Commercial Litigation UK

  • October 22, 2024

    Closed Law Firm Must Pay Ex-Staffer For Breach Of Contract

    A tribunal has ordered a shuttered law firm to pay a former employee £2,400 ($3,100) after it breached their contract by dismissing them without notice.

  • October 21, 2024

    Russia Says Stay Needed In $208M Ukraine Utility Award Fight

    The Russian Federation has once again asked a D.C. federal judge to pause litigation filed by a Ukrainian utility to enforce a nearly $208 million arbitral award, saying it is ignoring the potential impact of Dutch annulment proceedings on the award's confirmation.

  • October 21, 2024

    UK Director's Use Of Tax Planning Data Subject For Retrial

    Whether a director of a U.K. company is liable for a breach of confidence over the misuse of information in marketing a complex tax structure is an issue to be retried, a London court ruled.

  • October 21, 2024

    Former Unite Official Loses Tribunal Claim Amid Fraud Probe

    A tribunal has concluded that a former legal chief at Unite the Union did not face a "baseless" disciplinary investigation in connection with a police raid over a £112 million ($145 million) construction project that has since been referred to the Serious Fraud Office.

  • October 21, 2024

    Howard Kennedy LLP Ex-Partner Can't Claim £176K

    An employment tribunal has dismissed a former partner's claims that Howard Kennedy LLP owed him £176,725 ($230,238) in unpaid wages because he wasn't entitled to employment law protections.

  • October 21, 2024

    Campaigners To Submit Whistleblowing Protections Bill

    Campaigners announced plans Monday to submit a new bill before Parliament that would establish a new government office to crack down on retaliation against whistleblowers who reveal fraud, corruption and misconduct.

  • October 21, 2024

    D&G Wins Case Against Firms Over Fraudulent Cold Calls

    A London court ruled Monday that a string of companies pretended to be associated with Domestic & General during cold calls to lure away its customers and steal business from the insurance and warranties giant.

  • October 28, 2024

    Commercial Barrister Joins Monckton From 2 Temple Gardens

    Monckton Chambers has recruited a new barrister from 2 Temple Gardens in a move that adds expertise to its ranks across a broad range of arbitration and commercial matters.

  • October 21, 2024

    Insurance Broker Hit With £2M Negligence Case After Thefts

    A British pipe seal and gasket manufacturer has sued its insurance broker for almost £2 million ($2.6 million), claiming that the broker negligently failed to arrange insurance for tools that were later stolen from shipping containers.

  • October 21, 2024

    Startup Funder Wants Co-Founder To Pay £7.1M In Fraud Case

    A Paris-based startup funder asked a London court on Monday to order one of its co-founders to pay £7.1 million ($9.2 million) after his defense to allegations of "substantial and wide-ranging fraud" was struck out over failures to comply with court orders.

  • October 21, 2024

    Billionaire Fights PE Giant Over Software Co. Stakes

    An Irish venture capitalist has accused a unit of a major private equity firm of stopping him from forcing it out of its stake in a major management software company to make him buy them out at a premium, in documents disclosed at a London court hearing.

  • October 21, 2024

    Lynton Crosby Consultancy Linked To Alleged Doc. Forgery

    The strategic counsel and business intelligence branch of CT Group is the source of a forged report that allegedly suggested that Russian industrialist Oleg Deripaska misled arbitrators during a dispute with a former business partner, the consultancy told Law360 Monday.

  • October 21, 2024

    Exec Proves Co-Director Harassed Her For Blocking Advances

    A recruitment company director harassed a fellow executive by pushing her out of the business after she rejected his sexual advances following a pub crawl, a tribunal has ruled.

  • October 21, 2024

    BHP Accused Of 'Cynically' Dodging Liability In £36B Trial

    BHP was accused Monday of "cynically and doggedly" trying to avoid responsibilities to more than 600,000 Brazilians following the country's worst environmental disaster at the start of a £36 billion ($47 billion) High Court trial.

