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The Chinese technology giant has gone on trial over allegations that it stole competitors’ technology, deceived international banks and concealed business in sanctioned countries. Huawei is standing trial in New York almost eight years after US prosecutors first accused the Chinese technology giant of defrauding international banks over its business in Iran.

Court rules that polygamy may justify restrictions on family reunification even where a father’s relationship with his children is protected by Article 8. The European Court of Human Rights has backed the Netherlands’ refusal to admit five children born to the second and third wives of a Yemeni refugee who remained married to all three women.

The new partner will join the firm’s London office. Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has welcomed real estate partner Simon Woodcock to its London office. Prior to joining the firm, Woodcock worked as a counsel at global law firm Goodwin Procter, where he advised on a broad range of transactional real estate matters.

The EAT’s finding that Next could pay warehouse staff more than shop workers doing work of equal value has reopened the argument over whether market rates can perpetuate sex discrimination. Everyone agrees, at least in public, that a woman and a man should receive the same pay for doing the same job. But trouble starts to set in when their jobs are completely different but deemed by someone, somewhere, to be of ‘equal value’.

The firm has added international trade talent in Brussels as it eyes expansion of its sovereign-state capabilities. International law firm Mayer Brown has bolstered its Brussels-based international trade practice with the appointment of Pablo Bentes as partner, effective 7 September. Bentes arrives from Baker McKenzie with his team in tow.

A political party that used IKEA’s branding without consent must prove that its freedom of expression outweighs the DIY giant’s own rights and interests. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has weighed in on a closely watched dispute over a Belgian political party’s parodic campaign that used IKEA’s branding to push its own immigration agenda.

The appointment is the latest in a string of financial services appointments at the firm in recent months. International law firm Pinsent Masons has welcomed Mark Wilson to its Birmingham office, the firm announced yesterday (7 September). Wilson joins the restructuring practice as partner.

Ruling could leave multinational software and cloud businesses facing Australian tax demands covering payments made to overseas group companies in previous years. Australia’s tax authority has adopted a contentious interpretation of royalty rules that could increase the tax liabilities of multinational software and cloud businesses.

Families cannot use their children’s welfare or ECHR rights to justify deliberately occupying land in breach of a planning injunction, the English High Court has ruled. The High Court of England and Wales has refused to relax an injunction preventing residential occupation of land near AWE [Atomic Weapons Establishment] Aldermaston after finding that dozens of families deliberately moved on to the site despite an order prohibiting them from doing so.

Warbus Pincus to sell its majority stake in (re)insurance broker McGill and Partners under Freshfields’ guidance. Global law firm Freshfields has advised specialty (re)insurance broker McGill and Partners and its majority shareholder Warburg Pincus on a deal that will see EQT X acquire Warbus Pincus’ majority stake in McGill and Partners for $2 billion. The multidisciplinary Freshfields team was led by private equity partner Patrick Ko and senior associate Alex Collins.