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 […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Pallas Partners have made separate pitches to Credit Suisse investors in the hope of pursuing litigation against those allegedly responsible for making the Swiss bank’s Additional Tier 1 Bonds (AT1s) worthless. Credit Suisse’s AT1s were written down to zero last weekend after the Swiss Federal Department of Finance, the […]
Specialist sports boutique Rylands Garth has brought a claim on behalf of 54 former amateur rugby players against World Rugby, Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and Rugby Football Union (RFU). The players are bringing a personal injury lawsuit against the governing bodies, claiming they failed to protect them from permanent brain injury. In January, it was […]
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 […]
Merchant bank Close Brothers is to establish an in-house litigation team. The bank has set up a small litigation group led by head of bank legal, litigation, Jessica Wicker. It is understood that the group has been put together as the team works in a more structured and consistent way in relation to litigation. Wicker […]
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has successfully quashed an Employment Tribunal ruling in a case that pitted the Lord Chancellor against a group of 50 judges. The latest decision means the tribunal case will now need to be reheard. Five judges, represented by Leigh Day and Sintons, were selected by the initial Employment Tribunal as […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Steptoe & Johnson is expanding its London litigation practice by hiring a barrister from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. Jonathon Egerton-Peters has joined Steptoe as a partner. He focuses on international arbitration, litigation and tax across a range of sectors including tobacco, banking and energy. He has been at Skadden for nearly 14 years, […]
Shearman & Sterling has taken another hit in the city of London, after losing a partner to Paul Hastings. Wong previously spent six years as a barrister at Matrix Chambers. He then spent four years at Freshfields and more than seven years at Bird & Bird where he was given the nod to partner. He […]
This week saw a mixed result in the case between Arron Banks and Carole Cadwalladr, a victory for Transport for London against campaign group Just Stop Oil, and a loss for Jaguar Land Rover in a “David vs Goliath” IP case. High Court ruling puts an end to disruptive eco-protestors In a win for Transport […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. Following last week’s first anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine, we consider how the landscape has changed for Russian litigation in London. First though, a judgment from the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) last week has provided a rare example of […]
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.
Insurers, carriers and both English and international lawyers will be watching a Supreme Court battle closely today – one that has the potential to affect all disputes concerning who is liable when cargo is stolen under the CMR Convention. DWF represents the appellant and Polish carrier company Mark-Trans-Sped as it fights to overturn the binding […]
Analysis of recent fines suggests that environmental prosecutions are resulting in more substantial fines, especially for ‘very large organisations’.
Merck Sharp & Dohme brought an appeal to the Supreme Court (Court) following its unsuccessful appeal to the Court of Appeal against the High Court’s finding that its supplementary protection certificate (SPC) for its cholesterol-reducing combination product, Inegy, was invalid under Articles 3(a) and 3(c) of Regulation No 469/2009 (SPC Regulation).
David Lowe and Emma Carr discuss the impact of sanctions on contracts. They explain when sanctions could be a force majeure and what happens if there are no relevant sanctions but you still want to get out of the contract.
ClientEarth recently took the first step in a legal action against the board of directors of Shell, notifying them of a potential claim for failing to adequately prepare the company for a transition to net zero and manage climate risk. According to ClientEarth, this poses serious questions for the long-term value of the company.
Recent Massachusetts high court decision holds late wage payments are always subject to treble damages, upending common practice for Massachusetts employers
I often hear commercial dispute resolution practitioners, unlike their personal injury and clinical negligence colleagues, say “Our clients are not interested in ATE Insurance or disbursement funding because they can afford to pay disbursements and bear the opponents costs if the case is unsuccessful”. I have a few things to say about this view.
Currently taking place in the Fairfax County Courthouse, Virginia, US, and with a celebrity witness line-up and livestream, Johnny Depp v Amber Heard is sure to attract the most column inches of any libel case this year.
A company operated by a man claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous author of the white paper ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System’, has had service of its claim form set aside in proceedings concerning bitcoin said to be worth approximately £3 billion.
In Expropriation Law: 2021 A Year in Review, Gowling WLG’s national Expropriation Law Group has summarized several complex and compelling expropriation cases from across Canada in 2021. In the article, the team highlights a number of important issues and key takeaways for those parties involved in the expropriation process.
In February 2022, in 1196278 Ontario Inc. dba SASSAFRAZ v 815470 Ontario Ltd. dba SASSAFRAS COASTAL KITCHEN, 2022 FC 116 the Federal Court granted the well-known Toronto restaurant Sassafraz judgment against the operator of a restaurant operating as “Sassafras” in the Niagara region of Ontario.
The recent judgment of Mr Justice Barrett in Goode Concrete v CRH Plc, Roadstone Wood Limited and Kilsaran Concrete [2022] IEHC 189 provides useful guidance on applications to strike- out interrogatories where they are prolix, oppressive, unnecessary or scandalous.
ClientEarth are taking ground breaking steps by pursing shareholder litigation against Shell.
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. […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