  • October 21, 2024

    Medic Wins £6K Over Manager's Offer To Get Her Pregnant

    An ambulance medic whose manager asked her if she wanted help getting pregnant has won £6,000 ($7808) in her discrimination claim after a tribunal found her employer failed to take her allegations seriously.

  • October 21, 2024

    BHP Nears $30B Brazilian Dam Settlement As UK Trial Opens

    BHP has said it is edging toward a 170 Brazilian real ($30 billion) settlement with Brazilian authorities over a dam collapse that triggered the Latin American country's worst environmental disaster as the miner is due to face a parallel London trial beginning on Monday.

  • October 18, 2024

    Apple To Face £785M Class Action From UK App Developers

    Britain's antitrust tribunal ruled Friday that U.K. app developers could join together to bring a £785 million ($1 billion) class action against Apple over "excessive" app store fees after the claimants provided a "blueprint" to trial.

  • October 18, 2024

    Solicitor Must Pay For Suing Barrister Repping Ex-Firm

    An employment tribunal ordered a solicitor to pay £3,000 ($3,914) to cover costs that his old law firm and its barrister incurred while fighting claims of victimization that the court had no jurisdiction to hear.

  • October 18, 2024

    Ofsted Unfairly Fired Inspector For Touching Child's Head

    England's education and childcare regulator unfairly dismissed one of its inspectors for brushing rain from a student's forehead, a London appeals court has ruled.

  • October 18, 2024

    Post Office GC Says Legal Strategy Flawed By Group Think

    The Post Office's top lawyer told the inquiry into the Horizon accounting scandal on Friday that the organization's approach to litigation with wrongly convicted subpostmasters was "flawed" and its legal advisers fell victim to "group think."

  • October 18, 2024

    Utilities Co. Seeks Compensation For COVID Shutdown

    A civil works contractor has claimed that it should get extra time or money that it was denied in order to complete an almost £500,000 ($652,000) gas mains installation that was held up by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • October 18, 2024

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen Professor Cat Jarman, Earl Spencer's new girlfriend, sue his ex-wife, Bitcoin fraudster Craig Wright file a £911 billion ($1.18 trillion) claim against BTC Core, journalist Oliver Kamm hit novelist Ros Barber with a defamation claim, and a barrister at Cloisters face a claim from a former client. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • October 18, 2024

    Teacher Wins £14K For Dismissal Linked To Racism Claims

    An employment tribunal ordered a primary school to pay £14,733 ($19,216) to a Black teacher it hurriedly ousted after considering that her accusations of "blackophobia" against senior colleagues broke down their working relationship beyond repair.

  • October 18, 2024

    Opera Coach Axed After Pronoun Complaints Wins Claim

    An opera training organization unfairly fired a conductor in the wake of complaints over the pronouns he used to refer to another artist, a tribunal has ruled.

  • October 18, 2024

    Osborne Clarke Pro Can't Block Zahawi SLAPP Case Evidence

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority can argue that it was not common practice when a partner at Osborne Clarke LLP, who represented Nadhim Zahawi, warned a critic probing the former chancellor's tax affairs not to disclose a defamation threat, a tribunal ruled Friday.

Expert Analysis

  • 2024 Will Be A Busy Year For Generative AI And IP Issues

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    In light of increased litigation and policy proposals on balancing intellectual property rights and artificial intelligence innovation, 2024 is shaping up to be full of fast-moving developments that will have significant implications for AI tool developers, users of such tools and rights holders, say lawyers at Mishcon de Reya.

  • Regulating Digital Platforms: What's Changing In EU And UK

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    Lawyers at Mayer Brown assess the status of recently enacted EU and U.K. antitrust regulation governing gatekeeper platforms, noting that the effects are already being felt, and that companies will need to avoid anti-competitive self-preferencing and ensure a higher degree of interoperability than has been required to date.

  • Dyson Decision Highlights Post-Brexit Forum Challenges

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    The High Court's recent decision in Limbu v. Dyson, barring the advancement of group supply chain claims against Dyson subsidiaries in the U.K. and Malaysia, suggests that, following Brexit, claims concerning events abroad may less frequently proceed to trial in England, say lawyers at Debevoise.

