While coronavirus has caused major disruptions across the world, for the courts, chambers and clerks it is business as usual as cases continue to be heard – with the slight caveat that they are now being conducted virtually, either via video conference or telephone. This week, Burford Capital and the London Stock Exchange go head […]
Leigh Day and 11KBW’s Sean Jones QC recently teamed up with The Good Law Project to pile pressure on JD Wetherspoon over its decision to withhold wages from furloughed workers. The pub retailer recently came under fire from MPs and Devereux Chambers’ Jolyon Maugham QC’s Good Law Project after it claimed it would not be […]
Litigation funder Vannin Capital has settled a £14m dispute it had brought against 8,000 Royal Bank of Scotland shareholders, just days before the trial was due to start. The row arose from Vannin’s provision to another party – the AGC – of funding for a claimant group, now known as the SG Group, in litigation […]
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is taking legal action against the UK Government over whether it has failed to protect the wages and jobs of millions of public sector workers during the coronavirus pandemic. The union has instructed Leigh Day and a four-barrister team from Old Square Chambers, as it brings the […]
Norton Rose Fulbright has drafted in a barrister from Twenty Essex as it acts on a case against Colombian farmers. The firm is acting for Amerisur, which is alleged to have polluted the waterways in Putumayo. Originally William Buck of Monckton was instructed on the case, however, he has come off in favour of Twenty […]
Amid the coronavirus crisis, disputes are still due to be heard this week (some remotely), with Stewarts taking on Linklaters and King & Spalding in a matter between the National Bank of Kazakhstan and Bank of New York Mellon. This dispute concerns a clash between the Republic of Kazakhstan and its national bank up against […]
The High Court today ruled that Johnny Depp’s libel action against The Sun newspaper will be postponed as a direct consequence of coronavirus, with various members of counsel already absent due to self-isolation. A full 10-day trial was set to begin on Monday, however, it was ruled by the court today that the case – […]
After celebrating a successful turnaround in the Court of Appeal last year, Mishcon de Reya will now face off against Pinsent Masons in the Supreme Court for its landmark class action claim against Google. This mammoth data protection dispute is being brought by an estimated 4.4 million iPhone users, led by Richard Lloyd, who is […]
This week, Leigh Day is bringing a claim on behalf of 15 Colombian claimants, who are seeking £127,500 in compensation for environmental damage they believe was caused by Amerisur Resources.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Addleshaw Goddard, Macfarlanes, BCLP and Hogan Lovells will be fighting out the power cables cartel dispute in the Competition Appeal Tribunal, rather than the High Court, as it joins a number of claims awaiting judgment in the Mastercard dispute. The case, which featured on The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases 2020, was last […]
The Supreme Court will this week consider an appeal from HMRC’s legal department, as it goes up against the combined might of Tesco, Sainsburys and the Co-Operative Group in a battle over rates applied to ATMs in retail premises. With Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Dentons and DMH Stallard all involved, the core issues of the […]
The first two days of April have been set aside for the initial hearing between Burford Capital and the London Stock Exchange (LSE), as Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan prepares to go head to head with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Litigation funder Burford’s share price slumped last August, leading it to instruct Quinn’s City senior […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has taken its first steps in pursuing a High Court claim against KPMG on behalf of Carillion, two years after the contractor fell into liquidation. The Lawyer can reveal that an application for pre-action disclosure was filed against the Big Four accountant on 19 February in the Commercial Court, with […]
Dechert’s co-head of white-collar and securities has filed an application to put a stay on proceedings in his claim against Diligence International. Neil Gerrard, who has also been involved in the long-running ENRC saga and was subject to a two-day cross-examination by Brick Court’s Tim Lord QC in Rakia v Azima, claims that corporate investigators […]
RPC will be acting for Bloomberg in a fascinating Court of Appeal encounter this week, as it takes on Byrne and Partners during a three-day hearing that is floated for either Tuesday or Wednesday. The case will rule upon whether criminal suspects have a reasonable expectation to privacy, and if so, when. Following a string […]
Advertising mogul Charles Saatchi has handed a mandate to Peters & Peters, as he brings a lawsuit against his former finance chief over a £1.6m warehouse in Slough. Saatchi has launched a claim to assert his rights over the 21,400 sq ft storage unit bought in 2013 to house his art collection. He claims that […]
Hogan Lovells has been hit with a lawsuit from a former client, who is bringing a £377m claim against the firm in the Commercial Court. The dispute centres around Ukrainian businessman Vadim Shulman, who instructed Hogan Lovells in a 2016 lawsuit against Igor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Boholyubov, as he accused the oligarchs misappropriating $500m from […]