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Commercial Litigation UK

  • July 14, 2025

    Lender Denies Helping Pharma Boss Secure Secret £6M Loan

    A business lender has denied working with the now-former chief executive officer of an online pharmacy to take out about £6.1 million ($8.2 million) in unauthorized loans under the company's name without the knowledge of investors or board members.

  • July 14, 2025

    Wealth Manager Sues For £4.5M Over Failed Investment Deal

    A Swiss wealth manager has sued a U.K. company for 5 million Swiss francs ($6.3 million), saying that it failed to return its investment after a share purchase deal went sideways.

  • July 14, 2025

    Holiday Club To Pay Worker £37K After 'Scandalous' Conduct

    A former site manager at a holiday park in southeast England has won almost £37,000 ($50,000) in compensation after an employment tribunal chastised its owner for what it called among the "most egregious" examples of unreasonable litigation conduct.

  • July 14, 2025

    Deezer Sues For €12M Over Hacked Data Sold On Dark Web

    Deezer has hit a marketing software business with a claim of almost €12 million ($14 million) at a London court, alleging that the technology company negligently handled users' data that was eventually hacked and sold on the dark web.

  • July 11, 2025

    Court Says Olympic Runner Treated Unfairly In Testing Appeal

    South African Olympic gold medal-winning runner Caster Semenya was deprived of her right to a fair hearing by a Swiss federal court when she appealed testosterone limits imposed on female athletes by track and field's international governing body, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

  • July 11, 2025

    Moderna Fights Pfizer's 'Impossible' MRNA Patent Attack

    Moderna on Friday lambasted Pfizer and BioNTech's argument that a patent claim underpinning its mRNA technology was obvious, arguing that its rivals were asking an appeal court to undertake an essentially "impossible" task of upending the entirety of a lower court's reasoning on the matter.

  • July 11, 2025

    Celebs Cannot Use Pattern To Prove Mail Claims, Judge Says

    A London judge ruled Friday that celebrities suing the publisher of the U.K.'s Daily Mail newspaper for allegedly gathering information about them through unlawful methods cannot prove their individual claims by showing the company's journalists used those methods habitually.

  • July 11, 2025

    Entrepreneur Sues Rights Advocate Over $1B Corruption Claim

    The owner of a green economy investment company has alleged that a human rights advocate defamed the owner in an article that claimed he used his companies to embezzle more than $1 billion into offshore accounts and had bribed high-profile U.S. officials.

  • July 11, 2025

    Brand Owner Says Violated Licensee Agreement Is Now Void

    The owner of the Rockfish Weatherwear shoe brand has claimed it is no longer obliged to license its trademarks to a Chinese brand management company because of an "irremediable breach" on the company's part after threatening to sue Rockfish's parent company without informing it.

  • July 11, 2025

    Deceased Financiers' Assets Tapped To Cover Thai Bank Debt

    The liquidators of a collapsed Thai lender can be paid from the English assets of two deceased financiers convicted over an embezzlement scheme, after a judge held Friday the funds can go to partially cover a judgment debt totaling £60 million ($81 million).

  • July 11, 2025

    Wise Payments' TM Infringement Case Largely Backfires

    Wise Payments has partly succeeded in its infringement claims against With Wise, but its rival has managed to narrow down the scope of goods it can market with "Wise" after a London judge found it never intended to sell them.

  • July 11, 2025

    Ex-CFO Can't Dodge Toymaker's £288K Costs

    A judge ruled Friday that a toymaker's former chief financial officer must pay nearly £290,000 ($391,772) in costs or face the collapse of his claim against the company, after he failed to follow court orders and continued to bring "vexatious" claims.

  • July 11, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen HS2 hit with a defamation claim by two ex-employees who blew the whistle on alleged under-reporting of costs, Craig Wright and nChain face legal action brought by its former chief financial officer over a fraud scheme, and pro-footballer Axel Tuanzebe bring a clinical negligence claim against his former club Manchester United F.C. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • July 11, 2025

    Student Letting Agency Claims Theft Of Copyrighted Photos

    A student flat letting agency has accused a rival and its director of stealing and watermarking its own copyrighted images to advertise apartments in Leicester, which he later allegedly admitted to in a recorded call.