  • 9 Takeaways From The UPC's First 6 Months In Session

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    Six months after its opening, the Unified Patent Court has established itself as an appealing jurisdiction, with its far territorial reach, short filing deadlines and extremely quick issuance of preliminary injunctions showing that it is well-prepared to provide for rapid legal clarity, says Antje Brambrink at Finnegan.

  • How Boards Can Mitigate Privacy, Cybersecurity And AI Risks

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    In 2023, data privacy, cybersecurity and AI persist as prominent C-suite concerns as regulators stepped up enforcement, and organizations must develop a plan for handling these risks, in particular those with a global footprint, say lawyers at Latham.

  • The Year In FRAND: What To Know Heading Into 2024

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    In 2023, there were eight significant developments concerning the fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory patent licensing regime that undergirds technical standardization, say Tom Millikan and Kevin Zeck at Perkins Coie.

  • The Outlook For UK Restructuring Plans At Home And Abroad

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    The U.K. continues to be a center for large-cap, cross-border restructurings, though its competitive edge over the EU in this regard may narrow, while small and medium-sized enterprises are already likely to avoid costly formal processes by reaching out to their secured lenders for restructuring solutions, say Paul Keddie and Timothy Bromley-White at Macfarlanes.

  • Foreign Assets Ruling Suggests New Tax Avoidance Approach

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    The U.K. Supreme Court's recent ruling in His Majesty's Revenue & Customs v. Fisher, which found that the scope of the transfer of foreign assets is narrow, highlights that the days of rampant tax avoidance have been left behind, and that the need for wide-ranging and uncertain tax legislation is lessening, says James Austen at Collyer Bristow.

  • Class Action-Style Claims Are On The Horizon In 2024

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    Following the implementation of an EU directive enabling consumers to bring actions for collective redress, 2024 will likely see the first serious swathe of class action-style cases in Europe, particularly in areas such as cyber exposures, ESG and product liability, says Henning Schaloske at Clyde & Co.

  • Cos. Must Monitor Sanctions Regime As Law Remains Unclear

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    While recent U.K. government guidance and an English High Court's decision in Litasco v. Der Mond Oil, finding that a company is sanctioned when a designated individual is exercising control over it, both address sanctions control issues, disarray in the law remains, highlighting that practitioners should keep reviewing their exposure to the sanctions regime, say lawyers at K&L Gates.

  • The Top 7 Global ESG Litigation Trends In 2023

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    To date, ESG litigation across the world can largely be divided into seven forms, but these patterns will continue developing, including a rise in cases against private and state actors, a more complex regulatory environment affecting multinational companies, and an increase in nongovernmental organization activity, say Sophie Lamb and Aleksandra Dulska at Latham.

  • Proposed Amendment Would Transform UK Collective Actions

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    If the recently proposed amendment to the Digital Markets Bill is enacted, the U.K.'s collective action landscape will undergo a seismic change that will likely have significant consequences for consumer-facing businesses, say lawyers at Linklaters.

  • EU GDPR Ruling Reiterates Relative Nature Of 'Personal Data'

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    The Court of Justice of the European Union recently confirmed in Gesamtverband v. Scania that vehicle identification number data can be processed under the General Data Protection Regulation, illustrating that the same dataset may be considered "personal data" for one party, but not another, which suggests a less expansive definition of the term, say lawyers at Van Bael.

  • Employment Law Changes May Increase Litigation In 2024

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    As we enter 2024, significant employment law updates include changes to holiday pay, gender equality and flexible working, but the sector must deal with the unintended consequences of some of these changes, likely leading to increased litigation in the coming year, says Louise Taft at Jurit.

  • How 'Copyleft' Licenses May Affect Generative AI Output

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    Open-source software and the copyleft licenses that support it, whereby derivative works must be made available for others to use and modify, have been a boon to the development of artificial intelligence, but could lead to issues for coders who use AI to help write code and may find their resulting work exposed, says William Dearn at HLK.

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