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Commercial Litigation UK

  • September 12, 2025

    French Court Rejects Russian Businesswoman's $100M Claim

    A French appeals court has refused to revive a Russian businesswoman's $100 million claim against Kuwait after she was sentenced to more than two decades of hard labor in the Persian Gulf country for purportedly embezzling public funds.

  • September 12, 2025

    Saudi Blockade Leads To $100M Award To Qatar Pharma Co.

    A Qatari pharmaceutical distributor and its chairman were awarded nearly $100 million in arbitration against Saudi Arabia after its business in the country was left "in shambles" due to a 2017 anti-terrorism blockade, though annulment proceedings in England remain ongoing, according to a newly removed lawsuit.

  • September 12, 2025

    Off The Bench: NCAA Athlete Ban, WNBA Sun Controversy

    In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA administered permanent bans to three basketball players, and two high-profile politicians warned the WNBA that it could be at risk of violating antitrust laws if it interferes in the sale of the Connecticut Sun.

  • September 12, 2025

    Another Investor Settles In $2.1B Danish Tax Fraud Case

    A U.S. investor and two of his alleged pension plans have settled claims by Denmark's tax agency accusing them of participating in a $2.1 billion scheme that fraudulently claimed refunds on tax withheld from stock dividends, with a New York federal court dismissing the allegations.

  • September 12, 2025

    Glencore Ruling Affirms Disclosure Trumps Prosecution Fears

    A recent High Court decision that forced Glencore to hand over documents obtained from a Dutch investigation provides further evidence of the difficulties companies face when they try to resist disclosure in civil proceedings by pointing to the risk of prosecution overseas.

  • September 12, 2025

    Ankle Tag Co. Says Ex-CEO Forged Docs To Hide Wrongdoing

    A British ankle tag maker has accused its former chief executive of forging documents to cover up wrongdoing, adding to its £320 million ($434 million) claim that she hid her interests in the company's shareholders and diverted millions from the business.

  • September 12, 2025

    Businessman Can Sue Fund In UK To Stop Luxembourg Claim

    A London court ruled Friday that a businessman can sue a Luxembourg investment fund in England over allegations that he was partly responsible for the fund underselling a company by as much as £80 million ($108 million).

  • September 12, 2025

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

    This past week in London has seen former Master Chef presenter Gregg Wallace sue the BBC, Elon Musk's xAI take legal action against a staff engineer, and fashion mogul Kevin-Gerald Stanford file a fresh claim against Lion Capital-owned Klotho and EY amid a long-running All Saints share acquisition dispute.

  • September 12, 2025

    Nursery Gets Statutory Fine For Forging Staffer's Signature

    A London tribunal has ordered a nursery owner to pay a £17,000 ($23,000) statutory penalty after it forged a former employee's signature on a loan agreement without her knowledge.

  • September 12, 2025

    Barrister Disbarred Over False Claims About Oxford Degree

    A London legal disciplinary tribunal disbarred a King's Counsel barrister on Friday for falsely claiming that he had studied medicine at the University of Oxford when he applied for tenancy at a chambers in 2013.

  • September 12, 2025

    Ex-AIG IT Pro's Claim Struck Out Over Courtroom Misconduct

    A former AIG software developer on Friday had his whistleblowing claims against the insurer struck out after accusing a judge of perverting the course of justice, eating a meal during a hearing and calling a London tribunal a "circus."

  • September 12, 2025

    Class Rep Says £650M Motorola Claim Should Be Opt-Out

    The representative of a £650 million ($881 million) collective action against Motorola urged a London tribunal on Friday to certify the unfair pricing case as an opt-out claim, arguing that this would prevent alleged victims from being denied justice.

  • September 12, 2025

    Travelers Sued For £5.8M Client Funds Lost In Axiom Collapse

    A property buyer has sued Travelers for a £5.8 million ($7.9 million) insurance payout under its policy with Axiom Ince, telling a London court that the company had misappropriated his payment for an apartment before collapsing into administration.