  • July 11, 2025

    Royal Mail To Pay £13K For Neglecting Worker's Career Plan

    A Royal Mail staffer has won more than £13,000 ($18,000) in her Employment Tribunal case against the company after a judge concluded that a boss failed to help her professional development because she sued the business 10 years earlier.

  • July 11, 2025

    Ex-Insurance CEO's Wife Can't Ax £15M Asset Freeze

    A London appeals court upheld a £15 million ($20.3 million) asset freeze on Friday against the wife of a former insurance company executive who is accused of cashing in on money her husband siphoned off from the business.

  • July 11, 2025

    Staley Tribunal Decision Could Fuel Challenges To FCA Fines

    A landmark tribunal ruling that upheld the Financial Conduct Authority's ban of ex-Barclays CEO James "Jes" Staley from banking — but slashed his fine — could ultimately lead other executives with back-loaded pay packages to fight the watchdog's decisions, lawyers say.

  • July 11, 2025

    Phones4u Can't Revive Collusion Case Against UK Networks

    The Court of Appeal dismissed Phones 4u's claims Friday that the U.K.'s biggest phone operators colluded to drive the retailer out of business, upholding findings that there was no evidence of anticompetitive behavior between the networks.

  • July 10, 2025

    Pfizer Takes Aim At Moderna's Leftover MRNA Protections

    Pfizer asked an appeals court Thursday to revoke surplus patent protections underpinning rival Moderna's mRNA vaccine after getting a key patent tossed.

  • July 10, 2025

    Buyer Contests Ruling On $1.85M Award In Botched Ship Sale

    A shipping company told the Court of Appeal on Thursday that it should be entitled to a $1.85 million award arising from the botched purchase of a vessel, arguing it is owed damages for prospective losses.

  • July 10, 2025

    Ex-Union Official Argues Bias Risk Misjudged In Appeal

    A former trade union official argued Thursday that a decision ruling his expulsion was fair incorrectly considered whether there was a risk that the chair of a disciplinary panel was biased against him, rather than whether there was a risk of "the possibility of bias."

  • July 10, 2025

    Rusal Can Serve Claim On Abramovich Via Oligarch's Lawyers

    A London judge on Thursday approved Russian aluminum giant Rusal to serve a claim on Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich via his lawyers over alleged breaches of an agreement setting out the governance of a Russian mining company.

  • July 10, 2025

    Housing Co. Blames £29M Loss On Flawed Project Pricing

    A housing association has alleged that a construction consultancy owes it £28.8 million ($39 million) after providing significantly underpriced estimates for the building costs of a London property development that shouldn't have gone ahead.

  • July 10, 2025

    Firm Denies Giving Ex-Pandora Chief Negligent Tax Advice

    A law firm has denied giving former Pandora boss Peter Andersen negligent tax advice that saddled him and the jeweler with a £3.3 million ($4.5 million) tax bill because of Andersen's pension trust.

  • July 10, 2025

    BMW Unfairly Fired Worker Accused Of Faking Back Pain

    BMW's decision to sack a factory worker accused of faking his back condition to claim sick pay was unfair and discriminatory, an employment tribunal has ruled.

Expert Analysis

  • Why Cos. Should Investigate Unethical Supply Chain Conduct

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    The U.K. government’s recent updated guidance for businesses on reporting slavery and human trafficking in supply chains underscores the urgent need for companies to adopt transparent and measurable due diligence practices, reinforcing the broader need for proactive internal investigations into unethical or criminal conduct, say lawyers at Seladore and Matrix Chambers.

