Joe Biden all but declared election victory on Wednesday afternoon after winning Wisconsin and Michigan as President Trump cried fraud and desperately scrambled to undermine the results. CNN has called Michigan for Biden, giving him another 16 electoral college votes which gives him 264 – just 6 away from the 270 he need to claims … Read more
A former flight attendant is suing China Southern Airlines for suspending him after his sexual orientation was made public without his consent last year, in a rare legal manoeuvre that pits him against the country’s largest airline. A video showing the man kissing another man, alleged to be his colleague, was leaked on Chinese social … Read more
Emmerdale star Lorraine Chase is suing for £100,000 over a reality TV abseiling accident which she claims ended her pantomime career. The former model, who shot to fame in the 1970s as the ‘Luton Airport girl’ in a series of Campari adverts, has spent recent years on reality TV and doing pantomimes. But the 69-year-old … Read more
A businesswoman who claims she was ‘evicted’ by her boyfriend after she spent nearly £100,000 of her own money doing up and paying for his house is now suing him for half the property. Vijaya Jules, 49, was still living with her estranged husband when she got together with former police worker Jason Spencer, 51, … Read more
Female Italian Air Force rookie sues after she has her head smashed against a plane wing, is thrown into a pool and beaten in ‘hazing’ ceremony Giulia Schiff, 21, says she was injured during the Italian air force initiation prank She was later axed from the air force although bosses said it was for … Read more
A businessman is suing a jewellers’ after a £29,000 yellow diamond he gave his girlfriend for Christmas was lost when it fell out of her ring. Olivia Claffey noticed the gem was missing from the setting of her £31,000 ring as she got off a train and into a taxi at London Victoria station on March … Read more
A black quantity surveyor is suing a consultancy firm for race discrimination claiming she was held back for promotion in favour of her white colleges. Shannice Richards-Hargreaves worked for project and programme management consultancy Faithful+Gould in Birmingham and then London. She told an employment tribunal that white associate director Dervla Duffy – who worked in the … Read more
Apple has filed suit against a Canadian company it hired to recycle its devices, claiming it instead stole and resold more than 100,000 iPads, iPhones and Apple Watches. The tech giant is taking legal action against Ontario-based Geep Canada, which it paid to dismantle and recycle over 570,000 Apple devices between 2015 and 2017. Investigators … Read more
A Russian-born soldier who was rejected by the Intelligence Corps is suing the Ministry of Defence for race discrimination claiming they thought he might become a spy, an employment tribunal heard. Gleb Steshov, 33, claims that the MoD rigged language exam results and left compromising paperwork on his records to stop him joining the Intelligence Corps. … Read more
A Muslim porter has successfully sued a five star country hotel for religious harassment after he won a bottle of Cognac in a raffle – but bosses gave him ‘cheap’ chocolate instead. Managers at the 17th century hotel told Zakaria Kioua that ‘giving a Muslim alcohol was like giving nuts to a person with a … Read more