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June 23, 2025
Porsche Importer, Dealer Are Sued At CAT Over 'Reseller Ban'
A premium sports car part reseller has sued two U.K. Porsche subsidiaries, accusing them of abusing their dominant position by refusing to sell vehicle components to independent repairers, Britain's antitrust tribunal said Monday.
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June 23, 2025
IBM Trims UK Whistleblower's Claim Of Mistreatment
An employment tribunal has ruled that a staffer at IBM U.K. cannot sue its parent company because her work as part of a global team did not make it her secondary employer. Â
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June 23, 2025
Trafigura Beats Dubai Bank Unit's 'Cynical' $21M Fraud Case
Trafigura on Monday defeated a claim by a subsidiary of Dubai's Rasmala Investment Bank alleging that the commodities trader tricked it into providing $21 million to pay off another company's debts, with a London court ruling the trader was not part of the deception.
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June 23, 2025
AstraZeneca's £32M HQ Defect Claim Misguided, Fire Co. Says
A fire engineering consultancy has denied designing problematic fire-stopping protection at AstraZeneca UK Ltd.'s £1 billion ($1.35 billion) headquarters, and said that the pharmaceutical company's £31.7 million claim is a misconceived attempt to find liability after reaching a settlement with the main building contractor.
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June 23, 2025
Luxembourg Lender Sues Urbas For €189M Over Unpaid Debt
A credit provider has alleged that a Spanish real estate development group owes it more than €189 million ($218 million) over an unpaid loan, and said the group's companies have deliberately misrepresented their payment and debt obligations.
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June 23, 2025
UK Basketball Clubs Sue Governing Body Over League Split
Members of a professional basketball league in Britain are suing the sports governing body in a London court, alleging competition breaches, following what they believe to be the latest development to stop them from operating. Â
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June 23, 2025
Staffer Can't Ax Amazon's Defense To Russia Tech Sale Claim
A former Amazon employee on Monday lost his bid to strike out the tech giant's defense to his claims that he was fired for blowing the whistle on alleged sales of its facial recognition technology to Russia.
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June 23, 2025
Investors Say Hargreaves Ignored Woodford Fund's Problems
Thousands of investors who lost out when Neil Woodford's fund collapsed in 2019 have sued asset manager Hargeaves Lansdown, saying the firm kept the fund on its prestigious Wealth List long after it should have known it was headed for administration.
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June 23, 2025
Dryrobe Claims Rival's Name Confuses Consumers At TM Trial
Outdoor clothing brand Dryrobe said a rival's use of the name "D-Robe" might lead to consumers confusing it with its own successful brand, on the first day of a trademark dispute trial on Monday.
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June 23, 2025
Campaigners Agree Cost Cap In State Pension Redress Row
Campaigners said Monday they have agreed to cap legal costs with the Department for Work and Pensions in their fight against the government's decision not to pay compensation for historic failures around women's state pensions.
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June 23, 2025
AI-Driven Fake Evidence Could 'Play Havoc' In Legal Disputes
A recent High Court judgment exposed how nonexistent artificial intelligence-generated citations had been used in legal arguments — but experts say this could be the tip of the iceberg for increasingly sophisticated fake evidence making its way into disputes.
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June 23, 2025
Judge Faces Renewed Call For Probe For Bullying Litigants
An employment judge faces a potential misconduct probe after being accused of a "longstanding pattern" of bullying and intimidation during hearings.
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June 20, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Pogust Goodhead face legal action from mining giant BHP Group, Trainline bring a procurement claim against the Department for Transport, Sworders auction house sue Conservative peer Patricia Rawlings, and Nokia hit with a patents claim by Hisense. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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June 20, 2025
Digital Nomad Co. Seeks Annulment Of EU VAT Rules
An online short-term rentals company said it's challenging the Council of the European Union in the bloc's top court in a bid to overhaul deemed supplier rules for value-added tax.
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June 20, 2025
AstraZeneca Must Give University More Info In IP Rate Battle
A London judge on Friday ordered AstraZeneca to give the University of Sheffield more information about how the pharma giant sublicensed its patented cancer drug amid the university's claims that AstraZeneca lied to get better rates.
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June 20, 2025
Reckitt Denies Ex-VP's £1M Claim, Cites Trade Secret Breach
Consumer goods company Reckitt has rejected claims that it owes more than £1 million ($1.4 million) to a former senior executive from Russia, arguing that it fired him ahead of the end of his garden leave because he was working with a bidder for part of its business.Â
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June 20, 2025
Energy Data Co. Can't Shut Off Info Supply To Rival
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has blocked an energy data supplier from suspending its services to a competitor following an allegation that the move is an abuse of its de facto monopoly over U.K. meter usage data.