  • UK Top Court Charts Limits Of Liability In Ship Explosion Case

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    A recent U.K. Supreme Court ruling, capping a ship charterer's damages for an onboard explosion, casts a clarifying light upon the murky waters of maritime liability, particularly concerning the delicate operation of limitation under the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

  • What Latest VC Model Document Revisions Offer UK Investors

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    Recent updates to the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association model documents, reflecting prevailing U.K. market practice on early-stage equity financing terms and increasing focus on compliance issues, provide needed protection for investors in relation to the growth in global foreign direct investment regimes, say lawyers at Davis Polk.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Precision In Jurisdiction Clauses

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    The High Court recently held that a contract requiring disputes to be heard by U.K. courts superseded arbitration agreements between long-time business affiliates, reinforcing the importance of drafting precise jurisdiction clauses that international commercial parties in multiagreement relationships will use to resolve prior disputes, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

  • What Age Bias Ruling Means For Law Firm Retirement Policies

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    The recent employment tribunal age discrimination decision in Scott v. Walker Morris demonstrates that while law firms may implement mandatory retirement schemes, the policy must pursue a legitimate aim via proportionate means to pass the objective justification test, says Chris Hadrill at Redmans Solicitors.

  • Acas Guide Shows How To Support Neurodiverse Employees

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    A new guide on neurodiversity in the workplace from the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service reminds employers of the duty to make reasonable adjustments that will effectively alleviate any disadvantage an employee may experience at work, say lawyers at Withers.

  • UK's Arbitration Act Is More A Revision Than An Overhaul

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    The recently enacted U.K. Arbitration Act 2025 represents the most significant update to English arbitration law since 1996, and while it reinforces many strengths that made London the leading arbitral seat, its failure to address certain key areas means the legislation missed the opportunity to truly be a benchmark, say lawyers at RPC.

  • Google Win Illustrates Hurdles To Mass Data Privacy Claims

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    The Court of Appeal's December decision in Prismall v. Google, holding each claimant in a mass data privacy suit must demonstrate an individualized and sufficiently serious injury, demonstrates the difficulty of using representative action to collect damages for misused private information, say lawyers at Seladore Legal.

  • How New EU Product Liability Directive Will Affect Tech And AI

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    While the European Union’s new defective product liability directive, effective from December 2026, primarily provides clarifications rather than significant changes, it reflects the EU's commitment to addressing consumer protection and accountability challenges presented by the digital economy and artificial intelligence, say lawyers at Latham.

  • EU Hybrid Venue Ruling Doesn't Ensure Local Enforceability

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    A recent decision from the European Union's top court, affirming that contracts may grant one party greater control over litigation venue, is encouraging for similarly asymmetrical arbitration agreements, but local enforceability rules within the EU and beyond mean that such contracts' validity may still be determined individually, say lawyers at Signature Litigation.

  • New CMA Powers Will Change Consumer Protection Regime

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    The Competition and Markets Authority’s imminent broadened powers to impose penalties on organizations for unethical or misleading practices are likely to transform the U.K.’s consumer protection regime, and may lead to a rise in private litigation and increased regulatory scrutiny, say lawyers at Morgan Lewis.

  • A Look At Current Challenges In Whistleblowing Practice

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    Consensus on the status of reforming Great Britain's whistleblowing framework is currently difficult to discern, and thorny issues revealed by recent cases highlight undesirable uncertainties for those pursuing and defending whistleblowing claims, says Ivor Adair at Fox & Partners.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Fiscal Liability Vs. Int'l Investment

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    The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes' award in Amec Foster Wheeler USA v. Colombia, upholding the country's jurisdictional objections, exemplifies the growing tension between domestic regulatory measures and international investment protections, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square Chambers.

  • How UK Supreme Court May Assess Russia Sanctions Cases

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    In two recent U.K. Supreme Court cases challenging the U.K. Russia sanctions regime, the forthcoming judgments are likely to focus on proportionality and European Convention on Human Rights compatibility, and will undoubtedly influence how future challenges are shaped, says Leigh Crestohl at Zaiwalla.

  • How EU Digital Act Could Shape UK Technology Disputes

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    Noncompliance with the recently effective European Union Digital Operational Resilience Act will add layers of complexity to disputes and litigation for U.K.-based firms servicing EU entities, but international standards may serve as a bridge between jurisdictional and contractual misalignments, says Siobhan Forster at Alvarez & Marsal.

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