Two property developers behind a £10m negligence claim against Osborne Clarke have been dealt a blow after a bid to increase their legal costs was rejected. The High Court dismissed an application from Persimmon Homes and Taylor Wimpey on Monday, which had been seeking to more than double their costs budget from £1.4m to £2.7m. […]
The Good Law Project is pursuing a cost-capping order against the UK Government this Friday, with the hearing set to form part of judicial review proceedings that once again challenge the award of a Covid-19-related public contract. The contract in question is worth £900,000 and was allegedly handed to a lobbying firm run by friends […]
Permission to appeal has been granted in a £100m claim against G4S, less than one month after a judge criticised “serious” mistakes in a case brought by Morgan Lewis & Bockius on behalf of Invesco. A court ruling last week confirmed that the initial strike-out will be considered by the Court of Appeal, with the […]
Barristers chambers in London are beginning to cut back on office space as they cope with continued remote working alongside financial difficulties. The Lawyer has identified four sets that have recently given up space at their respective inns, including Lamb Building, Lamb Chambers, 3 Temple Gardens and 6 Pump Court. The biggest move has been […]
A limitation of liability claim has been issued by Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) after the recent blockage of the Suez Canal.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is facing accusations of racking up an “indecent” legal bill after it revealed projected costs of almost £7m in the case of Roman Pipia v BGEO Group Limited. The claimant, represented by Steptoe & Johnson, recently described BGEO Group’s legal costs as “extraordinarily and unjustifiably high”, while also singling out the charge-out […]
Taylor Wessing and BDO are facing allegations of professional negligence from two high net-worth individuals who are suing the pair for almost £20m in relation to deficient tax advice, The Lawyer can reveal. The details of a High Court claim from Morten and Thomas Høegh are beginning to emerge, who are seeking damages for losses […]
Essex Court Chambers is facing its first high-profile departure since it was hit by sanctions from China last week, with one of its silks leaving to join 7 Bedford Row (7BR). Jern-Fei Ng QC, who was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2018 aged just 38, confirmed his departure on Sunday after an 18-year stint at Essex […]
A case management conference (CMC) is taking place in one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases this week, with Eversheds Sutherland taking on Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Castle Water v Thames Water. This one-day hearing will serve as an appetiser for the full-seven week trial that is scheduled for October in the Technology […]
Actor Johnny Depp has been denied permission to appeal his libel defeat against The Sun Newspaper, with the Court of Appeal today upholding the decision of Mr Justice Nicol. The High Court judge previously found against Depp on the basis that the defendants had shown what they published to be “substantially true”. Thursday’s judgment from […]
Steptoe & Johnson’s client PJSC National Bank Trust has succeeded in adding three new defendants to a mammoth oligarch dispute in London, with Kennedys, Boies Schiller Flexner and Brown Rudnick wading into the legal-line-up. The dispute at hand is PJSC National Bank Trust v Boris Mints & Ors. Kennedys, Boies Schiller and Brown Rudnick, defending […]
An appeal from Allen & Overy (A&O) and Slaughter and May is kicking off in the Court of Appeal on Tuesday, as the two firms seek to strike out the remaining claimant in the DRAM competition damages case. Acting on behalf of Micron Europe and Infineon Technologies respectively, A&O and Slaughters are asking the court […]
Stewarts Law has temporarily fought off a £56m negligence lawsuit after the High Court ruled that the claim had not been properly served against the firm.
Actor Johnny Depp today set out his application for a retrial in his high-profile libel case against The Sun newspaper, with his counsel describing a claim made by Amber Heard as a “calculated and manipulative lie”. Representing Depp was 5RB’s Andrew Caldecott QC, who led chambers’ colleague David Sherborne and sought permission to rely on […]
RPC is set to defend Google against a claim from the studio behind hit game Fortnite after the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) recently granted Clifford Chance permission to serve proceedings out of the jurisdiction. This development coincides with the CAT’s rejection of Epic Games’ attempt to also serve proceedings against Apple, meaning that Google remains […]
A Panama-based investment vehicle was today ordered to make a costs payment of £700,000 to its former solicitors Bird & Bird. This forms part of a broader dispute over four unpaid invoices to the City firm, with Ansbury Investments claiming that Bird & Bird duplicated its workload across its London and Milan offices. In a […]
A former Royal Mail postman is bringing his employment claim to the Supreme Court this week, in a case that featured in The Lawyer’s Top 15 Appeals 2021. Ike Efobi, is a black Nigerian and a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. From August 2013, he was employed by Royal Mail as a postman in […]