  • September 12, 2025

    Microsoft Settles UPC Dispute With Smart Mirror Biz

    The Unified Patent Court said Friday that a smart mirror company has withdrawn its patent infringement claim against Microsoft after the two parties reached a settlement.

  • September 12, 2025

    COVID Fueled Innocent Drinks' Plant Delay, Consultancy Says

    A project management consultancy has denied causing overspending and delay in the construction of a juice-processing plant for the companies behind the Innocent smoothie brand, blaming the COVID-19 pandemic for disrupting the development's supply chain.

  • September 12, 2025

    Mars Settles Claim Over Pesticide-Contaminated Ice Cream

    Mars Wrigley has settled its £1.1 million ($1.5 million) claim against a food supplier that the snacks giant alleged had provided ice cream contaminated with a hazardous pesticide.

  • September 11, 2025

    FIFA Lifts Lid On Sports Disputes With New Legal Database

    The worldwide governing body of soccer has launched a free, searchable digital database of soccer-related cases adjudicated by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the Swiss Federal Tribunal going back to 2002 in an effort to promote transparency in sports law.

  • September 11, 2025

    Burford Urges Del. Court Not To Reconsider Arbitration Ruling

    A Burford Capital affiliate is urging a Delaware federal court not to reconsider a decision ordering German entity Financialright Claims GmbH to arbitrate a dispute over an allegedly fraudulent arbitration pact, saying the court already carefully considered its arguments.

  • September 11, 2025

    Metro Bank Settles £24M Claim Over Coin-Counting Software

    Metro Bank has settled a copyright infringement and licensing spat with software company Arkeyo, which had accused the bank of sharing source code for its coin-counting machines without permission.

  • September 11, 2025

    Salt Associations Can't Void 'Fleur De Sel' Protected Status

    A European Union court has rejected an attempt from several salt producers' associations to void a protected geographical indication for premium sea salt harvested in southern France.

  • September 11, 2025

    Ex-Ashurst Partner Barred By SDT Over Sexual Misconduct

    A London legal disciplinary tribunal has barred a former Ashurst Madrid partner from practicing at an English solicitors firm after finding that it had jurisdiction to make a ruling against him.

  • September 11, 2025

    Property Co. Can't Block 'Undervalued' Warehouse Sale

    An ailing property investment business lost its fight on Thursday to block receivers from selling a warehouse at a price that allegedly undervalued it by £2.3 million ($3.2 million), with a London appeals court rejecting the company's bid for control over the purchase.

  • September 11, 2025

    No New Judges As Employment Bill Nears Passage Into Law

    The Ministry of Justice has admitted that it has so far drawn a blank in its push to recruit new employment judges in 2025, despite concerns that the Employment Rights Bill could trigger a surge in claims.

  • September 11, 2025

    Berlin Subway Operator Beats Challenge To Jingle TM

    Berlin's main public transportation operator has convinced a European court that its jingle deserves trademark protection after a previous bid failed, because the two-second melody was a striking sequence that the public would remember and recognize.

  • September 11, 2025

    Barrister Crowdfunds To Sue Jolyon Maugham For Defamation

    Gender-critical barrister Sarah Phillimore of St John's Chambers has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pursue legal action against Jolyon Maugham KC, director of the Good Law Project, over social media posts that she claims are defamatory.

Expert Analysis

  • Complying With Growing EU Supply Chain Mandates

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    A significant volume of recent European Union legislative developments demonstrate a focus on supply chain transparency, so organizations must remain vigilant about potential human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chain and make a plan to mitigate compliance risks, say lawyers at Weil.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Spain Faces Award Enforcement

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    Spain's loss in its Australian court case against Infrastructure Services Luxembourg underlines the resilience of international arbitration enforcement mechanisms, with implications extending far beyond this case, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

  • What EU Antitrust Guidelines Will Mean For Dominant Cos.

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    The European Commission’s recent draft antitrust guidelines will steer courts' enforcement powers, increasing the risk for dominant firms engaging in exclusive dealing without any apparent basis to shift the burden of proof to those companies, say lawyers at Latham.

