requirement for entry. League officials are planning to rubber-stamp the new requirement at the annual general meeting at the end of June. If it is approved, it …
The twin brothers who have been suing Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg for theft of intellectual property have decided not to take their case to the US Supreme Court, instead accepting a settlement offered to them back in 2008. The Winklevoss brothers, Cameron and Tyler, originally alleged that Zuckerberg had stolen the idea for the popular …
The consumer electronics corporation Apple is reportedly facing a trademark infringement from another US-based company over the name of its new digital locker service, iCloud. The Voice-Over-IP company known as iCloud Communications launched the lawsuit last week, almost immediately after Apple boss Steve Jobs announced the corporation’s iCloud product at an event in San Francisco. …
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Two firms from Barry in Wales have been ordered to pay more than £500,000 between them after an employee lost his life in a work accident. Christopher Booker, 49, died after falling twelve metres from a platform during maintenance work at Aberthaw Power Station in June 2007. He fell through an unprotected opening, a major …
For the third year in a row, the information technology corporation Hewlett-Packard (HP) has been forced to recall hundreds of thousands of its lithium-ion laptop batteries after reports that some of them exploded and injured users. According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), HP is this month recalling 162,600 batteries that are usually …