Sidley Austin and Addleshaw Goddard are set to go head to head in a four-day High Court clash in October, after it emerged that US cybersecurity giant McAfee is suing Dixons Carphone. The anti-virus software developer has issued a High Court claim against the electrical and telecommunications retailer, arguing that Dixons Carphone has failed to […]
As the ongoing summer recess keeps the courts out of action, The Lawyer takes the chance to outline some of the most interesting cases from last month. This week we’re focused on competition disputes and fraudulent misrepresentation. Viagogo V Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (CMS) recently assisted Viagogo in a High […]
Addleshaw Goddard will have to wait longer than anticipated for a follow-on damages claim brought against a group of envelope producers, as a judge has put a stay in one of the European proceedings. The dispute centres around two envelope manufacturers, who were fined in the European courts for rigging prices for their profit. This […]
Eversheds Sutherland is defending Thames Water Utilities in a claim brought by Castle Water over the alleged over-billing of customers and data errors. The dispute stems from an agreement linked to the opening of a new sector in the water market in England – the Non-Household Retail Market. This initial agreement allowed Thames Water to […]
A claim against Edwin Coe’s senior partner David Greene was struck out by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal yesterday, with the court awarding the lawyer costs of £30,000. The claim against Greene was brought by businessman David Davies, a shareholder and sole director at Eco Power, which instructed Edwin Coe in 2008 in relation to a […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Mayer Brown will represent parties in P&O Ferries’ £33m claim against the UK Government next year, with the trial scheduled to go ahead in November 2020. It is expected to be a three week hearing and follows claims made by the British-based shipping company that the Secretary of State for Transport […]
With the courts still on summer recess, The Lawyer takes the chance to scrutinise key judgments that have been handed down over the past few months.
A costs award has been awarded against Addleshaw Goddard in an ongoing professional negligence dispute with a former client in Scotland. A judge ruled last week that Arthur Holgate & Son (AH&S) should be awarded £86,240, just weeks after The Lawyer reported that Addleshaws had failed to challenge the jurisdiction of the claim. The firm is […]
Peters & Peters and Sidley Austin have agreed to postpone the Servier trial in October as the parties await a decision in the Supreme Court and the European Court. The English Courts were due to decide in October whether the NHS failed to mitigate the losses it claims it suffered as a result of Servier’s […]
With the courts on going on summer recess this week, The Lawyer takes the opportunity to dissect various judgments which have been handed down over the last few months. This week oligarchs, arbitration appeals and employment disputes are at the centre of attention.
US law firm Scott & Scott has filed a collective action claim in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) against six banks, alleged to have manipulated the forex market after the 2007 financial crash. Claim forms for the US style opt-out group action were filed to the CAT this morning. The case focuses on the same […]
With the summer break just days away, the courts are wrapping up a few matters before taking a two-month break. A major dispute takes place in the Supreme Court this week, over a mother’s claims that her son is being unlawfully detained as a suspected terrorist. Maha El Gizouli’s son Shafee El Shiekh is believed […]
Sidley Austin has been granted permission to appeal a June decision in one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2019. Acting for Servier Laboratories in a drug patents dispute, Sidley Austin was originally denied the opportunity to take the case to the Supreme Court. However, On July 25, the Supreme Court said it would […]
Clyde & Co faced a new QC in the Court of Appeal this week as the firm defended Dentons in a Court of Appeal professional negligence hearing. The case has been brought against Dentons by investors Lee Victor Addlesee, which claim they lost over €6.5m due to an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme operated by Cypriot […]
A slew of big-name firms have been handed mandates by major banks as they defend UK claims related to forex rigging after the last financial crash. The Lawyer has learned that Allen & Overy, Slaughter and May, Norton Rose Fulbright, Macfarlanes, Latham & Watkins and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher have been handed instructions from banks […]
A raft of heavyweight litigators are in the Court of Appeal this week, as Hogan Lovells battle a High Court decision to unfreeze the assets of two Ukrainian oligarchs. Pinsent Masons, Fieldfisher and Enyo have been handed the mandate for the oligarchs, as the firms defend the former owners of PrivatBank, Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Igor […]
Hogan Lovells has changed its counsel for the upcoming Court of Appeal hearing between PrivatBank and its former owners Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Igor Kolomoisky. The firm was handed the mandate for Ukrainian-based PrivatBank in 2018 when it brought the claim to the UK. PrivatBank alleges that its former owners misappropriated more than $1.9bn of the […]