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June 20, 2025
Managers Blamed For £14M Overrun Win Unfair Firing Case
Two project managers were unfairly sacked when their chief executive fired them on the spot in a meeting over a project that had gone £14 million ($18.9 million) over budget, but are not entitled to damages, an employment tribunal has ruled.Â
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June 20, 2025
BHP Sues Claimant Lawyers Amid £36B Dam Disaster Trial
BHP is suing law firm Pogust Goodhead, which is representing hundreds of thousands of individuals, municipalities and businesses in a £36 billion ($48.5 billion) claim against the Australian mining giant over a dam disaster in Brazil that killed 19 people, according to court records.
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June 20, 2025
BBC Confronts AI Biz Perplexity Over Content Scraping
The BBC said Friday that it has threatened to take legal action against Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, claiming that the company trained its model on the broadcaster's content.
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June 20, 2025
Ex-MP Can't Stop £230K Payment To Times For Dropped Libel
A former Conservative MP can't appeal an order to pay almost £230,000 ($310,000) towards The Times' costs defending his now-dropped defamation claim, as a London court ruled Friday that the discounted figure already factored in the newspaper's misconduct in the case.
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June 20, 2025
Shell Can Be Liable Over Oil Spill But 'Legal Barriers' Remain
Shell can be held liable for damages caused by pollution from illegal refining of stolen oil from its pipelines — but the Nigerian communities suing the energy giant face "significant legal barriers" to succeed at trial, a London judge ruled Friday.
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June 20, 2025
India Can't Block UAE Fund's $273M Metals Deal Arbitration
India lost its bid Friday to fend off a claim that it caused a UAE investment fund to lose $273 million by ending an aluminum production deal, with a London court ruling that an arbitration tribunal has jurisdiction to hear the case.
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June 19, 2025
E-Commerce Co. Denied 'Extraordinary' $40M Injunction
An Indian e-commerce company has failed to secure an order to get $40 million it claims to need to complete the purchase of a software business, after a court said it was not prepared to grant the "extraordinary" relief before a trial.
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June 19, 2025
Pro Bono Plan Aims To Make CAT Claims Accessible To All
It might come as a surprise that the U.K.'s venue for high-stakes class actions against some of the world's largest companies is planning a new pro bono scheme. But the Brick Court Chambers antitrust silk running the program told Law360 that she sees a real chance to help smaller players get a fair shot at enforcing their rights under a complex area of law.
Expert Analysis
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Employer Lessons In Preventing Unlawful Positive Action
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.
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Review Of EU Cross-Border Merger Regs' Impact On Irish Cos.
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.
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Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Spanish Assets At Risk Abroad
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.
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Comparing Apples To Oranges In EPO Claim Interpretation
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.
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A Look At UK, EU And US Cartel Enforcement Trends
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.
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Testing The Limits Of English Courts' Pro-Arbitration Stance
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.
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What Green Claims Directive Proposal Means For Businesses
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.
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EU Merger Control Concerns Remain After ECJ Illumina Ruling
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.
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£43M Legal Bill Case Shows Courts' View On Exchange Rates
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.
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Examining The State Of Paccar Fixes After General Election
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.
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EU Reports Signal Greenwashing Focus For Financial Sector
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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Takeaways From UPC's Amgen Patent Invalidity Analysis
The Unified Patent Court Central Division's decision in Regeneron v. Amgen to revoke a patent for lack of inventive step is particularly clear in its reasoning and highlights the risks to patentees of the new court's central revocation powers, say Jane Evenson and Caitlin Heard at CMS.
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GDPR 6 Years On: Key Points From EU Report
The European Commission’s recent report on the General Data Protection Regulation is clearly positive, concluding that it has brought benefits to both individuals and businesses, but stakeholders are still awaiting essential guidelines on scientific research and important business concerns remain, say Thibaut D'hulst and Malik Aouadi at Van Bael & Bellis.
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UK Mandatory ADR Push Renews Mediation Standards Focus
In the wake of a Court of Appeal decision last year allowing courts to mandate alternative dispute resolution, the push toward mandatory ADR has continued with the aim of streamlining dispute resolution and reducing costs, say Ned Beale and Edward Nyman at Hausfeld.
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2 UK Rulings Highlight Persistent Push Payment Fraud Issues
Two recent High Court decisions, Larsson v. Revolut and Terna DOO v. Revolut, demonstrate that authorized push payment fraud continues to cause headaches for consumers and financial institutions alike, and with forthcoming mandatory reimbursement requirements, more APP fraud litigation can be expected, say lawyers at Charles Russell.