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Spanish firm wrong to fire electrician for drinking alcohol during working day, court rules

23-04-2023 18:05

High court found electrical company had not proved man was drunk after he was seen drinking beer, wine and brandy at lunchA Spanish court has ruled that a company was wrong to fire an electrician who may have drunk more than three litres of beer in one day because it had not proved that his consumption had left him “inebriated, intoxicated or drunk”, or unable to do his job.The high court in the south-eastern region of Murcia found the electrical company had provided insufficient gro

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Infected blood victims and families urge UK government to drop defence

23-04-2023 12:55

Exclusive: claimants say government can no longer defend treatment disasterin light of inquiry’s damning interim reportMore than 500 people taking the government to court over the contaminated blood scandal are urging it to concede the case in light of evidence heard by the public inquiry into the tragedy and an interim report produced by its chair.The claim, which began in 2017 but was stayed pending the inquiry into what has been described as the biggest treatment disaster in the history

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Wagatha Christie play faces plot twist after Rebekah Vardy trademark move

23-04-2023 11:00

Producers of West End show Vardy v Rooney say surprise legal move to trademark a pun will be referred to in scriptA big publicity boost for a West End show can come from the most unexpected thing, but a copyright challenge to the title of the play must be among the most alarming. The producers of Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial were trying to establish this weekend whether they needed to make changes to the title of their play after Rebekah Vardy announced last week that she was the l

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Rupert Murdoch was ever a master strategist, but he’s beginning to lose his grip | John Naughton

23-04-2023 08:31

The $787m Fox News settlement was money well spent in saving the media mogul from an embarrassing ordealThere are, as F Scott Fitzgerald famously observed – and as Rupert Murdoch is now belatedly discovering, “no second acts in American lives”. Last week, just as the trial of the $1.6bn defamation action brought by Dominion against Fox News was about to start, a “settlement” was reached between the two parties. Fox, of which Murdoch is CEO, paid nearly $800m to stop

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Wagatha Christie™? My pun’s been trademarked, but the joke is on me | Dan Atkinson

23-04-2023 08:00

Rebekah Vardy has made my ‘Wagatha Christie’ joke, from her case against Coleen Rooney, into intellectual property. If gags are bought up, British humour faces a bleak futureThree years, six months and 13 days ago, I tweeted the words “Coleen Rooney: Agatha Christie”. Well, that’s not quite what I tweeted. I inserted a “W” before the Agatha, creating a disposable pun that somehow went viral. To my bemusement the joke was emblazoned across countless headl

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