Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, we put our ear to the Supreme Court (SC). The country’s top judges are used to handling complex disputes, but some are fed up of colleagues keen on making waves. Plus, watch out, as we hear litigation […]
RPC has said it did not breach any of the duties it owed to a former client, as the professional negligence case brought against the firm draws to a close. The firm has spent the last eight days at the Leeds Circuit Commercial Court defending several allegations brought against it by former client Deborah Forster. […]
Check in with The Lawyer each week as we spot the most important new claims hitting the courts and assess what they say about the litigation landscape.
Supreme Court to tackle Nigeria oil spill dispute On Wednesday 29 March, the Supreme Court will hear a two-day appeal concerning a large oil spill that took place 120km off the shore of Nigeria in 2011. The appellants, which includes over 27,000 people and nearly 500 communities, allege that the disaster caused extensive damage to […]
This week saw a judge rule on a “troubling” police disciplinary process, while a Swansea-based law firm failed to have negligence allegations thrown out. Over at the Court of Appeal, a London-listed oil and gas company was also forced to pay out $1.6m over a drilling project gone wrong in Cameroon. Judge labels police disciplinary […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week we look at how the floodgates may be about to open to mass claims from landowners against water companies, and how the working hours of financial crime and corporate compliance lawyers are in the hands of those […]
Check in with The Lawyer each week as we spot the most important new claims hitting the courts and assess what they say about the litigation landscape. Credit Suisse hit with lawsuit by Mozambique bank Pallas Partners filed two separate claims last week on behalf of Mozambique bank Moza Banco against parties involved in the tuna bonds scandal. […]
Round two for tax silk as professional negligence case heads to Court of Appeal A three-day appeal concerning tax silk Andrew Thornhill KC will begin in the Court of Appeal today. Thornhill has been accused by 100 investors of professional negligence regarding advice he provided in three similar film finance tax schemes between 2002 and […]
This week saw Justice Secretary Dominic Raab’s intervention in probation service procedures ruled unlawful. But in better news for the UK Government, the Foreign Office’s sanction regime against Belarus succeeded in a challenge hoping to overturn it. Herbert Smith Freehills’ client Mercedes Benz was also at the High Court, attempting to determine the scope of […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, in the interests of balance, we look at why 7KBW is having a cracking month, and why the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is not. Need an insurance barrister? 7KBW is fully booked: The mountain of aviation suits […]
A mammoth dispute between leasing companies and their insurers is set for trial next year, as firms including Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and Clifford Chance seek to claim losses for stranded jets in Russia. Here’s the legal line-up. The litigation could be one of the most significant matters to be heard by the High Court, […]
Check in with The Lawyer each week as we spot the most important new claims hitting the courts and assess what they say about the litigation landscape.
Mammoth aviation dispute heads for CMC A $3.5bn aviation claim arising from the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine is set to head to the Commercial Court for a two-day case management conference (CMC) today (13 March). The dispute boils down to stranded jets and aeroplanes left in Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. […]
The UK Government can claim victory this week, as an attempt to force a review of its 5G rollout was quashed. Outcomes for UBS London and Instagram were less favourable. The investment bank failed in its bid to have a massive negligence case diverted to Hong Kong, and the social media giant lost a trademark […]
In this week’s edition, we look at Kingsley Napley’s daring move to enter the London IP disputes market. Plus, we discuss how your opposing counsel’s emotional opening salvo in their skeleton argument isn’t really written for you. But first, let’s look at the latest litigation updates on the London Metal Exchange’s (LME) dramatic suspension of […]
Former Georgia ministers and PM hit with English lawsuit Georgian politicians, including the former Prime Minister of the country, have been slapped with a miscellaneous lawsuit in the English High Court. Georgian born-British citizen Zaza Okuashvili, along with his British-domiciled business Allied Global Tobacco, have filed the claim. Okuashvili is the founder and owner of […]
The dispute between a large group of investment funds and defendant banking giants regarding alleged rigging in the foreign exchange (FX) market is close to reaching a settlement agreement, The Lawyer understands. The dispute follows on from the EU competition watchdog’s finding that many banks used online chat rooms to share information about customers’ trading activities to […]