  • Reflecting On 12 Months Of The EU Foreign Subsidy Regime

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    New European Commission guidance, addressing procedural questions and finally providing clarity on “distortion” in merger control and public procurement, offers an opportunity to reflect on the year since foreign subsidy notification obligations were introduced, say lawyers at Fried Frank.

  • Employer Lessons In Preventing Unlawful Positive Action

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    A recent Employment Tribunal decision that three white police officers had been subjected to unlawful race discrimination when a minority detective sergeant was promoted demonstrates that organizations should undertake a balancing approach when implementing positive action in the workplace, says Chris Hadrill at Redmans Solicitors.

  • Review Of EU Cross-Border Merger Regs' Impact On Irish Cos.

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    Looking back on the year since the European Union Mobility Directive was transposed into Irish law, enabling Irish and European Economic Area limited liability companies to participate in cross-border deals, it is clear that restructuring options available to Irish companies with EU operations have significantly expanded, say lawyers at Matheson.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Spanish Assets At Risk Abroad

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    The recent seizure of a portion of London Luton Airport after an English High Court ruling is the latest installment in a long-running saga over Spain’s failure to honor arbitration awards, highlighting the complexities involved when state-owned enterprises become entangled in disputes stemming from their government's actions, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square Chambers.

  • Comparing Apples To Oranges In EPO Claim Interpretation

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    A referral before the Enlarged Board of Appeal could fundamentally change the role that descriptions play in claims interpretation at the European Patent Office, altering best drafting practices for patent applications construed there, say lawyers at Finnegan.

  • A Look At UK, EU And US Cartel Enforcement Trends

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    The European Union, U.K. and U.S. competition agencies' recently issued joint statement on competition risks in generative artificial intelligence demonstrates increased cross-border collaboration on cartel investigations, meaning companies facing investigations in one jurisdiction should anticipate related investigations in other jurisdictions, say lawyers at Latham & Watkins.

  • Testing The Limits Of English Courts' Pro-Arbitration Stance

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    Although the Court of Appeal recently upheld a $64 million arbitration award in Eternity Sky v. Zhang, the judgment offers rare insight into when the English courts’ general inclination to enforce arbitral awards may be outweighed by competing policy interests such as consumer rights, say Declan Gallivan and Peter Morton at K&L Gates.

  • What Green Claims Directive Proposal Means For Businesses

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    With the European Union’s recent adoption of a general approach to the proposed Green Claims Directive, which will regulate certain environmental claims and likely be finalized next year, companies keen to publicize their green credentials have even more reason to tread carefully, say Marcus Navin-Jones and Juge Gregg at Crowell & Moring.

  • EU Merger Control Concerns Remain After ECJ Illumina Ruling

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    The recent European Court of Justice judgment in Illumina-Grail is a welcome check on the commission's power to review low-threshold transactions, but with uncertainty persisting under existing laws and discretion left to national regulators, many pitfalls in European Union merger control remain, says Matthew Hall at McGuireWoods.

  • £43M Legal Bill Case Shows Courts' View On Exchange Rates

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    A recent Court of Appeal decision declined to change the currency used for payment of the Nigerian government's legal bill, aligning with British courts' consensus that they should not be concerned with how fluctuating exchange rates might benefit one party over another, says Francis Kendall at Kain Knight.

  • Examining The State Of Paccar Fixes After General Election

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    Following the U.K. Supreme Court's Paccar decision last year, which made many litigation funding agreements for opt-out collective actions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal unenforceable, the judiciary will likely take charge in implementing any fixes — but the general election has created uncertainty, says Ben Knowles at Clyde & Co.

  • EU Reports Signal Greenwashing Focus For Financial Sector

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    Reports from the European Supervisory Authorities on enforcement of sustainability information, plus related guidance issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority, represent a fundamental change in how businesses must operate to maintain integrity and public trust, say Amilcare Sada and Matteo Fanton at A&O Shearman.

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